A Cup of Joy

Welcome back to my blog and my "ICU"

Today I am over on The Coffee Loving Cardmaker's blog

with a Cup of Holiday Joy!

Here in Florida we don't really get the frigid cold that they experience

up North but we do get our share of "chilly" days and that's when

you see everyone in boots with a red Starbucks cup in hand!

My caffeinated inspiration for today's card comes from 

all of the festive to go coffee cups we see at this time of year.

Here is a picture of a to go coffee cup I saw at Target recently

and I wanted to recreate that same look on a card.

I began with a red card base and layered the 2 largest dies from the 

Gina Marie Loopy Rectangle Dies in white.

For my coffee cup I chose my favorite die,

the Kat Scrappiness Layered Coffee Cup Die and I cut it from red foil cardstock.

The lid was cut from some beautiful white glitter cardstock.

I find it easiest to apply the accents on the coffee cup lid with the

Xyron Sticker Maker. Since the lid was cut from glitter cardstock

I knew the sticker maker would really help to stick my pieces in place.

To decorate the front of the cup like the Target cup I used 

the gorgeous Simon Says Stamp Lea Snowflake Die cut from the same

glitter cardstock as the lid of the cup. I just love the shimmer from that paper!

Once I had the coffee cup all decorated it was time to add some festive

holly to the card.  I used the Kat Scrappiness Holly Leaves and Berry Dies

to add a pop of green to my card and I cut them out using foil cardstock

to match the cup. I just love these holly leaves and berry dies 

because they come in a variety of different sizes.

All that was left to do was to add a sentiment.

I knew it had to be small one because the cup and holly took up so much

room on the front of the card.

I found the perfect small circular die in my stash in the 

Spellbinders Hipster 1 Dies and I cut it out of red foil and heat embossed

a sentiment from the Hero Arts My Monthly Kit August 2018

in Brutus Monroe Alabaster Embossing Powder.

I really love how festive this card came out and I hope it brings

some early holiday joy into your day!

Have a wonderful day, I already am!

❄️Lisa ❄️

Winter Penguin and Charity Blog Hop

Good afternoon crafty friends!

I've taken it upon myself today to put you in the winter mood!

We don't have the traditional winter here in Florida so we have to 

create winter themed cards to put us in the mood!

Well today I have an arctic penguin to put you in the mood!

I made a winter themed shaker card to kick off the inspiration for a blog hop 

that is happening in December over at Kat Scrappiness!

The theme is winter and here is my cute little penguin to start off the momentum!

As some of you know Kat Scrappiness is holding a blog hop in December to benefit

a local charity called The Coffee Oasis. This charity helps the homeless 

and troubled youth in the Washington State area!

For those of you who don't know here is a link so 

you can read all about it and join in the fun for a good cause!

Kat Scrappiness blog hop and sale to benefit The Coffee Oasis

We are looking for crafters, bloggers and YouTubers to join us for this 

blog hop from December 7th through the 10th!

We have loads of great crafty companies sponsoring the hop

and we would love for you to join us as well!

I hope my winter penguin has put you in the mood to start creating some 

winter themed cards and maybe you'll join our blog hop and enter 

one of those cards for a good cause!

In the meantime I will list and link the products I used on my card below in case 

you want to do a little shopping at Kat Scrappiness now.

You can save 10% on your order if you use my code Lisa10

Thanks for stopping by today!

Have an awesome day, I already am!

🐧Lisa 🐧

Kat Scrappiness Products Used:

• Snowflake Kisses Die
• Stitched and Layered Snowman Die (scarf)
• Sugarplum Fairies Sequin Mix
• Blue Solid Star Confetti
• Wonky Wavy Stitched Rectangle Dies
• Broken China Distress Oxide Ink
• Wilted Violet Distress Oxide Ink

Additional Products Used:

• Gina Marie Penguin Die
• Whimsy Stamps Penguin Fun (penguin hat)

Pink Pumpkins

The Card Concept Challenge blog is celebrating their 100th challenge!

That is quite an accomplishment so Congrats are in order!

When I saw the inspiration photo I knew I had to play along!

One of my favorite color combinations is pink and gold and I love the shabby chic 

vintage style of design! Here is the gorgeous inspiration photo for this challenge.

I am in love with all the elements of this picture! I find white pumpkins to be so 

elegant and the pink and gold combination is so pretty together!

Here is the card I've created for this challenge based on this photo.

My style is shabby chic vintage.

I layered my pumpkins with a gold base then patterned paper and then a vellum top layer. I love the layered look and I decided to machine stitch them together with gold thread.  Vellum is so hard to adhere with adhesive and I love the handmade look of the machine stitching. I also gold heat embossed the sentiment and machine stitched the vellum tag down as well.

For a sparkly finishing touch I added some pink jewels.

All products linked below.

Thanks for stopping by!

Enjoy some crafty time today, I already have!

💖Lisa 💖

Products Used:

Background Die : Kat Scrappiness Stitched Scalloped Rectangle Dies

Jewels : Kat Scrappiness Pink Jewels

Embossing Powder : WOW Gold Embossing Powder 

Stamp Set (sentiment) : Paper Sweeties Happy Fall Y'all

Pumpkin Dies : Gina Marie Patterned Pumpkin die set

Patterned Paper : Papertrey Ink Bitty Big Sweet Blush Paper