Coffee Lovers Blog Hop...A Hero Arts sippy treat!

Hello there Coffee Loving friends!  I'm back with another fun project for the Fall/Winter Coffee Lovers Hop!  If you haven't hopped along yet, please make sure to join the fun!  Hop along and check out all the fabulous contributions from each and every participant.  You can click on the link to the Hop Post by clicking on this cozy photo below:  

My project today is a fun to-go cup and note-velope wrapped in a pretty tag.  Super Sponsor Hero Arts is featured here in the stamp set Peace and Joy.  It's a great little set that includes some fun sentiments (mix of fonts) as well as a fun stitched tag and some "ornament dots" with accoutrements.  I used the decorated dots as polka dots on my project.  

The cups were purchased in the party section at Hobby Lobby.  They're the perfect size to fill with a packet of hot chocolate and a few pieces of chocolate and/or peppermints.  I stamped the dots and snowflakes onto the cup after creating the tag.  The tag is finished off with some twine, jute and a trio of jingly bells!

Such a fun little gift set all ready to go!  Can't wait to give it to a special someone!  

Thanks for stopping by today!  I'll see you again tomorrow with another fun project.  :)

Sunday Sip...I guess I'll just have to make my own!

Hey there coffee loving friends!  It's Kerry here and I'm back with another fun Sunday Sip.  Today I'm sharing a fun little RECIPE for you....HA HA...

Take some Coffee Liqueur (I'm using Coffee Liqueur from a Virginia Distillery called Vitae Spirits) and pour some (I don't measure) into a coffee cup or a stemless wine glass (even better- a handmade ceramic wine tumbler like mine from TMDCeramics).

Fill the rest of your cup up with Dr. Pepper...Seriously, Dr. Pepper...

Enjoy!  

Now back to cardmaking....  Does anyone have a wine tumbler stamp?  I need one... Like NOW... So I guess I need to draw one up real quick...

So, yeah, I doodled up a tumbler like the one I was drinking from and of course I added some coffee beans for good measure.  I threw in a fun new candy corn treat for you too.  After all, this IS TREAT WEEK!

Now, I had to find the perfect stamp and sentiment pairing for my tumbler so I dug around in my stash and found the perfect fit in the Hero Arts set called Peace and Joy.  Ahhhhh....Coffee IS definitely PEACE AND JOY!  :)

Creating a pretty simple layout was important...I think it turned out well...

Since it's TREAT WEEK, I thought I'd share a little treat with you.  If you want to play with my tumblers, feel free...Just save the image below and you'll be able to print it out lickety split! Mwah! On Monday, I'll also attach the PDF along the sidebar...for easy pickins...

Hope you enjoy.  If you feel so inclined, please use it in coordination with my sketch challenge!  I'd LOVE to see your play on my sketch...and doodle-dee-doo!  Please make sure to add your projects to our inlinkz below so we can OOH and AHHH over them!  Happy Halloween!  

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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 and Share...Meaty Greetings!

Hello there Coffee (and tea and cocoa) Loving cardmakers!  I hope you've had a ball hopping along and have been totally inspired by all the yummy creations so far in the Winter Coffee Lovers Blog Hop.  I've been loving seeing the most gorgeous and delicious creations.  I'm excited to see what next week brings with the hop!

Check out the fun-shape card I created for today's Sip and Share!

To create this fun card I used some yummy stamps from Hero Arts (Hipster at Heart You are My Happy, Color Layering Graphic Flowers) .  I turned these fun "jungle" flowers and elements into a christmas tree. Of course, the coffee cup had to be an ornament tucked in there!

And now a little detour...You see, just a week before the hop began, I went on a hunt to find as many tasty coffee items as I could find.

I ended up hitting the motherload at Trader Joe's.  I don't often visit there, but wooeee...I found the good stuff!  I found Coffee, ice cream, tea, chocolate and all the way down on the bottom of the shelf hiding from me I discovered something so intriguing I had to grab it and take it home.

Trader Joe's BBQ Coffee Rub.  YUP, that's right.  I decided last night that I would test this stuff out and Oh.MY. YUM!  It's delish!  It's not Barbecue flavored but does pack a coffee bite (among other yummy flavors).  Wanna see?

Oh how yummy!  I created some yummy Spaghetti and Meatballs with this fabulous rub/spice mixture! To create this delectable dish, I just used some hamburger, chopped red onion, several good shakes of the spice mix, good olive oil and a little salt and pepper. Once the meatballs were done, I added them to some yummy sketti and OH MY...DELISH! 

