Join us for Coffee...

Hello there coffee/tea/cocoa loving friends!  I'm joining my fellow CLC designers for a fun hop featuring STAMPloration's newest Cut Plate called Zen Coffee 2 Cover Plate!  If you've arrived here from Helen's blog, you're on the right track!  Make sure to hop along and comment on each of the blogs and you just might get lucky and win something coffee-licious like a $25 gift certificate to the STAMPlorations store!! NOTE:  Commenting closes on Friday, August 3 at 11:55 pm pacific, so make sure to leave some love before then!   I've listed the complete blogroll at the bottom of my post to help you navigate your journey.  

Hop Rules:  Visit and comment on each of the blogs participating.  

Comments close Friday, August 3 at 11:55 PM Pacific time.

What's Up for grabs?  Win a $25.00 Gift Certificate to the STAMPlorations store!  

Just like pretty printed paper, it's VERY difficult to cover up this type of die...I just want to see the WHOLE design!  I decided to emboss the image instead of cover it up!  

After embossing the panel, I mounted it onto some dark burgundy cardstock and discovered the card was matching one of my favorite mugs!  (@brookemillecchia_ceramics on Instagram).  I grabbed it off my cup shelf so I could use it in my photos!  Love when that happens!  LOL

After adding it to the burgundy panel, I attached a pretty piece of chocolate satin ribbon, some golden threads, Hemptique chocolate twine and some golden ric-rac...then topped it off with a heart shaped veneer!  

I'm also sharing this fun card created using the Zen Coffee 1 Cover Plate Die.  I really love the collection of coffee images mixed with loops/swirls/leaves and dots...It's like the images are just floating along on a wave of Coffee!  I wanted to keep the cuts and the frame together so after watercoloring a panel using Nuvo Shimmer Powders, I cut the panel and glued it directly onto a card base.  So easy, peasy!  

After gluing it to my card base, I stamped the sentiment "Fall For You" using VersaClair ink.  I think the sentiment works perfectly with the falling coffee cutplate, don't you?!  After mounting it onto some fun colored cardstock, I added a little piece of gray ribbon and mounted the sentiment onto the panel with foam squares.  To finish it off, I added a few metallic pearls that help make the silvery shimmer pop on the card.

Thanks so much for hopping along with us today!  Please hop on over to Katie's blog to check out her gorgeous creation and GOOD LUCK!

Blogroll:  

STAMPlorations  

Vicki Dutcher

Coffee Loving Cardmakers Blog  

Amy Tsuruta  

Becca Cruger  

Dana Warren  

Helen Gullett  

Kerry Urbatch (That's ME!)

Katie Brooks  

Kathy Schweinfurth  

Laurel Seabrook  

Lisa Bzibziak  

Robyn Jordan  

Check out the whole Coffee/Tea section 

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Little Acres and Coffee Loving Cardmakers...Mousie Match!

Hello there coffee loving cardmakers!  I'm thrilled to be joining my teamies on the Coffee Loving Cardmakers blog and the Designers at Little Acres Creations for a fun collaboration featuring LAC's adorable new set called "Cafe Dreamers".  This little mousie set is just the cutest and I am so excited to see what everyone has created with it!

Little Acres Designs has graciously contributed two $10 gift certificates for two lucky commenters.  Just make sure to comment on each blog post in the hop by Friday, April 20th!  A winner will be announced on their blog as well as the Coffee Loving Cardmakers blog on Monday, April 23.

If you've arrived here from Amy's blog, you're off to a great start!  If you're beginning your journey here, don't worry...I've included the complete blogroll at the bottom of my post.

I decided to create a card every mouse would love.  My inspiration was the sentiment...It had me thinking of that little mouse on her coffee (or tea) cup and what she would be dreaming of...Yes...CHEESE, CHEESE, and more CHEESE!  Soooo...I got out my pencil and started drawing some cheese.  After penciling in my cheese lines, I grabbed my Leisure Arts Colored Pencils and my Leisure Arts Watercolor Pencils and got to work!

I started out by coloring that adorable little mouse and coffee/teacup with the watercolor pencils.  After watercoloring, I ran over the image with the colored pencils to give more dimension to some areas.  I set that aside and started coloring the cheese...Oh fun!  

Isn't she cute?!  After coloring her up, I set her aside and marked up the pencil lines with my Staedtler .01 pigment pen and started coloring the cheese with the colored pencils.  After I was satisfied with the color, I fussy cut the cheese and mounted it onto a white card panel.  I used my Misti to position the sentiment perfectly on the panel then gave it two presses of ink.  After that, I just popped the mouse/cup image up onto the cheesy panel with some foam squares.  NO RIBBON.  GASP!  

