2021 Spring/Summer Coffee Lover's Blog Hop!

 It's here!!  And I'm all prepped and ready to go with my (first?) post...  Visiting a couple of old favourites, as nothing beats Verve coffee stamp sets:

                     

Patterned paper is from Home Again by Carta Bella.  Dies are Cups of Cheer from Memory Box, Hexagons from MFT and A2 Double Stitched Rectangle Die from Art Impressions.  Stamp set is Better With You from Verve.  You can find the rest of the hop here!

2020 Fall/Winter Coffee Lover's Blog Hop!

 Finally!  It took me several days to get this one assembled, but I am happy to be participating in the 2020 Fall/Winter Coffee Lover's Blog Hop.

Look closely!  I've die cut the word COZY out of the patterned paper, and have layered it with 5 other die cuts to create a raised word.  Scroll down to see it a little closer up.  These are the lovely Winter Market papers from Carta Bella.  I cut out a rectangle, 1/2" in from each side, and slid a piece of very sparkly silver glitter paper underneath (it is SO much sparklier in person!)

I added some glitter snowflakes and a couple of mugs of cocoa, along with the sentiment that I white embossed on the dark grey cardstock.

Wishing you all a Cozy holiday!

Anything is Possible with Coffee

I was able to put together a second card for the 2020 Spring & Summer Coffee Lover's Blog Hop, and wanted to do a slimline card:

 Using all product that's been around awhile... Cream & Sugar Doodlebug Designs paper, Verve sentiment & die, and Tim Holtz Blueprint Sketches from Stamper's Anonymous.

 The white circle & squares are all adhered with 3D adhesive tape to raise them up a little.

Many thanks to Amy Tsurata for putting together a fun week as always!

2020 Spring/Summer Coffee Lover's Blog Hop

Today is the start of the 2020 Spring/Summer Coffee Lover's Blog Hop, so I dug into all my coffee themed goodies to put together a little something:

The plaid is from my favourite paper pad of the moment - Goldenrod by One Canoe Two.  All stamps and dies are from Verve - still my go-to products for coffee cards!

 The pink and silver papers behind the sentiment are both lovely and pearlescent, providing lots of shimmer along with the matte sequins.  I die cut the coffee word die and layered it 4 times to give it a little extra height.

Check out the hop - there will be hundreds of entries, and lots of fun prizes for participants :o)

2019 Fall/Winter Coffee Lover's Blog Hop!

It's Day 1 of the 2019 Fall/Winter Coffee Lover's Blog Hop!  I pulled out an image and sentiment from a Verve digi set from a couple of years ago to put a little Pumpkin Spice card together:

Bit of a busy card with a mish-mash of die cut shapes and patterns...  (It's a little less wild looking in person!)  Just using up a few older paper bits and pieces from some Doodlebug designs sheets, as it's a bit of a mission of mine to use things up from my craft room stash!  I'll be back with a few more fall & wintry coffee cards later throughout the week.  Enjoy the hop!

Spring/Summer Coffee Lover's Blog Hop!

It's the start of the first Coffee Lover's Blog Hop of 2019, and it makes me so happy to be playing along!  I haven't missed one yet, so my streak continues...  I am using two stamp sets from Sugar Pea Designs today, along with these Cream & Sugar papers from Doodlebug Designs that I've been hoarding for a little bit.  Here's what I came up with:

 The coffee cup is from the Mugs & Kisses stamp set, and the sentiment is from Parisian Holiday.  I've used the sketch from the May Mix It Up Challenge on the Sugar Pea Designs blog.

 Enjoy the hop!

Concord & 9th Coffee Card

I found some time to create a second card for the 2018 Spring & Summer Coffee Lover's Blog Hop tonight!  My niece was here visiting this week, and brought along this great stamp set from Concord & 9th for me to try... and I bought some new Simple Stories papers to go with it.  I made two of them!

I used the Fusion sketch & photo as my inspiration!

Patterned papers are Oh Baby! by Simple Stories; Stamp set is Concord & 9th; Dies are MFT Circle STAX & From the Heart by Verve; Cocoa ink is Memento; Copic markers.

2018 Spring & Summer Coffee Lover's Blog Hop!

Hooray!  It's my favourite event... I am happy to be linking up my first creation for the Spring/Summer 2018 Coffee Lover's Blog Hop.  I used the new Lawn Fawn Gotta Have Gingham papers along with some Verve favourites:

I am so looking forward to seeing everyone's creations!  I also have two of my favourite cardmakers staying with me this week, so stay tuned for a few more entries :o)

Stamp set is One Cup by Verve; Coffee and Wavy Hearts dies by Verve; Mug die by Memory Box; Cardstock is Ruby & Aqua by Close To My Heart; Patterned paper is Gotta Have Gingham by Lawn Fawn.

Coffee Lover's Hop - Sixth Post

I think I'm done now, ha!  It is National Tea Drinker's Day today, so in it's honour, I made a Christmas card using Verve's new Santa and Coffee digital set for the 2017 Winter Coffee Lover's Blog Hop.  It comes with not only the tea sentiment, but a cocoa one, and two coffee ones - so scroll down to see all of them.  I was really inspired by this darker patterned paper from Fancy Pants - love it:

Patterned papers are Fancy Pants Designs; Stamps are Verve Santa & Coffee; Copic Markers.

Coffee Lover's Hop - Fifth Post

I have three cards to share today - two are coffee themed for the Winter 2017 Coffee Lover's Blog Hop.  All three are using digital stamps from Verve, and some older Close To My Heart papers:

 This one is using the Viva La Verve December sketch, and uses Santa & Coffee from Verve.

My second card is using My Cup to Yours by Verve, and the last one (below) is also using Santa & Coffee:

Coffee Lover's Hop - Fourth Post

Two variations of the eggnog/wassail cards that I posted a few days ago for the 2017 Winter Coffee Lover's Blog Hop:

Patterned papers are Echo Park and Fancy Pants Designs; Stamps are Verve; Copic Markers; Dies are Memory Box & Your Next Stamp

Coffee Lover's Hop - Third Post

Another one... and not the last, either.  I am playing along with the 2017 Winter Coffee Lover's Blog Hop with just one card today.  This sentiment is from a Verve digi set from last year "My Cup to Yours":

Patterned papers are I Love Winter by Echo Park; Stamp set is Cup of Kindness by Verve; Snowflake die is Memory Box; Oval dies are MFT; Copic Markers

Coffee Lover's Hop - Second Post

Day two of the 2017 Winter Coffee Lover's Blog Hop, and I have two more cards to share.  The sentiments are from Verve's new digi set released a few weeks ago "Santa and Coffee".  I really love "Bring on the Eggnog" and I actually had to look up Wassail to find out what it was!

I used some I love Winter paper from Echo Park, a YNS pine bough die and the cup image is from another Verve digi set: Cup of Kindness.

Coffee Lover's Blog Hop

Yay, it's here again!  The 2017 Winter Coffee Lover's Blog Hop starts this morning, over on the Coffee Loving Cardmaker's blog... with lots of wonderful prizes from an amazing list of sponsors.  I have a bunch of coffee themed Christmas cards made and ready to go for the week, so here is the first group of three featuring digi sets from Verve:

Patterned paper is Fancy Pants; Digi stamps are from Verve (Cup of Kindness & My Cup to Yours); Dies are Your Next Stamp (pine bough), MFT (stitched shapes) La La Land Crafts (holly) and Memory Box (cup).