Warm Fuzzies

 

Hello again Coffee Lovers! It's my day on the Coffee Loving Cardmaker's blog again and today I have an adorable little teddy bear to share with you! He's peeking out from behind his coffee cup sending warm fuzzies!

I don't know about you but sometimes I just want to make a quick and easy card and I just love digital stamps for that very reason! Kadoodle Bug Designs has some of the most adorable clipart you could want. This adorable bear is available in the I need coffee first bundle and it also comes with a few other cute images. I also dressed my card up with some brand new pearls from Kat Scrappiness. Those blue pearls are from the Carolina Blue Pearl Mix and they have the prettiest pearlescent shine!

I also used the Stitched Rectangle dies from Kat Scrappiness to cut out my image after I printed it.

For the sentiment on my card I used the stamp set Warm Fuzzies from Gerda Steiner.

Here is one more pic showing all the supplies used on my card.

Thanks so much for stopping by today!

Have a great day, I already am!

🐻 Lisa  ☕️ 

Avocado Sushi Birthday Shaker

I'm excited to share a shaker card with you today that I made for my post on the Kat Scrappiness blog! I used quite a few products from the Kat Scrappiness store to make this fun card.

Here's the details:

To start my card I colored the cute images from the You Guac My World Stamp Set and the

Wok On Stamp Set.  I decided to use one image from each set for my card. The next step was to cut the front panel of the card using the Stitched Scalloped Collage Frame Die which served as the perfect shaker window.  It's great because it makes 3 windows that you can put different shaker bits in. I backed that frame with a piece of acetate from the A2 Acetate Sheets and then built the back of it up with foam tape.

Now it was time to prepare the base of the card. I used the Stitched Scalloped Rectangle Dies and I cut out a piece of pink polka dot paper for my background.  Before I adhered that panel to the base of my A2 sized card I stamped 2 sentiments in black ink from the You Guac My World and

Wok On Stamp Sets in the space that will be the largest window opening.  I embossed it with clear embossing powder to give it a shiny appearance.

Now the fun part! Adding the sprinkles to the card! The technique that I use is to put my sprinkles on the base of the card and place the frame with the foam tape over those sprinkles. This way I can see the sprinkles and the base of the card and I can place the window down in the exact center of that base panel. 

I chose 3 different embellishments for my shaker windows. I used the Avocado Sprinkles and the Sushi Sprinkles for the two smaller windows and I used the 3mm Mirrored Clear Solid Stars for the largest window with the sentiment. The last thing to do was adhere the two little avocado and sushi images to the front of the card. Here's a closeup of those fun sprinkles:

This was a fun card to make and it always amazes me how many products you can use on one card.  Kat Scrappiness has so many awesome stamps dies and embellishments in the store, you can find EVERYTHING you need and so much more!

Here is one more look at my card with all the supplies shown:

Take a look at this card in action, it's so much fun to watch in slow motion!

I just love watching them shake in slow motion!

Thank you so much for joining me today, I'm so glad you stopped by to check out my latest card and I hope you'll check out all the fun shaker bits in the store and make your own card. 

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Have a great day, I already am!

🥑 Lisa  🍣

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Miss You A Latte

Hello and welcome to my blog!

Twice a month on Tuesdays I welcome you into my ICU where I share my caffeinated projects for the Coffee Loving Cardmakers.  You see here on my blog, ICU is actually short for the "Intensive Coffee Unit" so it's an ICU that someone just might want to hang out in!

Today I have a special treat to share with you.

I used a digital image from a company called The Paper Nest Dolls for my card.

  The Paper Nest Dolls  is an online stamp shop that carries the most adorable doll stamps that are hand drawn by the owner of the shop. She fashions the dolls after her children and they are super sweet. The image that I used is actually a digital image and those images can be found here → Paper Nest Dolls Digital Images.

The image I chose to used for today's card is called Avery with Coffee (without glasses).

Here she is printed out before and after I colored her up with my Copic markers.

Digital images are a lot of fun to use because you can print them out in any size you want. I print the images out with my laster printer so I can use my Copic markers to color them and the ink won't smear.

I just fell in love with this adorable little girl and all her curls.

I decided to use one of my favorite Coffee dies from Kat Scrappiness called the Layered Coffee Cup die to anchor my cute little doll on my card.  I wanted my coffee cup to have a matching heart on it like on Avery's cup so I used a small stitched heart from the Flip Flop die set from My Creative Time.

