Coffee Lovers Hop and RGStudio360

Hey there Coffee Loving Crafters!  It's Kerry here and what an adventure I had today!  While the Fall/Winter Coffee Lovers Blog Hop was in full swing, I spent the WHOLE DAY in the waiting room at the car dealership getting recall repairs and a yearly inspection (which turned into four new tires) done.  WOO!  My appointment was scheduled for 8 am and I was sure I'd be out of there by 11.  Sooo...I prepped a little bag of stamping supplies to keep me occupied and was content to sit, sip their coffee and stamp/color/cut the three hours away!  

Well, 11 o'clock came and went and my car was still being worked on.  That was fine because I really needed to get things taken care of.  My steering wheel was sounding and feeling like it was going to fall off (they said it wouldn't) and I have been paranoid for months!  My state inspection expired yesterday so that was a must do today as well!  Anyway...I sat there stamping and watercoloring the day away. I also listened to my ISU Cyclones play their last football game (they beat Drake) before tomorrow's Bowl Game selection process.  

I was alone on a leather couch for the whole day so I was able to spread out and play.  I brought some yummy watercolors, several new coffee stamp sets from SUPER SPONSOR RGStudio360 and a little spritzer of water. 

To start things off, I pulled out the cute little kawaii set called Planner Essentials.  I love the variety of images and I imagined them hanging from a Christmas tree...Soo...I inked up several images and colored them in with the watercolored pencils. 

I used a really nice/sturdy fine art magazine that was on the coffee table as my stamping pad and then added watercolors lightly to the cups.  I decided to wait on coloring the other images.  After coloring the images, I fussy cut them and placed them in the stamp bag for safekeeping.  

At approximately 5:30, YEP, 5:30, they were finally done with my car.  After a bit of retail therapy and some dinner and a stop at Starbucks to try their new (yucky) drink, I headed home and started working on the design that I had envisioned.  I stamped the leafy swag from Boho Critters onto the top of a piece of Powdered Sugar cardstock.   After stamping, I doodled some ornament strings with a  black Staedtler Pigment pen and a straight edge then colored the leaves with Copics.  I added a bit of outlining over some of the leaves and added a few dots here and there to tie in the doodled string.  

I mounted the stamped panel onto Rich Cactus cardstock...a perfectly perfect green THICK cardstock.  After mounting the stamped panel, I added some glaze and microfine glitter and set the card to dry.  No ribbon or twine this time as the "ornaments" had their own "ribbon".  :)

Alrighty, now I'm off to check out more of the hop participants...Happy hopping and I'll see you tomorrow with another fun Sunday Sip!