Coffee Date My Daughter

 

Hi everyone, today is my day up on the Coffee Loving Cardmaker's blog and I have a very special post for you! This blog post is dedicated to all the incredible teachers out there! More specifically my favorite teacher of all.... my daughter Taylor! 

Taylor is my coffee date for today and I am so proud of her. As you all know teaching is one of the many jobs that became infinitely more challenging when COVID hit. Taylor has been working way too many hours every week past her contracted time just to give her students everything they deserve..... sadly it leaves very little personal time. Despite Taylor's lack of personal time she still agreed to be my Coffee Date for today.

Taylor is a planner girl at heart and she loves all things planner related! She agreed to do a planner layout for the week of Valentine's Day and make it coffee themed. But of course real life got in the way and her layout as of tonight was only half done. As she sat writing an IEP for a meeting tomorrow she felt guilty about not finishing her planner layout for our coffee date.  I am going to share the gorgeous layout she started and as you can see she has a COFFEE CUP sticker on Friday the 18th to signify our "date". Taylor is a big fan of the Erin Condren Life Planner and Krissyanne Design's stickers and she uses them frequently in her layouts. Taylor's Instagram account is @prettypaperpieces4u if you'd like to check out all of her other amazing layouts!

Here is a picture of her layout and I am in love with the color scheme and adorable stickers she used for the week of Valentine's Day! Notice the AWESOME "Drink Wine Day" on the 18th!

In keeping with the Valentine's Day theme I decided to make a love themed card that sums up my relationship with Taylor. We definitely go together like coffee and donuts! We craft together and support each other's hobbies. She attended Creativation with me and I am attending Go Wild with her next month. Go Wild is a huge planner convention that takes place once a year for the die hard planner fans.

For my card today I used the adorable Yum Yum stamp set from the Not 2 Shabby Shop. That little hamster is just adorable and her little hands hold lots of little accessories. Today she is enjoying coffee and a donut!

I stamped that adorable hamster onto a panel cut from the Waffle Flower A2 Lacy Layers Die set and colored her up with my Copic Markers. The sentiment is from the same stamp set. Although it's difficult to see in the picture I did use the Love Splash stencil from A Colorful Life Designs on the card base for some fun pink hearts!

Thank you for joining me today for our Coffee Date! I am honored that Taylor agreed to virtually meet me for coffee and I can't wait to see her completed layout when she is done!

Have a great day! We already are!

Lisa and Taylor

Spring/Summer 2021 Coffee Lovers Hop

 

Calling all caffeine addicts! It's time for the 

Spring/Summer 2021 Coffee Lovers Blog Hop put on by the Coffee Loving Cardmakers!

Thank you to Kerry Urbatch for designing the awesome graphic we are using for this hop!

Don't forget to use this social media hashtag when posting to Facebook and Instagram!

#springsummer2021clh

For my first project to start off the hop I have a cute little mini slimline card and

I've used stamps and dies from several of the Super Sponsors!

How adorable is that cute little bunny on my card!!!

You must check out the sweet digital images from Super Sponsor Isabel Cristina on Etsy!

This bunny is from the Coffee Bunnies digital set and comes with 5 different bunny images, 4 sentiments and several mini coffee cups.

For the base of my card I started with the Kat Scrappiness Mini Slimline Scalloped Edge Dies. I just love the mini size of these cards and the scalloped edge is my absolute favorite mini slimline die!

I cut out a piece of pink card stock using the largest scalloped die and then I stenciled over it with  

The Rabbit Hole Designs Splish Splash Stencil using a darker pink ink than the card stock.

Once I had that beautiful stenciled pattern I stamped over the entire panel with the

Unity Stamp Love Story stamp and I just love the way the text background stands out!

The next step was to add my Copic colored bunny to a Stitched Scalloped Heart from Kat Scrappiness and I cut it out of a piece of vellum so you can see through to the background.

To add the sentiments from the Coffee Bunnies digital set, I just printed them out a few times until I got the size I wanted and then cut them down and adhered them to the card on foam tape.

