Pumpkin Spice Coffee, Donuts and Sunflowers

 

Hello and welcome.  Today starts the Coffee Loving Cardmakers Fall/Winter blog hop.  For my project, I decided to use the Bloomin' Spring Coffee Basket digital stamp from Stamplorations in fall colors instead of spring since I love pumpkin spice latte's.  I also colored the daisies like sunflowers.

I started out by printing the image at 3.5 x 5 inches onto Hammermill white card stock then colored using both Lyra and Castle Arts pencils.  Once the coloring was finished, I lightly stippled some Stampin Up tangerine tango and always artichoke inks around it before layering.  For my card base, I repeatedly stamped the row of coffee cups from Stampin Up's Espress Yourself (retired) in tangerine tango ink before stamping the coffee beans in always artichoke ink on the border strip.  Once the card was assembled, I added some Ranger Glossy Accents for the donut "glaze" and on the coffee straws before adding some faux brads and faux stitching before adding some gold sequins from my stash.  As an afterthought, I took some Tim Holtz Stormy Sky distress ink and stippled some right underneath the basket for the shadow.  I'm really happy with how this turned out since I was making it while dealing with a migraine.

Challenges entered:

 

Never Before Used Schtuff (NBUS) #44 - Use Your NBUS (main image) 

The Four Seasons November - Anything Goes Fall (inspired by colors - see pic below)

Splitcoaststampers USEIT2022 - Use Your Unloved Stash (background stamps)

Outlawz Festive Friday Nov 11 to Nov 24 - Anything Goes Theme 

Paper Funday #47 - Anything Goes Optional Colors of Autumn (I used autumn colors)

Crafting Happiness #136 - Thanksgiving or Fall (fall)

Colour Crazy Craft Wk 44 - Anything Goes Coloring 

 

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day.

Stamps: Stamplorations; Stampin Up

Ink: Stampin Up Tangerine Tango, Always Artichoke; Tim Holtz Stormy Sky

Card Stock: Hammermill White; Stampin Up

Accessories: Computer, Printer, Castle Art Pencils, Lyra Fleshtone Pencils, PFS Blending Brushes, Sequins, Bearly Arts Glue, SU Always Artichoke Marker, Ranger Glossy Accents, Small Hole Punch, Color Spritzer Tool

 

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Happy Christmas Mate & Some Musings

Hello and welcome.  Well California is finally getting some rain and snow in the mountains.  How long this lasts only God knows. Don't get me wrong.  I LOVE rain especially since we need it so badly.  With that in mind, things have been a bit "rough" here the last few days for me physically and mentally.  Had to get an appointment with my primary to follow-up on the back and start to deal with mental issues.  Lately I've been feeling like I'm going to jump out of my skin and I just can't control feeling like that.  So, long story short, we're trying a few things to see if they help.  Please keep your fingers crossed the new meds work.  I'm digressing though and you're here to see the card I made for a lovely young lady in Australia whom I had sent a birthday card a couple of months back as part of a RAK request.  Once I had sent her birthday card, I thought Elysha would like one at Christmas too so I borrowed the retired Happy Christmas Mate set from Stampin Up a friend of mine had.

I started out by stamping the Santa image in Memento tuxedo black ink onto scrap white card stock then colored it using both prismacolor and copic markers.  Once the coloring was finished, I layered it and added some faux brads before setting aside.  I then took a scrap panel of card stock, dry embossed it using a Cuttlebug swirls embossing folder and my big shot, before stippling Tim Holtz broken china distress ink over the embossed images before adding that to a blue card base.  I then added my layered image panel using glue dots.  As an afterthought, I highlighted the surfing Santa using Castle Arts glitter gel pens and added a few sequins from my stash.  To the inside of the card, I added a few more stamped/colored images from the same Happy Christmas Mate set along with sayings from my dusty Sunny Seasons Greetings set (retired).

Inside of card

Challenges entered:

 

Never Before Used Schtuff (NBUS) #44 - November Use Your NBUS (images/sayings) 

Splitcoaststampers USEIT2022 - Use Your Unloved Stash (Sunny Seasons Greetings set) 

The Holly and Ivy Christmas Challenge #127 - Anything Goes Christmas 

Fab 'n' Funky Challenge #550 - Shades of Blue 

Through The Craft Room Door Nov 8th - Anything Goes 

Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge #619 - Anything Goes Christmas 

 

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day.

