Mugs and Kisses... Birthday

Hello! I am adding one last card for the awesome coffee lovers blog hop! This is for a beautiful young lady that we are doing a birthday drive by today. I made this card with the my favorite things Cafe' all day die set, the greeting farm's mini remix- brewtiful, and Holiday Anna and Momma Elephant Happy Everything. My ice cube shaker elements are also from MFT Stamps. I hope you like it!

Life Happens...Coffee Helps!

Good morning! Today I made a slimline card for the Spring Summer Coffee Lovers blog Hop using a die from Trinity Stamps and Stamps from The Greeting Farm, Honey Bee Stamps, and Tim Holtz/Stampers Anonymous.  I stamped the background with the mini coffee blueprints. Then I stamped and cut out the two "Brewtiful" images and colored them in with Copics. The scalloped panel is mounted with foam tape and I added some enamel dots to finish it off. 

Copics:

Skin: E000, 00

Cheeks: R20, 30

Girl

Hair: E40, 41, 43, 44

Dress: BG45, 49

Cup: Y11, 15

Boy

Top: Y11, Y15

Jeans: B37, 39

Hair: E31, 34

Coffee: E55, G19

Don't forget to join in the fun by linking up to the hop!

Please do not make me prove it!

I have a second card to share with you today! I had to join in the 2020 spring and summer coffee lovers blog hop for another chance to win one of the amazing prizes from the super generous sponsors! This card features almost every stamp company around! well, not that many, but A LOT! I dug into all of my coffee themed stamps and dies and this is what I created with them. {My favorite product was my Vintage Photo Distress Embossing Glaze powder.} I just love that you can see through it!

I used stamps from Greeting Farm, Honey Bee Stamps, AMuse Studio, MFT, Simon Says Stamp, and Papertrey ink. Whew! That is a lot! I used the plaid stencil from Carta Bella, Worn Lipstick Distress Oxide for the stencil, and topics to color her in. 

As you can see below, I used A LOT of stuff! YIKES. 

The Copics I used were:

Hair: Y11, 15, 26

Skin: E000, 00

Sweater: RV55, 66

Skirt:B37

Boots: C0, C4, C8

Coffee Cup: BG53, BG70

Spring Summer Coffee Lovers Hop with a Set I like a Latte!

Hello Everyone! I am representing Super Sponsor Polka Dot Orchard again today with some Latte fun for the 2020 Spring Summer Coffee Lovers blog Hop!  ***I just want to say thank you to everyone leaving responses, I have replied to them, but for some reason it is not showing up that I replied. But I want you to know that I do appreciate your comments!***

Make sure you play along! There are so many sponsors and prizes, you do not want to miss out! Just link up any new coffee or tea themed card to the Coffee Lovers Blog Hop => HERE

And do not forget to check out the Polka Dot Orchard Blog to see all the other coffee themed inspiration from the rest of my fellow Creative team members and leave a comment! => HERE

Boy would I like to drink this right now!!! I used Polka Dot Orchard's "He Said Coffee" which has a bunch of coffee images and sentiments that are great for masculine and vintage themed coffee cards. I added coffee beans around the cup before printing on Kraft cardstock and I used Prisma colored pencils (colors listed below) to color in this Latte. I masked the cup and used a Tim Holtz lace stencil and picket fence distress ink.

**REMEMBER** If you do not have any coffee stamps, you can order from Polka Dot Orchard's many sets. They are digital so you get them instantly! Jessica is offering 30% off all coffee themed sets with coupon code: coffee2020

Prisma Pencils:

Cup: 992, 1068

Coffee: 938, 914, 1080, 941

Grey shadow under cup: 1050, 1054, 1069

Spring Summer Coffee Lovers Hop Day 4

Hello Everyone! I am representing Super Sponsor Polka Dot Orchard again today with a bit of a vintage look for the 2020 Spring Summer Coffee Lovers blog Hop!

Make sure you play along! There are so many sponsors and prizes, you do not want to miss out! Just link up any new coffee or tea themed card to the Coffee Lovers Blog Hop => HERE

And do not forget to check out the Polka Dot Orchard Blog to see all the other coffee themed inspiration from the rest of my fellow Creative team members and leave a comment! => HERE

I loved making this card! I used Polka Dot Orchard's "He Said Coffee" which has a bunch of coffee images and sentiments that are great for masculine and vintage themed coffee cards. I colored this barista with Prisma colored pencils (colors listed below). I masked him to protect him from the splatter. Then I splattered black acrylic paint over the card. 

