Coffee Hop Day 8 - I'll Take Coffee With My Sunshine

So... once again it's here... the last day, Day 8 of the Summer 2017 Coffee Lovers Bloghop... I can never believe how fast the week goes.  Today I'm sharing a quick and easy card with you that maybe doesn't look so quick and easy... 

Isn't this so pretty??  Before you get too excited... I can't take too much credit for anything here... the image and sentiment were from a 12x12 page of coffee images from Art Play Paintables... they are printed on what feels like watercolor paper and they are pretty awesome... I chose the sunshine one because... well... it's the Summer Hop and I do love the Sunshine (I better living in Southwest Arizona!)  I got my sheet at my local scrapbook store.

And the papers... those beautiful papers... are from Polka Doodles and I got mine at LDRS Creative... my card design is very simple because I didn't want to cover up the paper, but I thought the colors went perfectly with my watercolored image.

I did use my Albrecht Durer watercolor pencils and a tiny paint brush to color it in... I added the lines for the grassy hills because it was plain allowing you to do whatever you want.  You could use watercolors, pencils, or probably water based markers to color these in, but because of the paper I don't think Copics would play well....

You know I love my layers so although I didn't do much, I did cut a couple flowers out of what was left over from the 6x6 sheet and popped them up on the corners so a little bit of them came over the image...and of course a few sequins!  And there's my all time favorite bottom layer cut with the Craftin Desert Divas Crazy Stitched Frame dies...

So there it is... pretty simple!  And I have 8 more prints to use... not for this week though... 

So... the end is near, tonight the Coffee Hop is over.  You still have time to play along.. I'm hoping to make one more, but we'll see... I'm gonna miss you... hope you'll come back!

Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge #214

Welcome to this week's Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge!  I was inspired by one of last week's participants, Gwen to create a page instead of a card.  I made a mini album quite a while ago with the intention of filling it with layouts using some of my Sister In Law's favorite photos and after quite some time sitting and waiting, it finally saw the light today.  My plan is to use the Atlantic Hearts Sketch each week to complete the book.

I was lucky enough to attend Advanced Copic Retreat last week for a weekend long class taught by Jennifer Dove.  It was a wonderful weekend and we all received so many gifts from so many sponsors.  One of those sponsors was LDRS Creative and I did a little shopping in the evening before I went to bed and purchased a few items.. including that oh so pretty Dainty Doily Border die and a very cool doodley Hooty Owl stamp that included those pretty flowers and matching dies... I still need to ink up that owl and you'll be seeing that for sure! 

And what was even cooler, were these pretty dies that were also included in with the Hooty Owl set!  It was like an extra gift I didn't expect.

So thanks to LDRS for being a very generous sponsor for our very wonderful weekend!

The paper is a very very old CTMH paper pack mixed with a newer plaid from Photo Play Paper Co Mad 4 Plaid and the sequins are CTMH... I also scattered some gold Nuvo drops around... the sentiment is Close to My Heart and the banner die is from Craftin Desert Divas.

Please hop on over to Atlantic Hearts and Play along!  Love this Sketch... very versatile!  Thanks for a great sketch Michelle!