Spring Coffee Lovers Bloghop!

 

 Spring Blog Hop!  

Remember, the theme is Spring!  Your projects must be newly created and PLEASE, no back linking.  

The hop will run from Friday, February 27th – Friday, March 6th.

Visit Coffee Lovers Cardmakers for more details or click the image above.  

Here is my creation to share in the blog hop:

 

I used white embossing powder stamped on the background and watercolored pastel colors over the top after heat setting the powder.  I did not use watercolor paper (and really should have!!) so now I know for next time! I had pigment ink squares in pastel colors that matched the watercolors I used (yay!) and just love how it turned out!  The quote is adhered with foam tape and small blue half pearls to finish it off.  Enjoy this inspiration and keep the creativity flowing!

This card has been entered into the following challenges: -Spring Coffee Lovers Bloghop - 3/8

2015 World Wide Open DT Challenge - (3E Max, this is #2) March - 4/4 

-Loves Rubber Stamps Challenge - Anything goes - 3/10 

-Through the Craft Room Door - March (1 of 2E)  3/11

-Crafting from the Heart - #49   3/10

Party Time Tuesdays - #196  4/7 (1 of 3E)

  Craft supplies used include:

• Core'dinations 65lb cardstock from Joann's
• pigment ink squares from Tuesday Morning
• Fiskars latte love stamp set
• Coffee quote stamp by Stampendous
• Simply Art watercolors from Joann's
• WOW white embossing powder
• Blue pearl embellishments from Orientaltrading.com

Day 7 - One stamp set, several designs

For my online card class this week at OnlineCardClasses.com, I just realized I have been using mainly 2 stamp sets. Today's class explained how multiple techniques can be used for the same stamp set to achieve very different looks on clean and simple cards.

The stamp sets I have been using are: 1) I Heart You stamp set by American Crafts  2) My Minds Eye Fine and dandy True Blue stamp set.  This card uses the cloud and sun stamp by My Minds Eye and the sentiment is from TPC Studio Rubber Stamps.

One of the techniques was Pop-Up Multi-Embossing shared by Jennifer McGuire.   I do not have clear embossing powder (yet, it's on the way!) so I used 2 different colors, silver and gold, on the sentiment.

This card will be entered in to -Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - All things bright and beautiful. - Loves Rubber Stamps - Anything Goes!

Supplies used:

• My Minds Eye Fine and dandy True Blue stamp set
•  65lb card stock by Pacon Creative Products
•  Colored pigment ink squares from Tuesday Morning 
•  Core'dinations 65lb cardstock from Jo-Ann 
• Recollections Gold and Silver Embossing Powder
• TPC Studio Rubber Stamps 
• Sequins 

Tea Staining on Lace and Birthday KISS card

 Made another KISS card today.  KISS = Keep It Simple Stamper.  A set of owl stamps from Hampton Art are one of my favorite sets.  The images looked cute stamped in colored pigment ink squares I found at Tuesday Morning!  This card is to help Bugaboo celebrate their 5th birthday!  Todays challenge was a color scheme. I liked the way these 2 shades of green paired with the pink ink hearts.

I also spent today dying some white/cream lace that I want to use for a future project.  The lace on the left seemed to have a protective layer and would not take the tea color (I soaked it for 30 minutes.)  Instead, I then put 8 drops of red food coloring and 5 drops of blue into 2 cups of warm water to make the shade of purple on the left.

 

I LOVE the color shade of the white lace I tea dyed on the right!  The tea I used: Lipton Green Tea Cranberry Pomegranate flavored.  I also soaked this one for 30 minutes and it came out beautifully! Now to decide which to use on my project featuring purple/pink roses....tough choice!  I will post pictures of my project when it is complete.
Items I used for card:

•  Core'dinations 65lb cardstock from Jo-Ann
•  Hampton Art Owl Stamps (SC0191
• Colored Pigment Ink Squares from Tuesday Morning 
•  6"x6" Designer Paper Pad by Colorbox bought at WalMart