Pumpkin Spice & Everything Nice.

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@newtonsnook, Alcohol Marker, Distress Oxide Ink, Doodlebug Designs, Fossilized Amber, Picked Raspberry, Vintage Photo

Happy Autumn greetings! Today’s card is for the Creative With Stamps September Challenge, which is PUMPKINS!

I used the Newton’s Nook Falling For You stamp set and Doodlebug’s Friendly Forest patterned paper.

First I stamped the sentiment on watercolor paper with Vintage Photo Distress Oxide ink and sprinkled it with clear embossing powder, then I heat set it.  I sponged on Fossilized Amber and Picked Raspberry, overlapping them slightly to get an orange color also.  I trimmed the panel and rounded corners on that as well as the patterned mat and card base.  I layered the patterned paper onto a kraft card base and the watercolor panel onto a kraft mat, attached them together.

I stamped multiple pumpkins from this set, colored them with alcohol markers and fussy cut them out. I added foam squares to pop the pumpkins up a bit.

Please follow the link Here to the Creative With Stamps Challenge blog so you can play along with our challenge, remember you can enter anything with a Pumpkin theme, and we can’t wait to see what you create!

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Eileen 🙂

 

A Latte Birthday Wishes

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American Crafts, Close To My Heart, Coffee Loving CardMakers, CTMH, Distress Inks, Distress Oxide Ink, Hero Arts, Hickory Smoke, Justrite Stamp Co, Picked Raspberry, Scrapbook Expo, Spiced Marmalade, Squeezed Lemonade, Worn Lipstick

Hello, I am back today with another card for the Coffee Loving Cardmakers Spring/Summer Blog Hop.  I look forward to these each season, there are so many different styles to get inspired by…Fun, fun, fun!!!

A Latte Birthday Wishes Card

I started with a fun layered background.  First I put Distress Inks in Picked Raspberry, Squeezed Lemonade and Spiced Marmalade onto my craft mat and spritzed it very generously with water.  I then took a piece of watercolor paper and smooshed it into the inks, drying and redipping the paper until I was happy with what I had.  Then I used two separate background stamps, one with a dominant design and the other with a less dominant design.  They were both stamped in Slate Gray ink from Close To My Heart.  I had taken a background layering class with my friend Andi at a previous Scrapbook Expo and I learned a lot in that class, I hope it shows.  🙂  The background stamps I used in my card are from JustRite.  They make huge background stamps, so you can orient it onto your card for either portrait or landscape designs.

Next up, I die cut the To-Go coffee cup using a die I won in a grab bag, but I think it is Hero Arts…do not hold me to it though, it was eons ago.  I stamped the cup sleeve with “a latte” and distressed the edges a bit with Hickory Smoke Distress Ink to make it stand out.  I sponged that onto the lid as well to give it a bit of depth and definition.

I stamped the Birthday Wishes sentiment in Worn Lipstick Distress Oxide Ink and clear heat embossed it.  That stamp set is from a retired CTMH set.  I cut it out and popped it up with foam squares.  I wrapped American Crafts twine around the base and mounted that onto black cardstock, then onto the white card base.

Well, thank you for stopping by and if you have not been to the Coffee Loving Cardmakers Blog Hop yet, please pop over there by clicking Here and get inspired and join in the fun!

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Happy 2nd Birthversary to Strawberry Jude Stamps!

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Alcohol Marker, Distress Oxide Ink, Picked Raspberry, Strawberry Jude Stamps

Howdy to one and all, today is the beginning of a week-long Birthversary celebration for Strawberry Jude Stamps, they are celebrating 2 years this week!  I thought it was only appropriate to create a card to help them celebrate.  I got the image from them and you can get this adorable image for FREE too simply by becoming a Strawberry Jude Stamps fan by joining their Facebook fan club page, following their blog or better yet… BOTH.  Then you can create something fun with it and share it with all of us on the fan FB page.  Click Here  and ask to join, it is that simple!  Now on to today’s project…

Strawberry Jude Birthversary Card

I colored these crazy-adorable critters with my alcohol markers, adding Nuvo Pearl drops in various colors to represent confetti, an extension of the confetti that is embossed on my base layer.  I heat embossed the sentiment using Picked Raspberry Distress Oxide ink and clear embossing powder.  I added a tie of baker’s twine to the embossed layer and attached it to the light pink card base.  The panel with the images and sentiment were popped up with foam tape onto the confetti embossed layer.

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