Chocolate, Coffee & a Butterfly

Last weeks challenge at wecraftcards was to make a wreath out of individual stamps. Since mostly use digi images these days, I wasn’t sure what I’d make. But digging through my stamps I found two wood mount cookie stamps that I’ve had for a few decades. (They were made by a sweet couple in my hometown. After they retired, they started a rubber stamp business in their basement and sold them at craft fairs across the Midwest. I designed several images for them to make into stamps… and these cookies were two of those images. It was so fun to play with them… but it made me really hungry for cookies! I cannot find the source of the sentiment on the front right now but will add that info here when I do stumble upon it. Since I have thousands of digis in hundreds of folders on my laptop… sometimes I can’t locate them by name. However, I do know that the sentiment on the inside is from a Tiddly Inks digi set named Cookie Bugg and Extras. (You can find it HERE for just $1.50!)

Am entering this into several challenges including Outlawz Color Inspiration (photo), 

  

 

Entered into:  

Outlawz Challenges- Tuesday Color Challenge 

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends- #117 Anything Goes

Cute As A Button-#50 Anything Goes   Optional Twist- Thankful for You

Let’s Craft and Create- #153 Anything Goes (Nov option- Thank You/Thankful)

I love when the Coffee Lovers hosts a Blog Hop as they always have a ton of great prizes! Their current Fall/Winter Blog Hop has an amazing number of sponsors this year. So… I’m glad I finally found some time to make some cards. This is my second entry. I hope to get more made and entered in the next few days. The image is a free digi from Dearie Dolls named Coffee Chef. You can find this handsome guy HERE.  The wonderful sentiment is computer generated, but I found it on one of my favorite FB pages named Sweatpants And Coffee. Stop by to enjoy regular servings of inspiration, humor and also fun coffee sayings… and be prepared to giggle and/or say “Awwwww.”

 

Entered into:  

Coffee Lovers Blog Hop- Fall/Winter 2019

Lemon Shortbread Challenge- Anything Goes #106
Bugaboo Stamps- Anything Goes

Crafty Catz Challenge- Anything Goes #481  

Crafty Hazelnut’s Patterned Paper Challenge- Nov                                  

My last card this posting was created for the wonderful Butterfly Challenge. It meets a few of the requirements for the challenge- one Color (olive green in the leaves) and two Themes (A butterfly, which also happens to be one extra embellishment!) Called a "Hidden Message Card" it features an unusual but fairly simple fold technique that I found HERE.  The roses and leaves are stamped with two solid Posh Impression wood-mount stamps, the Butterfly is a sticker from Hobby Lobby, and the sentiments are computer-generated. I sketched and attached a small instruction card that explains how to "open" the cards many layers.

  

Entered into: 

Butterfly Challenge- #131 O is for One Layer Card           

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge-Thinking of You                              

2craftycrittercrazies Challenge- #32                                                      

Classic Design Team Challenge- #11 November