Coffee Lovers Blog Hop

I'm super grateful for the the wonderful & generous Super Sponsors:

17Turtles	Veronica Zalis	Chris Franco
Add a Little Dazzle	Butterfly Reflections Ink	Color Cast Designs
Create a Smile	Hero Arts	Kraftin' Kimmie
Kreative Kymona	Latina Crafter	Neat & Tangled
Newton's Nook	Pickled Potpourri Designs	Poppystamps
Reverse Confetti	Stamp Academy	Stamp Simply Ribbon Store
STAMPlorations	SugarPea Designs	Sweet 'n Sassy
The Alley Way Stamps	Two Paper Divas	Verve Stamps
Whole Wild World	Your Next Stamp	Paper Smooches

17 Turtles:  $15 Store Gift Card

A Muse Studio/Chris Franco:  Cup of Good Cheer stamp set

Add a Little Dazzle:  $25 Store Gift Card

Butterfly Reflections Ink:  Prima Coffee Break

Color Cast Designs:  Coffee Lovers kit

Create a Smile:  Monster Party stamp set

Hero Arts:  A Little & Today's Special stamps/Cup 'O Joe Shadow ink

Kraftin' Kimmie:  $25 Store Gift Card

Kreative Kymona:  Fancy Mug Giveaway

Latina Crafter:  Cafe Wood Veneers + $25 Store Gift Card

Neat & Tangled:  Warm Wishes stamp set

Newton's Nook:  $15 Store Gift Card

Paper Smooches:  $25  Store Gift Card

Pickled Potpourri:  $7 Store Gift Card

Poppystamps:  Tea Cup Stack Die

Reverse Confetti:  $15 Store Gift Card

Stamp Academy:  2 classes

Stampin' Up/Veronica Zalis:  $20 Store Gift Card

STAMPlorations:  $10 Store Gift Card

Stamp Simply Ribbon Store:  Coffee Cup Prize Pack

SugarPea Designs:  $20 Store Gift Card

Sweet 'n Sassy:  Pick Me Up Clear stamp & die set

The Alley Way Stamps:  Tea Par-tea stamp set

Two Paper Divas:  Your Warm My Heart stamp set

Your Next Stamp:  $20

Verve Stamps:  $25

Whole Wild World:  Coffee before Talkee mug

●●Sponsorship prizes are eligible via random draw from linked hop participants only●●

As I personally hop through all the linked projects, I will be pinning projects to a special

2014 Holiday Coffee Lovers Blog Hop board!

●The linky will remain open through Friday, December 12th. This will give everyone plenty of time to link up and perhaps even link up multiple times!
●The actual hop will end Sunday, Dec 14th, this is for blog candy commenting on participating blogs.
●People with blog candy should encourage commenters to include contact info (specifically for those no-reply bloggers). Please contact your winner directly on/by Saturday, December 20th.
●I will post a doc on the FB events page that you can add your name/blog name and winners name. I will edit this post on my blog to add the winners names on or around Sunday, December 21st.
●Sponsorship prizes are eligible via random draw from linked hop participants only.
●I will be pinning everyone's hop projects to THIS Pinterest board especially for this hop. 

★★TURN OFF WORD VERIFICATION for the hop★★

Feel free to design a coffee card or perhaps your favorite hot holiday beverage♡

Blog Candy: I thought it would be fun to offer up some blog candy. Whether you want to put together a traditional blog candy or what about your favorite hot holiday beverage recipe? This is definitely NOT a requirement but something to add some additional fun to the hop.

I LOVE coffee and so I couldn't resist entering this super fun challenge.  I have a TON of coffee themed stamps and dies and actually discovered some new ones that I didn't have.  I created a 5 X 7 card using a white card base and some red patterned papers from my stash.  I chose the Lawn Fawn Love You a Latte stamp set to stamp out some cups and die cut with the matching dies.  I then colored the to go coffee cup with my R24 Copic marker and the coffee inside the other two cups with my E33 and E35 Copic markers.  I then cut a frame out using the My Creative Time stitched rectangle dies.  I put a piece of cardstock inside the frame and stamped out the sentiment from the My Favorite Things Perk Up stamp set.  I then pop dotted the coffee cup and mugs up at the bottom.  I also added a wood veneer doughnut from the Prima Coffee Break collection.  Thanks for looking and please go over to Amy's blog to enter this fun challenge.