**REMEMBER** If you do not have any coffee stamps, you can order from Polka Dot Orchard's many sets. They are digital so you get them instantly! Jessica is offering 30% off all coffee themed sets with coupon code: coffee2020

Prisma colored Pencils:

Skin: 943, 939, 927, 938

Hair:1050, 1054, 935, 938

Shirt: 938, 1050, 1054

Pants: 1054, 935

Belt: 935, 938

Vest: 1091, 943

Tie: 925

Apron: 1034, 997

Cup: 941, 1069

Day 3 of Spring and Summer Coffee Lovers Blog Hop! PDO new release!

Welcome! I am representing Super Sponsor Polka Dot Orchard again today with one of their new releases for the 2020 Spring Summer Coffee Lovers blog Hop!

Make sure you play along! There are so many sponsors and prizes, you do not want to miss out! Just link up any new coffee or tea themed card to the Coffee Lovers Blog Hop => HERE

And do not forget to check out the Polka Dot Orchard Blog to see all the other coffee themed inspiration from the rest of my fellow Creative team members and leave a comment! => HERE

For this super cute card, I used Polka Dot Orchard's "You are My Favorite" You can just see in her eyes how much she wants that coffee! The sentiments in this set are for both tea and coffee which is great if you prefer tea. Also, Jessica is offering 30% off all coffee themed sets with coupon code: coffee2020

**REMEMBER** If you do not have any coffee stamps, you can order from Polka Dot Orchard's many sets. They are digital so you get them instantly! 

I love my coffee black so I made my coffee as dark as could be! 

I drew in the brick wall for Dunkin' Donuts with a ruler and Copic W1, then colored in the bricks with W00. Then I added the trademark colors of Dunkin' Donuts using RV06 and YR65 to the top. 

The rest of the copic that I used to color her in are as follows:

Hair: E40, 43, 44 and a copic multi liner (Sepia .5) for the fine lines

skin: E000 and E00

Eyes: YG06, BG02, BG05, BG49  and C0 under the eyelid and corner for shadows.

I used BG 39 for the pupil and a white jelly roll pen for the highlights.

Nails: R02, R24

Coffee: E71, E74, E77, E79

Ice cubes: E84, E50 and went over them with W00

Shirt: R20, R22

I cannot wait to see what you come up with! Don't forget to join the hop and leave comments! Happy creating! 

2020 Spring & Summer Coffee Lovers Blog Hop with a card from Polka Dot Orchard

Welcome!!! Today I am representing Polka Dot Orchard {a Super Sponsor} for the 2020 Spring & Summer Coffee Loving Card Makers Blog Hop! If you would like to play along, just create something new (Coffee, or Tea related of course) and link it up to the official "Coffee Loving Card makers Blog Hop post"! You might just win one of the awesome prizes from the super long list of sponsors! 

The card I am sharing with you today uses a really pretty digital stamp set from, Polka Dot Orchard, called "Everlasting Happiness". The sentiment is from another coffee themed set called "Sunshine of Life." If you do not have coffee or Tea themed stamps, you can check out Jessica's stamps at Polka Dot Orchard. She has many coffee themed stamps and because they are digital, you get them instantly! There is no wait and you can start creating right away!

How pretty is this coffee cup with the daffodils wrapped around it? I used my distress inks to 'paint' the image and background giving it a light spring feel.

I found a picture of an unusual daffodil on the internet that was purple with yellow and orange. I thought that would be a fun color combo for my coffee cup! 

Check out the other caffeinated inspiration from my fellow creative team members here=> Polka Dot Orchard Blog

 I cannot wait to see what everyone makes! There is plenty of time to join so grab your caffeinated stamps and play along!

To My Significant Otter...

I love making Christmas cards. They just make me so happy inside. There are so many adorable stamp sets out there, gorgeous paper, pretty ribbons and various awesome embellishments. Problem is, I start too late and don't get many made. Some are rushed and not made the way I really want them to be.

This year, I decided to follow Jenn Shurkus's "Get Cracking on Christmas" to get a jump start and have something at Christmas. Plus I get to use many more of my fun Christmas sets that I probably wouldn't have had time to touch if I waited. I started late as I just joined last month. However, I am getting caught up and this is my 4th Christmas card made so far. I am pretty excited because this one is for my husband and usually I leave his for last.

Last night I was watercoloring a Coffee card and had a bit of green left over so I decided to use it on a watercolor panel for future use. Today when I was working on this card I pulled it out and it fit perfectly with my layout. I used the following lawn fawn sets: Christmas like no otter, and Ready set Snow.

