Rubbernecker Stamps - Christmas In July - An Easy Side Step Card

Welcome back!  I'm up on the blog over at Rubbernecker Stamps with this one.  I had a lot of fun putting this together.  I used one of the cool pre-cut card bases from The Paper Cut that you can get right in the Rubbernecker shop now!

I hope you'll join me over there for links and details!  Thanks so much for stopping and hope you'll come again soon!

 

I've provided links below to all of the products I used to create this card.  Should you choose to purchase using these links, I will receive a small compensation at no additional cost to you.  And thank you!

The Cutting Cafe-Joy Clair Stamps Collaboration!

Welcome to a very special Cutting Cafe Inspiration!  In April we're collaborating with Joy Clair Stamps and using some of their fabulous stamp sets along with our favorite Cutting Cafe files!  One of my very favorite fairly new files is the 3-D Shadow Card and I knew this Wild and Free stamp set from Joy Clair would be perfect to use along with it!

I love this 3-D card because it appears like a plain old flat card from the outside and then when you open it the shadow box "pops" up to reveal whatever 3D creation  you want to add to the inside!

I used all of the images from the set along with some of the dies in my stash to create this cute scene... and even cuter if you wiggle the front open and closed a little it looks like they're actually moving!...lol!  Just a pleasant surprise that I didn't expect!  This would be a fantastic set to decorate a travel journal don't you think?  But this card would be for someone setting out on an adventure!  Or just for fun... 'cause these two are SO cute!  And the set contains lots of great sentiments too.

That's a lot of layers!  I did add some twine to mine because I used quite a bit of popup tape, but it still lies pretty flat and would be easy to mail.

Thanks so much for stopping by today!  Be sure to check out the Cutting Cafe Blog on the 21st.  Comment there for your chance to win three files of your choice!  And then check out what everyone else has made for Anything Goes!  You'll see a bunch more Cutting Cafe-Joy Clair goodness and we've been sharing throughout the month too!

I'm playing along over at Word Art Wednesday which is Anything Goes!  I'm also linking up at Die Cuttin Divas Animal Cruelty Awareness Challenge.  You should check them out!

Come back tomorrow for a special National Tea Day celebration!

Caffeine Fueled Paper Play - Lawn Fawn

I'm up on the Coffee Loving Cardmakers Blog today and playing along with Lawn Fawn's Fund Fold Challenge!  Hope you'll hop on over there and visit with me!  Here's a sneak peek of today's project!

Coffee Lovers Hop Day 3 - Relax!

Day 3 of the Summer 2017 Coffee Lovers Blog Hop and I've got something special for you!

There's a new file in town over at the Cutting Cafe and it's a very cool 3-D Cup.  Not able to leave awesome enough alone, I paired it with the flowers from the Flower Popup Card to make this cute gifty box..

I used the CTMH No Worries papers to create an easy breezy summery vacationy take a load off kind of feel.  

The 3-D Cup file comes with a bunch of coffee/tea sentiments that you can use along with your project and I die cut one in a circle and used it here as a tag along with some of the Complements from the No Worries paper pack.

And these popup flowers... so I had saved some of the morning coffee from me belly and was using it to create a kinda cool background on another project and decided since this gift box will contain some coffee type gifts, I'd use it to paint these flowers.  The lightest stains are the coffee and then to get my dark brown center I needed to use some watercolors because the coffee wasn't dark enough for my liking... it does give the project a nice coffee aroma and I love the distressed look of it.  I finished off the centers with some gold Nuvo drops.

Because these flowers are for a popup card they are all attached together, but to keep them in place on my cup, I attached them to a scalloped circle and created myself a lid for my cup:

You can see at the top here that my lid slides into the cup.  All I did was copy the base piece for the cup in Design Space and then I made it very thin, cut two more circles and put it together just like the cup.  I was going to make it an actual lid, however I forgot to make the circles bigger before I cut it so it didn't fit, but I was able to jam it inside the cup..lol!  I've decided to change the file I saved in Design Space and make these circles a tiny bit smaller than the cup ones because I like how it fits inside the cup instead of outside.  Not that I'll always need a lid, but since I've done the work already, why not save it?

Now it's time to (see above photo) ... not really... back to work in my crafty space!

See you again soon!  And hey!  Don't forget to check out the Coffee Lovers Hop and play along... lots of great company and lots of great prizes!   And if you are playing along I'll be over to your place soon to see what you've created!

Another Pyramid Card

Here is another 3-D Pyramid Card.  I just love these cards and there is so much more you can do with them besides put flowers on top, but lately I just can't make enough flowers!

Challenge Me Monday #107

Had a fantastic weekend in Chautauqua scrapbooking!  I made this card for the Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Me Monday #107 April Showers.  Our project was to include something with an umbrella, clouds or rain.  The left side is the inside (I didn't attach the card front yet).  I got the instructions from a Cricut magazine to make the popup umbrella on the inside of the card.  I used Create A Critter for the umbrella; Three Birds on Parade, Art Philosophy and Everyday Popup cards.  The paper is this month's CTMH special, Dotty For You and I cut the clouds out of one of the papers from the pack.

3D Pyramid Card

I was at a workshop last week and one of the girls there taught us how to make a 3-D Pyramid card. If you've never seen one of these, they lay flat to mail and then you can make them stand on their own. She had made these for her Christmas cards and made Santas out of them. Sooo cute! So, I decided to try one and am going to do it as a class at a crop next month. I'm entering this card in the Fantabulous Cricut Challenge #106 Buttons and Bows. I used Stella papers. The flower, leaves, and flourish were cut from the Art Philosophy cartridge, and the butterfly was cut out of one of the Dotty For You papers. The sentiment is from the stamp set A Tree.