Espresso Yourself

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Alcohol Marker, Bead Strings 2, Close To My Heart, Coffee Loving Card Makers, Copic, CTMH, Distress Inks, Elizabeth Craft Designs, Lucky Clover, Peel-Off Stickers, Sunsational Stamps, Twisted Citron, Wilted Violet

Good Morning!  Today is a great day to grab a cup of joe and take a look at all the coffee inspiration my fellow crafty bloggers have to offer.  We are honored to be a part of the Sunsational Stamps Super Sponsoring of www.coffeelovingcardmakers.com Coffee Lovers Blog hop!

I am so excited to be part of this fabulous blog hop!  I am a huge fan of coffee and coffee related things…cups, pots, donuts, the whole shebang.  I went with a puny card today, another fave of mine.  I wanted to make a card that encouraged individuality.

I used the iconic carry out coffee cup from Sunsational Stamps Love You Latte and printed it several times.  I colored them with Copic markers, making one of them different as you can see!  I printed a second set so I could pop up the lids to give it added dimension.  The cup sleeves were cut from some decorative corrugated paper I had on hand.

I made the sentiment using a retired Close To My Heart alpha set called Hopscotch.  I drew in the giant coffee bean to make the ‘O’ in Espresso.  I used one of the dies in Elizabeth Craft Designs Bead Strings 2 to create the page division.  I cut it from a piece of cardstock that I had blended Distress inks in Twisted Citron, Lucky Clover and Wilted Violet.  I topped off each “bead” center with ECD Peel-off Gems, because…well, you gotta have some bling!

Thank you for hopping by today, and I hope you enjoy the remaining stops on our hop.  You can link back to Sunsational Stamps Blog or Coffee Loving Card Makers Blog

Sunsational stamps is offering a $25 dollars Digital Image Certificates and two flash prizes of $15 & $10 Digital Image Gift Certificates, so please do participate in the blog hop to be eligible to win some exciting prizes.

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Happy Scrappin’  Eileen

Under the Shade of a Daisy

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Alcohol Marker, Copic, Distress Inks, Elizabeth Craft Designs, Lawn Fawn, Mermaid Lagoon, Speech Bubble Edgy Options, Sunsational Stamps, TCW

Hello one and all, today we are thinking summertime.  I am using the Mouse and Flower  stamp set from Sunsational Stamps that you can find Here.  The little mouse seeking shade under the daisy makes me smile. I am a huge fan of daisies and believe it or not, mice…the cartoon version that is.  🙂

Hello Mouse & Flower Card

First off, I used an oval template, taped down to the lower right corner of my cardstock, and then taped a chicken wire stencil ( from TCW) over that. I sponged on Distress Ink in Mermaid Lagoon.  Once I removed the stencil, I again sponged more Mermaid Lagoon over the entire oval opening.  This process darkens the already inked pattern and lightly colors the actual chicken wire outline. Then I colored this cute little fella with my Copic markers and fussy cut the mouse and daisy.  I used foam squares to pop it up on the stenciled area.

For the ‘Hello’ (by Lawn Fawn), I die cut both a piece of orange cardstock as well as the yellow speech bubble which is a die set from the Speech Bubble Edgy Options set by Elizabeth Craft Designs.  I did this so I could inlay the word into the bubble and eliminate bulk for easy mailing.

This panel was adhered to a top folding white notecard and it was complete.

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Birthday Fishes

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Alcohol Marker, Distress Inks, Doodlebug Designs, Faded Jeans, Mermaid Lagoon, Peacock Feathers, Sunsational Stamps

“I want to be under the sea, in an Octopus’ garden in the shade.” This card is inspired by a Beatles song that my husband sings around the house ALL THE TIME.  🙂

Octopus’ Garden Birthday Fishes

I used the Sunsational Stamps super adorable digi set Ocean Critters 1 and 2 to make this shaker card.  I colored these cute little ocean critters with my alcohol markers.  For the background and frame I sponged on Mermaid Lagoon, Faded Jeans and Peacock Feathers Distress Ink onto watercolor paper and then spritzing it with water.  I let the water sit on it for about a minute before I pressed a paper towel onto the paper to dry.  I like the bubbly spots this technique leaves.

Close-up of Birthday Fishes

Inside of Birthday Fishes Card

I used a rectangle die to cut the center out, I adhered a piece of acetate to the backside of the frame and added foam tape around backside of frame.  I adhered the solid rectangle to the card base and added the shaker elements.  I colored very small versions of the starfish, shells and turtles to add as additional shaker elements along with the beads and sequins.  I placed the acetate layer on top, added the ocean critter on top of the acetate and the ‘Fishing You’ are from my Doodlebug Teeny Type stickers.

I stamped the inside with a Raisin Boat sentiment and added one more turtle, because he is my VERY favorite!

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Thanks for swimming by!

