You Warm My Heart

 

Good morning coffee lovers! It's Lisa here with you and today I'm taking a trip down memory lane thanks to a new app I just downloaded on my phone. It's called Color My Life and I'm using it to catalog all of my stamps and dies. One of the first stamp companies I discovered and fell in love with when I started card making was Papertrey Ink. Recently I was entering a stamp set into the app called Warm Happiness and I decided to use it for today's post. 

I really love the vintage shabby feel of this card! I started with the Tag Sale die and added the lace circle to it and then placed the coffee cup on foam tape to give it some dimension. I love the sweet pink heart above the cup.

 

The Mix and Mat Confetti die was the perfect backdrop for the tag. The pretty teal polka dot paper tied everything together and I added some sparkly Stickles to the heart and mat. All supplies from Papertrey Ink. It's so rare that I use one company for my whole card. Sounds like a fun challenge!

Thanks for stopping by today, I'm off to continue cataloging the rest of my stamps and dies and look for more caffeinated treasure!

Have a great day, I already am!

 ☕️ Lisa  ☕️

Hello Handsome!

 

Hello Friends! Today I'm up on the Coffee Loving Cardmaker's blog serving up some coffee goodness! I recently got the Simon Hurley Mosaic Florals Slimline Stencil and I'm in love! I used it for the background of my mini slimline card and it was so much fun to use!

 

The adorable little coffee cup is from the Coffee Cuties die set from Sugar Pea Designs. How cute is that little face with those pink cheeks and who can resist those little arms and legs!

I added a sentiment from the Penned Elegance 2 stamp set from Papertrey Ink and cut it out with the matching die.  I just love how this card came out!

Have a great day! I already am!
Lisa

 

Sprinkled with Happiness

 

This is my first post for 2021 for the Coffee Loving Cardmakers so Happy New Year and welcome to my blog! Today I have a fun card for you using my favorite color cardstock. I just love using kraft cardstock and today I did some fun stenciling with a large polka dot stencil!

Here is my caffeinated card for today:

For this card I used a slimline card base using Papertrey Ink Raspberry Fizz Cardstock cut to 8 1/2" x 7" and scored at 3 1/2". The next layer was cut using the largest die in the 

Kat Scrappiness Fancy Stitched Scalloped Slimline Dies out of Papertrey Ink Kraft Cardstock.

Now it was time to have fun with stencils. I used the Kraft Cardstock one more time to cut a smaller panel than the slimline one and I took the Trinity Stamps Lots of Dots Slimline Stencil and some Picked Raspberry Distress Oxide ink and blended some fun dots with my blender brush. It came out so perfect, it reminded me of patterned paper.

The cute coffee mug is from the MFT Stamps LLD Hot Cocoa Cups Die-Namics and the sweet little donut is from the My Creative Time We're Better Together set (now retired). I added some sparkly Stickles to the heart on the mug and the donut sprinkles.

The sentiment from the My Creative Time We're Better Together set was stamped onto a kraft panel cut using the smallest die from the Kat Scrappiness Stitched Rectangle Dies and popped up on foam tape over a piece of Raspberry Fizz card stock to match the card base.

For the finishing touch I added some beautiful Kat Scrappiness Sparkling Clear Jewels around my card for some pretty bling and shine!

I just love the color combination on this card and the cute little mug and donut! I hope you enjoyed my card today and I hope your day is Sprinkled with Happiness! 

May 2021 bring you lots of Happiness as well!

Have a great day, I already am!

☕️  Lisa  🍩

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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Happy 10 Year Blogaversary To Oh So Cute By Lisa!

Happy 10 years to my little old bloggity blog!

Oh So Cute By Lisa turns 10 today!

It's hard to believe that I've been writing about and sharing my cards on this blog for 10 years now!

I was looking back at old posts recently and I came across my first blog post and to my surprise I realized that the 10 year anniversary was going to be February 10th!

And here we are!

Here is a link to my very first blog post:

My First Blog Post

You know I didn't know what I was doing because I didn't even give the post a title.

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

The very next day on February 11th I shared my first card on this post:

My First Card Challenge

My card making and photography skills have come a LONG WAY!!!!!

My favorite company back then and the first one I ordered from was Papertrey Ink.

I idolized their designers and couldn't get enough of their inspiration! I frequented Dawn McVey's blog daily not to mention Melissa Phillips and Betsy Veldman. I adored Heather Nichols krafty obsession and I am loving everything she creates for Taylored Expressions these days!

