Caffiene Fueled Paper Play - Perk Up!

I'm up on the blog over at the Coffee Loving Cardmakers with this one!  I've also got a new challenge for January and last month's winner!  Hope you'll hop on over there and join me!

 

Trinity Stamps Winter Release Blog Hop

I am honored to be guesting with Trinity Stamps for the Winter Release!  It's an awesome release and so excited I got to play with these great products!  You should have come here from the uber talented Courtney Kreeber's place!   Hop and comment all along the way for your chance to win a $25 gift code to the Trinity Shop!  You have until Friday, November 7th at 11:59pm to comment and the winner will be announced on the Trinity Blog on the 8th!

Here's how I was inspired:

Included in the release are some fantastic Slimline dies... I've used one of them on a couple of my projects today, including this one along with the adorable images from the Gingerbread House Stamps and Dies and the Merry Christmas Dies.  You can find all of these new products here!

O M Garsh!!  Adorable images in the Gingerbread House set... it was so fun to put this card together!  I absolutely love those lights... I think they may be my favorite.  This sweet bird has baked some cookies and is expecting some company!

And here is her friend!  They're going to celebrate the holidays together and she brought a gift and of course she showed up with a couple lattes!  (Those are from the Frappy Camper stamp set...lol!  You knew I'd have some coffee here didn't you?)

Love, love the Merry Christmas Senti-Mini Dies!  It's a three die set, with the words, the outline and a little banner that I didn't use here, but is fantastic for the little sentiments in the Merry Christmas Senti-Mini stamp set!

And the Slimline Series: Stitched Dies... can't say enough!  The 8 1/2" x 3 1/2" size is so fun to have a little extra room.  I created a shaker from mine using a beautiful glitter mix from Trinity.

I'm linking this one up to Simon Says Stamp's Anything Goes Wednesday Challenge!  You should check it out!

I loved playing with the Slimline dies so much I used them again for this one!  I used it along with the Snowman Border Builder.  SUCH a fun set!!

I used the hill die in the set with white glitter paper to create my snowy ground.  Then I just cut all my pieces out of a few different colors and some from glitter paper and started mixing and matching pieces.  My fine tweezers made this so much more fun and easy!

So cute, right?!  The dies to cut those tiny snowflakes were also in the set and the larger snowflakes are embellishments available in the Trinity shop in the I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas mix.

And I used the Merry dies as my sentiment for this one... sweet and simple!

I cut lots of extras from the Snowman Border Builder because I knew I'd want to use them again and again.  I'll store them in little clear envelopes... but I didn't put them away quite yet... 'cause I needed some for this:

Have you seen the new Layered Pine stencils???  I used them for the background here and I LOVE them!  I varied my colors a bit and added a few of just the bottom layer in the background... of my background...lol!

And wasn't it just the perfect backdrop for my Frappy Camper?  I decided to dress it up for Christmas this time around.  I paper pieced the red and colored its belt black.  I used the Coffee Cup from Seasonal Sweetheart for a vent pipe again and added one of the little hats from the new Gingerbread House set.  I decided to make it a shaker with those adorable little Frappe sequins!  Perfect, right?  And those lights from the Gingerbread House set were perfect to decorate the camper!

And some of those adorable snowmen joined the party and they've got little frappes themselves!  Those sequins were the perfect size... although I think I'd need a larger cup than that.

I used the Christmas without the outline for this one cut in glitter paper and stacked and the Frappy is from the Frappy Camper Perking Spot set.  I just added some white Nuvo drops all around for a light snowfall and a trio of sequins from the Soapy Bubbles mix of sequins.  (my new favorite!)

I'm playing along with this one over at the Coffee Lovers Blog Hop that started today and continues through next Friday!  Trinity Stamps is a sponsor for the hop and you can check out the hop rules and link up at the main post here!

Now you should make your way over to the wonderfully creative Emelie Hessler's place and see what she's created for you today!

Here is the entire hop list should you need it:

Trinity Stamps

Brenda Noelke

Christine Burillo-Kirch

Davina Cantrell

Courtney Kreeber

Lisa Bzibziak (You Are Here!)