Dad’s Cooking Up Some Fun

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Alcohol Marker, Close To My Heart, Sunsational Stamps

Hi there, I know Mother’s Day is right around the corner, but I am already working on Father’s Day cards, so I would like to share this one with you featuring a couple of the Sunsational Stamps digi sets; King of the Grill and Love Bear (male)

King-of-the-Grill Digi Set

Love Bear Man Digi Set

Dad’s Cooking Card

I started out by stamping a denim patterned background onto the apron in Memento Ink so that I could color over it with alcohol markers.  I used a dark blue, medium red and a cool grey.  Then I colored the bear with E37 and used a paper towel dipped in rubbing alcohol to dab the bear to create “fur”.  I cut the bear apart, so I could put the apron on him.  I popped up his head and added the arms.  The grilling tools were added and the bottom of each tool was popped up to give it a little dimension.

Close-up of Grilling Bear

Inside of Card

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Also, there still is time to join Sunsational Stamps’ Ocean/Beach themed challenge.  Follow this Link for all the fun! There is some great inspiration there as well as PRIZES!

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Sunsational Puppy Birthday Card

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Alcohol Marker, Distress Inks, Elizabeth Craft Designs, Peeled Paint, Sunsational Stamps, Tim Holtz, Tumbled Glass

Howdy-doo!  We have Easter right around the corner, but in my family that means we have several birthdays too!  Today I had to take a break from my Easter projects and concentrate on Birthday cards.  I used my City Critters digi set from Sunsational Stamps and used the adorable pup.  I printed it both the way it is intended and I also flipped the image so I would have two pups facing one another.  When I colored them with my alcohol markers, I used my pup and my “grand” pup as the inspiration.  😉

City Critters Birthday Card

I used my Elizabeth Craft Design‘s balloon and party hat stamps and dies from her Happy Bird-day set to turn these two little cuties into party animals.

I created the background using a stencil I created (that I use ALL the time) one end is a hilly edge and the other is a cloudy edge.  I used Peeled Paint Distress ink and Tumbled Glass Distress ink (they are my landscape Go-To colors) and sponged them over the stencil. It is quick and easy and adds a subtle background.

The Happy Birthday sentiment was die cut using Tim Holtz Thinlits Celebration Words dies.  First I backed a piece of cardstock with a sheet of double-faced tape, then I cut the words out exactly how I wanted them on the card.  In the picture below you will see how I place the letters to keep them perfectly spaced and even.

How to line up letters perfectly.

I held the negative space down with a couple of pieces of Washi tape on the card exactly where I wanted the words.  Then I proceeded to, one by one, remove the backing to expose the sticky side then placed the letter back in its spot.  Press the letters down and remove the negative space.  Voila!  Perfectly placed letters.

Close up of Puppy Card.

I added the party hats and balloons to my pups.  I hand drew the balloon string and bows.  I matted the front of the card onto more of the teal cardstock that I cut the letters out with.  Finally I attached this to the card base and called it done!

Please click Here to get to the City Critters Digi set, and while you are there look around the store, there are so many adorable sets to choose from.  Sunsational carries both digi and clear stamps for all your crafting needs.

I hope you have been inspired by today’s card.  Please stop by often and see the fabulous creations from all the Design Team Members!

Happy Scrappin’

 

Sweet Birthday Wishes

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Alcohol Marker, Carta Bella, Close To My Heart, Copic, CTMH, Queen & Co

A sweet hello to you!  Today we are making a birthday card using the extra pieces from the die cuts we made on the Valentine card a few of weeks ago.  You can see that post Here.  In that card we cut out a cupcake and used a precut pop-up shape for the shaker part.  For this card we are using the inside of the cupcake shape for the top of the ice cream cone as well as, the other negative pieces from those cut outs.  The patterned paper is  Cool Summer by Carta Bella and the solid papers are Close To My Heart.  The ice cream top is from the Queen & Co Sweet Treats kit.  I am all about using every extra scrap I can!

Pieces of the Birthday Card

The first thing I did was cut out the ice cream cone and the large scoop of ice cream using the dies that came with the Queen & Co Sweet Treats kit.  You may not be able to see it in the photos but the ice cream cone die also embosses it at the same time.  So cute!  I glued the small ‘negative’ of patterned paper to the ‘negative’ of the cupcake frosting from the previous card.  I then used a pink Copic to color the ribbon and tied it to the large piece of patterned paper and glued that to the card front.  I then layered white cardstock onto the Chocolate cardstock.  I assembled the ice cream cone, allowing the larger ice cream scoop to break out of the borders of the mat.  Finally I stamped the inside of the card with a sentiment from the Close To My Heart Cricut Artiste Birthday Wishes set, it came with the Artiste cartridge.  I stamped it in Pixie ink and called it a day!

Sweet Birthday Wishes

Inside of Sweet Birthday Wishes

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Spotlight on Autumn

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Alcohol Marker, Close To My Heart, Copic, CTMH, ShinHan, Stamp of the Month

Greetings fellow Paper Crafters!  Today I wanted to make some Thanksgiving cards and I have been eager to try a technique that is new to me called Spotlight Stamping.  I saw a couple gals in the paper crafting community showcase this technique lately and I couldn’t wait for Autumn…the leaves were a perfect way to utilize this.