These girls were my early cardmaking heroes!

I still idolize these girls but now I follow their crafty adventures on Instagram.

Fast forward to August of 2018 when I got to meet all of my superheroes in person!

I attended Stamp-A-Faire in Cincinnati and had the time of my life!

Ok I wound up breaking my pinky on my right hand before Betsy's watercolor class (the class I was dying to take) but I babied that finger and watercolored my heart out.

It was a freak accident but I didn't let it stop me from having a great time that weekend!

The event was live streamed and my family back home got to watch me making paper from scratch with Heather Nichols. It was neat for them to see what we were actually doing in real time!

Here's a few highlights from that trip:

It's amazing to look back and see how far I have come! I used to enter a lot more card challenges and I had lots of card making goals, many of which I achieved.

I wanted to get a card published in a magazine, I wanted to make it on to a design team and unfortunately I can't remember the third goal right now.

I'm happy to say that I far exceeded my goals and it's been a great ride!

I had a card published in Papercrafts Magazine back in November of 2010 and I was so proud!

I have been on quite a few design teams and I have LOVED them all! Here is a link to all of the teams I've been privileged to design for.

Design Team List

My greatest pleasure is designing and posting cards.  I love making cards for my family as well, I am known as the family Hallmark store!

Of course there were years when my blog was quieter than others.  Life gets in the way and priorities change over the years but I always knew I wanted an active blog and I kept coming back to it. My craft room changed a few times over in the 10 years but now it's in a great place by a huge window and I love the natural light I get to work in! I share my craft room with my daughter Taylor who is an avid planner girl and wishing she had more time to do it! My craft room is decorated with art made by my daughter Brooke who is a talented painter and my son Matthew frequents my room from time to time to make a card or 2. I love sharing my crafty world with my kids and they are always ready with an "oh i love that card mom" even if they don't mean it LOL!

Here's a fun collage of my 3 kids and my ever loving card making supporters:

Over the last year I started including Facebook and Instagram into my social media repertoire. Ok my daughter had to teach me Instagram but I'm a fast learner.  It became increasingly important to use social media for exposure and for DT work.  I do love sharing my cards but sometimes it's a chore. I'd much rather be creating than typing! I'm sure most of you will agree to that one.

My crafty world culminated in the most amazing experience last month when I got to attend Creativation for the very first time. My daughter Taylor and I boarded a plane for Phoenix, Arizona and had the time of our lives! I got to meet so many of the amazing crafty people in person that I had only corresponded with online previously. I enjoyed meeting everyone and taking in all the crafty goodness on the show floor!  It's a good thing nothing was for sale because I'd be broke today!

I had been wanting to attend Creativation since it was called CHA and I'm happy to say I finally made it there! Here's a few highlights from that trip:

These are just a few of the great memories we made that weekend!

And here I am today with a craft room filled to the brim with stamps, dies, paper, glue, glitter, sequins, paint, stencils and SO MUCH MORE!!!!

If I never bought another stamp or die I'd still never get to use everything I have but I'm pretty sure that collecting craft supplies is half the fun!

It's been a wild ride for 10 years and I can't wait to see what the next 10 years bring!

For my 10 year blogaversary I decided to do something a little different and make a card for myself. Lately I have been LOVING all of the new stamps and stencils from Taylored Expressions and of course ink blending is SO ADDICTING so I combined all of that and made myself a card in celebration of ME!

One of my favorite stamp and die combos from Taylored Expressions is the Big Grumpy set.
I am also in love with all of the stencils they have been releasing! I used the rectangle masking stencil on this card.  I just love how smooth that rainbow came out using their rainbow blending brushes!
I just love that snarky sentiment and since I made myself this card, it was perfect!


Well, if you made it all the way through this blog post thanks for joining me for this fun trip down memory lane.  Even if no one reads this post I enjoyed the memories and creating a little memoir of my own.  I will end this post the way I end all of my posts and the way I will always end my posts...

Have a great day, I already am!
💓💓Lisa 💓💓

Day 26 of the 31 Days of Halloween Spooktacular Video Hop | Mummy Card

Hello and Happy early Halloween everyone!

Technically it's only 5 days away so it's not that early and all month long

Katy from Hook Line and Inker has been hosting a Halloween Video Hop on YouTube.

It's called The 31 Days of Halloween Spooktacular Video Hop!

31 Days

31 Crafters

31 Videos

ONE BIG PRIZE!

To be eligible for the prize drawing at the end, you must 

hop along and leave a comment on ALL 31 videos.