Ok...back to the card and sketch.  Check out this week's coordinating sketch:  

Now yes, I know it's quite a funky sketch but come on, give it a try!  We'd love to see a few "trees" pop up in the Winter Hop!

Sunday Sip and Share...Danke!

Hello there coffee loving cardmakers!  It's Kerry here and I'm back with another Sunday Sip and Share!  Today I have TWO cards and a sketch for you...SO get ready!  

The first card was created especially for one of my FSJ Coach friends Ruby.  She recently went on her yearly trip to Germany and Austria with her Hubby and I was able to travel there with her via her gorgeous photos of her adventures.  I so wish I can travel back to the land where my family began...and someday, I will.  Until then, I can live vicariously through my friends and family who share their photos and adventures with me.  

I was excited to learn that she thought of me when she was traveling around and even tried hunting for some German sentiment stamps.  She couldn't find them but she did pick up some fun stickers to send my way.  Isn't that sweet???  So...I just got her package in the mail last week and decided to create something fun!  

Of course I have a huge collection of Fun Stampers Journey supplies, so I had to use some of those in this creation.  And since we share a love of FSJ, it was quite appropriate to do so.  For this card,  I tweaked Rita's Freshly Made Sketches #258 sketch just a little and added a yummy Hero Arts mug in the background by using some Turbo Teal ink.  I scribbled some Copic color on the bugs (as I knew they would be covered and blurred with the vellum overlay.  
I know that metallic stickers/sentiments are widely used in European cardmaking and I'm not sure why the style hasn't made it quite that big here in the USA.  I've seen a few (there are a few bible journaling ones with FSJ), but not many!

Since I speak a tiny bit of German, I had fun trying to translate the sentiments.  Luckily for me, they were quite simple and common sentiments so I had no trouble at all.  :)  Wahoo!

Yummy ribbon (Oatmeal Cookie from FSJ) and some jute finished off the sketch.  I want to send a special thank you "Vielen dank!" to my friend Ruby for sending me these stickers.  Watch your mailbox!!!

I'm not done yet...Are you ready for card #2?  This one helped inspire MY sketch...Check it out!

So to create this card full of Metallic GORGEOUSNESS, I brushed some Silver and Gold silk onto some Cocoa Powder cardstock.  After that, I splattered some watered down Butter Cream acrylic paint and the Silks (including Dark Roast) onto the cardstock.  I cut out the brushstroke pattern #1 because I thought it was not "popping" like I wanted it to and #2 Well, frankly, because when in doubt, POP IT OUT!  I love layering!  

I stamped the mason jar from the Hipster at Heart set then cut out the jar (after I colored it with Copics) using Versafine Onyx ink.   I popped it up on the card then added some Journey Glaze to give it some shine.  I stamped the sentiment from the Hero Arts set called You Are My Happy onto Whip Cream cardstock.  A little scrap of Cocoa Powder cardstock was attached to the edge then dipped into Journey Gold Embossing Powder.

I hope you enjoyed my cards today.  I had so much fun playing and creating!  Are you ready to see my sketch for this week?  OK...Please join us in playing with this sketch.  The sketch challenge runs until the end of the month and I have created several sketches thus far.  If you would like to play along, please add your link to our inlinkz below.  When posting to social media, please include the hashtag #clcsipandshare so that we can find it easily!  :)

Have a great week!  I'll be back again next Sunday with more yummy fun!  :) 

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CLC Sip and Share...True Love!

Hey there coffee loving cardmakers!  It's Kerry here and I'm back for another Sunday Sip and Share!  I decided to play around and profess my love for the almighty coffee...Yes, I'm truly, madly, deeply in love with this delish concoction and cannot imagine life without it!

I started off by creating a little sewn-and-shabby heart using some scraps from a quilt I'm making.  I stitched up some strips and then dipped the fabric into some coffee to pick up a light coffee tint.  After it was dry, I cut it out into a heart shape and set it aside so I could work on the card.

I think this card took a "Valentine-ey" turn with the red, black and kraft colors, but I love it nonetheless.  I love the paisley medallion stamp I used in the background (Fun Stampers Journey:  Ornamental Dream) and I think it goes well with the coffee cup (Hero Arts: Hipster at Heart) and sentiment/hearts (Hero Arts: You Are My Happy) I used. I stamped the cup using Versafine Onyx ink, heat set it, then colored with Copics (R29, R32, RV42, R0000, E23). When finished, I added a bit of Journey Glaze to give it some shine.

