Gina K Designs - Miss You a Latte shaker tag

 Hi Crafty friends! I had so much fun making my small Christmas shaker tags that I wanted to make another! I recently placed a large order from Gina K Designs and it included the adorable Coffee Critters bundle and the Shaker Tag die set.

COFFEE CRITTERS AND SHAKER TAG DIE SET

I just love this cutie bear holding a coffee mug! He looks so dapper with his bright blue sweater and scarf paper pieced to match the tag front.

To make the shaker element, I used the 3mm foam strips. They are 1/8" and perfect for those thin places like the side of the rectangle. I filled my shaker element with sequins, crystal gems and some clay polymer pink hearts. I just love how this turned out!

 

Products used on this tag:

These are affiliate links which means that if you shop with these, I will receive a small commission at no cost to you. If I've inspired you in some way I appreciate your support. 

Thank you for stopping by and have a great day!

    

Merry Mugs Delivering Warm Christmas Hugs

 Hi everyone! I'm back today with a fun Christmas mug card. I used a new die set from the new Merry Mug Creations by Spellbinders, designed by Nicol Spohr. I am in love with all the components in this die set.

It is part of Nichol's Merry Mugs and Circle Delights Collection which is a set of 4 die sets and 1 sentiment stamp set and they are designed to mix and match with each other. I also have the Whimsical Winter Critters die set, so stay tuned for some inspiration using it.

I used a piece of the my favorite Christmas patterned paper pack, Merry by Scrapbook.com as the mug design and let it guide me with color choices of the card. For the background I embossed white cardstock with the Scenic Poinsettias 3D Embossing Folder and lightly inked it with Minted ink to make the features POP!

To give the marshmallow and foam some dimension I used an N1 Copic marker along the die cut line and then went over it with Stardust Stickles. I build up and around the mug with a combination of blooms and greenery from Christmas Blooms die set and the goodies that come with the Merry Mug Creations. I just love how this turned out. Everything worked perfectly together!

Supplies used on this card:

These are affiliate links which means that if you shop with these, I will receive a small commission at no cost to you. If I've inspired you in some way I appreciate your support.

 

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day! Here's a close up photo.

Stamp Simply Clear Stamps -Have a Cup on Us

Hi everyone! Attention coffee lovers!!

I am excited to share a card using the Stamp Simply Clear Stamps NEW Have a Cup on Us stamp and die set!

It's a darling set and perfect for all of us coffee lovers!!

The stamp set has 3 sizes of cups and each size has a plain cup and a cute patterned one. I chose the largest patterned cup for my card and colored in the dots with my Zig markers. Once they dried, I added some Glossy Accents on each dot to create a "ceramic" effect. 

I heat embossed the sentiment with Versamark ink and black embossing powder, so it would match the glossy dots. I then added some die cuts from the Two Sprigs die set and placed them "overflowing" from each cup.

If you want to see my coloring in action, head over to my Instagram page and check out my reel!

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!!

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

 

Water coloring with Distress Inks

Hi everyone!  I have a quick and easy coffee card to share today.  Full confession, I bought a fancy water color palette, and I'm embarrassed to admit that I'm intimidated by it! Honestly, I open it up and unless the exact color in the palettes are exactly what I want, I'm a bit lost.

SO... I'm in the process of starting an online water color class to help me with mixing colors and learn the basics.

But in the meantime, using  distress inks is a super easy way to water color images.

OK, this is nothing new and I've even done this before, but I need to remember it more often! Just tap your ink pad on a solid surface and spritz with water. Dip your brush and start coloring.

For my card, I stamped the coffee word cloud sentiment on water color paper twice using my mini Misti, wet my piece of water color paper, then dropped (painted) in some of the ink.

After it dried, I die cut it into my cup shape, moving the die around until I got the perfect pattern of colors.

The stamp and die set is called A Cup of Java  and I used the smaller of the 2 java cup sizes on this card. I just LOVE that I found Prima flower in my stash that coordinates perfectly. I pulled off the center pearl that came with it and put in a yellow rhinestone instead. The black flourishes under the flower are actually made from the steam die in the Java die set!

Here's a close up picture. Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Other supplies used:
Distress ink in Worn Lipstick, Peacock feathers, Spiced marmalade
Prima Bloom Freshly Picked flowers
Kaisercraft Paisley Days paper pad
May Arts White Twill ribbon
Spellbinders Circle dies
Versafine Onyx Black ink
Number 8 water brush
water color paper

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

Sending a cozy hello

Hi everyone! I have another fun coffee card to share. This one is from Unity's set One Sip at a Time. I just LOVE this cup with the flowers. Be still my heart!

