Fall/Winter 2018 Coffee Lovers Blog Hop - Day 5

It is already Day 5 of the Coffee Lovers Blog Hop!!  You have until Friday to play along.  Just create something new with a Fall/Winter theme that features coffee, tea, or cocoa and link it up!  There are tons of sponsors and tons of prizes!  If you link up by Wednesday, you will be eligible for some special flash prizes too!  Check out all of the details here!  Here's how I was inspired today:

I was checking out the beauty in the Coffee Loving Papercrafters Facebook Group and was reminded that this gorgeous Coffee or Tea? Die from Stamp Simply exists AND it lives at my house!  So I knew I had to get it out and use it for the hop!

I started with some beautiful Bo Bunny papers and cut my background layer using one of my fave layering sets from Waffle Flower Stamps.

That cup, right??  Next I cut that gorgeous "doily" using the Fancy Circles die set from Our Daily Bread Designs.   I cut the cup out of a previous attempt at a background... it was from the shaving cream background/embossing technique I showed a while ago but I had put too much of the Glitter Snow EP on it for the look I wanted BUT of course I saved it because it was still beautiful and I knew I'd use it.  I thought for a background, but turns out it was perfect to cut this cup from.  I cut the handle from some gold foil cardstock.

And that ribbon!  That was plain old seam binding that I dyed using some coffee... yup!  I was disappointed that it didn't retain the smell... but basically I took the ribbon and some leftover coffee and soaked it in over the course of a few days.  I changed out the coffee each day so it wouldn't get moldy and made sure I crinkled it up quite a bit.  When it was done I squeezed the excess out and layed it out to dry.  I LOVE it!!

I chose this sentiment from a Reverse Confetti set.. Holiday Gnomes believe it or not...lol!  Hoping to use that one during the hop as well!)  I had some leftover "doily" to place along with my sentiment and I cut my "snowflakes" out of that embossed paper I used for the cup using the Bitty Blooms dies from Our Daily Bread Designs!  I thought they made really cute snowflakes!  Then I scattered around a few sequins and gems and done!

One more look before I have to run!  Of course I'm late!  I have my priorities!

I'm also playing along over at Choux Choux Paper Art's Visions of Sugar Plums Challenge (I'll be by to visit with you soon Lori!) and Double Trouble's Embossing challenge... (and oh look Tracey!  Snowflakes for your twist!)

Come back tomorrow!  I'll have some specials for you again!

Cozy and Warm Christmas

IDK... I said I'm not done with Autumn yet, but I am enjoying making some Christmas cards!  I'm playing along with a few challenges with this one.  Over at The Cat's Pajamas, the challenge is Winter Holiday.  At Simon Says Stamp, the challenge is All That Glitters is Gold.  Double Trouble is having a Christmas/Holiday Challenge and they are collaborating with Try Stampin' on Tuesday's Tic Tac Toe Challenge!  AND this month I'm playing along as often as I can with the 30 Day Coloring Challenge over at The Daily Marker.  Don't get me wrong... I color almost every day... but sometimes I forget to share...lol!  And this one actually took me 3 days...lol! And I made this card for all five challenges!

I started with that beautiful plaid from last year's PhotoPlay Mad4Plaid Christmas paper.  One of my fave holiday packs!  I made my base 4 1/2 x 4 1/2.  The next layer is the plaid at 4 1/4 x 4 1/4 (It really is slightly smaller because the paper I used had already had a cut out of it...lol) and then I used a CDD Inside Scalloped Square as a frame.  Originally I was going to fill in the center with white, but I decided to display my plaid proudly!  I used an old CTMH bow die for my presents and some standard rectangular dies for the presents.

I started my coloring with this too sweet little pup!!  I LOVE this image from The Cats Pajamas!!  It's from the Whee stamp set... Such an adorable set!  I actually colored him up when I met Kathy at the Road Trip event at Our Creative Escape in Goodyear, AZ.  He's been sitting and waiting patiently for his turn on a card and I knew I wanted to use him on a Christmas Card but wasn't sure how I'd do that!

