Winter Coffee Lover's Blog Hop!!

Good day and it's Friday!!  Welcome to the 2016 Winter Coffee Lover's Blog Hop!!  If you want to know more about this fun hop and how you can participate, click on the link and read all about it.  It is a fun way to craft it up with other coffee/tea/hot chocolate lovers.....wahoo!!

We are in Florida for the winter but I did bring a few stamps with me along with my copic markers and some paints - so I can get my craft on - so to speak - when I'm not on the golf course or BASKING in the sunshine (sorry snowy weather people)

I brought my Reverse Confetti "Coffee and You" stamp set purposely for the Winter Coffee Lovers  Blog Hop.  I knew it would be a perfect set.

I staged my sweet elephant out in the snow with his little mice friends and some extra coffee.  I tucked the little coffee cups into the snow bank - made by die-cutting the round edge from Reverse Confetti Edgers Confetti Cuts - and topped one of the cups with a cute mouse.

I added the Reverse Confetti Snowflake Trio Confetti Cuts along the "sky" and added sequins for sparkle.  The sentiment is also from the Coffee and You stamp set.

Simons Says Stamp's Wednesday Challenge is all about Ice this week - so I am entering my creation into their challenge as well!

You're Cherry Sweet - except for Google

Good day - cripes, I was almost locked out of my blog.....gotta love google.

The current sketch at Reverse Confetti and the beautiful colours at Color Throwdown were my focus today for my card - sketches and colours - thank you for making this card an easy one!

I stamped and diecut using the cute stamp set from Reverse Confetti - In a Jam - along with the matching Confetti Cuts.

Using the sketch and colours I assembled my card and stamped the sentiment along the bottom - that is from Fancy Word Coordinates.

Short post today - Google has me frazzled!

Thank you for visiting today - I'm off to clean up the yard so we can head south in a couple of weeks - dang winter is coming yikes!

hello - again

I make a lot of "hello" cards - not sure why - I could just as easily substitute Happy Birthday or Love You or Sweet Baby - but "hello" just includes everyone! (Now I just have to start sending those to someone hah!)

I received some Reverse Confetti stamps and oh my, that stamp set Bear Hugs with the sweet little koala bear is the best ever!  I was also able to purchase a few other items - certainly couldn't help that I bought the Bitty Banners and Edge Essentials - now could I?!

I used all three of those products on my card along with Sun 'n Clouds Confetti Cuts and So Very Spring Quick Card Panels - a perfect background to my little bear and his companion.

I copic coloured and die cut the little bears and popped them up onto the Quick Card panel - easy peasy!

Today is a "do something, do anything - maybe laundry, maybe golf " day - so I am off to find something fun or even semi-fun to do!

Spring Coffee Lovers Blog Hop!

Good Morning and it's a Coffee Morning - yay!  It's time for the Spring Coffee Lovers Blog Hop  and I just love it!!

There are so many fabulous sponsors that you just have to enter your creation for a chance at these lovely prizes!

……and there is coffee - I mean come on…..

I used several Reverse Confetti stamp sets for my creation - choosing to create my own background paper with stamps and ink, and then die cutting for my coffee cups.

I inked up Rose Garden first in several different colours and stamped the large and small roses in lines.  I filled in the empty spaces with other various parts of that stamp set, along with the smaller butterflies from Butterfly Dreams.

I didn't worry about overlapping the stamps since I was die-cutting anyway.

Using Caffeinated Cups, I stamped and die cut the coffee cups from my patterned paper and adhered them to a water coloured background.

The sentiment from A Friend Like You, was stamped with Versafine Onyx Black ink - sort of a testimonial…haha.

I finished it up with a few Pretty Pink Posh sequins and Papertrey Ink twine.

The Spring Coffee Lovers Blog Hop is going on until March 22 - so you have lots of time to create, create, CREATE!!

Wishing You a Beautiful Day!

Good morning!  The Curtain Call Challenge is up and running - this week it is all about rainbows!

I decided to change it up a bit and not make a traditional rainbow, so I water coloured a few roses in rainbow-y colours using the no line technique.  Holy man - it is not the easiest thing to do, but I am going to post the results regardless.  It's all about sharing right?

I began by stamping the roses from Reverse Confetti Rose Garden in a rainbow palette and then water coloured them with my new Kuretake watercolors - These are the brightest and most gorgeous colours ever!

I die cut my water-colour panel with the Confetti Cut Edgers  and then layered it up onto a navy blue and white striped patterned paper and then adhered it to a Raspberry Fizz card base.

I added some Pretty Pink Posh sequins and twine to finish it off - perhaps the no line technique will get easier for me - but so far - ugh - not happening Lol!

For the Love of Latte

Hey everyone - there is a NEW challenge up and running now - started by the lovely Lesley Croghan!

It is called Inspired by All the Little Things - which began in between posts on Lesley's blog but she has fabulously decided to make it a weekly challenge in it's own right!

So here is the beautiful inspiration photo

And my take on the challenge is rather simple but sweet  - I decided to let the mugs stand out on their own - choosing to stamp and stack them up for interest!   (Oh my- a butterfly would have been perfect - dang it)

My cute latte's are from Reverse Confetti - Caffeinated Cups stamp set and Confetti cuts, and the sentiment is from For The Love of Latte - another Reverse Confetti stamp set - Love them both!!