I was able to get more copic coloring practice in with this. I colored them using the red markers, R27, R35 and R22 -this is one of my go to "coral/red" color combos. Turned out so pretty. I may try this again with blues. That would be a challenge as I have yet to make blue flowers!

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day.

Other supplies used:
Kaisercraft Rosabella 6.5 x 6.5 paper pad
FSJ black/white twine
Little Bee 1/8" washi tape
sequins
copic markers

Brewed to perfection sunflower mug

Hi everyone! I have another card to share using the newly released Cup of Java stamp set and Java die set from Stamp Simply Clear Stamps.

I love the clean lines of this java mug and thought it lended itself nicely to this super CAS design!

For this card I stamped the sunflower image from the Sunflower Seasons stamp set off the side of my mug. I used the larger of the 2 size options so I could see more of the flower. I have a few sunflower patterned cups and plates in my house and just love these happy flowers!
The light aqua color of the cup and banner strip above it is actually white cardstock colored with a BG000 copic marker. It had it white at first, but blended too much into the background.
Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Other supplies used:
Ranger Super Fine White embossing powder
Diagonal striped embossing folder

Copic markers

Sequins
Kaisercraft rhinestones in Lippy Red
Piece of Baker's Twine black/white

Mug of Hugs

Hi everyone! I have a fun card to share playing in the current Freshly Made Sketches challenge. I loved this sketch, it lends itself nicely to a variety of card images.

I used the Mug of Hugs itty bitty stamp set from Unity Stamp Co. which is so cute! I colored the mug with ombre colors I pulled from the patterned paper which is from Echo Park Coffee 6x6 pad. I used the markers R32, R12 and R01 for the mug.

It's kinda hard to see in the photo, but I embossed the rectangle die into the image panel giving it an illusion of an additional layer.

Here is the sketch if you want to play along. I kept my card relatively clean as their challenge is to use their sketch AND to keep your card fresh with clean lines!

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Other supplies used:
A2 Matting Basics sets A and B by Spellbinders
Soft Stone cardstock by Papertrey Ink
Copic markers
May Arts Burlap String in natural
Wild Orchid Crafts open rose 10mm
Memento Luxe Rhubarb Stalk ink

Water colored Java mug

Hi everyone! I have another fun card to share celebrating the newly released Cup of Java stamp set and Java die set from Stamp Simply Clear Stamps. My card uses the die set only, showing that both the stamp and die set can be used together or on their own.

This card was pretty easy to make. I made some small water color splotches on the watercolor paper and then die cut the mug from that. To make sure I had the scale correct, I lightly drew in the mug shape onto my paper before I applied the color. To beef up the Java word, I layered together 3 die cuts.

The blossom I used is from the Petaloo Botanica Baby Blooms pack in white. I took a bit of the left over yellow paint and touched the ends of the petals with it to give it a soft matching color.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Other supplies used:
Divine Twine Black/white baker's twine
Blue rhinestones
dotted embossing folder

New JAVA stamps and dies -Stamp Simply Clear Stamps

Hi everyone! I have a fun project to share today featuring brand new stamp and die sets from Stamp Simply Clear Stamps. The stamp set is called A Cup of Java and the die set is called Java. They coordinate with each other, but can stand on their own and will coordinate with any coffee stamps and dies you already have in your collection!

I made a gift card holder using some papers from the Rosabella paper pad from Kaisercraft and added a few hearts from the Farmhouse Pierced Nested Hearts die set and of course, some coral faux canvas ribbon which is part of the Living Coral Ribbon Sampler.

Here's the inside of the gift card holder. Super adorable with that mug! I die cut the steam piece 3 times and used it as decoration.

The gift card holder is pretty easy to make with only 5 steps:

1. Trim 12x12 cardstock to 4.25" x 9" (If you don't have 12x12, you can use 8.5" and adjust the scored lines by 1/4")

2. Score 2 lines at the 3" and 6" mark

3. Fold at the scored lines and trim the right end panel at a diagonal 

4. Using 1/4" scor-tape (or similar) adhere across the bottom and up the inside corner

5. For the belly band, trim cardstock 1" x 6.5", score 2" and 5" mark and adhere where it overlaps around the back

Here's the complete stamp and die set, aren't they the cutest?!?

Thanks for stopping by and be sure to check out the Stamp Simply Ribbon Store Facebook page throughout the week for more Java inspiration!