And then I had a Shopping Day with my mom at the last stamp show in Mesa and we were wandering around the Our Daily Bread Designs booth and I saw this beautiful Jingle Bells stamp set and just knew it would be perfect for all kinds of Christmas cards!  And when I decided it was time to get my little sleepy pupper on a card, my eyes landed on these beautiful bells and knew exactly what I would do!  I stamped and started coloring the branches and bow one morning and then it sat until I went to a crop today where I finished it up by coloring the bells.  I wanted to add some glitter to them initially, but it covered all of the gorgeous detail up so I wiped it off quickly and settled on just some liquid glass.  Love how they turned out!

And I maybe didn't know exactly what i wanted to do because I got it all done and realized I needed a sentiment... and then my eyes fell upon the Sunny Studios Alpaca Holiday Stamps that I ordered recently over at Simon Says Stamp and that sentiment looked me square in the face and said... Me!   I heat embossed it in white on black cardstock and cut them down into banners (thank you Mom for the Pigment Ink... since I forgot mine... and thank you Jean for the heat gun... since I forgot mine...lol!  A whole box of embossing powders... and no Versamark or Heat Gun.. yup... I'm a genius!) Lastly, added a few gold sparkly embellishments and I was done!

So there it is!  Winter Holiday for TCP and Double Trouble (and did you see Tracy??  I used the twist with my hanging bells!); Gold Glittery goodness for Simon Says Stamp; plaid, red and stamping for Try Stampin' on Tuesday; and three days of coloring for Kathy Racoosin!

Thanks so much for coming by... I'd be lying if I said this one wouldn't be hard to send away... I just LOVE that pup so much!!!  But it will be sent off (probably late) to someone I think might enjoy and love it as much as I do.

See you soon!!

Coffee Loving Cardmakers - Our Daily Bread Designs Collaboration!

Woo hoo!  Today the Coffee Loving Cardmakers are hopping along with Our Daily Bread Designs team to show off some of their large collection of awesome Coffee/Tea/Cocoa themed products... and maybe a few more things...lol!

Leave a little love at each stop along the way and you could win a $25 gift certificate to the ODBD shop!  You should have come here from Helen's Place!  If you get lost along the way just head on over to Our Daily Bread Designs blog here or the Coffee Loving Cardmakers blog post here and you'll find the complete hop list!  And at the bottom of this post you'll find some info regarding a cool offer for everyone!

Here's what I have for you!

So much goodness here!  I started with this awesome Latte Love paper from Our Daily Bread Designs... lots of fun patterns and pretty colors!  The background and the cup were cut using papers from this pad.  Speaking of the cup and plate... those were cut using the awesome Cups and Mugs die set.  Love the embossed detail in the cuts from these dies!  And those beautiful ovals... the Layered Lacey Oval dies are SO beautiful!  I added these to my collection a while ago and just LOVE them!  And I finished it off with that pretty Bitty Butterfly cut from gold vellum along with a few little hearts for steam and an awesome sentiment from the I Love Coffee stamp set.

I used the fantastic Latte Love papers again for this one.  I decided it would be a shaker.  I cut the cup in my top layer using the cup die from the Beverage Cup die set and stamped in Versamark and heat embossed another sentiment from the I Love Coffee stamp set.  I used the Beverage Cup dies to cut the heart, lid and whipped cream pieces .  I added acetate to the inside of the die cut cup and then I popped up my window layer with some foam tape (careful to place the tape all around the cup to keep my fillings where I wanted them) and before I adhered it I threw down some coffee colored dew drops and coordinating sequins.

I found this pretty background in my stash.  My friend Jean Chaney (thanks Jean!) taught us at one our monthly crops how to use some fun foam to create stamps using various dimensional items... for this one, I used a doily die and pressed it into a circle piece of fun foam after heating it up.  The impression stuck and I then stamped them randomly on my paper.  Once that was done, I used some Distress Oxides and blending in some more purple and orange.  You can reheat your foam to flatten it again, but I liked my new "stamp" so much I kept it.