To finish off my card and add some shine I adhered some 

Kat Scrappiness Sparkling Clear Heart Droplets.

I really love how this card came out and I just love working with digital images because you can customize them to whatever size you need.

Make sure to check out Isabel's Etsy shop for more cute images!

Thank you to all of the Super Sponsors taking part in the hop and a big shout out to the Sponsors that made my card possible!

Isabel Cristina

Kat Scrappiness

Unity Stamp Co

The Rabbit Hole Designs

Thanks so much for stopping by my blog and I hope that you join us all week for loads more fun and caffeinated inspiration! 

Here is the starting blog post for the hop where you can find out all the details and a full list of all the Super Sponsors!

Spring/Summer 2021 Coffee Lovers Blog Hop

Have a great day, I already am!

🐰☕️   Lisa   ☕️ 🐰 

Sweet 'n Sassy - Coffee Lovers Collab Hop

Good morning all of you lovely caffeinated papercrafters! Today the Coffee Loving Cardmakers are super excited to be collaborating with Super Sponsor Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps!

You should have arrived here from Kathy Schweinfurth's blog. If not you'll want to start at the beginning which is the Sweet 'n Sassy blog.

I have 2 projects to share with you today that I made using some new products from Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps! The 3 coffee themed stamp sets that I used are the Coffee Talk 2 Clear Stamp Set, the I Like Big Cups Stamp Set and the Texture Tiles 9 Stamp Set.

My first project is a card using the Coffee Talk 2 Clear Stamp Set and the I Like Big Cups Stamp Set.

I stamped the coffee cup and sentiment on to a piece of vellum paper so they would stand out yet still show the gorgeous metallic heat embossing on the base of the card. I love the extra added touch of the twine bow with the tiny red glittered heart for a pop of color!

For my second project I decided to go 3-D and make a custom K-Cup holder.
I followed a simple tutorial on YouTube and decorated my holder with the Texture Tiles 9 Stamp Set and I used a sentiment from the Coffee Talk 2 Clear Stamp Set.

This holder was so much fun to construct and decorate and I love the way the text stamp made such a cute background for the sides of the holder!

There is one more stop on the blog hop and it is our very own Coffee Queen Amy Tsuruta. 
Make sure to head on over and show Amy some love for arranging this fantastic collaboration hop!

Before you go, remember to leave a comment here. One lucky winner from across all the blog stops/comments will win a $25 code to Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps! We will close the commenting February 5th at 11:59 pm pacific with a winner announced on both the Sweet 'n Sassy and Coffee Loving Cardmaker's blogs on Sunday the 7th.

Thanks so much for joining us today for the blog hop!

Enjoy your 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  ☕️ 

2020 Spring/Summer Coffee Lovers Hop

Calling all Caffeine addicts! It's time for 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/

I don't know about you but this whole quarantine thing has got me going a little batty so this hop will be a much needed distraction for the next week! There will be tons of inspiration not to mention over 70 super sponsors and lots and lots of prizes! The hop goes through May 29th and the winners will be drawn on participation rather than commenting this time. For all of the Super Sponsors and details please visit the CLC hop post here:
Coffee Loving Cardmakers

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Today I'm sharing my first card as a Coffee Loving Cardmaker design team member and I've used some super cute products from Paper Sweeties!

Paper Sweeties is a returning Super Sponsor to the hop and they will be giving away a gift certificate to their shop as a prize!
Paper Sweeties also has a special sale going on this month for their dolls and outfits:

I wanted my card to have a happy and bright background so I started by stenciling some clouds and a grassy hill onto some Bristol Smooth card stock. I matted the stenciled panel on to some pretty Doodlebug patterned paper.

For the focus of my card I used the adorable Madison doll stamp and she is dressed up for summer with her pedal pushers, adorable bonnet and cute flip flops! Her outfit is from the Aloha stamp set and is stamped on some super cute Doodlebug patterned paper! Her super sized iced coffee cup is from the Coffee, Yes Please stamp set and matching Sweet Cuts! I just love how everything coordinates in the plaid pattern. My sentiment is from the Sweet Mini set called Life Begins After Coffee.

