Coffee Loving Cardmakers Guest Designer

Hello again Coffee Loving friends!

I'm excited to be sharing my second and last 

guest designer post this month over on 

The Coffee Loving Cardmakers Blog!

A big thank you to Amy for having me!

I have enjoyed sharing my cards on their blog this month.

Today I have a card using one of my favorite coffee themed stamps.

It's called Love To Go from Unity Stamp Company.

I just love the whimsical style of this stamp, it really lends itself

to watercolors and that's exactly what I used.

• To begin with I die cut a panel of cream colored card stock with the largest die from the  Wonky Wavy Stitched Rectangle dies from Kat Scrappiness.  Then I ran it through my Vagabond with a script embossing folder and adhered it to a light teal card base.
• The next step was to stamp the coffee cup on to some watercolor paper and use Distress Inks to fill in the cup with a fine tip brush.
• Once the watercoloring was done, I used a smaller die from the Wonky Wavy Stitched Rectangle dies again to cut it out. Before I matted that panel on to the same color as the card base, I tied some twine around the bottom of it. I then adhered it on an angle to the card base.
• The last step was to die cut some cream card stock with the Stitched Flag dies from Kat Scrappiness and stamp my sentiment in dark brown ink. I matted that flag with a larger one in the same teal color as the card base. I popped it up on foam tape above the coffee cup and my card was done.

Thanks so much for joining me today!

Make sure to check out the Coffee Loving Cardmakers Blog

for your daily dose of caffeinated inspiration!

You can also find them on Facebook and Instagram!

Have a great day, I already am!

☕️Lisa ☕️

The Rabbit Hole Designs February Guest Designer

Hello and welcome back to my blog!

I am honored to be guest designing for The Rabbit Hole Designs 

for the month of February!

They are a brand new stamp company and they have some very

unique stamps that feature a line of over-caffeinated critters such as

a unicorn, a dinosaur, an octopus and the cat featured on my card today.

Make sure you check them out to see all of their fun stamp sets!

Ok, so if you have your morning cup of java or cocoa or whiskey

or (whatever gets you moving in the morning)... we'll get started!

The new stamps here at The Rabbit Hole are so much fun to create with!

For today's card I am featuring the Caffeinated Cat stamp.
I am LOVING that CRAZY hair and those adorable bunny slippers!

Shaker cards are one of my favorite types of card to make.

Here is the "How To" for my coffee loving feline card:

Card Recipe

• My first step was to stamp the cat in Gina K Amalgam ink and color her with my Zig and Copic markers.
• Next I cut out the stamped image with my Scan and Cut machine.  I love my machine but you could easily fussy cut this image out with scissors.
• The next thing I did was to stamp the caffeine molecule and #momlife stamp randomly on to some polka dot patterned paper for the background. The patterned paper was cut using the largest die from the Kat Scrappiness Wonky Wavy Stitched Rectangle Dies.
• For the top of the shaker I used the Kat Scrappiness Stitched Scalloped Collage Frame die and I adhered a piece of acetate to the back of it. I built the frame up with foam tape so my shaker guts would have room to move around.
• Now for the fun part! I chose a variety of coffee colored sequins from Kat Scrappiness to fill my card with and I made sure to add a splash of teal to match the coffee cup. The sequin mix consisted of Espresso mix, Caramel Latte mix and Teal Jewels. I placed the sequin mix down on the patterned paper in the spots where I knew the windows were in the collage frame and then I adhered the frame over the sequins.
• All that was left was to add my sentiment and cat to the front of the card.  I stamped the sentiment on to some brown card stock with white ink and embossed with WOW bright white embossing powder.  I cut the sentiment into 3 separate strips and popped them up on foam tape. Oh yeah...... kitty got popped up too!😂

Here are some close up pictures to see the details better:

I also have a video for you so you can see how I created

this Caffeinated Cat shaker card.

Please excuse the extreme closeup view in the video,

I have a new camera and I'm still figuring things out.

You can watch the video here or on YouTube.

Thanks so much for joining me today!

I really enjoyed sharing my card and video with you.

For more inspiration, updates, and news make sure to check out these links.

The Rabbit Hole Designs

The Rabbit Hole Designs Instagram

The Rabbit Hole Designs Facebook Page

The Rabbit Hole Designs Pinterest

The Rabbit Hole Designs YouTube

Have a great day, I already am!

😺Lisa😺

Mama Elephant GD Call

Playing with the Mama Elephant Potted Pretties tonight for the Mama Elephant Guest Designer Call.  I recently bought some Copic Express It paper and tried some Copic coloring. I love how it turned out!  The background is a Kat Scrappiness Diamond Wire Die, I liked it because I thought it looked like a trellis and the plants went well on it. 

Thanks for stopping by today!

🌵Lisa🌵

Paper Smooches Guest Designer Search

Good morning everyone.  I was browsing the internet last night and came across a guest designer search for Paper Smooches.  They are looking for a guest designer for the month of January.  I thought it would be fun to enter since I have so many fun Paper Smooches cards that I've made over time.  They have such fun quirky characters that make for some awesome cards!  Here are the cards I'm submitting:

Have a great day, I already am!

🤩Lisa🤩