Coffee YAY

This card for the 2019 Spring | Summer Coffee Lover’s Blog Hop is actually pretty simple to make. Named a "pinwheel card" I found the tutorial to make it HERE.  The sweet little coffee cup perched on the chipboard sentiment on the cards belly band is an old stamp from Stampin' Up. I stamped several of these sweet little cups on various scraps of patterned papers and stamped just the little heart shaped whiff of steam that rises from the coffee image on red vellum. The inside sentiment is computer generated. And the beautiful brown bow and ribbon were upcycled from a Christmas gift box of wonderful Dove Chocolates. Yummy.

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2019 Spring | Summer Coffee Lover’s Blog Hop    

Word Art Wednesday Challenge- #384-#385 Anything Goes                    

Outlawz Challenge- Festive Fridays                                                                    

Bugaboo Stamps- Anything Goes                                 
Crafty Hazelnut’s Patterned Paper Challenge- May     

I used another of the little Stampin' Up coffee cup images and the red vellum heart-shaped steam to decorate another card to enter in the 2019 Spring | Summer Coffee Lover’s Blog Hop. I stamped up several of the sweet little cups on various scraps of patterned papers. This card uses another one of those images, this time the image is attached to a scrap of cardboard that wraps around a pull-top coffee cup card. (I made the base for this card at a class several years ago but have no template. I'm thinking they are available on Pinterest. I'll have to look for one!)  The sentiment is one of Kelli Winnell's Friday Freebies. You can find it, and dozens more HERE.  

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2019 Spring | Summer Coffee Lover’s Blog Hop    

Cute Card Thursday- #580 Anything Goes                                                        

Di’s Digi Stamps Anything But A Card                                                                

This is my second card for the Double D "Kentucky Derby Hat" challenge. I picked this wonderful image named "Emmy's Hat" from Sheepski Designs just for this challenge and LOVE it. [You can find the image HERE.] I colored Emmy and her hat with Spectrum Noir markers and white gel pen. Decided to go with an unusual pale blue, white, grey and silver color scheme, so that the hat becomes the center of attention. I used the same technique that I employed to make a vintage hat on yesterday's post, cutting slits into the hat image so that I could pull tulle through to create a poufy veil. This time the white tulle has little sparkly silver accents that add a little bling.  I also tucked a few snips of delicate silver ribbon [that I inherited from my mom's craft stash] down into the tulle, plus added silver photo corners. The inside sentiment is from a Craftin Desert Diva Digi Set named "Magical Day." [You can find it HERE.] Am entering this card into several challenges including Sheepski Designs "Flower Power" [there are actually three robin's egg blue flowers hidden above the rim of the hat], Simon Says Monday Challenge "Add Something Metallic" [I attached the blue flowers to the hat with silver brads. You can see one peeking through the veil and silver ribbon], and Ching-Chou Kuik's Digital Stamps Inspiration & Challenge- "Lace" [there are snippets of precious silver ribbon from my mom's craft stash decorating the festive hat.]

 

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Double D’s Challenge- Kentucky Derby Hat [photo]                  

Sheepski Designs-#26 Flower Power                          

Ching-Chou Kuik's Digital Stamps Inspiration & Challenge- Lace  

Cute As A Button-#44 Anything Goes [girls, girls, girls]

Simon Says Monday Challenge- Add Something Metallic

                                   

Hats, Hoots and Java

The new challenge at Double D's is named "Kentucky Derby Hat." I found a wonderful digi in my collection from Create with TLC. It's a freebie and you can find it HERE. I printed the image onto white cardstock and added a little color on her face, cheeks, lips and hat with Spectrum Noir markers. I then used a fine-line black Sharpie to add dark curly hair around her face and a white gel pen to add highlights on her eyes, lips and lacy color. To add some color and texture, plus some realism, I cut a few slits into the hat brim and lacy collar, then pulled a few scraps of tulle through them, fluffing it gently and taping it down on the backside. A small pink bow and ribbon tucked in among the loops of tulle. Found a pretty square doily in my stash [is actually a piece of a plastic tablecloth that I bought at a hardware store a few years ago. Yes… you read that correctly. A hardware store.] Discovered that double-stick doesn't stick to plastic doily squares, so ended up stapling the image to the doily squares with a few colored staples.  The sentiment on the front of the card is a freebie from Desert Diva. You can find it HERE. The inside sentiment is from a Beccy's Place digi set named "True Beauty." I'm entering this card into several other challenges including If You Give a Crafter a Cookie since the card contains pretty pink and some lacy edging. 