Such a fun, fun set!  I loved working with this set so much!  I can't wait to play with the mouse on the upside down cup next!  

Did you know that Little Acres is celebrating their birthday?  If not, they're having a BIG BIG HOO-RAH and you are invited.  Check out all the deets on their blog and social media outlets!  

Thanks so much Little Acres for the opportunity to play with your adorable mousie set!  I just LOVE it!  Thanks visitors for stopping by to see my creation, I hope you were inspired!  Please hop on over to Helen's blog for the next stop on the hop!

Little Acres Creations

Chelle Ratcliffe

Heather Clay

Julie Tucker-Wolek

Lisa Bzibziak

Coffee Loving Cardmakers

Amy Tsuruta

Kerry Urbatch

Helen Gullett

Becca Cruger

Dana Gong

Dana Warren

Katie Brooks

Kathy Schweinfurth

Laurel Seabrook

Robyn Jordan

Hellooooo Weekend! (with A2Z Scrapbooking and Coffee Loving Papercrafters)

Hello there stampers!  Today I'm hopping along with my fellow Coffee Loving Papercrafters Design Team Members and the A2Z designers as we share fun creations featuring Hero Arts digital stamps and A2Z exclusive digital set called "Hug in a Mug".  I decided to mix it up a bit and use some non-coffee related images and pair it with a deeelish iced coffee.  

A2Z Scrapbooking is a licensed online Hero Arts Retailer and also offers a wide array of inky and digi stamp sets and papercrafting products in their ETSY Store.  Hop over to their page and check out all they have to offer!  During this hop, they will be offering their Hug In A Mug digi Exclusive and your choice of Digi Stamp set from their shop and one lucky hopper will win a super fabulous digi prize from A2Z!  Just make sure to leave a comment at each stop along the way (and complete their Rafflecopter giveaway) for your chance to win the prizes.  Commenting will close on Thursday, April 5 at 11:55 PM with winners being announced on Saturday, April. 7th.  

Now, on with the show!  

If you arrived here from Amy's blog, you're hopping along quite nicely.  If not, just continue along from here until you make full circle.  If you want to start at the beginning, click HERE or please see the blogroll at the bottom of my post.  

Yes, I'm sharing something quite different than the norm for me.  I can say that this collection of cards was created using ONLY digital images! I created the collage on my computer using the awesome graphics from the Notes and Dates digital set from Hero Arts and the Iced Coffee from A2Z's exclusive brand new Hug in a Mug digi set.  Can you believe it?  I used NO stamps!  HA HA.

I wanted to create a mix of colors for this collection of cards (I made a set of 24 cards- six of each color) so I used my computer to change the color of the calendar wheel image.  After layering the images to suit my liking, I printed them up on white cardstock.  I then cut the images down to card size and mounted them with glue onto some premade kraft card bases I got from the Target Dollar Spot last year.  After that, I felt a bit guilty for not stamping.

...so I decided to pull out my Copics and coordinate the color of each mug with the color of the calendar wheel.  I also took the opportunity to color that little heart on the banner and added some "coffee" ice to the cup.  I created pastel pink, orange, green and blue cards.  

These cards are going to make fun little notes for random hellos!  

I think I love the blue the most but since I did this digitally, I now have the collage on my computer and can go in and tweak the colors in the future!  WOOP WOOP!  

Wrapping them up all pretty was the finishing touch!  This would make a fun little giftie too, right?!

Thanks A2Z for this fun collaboration.  I enjoyed taking the leap into the digi world again and appreciate the opportunity to play with your new exclusive set!  

Thanks for hopping along with us!  I hope our creations inspire you to have another cuppa joe, get inky and/or digital and play!  Please hop over to my DT partner Helen's blog for the next leg of the hop!

I'm Lost or GET ME BACK HOME blogroll:  

a2z Scrapbooking Supplies blog

Sue Nagata

Kristina Beagle

Cindy Chiu

Arlene McClung

Niki Garcia

Coffee Loving Cardmakers blog   

Amy Tsuruta   

Kerry Urbatch

Helen Gullett

Lisa Bzibziak   

Robyn Jordan  

Dana Gong   

Dana Warren   

Erin Thiem   

Kathy Schweinfurth   

Laurel Seabrook  

Katie Brooks  

Sunday Sip...Fixer Upper!

