Coffee Lovers Blog Hop Fall/Winter 2019

Hi everyone and welcome to the 2019 Fall|Winter Coffee Lover's Blog Hop!

I love all things coffee and excited to play along in this blog hop! This hop is HUGE with many sponsors and prizes up for grabs! To enter to win you need to make a new Fall or Winter themed coffee/tea/cocoa project and link it to the Coffee Lovers blog.

I made a Christmas card for the hop adding to my stash because this year I am committed to send out cards (I've slacked over the last few years). My card uses the gorgeous poinsettia image and sentiment from Stamp Simply Clear Stamps Floral Cluster Winter Poinsettia set. I colored the image with my copics and then die cut it out with the A Cup of Java die set. I made the steam and handle black and then added 2 small strips of black along the bottom to tie everything together.

Here's a close up of the poinsettia.

 Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Other supplies used:
Copic markers

yellow stickles

Memento Tuxedo Black Ink

Versamark ink and white embossing powder

 

Spring | Summer Coffee Lover's Blog Hop

Hi everyone and welcome to the 2019 Spring|Summer Coffee Lover's Blog Hop!

I love all things coffee and excited to play along in this blog hop! This hop is HUGE with many sponsors and prizes up for grabs! To enter to win you need to make a new Spring or Summer themed coffee/tea/cocoa project and link it to the Coffee Lovers blog.

To make the pretty butterfly java mug, I used the amazing A Cup of Java die set!!!  First, I die cut the mug from water color paper then I stamped on the butterflies. The gorgeous butterflies are from the Altenew set, Painted Butterflies which is a 3 step stamping set, but you can easily water color the first stamp of each image.

To water color your images, you don't need to invest in water color paints or pans! I colored the butterflies with some distress inks. It's super easy just tap your ink pad on to a solid surface, spritz with some water and dip your brush in. Easy peasy!

I chose the inks in Peacock Feathers, Spiced Marmalade and Worn Lipstick for my colors. I chose these because when the blue and red tones mix, they make purple and when the yellow and red tones mix, they make orange! You need to be mindful when you place water colors by each other they don't bleed and make brown. Unless that's the color you're looking for!

To make things fun, I turned the inside into a surprise GIFT CARD HOLDER!
It was so easy to do with only 2 steps!
Step 1: Trim a piece of cardstock (mine is 1.5" x 4")
Step 2: Adhere 1/8" Scor-Tape along the sides and bottom

I decorated the gift card panel with some stamping and a die cut butterfly. Cute, without being too much. Clean and simple.

Note: this is smaller than an A2 size card. This measures 4.25" x 3.25".

Be sure to head on over to The Stamp Simply Ribbon Store who is one of the many SUPER SPONSORS for this hop. There is a fun video posted there I made sharing a water coloring technique!!

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Other supplies used:
Clear sequins

1/8" silk ribbon in pink -May Arts 

Stamp Simply Steel Dies - A Cup of Java

VersaFine Onyx Black ink pad

Black silk -Fun Stampers Journey

Number 1 round water color brush -Princeton
Soft Stone and Black cardstock -PaperTrey Ink
Bee water color paper
Echo Park 6 x 6 - Coffee paper pack

Coffee Lovers Blog Hop -Fall/Winter 2018

Hi everyone! Welcome to the 2018 Fall/Winter Coffee Lovers Blog Hop!
I'm excited to play along in this blog hop and help represent The Stamp Simply Ribbon Store who is one of the many SUPER SPONSORS for this hop! This hop is HUGE with many sponsors and prizes up for grabs! To enter to win you need to make a new coffee/tea/cocoa project and link it to the Coffee Lovers blog.

I have some fun projects to share today. First up is a card using the Coffee or Tea? die set, Poinsettia die set and SUPER cute Christmas paper from the Kaisercraft Peace & Joy pack.

I had a lot of fun with this one. Notice the cup? I used the inlaid die cutting technique and set the steam die into the cup as flourish accents. It's a fun technique that's easy to do. Here's a pic showing how it was done.

I also made a little matching tea packet. This little cutie is perfectly sized to gift 1 tea bag.

And it's super easy to make -just 3 steps! 

Step 1: Trim your cardstock to 6.5" x 3.5"

Step 2: Score and fold at the 3.5" mark

Step 3: Add adhesive along both sides

Optional step: Use corner rounder at the top

OH...I almost forgot too mention the little banner embellishment at the top left was made with 2 of the 10 sizes of banners from the Fishtail Sentiment Banners die set. This die set is fast becoming my go-to!!

Be sure to check out the Stamp Simply Blog for their prize details!

Thanks for stopping by, enjoy the hop and good luck!