I just love how this card came together.  It has a warm summery feel and it just makes me happy!

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

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  ☕️ 

The Rabbit Hole March Inspiration Hop Day 1

Good morning and welcome to Day 1 of The Rabbit Hole Designs March Inspiration Hop!

For this release we have a Beautiful Disaster to share with you and I think you are going to fall in love with her! The brand new stamp set from The Rabbit Hole Designs is called Beautiful Disaster and here is a look at the 4x4 stamp set:

I absolutely fell in love with this stamp set and couldn't wait to create with it.  I used my Copic markers to color this beauty and I was quite happy with how she turned out.  I actually attempted a masking technique and I love the results.

I started by stamping the image on to some masking paper and cutting it out by hand. I then stamped the image onto a panel I cut using the largest Distressed Edge Rectangle Die from Kat Scrappiness and place the mask around the image. Next I took some Peacock Feathers Distress Oxide Ink and did some ink blending just around the image itself. When I peeled off my mask it was like magic.  I had the perfect ink blended "aura" around my stamped image.

I proceeded to color the image with my Copic markers making sure to pay close attention to the creases in her sweater and the highlights in her hair.

I used some pretty floral patterned paper that I got recently from Stampin Up and adhered it to my card base. I layered the stamped image panel on top of the patterned paper.

To finish off the card I added a few Teal Jewels from Kat Scrappiness for some extra color.

I hope you enjoyed seeing my card today and for more inspiration from the rest of the design team make sure to hop around to all of their blogs:

The Rabbit Hole Designs

Michelle
Cassie
Amanda
Lisa
Donna
Jammie

GIVEAWAYS: To celebrate the next 3 days of release, The Rabbit Hole Designs is giving away two gift certificates; one to a lucky Instagram Follower and one to a lucky Facebook Fan Page follower. Winner will be chosen at random from the comments left on the INSTAGRAM post, and tagging friends, and also from commenting on the Fan Page post. 

So make sure to head on over to INSTAGRAM and look for the giveaway post @therabbitholedesignsllc and look for the post at The Rabbit Hole Designs Fan Page by 11:59 p.m. PST 02-27-2020. Winner will be announced on The Rabbit Hole Designs blog 02-28-2020.

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

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 👩🏼

I Drink Coffee For Your Protection

Good morning Coffee Loving Crafty Peeps!

I just spent the most amazing weekend in Phoenix, Arizona for Creativation!

I had the privilege of meeting a lot of crafty friends in person and 3 of those people were Coffee Loving Cardmaker Designers that you all know and love! It was so nice meeting 

Lisa Bzibziak

Katie Brooks

and

Amanda Wilcox

It was a nice long weekend full of all things crafty with some of the sweetest people you'll ever meet!

I am up on The Coffee Loving Cardmakers blog today and I have a humorous card with a fun coffee bean background.

I die cut a piece of white cardstock using the largest die from the Kat Scrappiness Distressed Edge Rectangle Nesting Dies and then sponged some light brown ink over a Gina Marie Coffee Bean Stencil. The sentiment on that adorable coffee cup is from CAS-ual Fridays Hot Coffee stamp set and the cup is cut from their Coffee Cup Fri-Dies. I also thought it would be fun to add some laughing emojis to the card so I broke out an older set of Spellbinder dies that I had and created a few fun faces!

This card sums up my Creativation experience so well! There was a lot of laughs and a lot of vanilla lattes! I hope this card gave you a chuckle as well!

Thank you so much for joining me today.

Have a great day, I already am!

😆 Lisa ☕️

Paper Sweeties 7th Birthday Coffee Lovers Blog Hop

Hello and welcome back to my blog!

Paper Sweeties is celebrating their 7th birthday all this month!

