The Crafty Purple Frog: Washi tape strips

Tuesday, 21 July 2020

Heffy Doodle and Time for Tea Designs Hop

Hi everyone and welcome to the Heffy Doodle and

Time for Tea Designs Collaboration Blog Hop!

The design teams ( + me!) have come together to share some

amazing inspiration featuring Heffy Doodle

and Time for Tea Designs products, and there is a prize up for grabs, too!

I am so excited that I got to join in this awesome blog hop. I love both of these companies so much and as you can see from my 5 cards once I started combining them I just couldn't stop!

So sorry for the long post haha

For card number 1 I used the new small heart xoxo die set and the heart from the Mini frame and banner set of Time for Tea Designs to make my background. I cut all the hearts out of grey and pink card layered them and stuck them down to make this pattern.

The adorable Elephant is from Heffy Doodles Elephant of Surprise stamp set and I coloured his up with Spectrum noir ice grey tri-blends. The stitched square frames are from the Heffy Doodle Stitched square dies. The sentiment is also from Heffy doodle and is from the new Close at heart stamp set. Just to finish it off I scattered some Nuvo drops around adding sparkle and texture.

For my next card I inked up these super cute Pandas from Time for Tea designs Pandamonium party stamp set. I decoupaged their heads and used just a touch of Ice blue spectrum noir tri-blend pen to add a bit of shadow it their white areas. I couldn't resist adding some fun with googly eyes for them both as well. For the background in the circle I used one of the new Time for Tea stamps called Squiggly Giggly. I stamped it in 3 different colours of distress oxide and slightly off set it each time to make it look like patterned paper. The grey stitched circle is from Time for Teas Circles of love nesting dies se t.

The sentiments are from two new Heffy doodle stamp sets. The Close at heart stamp set and the bold banner sentiments. The grass is die cut from green card using Grassy Lass dies from Heffy doodle. And again to finish I used Nuvo drops to add sparkle and texture.

Card Number 3 features the new Hot diggity dog stamp set from Heffy Doodle long side this awesome bold new Thank you sentiment die from Time for tea designs. I coloured the dog with copics and the thank you I cut out twice so the grey one could be used to look like a shadow. To finish this card I put a strip of grey card down the side and stamped it tone on tone using the new washi strips stamps from time for tea designs.

Card 4 and I had to do a slim line card among the cards I was doing somewhere. So here it is and I used the new Heffy doodle Slim line trio die to do the frame around this one. I used the biggest frame in the set and this is a DL card. I trimmed the ends off as this largest one is just bigger than a DL but as you can see the width fits perfectly. I then used the next size down to do the main image inking up the background using distress oxides and time for tea blender brushes along with the curved edge of the new heffy doodle green fields stencil to make a scene.

The new Sealy friends stamp set from Heffy Doodle was just too cute not to colour up. I coloured them using Warm grey spectrum noir tri-blend pens. The small stamped sending hugs sentiment is again from the Close at heart stamp set.

The big friend shadow die is from Time for tea designs and I covered it in Nuvo drops and scattered some more Nuvo drops to add sparkle and texture.

Last but by no means least I have done some stenciling using the Time for Tea designs scattered hearts stencil, blender brushes and two shades of pink distress oxides . The frame for this card is a time for tea design die called smile sentiment and scalloped frame. The thinking of you shadow die is a new one from Heffy doodle and I think is a great size to be just used alone on a card like this. As with all the other cards of course I added some Nuvo drops to finish it off.

Heffy Doodle and Time for Tea Designs will each be giving away a £25 voucher to spend in their respective stores.

Winners will be chosen randomly and announced on July 28th on the Heffy Doodle and Time for TeaDesigns blogs.

You should have come from Sharon Nettleship and the next stop is Laura Volpes.

Here is the full list of every stop on the hop in case you missed any :)

Amy Gould <----- You are Here

Laura Volpes

Time for Tea Designs Blog

I am entering my creations for the following challenges:

613 avenue create - Sentiment as the focus

Dragonfly dreams - No patterned paper

Stamping sensation - all creatures great and small

The paper players - CAS and celebrate

Crafters castle - Anything goes

Thank you for taking the time to look at my blog. I would love it if you would follow me and leave me a link to your blog so I can follow you back. Happy hopping and good luck.

Huge hugs

Amy xx

Thursday, 25 June 2020

Some thing new and exciting is here!! Plus a giveaway!!!

Oh my gosh I am so excited to finally be able to announce Sweet November Stamps are now doing their own line of clear photo polymer stamps!! made from the awesome art work of the very talented Amy Young.

I am even more excited to be able to tell you that as well as direct from the Sweet November Stamps store you can pick these new beauties up from the Crafty Purple Frog store here in the UK.

To celebrate this Sweet November have very kindly given me a set of Mermee set #1 stamps to give away to one lucky winner.

So if you would like to be able to win this then please follow my blog here and leave me a comment. For an extra entries please also follow me on Instagram @craftypurplefrog leave me a comment and tag any of your friends that you think might like to be in the draw. I am willing to post world wide :)

There are two stamp sets to start off with and here is a card I have made with the other stamp set.

I used the Merwee set #1 stamps and I will also send this card to the lucky winner of the draw.

I coloured the adorable mewees using spectrum noir tri-blend markers and then added sparkle and shine to their tails with spectrum noir crystal clear sparkle pen and glossy accents. The background I stamped using a rainbow of distress oxide inks and the new Time for Tea washi strips stamps. The frames are also one of the new release from time for tea called mini frame and banner dies. I used some cloud 9 dream drops to add a touch of texture around the center frame and then finished it all with a sentiment from the Heffy Doodle oceans of love stamp set.