Tea in the Garden -- Summer with the Coffee Loving Cardmakers

Have you been hopping with the Coffee Loving Cardmakers? Just love all the Coffee/Tea/Cocoa projects, so many unique designs! This is my second card for this season's Coffee Loving Cardmakers blog hop.

I made a Card-in-a-Box using Lawn Fawn's Scalloped Box Card Pop-Up die set, featuring teapot & cup dies from Elizabeth Craft Designs. 

Inspiration/Challenges:
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Anything Goes
Spring 2017 Coffee Lovers Blog Hop: Coffee/tea/cocoa + Summer

Thank you for visiting! Have a very perky season,

...And a natural preservative!

We have a couple of wedding anniversaries in the family this week, so I made these simple cards featuring salt & pepper packets. This week's sketch challenge at Less Is More gave a place to start with the design, and I was also inspired by the fact that the salt & pepper packets that I used on the solid color card worked so well with this week's CAS-ual Fridays color challenge (Coral, Aqua, Gray).

I made a mask layer from white cardstock using a curved edge die, stamped the circle border from CAS-ual Fridays Stamps (using gray ink on the white & black ink on the coral), and heat-embossed it with a mix of chucky clear powder & glow-in-the-dark glitter. For the white card, I added a bit more clear chunky embossing powder to create a splash effect. I created the sentiment "Love is the Spice of Life" using the fonts Dimestore Hooker & Apple Chancery. The banner was handmade using a simple yet fun technique from s.e.i/Scor-Pal. The pepper packets on the white card and inked with VersaMark & QuickQuotes inks.

Inspiration/Challenges:
CAS-ual Fridays: Coral, Aqua, Gray
Less Is More #334: CAS + Sketch 20

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Miss You a Latte! -- Summer with the Coffee Loving Cardmakers

Happy Summer! A new season means a new Blog Hop with the Coffee Loving Cardmakers, and I always enjoy playing along. This time, I used the Hanging Charm Pull Tab die set from Karen Burniston/Elizabeth Craft Designs. It's in the mail to my folks right now!

The double-sided patterned paper is from BoBunny. The frame & coffee sleeve are cut from an actual cardboard coffee sleeve. The coffee cup is cut from shiny yellow, glitter yellow, and shiny green cardstocks. The sentiment & coffee bean stamps are from Stampin' Up. I added some dimension & detail with gold & red ViVa Pearl Pens. Because this card is sort of meant to lie flat, I put a message section directly on the back. Shows off that yummy paper too!


Inspiration/Challenges:
International Art & Soul Challenge: Flowers
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Use Patterned Paper
Spring 2017 Coffee Lovers Blog Hop: Coffee/tea/cocoa + Summer

Thank you for visiting! Have a very perky summer,

Flowers at International Art & Soul

Our theme this fortnight at the International Art & Soul Challenge is Flowers.

I created the shaker on the front with a plastic bag & my Fuse tool, and filled it with flower sequins from Paper Sweeties. The pieces were embossed/cut with a folder/die from Design Objectives Ltd. For the front, I used a black/red Core'Dinations cardstock, and sanded the raised parts to reveal the red. For the inside, I embossed a red paper & lightly inked the embossed portions with black ink. I heat-embossed the sentiment (a rubber stamp from the Artful Stamper) in white.

Inspiration/Challenges:
Creative Craft Cottage Challenges: No patterned paper
Daisy Chain Challenge #9: Monochrome
International Art & Soul Challenge: Flowers
Nordsalten Hobbyklubb #158: Embossing

Thank you for visiting! Hope you'll join us at International Art & Soul,

Cool Dad - To the Men in our Lives with the UnstampaBelles

The UnstampaBelles June challenge is To the Men in our Lives with the optional twist of Add an Animal. You can make whatever you like without using any stamps.

I made a tuxedo box card using instructions by Keren Howell, but I made mine smaller at 4 x 5.5 inches. The base & pop-up strips are patterned vellums. The penguins were cut from a patterned paper with a Cuttlebug die. My dad & I have a running joke about what "cool" means, so I created the sentiment & cut it out with a cloud die from Impression Obsession. I inked the cloud with a little Antique Linen distress ink. I used white paper to create message sections on the back.

Be sure to check out the fabulous projects by my teammates and hope you'll join the UnstampaBelles this month!

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