Final Day for the Fall Coffee Lovers Bloghop!

Today, October 2nd, is the final day to link up your fall drink creation to be entered to win! Here is my last project using an adorable owl digital stamp by Jessica Lynn and a sentiment by TLC Creations.

It just HAD to be a shaker card...and what better element to use than ground coffee! I had some chunky glitter and gold sequins from Dollar Tree that I mixed in with a tablespoon of ground coffee. Of course, 1 tablespoon was way to much for this small space and I ended up pouring some out after adhering the front panel...oops!

I wanted to make sure the cute little owl was seen, so I printed this image twice on 65lb card stock. The owl was colored with Prismacolor Pencils to match the orange patterned card stock and fussy cut. I used two layers of foam tape to create the inside of the shaker and adhered the owl / coffee beans on top of the acetate after assembly so they can be seen even if the coffee covers the image.

 

Following Sandy Allnock's advise in Lessons 1 & 3 of her Go for the Gold Class, I created my own "gold paper" using a Stampendous Gold Ink pad on the edges of my 110 lb Recollections card stock base. This class is FREE, very informative and you should follow the link to check it out!

Link up your fall coffee/tea/cocoa creation HERE by October 2nd for a chance to win fun paper crafting prizes and please leave me some comment love!

P.S. - If you are a member of the Coffee Loving Papercrafters group on Facebook, you still have until October 4th to comment on all blog posts to be entered to win a prize!

*Giveaway!*  Before you leave, you can enter for a chance to win a goodie bag from AMLC! Entering is easy, please provide your email in the pink box at the top of the left column. Don't worry, no spam! Newsletters will be intermittent (less than once a month) and I will email the winner October 4th! Good Luck!

This card will be entered into: Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes  10/22 
 Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge - October

Supplies used:

• Jessica Lynn Originals Owl image
• Prismacolor pencils and Colorless Blender Marker
• Mambi Sheets Halloween paper pad
• Create with TLC sentiment
• Gold Stickles
• Acetate, foam tape, glitter, ground coffee
• Recollections 110lb card stock 
• Stampendous Gold Ink Pad

Your Kindness Warms My Heart - Fall Coffee Lovers Bloghop

It's day 7 of the bloghop but only post #6 for me as I was quite busy yesterday and didn't have a chance to make an extra card. Turns out my husband got a new job and we are preparing to move in 2 weeks - lots to do!

Stamped these cute cups from Fiskars Latte Love onto watercolor paper with Saddle Brown StazOn waterproof ink plus the sentiment to match. After another relaxing session of water coloring, I let this piece dry and decided to play with my small circle dies.

After adhering the water color paper to my card base, I placed these circles back in layers to give a little dimension.   Gold Stickles was used to create the small dash lines around the watercolor paper piece.

 

Notes were also taken from Lessons by Sandy Allnock's Go for the Gold class. In Lesson 5 she uses a gold pen to create embellishments on the Christmas tree as well as make the cute lights stand out on her card.  I don't have the same brand, but instead used Gold Stickles to create my own dash line embellishments around the border.

The polka dot paper is from this paper pad I found at Hobby Lobby in the clearance section....only $6.00!! (Must've been left over from last year...but who will know?!)  
 Link up your fall coffee/tea/cocoa creation HERE by October 2nd for a chance to win fun paper crafting prizes and please leave me some comment love! Enjoy!

*Giveaway!*  Before you leave, you can enter for a chance to win a goodie bag from AMLC! Entering is easy, please provide your email in the pink box at the top of the left column. Don't worry, no spam! Newsletters will be intermittent (less than once a month) and I will email the winner October 4th! Good Luck!

This card will be entered into: Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge Anything Goes 10/22

Supplies used:

• Fiskars Latte Love stamp set
• Sparkling Sleigh Ride paper pad by My Mind's Eye
• Saddle Brown StazOn ink
• Strathmore water color paper 9x12 pad
• Simply Art water color set
•  Walnut Stain Distress Ink
• Gold Stickles
• Sizzex Circle Die Set

Using New Paper Pumpkin Stamps and Day 5 of the Fall Coffee Lovers Bloghop!

It's Day 5 of the Fall Coffee Lovers Bloghop.  A clean and simple (CAS) card with little to no layers was the goal for today's card. I love the thickness of Recollections 110lb card stock from Michael's craft store. I used my MISTI stamp tool to stamp directly onto an 8.5" x 5.5" piece of this heavyweight card stock. 

The color is so rich using these Hero Arts Mini Cube Inks! I chose Orange Soda, Butter Bar, Field Greens and Cup-O-Joe inks.  The stamps are from my September 2015 Paper Pumpkin subscription box and the latte cup stamp is from Fiskars Latte Love.

The wood veneer doughnut is from Coffee Break veneer set by Prima Marketing that I found at Hobby Lobby.

  

*Giveaway!*  Before you leave, you can enter for a chance to win a goodie bag from AMLC! Entering is easy, please provide your email in the pink box at the top of the left column. Don't worry, no spam! Newsletters will be intermittent (less than once a month) and I will email the winner October 4th! Good Luck! 

Link up your fall coffee/tea/cocoa creation HERE by October 2nd for a chance to win fun paper crafting prizes and please leave me some comment love! Enjoy!