I particularly love the scripty font on this sentiment! It is so elegant and lovely, don't you think? After assembling the card onto Kraft Cardstock (and adding a few pearl embellishments, I set off to create the sketch. Hope you enjoy!

Remember,  we're always looking for awesome interpretations of our sketches! Please join us and share your creation with us! When sharing on social media, please include the hashtag #clcsipandshare so that it can be discovered in search easily. Make sure to also add it to our link-up HERE:

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Sip and Share...Hipster Vibe

Good morning coffee-loving friends!  It's another Sip-And-Share Sunday at the Coffee Loving Cardmakers blog and I'm back to share another card and sketch with you!  I'm really diggin' the set I used this week and I hope you enjoy it too!  

I'm in love with the images in the Hipster at Heart set from Hero Arts!  When I first saw this set, I knew I had to have it in my collection!  I love the coffee cup and the beans, but I REALLY love the hipster vibe the whole set provides.  I'm not a hipster by any way shape or form but I DO love the hipster vibe...cool, trendy and laid back!  

So let's take a look at the card I created using this fun set:  

So I thought this set was the perfect set to create a fun collage!  Just pile all those awesome images onto a card!  I couldn't just pick a few, so almost every single image is on the front!  LOL.  

To create the background, I applied a few swipes of PanPastels then brushed some Windsor and Newton Masking Fluid over the top. After the masking fluid dried, I added some more PanPastels over that to create more dimension and depth of color. I peeled the masking fluid off and rubbed the Pan Pastels with a cloth to allow for a softer bridge between the color and masked layer. To finish off the background, I splattered some Fun Stampers Journey Silver Silk and Bronze Silk.  

I stamped each image onto white cardstock using Black Onyx Versafine Ink then colored them up a little with some PanPastels. After coloring the images, I applied a bit of Journey Glaze to the Mason Jar glass, the gems and the camera lens.  

Yummy! Finally, I arranged the images into a collage "line" along the edge of the background paper then added a piece of polka-dot paper from my stash. To finish off the collage, I added some jute and a few scraps of graph paper. Adding a bit of gold washi (From Target) tape to the panel gave it some pop it was missing and helped to finish off the piece.  

I mounted this collage panel onto white cardstock then attached it to a gray card base. Once the card was finished and photographed, I set off to create the sketch.  

So, what do you think? Are you ready to give the sketch a try? Why not give it a go?! Please join the fun and create a card using this week's sketch. Make sure to hop over to my coffee lovers blog post HERE to link your creation! To make it easier for you to add your link, you can also link up right here on this post.  Just click on the inlinkz button below!!!  

 I'd love to see it! PS...If sharing your card on social media, please include #clcsipandshare for easy reference!  

I hope you enjoyed my card and sketch today. Join me next Sunday as I share another fun coffee-loving creation!  :)

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more puppy mail...

Mailing off another group of cards to some of Mason's friends.  I'm glad I spent some time going through my photo album so I could order some pictures through snapfish.com.  Love that I have a collection of small instagrams that are photo quality that I can scrap and journal with.  They make cute little card elements too!!!  Doesn't hurt that the edits I did through picmonkey.com also add to the "cute" factor.

This card was created using some of my favorite Tim Holtz stamps, some yummy graph paper and clear embossing powder.  I love the combination of kraft cardstock with graph/notebook paper!  

For this card I used some Hero Arts greeting stamps on the background and a little more of the plaid paper that was left over from another Mason card.  I love the contrast of the red and green grass in the photo.  Makes Mason just POP!

 Look closely at the corners and around the paper and it glistens in the light...Just like Mason's hair!  Used Brilliance Moonlight White to distress around the page.  The card isn't complete without some ribbon (even though it may cost more to mail).

See you again for more stampy creations!

Yummy Colors!

Yipee! I finished another Stamp Shack Challenge...This time I did it before the deadline! Boy, since the flu bug is everywhere but my house, I'm kooped up trying to find things to do other than planning and schoolwork. It's been nice, but I hope my family gets better soon!

Here's the photo that inspired the colors for this challenge:

Don't you just love the colors? Better yet, LOVE the whole bedding set. Hmmm...I'd better ask the challenge host where I can purchase that bedding set! Anyway, I tried to pull all the colors from the photo as well as mimic the fillagree design on the comforter. My TAC set I don't use much worked perfectly for this card.

So, I'll be back later with another challenge creation: My SHACK Survivor card. I bet I'll be voted off quickly, but I had an idea and wanted to go with it...

Kerry