Stamps: Stampin Up

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black; Tim Holtz Broken China, Tumbled Glass

Card Stock: Hammermill White; Stampin Up; Scraps

Accessories: Prismacolor and Copic Markers, PFS Blending Brushes, PFS Sequins, Big Shot, Cuttlebug Embossing Folder, Gel Pens, Small Hole Punch, Bearly Arts Glue, Sanding Block

 

Design Team Favorite

 Hello and welcome.  I found out my card for last month's Critter Crazy #67 challenge was selected as a design team favorite.

Thank You Wood Block Flowers

 

Hello and welcome.  Today I'm participating in Woodblock Wednesdays a just for fun new challenge over on Instagram started by Amy Tsuruta (@craftee1).  Every Wednesday pull out those wood block stamps we all have and lets show them some love.  Everything on my card is made using several different wood block sets or singles.

 

I started out by stamping my main image using Hero Arts Garden Flowers Sketch I received from a friend by stamping it in memento tuxedo black ink then coloring using Stampin Up Watercolor Pencils with a blender marker.  Once the coloring was finished, I stamped the background to my image panel using Hero Arts Screened Solids stamp (I've had for years and used maybe once or twice) and Tim Holtz tumbled glass distress ink over my water-colored image before stamping Hero Arts Background Fancy Notes solid stamps in Tim Holtz tattered rose distress ink again over the water-colored image.  Once all of the coloring of my main image was finished, I layered it and added some small white brads.  The card background is stamped using a retired Stampin Up dots/flowers background that I cannot find the name of.  I then stamped my saying from Stampin Up's Wonderful Words in memento tuxedo black.  For the finishing touches, I added some crystal ice stickles and sponged some orchid opulence ink around the edges.

Challenges entered:

 

 

Never Before Used Schtuff (NBUS) #44 - Use Your NBUS (main image, fancy notes stamps, card base background)

Splitcoaststampers USEIT2022 - Use Your Unloved Stash (saying, tumbled glass shadow stamp)

A Place To Start #102022 - Anything Goes Optional Circles and Squares (squares behind flowers)

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends #192 - Anything Goes  

Word Art Wednesday Wk 567 to 568 - Anything Goes Uplifting 

 

 

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day.

Stamps: Hero Arts; Stampin Up!

Ink: Tim Holtz Tumbled Glass, Tattered Rose; Stampin Up Orchid Opulence: Memento Tuxedo Black

Card Stock: Hammermill White; Stampin Up

Accessories: SU Watercolor Pencils, Blender Marker, Brads, Glue Dots, Crystal Ice Stickles, Sponge

The Best Thing To Hold

 

Hello and welcome.  I am thrilled to be guest designing this month over on the Never Before Used Schtuff (NBUS) challenge blog.  The idea of the challenge is to use all the fun stamps, dies, supplies, washi tape, etc that we have bought and just have not used.  So dig into that stash, and let's get into those supplies and pull out the schtuff we just had to have and use it!

My card for this month's challenge uses a digital stamp (Pooh Cards 1 Classic), and matching digital paper (Bee Classic Pooh), from Dina Kowal Digital.  Now the weather in California has finally decided to get with the program and let Fall be fall and not just a summer hangover.  Now if we could only get some desperately needed rain.  So, I let our freaky California weather help inspire my card.

After printing the image,  on to Hammermill white paper before pulling out my dusty, and rarely used, watercolor pencils and got to coloring.  After blending the colors using an alcohol marker, I took my Picket Fence Studios Slim Line Cloud stencil and blending brushes and go to making the image background using Tim Holtz stormy sky distress ink.  Once my clouds were finished, I took those unloved watercolor pencils and created a rainstorm to go with my blustery day before layering and adding some ruby red brads then adhering the layered image to a ruby red card base with the Bee Classic Pooh digital paper on it.  I then sponged some ruby red ink around the edges of the card before lightly dabbing some of the leftover ink into the lower left corner of the image panel.  Taking a small scrap of the digital paper, I fussy cut, yes fussy cut, three of the honey jars out then adhered them to the image panel before highlighting the honey overflow using a Sakura clear 3D glaze pen.  The final embellishment was crystal ice stickles as raindrops.  I'm really happy with how this turned out, especially since I made it while dealing with a bit of a migraine.

