National Iced Tea Day With SugarPea Designs and the Coffee Loving Cardmakers!

It's an exciting day today for a couple reasons!  First, it's National Iced Tea Day!  A great excuse for me to infuse myself with some yummy Iced Tea all day long!  I mean... I do it every day, but today I have a great reason to!  AND in celebration of the day, at the Coffee Loving Cardmakers we're hopping along with the SugarPea Designs Team to bring you some Iced Tea inspiration using the SugarPea Designs Pucker Up Stamp Set and the Coffee To Go Cup SugarCut!  Hop and comment for your chance to win a $25 Gift Code to the SugarPea Designs Shop!  The more comments you leave, the greater your chances to win!  Commenting closes on Saturday, June 15th at 11:59 Pacific time.

You should have arrived here from the oh so talented Kerry Urbatch's Blog!  Should you get lost along the way, just head on back to the Coffee Loving Cardmakers Blog or the SugarPea Designs Blog for the full hop list!

 I'm playing with the Pucker Up set today and here's how I was inspired:

There are so many adorable images and sentiments on this stamp set that it was quite easy to get started!  The yellow plaid background made me think of a summer table cloth... paired with a pretty doily and some polka dots made a lovely table setting for the adorable pitcher, cup, lemon and tea bag from the set.  And that sentiment, right??

I love all of the images in this set, but those lemons!!  I don't know about you, but I LOVE fresh lemon in my Iced Tea... and lots of it!  I colored up a ton of these little cuties to use on all of my projects.  And those little dessert cups??  Yum!

And with this one I'm playing along with the June Mix It Up Challenge up on the SugarPea Designs Blog!  You can use the sketch or the inspiration photo or both!  I flipped the sketch so I could add more lemons to my background... 'cause... I LOVE them!  Check out all of the inspiration and the rules here and play along!

And that's me for today!  From here you should be heading to the illustrious Lisa Golzbein's Blog!  Don't forget to leave us some love along the way for your chances to win!

Cutting Cafe Inspiration-Donut Fun!

It's time for some Cutting Cafe Inspiration!  This time around we're playing with the Donut Fun File that's available in the shop here!    I had so much fun with this set it was hard to stop!

That adorable Donut background and sentiment are printables included in the set!  I printed a sheet of the background and used a die to cut out my 2nd layer and then a simple circle die to cut a couple donuts to use as embellishments.  I colored in the donut image that is the "O"  in Donut and then finished up with some Doodlebug stickers and that pretty heart die from my stash.

There are two Donut Shaped cards... there's this one that is the "side" view of the donut... and that sprinkled frosting was cut from another printable in the set.  I printed the whole sentiment PDF and then used what I needed from it, cutting them out with various dies.  (My coffee tells me to eat donuts all the time.)

And here's the top view Donut Card... and you can make both versions as a shaker!!  All the cuts you need are in the set.  I like my donuts with lots of frosting and the more sugar the better!

Then I re-sized the top two layers of one of the donuts and did the same with the Coffee Cup Shaped Card 2 to use on this card!  Then I built my sentiment using some words from my PDF sentiment sheet and some dies... this might be my fave... but I love them all!  I think you'll be seeing some more donuts soon.

Be sure to check out what everyone else has created with this very cool set!  Head on over to the Cutting Cafe Blog where you'll find links to all of my teamies great makes.  And be sure to comment at the Cutting Cafe Blog Post for a chance to win three files of your choice!  (I highly suggest the Donut Fun file!)

Krafty Chicks Challenge - #458-Die Cuts!

Honored to be guesting over at Krafty Chicks Challenges this month!  Krafty Chicks Challenges start on Thursday at 12:00am MST and you have until the following Wednesday at 12:00pm (noon) MST to play along!  The challenges are Anything Goes with an Optional Twist and this week's twist is Die Cuts!  Check out all of the rules here! (There aren't many!)

Today I'm using some beautiful dies from Stamplorations (those sweet Trendy Spring Blooms dies and lovely (Crazy Double Running Stitch Nesting Rectangle Dies) and from Birch Press Design (the Genevieve Butterfly Layer Set and Sending Love Stamp and coordinating Dies sentiment sets).  The large background label shape is from Spellbinders and the fun Paper Smooches Bannerific Dies were used for the Handmade Hugs part of the sentiment.  I LOVE that the outline cuts out separately so you can outline it in a different color... or even a pretty print... coming soon...lol!