I stamped the mugs with Altenew's Frosted Pink ink and Papertrey Ink's Mint Julep ink.

The corners are rounded to match the rounded mugs - I'm so smart - hah!

That's it for me today - thanks for visiting!!

be kind

Hello!

I recently received the lovely set Concord & 9th's Sophisticated Script - honestly -it is crazily the prettiest font set ever!

I used this week's Case This Sketch for my sketch - easy and quick.

I stamped the letters to say "be kind" - always a great thought - onto my white cardstock panel and then die cut it with one of the Reverse Confetti's Edgers Confetti Cuts.

I adhered that to a piece of Papertrey Ink's Black & White All Over Patterned Paper.

Using Reverse Confetti's Garden Bunch stamps and Confetti Cuts, I stamped the flowers with Hibiscus Burst and Raspberry Fizz and adhered them to the panel.

I adhered my finished panel to my Hibiscus Burst card base and I was done.  I didn't add sequins or baubles because I just love it as it is!

Have fun with this sketch - only a couple of days to go!

Faith Can Move Mountains

Oh my goodness - February and March are the busiest months in the park - we are gearing up for the annual Golf Tournament, and I am in the middle of my match play series.  We are having a blast.  Ron's brother and his wife are coming for a few days as well, so we are really looking forward to showing them around!

This week's challenge - on The Challenge - has a great colour theme...still Valentine-y and I'm not quite ready to let that go!

…and...I am absolutely in love with Reverse Confetti's newest release, so I am getting inky with it….

The Lord's Strength is a beautiful faith based set that is perfect for Bible journalling or card making.  I have yet to enter the journalling phase - but I love the "feel" and hope to become familiar with it some time in my future.

I stamped and die cut the beautiful three step flowers from Garden Bunch - I only used two steps - purely your choice.  My inks were Hibiscus Burst and Pure Poppy - both from Papertrey Ink.

I designed my card around the "faith" sentiment, using the flowers as a border and adding a few die cut Layered Laurels Confetti Cuts.

I stamped the sentiment onto a die cut from Love Note, and then cut a second one in red and offset the sentiment onto the red to form a slight border.

The cute little scalloped frame is Mama Elephant's Madison Avenue Framed Tags, cut from Papertrey Ink Gold Luxe Foil Patterned Paper.

I finished my creation with some black and white twine and little black baubles….

Thank you for visiting and have a great day!

Happy Birthday!

I have a grandson turning three in a couple of weeks, and since I am in Florida and he is in Ontario….I thought I better get creating!

I am so new to watercoloring (….and very late to join the band) but I did decide to give it a try-- so I signed up for the Watercolor for Cardmakers class, and I am actually learning a few things Lol!

I gave these sweet little Reverse Confetti monkeys a chance - Monkey Business stamps and Confetti Cuts.

I stamped the images with Versafine Black - an ink that is a beautiful black and perfect for watercoloring as the ink does not bleed.- See? I am learning……

I water coloured using my Zig markers….a little bit of a learning curve for me, but they didn't turn out too bad.

Thanks for joining me today and bearing with me on my water-colour journey haha!

Color Throwdown and DTGD Combo!

Good day and hello!

Another day and another Dare to Get Dirty Challenge - of course I can't tell you any of the details - but if you are a fan club member, you can find those challenges in the Dare to Get Dirty Forum on Splitcoaststampers - but it is a fun one for sure!

I CAN tell you that I have combined it with The Color Throwdown colours this week - gorgeous naturally!

I used Reverse Confetti stamps and Confetti Cuts - Love Blooms to be precise…..along with the "hello" Confetti Cuts !

I die cut and stamped some of the pretty flowers in Melon Berry ink and added some glitter to the flower centres.   The leaves are stamped in New Leaf - a gorgeous green!  I popped everything up onto a die cut piece of Papertrey Ink Damask Designs patterned paper .

I doubled up on the "hello" sentiment and tucked it in behind a few of the flowers.

Finally, I added a few little Your Next Stamp gumdrops - perfect!

You had me at Aloha!

I finally blogged - well yay me.

There is something about sitting down for more than 5 minutes (yes, I know) and writing up a blog post that has me stymied.  I can sit here for hours on Pinterest or Facebook or scouring through various stamp company sites - but BLOG?  Honestly blechhh...…..

However…..I really do like to do The Color Throwdown and this week - the colours were so pretty I couldn't not resist…so it is only fair to show you all my pretty production!…...and since I needed a starting point,  I combined it with this month's Sketch For You To Try from Reverse Confetti!

I brought out my Pineapples Aplenty stamp set and Confetti Cuts from Reverse Confetti and stamped away - using the unusual colour combo for my pineapples.

I stamped two of the pineapples with Dark Chocolate ink - and my MISTI (eeks!)…then I die cut them - look how even those pineapples are!!  The Confetti Cuts make it too easy - I even impress myself haha

The little flags at the top are die cut using the Stitched Flag Trio Confetti Cuts…I used a piece of the Quick Card Panels sheets for one of the flags and I just happened to have a piece yellow watercolored paper to use for the other flag.

I also used the Circle Garland Confetti Cuts for a bit more colour behind the pineapples……The little waves are from Doin' The Wave Confetti Cuts and I cut them with Dark Chocolate and Kraft card stock.

There is also a little square of pin dotted vellum behind the pineapples which - in real life- looks quite fine!

Thanks for visiting today and listening to my blog whining :)