myasperations 11-8-24a

I made a nice assortment of cards to enter into the 2024 Fall/Winter Coffee Lovers Blog Hop earlier this week, but some family health issues have prevented me from posting them until now. Since the deadline is closing in, I will get them entered with supply lists and come back tomorrow to fill in additional details! So stay tuned. 

     This first card I’m entering this card into several other challenges including Beccy’s Place Annual Month of Holiday Cards Challenge. Every day in November Beccy provides a theme (most based on the letters of the alphabet) and invites participants to create cards for ANY holiday and using images from any company. And… she offers several prizes on a daily and weekly basis. So there is no reason not to get involved.

    This card features a stack of tea cups from one of Beccy’s retired digi sets, which is a fav of mine. I think it pairs beautifully with the classic sheet music, a doily scrap, and bit of greenery fussy-cut from an old card. The sentiments on the front and inside of the card focus the theme to friends, family and home! 

 

Supplies: 

·   Free Sheet Music “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” found HERE

·   Stack of Cups Digi from a Beccy’s Place Digi Set-Tea Time (Retired)

·   Paperpieced after printing on colored paper and fussy cutting the cups apart

·   Shading and highlights added with Spectrum Noir Classique markers and Sakura Gelly Roll white gel pen

·   Sentiment-  “Christmas is when all roads…” and “Christmastime-A time...” from a Beccy’s Place Digi Set (Home for the Holidays)

·   Greenery on front and inside are fussy-cut from an old Christmas Card

·   All other items from my stash.

Entered into:  

(via Pinterest) Coffeelovingcardmakers.com- 2024 Fall/Winter Coffee Lovers Blog Hop    

Beccy’s Place: A Month of Holiday Cards- Nov 2024   Day 3-"C" is for Cupstack

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge- Thinking of You 

Word Art Wednesday Challenge- #673-674 

Outlawz Challenge- Festive Friday (Christmas) 

Outlawz Challenge- Nov 2024 Linky  

Park Hopping-My Happy Place (Nov)    Santa’s Village 

Caffeinated Christmas Card Challenge- Oct #35 Coffee + Red + Green     

Path Of Positivity Challenge- Challenge #125 (Twist-Friends/Family (Photo)  

    This card features a yummy digi from one of Beccy’s beverage-themed set. I embellished the card with an assortment of items from my cardmaking stash including silver photo corners, a doily, and beautiful poinsettia paper as a background… and it’s a freebie from Gradiellie Designs. (I reduced the digi to A2 size panel, pasted two of them into a Word document, then darkened the coloring of one of the panels. em. After printing them off, I used my Word program to slightly darken one of the panels, printed them off, then cut them in half diagonally so that I could have the contrasting backgrounds on my card.) Paired with a doily, and silver corners, my finished card has what I’ll call a “Victorian Shabby-chic” feeling. 

 

Supplies: 

·   Background is a freebie from GraciellieDesign (Poinsettia Digital Paper)

·   Hot Beverage Digi (pre-colored) and front sentiment “Hot Chocolate Wisses…” from Beccy’s Place Digi Set (Christmas Cheers)

·   Inside Sentiment- “Cozy Christmas” from a Beccy’s Place Digi Set (Christmas Kitties)

·   Shading and highlights added with Spectrum Noir Classique markers and Sakura Gelly Roll white and silver gel pens

·   Silver photo corners available from several web sources (WXJ13 Photo Mounting Corners)

·   All other items from my stash.

Entered into:  

(via Pinterest) Coffeelovingcardmakers.com- 2024 Fall/Winter Coffee Lovers Blog Hop    

 Since I’m a Contributor for Beccy’s Place (sponsor of the next three challenges), I’m entering them just for fun! 

    Lil Patch of Crafty Friends Challenge #241 AG 

    Crafty Catz Challenge- Anything Goes #682 AG   

    Beccy’s Place: A Month of Holiday Cards- Nov 2024   Day 3-“D" is for Doily 

      I love this sweet digi from All Dressed Up, especially because artist/owner Wendy Burns did an amazing job adding the cable stitch texture to the beautiful girl's comfy winter cap. After coloring the cap with markers in a few shades of blue, all it took was a bit of shading and highlights to make the cap look soft enough to touch! The name of the digi, “Warm Hands Warm Heart”, is inspired by the coffee cop the cutie is holding in her hands. The blue snowflake patterned paper helped set my color scheme, especially when paired with shades of pink. I found a scrap of light pink paper filled with small doily’s and used my trusty white gel pen to turn them into snowflakes. When fussy-cut and adhered to the front and inside of the card, they add a bit of wintry whimsy. 

 

Supplies: 

·   Digi- All Dressed Up (Warm Hands Warm Heart)

·   Colored with Spectrum Noir Classique markers and Sakura Gelly Roll white gel pen

·   Front Sentiment “Mugs & Kisses” from a Beccy’s Place Digi Set (Christmas Cheers)

·   Front Sentiment “Warm Holiday Wishes” from a Beccy’s Place Digi Set (Christmas Kitties)

·   Silver paper used as backing/framing sentiments- upcycled coffee can liner

·   Patterned paper and other items from my stash.

Entered into:  

(via Pinterest)  coffeelovingcardmakers.com 2024 Fall/Winter Coffee Lovers Blog Hop    

Double D’s Challenge- Warm and Cozy 

All Dressed Up FB Challenge- November: Christmas is Coming  

All Dressed Up- Anything Goes (Oct #156)  

Time Out Challenge-#276 Cozy