Card #7

And... squeezing in one last submission (card #7) to the 2017 summer coffee lovers blog hop! It's been a crazy fun ride! Thank you for all of your comments - I appreciate every one of them.

Inspired by:

I am submitting this to:
2017 Summer Coffee Lovers Blog Hop
SSS Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes
Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps - Wonderful Wednesday
Little Red Wagon - Challenge #400, three of a kind (three vertical paper strips)

Thank you as always for stopping by! 

Books and coffee

Today is the last day for the 2017 summer coffee lovers blog hop; what is more summery than a stack of books waiting to be read?

Inspired by this old Mojo Monday sketch (which apparently was one of Julee's original sketches!):

The image is from Blackberry Jelly's little workshop. Love the clean lines. I did some digital masking to shorten the book stack.

I am submitting this to:
2017 Summer Coffee Lovers Blog Hop
SSS Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes
Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps - Wonderful Wednesday 
Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper June 2017 Challenge
DL.ART June linky challenge
Little Red Wagon - Challenge #400, three of a kind (three banners)

Thank you as always for stopping by! 

Tea bag pull tab card

This is my card #5 to the 2017 summer coffee lovers blog hop - a personal record!

Where's the coffee / tea, you ask?
 

Under the top layer, I hid a Stash tea bag that is attached to a pull tab. I thought this would be a fun and interactive take on the clean design (which is a CASE of this card).

I used two layers of foam tape in a C-shape around the tea bag to form the slider area, and taped the tab to the tea bag. Happy day and enjoy!


I am submitting this to:
2017 Summer Coffee Lovers Blog Hop
SSS Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes
Word Art Wednesday Challenge #288-289 - Anything Goes
Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps - Wonderful Wednesday 
Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps - Challenge #387, Circles 
DL.ART June linky challenge

Thank you as always for stopping by!

White on white

This is my card #4 for the 2017 summer coffee lovers blog hop, which ties my previous personal record.

This is my first time to play at Addicted to CAS! This week's code word is "white on white", which speaks "summer" to me; I guess I'm thinking of wearing white in the summer? 😁

I covered the SSS falling hearts stencil with embossing paste, die-cut the window, and embossed a Cuttlebug small teacup on acetate to fill the space. Behind the window, I've clear embossed "thank you" six times (like this card).

I recently got the MFT rectangle peek-a-boo window die-namics and I may be slightly in love with it, as it's made an appearance in three out of my last four cards.

I am submitting this to:
2017 Summer Coffee Lovers Blog Hop
SSS Monday Challenge - Stencil it 
Word Art Wednesday Challenge #288-289 - Anything Goes
Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps - Wonderful Wednesday
DL.ART June linky challenge
DL.ART Thankful Thursday Challenge #207
Addicted to CAS Challenge #114













Thank you as always for stopping by!

2017 Summer Coffee Lovers Blog Hop #3

The week-long coffee lovers blog hop has the effect of pushing me to work faster on cards! Sometimes, it takes me a week (or more!) to put a card together because I hum and haw on this piece of paper versus that shade of colour. Now, it's a card a day; I do hope it's not at the expense of quality...

Here is my card #3 to the hop. I was thinking along the lines of tea sippin' while watching a beautiful sunset:

This card features the Verve digi Rise and Shine, which Julee released during the 2017 spring CLBH. I love it! "Sending you a cup of happiness" (from YNS' Cup of Happiness) is what I've put on the inside.

I used a recent Mojo Monday sketch. I'm going to miss those sketches...

I am submitting this to:
2017 Summer Coffee Lovers Blog Hop
SSS Wednesday Challenge - Use patterned paper (the watercolour wash paper) 
Word Art Wednesday Challenge #288-289 - Anything Goes
Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps - Wonderful Wednesday
DL.ART June linky challenge

Thank you as always for stopping by!

Coffee cup thank you

I am on a duo-card swing! After the night and day cards yesterday, today's theme is hot and cold:

The "warm tones" card is for the 2017 summer coffee lovers blog hop, but I thought it would be cool (heh) to contrast with a "cool tones" card. Not sure if the colours are coming through, but the "warm" card uses a patterned paper that gradates from red to orange to yellow, and the "cool" card goes from purple to blues.

The sentiment is from Lawn Fawn's So Much To Say. The coffee cup is a digi from Blackberry Jelly's digital stamps. Thank you! Finished with glossy accents and the SSS falling hearts stencil.


I am submitting this to:
2017 Summer Coffee Lovers Blog Hop
SSS Wednesday Challenge - Use patterned paper
Word Art Wednesday Challenge #288-289 - Anything Goes
Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps - Wonderful Wednesday
DL.ART June linky challenge
DL.ART Thankful Thursday Challenge #207
YNS Sketch Challenge #67

Thank you as always for stopping by!

Meet... Brentwood!

The 2017 summer coffee lovers blog hop is ON!! Woot! This is my third hop and I am preparing myself for a week of crafting frenzy :)

Card #1:

Meet Brentwood! I love it when stamp characters have names. This digi is from jessicalynnoriginal. Thank you! It's my first time to colour Brentwood and he is just the sweetest. Here, he is having a staycation and drinking coffee all day and all night long.

Funny story about this card: I showed it to my husband and he particularly liked the morning version because he says Brentwood, being nocturnal, would definitely need coffee in the morning to stay awake :)

I know the hop is hopping like crazy, so I won't keep you. Thank you as always for stopping by!

I am submitting this to:
2017 Summer Coffee Lovers Blog Hop
SSS Wednesday Challenge - Use patterned paper
SSS Monday Challenge - Let's take a vacation (staycation!)
Word Art Wednesday Challenge #288-289 - Anything Goes
Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps - Wonderful Wednesday
DL.ART June linky challenge
DL.ART Thankful Thursday Challenge #207

Christmas chickies

This card is for the last Mojo Monday. I only discovered Mojo Monday this year, and I haven't participated in many challenges, but I always appreciate the sketches because they helped me learn so many variations on balanced layouts. Thank you Julee! I look in the archived sketches often!

Those cute chickies are from Your Next Stamps' Christmas Chickies, and the sentiment is from Hero Arts' Layering Christmas Tree. Layout and colours inspired by:

I am submitting this to:
Mojo Monday #500
YNS Colour Challenge #66
SSS Wednesday Challenge - Emboss it (Clear embossing on the background snowflakes and sentiment)
SSS Monday Challenge - Touchy feely (liquid applique on the toques and tulle for the horizontal strip)
Word Art Wednesday Challenge #286-287 - Anything Goes
Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps - Wonderful Wednesday
CHNC Challenge 338 - AG Christmas (I didn't finish this card in time for last week's challenge, which was non-traditional Christmas colours...)
Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge Extra - June
Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge - June (the background is a piece of watercolour designer paper)


Thank you as always for stopping by!