Coffee Lovers Blog Hop Fall/Winter 2021 - Joyful Vibes

Welcome back!  I'm playing along over at the Coffee Lovers Blog Hop again with some new Graciellie Design and another great background stamp from Unity!  Here's how I was inspired:

I'm in love with the beautiful new Cup of Cheer digital stamp set!  It's full of yummy images and great sentiments!

I printed two of the cup and cookies images so I could cut out the cup and pop it up over the whole image.  I printed colored and cut out the images. The first one I cut out the entire image and for the second just the cup.  Then I colored the parts that would be showing from the first and the cup. Then I put foam tape on the back of the cup and popped it up on top of the image including the plate.

I embossed that beautiful stamp from Unity, Delectable Border Background onto a gel press print panel.  Then I added the completed image.  Finally I fussy cut a sentiment from the Christmas Cheer set and popped it up on top and added a few sequins and some Nuvo Drops to the Coffee snowflake.

That's me for today!  I'm linking this one up over at the Coffee Lovers Hop!  You should check it out!

 

25 Days of Christmas Tags Inspiration - Tenia Nelson

If you've never heard of the awesome annual 25 Days of Christmas Tags that goes on over at Tracey McNeely's In My Creative Opinion Blog then you are gonna thank me!  It's a month long fountain of inspiration with tons of sponsors and tons of designers sharing some fabulous creations with lots of chances to win prizes!

I was inspired for this one by Tenia Nelson's beautiful tag for Day 3... the beautiful non-traditional colors (although mine are different, they are nontraditional), the awesome tree ring background (although mine is hard to see...lol), and the gold on black sentiment all caught my attention.

I started by coloring up this beautiful digital image from the Christmas Cheer set from Graciellie Design.  It is so much fun to color Gracie's images.  They have enough detail to make them beautiful even with a quick color but enough space to make them your own when you wish to.  I cut it out and added a little glitter and some liquid glass.

I cut the largest Scallop Tag from Cas-ual Fridays and ink blended it with Wilted Violet and Shaded Lilac distress inks.  Next I used the Tree Rings stencil from Newton's Nook to apply some Decofoil Transfer Gel and set it aside to dry.  Once it was dry, I ran it through my Minc machine with some gorgeous Gina K Designs Gold Sequins foil (my fave!).  I popped up my image and added it to the tag.

Then instead of stamping and embossing my sentiment, I decided to use the Merry word die from the CAS-ual Fridays Merry Christmas Fri-Dies and cut it from gold glitter paper and added it to a black banner cut with a CDD Banner Die.  I didn't want to cover up that gorgeous digi so I attached the Merry at an angle and tucked the banner underneath the image.  A few gold sequins and some pretty purple ribbon.

Thanks for stopping!  You should definitely check out this challenge over at the In My Creative Opinion Blog!  And please do check out Tenia's beautiful creation here!  Then hop around and get inspired and maybe even play along!

And I'm also playing along with the Monday Challenge over at Simon Says Stamp which is Create Your Own Background!  That I did!  Even if it is just peeking out here and there...lol!

Graciellie Design - A Fall Card Using a Christmas Digi

 Popping in to share with you another card using the beautiful new Christmas Cheer set from Graciellie Design and to remind you that there is a contest going on over at the Coffee Loving Papercrafters Group on Facebook... create something using one of Graciellie's beautiful coffee sets and have a chance to win $75...yes... 7-5 ... to choose some more gorgeous digital stamps from the shop!

Today I also used the Autumn flavored set, Obsessively Grateful... color is everything!  I used some Autumn Colors to use this beautiful Christmas cup for a Fall card.  I started by pulling the leaf images into word and creating a layered background with the images... resizing and turning them to make a random pile of leaves.  Printed it on some inexpensive watercolor paper and foiled it using some Gina K Gold Sequins foil in my Minc.

I used the Smooshing Technique with an acrylic block, some distress inks and water to add color to the background along with some splatters with a paintbrush.  Then I water colored using the distress inks and a paintbrush all of my extra images I printed... the beautiful cup and the leaves... including an extra cup to use for piecing and cut them all out.  The leaves are foiled in Gina K Dazzling Orange foil that I picked up over the weekend in the booth where I got to meet Ms. Gina!!  (Awesome).  I cut out an extra cup and flower to layer on top of the image for a little more dimension.

I added a gold foil butterfly and I'm playing along with the current challenge over at Double Trouble to use at least three colors...haha!  Challenge?  ... and an image, digital or stamped!  You should check it out!  And they are collaborating with the Brown Sugar Challenge, Creatures Great and Small.. hence me butterfly!  (I'm so sorry Tracey but I couldn't fit the pun in this one... but I'll try again!!)

I had printed out a page of the sentiments that came with the Obsessively Grateful set and die cut this one with a banner die and added a few splatters of watercolored distress inks on this too.  Cut out the extra flowers and foliage from the extra cup image I colored.

One more peek!  And I'm also playing along with the Outlawz Twisted Thursday challenge this week with a twist of In The Garden!  I think you may find a few of these items in your garden!

So be sure to head on over to the Coffee Loving Papercrafters Group on Facebook and play along with this challenge!!  If  you aren't a member then come along and join us!  Please be sure to answer the questions when you submit so we know you want to be there!