Monday, September 26, 2016

Atlantic Hearts and Coffee Hop Day 4 1/2!


Happy Monday aka Day 4 of the Coffee Lovers Bloghop!  I've been wanting to use the stamps I won from Skipping Stones Design in August for a while now so I decided this week's Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge was a good opportunity to do it...


So... my intention was to make a CAS card...lol... which didn't quite work out as such, but I'm happy so I guess that doesn't matter...lol!  The bird on this one came from Skipping Stones Designs Best of Birds along with the sentiment and music notes and the coffee cup is from their Coffee Volume #2 set.  They have quite a few coffee sets and a whole bunch more beautiful stamp sets and you should check them out!  Thanks so much Skipping Stones!!!!


I used my CDD Flag Banner Dies for a lot of these banners.  The coffee die is from Your Next Stamp and I love the font.  Those pretty paper flowers are from Hobby Lobby and of course!  some gold Paper Sweeties sequins.  (Don't you love that plaid banner from the Lawn Fawn Fall Plaid paper pad?)


I stamped this pretty bird in a light brown to kind of try a no-line look and then used my Zig watercolor pens to add some color... this bird actually does have some print on it... music notes and such and you can see it in person, but it's hard to see in these pics... but I like that it's very subtle.


I made the decision to have my cup be very bright in comparison to the Fall leaves and I love the way it turned out.  I made sure to add a little yellow to the banners at the top to move that color around a bit.  The leaves in the background were stamped onto the base piece using a very old CTMH leaf stamp set and then watercolored similar to the bird and the dimensional leaves were left over from a previous CTMH card I made with the October Stamp of the Month.


So here is the sketch...lol!  And I just realized I forgot to add the three little... sequins, sparkles, buttons... whatever to the bottom left corner but I'm not looking back... I'm running with it!

Hope you come to play along with us this week at Atlantic Hearts!  And be sure to come back tomorrow... I'm thinking maybe a little CDD action.... thanks for stopping today!

29 comments:

Scrapper69 said...

Oh WOW! Fantastic Lisa! You've been rockin' these fab design ALL week! LOVE Fall and the pretty colors you've been using!

Theresa

jordanbev5@yahoo.com said...

Wow! This is gorgeous!! You just blow me away with all the beautiful layers and colors!

Teri said...

Fantastic card and layering. Loving the gold.

Shelly said...

Wow! This is gorgeous!

Teresa Godines #6857 said...

Stunning card with the blend of golds and oranges. I love that sweet little birdie. TFS

Verna Angerhofer said...

Such beautiful elements you added to make a beautiful card design.

Tonya said...
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Tonya said...

Your card is beautiful.

Karen B. said...

What wonderful details on your card!

yyam said...

Oh my! How gorgeous is this! I love all the lovely details...so much eye candy to oogle at! :)

Ann said...

Such a wonderful little scene you created. And the music notes are the perfect touch.

Neha said...

OMG! Such a gorgeous card! Love that coffee die cut!Beautiful!

Dr Sonia S V said...

What a perfect fall themed card Lisa and love how you decorated the cup
Cheers
Dr Sonia

Doudou said...

Beautiful card. Love the leaves🎃

Leigh Penner said...

Oh, I love this -- especially that sweet little bird!

Julie Tucker-Wolek said...

This is gorgeous! LOVING the colors, the leaves and the bird!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Becca Yahrling said...

Another one of my favorites this hop!! This is stunning in every way. And you used the things I love most: coffee, birds, music & flowers! I would frame this one!

Arianna Barbara said...

Oh wow!!!! Amazing card!!!

Sheri Gilson said...

Lovely card!

Mitralee said...

You just added the three little sequins to the top of the card, not the bottom! PERFECT! Love this card, makes me super happy! Getting any sleep yet? HOW IS SLIM!!!!

StampingbugKerry said...

Such a gorgeous masterpiece ! Love the collection of images from the beautiful bird to the music notes...so fabulous!!!!

Imke said...

Lovely card Lisa and perfectly themed for the Coffee Lovers Fall Blog Hop. There are so many great details on your card and the colors are great.

Ali said...

What a GORGEOUS card, Lisa! Everything is perfect from the dear little subtly-patterned bird, to the music notes, to the cup and sequins, to the overall colour palette. WTG- LOVE IT! ~Ali

Ceal said...

Beautiful!!!! love everything about this card!

~amy~ said...

sigh, you're really rockin' the coffee cards...this one is a real beauty! Your details are always so perfect.
I'm slowly getting through the hop!

Creative Tara said...

Very pretty! Love all the elements on this. And ❤️

Sue D said...

FAbulous. I like the sketch you used and the sparkle.

Helen F. said...

Gorgeous!

Suzanne Reynolds said...

Well, it really does follow the sketch, plus. Love all the extra embelllishments...beautiful card.