My Creative Time Designer Challenge

I have recently discovered a great stamp company that makes dies also.  They have matching dies and stamp sets.  They are great quality and made in the USA.  You can find them here.  They have a designer challenge and here is what is required this time around.   I had a lot of fun using the great sketch that was included.  The base of the card is 5 X 7 and I used my circle dies to cut out lots of different sizes of circles.  I added a piece of Echo Park designer paper to the card base and then arranged the circles in a fun pattern on the top.  I made sure they overlapped the card and then after gluing them down I cut off the excess.  I then used a piece of bakers twine to wrap around the circles and I placed a birthday sentiment in the bottom right hand corner.  This was a fun challenge and I hope you participate as well.

Pocket card for Tsunami Rose Designs

Here is my second design team project for Tsunami Rose Designs printables.  I created a 6 X 6 pocket card.  I used the vintage digital paper for the front of my card and then I added a piece of black foil paper on the back.  I used a tag from the vintage children pack on the upper right hand corner.  I added a Prima butterfly clip to the left of the pocket.  I placed a chalkboard sticker above the image on the digital paper.  I added some Recollections rhinestone stickers on it.  I added some rhinestone animal print stickers to the bottom right hand corner of the card.  I placed some Recollections paper butterflies to the middle of the card.  I used a piece of kraft cardstock for the inside of my card.  I cut out the top with a Fiskar Apron Lace border punch.  I glued on a piece of rose digital paper from Tsunami Rose Designs. 

   My pocket card

The inside of my pocket card.

TsunamiRose Designs Design Team Project

My first project this month using some of Tsunami Rose Design printables is an anniversary card for my parents. You can find these amazing printable here and some of them are soon going to be discontinued so you may want to hurry over before it is too late.  You can find retiring designs here.  I chose to make this a 5 X 7 card and so I fold a piece of 8 1/2 X 11 cardstock in half.  I added some light blue cardstock and gold cardstock on the base.  I then added some floral patterned paper from my stash that went with the colors.  I used a Fiskars border punch to punch out a strip of blue cardstock that was adhered on top of the floral paper.  I then took the lovely vintage couple image from Tsunami Rose designs that is a 6 X 6 printed paper and placed it on the top part of the card.  I then added some blue lace trim from Recollections and heart stickers on either end of the lace trim.  I added a paper butterfly under the right heart.  I added some tags from the Tsunami Rose Designs printable to the right hand side of the card.     I took some pearl bling and added it to the bottom of the card.  I tucked a Tsunami Rose Design printable tag to the bottom left of the printed couple paper.  I added a metal word love from Michaels onto the ticket.  I then created a flower cluster that I placed between the ticket and the tags on my card.  I added a metal heart that I bought off of Ebay.  I then stamped a LOVE sentiment on the inside of the card. 

  Inside sentiment for my card.

  Flower cluster on the top of my card.

May Challenge on SeemaCrafts blog

I found a new place to get digital images here and this month's theme is "Butterflies and Rainbows".  You can play along if you wish and the information is on the blog here.

 I started with an Stampin UP card base in A2 size.  I added some Echo Park patterned paper with polka dots.  I stamped out a flower stamp from my collection and colored the stems with my Copic markers.  I then used the butterfly digital image from Seemacrafts and used my Stickle collection to glitter in the wings and give them some sparkle and dimension.   I added a sentiment from a rubber stamp in my collection as well that talked about love and butterflies.  The sentiment was stamped in Memento black ink on a Spellbinder die and added to the top left hand side of the card.  I added some Recollections heart pearl trim to the top of the card as well.  Thanks for looking.