 

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Double D’s Challenge- Kentucky Derby Hat [photo]                  

If You Give a Crafter a Cookie- #116 (Hearts, Tulips, Daisies  Photo)      

Ching-Chou Kuik's Digital Stamps Inspiration & Challenge- Lace  

Cute As A Button-#44 Anything Goes [girls, girls, girls]          

I love this sweet owl image and matching digi that are both freebies from PaperSmooches. You can find them HERE. I colored the little hoot with Spectrum Noir markers and white gel pen, then posed him inside of a Peekaboo Frame fold, sometimes called a Origami Shadow Box. I found a great tutorial for making this super simple fold HERE. 

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Word Art Wednesday Challenge- #384-#385 Anything Goes                    

Cute Card Thursday- #580 Anything Goes                                                        

2craftycrittercrazies Challenge- #26                                                                    

The cute cup image is a digi from Verve Stamps that I purchased during the 2017 Coffee Lovers Fall Blog Hop. And Verve the sentiment is from a Crafting Desert Diva set named Coffee Hero. I used lots of scraps of patterned paper, plus a bit of vellum to make the swirls of steam.

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2019 Spring | Summer Coffee Lover’s Blog Hop    

Outlawz Challenge- Festive Fridays                                                                    

Crafty Hazelnut’s Patterned Paper Challenge- May 

Pixie's Snippets-Week #351                                                                                            

Make-Believe

The current Outlaws Sunday Challenge Songs and Rhymes is "Cinderella." I immediately knew that I'd use this adorable image from The Paper Shelter to make a card. I used sentiment scrapbook paper from my stash for the background of the card front [Once Upon A Time] and inside [Happily Ever After.] Colored the little beauty with Spectrum Noir and white gel pen, adding a sparkly silver gel pen and rhinestone heart stickers to her crown and glass slipper. The sentiments are computer generated. [Since you might not be able to read the inside sentiment, I'll post it here- Have a wonderful “Happy Ever After!” (Oh, that’s just fairy-tale wishful thinking! Since we live in the real world, we pray that you have many years of wedded bliss, only occasional bouts of wedded stress, and rare moments of "whatever was I thinking?!") PS I noticed that my printer smudged the sentiment a few places. Since I wanted to get the card finished in time to enter it into the Outlawz challenge, I tried to "fix it" with the silver gel pen. Not sure if it works so will clean the printed heads and try running another one later and swap it out. [Smudged printing is one of the few problems that can happen with digital prints. However, I often smudged sentiments when stamping them, too, especially when they had lots of words like this one has. So… it’s a tradeoff.]

 

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Outlawz Challenges- Cinderella      

The Paper Shelter- #381 Love Is In The Air

Outlawz Challenge- Festive Fridays                                                                    

Bugaboo Stamps- Anything Goes                                  

I remembered fussy-cutting some Tinkerbell silhouettes a while ago and dug one out to create another card to enter into the current Do-Al[l] Creative named "Mythical Creature/Fairies." I cut a circle from a scrap from a plastic document folder. I really like this one which is from an old 3M hanging pocket that I used when I had a cubicle instead of an office. Am glad that my packrat tendencies made me save it these last few years.  The inside sentiment is a freebie from TLC Creations. You can find it HERE.              

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Word Art Wednesday Challenge- #384-#385 Anything Goes                    

Cute Card Thursday- #580 Anything Goes                                                        

Do-Al[l] Creative- Mythical Creatures / Fairies                                               

My final card for this post is also my final entry into the current Simon Says Monday Challenge named "Tag It." I've had this rocking chair sticker in my stash for some time. I "dressed it up" a bit with a few Tombow markers and white gel pen then fussy-cut the chair and attached it to a scrap of background paper. The tag on the front of the card is from my scrapbook stash, and the fun inside sentiment is computer generated. [When coming up with a title for this blog posting, "Make-Believe" was an immediate fit for the first two cards. Then, I realize that for some of us, we'd like to consider the many changes that come with aging a "make-believe," too. Personally, it does feel like a long ago "Once Upon A Time" that I had no daily aches and pains and never had to wonder just why I walked into a room!

