Christmas in July - Daring Cardmakers DT

Happy Friday!

Well the boys have both finished school now.  My youngest finished at Primary School and will join his brother at Secondary School in September.

The Daring Cardmakers is encouraging you to get ahead with your festive cardmaking by making and sharing your Christmas cards in July.

I love slimline cards and used a paper pad and decoupage to create this card.  I love mixing collections up.

I must admit I am one who makes other people their Christmas cards early but I am always late with my own ones! What about you?

You can see lots more inspiration by my fellow team members HERE.

I hope you have a wonderful weekend,

Shabneez

Products Used:

Katy Sue Designs Die Cut Decoupage

Kanban Crafts Winter Wonderland Paper Pad

Everything else from my stash

Plant A Flower Day - Daring Cardmakers DT

Happy Friday!

The Daring Cardmakers are celebrating 'Plant a Flower Day' today and want to see all your favourite blooms.  I used some pretty dies to make my card and thought I'd share another of my Mother's Day cards too.

I stuck to a limited colour palette and made sure the Mum popped on the card.  

The background papers worked well even though they were from a Winter set.  It just goes to show there are many generic papers in a pad that can be used all year round.

You can see lots more inspiration for the Challenge HERE.

I have some Mother's Day cards to deliver today so I better go!

Enjoy your weekend,

Shabneez

Products Used:

Time for Tea Designs Spring Bloom Die Set

Time for Tea Designs Winter Wonderland Paper Pad

Time for Tea Designs Oval Nesting Dies

Time for Tea Designs Mum Sentiment Die

Everything else from my stash

Workout Pigs - Time for Tea Designs DT

Happy Wednesday!

The Time for Tea Designs January New Release will be on sale on Friday but the team has been sharing sneak peeks from yesterday and I am sharing the Workout Pigs Stamp set today.

This is such a fun set as the images and accessories are just so cute!  I decided to make a card using 4 of the 5 piggies from the set.

I used backing papers from the Winter Wonderland pad and die cut with the Layering Rectangle Dies.  I added scalloped circles in contrasting colours.

I coloured all my images with my Chameleon pens and fussy cut them out before sticking them background.  I absolutely love the puns on the sentiments - they put a big smile on my face!

The new release will be in the shop to buy on Friday and you can get 10% off everything in store using my code T4TSHABNEEZ10.

See you on Friday!

Shabneez

Products Used:

Time for Tea Designs Workout Pigs

Time for Tea Design Winter Wonderland Paper Pad

Time for Tea Designs Mini Frame & Banner Die Set

Time for Tea Designs A6 Layered Rectangle Die Set

Chameleon Pens

Everything else from my stash

Tags, Toppers & Labels - Daring Cardmakers DT

Happy Friday!

Last day at school for both of the boys and I am relieved.  I have a lot of work still to complete with pending deadlines but then I'm looking forward to a well earned break with the boys.

It's the Daring Cardmakers final challenge of the year and this week it's all about tags, toppers and labels.  I have put my own twist on this one and used a tag on my card for a winter birthday.  I have so many winter birthdays to celebrate and I'm hoping this card will put a smile on the recipient's face.

I used the adorable Time for Tea Designs Skating By Penguins stamp set and I coloured the little peguin with my Chameleon pens.  I made a background using the tag from the Time for Tea Designs Zig Zag Frame & Tag Set.

The papers from the Time for Tea Designs Winter Wonderland pad give the card an extra winter feel!  

You can see lots more inspiration from the rest of the Team HERE and I hope that you will join in one last time before the New Year.  It feels strange saying that!

Have a wonderful weekend and see you next week,

Shabneez

Products Used:

Time for Tea Designs Skating By Penguins Stamp Set

Time for Tea Designs Winter Wonderland Paper Pad

Time for Tea Designs Zig Zag Frame & Tag Die Set

Time for Tea Designs Speech Bubbles Die Set

Time for Tea Designs Happy Birthday Sentiment Die

Time for Tea Designs Scripty Happy Sentiment Die

Everything else from my stash

New Year Reindeer

Happy Wednesday!

Mid week already and it's been a great week so far as I have done a little celebrating for my birthday.  In keeping with the celebrations I thought I'd share a fancy fold card for the New Year today.

The Time for Tea Designs New Year Critters stamp set has some really cute images and I opted to use the reindeer as they went with the birch background papers from the Winter Wonderland paper pad.  

My images were stamped and coloured using my Chameleon pens and I added a little bakers twine to the balloon and attached it to the reindeer's antler for a little fun.  The 'Let It Snow' took centre stage and I die cut it in glitter card as you know I love a little sparkle! 

As ever you can get 10% off anything in store using my code T4TSHABNEEZ10.

See you again soon,
Shabneez

Products Used:

Time for Tea Designs New Year Critters Stamp & Die Set

Chameleon Pens
Time for Tea Designs Winter Wonderland Paper Pad

Time for Tea Designs Rectangle Nesting Dies (EU size)

Time for Tea Designs Let it Snow Die Set

Everything else from my stash

Catmas Crackers

Happy Wednesday!

Mid week already and I've been appreciating the ever changing colours of the season this week while walking and on the school run.  

I've come up with a great idea for the Time for Tea Designs Mini Gift Box Die by using it to make crackers!  I have a full step by step photo tutorial on their blog HERE if you're interested.

Of course it made sense to use the Catmas Crackers Stamp & Die set again to decorate it as the sentiment and images were just perfect.  All coloured with my Chameleon pens.

I used a sheet from the Winter Wonderland Paper Pad to cover the core of the cracker and added ribbon to finish.  As ever, you can get 10% off anything in store using my code T4TSHABNEEZ10.

See you again on Friday!

Shabneez

Products Used:

Time for Tea Designs Winter Wonderland Paper Pad

Time for Tea Designs Catmas Crackers Stamp & Die Set

Time for Tea Designs Mini Gift Box Die Set

Chameleon Pens

Everything else from my stash

Catmas Crackers - Time for Tea Designs DT

Happy Wednesday!

I am sharing a cracker of a card today - ha!!!!  It's using products from the new Time for Tea Designs release and I had a lot of fun creating it!

I decided to make a shaker card as in my head I could see lots of sparkles coming out of the cracker when the cats pulled it.  The frame is also cut out of glitter card as you can never have too much sparkle on a Christmas card can you?!

My images were stamped and coloured using my Chameleon pens and then die cut with the co-ordinating dies.  The background is made up of a sheet from the new Winter Wonderland paper pad.

As ever, you can get 10% off all these products and anything else in store using my code T4TSHABNEEZ10.  There are a lot of deals on bundles from the new release.

See you again soon!

Shabneez

Products Used:

Time for Tea Designs Winter Wonderland Paper Pad

Time for Tea Designs Catmas Crackers Stamp & Die Set

Time for Tea Designs Zig Zag Frame & Tags Die Set

Tonic Nuvo Sequins

Chameleon Pens

Dovecraft Glitter Card

Everything else from my Stash