Here is a link to the blog post that will be updated daily with the 

link to that day's video:

31 Days of Halloween Spooktacular Video Hop

You can watch my video here :

or click on this link to watch on YouTube
Mummy Card Video

The 26th day of the hop belongs to me and I made a
Halloween card that I am in love with!

How cute is that adorable little Mummy???

I used the super cute Unity Mummy Stamp and I just love how easy it was to color!

There is lots of shading lines on the stamp so it was like a roadmap to show you 

where to put your darker colors. 

I included the coloring in my video so you can 

see the process.  I also have been loving ink blending lately and I used 

3 different colors of purple Distress ink on my card for the background.

I couldn't decide if I wanted a background with or without a moon or if

I wanted white stars or glittered stars so I made both.

I used The Rabbit Hole Designs Circles and Stars Stencil with Gina K Glitz Glitter Gel.

For my final card I decided on the moon with the glittery stars but here is

what the other 2 backgrounds looked like.

For the finishing touches on the card I added some 

Lawn Fawn Quinn's ABC's dies for the word "boo" and I backed 

them with foam to make them dimensional. I also added some bats from the 

Kat Scrappiness Crafter's Essentials - Fall Dies

I really enjoyed everything about this card and I hope you enjoy my 

YouTube video! Below is a list of all the supplies (with links) that I used to make this card.

If you have any questions at all please don't hesitate to 

leave a comment here or on my video.

Thanks so much for stopping by today! I hope you enjoyed my card and my video!

Don't forget to keep hopping until October 31st and leave comments along the

way for your chance to win the big prize!

Have a great day, I already am!

💚🧡💜Lisa 💚🧡💜

You can also follow my crafty adventures on Instagram @ohsocutebylisa!

Below is a list with links for all the supplies used on my card today:

Kat Scrappiness Distressed Edge Rectangle Dies

Kat Scrappiness Double Stitched Circle Dies

Kat Scrappiness Crafter's Essentials - Fall Dies

Gina K Amalgam Ink

Shaded Lilac Distress Oxide Ink

Wilted Violet Distress Oxide Ink

Seedless Preserves Distress Ink

Gina K Glitz Glitter Gel

Nuvo Deluxe Adhesive

The Rabbit Hole Designs Circles and Stars Stencil

Purple Tape (1.5")

Unity Mummy Stamp

Lawn Fawn Quinn's ABC's dies

Inkadinkado Masking Paper

Strathmore Bristol Smooth Paper

Stampin Up Shimmery White Cardstock

Scrapbook.com Scored Vertical Card Bases

Taylored Expressions Blender Brushes

Papertrey Ink Bitty Big True Black Color Collection

Copic Markers Used:

C00, C2, C4, C6 (Mummy)

E21, E30, E31, E33 (Mummy's face)

YG01, YG03, YG05, YG06 (Spider)

Disclaimer: My blog uses affiliate 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!

Miss You a Latte

Welcome back to my blog crafty friends.

It's my day on the Coffee Loving Cardmaker's blog again today and I have

another card for you full of caffeinated inspiration.

Today I'm using a small coffee cup die on my card from the 

Hipster 1 dies from Spellbinders.

I just adore those little coffee cup dies with the mini koozies!

The polka dot patterned paper as well as the striped paper are old patterns 

from Papertrey Ink that I just adore!
I used the largest die from the Wonky Wavy Stitched Rectangle dies
from Kat Scrappiness to cut out the polka dot paper and then I inked the edges.

The light teal color is so soft and pretty.

The sentiment is from 2 different sets.

The stamped "Miss You A" part is from the Perfect Blend stamp set from 

Honey Bee stamps. The "latte" die cut is from the Sugar Pea Designs Coffee Words

die set.  I used Lawn Fawn Rose Gold embossing powder on some card stock and then 

cut the word latte out of that.  I also cut some very tiny hearts out of the rose gold

paper as well for the coffee cups.

I really like the soft color palette on this card!

Thanks so much for stopping by my blog today, I just 

love creating my coffee themed cards for the 

Coffee Loving Cardmakers and I'll be back again real soon

with some more caffeine inspired creations!

Have a great day! I already am!

☕️💗 Lisa  💗 ☕️

Happy Little Stampers June ATC Challenge

Hello everyone!

I am back again with the June

Happy Little Stampers ATC challenge.

Every month Happy Little Stampers has an 

ATC challenge and the theme for June is Christmas.  