This card will be entered into:
Our Crafty Corner - Challenge 1

Supplies used:

• Fiskars Latte Love stamp set
• Stampin Up Paper Pumpkin September 2015 stamp set
• Hero Arts Ink Cubes in Orange Soda, Butter Bar, Field Greens and Cup-o-Joe
• Coffee Break Wood Veneers by Prima Marketing Inc.
• Prismacolor Pencils and colorless blender marker
• Glossy Accents
• Recollections 110 lb card stock
• Love and Patience

Melonheadz Challenge and Day 4 of the Fall Coffee Lovers Bloghop!

It's Day 4 of the Fall Coffee Lovers Bloghop as well as the start to Melonheadz new challenge: Fall is in the Air! I fell in love with this adorable little owl in their Halloween Stuff digital image bundle and chose to use candy corn colors.

Really enjoy the rich color of these Hero Arts Mini Ink Cubes and used Orange Soda, Butter Bar and Cup-O-Joe for today's card. 

I love the thickness of Recollections 110lb card stock from Michael's craft store and these Hero Arts Inks absorbed into the paper beautifully! First and second generation stamping was used for the background with an older stamp by Stampin Up. The yellow tag was also distressed using Spiced Marmalade ink by Tim Holtz.

Foam tape was used to pop up the tag as well as the 2 little owls.  To finish this card, I used Copper Stickles and covered both owls in Glossy Accents.

Link up your fall coffee/tea/cocoa creation HERE by October 2nd for a chance to win fun paper crafting prizes and please leave me some comment love! 
Link up HERE by October 11th to join Melonheadz Fall Challenge! Enjoy!

*Giveaway!*  Before you leave, you can enter for a chance to win a goodie bag from AMLC! Entering is easy, please provide your email in the pink box at the top of the left column. Don't worry, no spam! Newsletters will be intermittent (less than once a month) and I will email the winner October 4th! Good Luck!

Entering this card into: Unruly Paperarts - September Monthly 

Our Crafty Corner - Challenge 1
Supplies used:

• Melonheadz digital image bundle Halloween Stuff
• Fiskars Latte Love stamp set
• Stampendous Coffee Stamp
• Stampin Up wooden block leaf stamp
• Hero Arts Ink Cubes in Orange Soda, Butter Bar and Cup-o-Joe
• Spiced Marmalade Distress Ink
• Recollections 110 lb and 65 lb card stock
• Tags dies from Catherine Poolers 1st Stamp of Approval Box 2015
• Scotch foam tape
• Copper Stickles 
• Glossy Accents
• Love and Patience

Water Color Coffee Card - Day 3 FallCLH

Water coloring is so relaxing and the theme for this coffee inspired card for Day 3 of the Fall Coffee Lovers Bloghop.

I used an adorable House Mouse stamp called Feeling Rosy.  I stamped the large mug first, created a mask for it and then stamped the mouse in the teacup.  The small tea bag tag in the House Mouse stamp is "hidden" behind the coffee mug to keep this card in the coffee theme motif.

I could not find embellishments in my stash to match this image after creating it...so improvisation was called for! The leaves were embossed using Zing Brown Sugar, water colored with the same colors used on the mugs and fussy cut.

Link up your creation for a chance to win fun paper crafting prizes HERE by October 2nd and please leave me some comment love! 

*Giveaway!*  Before you leave, you can enter for a chance to win a goodie bag from AMLC! Entering is easy, please provide your email in the pink box at the top of the left column. Don't worry, no spam! Newsletters will be intermittent (less than once a month) and I will email the winner October 4th! Good Luck!

Entering this card into: Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - No Designer Paper 
Spellbinding Stamps by Nikki Burnette - Challenge #1 Embellishments 10/9

Supplies used:

• House Mouse Stamp Feeling Rosy
• Sargent's Water color Pencils set. Light Yellow and Light Orange colors used.
• Zing Embossing Powder in Brown Sugar
• StazOn Saddle Brown Ink
• Large coffee stamp (brand not marked unfortunately)
• Maya Design leaf stamps
• Stampin Up Paper Pumpkin September 2015 Fall stamp set
• Recollection card stock 110 lb

Coffee Themed Gift Card Holder - Day 2 FallCLH

Hello and welcome to Day 2 of the Fall Coffee Lovers Bloghop!

For today I created a small thank you themed gift card holder using a stamp by C.C. designs called Latte Kiki La Rue.

The paper is from a Die Cuts With a View (DCWV) 12 x 12 paper pad called Tattered Time.

I colored Kiki using Prismacolor Pencils and a colorless blending marker.

 This sentiment is from Fiskars Latte Love stamp set.

To close this envelope, I used a small brown heart-shaped eyelet and twine that wraps around from the front of the card.

*Giveaway!*  Before you leave, you can enter for a chance to win a goodie bag from AMLC! Entering is easy, please provide your email in the pink box at the top of the left column. Don't worry, no spam! Newsletters will be intermittent (less than once a month) and I will email the winner October 4th! Good Luck!

Suppies used:

• Latte Kiki La Rue stamp by C.C. designs
• Prismacolor Pencils and colorless blender marker
• Twine, Ribbon and Embellishments
• 65 lb Recollections card stock
• DCWV Tattered Time Paper Pad
• Fiskars Latte Love stamp set
• Stazon Saddle Brown ink
• Scotch foam tape
• Love and Patience

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