Challenges entered:

 

Never Before Used Schtuff #44 November - Use Your NBUS (image/paper)

Splitcoaststampers USEIT2022 - Use Your Unloved Stash (watercolor pencils)

Digi Choosday #44 - Anything Goes 

CD Sunday Plus #97 - Anything Goes Digital (image/paper)

Colour Crazy Craft Wk 43 - Anything Goes Coloring 

Outlawz Festive Friday Oct 28 to Nov 10 - Animals Theme (Pooh/Piglet)

 

 

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a fabulous week.

Stamps: Dina Kowal Digital

Ink: Tim Holtz Stormy Sky; Stampin Up Ruby Red

Card Stock: Hammermill White; Stampin Up

Accessories: Computer, Printer, Watercolor Pencils, Blender Marker, Brads, PFS Slim Line Cloud Stencil, Sponge, Ice Stickles, 3D Glaze Pen, Bearly Arts Glue

PIP Challenge 2244

 

 Sponsored by Polkadoodles

 

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Polkadoodles FB 2

THEME is CELEBRATION!!

 

 

Hello and welcome.  Today starts a new challenge over at Pammie's Inky Pinkies.  This week we are sponsored by Polkadoodles.  I would first like to thank them for their sponsorship and for providing the design team images for us to use.  Since this is the 5th Monday for October, we have a theme this week and it's celebrations.  My project this week uses this cute little Gnometastic Celebration Balloons.

After printing my image onto Hammermill white card stock, I colored it using both Lyra and Castle Arts pencils before stippling Tim Holtz broken china distress ink around it using my blending brushes from Picket Fence Studios before layering and adding brads.  I then took my card base and dry embossed it using a dusty Cuttlebug birthday embossing folder and my big shot before rubbing Pacific Pointe ink over the raised images.  I then took some scrap pacific pointe card stock, stamped it using a retired Stampin Up Beyond The Basics set before layering and adding my border.  Once I added the layered image panel, I pulled out some dusty dew drops for the final touch.  

 

I'm really happy with how it turned out considering how awful I feel.  I got my latest COVID booster this last weekend and it sure has kicked my booty!  Ugh!  I do, however, recommend getting the latest booster especially since you don't know if the person next to you is high risk or not; like I am.  Otherwise get it to protect your own family.

Challenges entered:

 

Never Before Used Schtuff #43 - October Use Your NBUS (image)

Splitcoaststampers USEIT2022 - Use Your Unloved Stash (dew drops, embossing folder, brads) 

Jan's Digital Stamps October 2022 - Anything Goes

CD Sunday Plus #97 - Anything Goes Digital (image)

Colour Crazy Craft Wk 43 - Anything Goes Coloring 

Gem of a Craft Challenge Wk 22 - Anything Goes 

Outlawz Festive Friday Oct 28 to Nov 10 - Birthday Theme 

 

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day and don't forget to join in our challenge over at Pammie's Inky Pinkies.

Stamps: Polkadoodles; Stampin Up

Ink: SU Pacific Pointe

Card Stock: Hammermill White; SU

Accessories: Computer, Printer, Big Shot, Cuttlebug Embossing Folder, Dew Drops, Pop Up Glue Dots, Brads, Glue Dots, PFS Blending Brushes, Lyra and Castle Art Pencils

Baby It's Cold Outside

 

 

Hello and welcome.  It's still been a bad couple of days for me so I'd like to share a card that I made using one of the sets Picket Fence Studios offered in a World Cardmaking Day package (for a steal I might add) called Baby It's Cold Outside along with a couple of their stencils; Snowy Trees (retired) and the Slim Line Cloud Coverage.

I started out by stenciling my trees using mowed lawn distress ink and blending brushes.  Once my trees were finished, I stenciled the clouds using stormy sky distress ink and the blending brushes.  At this point, I stamped my gnome's in memento tuxedo black ink onto some scrap white card stock before coloring using Castle Art's and Lyra flesh tone pencils.  Once my coloring was finished, I cut them out and adhered using Bearly Arts glue before stamping the saying from the same set in memento tuxedo black ink above the trees.  Now came the fun.  After adhering the image panel to my card, I took some Snowtex snow paint and craft spatula and created the snow on the trees and ground.  For the snow sparkle, I added some crystal ice stickles to the snow and to create falling snow.  It's not how I envisioned it in my head, but I'm really happy with how this turned out.  Not bad for creating on a migraine.

