Sending Warm Coffee Wishes

Hello everyone!! It's time for my GD post at Paper Crafter Anonynous. Please visit here see today's post. I have created a simple and quick coffee card with the FSJ pattern papers. Visit my post at Paper Crafter Anonymous to see more details.

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Submitting this to:

• Coffee Lovers BlogHop - Holiday
• MFT Sketch Challenge
  
• Mod Squad Challenge - Anything but Christmas
• Power Poppy - Rewind - Hang some paper
• Verve Stamps - Inspiration Challenge - Cup of kindness
• Word Art Wednesday

Cup of Cheer

Hello everyone!! I'm back to share one more card that I made now.

I used one of the cups from the Verve Stamps - Cup of Kindness Digi set, which is available for free till Dec 25th. The sentiment is also from the same set. I took a printout of the cup, fuzzy cut it and colored it with markers. I cut the sentiment into a rectangle and layered it on red card stock panel. I wrapped red baker's twine around the sentiment panel. I love this sentiment. It's perfect for New Year cards.

I adhered the cup with foam tape. I didn't add any glitter or bling on this one, as I wanted to keep it simple and masculine.

Thanks for stopping by. Please let me know your comments.

Submitting this to:

• Coffee Lovers Blog Hop - Winter/Holiday
• ODBD - Color Inspiration
  
• Power Poppy - Time to rewind - Cut it out
• Verve Stamps Inspiration Challenge - Cup of kindness
• Word Art Wednesday

Cup of Kindness

Hello everyone!! After a small break, I made a few cards today. Many of you might know that 2015 Winter/Holiday Coffee Lovers Blog Hop is open now. And that today is National Cocoa day! I made a few cards to celebrate that!!

In lieu of this hop, Verve stamps has released a digi set, which is available completely free of cost, till December 25th. You can get it here. Both the cup and the sentiment in my card are from this digi set. I've always tried ti shy away from digi images in the past (though I've used them on rare occasions), now that we've bought a printer at home, I'm trying to make the most out of it. I have a lot of figuring out to do!!

I printed the sentiment and cup on white paper. I fuzzy cut and colored the cup with my marker. I used a single marker to color my cup and had to use 5 - 7 coats to get to this stage. But I'm happy with the result. I used silver glitter gel for the snowflake in the cup. I used the same glitter get to draw a thin strip on the top and bottom end of the sentiment panel.

I used grey card stock for card base. I stamped some snowflakes from Hero Arts Tree-Mendous stamp set with white and grey ink. I hope you can see the tone on tone look of the grey ink.

Thanks for stopping by. Please let me know your thoughts and suggestions.

Submitting this to:

• Coffee Lovers Blog Hop - Winter/Holiday
• CAS-ual Fidays - Snowflakes
• Mod Squad Challenge - All that glitters
• Power Poppy - Time to rewind - Cut it out
• Verve Stamps Inspiration challenge - Cup of kindness
• Word Art Wednesday

Autumn Blessings

Hello everyone! I'm here to share to another card for Coffee Lovers Blog Hop. This time I decided to make a shaker card with lots of cocoa and pumpkin sequins goodness.

Here's my card:

I used the cut file from Pretty Paper, Pretty Ribbon which is a freebie this week, till Thursday. I modified the file to make a shaker window. The I filled the shaker part with orange and brown sequins. I stamped the pumpkin from STAMPlorations Holiday Expressions: Thankful for Autumn set with Distress ink ripe persimmon. The leaf is cut on my cricut with the SVG file from SVG Cutting Files and colored with distress ink wild ripe persimmon.

I embossed the word Fall on a dark brown panel with clear embossing powder. The stamp is from the STAMPlorations Holiday Expressions: Thankful for Autumn set.

The sentiment "Autumn Blessings" is also from the STAMPlorations Holiday Expressions: Thankful for Autumn set.

This card was inspired by the current Muse Challenge, which is a card by Tracey M. McNeely.

Please forgive the quality of the pictures. My camera was acting up and so, I had to use my mobile phone. Also, there's not much sunlight today. I'll try to get better ones tomorrow. Thanks for stopping by. Do let me know your thoughts.

Submitting this to:

• Beyond Grey Challenges - CAS
• Fall Coffee Lovers Bloghop
  
• Happy Little Stampers - CAS with colors
• IBSIC - Sequins
  
• Let's Craft and Create - Use dies or punches
• Muse Challenge
• Our Daily Bread Designs - Make your own paper by inking or embossing
• Penny Black Challenge - Anything Goes
• Simon Says Stamp - Wednesday - No Designer paper
• STAMPlorations Anything Goes
• Verve Stamps - Autumn
• Viva La Verve - Sketch 2
  
• Whimsy Stamps - Anything goes or Halloween
• Word Art Wednesday

Coffee Hugs

Hello everyone! How was your weekend? Hope you all had a great time. I made a card for the Fall Coffee Lovers Blog hop. This is my first time in the Coffee lovers blog hop.
Here's my card:

I used the cut file from Pretty Paper, Pretty Ribbon, which is a freebie this week. The pumpkin on the cup had eyes. It was cute. But I thought it wouldn't work well with the kind of card that I planned to do, so I removed that. I used Distress ink Ripe persimmon and Wild honey to color the pumpkin.

I used my Cricut Explore to cut a lot of construction paper and the mat lost its stickiness. The construction paper has lots of fibre which is difficult to remove from the mat. So whenever I tried to cut a design, the paper won't stick properly to the mat and while cutting, the paper will move. I was planning on changing the mat but was a little hesitant to do so. I was reading a post on one of the Cricut groups in FB where some people said they clean their mats with dish washing soap. I thought I'd give it a try before throwing the mat out. I'm glad I tried it!! I washed it twice with Dawn liquid soap and now it's sticking as good as new! So if any of you are facing this issue, you can give it a try. I mixed Dawn liquid soap with water and spread it on the mat. The FB post said to use a scrapper, but since I didn't have one I used a soft toothbrush. Once done, wash it with water and wipe with a clean towel or let it air dry. Mine became sticky after the first time, but not very good. So I did this one more time and it was perfect!

The sentiment is from STAMPlorations VIGNETTE: Art Deco Border Builders stamp set. I embossed it with white embossing powder. The Fall leaves are handmade. I used the cut file from SVG Cutting files, which is a freebie. I inked them with Distress ink Wild honey, Ripe persimmon and Hero Arts Dark Quartz and Red Royal.

Thanks for stopping by and hope you liked this card. Let me know what you think of this card and any suggestions as well!

Submitting this to:

• Fall Coffee Lovers Blog hop
  
• Beyond Grey Challenges - CAS
• Happy Little Stampers - CAS - coloring
• Simon Says Stamp - Monday Challenge - Use a stamp
• Simon Says Stamp - Wednesday - No designer paper
• STAMPlorations - Anything Goes
  
  
  
• STAMPlorations - CASEplorations CASE of Deepti's card (colors) and Kim's card (Fall leaves)
  
• Verve Stamps - Autumn Lovelies
  
  
  
• Whimsy Stamps - Anything goes/Halloween
• Word Art Wednesday