I stuck with the orange and purple theme with all of my pieces.  I built the cup using the Beverage Cup die set using some pretty plaid paper in the perfect colors!  I added a vellum oval underneath and added my layers from there.  I added some Nuvo drops, another pretty Bitty Butterfly, some paper flowers from my stash, hand cut a few banners and used one to stamp the sentiment from the I Love Coffee set!  Yup yup... mmmm.  These colors make me happy!

For my last one for this hop, I lightened things up a bit.  I kept my background subtle and cut that beautiful mug from the Cups and Mugs die set from Copic friendly paper and colored it in with my Copics (R81, R83, and R85 I do believe... one of my favorite color combos from Copic Class with Jennifer Dove).  Using various patterned papers, I cut some of the pretty flowers from the Pretty Posies dies (so pretty and might be gone soon if you love them..last I checked they were on sale.. I know I love them!)  One of those pretty Lacey Ovals keeps it all together.

To finish it off, I cut a fishtail banner from black cardstock and embossed that cute sentiment from the I Love Coffee stamp set.  I cut one of the Pretty Posies in half and tucked part under my oval at the bottom right and used the other half by my sentiment.

That's what I have for you today!  I sure hope you enjoyed your visit here and that I've inspired you just a little!

Now you should head on over to my friend Robyn's Place!  Don't forget to hop all the way through and leave comments for your chance to win!

AND!!  As if that wasn't awesome enough... there's this:

Super cool and generous, right???  What are you waiting for?  Get hopping!  And thanks for stopping!

Coffee Lovers Blog Hop Day 8 1/3

Welcome to Day 8 1/3 of the Spring & Summer 2018 Coffee Lovers Blog Hop!  You have until 11:55pm Pacific time tonight to link up for chances to win (and of course have a lot of fun!).  Click on the main hop blog post here to find out all of the details and then play along!  Today I'm playing along with some Our Daily Bread, Stamplorations and Lawn Fawn!  Here's what I've made:

Well, of course i started off with that pretty green plaid paper from Lawn Fawn's Spring Plaid paper Pack!  And next my layers that would frame everything.. the gorgeous Lacy Ovals Dies from Our Daily Bread.  That bottom one... that's the one I had cut the plain vellum for and decided it needed some color so I chose a green vellum instead which made all of the difference!  Both of those oval layers are from that set and there are more beautiful layers...you should definitely check this set out!

Then... this Beverage Cup Die Set from ODB.. so AWESOME!  It has all kinds of pieces parts so you can make it for any kind of beverage you'd like.  Mine is a Frappuccino... because it's basically ice cream with coffee...lol!  I cut the main cup out of some paper I had previously created using the Shaving Cream Technique.  I trimmed the edges just a bit shorter so there would be a tiny border around it when I attached the same die cut out of Acetate to the top of it.  I just used liquid glass and spread it evenly over the inside of the acetate and it worked like a charm.  I also cut the top of the cup from acetate.. and that cherry!!!??? isn't it adorable?  This is the set that the cute lemon slice from my Brentwood card came from too.  Again... check it out!

And then I really couldn't say anything but this!  LOVE this die from Stamplorations.. I cut it out twice from the green and then a white layer so I could offset it just a tiny bit to let it stand out more.  And the butterfly is from ODB too.. it's called Bitty Butterflies and they are so sweet!

Thanks for stopping again... in case you couldn't tell, I am going to have one more for you this evening... no time to get it set right now.. so I'll see ya later! (I hope)

Coffee Lovers Blog Hop Day 7 1/2

Welcome to Day 7 1/2 of the Spring & Summer 2018 Coffee Lovers Blog Hop!  You have today and tomorrow left to link up for chances to win (and of course have a lot of fun!).  Click on the main hop blog post here to find out all of the details and then play along!  This afternoon I'm using some products from Sponsors Stamps of Life, Your Next Stamp and Our Daily Bread!  Here's what I've got!

