Caffeine Fueled Paper Play - Altenew

I'm up on the Coffee Loving Cardmakers Blog today and playing along over at Altenew's July Inspiration Challenge!  Here's a sneak peek and I hope you'll hop over to check out the details!

World Cardmaking Day with Kat Scrappiness & Altenew

Happy World Cardmaking... Weekend!...lol!  It's not that I didn't create yesterday, I just didn't create anything I could share yet!  So today I decided since Kat Scrappiness had their World Cardmaking Day Friendship Challenge going through today, I'd "whip up" a card!

This is going to be a super short post because I am having computer problems!  My typing pad isn't working and my wireless mouse isn't either!  So I'm having a hard time doing all my normal everyday stuff.  I figured out a way to move my pointer, but let me tell you... I've already ordered the new laptop I've been needing for quite some time (my screen has been falling off...lol!) because this is just not cutting it!

Anyway!!  I knew I wanted to use that awesome background die from Kat Scrappiness ... gorgeous, right??  And that distressed edges oval is also from KS store.   I'll come back in and add links when I can get to a better computer, but for now I'll just tell you what I used.  When I was trying to decide what stamps and dies I had to use, I landed on some pretty Altenew offerings in my stash... the sentiment, butterfly, and die cut flower are from Altenew.  And the brown twiggy foliage is from Tim Holtz.  I chose Altenew because I love the inspiration challenge photo they have right now so I thought I'd play along there too!  Check out both of these places (Kat Scrappiness ends at midnight tonight!!)

Thank you so much for stopping by today and so sorry for the post!  My new computer will be here Wednesday.  In the meantime I do have some cool things scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday so do come back soon!

Also, a note... my visiting is on hold right now as well and I'll be back to that as soon as I can... new computer, then out of towners coming in!  I will see you soon!

Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge #248

Welcome to this week's Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge!  Today I'm playing along with a few other challenges as well!  My Coffee Lovin' Cohort Laurel Seabrook hosts a challenge that I found last week called Inspired By and the Inspiration Photo is below.  I was inspired by the black and white and gold and the patterns and my mind went to this paper from the jack paper pack.  I was also inspired by the beautiful Vintage Roses stamps from Altenew that she used in her project.  I got that set so long ago and have been afraid to use it because of the layering.  So this weekend I pulled it out and was surprised at how easily these came together and I didn't even end up crying like I have with some layered sets...lol!

So I checked out the Altenew challenge blog and chose my colors from the Sketch Challenge which allows you to be inspired by the Sketch, the colors, the composition, or the elements or all of the above!  I chose the colors since I already had the Atlantic Hearts sketch to use... and they were perfect!  AND I checked out the Tic Tac Toe Challenge over at the Outlawz Twisted Thursday and found a row I could definitely work with.  The board is below and I chose the diagonal Flower, Embossing, and Butterfly which was also just right for this card!  That pretty butterfly diecut is from Memory Box and the gold foil paper was just the ticket.

And I've also had this awesome sentiment set from Altenew in these fun fonts, Painted Inspiration forever!  I bought it at a stamp show back in NY at the Right At Home booth... embossed in gold... 

So thanks for stopping by!  Hope you will play along over at Atlantic Hearts this week!  And you may want to pair it up with some of these other challenges as well!

Here's this week's sketch!

And this is the color pallet that inspired me:

With a little bit of pretty black and white geometric pattern and a touch of gold:

And the lower left to upper right diagonal combo from here:

Day 8 of Coffee-I Don't Want To Talk About It

So.... it's the last day of the Spring 2017 Coffee Lovers Blog Hop.  Sniff.  I didn't want to let this one go by without making something with the beautiful Altenew set I won during the last hop from Stamp Simply.  Love this set!  So many wonderful coffee sentiments and images!

I love that most of this coffee pot was plain and I could decorate it how I wanted.  I used a sweet flower from one of my Paper Smooches sets and added a few dots for good measure and I decided my cups would be all different colors... looks like the aftermath of a really good coffee session with friends...

So this was the perfect sentiment... wish every day could start off with this kind of aftermath... 

I will have one more for you this afternoon!  Come back at around 12pm central for another one with the new JLO set... I mean... if you want... I can't make you ;)