To help celebrate this milestone, the Coffee Loving Cardmakers are 

collaborating with Paper Sweeties to help celebrate! 

Both design teams have made beverage/birthday themed 

projects to inspire you! 

I am a very lucky designer because I am on both of their design teams

so it's an extra special collaboration as I am representing 

Paper Sweeties AND Coffee Loving Cardmakers!

That's why you will notice 2 different watermarks on my cards.

It just means I love both teams very much!

Now on to my projects

For my first project I made two cute little coffee themed tags with the Sweet Cuts For You 

die as a base.  The sweet little coffee cup stamp and die is from the 

Coffee, Yes Please stamp and Sweet Cuts die. The sentiment on the tag with the blue 

cup is also from the Coffee, Yes Please stamp set. 

👀👀 I have a special sneak peek on these tags as well! 👀👀

Starting on August 15th, those adorable cupcakes will be available as part

of a stamp and die set called Cupcakes and Sprinkles!

Wait til you see what the Paper Sweeties designers have in store

for you with the new release starting August 14th.

The second project I have for you today is a sweet card that uses images and dies from 

the You Warm My Heart stamp set with matching Sweet Cuts dies.

I layered some pretty patterned paper on to a kraft card base and then placed a 

doily in the center.  I popped up the teapot and coffee cup up on foam tape and stamped the

sentiment on to the doily.  The sentiment is from the Coffee, Yes Please stamp set.

Easy peasy but oh so sweet!

You can hop along with us for inspiration and fun!

Here is the hop list for Paper Sweeties followed by the

hop list for the Coffee Lovers so you can follow along!

Debbie Marcinkiewicz – Paper Sweeties
Diane Hover
Karen Bull
Karen Letchworth

Larissa Heskett
Lilian Forsyth 
Lisa Golzbein
Robyn Jordan
Sarah Wyles
Mackie Robertson

Maria Patrick

Taylor Golzbein

Coffee Loving Cardmakers

Amy Tsuruta

Lori Turner

Helen Gullett

Lisa Bzibziak

Lisa Golzbein

Paper Sweeties 

Thanks so much for joining me today here on my blog!
Enjoy all of the beverage/birthday themed projects and
make sure to check back with Paper Sweeties all month long
to celebrate their 7th birthday!
There will be more inspiration and lots of fun planned!

Have a great day!
💕Lisa💕

Exciting Caffeinated News!!!!

Today is the day that I can finally share some exciting news 

I've been keeping to myself. 

Here is a new logo I've just acquired and I think it sums it up nicely!

I am thrilled and honored to be joining the Coffee Loving Cardmakers

Design Team! When Amy asked me to join the team I was so incredibly happy! 

I've been admiring the design team and all of their

caffeinated inspiration for quite some time now!

I've been enjoying taking part in the Coffee Lovers Blog Hops and 

was fortunate to win a gift certificate to The Letter Lingo, one of

the super sponsors, for the most recent hop!

I bought the Tea-rrific Stamp Set with my gift certificate and 

I thought that this would be the perfect blog post 

to share the card I made with it!

I just love that little girl peeking out from behind her coffee cup!

I cut a piece of cream colored card stock out with the

Zig Zag Rectangle Dies by Kat Scrappiness and then 

I used the Tim Holtz coffee embossing folder to emboss that panel.

I stamped the sentiment on to a small Spellbinders tag die and finished 

it off with some twine!  A couple of Teal Jewels by the sentiment

for a little color and shine and my card was done!

Thanks for stopping by today to share in my good news!

I hope you'll follow the Coffee Loving Cardmakers if you don't already!

They have some amazing designers and incredible caffeinated inspiration

every day of the week!  I'll be sharing my cards every other Tuesday starting June 11th

on their blog so come visit me in "Lisa's ICU" (Intensive Coffee Unit)

to see my coffee loving projects!

Have a wonderfully caffeinated day!

I already am!

☕️Lisa ☕️

Spring/Summer Coffee Lovers Blog Hop with Paper Sweeties

Good morning coffee loving crafty friends!