I don't know if you are familiar with Stamps of Life... I wasn't until a little bit before the hop... but you should definitely check them out!  My first purchase included this awesome Coffee Statement set that comes with the Coffee word die as well as the coordinating outline die and a stamp set of very funny sentiments that go along with it!

I started off with some of the papers from Crazy for Coffee paper from Your Next Stamp.  And I had the pretty oval diecut from Our Daily Bread Designs leftover from another project.  I decided I needed a different color so I had this one for this card which was perfect!  It's from the Layered Lacy Ovals die set (beautiful set!)

This Coffee die is large enough to be the star of the show along with the fantastic sentiments that come with it!  I embossed this sentiment in some Penny embossing powder from Brutus Monroe and it was just what I needed!

And I finished it off with that cute cup (not sure where I picked that up), flowers and these pretty glittery embellishments that I got from Your Next Stamp, but I'm not sure if they still carry this color.

I'm entering this one into the Double Trouble challenge to use two or more patterned papers and because I'm playing along with the Coffee Lovers Hop I get two chances to win at Double Trouble!  It runs through the end of the Coffee Hop!

Thanks for stopping!  I'm still moving along commenting in the evenings after work... so I'll see you soon if I haven't seen you yet!

Come back tomorrow!

Coffee Lovers Blog Hop Day 6!

Welcome to Day 5 of the 2018 Spring/Summer Coffee Lovers Blog Hop!  If you're not familiar with this hop then please do check out the main Hop Post here when you are done visiting me and I hope you'll play along!  today I'm playing with a freebie from Jessica Lynn Original!  Jessica has provided a free digi for as long as I've been participating in these hops... and this one is adorable (as are all of them...lol).  You can check out her blog post here for info on how to download it and use it to play along!  Here's what I've made:

I decided early on I wanted to create this style of card with a window in the front and part of the Brentwood image peeking out.  I used the Crazy Stitched Frame Die from CDD to cut my first layer and attached it directly to the card base.  Then I lined up the medium Inside Scalloped Octagon Die where I wanted it to be and secured it to the paper with some washi so it wouldn't move... centering it between the two sides and a little higher vertically.  I cut out the window and set aside the frame that was created.

Then I made sure my image would line up where I wanted it before I cut that out with the largest Octagon in the set.  I added back the outside frame by applying glue over the outside edge of the die on the inside of the front so that the glue was over the outer edge of the octagon and also on the card base.  Then I cut a square slightly bigger than the octagon and cut another window out of it so that I could glue the square down around the scallop window and cover the tape that I used to hold the window in.  And then glued the frame that was cut from that white square onto the backside of the frame I had attached in the front (with the plaid).

Once I had that all figured out, I added that Sun die that from CC Designs (it's one of my favorite suns and it's no longer available) and we'll talk about those awesome lemons in just a bit!

Then I colored my image with my Copics and layered everything on the inside of the card.  I colored his hat first so that I could texture it with some burlap and some blending solution.  I textured the hammock simply by swiping one way and then creating lines in the opposite directions... I didn't take a lot of time with it and did it quickly and I love the way it came out.  The sky and water I created with flicks of various colors.  This was really fun to color up!

When it came time to add a sentiment right away I thought of this adorable sentiment from the new Paper Sweeties Hey Y'all sentiment set. And then I remembered that with one of my awesome cup die sets from Our Daily Bread Designs, Beverage Cup Dies (you need to check these out) I thought I'd seen a lemon/citrus die... it was perfect!!  And I sprinkled around a few of the CDD Shimmer Sequins (one of my favorites)

I'm playing along with the Double Trouble Challenge to use two or more patterned papers and because I"m also entering the coffee hop I get too chances to win over there!

Thanks for stopping!  I'll be back later with a second project for today!