I used Prima watercolors (Art Philosophy) to paint these images. I just love these otters! 

Such a Pill!

Good morning! Today I have a couple more cards using sets from Polka Dot Orchard's new release this weekend. I love the sassy sentiments in these sets. The sentiment that I used for my first card is from  "Blessings for a Nurse" and I used "Feel Better Soon" for both cards. The Copics that I used are:

Pills:YR31, E93, BG000, BG02, R22, R24, R27
Pill Bottle: C0, C2
Heart: R22, R24, R27
Stethoscope: C0, C1, C2, C5

Two Snarky Nurse Note cards & One for a birthday!

Sometimes you just have to laugh! I made these two snarky nurse card for my SIL who I am sure will use for coworkers. The Sanitizer card is a LATE birthday for my Brother in Law and it is a shaker card. The Coronaviruses move around. I love these new sets from Polka Dot Orchard. I used "At The Nurses Station", "All the Shots", and "A Friendships Touch" for these cards. I also used the shot as a background from "Feel Better Soon" but plan to use the pills and some other images for my next batch of cards!

I love this sentiment! 

Christmas with "Wordy Mug"

I am back to using Angie Blom's "Wordy Mug" and this time for Christmas. I really love this digital stamp set {I know I have said that A LOT}. This time I used it to make a Christmas card. I watercolored the flowers from Angie Blom's "Dear Sweet Friend" and "With Love Dahlias" and added them to the mugs. Then I used Hickory Smoke distress Oxide with the Tim Holtz Holiday Knit Stencil to make a tablecloth. 

Hope you like it! 

A Mother's Love

Needing to make a last minute Mother’s Day card? This set is also great to use at any time to congratulate and celebrate a new Mom! Polka Dot Orchard has you covered with this amazing set “A Mother’s Love” The best part is this set is digital so you will get it instantly, no need to wait for it it come in the mail! {Scroll downfor the baby boy version}

To make a quick card, I watercolored with Distress inks: 

Tea dye and Brushed Corduroy for her hair (more watered down for the baby)

Tattered Rose (not pictured) for the skin

Spun Sugar for the baby clothes and cheeks

Picked Raspberry for the burping cloth

Seedless Preserves for the mom's top

Tumbled glass for the shadow

Then I used my copic marker, R83, to color the dew drops to add color to them.

I love this set so much I had to make a second card today....

The inside has such a sweet sentiment that can be used for a mom on Mother's Day or a new mom any time of the year.

I hope you love this as much as I do!

Copics:

Hair: E50, E53, E55

Skin: E000, E00

Cheeks: E01

Top: Y32

Baby top: B45

Burping Cloth: B41

Lifetime Of Happiness

These flowers were so much fun to paint and I love the framed art look of this card. I used the Polka Dot Orchard Digital Set called "Lifetime of Happiness" and the sentiment is "Faith in God". It is a nice card to remind someone that God will listed to your concerns to help ease your burden. 

I usually use Adobe spark post to manipulate my digital stamps but today I played with powerpoint. I used the set of three Poppies and used a single flower that I put behind the group of three. I rotated the other single flower and put it on the other side of the group of three to give me a bundle of 5 flowers which I felt fit the spot a little better for my need.

Faith in God Card

I love this digital stamps set "Faith in God" By Polka Dot Orchard. It is so pretty. The sentiments are beautiful and about strength. On this card, I used a sentiment from "Be a Unicorn" I thought it matched nicely with this card. 

I used a post-it Note to mask off the top half of the card and colored the bottom with Copic markers W0, W1, and W2. Then I masked off the bottom by using the post-it to cover the bottom and putting a copy of the girl over her. Then used Tumbled Glass Distress oxide to brush over the stencil to give the lacy flower look. I colored the girl with E000, E00, hair with E57, E59 and Dress with RV00, RV32, RV34, RV11. 

Mother's Day Card Rae Dunn Style!

I just had to try out Angie Blom's Digital Stamp Sets "Wordy Mug" And "You are Blessed Cosmos". Wordy Mug is a Rae Dunn style mug image and the set comes with letters so you can customize the mug to say whatever you want and because it is a digital image {AWESOME} you can adjust the letters to be any size you need or you can make the mug bigger. I painted this with watercolors. I can see this mug used for so many things... Wink Wink...Christmas. I cut out the flowers and popped them up on foam adhesive for dimension.