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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National Coffee Day: Super Sponsor Pink and Main!

Hello there coffee-loving crafters!  WOO HOO!  Today's the day!  National Coffee Day is here and I've got several projects to share with you.  I like to keep manufacturers separate (just one of my quirks) so check out my other posts today to get your coffee fix!  

For this post, I'm featuring some fun new crafty goodies I purchased from Pink and Main.  They have several inky coffee sets and of course I had to jump on the "PUMPKIN SPICE" set.  I paired it up with the fun "FOUR POINT STAR" stencil.  

I started out by using my blending brush to create a fun lime green background.  I then used my Misti to stamp the images with black ink and then fussy cut/colored them.  I used the following Copic colors to make the images come to life:  YR16, YR18, YR24, YR61, Y23, YG 25, V04, V12, E50

To finish off my card, added the sentiment and then tied some orange satin ribbon around the card.  Finally, I attached a green button with some Hemptique twine.

I also created a cute little matching tag with some of the additional pumpkin spice images in this set.  NOM NOM NOM!

 A closer peek will show the colors and the yummy detail of these fun images!

Thanks for hopping over to my blog!  I hope you're hopping along with all the Super Sponsors!  Make sure to leave comments on the CLC Blog, and all the super sponsor blogs that are participating in today's hop!  You'll have until Sunday, Oct. 6th @11:59 Pacific time to leave comments for a chance to win a coffee-crafty prize!