Vintage Challenge

I found a fun new place to get digital images.  You can find the blog and challenge here.  The theme for this month's challenge is vintage.  I really do love the vintage feel but have a hard time creating something in that theme sometimes.  I used a white cardstock base and the patterned paper is from Prima Engraver paper pack.  I chose to use 2 different patterns.   I added the two patterned papers on top of each other and then fussy cut an image to place in the lower right hand corner of my card.  I cut out a tree trunk from some of the brown Prima paper and used a piece of green cardstock to make a tree top.  I inked around the tree top with my ColorBox chalk ink.  I colored up the adorable owl image from Seemacrafts and added it to the tree.  I cut out a banner from a Sizzix die and stamped a sentiment from a Stamps of Life stamp set.  Thanks for looking and I hope you come over and join us in this fun challenge. 

Last Design Team Project for LIttle Blue Button Stamps

This will be my last post as a designer for Little Blue Button Stamps. I have enjoyed working with Olga and all the of the wonderful ladies on this great design team.  Olga's images are so amazing to color in and I appreciate the chance to work with them so I could improve my coloring.  I will continue to keep in touch via Facebook with Olga's designs and hopefully purchase more of them.

I chose to use Jessica smarty and Jessica long dress for my Hello cards.  The first card is on a 5 X 7 white card-stock base.  I used a pink scalloped card stock that I inked with pink chalk ink and then adhered to the card front.  I then used a piece of BoBunny Prairie Chic patterned paper on top of the pink scalloped piece.  I then adhered another strip of patterned paper that I cut out using my scalloped scissors to the bottom of the card.  I adhered a beautiful piece of pink rosette trim to the left side of the card and then adhered a silver heart button to the bottom of the rosette trim.  I colored up the Jessica Smarty image using my Copic markers and then I adhered black Enamel Accents to the purse and shoes.  I added glossy accents to Jessica's glasses so they appear much more realistic.  I took a Papertrey ink label die and cut it out using a piece of white card stock and that I then stamped my sentiment on using Memento Tuxedo black ink.  I then added 2 aqua enamel dots on either side of the sentiment.

 

The second card I created using Jessica "Long dress".  I took a white 5 X 7 card stock base. I adhered a piece of patterned paper from the BoBunny Prairie Chic paper collection.  I then adhered another piece of floral patterned paper from that same paper collection that I cut using my scalloped scissors.  I adhered a small thin strip of patterned paper in between the two papers.  I cut out a beautiful rose card from the Recollections "Simply Pastel" paper pack and inked around the edge with pink chalk ink.  I adhered the rose card to the bottom right hand corner of the card.  I then made a cluster of flowers with some very pretty pink flowers.  I used an adorable flair button with a bird on it on the top of the flowers and I added a small pink pearl to the bottom of the flower cluster.  I colored the Jessica image up with my Copic markers.  I added glossy accents to her eyes and black enamel accents to her shoe.   I then cut out a Papertrey ink label die and stamped my sentiment using Memento Tuxedo black ink.  Thanks for looking.

Thanks Olga for a wonderful year on your design team and I have made some great friendships that I hope will continue.  

Valentine Cards

I chose to use the adorable "Sally" digital image for my cards.  The first card is on a white 5 X 7 cardstock base.  I die cut the heart die on some red patterned paper.  I traced the outer edge of the heart die onto some light blue glitter paper so I could mat the red heart on top.  I then hot glued a piece of beautiful red lace around the underside of the heart.   I colored up the Sally image using my Copic markers and then I used pop dots to adhere her to the heart so she was popped up.  I took a piece of yellow cardstock and cut out the Fishtail banner die. I used a dollar stamp set to stamp the sentiment in red ink on the banner. I then placed the banner on the bottom middle of the card.  I had a heart sticker that I adhered to the left corner of the banner.   I chose to adhered 3 small red rhinestones to the lower left hand corner of the card.   Thanks for looking.

The second card was made using the same white 5 X 7 cardstock.  I cut out a Fishtail banner die out of cardstock and a small one out of patterned paper and adhered them together.  I then used my Filigree heart die and cut it out of some light pink cardstock.  I adhered the heart to the card first and then placed the banners on top of the heart.  I colored up the adorable "Sally" image with my Copic markers and adhered her to the card with dimensional tape.    I added a row of rosette trim to the top of the card and stamped a sentiment from a dollar spot stamp set in the lower right hand corner of the card.

