National Cocoa Day! Coffee Loving Cardmakers!

Hey there Coffee Loving crafty peeps!  I'm up on the Coffee Loving Cardmakers blog with another fun Sunday Sip!  This Sunday, we're celebrating National Hot Cocoa Day and we invite you to join the fun too!  Some of my teamies are joining in the fun too so I can't wait to see what they have to share!  

I'm sharing a fun and festive crafty project that includes some special hot chocolate gifts for the coffee/cocoa loving friends in our lives.  I went shopping this weekend and found this adorable little hot chocolate mix (and milk container) at Tuesday Morning and I just had to try it.  Sillycow Farms has great products so I knew I would be happy!  I also picked up these adorable little Christmas ornament mugs at JoAnn's and thought they would be perfect shot glasses for the hot chocolate and the chocolate pops I was going to make.  They'd also make some sweet little props in my cardmaking adventure.  

To stamp my card, I sed a precut element and stamped the pine bough and the sweet sentiment onto it with black VersaColor ink.  I then stamped the mug (sweet and mug are from Uniquely Creative stamps of Austraila) and colored the mug to match the yummy plaid from an old pad of Christmas PhotoPlay paper I've been hoarding.  

I added a little red button and some black seam binding before popping the stamped element onto the page.  This is no ordinary "card"... It's an envelope and the front of the envelope holds the design.  I will tuck a nice handwritten note in the envelope before passing it on to the recipient. 

I paired this project up with some yummy Chocolate Star pops that can be used as stirrers in the hot chocolate.  I also mixed up a batch of Instant Coffee/Ovaltine and placed it into the fun little jar with some marshmallows, sprinkles and a tiny candy heart.  

Since Chocolate Bombs are all the rage, I wanted to do something a bit different so I melted some semi-sweet chocolate chips in some star molds, added some sprinkles and a marshmallow and added a little paper straw handle.  It's the perfect size for a little treat stirrer.  

Isn't that mug the sweetest?  I love it and can't wait to share one with my coffee loving friend. 

A little heart'll make anyone melt, right?

These little chocolate stars would also work as Dreidels for Hannukah!  They have a pointy bottom and the stick will allow you to spin it around!  SO FUN!  

Thanks for hopping over to check out my projects!  I hope they inspire you to create something DEEELISH!  Have a great day!  

Coffee Loving Cardmakers meets Not 2 Shabby!

 Hello there inky friends!  Today I'm joining some of my fellow Coffee Loving Cardmaker designers and the designers of Not 2 Shabby as we collaborate with some fun YUMMY Coffee/Cocoa digis available exclusively through Not 2 Shabby!  These digis are fun AND inexpensive and I guarantee you'll have an awesome time playing with them!

For this collab, I selected two different delish images to create some yummy cards.  I chose "Pumpkin Spice Everything" a fun fall themed coffee image with a great sentiment! "Warm Wishes", a yummy little hot cocoa mug with two sweet marshmallow's relaxing and a nice cozy sentiment!

Since these images are digital, I had the freedom to reverse the image to make the pumpkin appear on the left.  I also took the sentiment and repeated it over and over again so that I could use it as a background.  I saw a really pretty aqua/teal pumpkin in real life this year and just fell in love so I decided to create my pumpkin with this non-traditional but very festive color.  I used my Copics to give the perfect color to the images.  I also added a bit of white gel pen here and there for highlights.

 For my second card, I kept the image a bit small so that I could use some fun Bo Bunny winter paper (retired and from my stash).  The image comes with the sentiment on the mug but I opted to remove it so that I could decorate the mug with fun little designs after coloring.  I did move the sentiment so that I could use it separately.  That's another thing I love about digis!

 Adding some snowflakes, some diecuts and some bling/ribbon and this card is ready for mailing!

Thanks for hopping over to check out my card!  I hope you enjoy the rest of the hop collab.  Thanks so much to Not 2 Shabby for allowing us the opportunity to play with the pumpkin spice images.  I'm happy I was able to purchase the Warm Wishes set.  SUCH A STEAL OF A DEAL!  

Make sure you leave a comment on each blog in the collab for a chance to win a gift certificate (2 are being offered) to go shopping at N2S! Their shop is stocked full of goodies!

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