Mrs Sarah Louise

 Today's Card features Time for Tea Designs. This is a plain and simple card using the coffee cup stamp along with one of the cute little bears from the Time for Tea Designs Bearing Gifts stamp set. I started out by die cutting a piece of cardstock using a frame from my stash and then after placing the coffee cup stamp onto an acrylic block I used Memento Tuxedo Black ink to create a random background. I also stamped another coffee cup and the bear which I  used the coordinating die set to cut out.  My next task was to start to colour these little cups and for this card I decided to use my Spectrum Noir Tri blend alcohol marker Purple blend (PL2, PL3 & PL4) I also used the Ice blue (IB1) and Ice grey (IG2 & IG4) markers on the cups. I coloured the little bear using the Earth Brown blend (EB1, EB2 & EB3) Next I die cut a oval out of white cardstock which I stamped the sentiment on using Flirty Fuchsia ink by Catherine Pooler. I then used a white gel pen to add some highl

  Today I am sharing with you this cute scene that I have created using mostly Time for Tea Designs products. I started out by stamping using Versa-fine Onyx Black the cute little critters and items of food from the Bears Picnic stamp set and I used my Windsor & Newton Cotman water colours to colour all the images. The next step was to start on the background for my scene. To do this I used the Grateful for You stamp set which has a large mountain range image, this set is fantastic as it gives you an instant background in just the one stamp. I again used my water colours to colour my scene. When I had finished painting the background, my little bears and their accessories were dry and so I took the coordinating die set and set about cutting them all out! Once I had done that I started to think about how I wanted to complete my scene and realised I didn't have a cloth or blanket for my critters to sit on for the picnic and so I created one of my own. I adhered everything onto my