Sweet cards using Little Blue Button Stamps

I had fun using the adorable images with hearts.  I chose to use Rag Doll Sweetheart Love letters for my first card.  I started with a Recollections corrugated card base.  I added a piece of Kaisercraft pattern paper that has mailing envelopes and postage marks on it. I took a piece of light pink vintage lace that I got from Craftsupplies1 and added it across the middle of the patterned paper.   I then colored up my image with Copic markers and will list them below the photo.  I inked around the edge with some pink chalk ink and then adhered the image to some beautiful pink chevron pattern paper.  I adhered 2 wood veneer hearts from Studio Calico in the upper right hand corner.    I adhered this to the card on the right hand side off center.  I added a paper flower in the lower right hand corner and in the lower left hand corner I made a flower cluster with some paper flowers that I was given.  I made a stickpin with some beads from Craftsupplies1 and added it behind the flowers.

 

Copic Colors:

Skin= Satin and dusty pink Promarker

Hair= E11, E 13, E15

Shoes= W7

Bird= B91

Grass and leaves = YG06, YG 13

Top=RV 21, RV23

Hearts = R37

Mailbox = R37, Cinnamon Promarker, W5

Pants = RV25, RV 29

I took a 5 X7 white cardstock base.  I added a piece of doily patterned paper.  I then adhered a strip of Chevron pattern paper across the bottom of the card.  I added 3 small daisy flowers to the lower left corner of the chevron strip and 3 enamel dots to the right hand side of the strip.   I colored up the Heart Lollipop Charlie images with my Copic markers and will list the colors until the photo. I then used my Tim Holtz broken china distress ink to ink around the image in the background.   I then cut a Memory box Victorian frame die with some gray patterned paper.  I adhered the image behind the frame.  I took a piece of patterned paper from Crate Paper "Fourteen" paper stack that had banners on it and fussy cut them out.  I adhered the banners across the top of the frame and used some enamel dots in grey on each end of the banner.  I then adhered some pearl hearts to the top and bottom of the frame.  Thanks for looking.

Copic Colors=

Skin= Satan and dusty pink Promarker

Hair = Y04, Y06 and some yellow Wink of Stella pen

Lollipop = pink Wink of Stella pen

Eyes= B21, black Wink of Stella pen, white gel pen

Outfit= R20, R21, and R22

Valintine cards for Little Blue Button Stamps Blog

The first card I created for a sweet friend who loves fairies and I used the "Valentine Eris".  The card base is a white cardstock that I added a piece of patterned paper from the Pebbles "Yours Truly".  I then added some laces on the top from my stash.  I took some adorable sparkly hearts that I was given in a RAK and placed them on the top left hand side of the lace.  I die cut a piece of polka dot paper with my Sizzix Heart with wings #2 die.  I added one sparkly heart to the die cut piece.  I then added a wonderful bling trim that I got from an online store.  I colored up the Eris images with my Copics and will list the colors below the photo. I stickled up her wings.    I added a crown charm to her small crown on her head.

 

Copic colors: 

Skin= dusty pink and blush Promarker

dress= RV14, RV23 and cotton candy stickles

bow= metallic sharpie pen

hair= Y02, Y04

arrow= Bic marker

shoes=W3, W5

wings = Studio G glitter glue

The next card is a Valentine for my husband. I used a white card base.   I was gifted the wonderful woodgrain stamp from a sweet friend. I inked it up with brown ink.  I decided it would look good to have letters like our initials were carved in the tree.  I then added a heart rhinestone bling.  I cut out a piece of green cardstock to make it look like the top of the tree.  I had this adorable wheelbarrow stamp filled with hearts in my stash and stamped it out and colored it in with my Copics and then I added some puffy heart stickers and also rhinestone ones.  I cut a banner out of red cardstock and used a Michaels stamp for the sentiment.     I used the adorable Simon image from Little Blue Button stamps.  He is colored with my Copics and I placed him to the left of the tree.   

Copics:

Hair= E11, E13

Skin= E02, dusty pink promarker

Shirt= RV21

suit= W7

shoes, E79, 100 black