Are you as excited as I am?

It's time for the Spring/Summer Coffee Lover's Blog Hop!

The hop is beginning today May 3rd and continuing through May 10th,

there will be a ton of caffeinated inspiration from so many Super Sponsors!

How about that super cute new graphic created especially for this hop!

Congratulations to Shanna Slater for designing the perfect logo!

Paper Sweeties is proud to announce that they will be a Super Sponsor for the hop!

Super Sponsor Prize: $25 gift certificate

There will also be a Flash Prize:
1 stamp ($12 value) and 1 die ($16 max value) of winner's choice.

There will also be an event sale at Paper Sweeties:

25% OFF SITEWIDE USING COUPON CODE:  SPRINGCOFFEE 

(cannot be used on sale items or gift certificates - expires 5/10/19 at 11:59 pm EST).

Here is the card I created for the Coffee Lovers Hop using Paper Sweeties products.

Here is a list of the Paper Sweeties products used on my card:

Hello Stamp Set (rose stamp)
Sweet Cuts Hello (rose die cut)
You Warm My Heart Stamp Set (sentiment & bird)
Sweet Cuts You Warm My Heart (bird die cut)
Sweet Cuts Homemade With Love (coffee cup die cut)

Thanks so much for stopping by today, I hope you are enjoying the hop!

Make sure to check out all of the sweetness in the Paper Sweeties shop.

You will love the quaint country cottage charm! 

Did you also know that Debbie, the owner of Paper Sweeties, 

owns a Bed and Breakfast in Carthage, NC.?

It is called The Carriage House Bed and Breakfast 

They have crafty retreats for you and your friends and while

you're there you can shop in the She Shed for Paper Sweeties products.

For more Paper Sweeties inspiration be sure to visit:

Paper Sweeties Blog

Paper Sweeties Facebook Fan Page

Paper Sweeties Instagram

Paper Sweeties You Tube

Have a great day, I already am!

☕️Lisa ☕️

Spring/Summer Coffee Lovers Blog Hop with The Rabbit Hole Designs

Good morning coffee loving crafty friends!

Are you as excited as I am?

It's time for the Spring/Summer Coffee Lover's Blog Hop!

The hop is beginning today May 3rd and continuing through May 10th,

there will be so much caffeinated inspiration from so many Super Sponsors!

How about that super cute new graphic created especially for this hop!

Congratulations to Shanna Slater for designing the perfect logo!

The Rabbit Hole Designs is excited to announce that they will be a

Super Sponsor for the event for the very first time!

This awesome new company offers a whole line of caffeinated critters 

that are just perfect for this hop! 

If you haven't seen their stamps yet, head on over to the shop 

and take a peek! You'll be glad you did!

For the duration of the hop, The Rabbit Hole Designs will be offering

FREE SHIPPING

on orders of $25.00 or more before taxes and shipping (US orders only).

No code necessary, exclusions apply.

*FREE WITH QUALIFYING PURCHASE*

While supplies last, all orders placed during the hop spending $35.00

or more before shipping and tax will receive this exclusive 2x3 inch 

stamp set titled Handmade Brew. 

Please Note: A limited number of these stamp sets have 

been set aside for those wishing to purchase them.

😍☕️😍HOW CUTE IS THIS SET😍☕️😍

In honor of the Coffee Lovers Blog Hop I made a card using the 

Caffeinated Unicorn stamp set from The Rabbit Hole Designs and 

I may or may not have gotten carried away with the glitter!

But it's ok because Caffeine makes me sparkle......

that's what the Unicorn said anyway!

I hope you'll come back to The Rabbit Hole Blog tomorrow and 

every day after during the hop

to see what the design team has created especially for this event!

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

Thank you so much for joining me today!

I hope you have your cup of java, or tea or hot chocolate 

and that you enjoy your travels around the 

Coffee Loving Crafty world for the next week!

Enjoy your day, I already am!

❤️☕️🐰Lisa 🐰 ☕️❤️