Hoppin' Day 2!

Hello there coffee loving friends!  I'm back with my second creation for the FALL Coffee Lovers Hop.  This time, I'm sharing a scrappy little Christmas card that features the Joy Clair stamp set called Christmas Coffee.  Yes, I KNOW, I KNOW, this is a FALL hop but I have a reason for this card at this time!  LOL.  It is that time of year when I start cranking out millions and millions of Chirstmas Cards.  Yes, while I'm sipping my Pumpkin Spice Latte and dreaming of cool days ahead, I'm prepping my Christmas basket...So that's, ok, right!?!  

This is a fun set that includes two "sweater-like" backgrounds to fill a coffee mug, some holly leaves, coffee beans and a yummy collection of sentiment parts!  Such a great collection that you can mix and match to create an unlimited amount of unique creations.  

To create the colorful panel, I glued a variety of my cardmaking scrappy strips to a piece of cardstock.  It's fun to use these strips to make striped backgrounds!  I stamped the cup and just lightly stamped a few hints of the sweater background just to give the cup a bit of texture.  After that, I watercolored with a mix of colors that are found in the background and then added the holly leaves and coffee bean.  After that, I stamped the sentiment panel and distressed it with some coordinating colors and some golden embossing powder along the edge.  

Did you know that Joy Clair is one of the Super Sponsors of the hop?  They're offering one lucky participant (worldwide) a $25.00 gift card to the shop.  Check out the shop for their complete line of awesome clear stamps and start making your wish list!  You never know, you just might be a lucky winner!!!  

Jut a little twine to hold the cup...

Check out all the coffee-loving stamp sets that Joy Clair offers!  

Which one is YOUR favorite???

Thanks for stopping by and remember to come back tomorrow as I share another coffee-tea-cocoa-loving project with you!  Have fun hopping!  

September Challenge...Joy Clair

Hello Joy Clair Friends!  Joy Clair is thrilled to announce the new September Cardmaking/Project challenge!  Several design team members are joining the fun this month to inspire and encourage YOU to join us in creating some beautiful projects!  The feature photo above from designseeds.com is our inspiration and we encourage you to create a card or project using the colors, theme or layout of this photo.  Single layers?  YES!  Check out my creation!

I took inspiration from the colors and the feather pattern in the photo and started out by grabbing some coordinating inks.  I love my Memento ink spots and they work perfectly for this project!  I selected the colors Ladybug, Potter's Clay, London Fog and Bahama Blue.

To create my background, I inked the "holly leaf" from the new Christmas Coffee set and stamped an overlapping pattern using this four different colors.  I tried to follow the color pattern in the photo. After that, I used a paper towel to distress the edges.  Finally, I took the edges of the ink pads and swiped them across the paper to create the feathery swoops in the photo.

Since I wanted to focus totally on this background and not add additional images, this will be a fun note card to send someone.  It's simple and colorful and can be used for a variety of reasons.  To finish off the card, I did add some embellishments to make it a bit more special:  Rinea Foil slivers, golden pearls, red satin ribbon and some sparkly sequin ribbon.  FUN!

Fun right?  OK...Now it's YOUR turn.  Give it a try!  I can't wait to see what YOU create!  Remember to post your project on Joy Clair Blog Challenge page (add your link to our Inlinkz).  You might be the lucky winner of this month's challenge.  There are TONS of stamp sets for you to choose from if you win the $25 gift card!