I cut it out using Berry Sorbet card stock from Papertrey Ink. The notebook paper under the coffee cup is from a patterned paper pack called Pencil Me In also from Papertrey Ink. I'm currently obsessed with that paper pack! The stitched edging around the patterned paper is from the Stitched Rectangle Dies from Kat Scrappiness, I cut the kraft paper with that die as well.

I got my sentiment from an older MFT stamp set called a la modes Miss You a Latte and I stamped it in Berry Sorbet ink to match the stitched heart on the coffee cup.

As with all my cards I always feel the need to add a few embellishments for some extra interest so I made a small bow with some Lawn Fawn Aquamarine twine using the Bow Easy.

I saw a video the other day where someone made a bow using the Bow Easy and they made it look so easy!  I knew I just had to have one! Lucky for me the Stamp Simply Ribbon store had one in stock. It's an older item and I wasn't sure if I'd be able to find it.

What card would be complete without 3 cute little Teal Jewels from Kat Scrappiness. Seriously those jewels are some of my favorite embellishments!

Here's one more look at my card with all of the great products I used to make it!

It never fails to amaze me how many products can go into one card! I loved making this card!

Thanks for joining me today in my ICU!

Have a great day, I already am!

☕️ Lisa ☕️

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links whenever possible at no 

additional cost to you. I only 

promote products I actually 

use and love and think other 

crafters might enjoy as well.

Happy Mail

WHO DOESN'T LOVE HAPPY MAIL?!

I KNOW I DO!

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If you landed on my blog today, you probably enjoy papercrafts or cardmaking and  

I have a fun card to share with you today! 

It's my turn on the Kat Scrappiness blog today and I've created a fun shaker card that was inspired by 

a new embellishment in the Kat Scrappiness online craft store!

Take a look at these adorable little Happy Mail Sprinkles!

From the minute I got my hands on these little cuties I knew I wanted to make a card that had a mailbox on it with a shaker window for these little envelopes and here it is!

I just love how this card came out and it was super easy to create!

Since I don't own a specific mailbox die I figured out a way to make my own mailbox and I'm going to show you how I did it today!

For my mailbox I started with the Pretty Pink Posh Stitched Duo 3 Tag Die. The top part of it is shaped like the top of a mailbox so I took the smallest die in the Kat Scrappiness Double Stitched Square Dies and cut out a notch in the bottom of the tag die.

The remaining shape looked just like a mailbox. 

I then took the smallest die from the Double Stitched Square Dies again and cut a window out of the lower part of the tag so I could create a shaker window. 

Once I had the window cut out I took a sheet of Kat Scrappiness A2 Acetate Sheets  and cut out a small enough piece to cover the back side of that small square window. 

To make the half circle on top of the mailbox I used the smallest die from the Double Stitched Circle Dies and cut it in half creating a half circle where I could stamp my sentiment from the Simon Says Stamp Envelops Sentiments Stamp Set. I added one envelope and one heart from the Happy Mail Sprinkles and the Red Heart Sprinkles on either side of the sentiment. 

Here is a picture collage tutorial step by step of how I created the mailbox with the shaker window and half circle for my sentiment.

I used foam tape to build up the area around the window so it would hold my shaker bits.

The next step was to prepare the base of my card to adhere the shaker mailbox to.  The Stitched Postage Stamp Edge Rectangle Nesting Dies are the perfect dies to create fun background panels for your cards.  I used the largest die from that set, cut out some white cardstock and did some fun stenciling using the Taylored Expressions Puppy Love stencil! I just love how the cute little red hearts looked all over the background.

Once the background was ready I tied some red and white twine around the top and adhered it to a blue card base to match my mailbox.

Next I sprinkled some of the Happy Mail Sprinkles and the Red Heart Sprinkles into the middle of the stenciled panel. I then removed the backing from all the foam tape behind the mailbox and centered the window over the cute sprinkles. I actually angled the mailbox just because I thought it gave it a fun random look.

I loved the little envelopes SO much I added a bunch more of them around the card in between the stenciled hearts.

It was a lot of fun to make my own mailbox. Just because you don't have a specific die sometimes doesn't mean you can't shop your die collection and make something unique!

Thank you so much for joining me on my blog today! I hope you'll check out all of the great crafty products over at Kat Scrappiness! There are literally hundreds of embellishments to create the most unique and fun shaker cards like mine! There are sequins, sprinkles, jewels, coffee beans and so much more!

That's all for today, don't forget to follow 

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Have a great day, I already am!

💌  Lisa  💌