Fall/Winter Coffee Lovers Blog Hop 2021 - Tea First

Welcome back!  This is my second card for the Coffee Lovers Blog Hop and I've used some great Miss Ink Stamps stuff for this one.  Here's how I was inspired:

I created the background with my Gel Press, some acrylic paint and my very favorite stencil from Miss Ink, the Circular Harlequin Stencil.  I haven't used it in a while though and decided today was the day!

I decided the background was perfect for a Tea Party... Just the Mad Hatter and a fun sentiment...

Now!  Head on over to the Coffee Loving Cardmakers Blog to check out all of the details for the hop!  It's a week long celebration of all things Coffee, Tea, Cocoa or Hot Apple Cider!  Create something new with one of those themes and link it up for your chance to win some prizes!  Lots of Sponsors and lots of prizes!  And link up multiple times with additional new projects!  Be sure to link back to the challenge and give us a mention.  Grab the hop graphic for your post!  And be sure to give our sponsors some love!

I’m also playing along over at the special coffee themed challenge at Double Trouble Challenge Blog De Ja Brew!  If you are playing along with the CLC Hop be sure to check out this one too for more chances to win!

Thanks so much for stopping and hope you’ll come again soon!

 

National Tea Day over at the CLC!

I'm up on the blog over at the Coffee Loving Cardmakers for National Tea Day!

I've used the adorable Tea Rex stamp set from The Rabbit Hole Design along with a bunch of other stuff to celebrate!  Hope you'll join me over there for links and details!

Here are the Copic colors I've used if you want them!  Thanks so much for stopping and be sure to come again soon!

 

Caffeine Fueled Paper Play - To My Best-Tea!

Hello!  I'm up on the Coffee Loving Cardmakers Blog and playing with some more Hero Arts and the adorable Mouse Tea Party stamp set along with a few other things!  I also have a challenge for you!  If you think it would be fun to enable me and get some Happy Mail from me, join me over there!  I mean honestly you've probably already enabled me multiple times so why not one more time for fun?!  Here's a sneak peek of my project and you'll find more photos, details and links over there!

Caffeine Fueled Paper Play - Hero Arts Partea!

I'm up on the Coffee Loving Cardmakers Blog with a new challenge for March and the winners from February!  Hope you'll hop on over there and give us a visit!  Here's a sneak peek of my project for today:

Coffee Loving Cardmakers and The Cat's Pajamas Collaboration Hop

So excited because today the Coffee Loving Cardmakers and The Cat's Pajamas Design Teams are hopping together to show off this adorable new stamp set, Make Tea... just have a look:

Super adorable, right??

Please join us as we share inspiration featuring this adorable new set that is available today over in the shop at The Cat's Pajamas!  Hop along with the Cat Pack and the Coffee Loving Cardmakers Team and check out the tea-lightful projects we've created for you!  Be sure to comment along the way for your chance to win an awesome prize from The Cat's Pajamas!  A winner from today will be chosen from one of the comments left on today's posts and announced on the TCP blog tomorrow!

Here's how I was inspired:

I have two cards for you today using this set... I have so many more images cut out and ready to go too... I just love these sweet bunnies.. not to mention that adorable little mouse with his adorable big ears!

This one I kept fairly clean and simple using the beautiful Scalloped Duo Die to cut the beautiful frame and little embellishment by my sentiment.  And speaking of, I love the sentiments on this set!  This one might be my favorite...

And then I did this:

I used that beautiful Scalloped Duo die again but as an embellishment behind my bunnies.  Aren't they just the absolute cutest??  And can you tell I'm ready for Spring?...lol!

I'm playing along over at Double Trouble Challenge Blog's Say Cheese challenge... create anything that makes you smile... everything about these bunnies makes me smile!

Below is the entire hop list!  Be sure to stop at each blog and leave some love for your chance to win!

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

International Tea Day With Miss Ink!

This is my second post for International Tea Day!  Be sure to check out our fun post over at the Coffee Loving Cardmakers Blog for today!

I knew right away I wanted to use the beautiful flowers from the Gardenia set along with that pretty cup from Brewtiful.  Yes, most days the cup has coffee in it... but for today we've got some tea for you!

