Caffeine Fueled Paper Play - Power Poppy by Marcella Hawley!

I'm up on the Coffee Loving Cardmakers Blog and playing along with this month's Creative Confetti challenge at Power Poppy by Marcella Hawley!  Hope you'll hop on over there and join me!  Here's a sneaky peek!

And don't forget we're hosting a challenge up on the Coffee Loving Cardmakers Blog each month!  Here's a badge for you if you'd like to play along:

You'll find a link to the challenge in today's post!

Three Amigos Blog Hop Challenges-Christmas/Winter/Holiday

Welcome to the Three Amigos Blog Hop Challenge #21!  For December our challenge is Christmas/Winter/Holiday!  Here's how I was inpired:

So, surprise... there is a coffee/cocoa element to my card!..lol!  You'll find out why in just a bit if you don't already know.

But you should also know that we are collaborating again with the ladies over at Double Trouble Challenges!  Double Trouble is a fun challenge blog that likes to get together with other challenges and support each other.  You get chances to win a very thoughtful and cool prize and the more challenge elements you meet the more chances you get!  The Challenge over at Double Trouble during our collaboration is Embossing... any kind!  There is also a fun twist over there which is Let It Snow... add anything snow for an extra chance to win!  AND as if you didn't know, the Fall/Winter Coffee Lovers Blog Hop is going on right now and at Double Trouble, if you also play along over there by adding a Coffee, Cocoa, or Tea element to your creation, you not only can link up at Coffee Lovers, but you get an extra chance to win at Double Trouble!  I should have plenty of chances with my card because I've added it all!

I started by coloring this gorgeous and nostalgic image from the Snuggle Down stamp set from Power Poppy Stamps over Thanksgiving weekend.  I just LOVE how cozy it feels and it is perfect with that beautiful pack of retired CTMH paper, Jack.  If I could get my hands on another pack, I would... awesome awesome papers in that one.  I cut my rectangle layers using the Double Stitched Rectangle Dies from Kat Scrappiness and the banners were cut using the Fishtail Banners from MFT.  And the double fishtail is from the Flag Banner Dies from Craftin Desert Divas.. another one of my most used sets!  And then there are the awesome glittery snowflakes cut from some glitter paper from Lawn Fawn.  Take Note - Embossed Sentiment, Snowflakes, Coffee and Cocoa.  Right??  How easy was that?!

I hope you enjoyed your stop today and I hope you'll play along with us over at Three Amigos as well as check out what is going on over at Double Trouble and The Coffee Lover's Blog Hop!  Be sure to hop on over to Donna and Susan's place and check out what they've created too!

I'm also playing along over at the Fall/Winter 2018 Coffee Lover's Blog Hop, Choux Choux Paper Art's Christmas/Winter Visions of Sugarplums Challenge, Simon Says Stamps Wednesday Challenge which is Anything Goes, and Cupcake Inspirations with a theme of Holiday!

Be sure to come back soon... I'll be sharing all things coffee, tea and cocoa all week long!

Spring/Summer 2018 Coffee Hop - Day 2!

It's Day 2 and I'm here with this beautiful Cup of Columbine digi from Super Sponsor Power Poppy!  If you're new to the Coffee Lovers Bloghop, please do check out the main hop post here to get all of the details and then come and play along with us!

You may remember I used this digi on last Wednesday's post to play along with the May Challenge over at Power Poppy which is Black and White with a pop of color.  A good case for reading through the rules before you start - this was my first card and when I went to post it, I saw that we were to use a pop of ONE color...lol!  So back to the drawing board, but I love this one too and I knew I'd use it again for another day.  This is the version of the digi with the Robin (as you can see)...lol!  The digi version comes with two black lined versions of the stamp, one with and one without the bird and egg.  AND it also comes with the same two digis with a no line coloring option where the lines are much lighter.  Very cool!

And that pretty plaid paper is from Super Sponsor Your Next Stamp!  It's from the Summer Plaid paper pad and just LOVE the colors in this one.. it's different from any other plaid papers you might have.

Even with a few different colors, leaving part of the image black and white and only coloring a portion really does give a dramatic look and I love it!  I focused on the blue, brown and orange on this one.  You might be happy to know that as of this week, you can also get this image in a clear stamp set.  The new set is called Cheerful Columbine and it's the image including the bird and there are a couple sentiments in the stamp set.

I just love this sweet bird so much!  Looks like she's eating the little seeds that are falling out of the flower that has gone to seed up top.  I used to have many columbine plants in my garden back in Western New York and they are one that I miss for sure.  Can't grow them here in the desert.  But back there they are perennial and they come up every year without fail and provide so much beautiful color... if I remember correctly around May-June.  I just can't get over how beautiful Marcella's images are and how much detail.  I'll be adding more to my collection for sure!  The new release is just gorgeous!

For my sentiment I used this Smile die from My Favorite Things.  I cut it and stacked four for dimension and added some liquid glass.  Those pretty scalloped mats were cut with the Fancy Frames dies from CDD... one of my most used sets!  I decorated with just a few Doodlebug Sprinkles and splattered a little bit of color shine in a few different colors.

Thanks for stopping!  Hope you enjoyed it and come back soon and often this week!  I'll have lots more caffeinated inspiration for you... hope you play along!

Caffeine Fueled Paper Play With Power Poppy!

I'm up on the Coffee Loving Cardmakers Blog today and playing along with a challenge over at Power Poppy Stamps!  Here's a sneak peek:

Hope you'll meet me over there for the details!