Coffee with a side of Freshly Made Sketches

Hi everyone! A few days ago I ventured into Craft Warehouse which I haven't visited for almost 4 years since I was exclusive to FSJ (too much temptation). Needless to say, I was in there for almost 2 hours. Not so much in the paper crafting section, but they have the most amazing section of FAUX SUCCULENTS! Be still my heart! After I complete a few of my arrangements, I'll share a few pics over on Instagram.

But back to my card. I DID find a cute paper pack from Echo Park that is called Coffee! So I was searching for some inspiration to use it and saw this week's sketch from the Freshly Made Sketches challenge. It was perfect! The sketch is simple which appealed to me and lended itself nicely to using my Coffee or Tea dies by Stamp Simply Clear Stamps.

I had so much fun making these coffee cups! All 3 have fun little details different from each other. One uses patterned paper punched into small branches, one has stickles accents to mimic gilding and the last one I fussy cut some florals from patterned paper.

Here is the sketch if you want to play along.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great evening.

Other supplies used:

1/8" silk ribbon in black

Kaisercraft mini paper blooms in Fairy Floss

Border punch from SU

Branch punch from Martha Stewart

Time for challenges

Hi everyone! I am loving having time to play along in some of my favorite challenges. This is how I started stamping and it feels good to get back into it. If you find yourself with some time and/or need inspiration to get started, here are a few of my favorite challenges:

SCS Sketch challenge

SCS Featured Stamper

SCS Clean and Simple Cards

Mojo Monday Sketches

I've been out of the loop for years now, so if you have any other challenges you love, let me know!!

I played in this week's SCS Featured Stamper challenge and for those of you who are new to this challenge, each week a stamper is profiled and the challenge is to go through their gallery and CASE a card changing a few things to make it your own. This week the featured stamper is Kathy Schweinfurth and I chose to CASE this card.

I changed the papers, stamped images and sentiment. I kept the overall feel and layout of the card. My card uses the cup from the Coffee or Tea die set, the roses from Thinking of You Rose and sentiment from Farmhouse Simple Sentiments. 

I colored the roses with Copics using 2 colors for the roses and 2 for the leaves. After watching hours on YouTube with all the fancy copic coloring, I am finding that I am more of a simple colorer. I think it looks amazing using 5 different shades for a flower, but just as pretty using 2!

Other products used:

Patterned paper: Down on the Farm by Doodlebug for background papers; Fleur by Kaisercraft for the paper piecing on the mug

Embellishments: Black/White baker's twine from May Arts; Pink sequins

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!

Le Cafe Bonjour card

Hi everyone!  I have a fun card to share today.  I finally had a chance to play with the Le Cafe stamp set and I just love it's style and feel!  I don't sponge my edges very often, but I think it goes nicely with the artsy vintage feel of this stamp set.

For my background, I used the Whimsy Wallpaper background stamp.  I stamped it on Pretty Amethyst cardstock with Clear pigment ink and embossed with clear powder.  I love this technique - it gives such a rich look.  

I used some of the new Sweet Candy dots as my accents and I loooove the colors in this pack.  There's even white- Woohoo!  I added some of the Sparkle Dust on the die cuts and coffee steam for the finishing touches.

Thanks for stopping by and here's a close up shot of the background embossing detail.

All supplies used Fun Stampers Journey.

It's Coffee Time!

Hi everyone!  Today's card uses a new coffee themed stamp set from the Celebrations line called Cup for Two.  Do you spy some Fun Filled Rings as well?  Yep.  Couldn't resist adding a few pink rings to compliment my pink polka dot cup!

 This stamp set has 3 adorable cup designs and 2 sentiments.  I stamped the polka dot image in the Captivating Coral ink (which seriously has magical qualities of appearing pinkish next to pink and more coral-ly next to coral and oranges!), fussy cut it out and added some sequins for steam and a heart embellishment.

Here is Cup for Two:

Don't forget Fun Filled Rings:

That's it for today!

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!  Here's a close up picture.

Card Deets:   
Spellbinders Celebra'tions Dies:  Fun Filled Rings (SCD-021), and Pierced Hearts (SCD-025) Shapeabilities®
Celebra'tions stamps and supplies: Stamp set Cup for Two (SCS-012); Ink in Berry Black (SCI-001) and Captivating Coral (SCI-012); Cardstock in Luscious Lime (SCP-007), Whirl White (SCP-013), Cotton Candy (SCP-004), Celebra'tion Prints (SCP-016); Linen Thread (SCT-001); Sequins in Hip Hooray (SCE-002) 
Adhesive: Tombow USA Mono Multi liquid glue; Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L Foam Squares