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

2020 Spring/Summer Coffee Lovers Hop - Day 2

Today is day 2 of the 

Spring/Summer 2020 Coffee Lovers Blog Hop

put on by the Coffee Loving Cardmakers!
Amy Tsuruta is our hostess with the mostess and she's put together another fabulous hop filled with caffeinated inspiration and fun! Thank you Amy for all of your hard work!

Also a big thank you to Kerry Urbatch for designing the
fun and colorful graphic we are using for this hop!
You can check out Kerry's blog here:
https://thestampingbug.blogspot.com/

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Today I am sharing my second card for the hop on behalf of the Coffee Loving Cardmakers and the Kat Scrappiness design teams.

My card today features stamps, dies and sequins from 3 different Super Sponsors

Kat Scrappiness - Layered Coffee Cup Die & Let's Get Caffeinated stamp set
Clear Sequins

Reverse Confetti - Linked Circles Cover Panel
&
Stampin' Up - Timeless Tulips Stamps and Punch

I am obsessed with the Timeless Tulips stamps and punch and I've been putting them on everything lately! I thought they looked great on the coffee cup from Kat Scrappiness. I just love how they look inked up in two different colors.

Kat Scrappiness is currently having a Memorial Day Sale
Here are all the details:

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ANNOUNCEMENT

I do have one more announcement today!

The Coffee Lovers Blog hop has a brand new Super Sponsor for this hop and it is an Etsy shop called The Sewing Duo Boutique! This shop has face masks that have the cutest coffee themes! 

This shop just happens to be run by my sweet parents Bettyann and Bob 

(hence the name Sewing "Duo")

If we have to wear masks than why not step out in style! The Sewing Duo Boutique carries face masks, zippered pouches and keychains and they are shipping daily with masks made right here in the USA! Check out the coffee masks and all of the fun patterns available, 

they even have kid sized masks!

The Sewing Duo Boutique is offering a 10% discount on all orders placed during the hop using code CLH2020

**free U.S. shipping on orders of $35 or more**

That's all for today folks! I'll be back tomorrow with another caffeine inspired card using some awesome products from another Super Sponsor! Thank you for joining me today on my blog!

Have a great day, I already am!

☕️ Lisa  ☕️ 

Happy Little Stampers April ATC Challenge

Hello everyone!

I am back again with the April

Happy Little Stampers ATC challenge.

Every month Happy Little Stampers has an 

ATC challenge and the theme for April is Pretty Papers.  

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 my ATC I decided to use a piece of pretty paper from the Julie Nutting

Tag pad.  I fell in love with that muted rose the minute I saw it!

I knew it needed some gold accents so I cut out the word love

from the Kat Scrappiness "I Love You Shadow Dies" in gold foil card stock.

The butterflies are Stampin Up punches and I love how they 

look layered on each other!

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 🌹 

Simply Create Too January Challenge 145

Happy New Year crafty friends!

I hope you all had a fun and safe New Years Eve, it's time to kick off the new year

over at the Simply Create Too monthly challenge!

For the new year Angie gave her blogs a makeover and created

new badges for her design team members.

Here is the lovely new badge.

I just love the cute little denim pocket and polka dot background!

The design team has created some wonderful projects for

this month's challenge.  The theme is Anything Goes/No Twist.

It is challenge #145 and it runs from 1/4/19 - 1/25/19.

Here is my card for this month's challenge.

I chose to use an adorable Newton's Nook stamp and make a 

birthday card.  I never have enough of them on hand!

The cute sentiment is also from Newton's Nook and is stamped on a 

Stitched Flag Die from Kat Scrappiness.

I love how this card turned out and I hope you'll all play along with us

this month at the Simply Create Too challenge blog!

Enjoy your day, I already am!

😻Lisa 😻

CAS(E) This Sketch 294 with Groot

I have not played along with CAS(E) this sketch in a while so I stopped in to take a look at this week's sketch and realized how much I missed it. I love the inspiration I get from a sketch, it's like taking the guesswork out of a card when your mojo is on vacation!

My daughter Taylor is a planner girl and she recently found this adorable clipart of 

Groot from Guardians of the Galaxy for her planner and 

I immediately thought how cute he would look on a card.

I knew he would be perfect to sit along side the sentiment of sketch #294!

Since Groot's signature tag line is "I am Groot" I thought it would be funny to 

make my sentiment "I am Cute" and let's face it he is CUTE!!!!

I used an older "Your Next Stamp" alphabet set to stamp the sentiment.

It was the perfect simple font for the card and I used Mowed Lawn 

distress ink since it matched the leaf theme.

My wood grain embossing folder was the perfect touch for the bottom panel of the 

card to go with the theme and give it some texture.

A few leaves growing out of Groot from an old Stampin' Up 

punch and my card was finished!

I really had fun making this card! Thanks for stopping by to take a peak!

Please consider leaving me a note if you stop by and give me your blog

name so I can visit you too!

Now go get crafty, I already did!

🌱Lisa 🌱

Simon Says : Add Some Texture (Take 2)

I am loving this week's Wednesday challenge at Simon Says Stamp to add texture so much that I made a second card.  Instagram is filled with all things Springy and Butterfly related now and I just had to jump on the bandwagon.  Since I am waiting on my butterfly dies from the SSS Fluttering By collection I thought I would take out 2 of my older butterfly dies from 

SSS called Devonshire and Paulina. The 2 smaller butterflies are SU punches.

So much inspiration on this card but mostly from Melissa Phillips at Lilybean Paperie.  She has a way of making every card look magical!  On a recent card for the SSS blog hop she sponged her butterflies with distress ink, sprayed with water and splattered white paint on top.  

LOVE THOSE RESULTS!

I didn't glue the wings down so they could fly off the page.  

I layered those beautiful butterflies on top of the Papertrey Ink Shapeshifters Oval 1 die and I used the Aqua Mist Bitty Big paper as a background.  Since I know my mom will love this card I finished it off with a Happy Mother's Day sentiment from PTI's Butterfly Blooms stamp set.  I heat embossed it with white powder onto a strip of Aqua Mist Bitty Big paper and popped it up on foam tape.  All that was left was to add some sparkly clear sequins from Pretty Pink Posh and my card was done.

Thanks so much for stopping by today to take a look!  

I hope you all are enjoying your Saturday, I know I am!

🦋Lisa 🦋

The Ton Stamps February Challenge

I'm back today to join in the fun today over at The Ton stamps.  Their challenge this month is to make a project using the word heart ❤️ as the theme.  

With Valentine's Day right around the corner there are a ton of Love themed cards to see right now, however my heart card is a get well card for a dear friend who is sick.  I used the timeless peonies stamp as the main focus of my card and this stamp set has a huge WOW factor!  After all the layering it truly looks like gorgeous vintage wallpaper!!  

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Once I got all the stamping done, I cut the panel out with a rectangle wonky stitched die from Mama Elephant.  I love that stitched look, it really finishes the card off nicely.       

I layered an intricate lacy die from Stampin Up over the top and finished it off with a "get well" die cut sentiment from Queen and Company.  I layered the gold sentiment on black card stock to give it a shadowed look.  I also added 3 hearts from an SU border punch with the same shadowed look.  

Here is my card

Thanks for stopping by!

Have a great day!

I already am

😍Lisa😍