Coffee Gnomes

Good morning and welcome to my blog!

Today I am up on the Coffee Loving Cardmaker's blog and I have some holiday themed 

caffeinated inspiration to share with you in my ICU!

Today in the "Intensive Coffee Unit" I have a pair of tags with some 

Coffee Drinking Gnomes!

This Simon Says Stamp Gnome Wafer Die is just too cute and I know the second

I put that cute little gnome together he/she needed a coffee cup to go with!

The Karen Burniston Coffee Charms Dies were the perfect size to pair with this

gnome die cut and I distressed them with some Gathered Twigs Distress Oxide Ink.

I started out with some Simon Says Stamp Stitched Dress Up Tags and die cut 

them from some Neenah Desert Storm Cardstock.

To give these tags a fun background I used the Echo Park Shine on Stars Stencil

and taped it down to the tag with some Therm O Web Purple Tape.

Next I sponged over the stencil with some Tumbled Glass Distress Oxide Ink on

one tag and Picket Fence Distress Oxide Ink on the other.

While the stencil was still in place over the tags I also layered on some 

Gina K Glitz Glitter Gel to add some holiday sparkle!

For the sentiments on my tags I used stamps and dies from the

Simon Says Stamp Clean Line Christmas Stamps and Dies.

I used vellum to stamp on so that the background would show through.

I love how the dies cut out the exact shapes of the sentiments, it such a clean look.

I will be entering my tags in the 25 Days of Christmas Tags put on
by Tracey McNeely each year.
I was inspired by Becca Yahrling's tag this year.
I love how she made a white patterned background on her kraft tag,
so I recreated that look on my tags here today.
Have a look, so cute!

Thanks so much for stopping by today,  if you have any questions

about my tags, feel free to leave a comment below.

Have a great day, I already am!

☕️🧙🏻‍♂️Lisa 🧙🏻‍♂️☕️

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Get Creative Challenge - #77

Hi everyone!  I'm back today with another project for

Get Creative Challenges!
This is the first challenge in 2019 for the Get Creative blog
and for the new year Angie has created new badges for her challenges.
Here is the fun new badge for the this challenge!

Don't you just love the fun patterns and the great colors!
I'm a big kraft color fan!

The challenge for February for the pink team is Anything Goes 

with an optional twist to use lots of red and goes from 2/4 - 2/28. 
Thank you to the Etsy shop Charlies Stamps for sponsoring the challenge this month! 
They have some adorable digital art, make sure to check them out!
I had the pleasure of working with the adorable Cat with balloons!

I colored my cute kitty with my Copic markers to match my own little

kitty! Her name is Ginger and she's such a love!

I colored the balloons in a rainbow of colors with my Copics as well.

I thought that cute cat would look good in a sea of balloons

so I used a balloon stencil by Echo Park and some white ink for the 

background on kraft paper. In keeping with the theme of using

lots of red, I chose a red card base.  It really makes the card pop!

My Happy Birthday sentiment is from an older Close To My Heart stamp set.

I love how this card came out, it's so colorful and fun!

Check out what the other DT members have created for you this month!

I hope you'll join us and play along, 

Have a great day everyone! 

I already am!

😺Lisa 🎈