Challenges entered:

 

Falling For The Holidays 2022 - Anything Goes Holidays 

Peace On Earth Christmas #26 - Anything Goes Christmas 

Never Before Used Schtuff #43 - Use Your NBUS (gnomes)

The Holly and Ivy Christmas #126 - Anything Goes Christmas 

The Most Magical Time Of The Year #1 - Anything Goes Halloween or Christmas 

Stay Crafty With A Blog Named Hero October - Merry Everything 

 

Peace On Earth Christmas Challenge

 

 

 Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day.

 

Stamps: Picket Fence Studios

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black; Tim Holtz Pine Needles, Stormy Sky

Card Stock: Hammermill White; Stampin Up

Accessories: PFS Stencils, PFS Blending Brushes, Castle Art and Lyra Pencils, Brads, Glue Dots, Snowtex Snow Paint, Crystal Ice Stickles

Singing The Song Of Our Peoples

  

Hello and welcome.  Anyone who's ever been "owned" by a cat totally understands the middle of the night Opera "shows".  Possibly the furry "overlord" is expecting breakfast at 3am (or in my house it's 5am opera feed me alarm shows).  Perhaps your morning alarm isn't a clock but getting the "feed me" smack in the face?  I have and my toes have been bitten as an alarm.  Either way, cats have their own special way of reminding human servants who rules, and runs, the house.  With all of this in mind, my card for today's Cat Lovers Hop pays homage to our clever, sneaky but talented, furry members of our families.

I originally bought these stamps from the Rubbernecker Stamps booth from one of the stamp conventions held in San Jose, California (don't remember the name) at least 10-12 years ago and never used.  Boy did I get a steal from the Rubbernecker booth - several individual stamps and 3 grab bags all for a steal of a price.  My grab bags didn't have any duplicates either - now how often does that happen.  However, I digress.  I've checked the Rubbernecker site and don't see them for sale anymore. 

 

I started out by stamping the background in memento tuxedo black ink onto white card stock before stamping the remaining images (there are 5 total here) onto scrap white card stock before coloring using prismacolor pencils.  I then trimmed down the colored images before adhering them to my background using some Bearly Arts glue I received for my birthday then layered the panel.  I then stippled Tim Holtz chipped sapphire, walnut stain, and mowed lawn distress inks using blending brushes from Picket Fence Studios. After adding some white brads, I adhered the finished image panel to a navy card using glue dots.  The only other embellishments added were, crystal ice stickles around the moon and a clear glitter gel pen to create night stars in the sky and highlight the trash can lid.

Challenges entered:

 

Never Before Used Schtuff #43 October - Use Your NBUS (images)

Show Us Your Pussycats #82 - Anything Goes Cats (images)

2022 Cat Lovers Hop - Anything Goes Cats 

Simon Say Stamp Wednesday - Anything Goes 

Crazy For Cats #1 - Anything Goes Cats 

Colour Crazy Craft Wk 42 - Anything Goes Coloring 

 

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day and don't forget to hop along (link is above).  I once again leave you with greetings of two more of my cats.

Puff aka THE Princess (and she knows it too LOL) (age 10)

Miss Lily - our loving but very timid lady (Puff's sister age 10)

Our dear, sweet Mama - she was a kitten who had kittens in our woodpile outside eating moldy lunches our son would hide from us back then.  As soon as we saw her and her kittens, they were upgraded to the guest bathroom with good foods, water and a warm/cool play to live.  She really was mama to Spot (day 2 hop), Bubba (day 1) Lily (day 3) and Princess Puff (day 3).  We kept her and her whole surviving litter.  The worst thing she did in life was ever so lightly tap on our foot/lower leg when she wanted pets.  She passed away Sept 2021 from kidney failure and seizures. The picture was taken the night before she passed.  She is so missed.

 

 

 

Stamps:  Rubbernecker

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black; Tim Holtz Chipped Sapphire, Mowed Lawn, Walnut Stain

Card Stock: Stampin Up; Scraps

Accessories: Prismacolor Pencils, PFS Blending Brushes, Brads, Ice Stickles, Gel Pens, Glue Dots