Summer Coffee Lovers Bloghop 2017 - Thanks a Latte

This is my last card for the current CLBH. A big thank you to Amy, her friends and the sponsors. I began the card by stamping the coffee beans with VersaMark. The beans and the coffee stain and the sentiment are from the set Thanks a Latte from Your Next Stamp. This set along with Jolee's Stickers "Coffee" were part of the prize package I received in the Spring CLBH from DoodleBugs. A quick and easy card using embellishments but a sincere thank you.

 

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Summer Coffee Lovers Bloghop

I began by playing with different dies from various sets and also stamped and fussy cut a coffee cup. I loved this Hawaiian paper from Michael's as well as the hombre paper. The coffee die cut was also from the packet of paper . I stamped the sentiment from Paper Smooches and then assembled all the pieces. I used a small Xyron machine and it worked okay with the die cuts.

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Summer Coffee Lovers Bloghop 2017

My card group recently made pocket cards and it was a fun technique. For this card I used two sets from Stamplorations, Framed Coffee Cup and Literary Caffeine-ations. The coffee cup was stamped onto dsp and then fussy cut. The sentiments were stamped onto snippets of colored cs and then die cut with MFT Textile Rectangle.

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Summer 2017 Coffee Lovers Bloghop

One thing I love about summer is making sun tea. I am a coffee lover and love iced coffee in the summer but sun tea is inexpensive and easy to make. All you do is throw a couple of tea bags in a glass jar and set it outdoors and watch the clear water change to a lovely tan color. Yes you can make it on the kitchen counter top but it is not the same as letting the sun do its magic. 

The stamp set I have used is NBUS and it is Teatime from Rubbernecker. The image was colored with copics and die cut with MFT pierced circle and mounted onto a cute summery piece of designer paper from Craft Smith. The sentiment is from Paper Smooches summer Lovin and it was mounted onto a snippet of turquoise cs.

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2017 Summer Coffee Lovers Bloghop

This is my first card for the Summer Coffee Lovers Bloghop and I am using a die which I won in the previous CLBH - thank you Doodlebugs. The die is from Poppy and I cut it twice once with a piece of background paper I made doing the marbling effect with shaving cream and acrylic paint, the second is a snippet of turquoise cs. The main background paper is my first attempt using Distress Oxide ink and the smooshing technique. I used a sentiment from Stamplorations Big Grins.

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Simon Says Wednesday Challenge: Make it Masculine

This card is being entered in Simon Says Masculine challenge. Recently I purchased a few die cuts from a company new to me, Gina Marie Designs. I really had fun cutting  the images from pieces of background paper. The background paper for this card I made using the smooshing technique. The sentiment was stamped in VersaMark and embossed with white embossing powder. I chose to trim the image and then angle it onto a piece of aqua card stock. Lastly I attached pearl bling.

http://www.simonsaysstampblog.com/wednesdaychallenge/

Supplies:

Dies- Gina Marie

Paper - unknown

Stamp - Hero Arts - unknown

The Flower Challenge #9 'Anything Goes'

Outside our front door we have an old laundry tub that belonged to my in-laws. At Christmas it contains poinsettias and now for spring I have a pot of geraniums. I searched google to find a good photo to use for the colors. Geraniums are one of my favorite flowers and I especially love this color. A friend brought me a cutting and I stuck in the ground and later I replanted it in the pot, not the tub.

On watercolor paper I stamped the image and then used distress inks and an aqua brush. When the image was dry I die cut it and then mounted it onto a lighter weight watercolor card stock. Wink of Stella was used in the center of the flowers.

Supplies:

Stamp - Stampendous "Geraniums"

Die Cut - MFT Stitched Scallop Oval

Paper - 140#, 90#  watercolor paper

Inks - VersaMark, Distress 

Other - Wink of Stella

http://theflowerchallenge.blogspot.com/2017/06/the-flower-challenge-9-anything-goes.html