Coffee Loving Cardmakers - Divinity Designs LLC Collaboration!

The Coffee Loving Cardmakers and Divinity Designs LLC Design Teams are hopping together today to share with you some of their newest Coffee themed products!  You should have arrived here from my Teamie Erin's blog!  Hop and comment for your chance to win a $25 gift code to the Divinity Designs LLC shop!  If you get lost along the way, just head on back to the Coffee Loving Cardmaker's Blog to find the complete hop list!

I was lucky to have a chance to play with the Coffee Heartbeat Die!  Love this cool due and here's how I was inspired:

I started off by using some Alcohol Inks on Yupo paper and cut the die from it.  I wanted a simple, but interesting background, so I used the Quilted Background Die and cut it from a neutral design paper.  I glued it all together over a cream colored background.  I cut and embossed a strip of cream for a backdrop for the Coffee Heartbeat and layered it all together.  Finally a sentiment from the I Love Coffee stamp set heat embossed on a die cut from the same design paper as the background and a heart cut from the alcohol ink panel using a heart from Cups and Mugs dies.

I ended up with some leftovers from this one so I decided to do this:

I cut a simple panel from the same paper as I used in my first card and used the alcohol ink "leftovers" but popping them up over a gold strip.  A little glitter tape, another sentiment from I Love Coffee, and a few sequins and it was done!

I'm playing along with the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge which is Monochrome!

I knew I wanted to use the cool Latte Love Paper Pad and this is how I decided to use it:

I decided to use the Quilted Background again in cream.  I cut the Coffee Heartbeat from the coffee bean paper three times and adhered it to the background staggering them for a feeling of movement.  That awesome cup and heart are from the Cups & Mugs dies and the whipped topping is from the Beverage Cup Dies and I used the beautiful Fancy Circles Dies to frame it.

That's me for today!  Hope you enjoyed it!  Now you should head on over to the talented Kerry's blog and see what she's created for you today!  And don't forget... hop and comment along the way for your chances to win a $25 gift certificate to the Divinity Designs LLC shop!

Thanks for stopping!

Fabulous Favorites Challenge - Papertrey Ink

Good Monday morning!  (Is that a thing?  Let me get to the bottom of my cup and I'll let you know).  So... over at Papertrey Ink they've changed up the challenges a little bit!  Every Wednesday you can get all of the information you need for all kinds of ways to win some free Papertrey Ink stuff!  Some for commenting; answering questions; or participating by creating something!  Lots of fun and ways to win.

Today I'm playing along with Laurie's Fabulous Favorites Challenge.  Your mission is to create something using at least one Papertrey Ink product showcasing your favorite accessory.  Mine is sequins... it seems no matter what kind of card or project I create, you'll find a sequin on almost every one!  These cards are part of a set I'm creating as a sample for a coworker who has requested some notecards to give as gifts to some of her church friends.  Unlike me, I wanted to keep them flat for mailing, but I still wanted a little bit of bling on them and I happened to have some flat sequins that were just right.

I didn't have any PTI sequins so I used these from my stash, however I did have that gorgeous frame from the Fun Frame Dies.  That is definitely one of my fave PTI dies... I mean really... the plaid ones are my very favorite...lol... but for this project, the Fun Frame dies were perfect!  I only embellished one so that she could see them with and without and decide what she likes best.  Of course I'll add flowers and sequins to each later because these are for me!

Other dies I used on this one were the Inside Stitched Rectangles and Alphas are from Kat Scrappiness, the flower is from Divinity Designs, and the stitched half rectangles are from CC Designs.  Quick post today... have to get ready for work.  You have until tomorrow to play along over at PTI.. check out this post here for this week's challenges and you can link up to this challenge here!