Peace Love Coffee

 

Good morning Coffee Lovers! I'm up on the Coffee Loving Carmaker's blog today and I have an easy peasy caffeinated creation to share with you!

As card makers do you ever get stuck on a technique and find yourself doing it on every card or every other card? It's like a rut that you just can't get out of because you love it so much? Well my technique is ink blending rainbow colored backgrounds and then stenciling over them with a bold pattern. Today's card is exactly that and I love how it turned out.

For my background I blended 4 colors of Distress Oxide Inks in:
Kitsch Flamingo, Squeezed Lemonade, Cracked Pistachio and Broken China.
Once that panel was all blended I took the coffee stencil from Sugar Pea Designs and used brown ink to stencil on the coffee beans and cute hearts.

For my main panel I wanted to keep it small and simple. I cut out a piece of white card stock using the A2 Diagonal Stitched Layered Card Topper from LDRS Creative and stamped my 3 images and sentiment.

The peace sign and heart are from an older Lil’ Inker stamp set and the coffee cup is from the La La Land Take it Sloth stamp set. Since I needed small letters I searched my stash for the perfect alphabet and came up with an older Stampin Up set called Rough Type. I just love the vintage typewriter feel of this set.

I'm loving this technique for quick and easy backgrounds that just make me smile! I don't think I'll be giving it up anytime soon!

Thanks so much for joining me today on the blog! I hope you have an amazing Tuesday and don't forget to get yourself some PEACE, LOVE and COFFEE!

Have a great day, I already am!

Lisa

Coffee Date with a Sloth

Hello Coffee Lovers!

It's my day on the Coffee Loving Cardmakers blog and we are in my

 *ICU, so grab a cup of "SLOFFEE" and 

I'll share my card with you.

It seems that sloths are all the rage these days and I can see why!

They really are adorable and I'm thinking they probably need coffee more than 

anyone! Although if they truly did drink coffee they probably wouldn't move so slow.

Anyway, here is my card for today.

• I started with a piece of Bristol Smooth card stock and die cut it with the largest die from the Kat Scrappiness Distressed Edge Rectangle dies. To me that edge gives it a sort of jungle look.
• Next I used Antique Linen and Twisted Citron distress inks to do some ink blending on the die cut panel. I stamped my leaves from the Hello Bluebird - Jungle Littles on the panel and adhered it to a brown A2 card base.
• The Star Frame die from Avery Elle was the perfect anchor for my coffee drinking sloth.
• I colored the sloth from the La La Land - Take it Sloth stamp set with my Copic markers and used my Scan n Cut to cut him out. 
• For a few pretty finishing touches I adhered some Kat Scrappiness Brown Jewels around the card.

Thanks for joining me today in my ICU! If you're feeling like this sloth

grab a cup of coffee and get into your craft room! That always makes me feel better!

Have a great day, I already am!

☕️Lisa ☕️

Spa Day

I haven't played along with the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday 

challenge in a while but this week the theme is Animal Antics!

How Fun!

I recently bought some ADORABLE La La Land stamps.

There is a set called Relax and Unwind and it has some of the

cutest hippos and chickies in towels and bathrobes that I went crazy for!

I also fell in love with their cute candle and curtain dies!

I decided to make a very girly shaker card for this challenge.

I just love shaker cards with sparkly pink sequins and beads!

Thanks for stopping by today, I am in love with this super cute

card not to mention that adorable hippo in a towel!

Have a great day!

I already am!

🌸Lisa 🌸