 

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Simon Says Monday Challenge- Tag It   
Simon Says Wednesday Challenge- Happy Birthday                                    

Crafty Hazelnut’s Patterned Paper Challenge- May 

Party Poopers

For this weeks QKR Stampede Challenge, my DT card features an image named "Party Poopers" from Eureka Stamps that you can find HERE. I colored the image with Spectrum Noir markers and a white gel pen then fussy-cut the image, trimming the little pup from the left side from the group and setting him aside.

I mounted the large group onto background paper with a layer of vellum to mute the bold colors a bit. The sentiment is from a site named Useless Trinkets that offers dozens of free images and sentiments. I ended up retyping it to fit it onto the card, but you can find the original HERE. The pup I trimmed to the group was added to the inside. Doesn't he look adorable peeking around the sentiment? 

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Outlawz Challenges- Tuesday Color Challenge                 

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge- Happy Birthday                                    

Outlawz Challenge- Festive Fridays                                                                    

2craftycrittercrazies Challenge- #26                                                                    

My next is my DT creations for this week's Colour Crazy Challenge. The sponsor is Tiddly Ink and this wonderful image is named "Ricky Fishing Expert." I colored Ricky and his whopping catch with Spectrum Noir markers and a white gel pen. The "net" is made with some mesh fabric that I cut from the inside pocket of an old travel bag and the oval behind Ricky is cut from a blue plastic document folder, that comes in a pack of assorted colors and can be found in the office supply section of most stores. I really like using them on my cards because they're often cheaper than colored vellum and are more translucent.  You can write on them with a fine-line permanent marker and they're also easy to fussy-cut with a nice, sharp pair of scissors. The inside sentiment is a freebie from Birdscards that you can find HERE. I added a strip of the mesh and a small photo from my scrapbook stash to add a bit more pizazz to the inside of the card. 

 

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Cute Card Thursday- #580 Anything Goes                                                        

Polkadoodles Challenge Week 17-Anything Goes                                           

My final card for this post is an Asian inspired bookmark tag, safely nestled in a vellum envelope with a peek-a-boo window. I used scrapbook paper as the background on the card and on the tag. The Love symbol block is a rubber stamp that I pulled from the wood mount years ago. I think it might be a Hero Arts or Embossing Arts stamp. I covered the tag elements with a strip of clear laminate to make it more durable. After adding the laminate, I punched the top of the tag and threaded a strip of red cording through it and attached a porcelain bead from some of my mom's old jewelry. I know that my sister, who will be receiving this bookmark will love that! I plan to make a small box envelope that will protect the bead when I mail the card to her in a padded envelope.  

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Simon Says Monday Challenge- Tag It   

Word Art Wednesday Challenge- #384-#385 Anything Goes                    

Crafty Hazelnut’s Patterned Paper Challenge- May         

                               

A Trio Of Sweetness And Beauty

Last month I was honored to be a Guest DT at Imagine That Digi Stamps.  This month I am so excited to be a full-fledged DT for designer/owner Kris Breach. She is a wonderfully talented person and is also sweet and kind [like other digi/stamp designers that I know] so I know I'm going to love being on her team.  This card features images and sentiments from her digi set named "Mermaid Swimming." You can find it HERE.

I colored the image with Spectrum Noir markers and a white gel pen and created the "water" with an A2 sized piece of a blue plastic document folder.  This wonderful item comes in a pack of assorted colors and you can find them in the office supply section of most stores. I really like using them on my cards because they're often cheaper than colored vellum and are more translucent.  You can write on them with a fine-line permanent marker and they're also easy to fussy-cut with a nice, sharp pair of scissors. Also, when making this card I discovered that layering little strips and scraps of the blue plastic under the larger piece, creates ripples and adds wonderful depth to water. After I had the water and waves taped together with a few thin strips of tape on the underside, I cut "wave" slits in the thin blue plastic with an Exacto knife and gently slipped the cutie into the water. When places where I wanted, I added a bit of tape from the back to hold her in place. The sentiments are both from the set. As usual, I decorated the inside sentiment to match the front of the card. 

Note- The owner of Imagine That offers a discount to people who order sets they've seen on her DT 's blogs. So... if you want to pick up this set... or any other, stop by Imagine That and go shoppin'. 