Hello there coffee loving friends!  It's Kerry here and I'm back with another Sunday Sip and SHare post.  I'm sending HEALING and SAFETY vibes to all those affected by the hurricanes and unfriendly weather/earth events that have been happening.  While watching weather news and live "before the storm" painting events 24-7 this weekend, I realized it wasn't a surprise that my card creations would take a turn towards healing and...coffee...Lots of coffee!  Coffee is a comfort to my heart and bandages, well...they cover the wounds that are inevitably being created right now.  I just want to send good healing vibes and comfort.  

My card incorporates the use of a new coffee-loving sentiment set from Joy Clair called Coffee Quotes.  As a Super Sponsor for the Fall Coffee Lovers Hop, they've got some awesome clear coffee-loving stamps that will surely make their way into your coffee-tea-cocoa loving heart.  I know they have mine!  I'll be sharing a few more cards using this set during the hop so make sure to spy them...You just might win a special treat!

After stamping the sentiment onto white cardstock, I mounted it onto some orange cardstock for contrast then applied some old bandages (real ones) to a white panel.  I machine stitched a border to make it more fun!

After mounting the sentiment onto the bandage panel, I stamped and colored the coffee tumbler with watercolor pencils.  I cut the cup out and added a pop dot to attach it to the sentiment panel.  After that, I attached the bandage panel to some Kraft paper (just paper, not cardstock) and mounted the whole thing onto a white card base.  Easy, peasy and perfect for a friend in need!

Thanks for stopping by to check out my card.  I hope you have a glorious week.  If you're dealing with the aftermath of the storms, know that I continue to pray for you and am here for you...

Love the card?  I think you'll love the sketch too!  Why not give the card sketch a try?!  Play along with the CLCSipandShare sketch challenge and you just might be the monthly winner of a coffee-loving crafty prize!  Just add a link to your creation in the inlinkz below!

An InLinkz Link-up

Sunday Sip and Share...Lucky!!!

Hello there coffee loving friends!  I'm back with another Sunday Sip and Share for the Coffee Loving Cardmakers blog and I am happy to share an adorable little lucky clover card I created especially for St. Patrick's Day.  I wanted to create a little card that features a fun, non-traditional shape so I fussy cut a clover to display this yummy tumbler image.  It's a fun and whimsical little card, don'tcha think? 

After fussy cutting the clover card base (top fold so it can stand), I rubbed a little bit of green ink onto the card.  After that, I splattered the clover with some gold and green Silk.  Next, I attached some old lace from my stash, a few twigs (picked up while hunting for lucky clovers) and some blingy sequin trim.  I topped it off with some bling that I colored with a gold marker.   

For my stamped image, I used my brand-spankin' new faith-based coffee set from Sweet 'n Sassy Designs (Rebecca Rios Designs-Creative Worship Collection).  I stamped the tumbler onto white cardstock then added a bit of cream and green watercolor to give it added dimension.  After that, I stamped the sleeve onto a scrap of green from my card base and doodled a bit of gold and black ink onto the design so that it would fit with my shamrock theme.  

A closer peek at the embellishment treatment- the card wouldn't be complete without some treasured embellishments!  

Now let's take a peek at the sketch that was inspired by this card!  We're into week TWO of the March Sketch Challenges and this one's a doozie!  Create a card (any shape but standard) and include some sort of coffee/tea or cocoa theme.  Have fun and I hope to see a ton of entries!  Just add yours to the linky below.  At the end of the month, I'll select a winner to receive a fun coffee-loving prize!  

An InLinkz Link-up

Sunday Sip and Share...Share the Love!

Hello there coffee-loving crafters!  I was reminded that it's almost Valentine's Day when I went to Starbucks earlier this week.  It's not one of my favorite holidays, but I do love celebrating "Friendship Day" with my young students at school.  I love to prepare tasty little treats and gifts for them too. 

I was kind-of thrilled to get the sweet coffee sleeves on my morning coffee so I collected them every day this week.  Yes, I had plans to create some coffee-loving cards for the baristas who prepare my morning coffee every weekday.

Take a peek at how I repurposed/reimagined the coffee sleeves and how I created these two tasty cards! For the first card, I used a faith-based Bible Journaling clear stamp sentiment set from Bossy Joscie. I used the "Come and fill me" sentiment and the yummy hearts.  I stamped the sentiment repeatedly in a heart formation on kraft cardstock using Memento Tuxedo Black ink.  I applied the coffee sleeve to the design and added a bit of sparkle to the hearts.  

I love that the sleeve has several different elements that are perfect for cardmakers.  It gives me the opportunity to really mix my designs and make multiple cards that are completely different-with one sleeve!  

Of course, none of my cards are complete without a little ribbon or twine so I selected some bakers twine tied at the top.  I elected to keep the "tails" long.  

I also created this card using the extra parts from the sleeve.  I love how the washi creates the perfect little golden accents to coordinate with the ribbon.  

