Your Birthstone is a Coffee Bean-Coffee Lovers Blog Hop Day 4

 Happy Monday!! 

Just popping in with a coffee card with some CAS-ual Fridays Stamps coffee themed products using this weeks CASE this Sketch Challenge #397 as inspiration.

I created this for the Coffee Lover's Fall/Winter Blog Hop. 

It is hard to tell but I started off my card by using the Coffee Bean Stencil to dry emboss coffee beans on a piece of white cardstock. I then adhered the cardstock over a white, top folding A2 card base.  

I then used the Coffee Cup Fri-dies to die cut four small coffee cups out of scraps of pattern paper. I temporarily adhered them to the paper and stamped the sentiment using the Cup Refills stamp set. 

I then used the CASE this Sketch #397 as my guide to adhere the coffee cups down. This sketch was PERFECT for these coffee cups!!

I used Ranger Ground Espresso Distress Ink to shade the "coffee" inside the cups and topped it off with some Glossy Accents and my card was DONE. 

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That is all from me today. I hope you all have a FABULOUS day!!

A Christmas Card for Freshly Made Sketch Challenge #460

 Hello everyone!! It has been an echo chamber here lately. I have not had a ton of energy to create these days. Between stressing about work, the election and the increase in Covid in the schools, my mojo has flown out the window. Does anyone else have a hard time creating when they are stressed?

It also doesn't help that my crown is disintegrating on a tooth and I have been experiencing terrible tooth pain. I am having a temporary crown put on the tooth on Tuesday and I cannot wait!! I never thought I would be excited to go to the dentist!!!

This morning I had a great walk and some snuggles with my neighbor's dog so I sat down to my desk to see if I could get some of my creative juices flowing. I watched a video Jennifer McGuire posted on using embossing folders so I tried the technique in my own way.

I used a Richard Garay embossing folder with some Ranger Pine Needle and Evergreen Bough Distress ink for the banner. I then used the same colors with an Altenew Watercolor Stripes stencil on a piece of Neenah Solar White cardstock that I had cut down to an A2, top folding card. 

The Altenew Brilliant Baubles were stamped with Ranger Spun Sugar, Worn Lipstick, and Abandoned Coral Oxide Ink. 

I used Versmark Ink and Ranger Gold Embossing Powder to heat emboss the gold accents on the ornaments. I then used some Scrapbook.com Double Sided Roll Adhesive to pop up the ornaments on the embossed banner.  I had been using the big rolls of 3M tape but they have made it so sticky that it tears my paper if I don't get it just right the first time. 

I die cut the CAS-ual Fridays "Merry" from some Tonic Gold Mirrored Gloss cardstock. This was a leftover on my desk and I knew I had to use it on this card!! 

The embossed sentiment is from MFT's Snow Globe Sentiments (retired)-one of my ALL TIME FAVORITES for Christmas sentiment stamp sets. I added a tiny bit of Gold Stickles for some sparkle on areas of the ornaments. 

This card was inspired by this week's Freshly Made Sketch Challenge #460. I am so glad that I was able to play this week!

I used the die cut and the sentiment strip in lieu of the sentiment strip that spanned the top of the sketch. 

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

Sending Hugs and Happy Thoughts with CAS-Fridays Stamps

 Happy Monday everyone!!  I hope you all had a FABULOUS weekend!!!

Today I am on the CAS-ual Fridays Stamps Blog with a fun card using the Everyday Dragonflies stamp set that I collaborated on with Michele. Below is a sneak peek of my card.

To see how I created this card and for some fun tips, please hop on over to the POST to see step-by-step instructions!

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

Day 3 Homework

 Happy Wednesday!! Just popping in with my projects from Day 3 homework for my Watercolor Christmas Class. I like these cards a bit better BUT I will never just be able to do a one layer anything I have decided.

My first card was a card with some simple trees. 

Again, I got a little heavy handed on my trees with the paint. They were lighter but I kept trying to blend and then this is what happened. 

Since I spent so much time on them, I decided that even if I didn't love them, I was making a card anyway. I created a gold frame from some gold foil cardstock using the Waffle Flower Frame dies.

I also heat embossed a sentiment from PTI at the bottom.

There was another cards I was supposed to do with a different technique with trees BUT the masking medium I used was a disaster so I threw it away.

My third card was to create an ornament without any masking. This was actually kind of fun. The watercolor did not blend like I wanted BUT it came out way better than my other cards from the first two days.

I chose to adde a silver piece of mirrored cardstock for the top of the ornament and some silver thread as a bow.

The heat embossed sentiment is from Mama Elephant.

I actually thought that this card technique was relaxing. I liked trying to keep the paint within the circle and I did slowly layer the color down. Not perfect but getting better!!!

That is all from me today. I thank you for taking the time to stop by!! Have a FABULOUS day!!

FaLaLaLa Card at CAS-ual Fridays

 Happy Monday everyone!! Today I am on the CAS-ual Fridays Blog with a Christmas card using some old and some new products. Below is a sneak peek of my project:

Hop on over to my POST see the complete card and the directions on how I created it!!!

Thank you for stopping by!! Have a FABULOUS day!!!