Emelie Hessler

Shanna Slater

Andrea Shell

Jeannie Lieu

Jenn Bena

Katie Brooks

Amanda Wilcox

Mary Polanco

Emily Mydlowski

That's me!!  Thanks so much to Trinity and Team for having me along for the ride!  I've had so much fun and I'm not done sharing!  I mean.. it's Coffee Hop week!  See you again soon!

Coffee Loving Cardmakers and Trinity Stamps - Frappy Camper Collaboration!

Welcome to a fun filled hop between the Coffee Loving Cardmakers and Trinity Stamps!  We're hopping to share lots of inspiration using the new Frappy Camper's PERKing Spot stamp set that was born from a collaboration between our two teams and illustrated by Davina Cantrell.  It was so much fun to work alongside the Trinity team and share ideas to come up with the concept so perfectly brought to life!

The party starts at the Trinity Stamps Blog!  Hop and comment along the way for your chances to win a $20 gift code to the Trinity Stamps shop!  You have until October 22nd to comment and the winner will be announced on the Trinity Blog on October 26th.  If you get lost along the way, you can hop back on over to Trinity's Blog where you'll find the entire hop list and to find your way.  You should have come here from the very talented Helen's Blog!  And here's how I was inspired:

While shopping over at Trinity, I took a stroll through their considerable embellishments section and came across the beautiful Autumn Leaves embellishment mix and I knew I was going to create a shaker.

I paper pieced my camper using some leftovers from my National Coffee Day project that you can check out here if you'd like.  I love all of the pieces parts in this set that make it so much fun to assemble a fun scene!

And these cute little characters!  She decided, of course, that a Pumpkin Spice Latte was the ticket and he decided to go with a cupcake... and he may have another!  I gave his shirt a bit of a plaid look... and I love his schwoopy hair!  Very dashing!

I created my simple shaker by using a rectangle die and a circle die.  I used washi tape to hold them in place and ran them through my Gemini all at once.  I chose all of my papers from the same paper pad and when I cut the background circle for the shaker I chose the cute Love Life patterned paper and centered one of the large sentiments in the shaker window.  I strategically glued a couple sequins inside so that it would always look like it was shaken.  Don't you love the leaves in this mix??

Since I created my sentiment with my paper, I used part of one of the Frappy Camper sentiments for a sign on the Coffee Trailer and left it at that.  Just scattered a few additional sequins around the outside... as if they escaped from the shaker.

I'm playing along over at Cupcake Inspirations Something Inside!  You have just a few more hours to play along... my sequins are inside the shaker!

And then this came to me in the middle of the night and I couldn't let it go:

I mean... of course if I owned a coffee truck that was the created from a trailer, I would paint it to look like a pumpkin!

For this one I created a distress oxide background using some stencils and then placed that awesome Cloudy Day Frame over the top, popping it up with some thin width popup tape.  Such a cool frame!

So did you notice my exhaust pipe/stem is made from a coffee cup??  This one is from the Seasonal Sweetheart set and was the perfect size!  And I added a couple of the green leaves from the sequin mix.

I added the flowers and pumpkin also from the Seasonal Sweetheart set for more autumn feel.  I decided not to add that cute couple so as not to cover up my pumpkin coffee truck trailer.  They'll be there soon... after all... there is pumpkin spice on the menu!

I decided on a sentiment from the new Autumn Sentiments set.  Cause.. well... Pumpkin Spice!  I colored the strip with the same colors I used on the pumpkin trailer and added a few more sequin leaves.

And there you have it!

I'm playing along over at Double Trouble's Put Your Mask On Challenge (did you know that when you use a stencil... you're masking!) and pretty sure with this one I've met the Pumpkin twist! 

Now to continue on your way you'll stop over at Robyn's place next for some awesome inspiration!  Don't forget to leave love along the way for your chances to win a $20 gift code to the Trinity Stamp shop!

Thanks for visiting and come again soon!