The Starbucks name was perfectly suited right along the edge of this card panel!  

Just look at those adorable cups!  I just had to cut them out and place them on the card!  It's a perfect pair, don't you think?! 

Since I created two cards using the coffee sleeves, I selected the second card as my layout of choice for this week's challenge.  Hope you find some time to play along with it!  Remember, if you decide to play along, please add your link to the inlinkz below.  At the end of the month, I will select one winner to receive a coffee-loving treat!  

An InLinkz Link-up

Sunday Sip and Share...Share the Love

Hello there coffee-loving friends!  It's Kerry here for another Sunday Sip and Share and this time, I thought I'd share a little coloring therapy.  It's been a rough weekend for me as I said goodbye to my little "Ladybug" Peanut on Saturday morning.  She was, and forever will be the most amazing love of my life.  She was my shadow and loyal companion for 18 wonderful years.

Since coloring is quite a bit of therapy for me, I decided to ink up a new stamp in my collection and do a little coloring.  This Whimsy Stamp (yes, I'm addicted) is called "Served with Love".  Isn't it cuuuute?!  When I was coloring, I couldn't help but think of the relationship Peanut and I shared.  I felt it was represented in the image so perfectly.  I just love how this image evokes a nurturing and loving connection between the two little characters.  It was just what I needed this weekend.

I love playing with texture when coloring.  Since I collect teddy bears, this teddy-fella had to get some teddy bear fur.

Of course, his little buddy needed some coordinating warm weather wear too.  I popped a little blue from the bears hat onto the penguins scarf and toque.  The background was embossed with an old Sizzix Basic Grey embossing folder from my stash.

I used the following Copic markers to color this adorable image:

Now let's move on to the coordinating sketch!  I hope you find some time in your week (or month) to play along.  Remember, you can use any or all of the sketches featured this month!  Just link up your creation on this post below.  

An InLinkz Link-up

Sunday Sip and Share...Happy New Year!

Hey there Coffee friends!  It's 2017 and I want to wish everyone a healthy, happy and prosperous new year!  I hope you have plenty of time to enjoy all your life's treasures.  

I'm back again with another Sunday Sip and Share (so happy to extend my time on the Coffee Loving Papercrafters Design Team) and can't wait to see what fun and inky challenges are uncovered!  Let's welcome in 2017 with the first card and sketch shall we?  

I created a quick little greeting to ring in the new year and to wish you well.  If you're in Australia or wayyy down under, I hope you're enjoying a beautifully sunny summer day!  

I selected one of my newest stamp sets from Whimsy Stamps.  I picked up this set about a month or so ago and it's having an inaugural ink-up!  WAHOO!  I love this little Holiday Sweet Treats stamp set and it was just too cute to not jump right into my shopping cart!  I love the shape of the mug, the marshmallows teetering on top, and the candy cane handle.  The sentiments aren't to shabby either.  I think by now, you can probably tell that I currently have a LOVE AFFAIR with Whimsy Stamps. LOL

I used just a few simple tools to create this card.  Ranger Embossing Ink (Clear), FSJ Embossing Powder (Black), Pan Pastel (Pewter, Ultramarine Blue Shade and Magenta) and FSJ Silks (Shimmer Gold, Silver and Outrageous Pink).  Working from a kraft panel helped soften the colors and make project shimmer and shine.  

This card is quite CAS in comparison to the cards I usually create but I have to say, I love how it turned out.  I had tons of fun rubbing shimmer and shine onto the cardstock and watching the card come together so quickly.  

If you know me, you know that I can't call a card finished without adding a little ribbon or twine so that's just what I did.  Black Journey twine and a stamped/embossed snowflake (from the same stamp set) tied on like a button.  :)  Cute embellishing touch!  

Such a simple and cozy card, 'eh?  I just love when things turn out so perfectly!  I hope you have a warm and cozy winter!  

I'd like to also ring in the new year with the announcement of the clcsipandshare sketch challenge winner for the month of December.  As promised, this participant will receive a yummy coffee-loving treat from me in the mail.  I'll reach out for your address soon.  Congratulations to:  

Indy's Designs!

Won't you join all coffee loving papercrafters in playing with the first sketch of the new year?  It's simple and quick...and YOU TOO could win a deelish coffee-loving prize!  I'll select a winner at the end of January, so you have plenty of time to pick a January sketch that inspires you!  

Remember:  To be eligible to win, you must include a photo of your card/coffee loving project in our inlinks below.  When sharing on social media, use the hashtag #clcsipandshare and tag @coffee_crafts so we can find your fab creation!  

An InLinkz Link-up