I love the new Slimline window dies from Trinity and decided to use it along with my images to create a pretty and fun shaker.  I used some old Lawn Fawn plaid which I tend to hoard but I probably have enough plaid paper to last long after I'm gone so I'm trying to use it a little more...lol!

I love coloring these Gardenia images ... I take a little artistic license with them and have used various colors because I can!  They are so easy to color though and with just a touch in the center I think they're just right!  And I love all of the little pieces parts and different flowers in the set so I can group them together however I wish!

And isn't that polka dot cup from the Brewtiful set so sweet?

Don't you just love shakers??  I love the sparkle and I love the sound they make when you shake them... it makes me happy...

So Happy International Tea Day!  I'm celebrating right now with some coffee, but the rest of my day will be devoted to the sweet leaf... right now I'm using some loose leaf tea from Trailhead Tea in Sedona... I use a mix of Brins Mesa Peach and Broken Arrow Apricot and I love to make iced tea with it and I drink it all week.  The folks there are so awesome so if you ever get a chance to visit, be sure you do!!  You can belly up to the bar and try some tea before you buy!  And they have bubble tea too! I usually get over to Sedona once or twice a year and in between I order my tea online.

Thank you so much for stopping!!  Come back tomorrow for some more inspiration and have a wonderful day!

International Tea Day with the Coffee Loving Cardmakers!

Welcome to International Tea Day!  Today the Coffee Loving Cardmakers are the Tea Loving Cardmakers and we're celebrating with a fun little hop!  We have two teams "battling" it out today; Team Paper Smooches and Team Graciellie!  We're sharing projects using some of these two Super Sponsors' Tea themed products... it's gonna be a tough one because both have created some awesome stuff!  The Inlinkz is below for easy hopping!

I'm on Team Paper Smooches and here's how I was inspired:

Have you seen the pretty new paper pad over at Paper Smooches?  The Rainbow Sherbet paper pad has lots of fun patterns in some really fun colors!  Don't you just love that Houndstooth pattern?  And that frame from the Fab Frames set is one of my favorite dies right now!

I went with traditional Tea for this one with that sweet little Teapot and Cup from the Coffee and Tea dies.   And the sentiment from Caffeinated Two is perfect!  I thought it would be fun to add it to a Speech Bubble.  My coffee and tea speak to me for sure!

And the Coffee and Tea die set has that cute little teabag!  I cut a few from some purple and yellow solid from the Sherbet pad and then some white and raspberry cardstock as well and made the frame into a shaker.

And then I needed to get out the Caffeinated set for some Bubble Tea!

For this one I ink distressed the background with a couple purples.  I stamped some of the bubbles from the Caffeinated set in the deep purple and some second generation of the same color.  Then I used the Hot Dots Stencil to add even more dots in a couple different sizes... lightly with some more of the same distress oxides I blended with.

I stamped, cut and colored the tea cup and adorable little boba!  I just love those guys!!  I layered them onto the tag cut from another one of the prints from Rainbow Sherbet.  I used some of the colors in this tag to color in my tea... actually the purple in this paper inspired the whole purpe theme.

The sentiment is from Caffeinated Two and I cut the bow out of Copic friendly paper and colored it to match the bubble tea.

I think I won this round with a one-two punch!  Now get hopping to see what my teamies have got for you!

Thank you so much for stopping!  Hope you had fun and be sure to see my other post for today for some more Tea and shaker fun!

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Coffee Loving Cardmakers - Paper Smooches Caffeinated Collaboration

 

So excited!  Today the Coffee Loving Cardmakers and Paper Smooches Design Teams are hopping together to show you the awesome new Caffeinated, Caffeinated Icons Dies and Caffeinated Two sets!  I LOVE these sets... take a look:

The fun starts at the Coffee Loving Cardmakers Blog where you will find the complete hop listing!  Hop and comment at each stop for your chances to win a $25 gift code to the Paper Smooches shop!  You have until November 6th at 11:59pm to comment at each stop.

