The Fall Coffee Lovers Bloghop is Here + Chance to Win!

This is, for me, the most wonderful time of the year!  Cooler weather, nature's beautiful colors, and, most importantly...pumpkin everything! Today is also the first day of the Fall Coffee Lovers Bloghop and I'm sharing my first card with you.

 I wanted to start this hop off with a clean and simple card. I distressed the edges with Antique Linen Distress Ink and used my favorite coffee stamp for the sentiment. The cute wood veneer glasses I found in a Coffee Break wood veneer set at Hobby Lobby and may put some in the very first AMLC giveaway! *hint hint* To make them shiny, I filled each lens with Glossy Accents.

Ok, the good stuff...the giveaway! Entering is easy. Simply provide your email address in the pink box in the top left column of this blog to be entered to win. I know what your thinking...."not more email!"  Don't worry, I hate spam too and promise to send out only 1 newsletter a month, if not less often. (Might just try seasonally to start.) To be honest, I'm just learning how to use newsletter software, so the first one may be in a month or two. (Unless you win, of course!) 

I plan on picking a winner the first of each month to win a small prize package possibly containing one or more of the following: creations made recently, paper-crafting supplies, embellishments, buttons, stickers, gift cards, note cards etc. For this Fall Bloghop however, I will not pick the winner until October 4th! This gives everyone participating a chance to view all the blog posts and sign up for those doing giveaways.  

Link up your Fall coffee creation HERE to play along and leave me some comment love! Sharing with #FALLCLH

Entering this creation into: Unruly Paperarts - September Monthly Art Quest
Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge - September
Our Crafty Corner - Challange 1
Supplies used:

• Sharpie Oil based Metallic Gold Paint Pen
• Pentel Sunburst Metallic Gold Pen
• DCWV The Cinnamon Luster Stack Paper Pad
• Recollections 110 lb card stock
• StazOn Saddle Brown ink
• Stampendous Coffee Stamp
• Coffee Break Wood veneers made by Prima Marketing from Hobby Lobby
• Glossy Accents
• Flat-back adhesive embellishments

House Mouse Mother's Day Cards!

I saw this wonderful sentiment on a plaque (sorry I do not remember where) but I had to re-create it onto cards!  The phrase says "we" so it is from both my husband and I.  These are two House Mouse stamps I've recently added to my collection titled "Donut Bliss" and "Feeling Rosy".

The mouse stamp in the cup had a little tea bag hanging out of it on the left side.  To hide this, I cut a mask out of card stock to cover the donut while stamping the tea cup.  Voila!  More use to stretch these adorable stamps to cover coffee and cocoa lovers too!

 

 

The sentiment on the inside says, "but please don't make us prove it!"

A close up of the donut.  I used a sparkle glitter writer to first apply glitter to the "frosting".  After that coat was dry, a layer of Ranger's Glossy Accents was applied thickly on top.

Since my husband does not enjoy coffee like I do, I changed the cards for our mothers' to say "cocoa" instead.  These would be adorable as gifts whether they were about coffee, cocoa or tea! :)

 

Supplies used:

• House Mouse stamps "Donut Bliss" and "Feeling Rosy"
• Ranger Glossy Accents
• Sparkle Glitter Writter
• Simply Art 36 Watercolors
• Small Water Brush
• Recollections Gold Embossing Powder
• StazOn Jet Black Ink
• Lawn Fawn "Harold's ABC's" stamp set
• Heidi Swapp stamp set
• Embellishments from The Paper Studio
• 110lb Recollections White card stock
• Strathmore 90lb watercolor paper
• Foam tape