 

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Simon Says Wednesday Challenge- Happy Birthday                                    

Do-Al[l] Creative- Mythical Creatures / Fairies"                                             

Outlawz Challenges- Monday Greetings- Anything Goes
Outlawz Challenge- Festive Fridays       

I wanted to make another card for the Monday Simon Says Challenge because I wanted to use a clear tropical pineapple tag from a packet of tags that I recently found on clearance at Hobby Lobby. I used a scrap of pineapple looking scrapbook paper for the background, then used assorted paper and ribbon scraps to complete the card. The sentiment is a freebie from Desert Diva. You can find HERE. The final, or should I say "crowning," touch was to add some wonderful square rhinestones. Aren't they gorgeous? Am entering this card into several challenges including Outlawz Twisted Thursday where the twist is a recipe of 1 ribbon, 2 Papers,  and 3 gems or pearls. [I might have used more of each that was required, but hope that is okay. With ribbon, paper, and bling, the more is the merrier, right?]

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Outlawz Challenge- Twisted Thursday

Word Art Wednesday Challenge- #384-#385 Anything Goes                    

Simon Says Monday Challenge- Tag It   

For my final card in this post, I used another cute bunny from Maria Medel's cute digi set, named "Easter Bunnies." [You can find it HERE.] I colored the image with Spectrum Noir markers and a white gel pen. The sentiment that I made into a sign is a freebie from Desert Diva. You can find it HERE. I cut around the little sweethearts paws so that I could slide the "sign" under them, just so. The elegant embossed card is from a stationary set I've had for a least a decade and the dotted swiss scrapbook paper is a staple in my craft room.

One added note, if you look closely you might notice that I had quite a bit of marker bleeding at his hair line [or should I say his "hare line"?] This is one thing I haven't quite learned to control with alcohol ink markers. In this case, I "colored" over them with a white gel pen. It worked... sort of. It looks a bit like fur and/or a five-o'clock forehead shadow. Ha. 

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2craftycrittercrazies Challenge- #26                                                                    

Crafty Hazelnut’s Patterned Paper Challenge- May                                        

The Sisterhood of Crafters- Chicks 'n Bunnies     

Polkadoodles Challenge Week 17-Anything Goes                                           

   

Card Buffet

It's Wednesday! So time for another challenge at Penny's Paper Crafty Challenge Blog. Penny's challenges are always Anything Goes and prizes are awarded from one or more sponsors.  Stop by the blog to check it out! (pennyschallenges.blogspot.com)

This week, I used a digi set from one of the challenge sponsors, Maria Medel, named "Easter Bunnies." [You can find it HERE.] I fussy-cut the little guy, then layered him atop pastel colored scrapbook paper and vellum. The sentiment on the front of the card is a freebie from Desert Diva. [You can find it HERE.] I added flowers with brad centers. The sentiment on the inside is a freebie from Papercraftsmag.com.

 

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Outlawz Challenges- Monday Greetings- Anything Goes
The Sisterhood of Crafters- Chicks 'n Bunnies          
If You Give a Crafter a Cookie- #115                               

Di’s Digi Stamps Spring Flowers                                                                           

Scribbles Designs Challenge- #76-Pastels                                                         

This card was created with a vintage Stampin' Up floral set. The inside sentiment is from a stamp that I pulled from the wood mount several years ago. [I think it is also from SU.] I added a bit of color and bling with red rhinestones.

 

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Cute Card Thursday- #579 Brads, Sequins or Gems                                       

Outlawz Challenge- Festive Fridays                                                                    

Word Art Wednesday Challenge- #384-#385 Anything Goes                    

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge- Anything Goes                                       

Crafty Hazelnut’s Patterned Paper Challenge- April                                       

I had fun making a humorous card to enter into the Monday Simon Says Challenge that requires a tag. I used a tag I removed from a pillow. When I was in elementary school I was always afraid I'd accidentally rip one of these tags off and someone the police would know and come looking for me. Hence, the inside of the card! The sentiments are computer generated and the inside clip art was found HERE.  [I apologize for the fuzzy photos. Not sure what happened and my camera battery is low. So will retake tomorrow and see if I can get better photos.] 

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Simon Says Monday Challenge- Tag It