You should have come here from my oh so talented teamie Helen's place!  Here's how I was inspired:

For this one I used papers from an Amy Tangerine paper pad that I got at Our Creative Escape which is a Paint & Wine Studio owned by Kim from Paper Smooches where you can find lots of Paper Smooches stamps and dies, along with a small supply of papercrafting items, and some adorable gifty items.  I thought those circles in the background panel were perfect for a Bubble Tea card!  (Um... did I mention there is a donut shop right next door to OCE that has bubble tea??).  When I go... I Paint & Bubble Tea... or shop and Bubble Tea... or whatever and Bubble Tea.

OMG... the glasses... and those little popping bubbles!!!  I fell in love with this stamp set as soon as I saw it!  I cut a tag using the Gift Tags 2 Dies for a backdrop for that adorable cup.  My favorite is Matcha Green Milk Tea with Blueberry Popping Bubbles.

This Speech Bubble die was PERFECT for this sentiment!  

In.  Love.

And then... this came to me when I was supposed to be sleeping:

Tee hee!!  This one made me giggle in my craft room!

I started with the background... I ink blended the background and then sprayed some water infused with Inkon3 Liquid Pixie Dust and soaked up the excess water with a paper towel.  Once it was dry, I used the same colors and the Stackers Stencil and added some triangles and circles which you can barely see here because I've covered a lot of it up, but I love the way it looks and I can't wait to do it again!

This guy... Frankenstein has long been one of my favorite monsters.  I colored my cup green and then used the Halloween Card Dies for his hair, stitches, and bolts.  It was so fun to make little Frankensteins out of my little poppers too!  Do you see that one little guy up there..... being all cannibalistic?...lol!  And I used this awesome Geo Frame Die to highlight Frankie.

Then I built my sentiment using the Boo! from the Halloween Icons Dies and part of one of the sentiments from the Caffeinated Two stamp set.

So there you have it!  I'll be sharing some more Caffeinated fun with you over the next week!  Be sure to hop and comment by the 6th for your chances to win!

I'm playing along over at Double Trouble Challenges Halloween Colors Challenge and they're partnering with Crafting Happiness where the challenge is Anything Halloween!

Now after you leave me some love here, head on over to my talented teamie Robyn's place to see what she's created for you today!

Thanks for stopping!  Come again soon!  And don't forget Friday is the start of the Fall/Winter 2019 Coffee Lovers Blog Hop!  Be there or be square headed... you know... like Frankenstein!

National Iced Tea Day With SugarPea Designs and the Coffee Loving Cardmakers!

It's an exciting day today for a couple reasons!  First, it's National Iced Tea Day!  A great excuse for me to infuse myself with some yummy Iced Tea all day long!  I mean... I do it every day, but today I have a great reason to!  AND in celebration of the day, at the Coffee Loving Cardmakers we're hopping along with the SugarPea Designs Team to bring you some Iced Tea inspiration using the SugarPea Designs Pucker Up Stamp Set and the Coffee To Go Cup SugarCut!  Hop and comment for your chance to win a $25 Gift Code to the SugarPea Designs Shop!  The more comments you leave, the greater your chances to win!  Commenting closes on Saturday, June 15th at 11:59 Pacific time.

You should have arrived here from the oh so talented Kerry Urbatch's Blog!  Should you get lost along the way, just head on back to the Coffee Loving Cardmakers Blog or the SugarPea Designs Blog for the full hop list!

 I'm playing with the Pucker Up set today and here's how I was inspired:

There are so many adorable images and sentiments on this stamp set that it was quite easy to get started!  The yellow plaid background made me think of a summer table cloth... paired with a pretty doily and some polka dots made a lovely table setting for the adorable pitcher, cup, lemon and tea bag from the set.  And that sentiment, right??

I love all of the images in this set, but those lemons!!  I don't know about you, but I LOVE fresh lemon in my Iced Tea... and lots of it!  I colored up a ton of these little cuties to use on all of my projects.  And those little dessert cups??  Yum!

And with this one I'm playing along with the June Mix It Up Challenge up on the SugarPea Designs Blog!  You can use the sketch or the inspiration photo or both!  I flipped the sketch so I could add more lemons to my background... 'cause... I LOVE them!  Check out all of the inspiration and the rules here and play along!

And that's me for today!  From here you should be heading to the illustrious Lisa Golzbein's Blog!  Don't forget to leave us some love along the way for your chances to win!