Need a Pick Me Up?

Digi image and sentiment:  From the Heart Stamps 'Birdbrain Needs Coffee'.  Cardstock:  kraft, GP110 white, SU 'Parisian Breeze' DP.  Ink:  Copics.  Accessories:  SU chocolate chip ribbon.  

There's still time to join in the From the Heart's I Heart Sketch Challenge #111 because all challenges will run for two weeks during summer months.

Be sure to stop by the FTHS blog to join in the fun! Everyone who enters a card featuring a FTHS image wins a $1 credit to the store.

Challenges entered include:
1)  Sunday Stamps Color Combo challenge #103:  We're Going Neutral
2)  Coffee Loving Cardmakers' Summer Blog hop
3)  Stamplorations' June challenge:  Stamps and washi:  Stamps -- check, washi tape -- faux counts, right??

The Perfect Blend in 2015!

Digi Image:  From the Heart Stamps 'Friendship (Faithful Friends'.  Cardstock:  SU textured Chocolate chip, Farm House Paper Co. 'Fair Skies', GP 110 white.  Ink: Copics.

It's time for more inspiration from I {Heart} Sketches courtesy of From the Heart Stamps! 

Here is our sketch and  inspiration board with optional twist for this week's challenge:

For my card, I went with the theme of  one of this adorable digi set's fun sentiments 'Coffee and friends, a sweet blend' and used the sketch, color combo, and twist with a textured cardstock base. 

 

Challenges entered:

1)  Through the Craft Room Door 'Anything Goes'

2)  ABC Challenge 'A is for Anything Goes'

3)  D.L. Art 'Anything Goes"

 

Be sure to stop by the FTHS blog to join in the fun! Everyone who enters a card featuring a FTHS image wins a $1 credit to the store.

  

A Little Pick-me-up

Digi image and sentiment:  From the Heart Stamps ' Birdbrain Needs Coffee'.  Cardstock:  GP 110 white, K&Co. DP 'Sweet Nectar'.  Ink:  Copics.  Accessories:  Nestabilities circles, Stardust glitter pen. 

It's time for more inspiration from I {Heart} Sketches courtesy of From the Heart Stamps! 

Here is our inspiration board and optional twist for this week's challenge: 

 

 

For my card featuring 'Birdbrain Needs Coffee' (I can relate!), I chose to go with the inspiration palette and Sketch challenge #49:

 

Be sure to stop by the FTHS blog to join in the fun! Everyone who enters a card featuring a FTHS image wins a $1 credit to the store.

  

DRS Blog Hop, Stop #9

Welcome to the DRS Blog Hop! If you arriving here from Dawn's blog (Amusing Musings and Things), then you are headed in the correct direction. If this is your first stop, be sure to go back to Vicki/Stamped Smiles to see all the projects created with new releases. Leave comments along the way for a chance to win some new releases, your choice of a full set of coffee images or golf images!

When I first saw the latest releases I did a happy dance to see my favorite category of stamps featured -- coffee stamps and sentiments. And what a great combination of images and sentiments!!

Stamps by DRS Designs: Coffee Trio, Espressoly sentiment, Thin Plaid. Cardstock: Very Vanilla, Chocolate Chip, Bashful Blue, Bayout Blue. Ink: Bayour Blue, Copics. Accessories: Dotted ribbon, brad, liquid applique, Stardust glitter pen.

The line images are perfect for coloring techniques and this would also be an easy image to divide into single coffee cups for smaller projects or focal points. I used a glitter pen to embellish these mugs with sparkly steam and added liquid applique 'foam':


Hope you've enjoyed the new releases as much as we have!

Now it's time to hop to the final stop, the DRS Designs Blog!!

Mourning Coffee

That was a terrible pun; I admit it. It's sad but true, though -- I just found out they are closing my local Starbucks. I'd say 'Woe is me' except that I haven't exactly been giving them much business over the past year. Guess I didn't realize how much my thrice-weekly mochas were doing to keep them afloat! Oh well, that's why they make home coffee makers and in my case, lots of fun coffee-themed stamps!

Julie Ebersole's 'How Ya Bean' card inspired me to break out some of the huge number of coffee stamps I've been amassing. The first card is almost a direct CASE of her card in the March/April 2009 edition of Paper Crafts:

Stamps: GinaK's 'My Cuppa Joe'. Cardstock: GP110 white, kraft, Chocolate Chip, DPfrom unknown source. Ink: Memento black, Chocolate Chip, Copic Warm Grey 03, SU Bashful Blue. Accessories: Crimper, Stardust glitter pen, black gingham ribbon.

The second card is a little more my own version, using the coffee pot and a larger sentiment:

Stamps: GinaK's 'My Cuppa Joe', Impression Obsession 'What's Brewing'. Cardstock: GP110 white, kraft, Chocolate Chip, DP from unknown source. Ink: Memento black, Chocolate Chip, Copics. Accessories: Crimper, Crystal Effects, black gingham ribbon.

Didn't that coffee pot turn out fun? I used Crystal Effects to give it a more glass-like appearance.

These cards were quick and easy to make, so I ended up creating two of each design. I figure I can tie them together with a big chocolate satin bow, add a bag of chocolate-covered coffee beans for a fellow-coffee lover's gift. It might even help us forget about our missing coffee shop for a while!