For anyone who isn't familiar with ATC cards, they are mini

works of art that measure 2.5" x 3.5" and are traded around the world.

Usually they are numbered and signed on the back by the artist.

For this month's challenge I decided to go with a more traditional 

mixed media design.  The PEACE die cut is from Papertrey Ink and I cut it

from red foil cardstock.  I must admit it felt a little weird making Christmas

crafts in June but it was a change of pace from all the flowers and 

summer themed projects!

I hope you'll play along with us this month

 and enter the ATC challenge at 

Happy Little Stampers!

The winner for this challenge will receive a badge to display on their blog!

Have a great day, I already am!

🎄Lisa 🎄

Get Creative Challenge - #81

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

Get Creative Challenges!

The challenge for June for the pink team is Anything Goes
with an optional twist "your favorite color combo"

and goes from 6/3 - 6/30. 
Thank you to the Etsy shop Pattie's Creations for 
sponsoring the challenge this month! 
She has some adorable digital art, make sure to check her out!
I was so excited to work with the fun Party Gnomes image this month!
Here is my birthday card using my favorite color combo
pink and teal!

I colored those fun party gnomes with some of my favorite
Copic marker colors and popped them up on a fun polka dotted
background. The sentiment is from a Queen and Co. 
word die set. My polka dotted panel is an older Papertrey Ink
patterned paper and I cut it out using the 
Wonky Wavy Stitched Rectangle die from Kat Scrappiness.

I love how this card came out, and I just LOVE those cute gnomes!

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 🧙🏻‍♂️

Hogs and Kisses

 


Hello crafty friends and welcome to my blog!

That sweet piggy card is my entry for this week's

MFT Wednesday Sketch Challenge.

The sketch is #434 and it looks like this:

I decided to try my hand at no line coloring.

I love the look of it but for me it's harder than it looks.

I don't completely love how my little piggy came out but

I don't hate it either...... that's a start right?

I used the My Favorite Things 

Piggy Pebbles stamp set.

I just love Stacey Yacula's artwork, she is so talented!

I used my Zig markers for the watercoloring and a fun Simon Says Stamp

raindrop stencil for the background.  The clouds are from my favorite

Papertrey Ink cloud dies. 

What a fun sketch this week at the MFT Wednesday Sketch Challenge.

See you next Wednesday!

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day,

I already am!

🐷Lisa 🐷 

Get Creative Challenge - #79

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

Get Creative Challenges!

The challenge for April for the pink team is Anything Goes 

and goes from 4/1 - 4/30. 
Thank you to the Etsy shop All Dressed Up for sponsoring the challenge this month! 
They have some adorable digital art, make sure to check them out!
I was so excited to work with the sweet Butterfly Bunny image this month.

I colored that sweet bunny with my copic markers and 

cut her out with my scan n cut machine.

I used a Stitched Scalloped Rectangle die from Kat Scrappiness

to layer on to the base of my card and I sponged some Spun Sugar

Distress Oxide ink all over the center of that panel.

Next I took the cute cloud die from Mama Elephant

and inked the edges with some Tumbled Glass Distress ink.

I also added some sparkly Stickles all around the edge of

the cloud and in a few random spots around the card.

After I added the Mama Elephant sentmient with some Papertrey Ink, 

Weathervane Ink, I popped up the bunny and cloud on to 

some foam tape and my card was done.

I love how this card came out, it's so soft and sweet!

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 🐰

Happy Little Stampers April Watercolour Challenge

Hello crafty friends and welcome back to another Watercolour challenge

over at the Happy Little Stampers blog!

This month the theme is anything goes with an optional "Bright" twist.
Here is my card for this month.

After I made my card I realized that the twist this month was Bright.
Since I loved my card so much I decided to use it anyway.
It's not very bright but I do love the muted colors.

I used some gorgeous watercolor flowers from a fabulous 

website called Angie Makes.

She has some free clipart as well as some beautiful watercolor

clipart for sale.  I printed that beautiful flower out and cut it out

with my scan and cut.

I layered it on to some pretty gingham paper from Papertrey Ink

and a Stitched Hex Tag die from Reverse Confetti.

The Thank You word die is from Heidi Swapp.

Watercoloring is one of my loves but I'm not always very good

at it.  Using the pre-painted flowers is a fun way to still get that

whimsical look on your cards!

Come join us for the Happy Little Stampers Watercolour Challenge this month!

We want to see your watercolor projects.

Thanks for stopping by! I hope you get some free crafty time today!

Have a great day, I already am!

💐Lisa 💐