So happy you stopped to visit today!  Be sure to check out what the Design Team members from Krafty Chicks made for your viewing pleasure today and hope you'll play along!

I'm also playing along with the June Cutplorations Challenge over at Stamplorations... there is a fun inspiration photo:

Be sure to stop by tomorrow to see what we're playing with over at The Cutting Cafe!

Caffeine Fueled Paper Play - Pink and Main and a Challenge!

I'm up on the Coffee Loving Cardmakers Blog and I've got a special challenge for you with a special prize!  Hope you'll hop on over there for the details!  Here's a sneaky peek!

Three Amigos Blog Hop Challenge #27-Things With Wings!

It's the 3rd of the month and time for a new challenge over at Three Amigos Challenge Blog!  This time around the challenge is to create something using the theme Things With Wings!  Use your imagination!  Here's how I was inspired:

Well, of course my wings have an owl attached!  Are you new here??  This Owl from Unity...it's a Cuddlebug Owl.... there's a whole line of these adorable cuddlebug critters... and I love them all!!

I colored him with my Copics and fussy cut him out.

And the combo of that beautiful Hero Arts Woodgrain Cardstock along with the Simon Says Stamp Birch Tree Window!!  Perfect for a woodland feel for my fine feathered friend!  And those Cafe Au Lait sequins from Doodles Paper Playground... just the ticket!  Finally that sentiment from the Cuddlebug Owl set...just right!!

I'm playing along over at Unity's June Challenge in the Unity Show & Tell group on Facebook!  It's all about your Unity animals!  I'm also playing along with Simon Says Stamp's Wednesday Challenge which is Anything Goes this week!

That's me for today!  Be sure to head on over to Susan and Donna's blogs to see what they've made for you today and then head on over to the Three Amigos Blog to play along!

Sending You A Smile-Rubbernecker Stamps

So happy you stopped today!  I'm sharing a card made with lots of fun Rubbernecker Stamps products.

I started this one by die cutting the largest of the Deckle Rectangle dies from white cardstock.  Next I stamped the Grunge Frame in Cocoa onto the panel using my Misti.  When inking up the frame, I avoided the leaves in the bottom left corner of the card.  After stamping the brown color, I inked up the leaves and a few other spaces in green and stamped over it again for a two tone look.  Next, I took one of the smaller rectangles and cut the center from the frame.  I did this so I could pop up the outer piece and create some dimension by placing the middle piece back into the center.

I love that it gave it a little bit of dimension while still allowing me to have a "white" card front.  Of course, I had to add some shimmery watercolor splatters in pink and brown!

I stamped the Butterfly #7 outline in Ranger Archival Ink onto watercolor paper.  Then using my Misti, I lined up the solid stamp from this two stamp set and using a piece of foam, I added ink to the stamp placing each color where I wanted it, gave it a spray of water and then stamped it over the black outline.   I did each color separately to be sure to have some contrast and that the colors didn't all just run together.  And lastly I added a little bit of deeper color in some places using my Zig Clean Color Markers and a little water.  When it was dry and added to the card, I applied some Liquid Glass to the butterfly's body for dimension.

I built my sentiment using part of a sentiment from the Fox stamp set along with this beautiful Smile die.  I fussy cut the stamped sentiment and cut the Smile four times and stacked them to be sturdy enough to be suspended across the framed area.  I used Nuvo drops for my dot.  To finish I added sequins in green, pink/purple, and orange.

Finished!  And I'm playing along over at Simon Says Stamp's Wednesday Challenge which is Anything Goes and Simon Says Stamp's Monday Challenge which is Frame It!  

I hope you enjoyed your stop and that you'll come back again soon!

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MFT Wednesday Sketch Challenge - Howdy!

I'm playing along with the MFT Wednesday Sketch Challenge!  I'm on a crafty vacation right now with some really good long time friends and decided it was the perfect time to just play.  I didn't really plan on making any actual cards and was just going to color but once I got these adorable images from the MFT Animal Farm Stamp Set I needed to get them onto a card so I borrowed some cute papers and consulted this week's challenge!

Here is the sketch:

I think this stamp set is retired, but it's adorable!!

There are some adult and baby critters... that cute sign and quite a few adorable sentiments!  The flowers are from the Lawn Fawn Easter Party set.

I borrowed the fence and banner dies.

I'm playing along with this week's MFT Wednesday Sketch Challenge and the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge which is Anything Goes!