Spotlight Stamping Thanksgiving card.

I used my MISTI and made two identical card fronts.  I stamped leaves and acorn from the CTMH Fall Harvest stamp set, randomly placing them to fill in the entire page .  I colored one of the stamped panels with my alcohol markers and then die cut a rectangle out of the center and popped it up with foam tape above the identical uncolored panel.  I topped that off with a “Life is Good” banner from the Love This Story stamp set also by CTMH.  The interior of the card was stamped with CTMH Year Round Cheer, Give Thanks stamp.

Interior of Spotlight Stamping Thanksgiving Card

I colored in the pumpkin pie with alcohol markers and called it done!

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Butterflies are Free to Fly

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Alcohol Marker, Copic, Elizabeth Craft Designs, Morgan's Artworld, Peel & Stick

Greetings, it has been a while!  Today I made a birthday card using Elizabeth Crafts Peel & Stick sticker, glitter paper and Copic markers.  I absolutely love the effect you get when you color the micro fine glitter paper with the Copics!

Over on Morgan’s Artworld blog, they are having their fortnight challenge, this challenge #14 is Animals…you can submit anything as long as it has an animal on it.  When I took a sneak peek at some of the entries so far, some of them had bugs too, so I thought “Why not join the challenge?!”

Glittery Butterfly Birthday Card

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My Coffee Besties

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Alcohol Marker, My Besties, Sherri Baldy

Hi all, today I made a birthday card for one of my friends who shares my addiction with a certain coffee siren…  Ahem… I think you get my drift.  😉

Coffee Bestie Birthday Card

I started with an adorable digi image from Sherri Baldy’s Besties collection and colored her with my alcohol markers.  I mounted her on a black mat and then onto a simple Swiss Dot patterned paper.

Close up of card

I hope you enjoyed today’s card, if you like the image please head on over to Sherri’s Etsy Shop here.  I would love it if you would follow my blog by clicking on the “Follow Me” button and Like us on Facebook so you don’t miss a thing.

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Sunsational Stamps January 2016 Release Blog Hop

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Alcohol Marker, American Crafts, Chalk Markers, Sunsational Stamps

 

Welcome to Sunsational Stamps Design Team Blog Hop for January, 2016. Thank you for joining us today!  We will be showcasing Winter and Valentines Day, there are over 20 new stamps in this release. They are sweet and adorable, I am over the moon in love with them and you will be inspired by our amazing Design Team’s projects.

You will find a digi stamp available to win at each blog along the hop.  Here is the one you can win from me, I just love, love, love this image!  It’s all in the name….Stinking Cute!

Stinking Cute Valentine

There is also a free exclusive digital stamp available to all who take part in the hop.

In order to win any of the blog candy and receive the freebie we ask that you please follow these simple rules to show support for each crafter and the time they have put into their work.

• 1) you MUST visit each blog
• 2) leave a comment
• 3) become a follower of each blog and our DT blog at http://www.sunsationalstamps.blogspot.com/.

We also are offering a special for this release:  You will get 10% off any order of $10.00 or more, just use the code JANUARY10. The code will be valid in both the “Sunsational Stamps” store and the “Scrapping With Lisa Designs” store. This special offer is good until Sunday, February 7th at midnight EST.

Sit back, relax, grab your favorite beverage and let’s get hopping!

For my project I used the Out Of This World set that you can find here at Sunsational Stamps

Out Of This World card

I colored in the images using ShinHan alcohol markers.  The gold stars on the sentiment were colored using American Crafts Permanent Gold Chalk Pen.  I stamped the smaller stars using Hero Arts white pigment ink.  Finally I tethered the astronaut to his spacecraft using silver thread and used foam tape to pop him up a bit.

Out Of This World Images

If you happened to have stumbled upon this blog by chance or accident, please make sure to head to the first blog listed so you don’t miss any of the Love we have to share with you. This hop runs from 8 am February 6th through 11:59 pm February 7th, so you have plenty of time to visit every blog in the list below.

Here is the line up for the hop:

Janet      –  http://www.ladyluvbug.blogspot.com/

Carla      –  http://www.racincrafts.blogspot.com

Eileen     –  https://papercanvascreations.wordpress.com/   You Are Here!

Paula      –  http://paulahattonvines.blogspot.com/

Marji      –  http://www.fstampaholic.blogspot.com

Hannah  –  http://cajunhannahcraft.blogspot.com/

Janie     –   http://crafterscastle.blogspot.com/

Lisa       –  http://sunsationalstamps.blogspot.com/

Thank you for joining us, we hope we were able to inspire you just a bit!! Check back here often for more inspirational projects created by our very talented Design Team!

And remember….Happy Scrappin’!