Love You a Latte

Happy Friday!! I am celebrating today with CAS-ual Fridays Stamps and the Coffee Loving Cardmaker's Blog for their Spring/Summer Blog Hop!

I created a card with the CAS-Friday's new Coffee Chips chipboard. It is available NOW in the NEW section of the CAS-ual Fridays Stamp Store.

I started off my card by using the By the Beans Stencil and Ground Espresso Distress Ink to create a background.

When I was done stenciling, I ran the stencil and my stenciled background through my die cut machine to dry emboss the panel. This gave the stenciling a slightly raised look as you can see in the photo below.

I then adhered my background to an A2, top folding card base. This card was inspired by last weeks Freshly Made Sketches #435 so I adhered some paper strips from my scrap card as indicated by the sketch below. If you are new to my blog, I often use sketches when making most of my cards. Some are from challenges, others I create myself.

Next I used the Coffee'isms stamp set to to stamp part of my sentiment with red ink onto a circle die cut.

I adhered the circle to my card front using foam adhesive to give it a little pop.

The "latte" sentiment is from the new Coffee Chips  chipboard, which I inked with Ground Espresso Distress Ink to match the background, before adhering under the stamping.

My last step was to adhere a chipboard heart that I had covered with Candy Apple Distress Ink, Aqua Shimmer Pen and some Glossy Accents.

I had so much fun putting this card together and I hope that you like it!! Hop on over to the CAS-ual Fridays Blog to see more great coffee cards from the design team.

In honor of this blog hop, CAS-ual Fridays Stamps is having a 25% off sale on all coffee themed products. 

Use my code NORASENTME to get an extra 15% off your total order.

Don't forget to comment on the blogs along the way. There are flash prizes to be given away. To find out what you can win, please see the CAS-ual Fridays Stamp Blog. 

I want to thank you for taking the time to stop by my blog today. I hope you have a FABULOUS weekend!!

Multiple Monday #1

Happy Monday everyone!!

I have been doing a lot of cardmaking lately but have not been blogging much. I am on my computer so much for work now that I just don't have any energy left to write anything. The school year will be over June 12th and I am SOOOOO looking forward to it.

One thing that I decided to do this month is to make some cards using a similar design. I want to send some out to people that I know are working hard and not feeling the love from their bosses. Yes, even people NOT on the front lines are having a lot of stress and anxiety about their jobs. Everything is so up in the air.

This week I am posting a small set of cards I created. I basically copied the design of THIS card by Carissa Wiley.

I have to admit, I rarely copy cards but am more "inspired" by aspects of them. However, I just thought the cards Carissa made were just amazing. I did not have ANY of the same supplies as her so I adapted what I had to create my version.

To start with, I made a "test" card. I often do this when I am making multiples of something to see what supplies I would use.  I used The Stamp Market's "Painted Background" (retired) stamp set to create my rainbow effect. The little heat embossed hearts are from Pretty Pink Posh's "Rainy Day Additions" stamp set and the sentiment on this card is from Simon Says Stamps "Tiny Words."

The polaroid frame is the "Polaroid Shaker Frame" from MFT Stamps, the flower die is from Pink Fresh Studio's "Dainty Blossoms," and the smile sentiment is from the retired WPlus9 "Basic Greetings." Instead of doing foiling like Carissa did, I used gold cardstock and heat embossing for the gold elements. It was just easier for me and I don't have the machine she had to use for foiling.

For my "real" cards, I chose to change the blue to a lighter shade. I liked how the card looked with the more aqua shade than the Island Blue I used on my "test" card.

I also chose to switch up the sentiments a bit too. The embossed sentiment on the card above and below is from the Ink Blot Shop's "Sentiment Label Block's" stamp set.

I cannot tell you the FUN I had just looking through my supplies to substitute for what she used. I urge you to try and copy a card design substituting the supplies you own. I usually get bored making multiples but since their were so many steps, my attention didn't wane.

The sequins were the last touch and are from Pretty Pink Posh.

I want to thank you for taking the time to stop by my blog. I will be back next Monday with a bunch of similar cards I created using my own design.

