Spring/Summer 2021 Coffee Lovers Hop Day 1!

Well, a Woo!  And a Hoo!  It is time for the Spring/Summer Coffee Lovers Blog Hop!  We are celebrating with a week long hop full of inspiration with lots of sponsors and prizes!  You get chances to win some great stuff by linking up newly created coffee, tea or cocoa themed projects!  Check out the main hop post here for all of the details and to link up!

For my first card I've been doing some playing with my Gelli Printing Plate and some acrylics along with stencils and stamps.  Here's how I was inspired for this one:

I created the background including butterflies from the Gina K Love & Kindness stamp set on the Gelli Plate and then added a couple more butterflies by rolling a bit of paint onto the stamp.  After it was dry, I stamped the floral from the Friendship Blooms stamp set in Versamark and heat embossed with some Wow embossing powder.

I die cut the to go cup from Rubbernecker Stamps (one of my faves because of the size and that cool stir stick that comes with the set!).  I assembled it and stamped the sentiment from the Gina K Perfect Blend set.

I didn't want to cover up too much of that background so I cut the Heart Circle die from some vellum for a backdrop for the coffee cup.  Just a few sequins and done!

I had a LOT of fun playing with the Gelli Plate and I made a second background at the same time that I'll be using this week!  I'll be playing some more with the Gelli plate as well and if you really want some inspiration and ideas for using it, I've found a great account on IG for it and you can find it here!  Tania does some great quick videos with plenty of ideas of how to use your plate.

I have four cards for Day 1 so be sure to check those out too!

Now be sure to head on over to the CLC blog to check out how to play along!  I cannot wait to see what you create!

 

Coffee, Flowers, and Back to Normal

I'm Back!  Maybe you didn't know I was gone... or care...lol!  It's ok!  But I'm glad to be back home after a long, wonderful and exhausting vacation!  It will take me a while to catch up with everything, but part of my vacation was a long crafty weekend which was quite awesome!  And I'll be sharing some of what I made while I was away over the next few days while I try to get unpacked and back to normal.

For today, I'm playing along with Challenge 9 over at the Honey Bee Stamps Buzzworthy Challenges group on Facebook!  You have to join the group to play and your project should have Honey Bee products as the focal point!  You are allowed to use other company's products in your stash along with your Honey Bee images and dies, but they should be the focus.  I was excited when I checked on the new challenge and it was all about Florals!!  

I had brought this striped packaging with me when I packed my bags.  It's from the bag that some of my Honeybee order came in and I knew I'd want to use it!

During the last Coffee Lovers Hop, I won a gift certificate to the shop of Super Sponsor Honey Bee Stamps and it took me a while to decide what I was going to get... of course I ordered a few extras because...well... free shipping!  I finally got the awesome Coffee Break stamp set that has been on my wish list for quite some time!

Not to mention the fantastic Perfect Blend sentiment set that goes along with the Coffee Break set so well (along with any other Coffee stamps and dies you have!)  I LOVE that it's made up of small words and phrases that you can put together in any way you want to create a sentiment that's uniquely yours or a favorite sentiment that you've seen before!  I love to keep mine open when I can so that the card can later be sent out on a variety of occasions.

And these.  These gorgeous floral stamps from the Spring Blossom stamp set... oh my.  Part of the reason it took me so long to decide was... how many floral sets do I need???  I mean really!  I'm so glad I finally decided just to get it because it turns out that the answer to that question is "This one" for sure... and, well, as many as I want!  I LOVE this set and how it's so open to be colored in so many different ways.  And these green Nuvo drops turned out to be perfect for the stamens... although I've found recently that Nuvo drops tend to soak up the colors of some of the mediums I use... in this case, Copic markers.  Some of my drops turned orange, BUT in this case, I don't mind at all... I love the way they turned out!

SO! If you love florals like I do, then this is the challenge for you!  Join the group and play along... you have until July 14th!

I'm also playing along with the Outlawz Challenges Twisted Thursday Anything Goes Challenge... I didn't meet the twist this time around, but that's ok!  You can still play along with the Anything Goes part... and I always forget that!  You should check that one out also!

See you soon!  Hopefully lots of stuff going on around here this week in and around my unpacking!  I'll be seeing you soon!