Eat Drink and Be Merry

Have you been enjoying the Fall Winter Coffee Lovers blog hop? Doodlebugs is a Super Sponsor of the event. Read all the details over on the main hop post HERE. I wanted to share another caffeinated themed project today:

Today's project features:

• Mama Elephant - December Duo | stamps + creative cuts
• Sunny Studio Stamps - Merry Mocha | stamp + dies
• Lawn Fawn - Honeycomb Shaker Gift Tag | lawn cuts
• Lawn Fawn - Stitched Snowflake Backdrop | lawn cuts
• Lawn Fawn - Falling Leaves | 6x6
• Pretty Pink Posh - Eyelet Circles | dies
• Pretty Pink Posh - Winter Mug | dies
• Pretty Pink Posh - Winter Words | stencil

Do you see the stencil work behind those cute critters? I used Concord & 9th - Parsley ink.  The sentiment has been heat embossed in white on the same Falling Leaves base panel.  I did the heat embossing in the center of the panel so I could still use the A2 panel for my card design.

Thanks for stopping by!

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Mixing Your Mushrooms and Your Techniques

Happy Monday! This is Amanda from Twiddler's Nook for another Mix it up Monday. Today I'm sharing a fun mushroom filled gnome card. I had fun with all of my favorite techniques on this card - ink blending, messy with texture paste, coloring and die cutting. It's all there!

After getting the new Mushroom stencil from Pretty Pink Posh, I immediately went to my stash to gather other mushroomy things to play with! Eventually I landed on the Lawn Fawn Mushroom border and Oh Gnome stamps and dies.

I ink blended the background stencils, finishing the detail layer off with texture paste. I cleaned up my space and got to die cutting my fun mushroom border. I love that this border has a grass layer so you can have fun dimension with little effort. I used liquid glue to add my mushroom caps and then adhere the layers together. With the texture paste dry at this point, I trimmed everything down to A2 size and popped the ground layer up with foam tape on the stenciled panel.

Next, I stamped images from Lawn Fawn Oh Gnome and colored them with copic markers. After cutting them out with the coordinating dies, I added them to the scene with liquid glue and foam squares. I also went it with some white gel pen highlights and glossy accents on the mushroom dots.

The Oh Gnome stamp set has great sentiments and a speech bubble with mini sentiments to use but in the end I landed on a fabulous Mama Elephant Banner Greetings die cut. It was more generic which is what I was looking for and fits so perfect up there.

I appreciate you sharing your time with me. Have a fabulous day!

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2024 Fall Winter Coffee Lovers blog hop

 

Hello coffee lovers! I'm so excited that Doodlebugs is sponsoring the Fall | Winter Coffee Lovers Blog Hop again this year.  I always look forward to all the wonderful coffee, tea and cocoa inspiration. I have a project to share, a discount code and a link to the blog hop where you'll find all the details on how you can participate for a chance to win some awesome prizes!  

Doodlebugs Prize: $25 Gift Code

Here's the link the the BLOG HOP where you'll find all the details!

Doodlebugs is offering a discount code for everyone to celebrate the hop. You'll find th details and the discount code below. Click the image for a link to the store and start shopping now for the best selection.

Here's how I was inspired for the hop:

I couldn't wait to combine these Concord & 9th products for today:

• Afternoon Tea | die
• Tea Blossom | embossing folder
• Dots & Blossoms | stencil pack

I used a white stencil paste that I had in my stash with the stencil.

No stamping on this card and a bit of die cutting.  I love how many details you can add to the project.  Concord & 9th really does a great job with that.

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Die Cut Flowers for Everyday Cards

When I want to do something creative, but don't have much time or I'm lacking inspiration, I create flowers [or color].  The flowers don't require much thought and often times, the process of creating these pieces inspires me.

Recently, I was visiting with my grandma.  It was the perfect time to create these flowers.  I created the flowers and she glued them to cards to mail to her friends.  Needless to say, I had LOTS of extra flowers and decided to make a few cards of my own.

The Garden Party stamp and stencil set is great for adding some inky accents and fun layers to my assortment of flowers.  I really enjoyed using this set!  I used white cardstock, my favorite inks, and the stencils to create the flower and leaf images.  Then I used the "all in one" die set to cut them out in one pass on the die cut machine.  It's super easy.  The stencils have registration marks to color in with ink.  You then line the die up with those marks to cut the perfect flowers.  I also cut several sets with glitter cardstock for some added sparkle.  After cutting, you simply layer and glue to create unique flowers.

I stamped and cut multiple sentiments from the Sweet Lattice Sentiment set from Waffle Flower.  These are great, everyday sentiments.  I love having lots of these on hand for quickly adding sentiments to my cards.

To finish the cards, I used the Penny Black Background Basics stencil and added an ink blended rectangle to frame in my floral images.  I arranged a few flowers on the card, added a sentiment and finished with a few gems.

 Thanks so much for stopping by.  I hope you were inspired to get creative.

-Cathy

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