Have a FABULOUS day!!

What Would I do Without You?

Happy Tuesday everyone!! Today I am on the CAS-ual Fridays Stamps Blog with a new friendship card.

Please hop on over to the blog to see how I created it!! 

I thank you for taking the time to stop by today!! Have a FABULOUS day!!

My Homework for the Spring Card Camp 2

Happy Mother's Day everyone!! I hope you all had a wonderful day.

Charlotte had to work today so I didn't get to spend it with her. My husband made me a delicious Dutch Apple Pancake for breakfast, I went for a walk with my neighbor who I have been walking with throughout this whole shelter in place, brought a plant to my sister, who I have not seen in forever, and Chris made me a delicious dinner. It was a nice day all around. If you wondered, I did social distance at my sister's. Very windy day here and we all sat out in her driveway at a distance and talked. It was really nice

So now for my cards!! I have had a nice weekend watching the videos from the Spring Card Camp 2 from Online Card Classes. I have been behind in both the classes and the homework is I have had so much to do at work.

Day 1 of the card camp was all about masking.

I used Honey Bee Stamps "Zen Floral" stamps to stamp flowers around a circle that I had masked off in the center so I could put the sentiment. Not sure if this is what the teachers had in mind but I have to be different!

The colors were inspired by The Color Throwdown #592 and the Sketch is my interpretation of CASE this Sketch #371.

Not only did I mask the circle but when I stamped the Stamplorations "Be Somebody" sentiment, I masked off parts so I could stamp it first in gold, then in teal and the last in turquoise.

I will be honest, this is rather busy for me but I do like how it came out.

I wanted to utilize my smaller stamps again in a different way and I thought these would be fun.

My next card is homework for Day 4 of the Spring Card Camp 2. The challenge was to make a Statement with a Sentiment.

To be honest, I didn't have a ton sentiment sets to choose from. I have a lot of stamp sets AND sentiment strips sets but nothing out of the box like the sets that were used. SOOOO, I got a bit creative. I decided to use one large word and then use a phrase at the bottom. I used MY FAVORITE birthday set from CAS-ual Fridays Stamps,  "Shenanigans".

 In the lesson, the paper used was cardstock. I decided to go through my paper scraps and pulled out a mix of pattern paper and cardstock to use. I even used heat embossing because that is what was used in the video lesson-and heat embossing is not my favorite thing to do!!

Well, that is all from me today. I did do part of my homework from Day 2 but still need to finish my project. I also need to work on today's homework.

Before I go, I want to show you what Charlotte left me on the counter this morning so I could have it when I got up.

My FAVORITE chocolates, some "love mom" socks, a hydrangea candle and the most beautiful card. All I really cared about was the card. She writes the SWEETEST notes to me that melt my heart!!

Well, that is all from me today. I thank you for taking the time to stop by. Have a FABULOUS night!!

Smile: Happiness is Contagious!!

Happy Friday!!

Just popping in with a card I created for the Online Card Class: Spring Card Camp 2. I am so happy that I took this class!! So far the techniques have been ones I have used but then the designers KICKED them up a notch!!

Yesterday's homework was to make your own stripes. Here is the card I created.

I used the colors from a Design Seeds color card to pick the colors for this card. I wanted to try to step out of my comfort zone!!

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I originally wanted to make it a one layer card but as always happens, I tore my paper when taking off some of the tape and had to improvise.

I used Honey Bee Stamps "Zen Floral Stamps" to stamp inside most of my stripes that I blended on this card.

I stamped "Smile," a sentiment from My Favorite Things, in black on the striped panel and then emphasized it with a Tonic Aqua Shimmer pen and Glossy Accents. It almost looks like it is a die cut!!

I will be creating my next homework assignment after work to post tomorrow. I have never been successful with the next technique so cross your fingers that I can get it to work!!!

I am also going to be posting this on the NBUS Challenge Blog as I have had these Honey Bee Stamps for a while but have never used them. 

I appreciate you taking the time to stop by. Have a FABULOUS day!!