With a Friend In the Garden – Art Impressions Cat Card

Well, the Cat Lovers Hop is purring right along and today finds us reaching the half-way point already!

My first card for today happens to use the prize set that Art Impressions is offering some fortunate hopper over on HerPeacefulGarden.blogspot.com: With a Friend. You can see the details over on the main hop page HERE.

Isn’t that scene just DARLING?!! It goes well with the current Art Impressions challenge: Stamp a Scene!

I embossed the stamp on the sweet Spellbinders shaped card base, then, to make the scene stand out, I stamped it again onto white cardstock and watercolored the image. When done, I popped it up with a couple of foam sheets and ran a black Sharpie across the edges BEFORE taping it down to the base.

It looks really cool in real life popped up like that! The sweet words say: “In the Garden with a friend is the best Place to be.” Awww! I’m sure they would’ve said ‘snoozing with a friend’ if they’d’ve had room! : )

Materials used:

• Art Impressions: With a Friend Window stamp
• Spellbinders Decorative Labels One
• Tsukineko Versamark Ink
• Inkadinkado embossing powder – Black
• Tsukineko Memento dye ink – Tuxedo Black
• Marvy Uchida Le Plume II pens – 2,5,8,12,15,37,75,77,87,90,97
• Tonic Nuvo Crystal Drops: Gloss Carnation Pink & Gloss Dandelion Yellos
• Core’dinations 110# paper: White and Ballerina pink
• Fibre Creaft Creative Hands Peel & Stick foam sheets
• Tombow Xtreme permanent adhesive
• Aleene’s Original Tacky Glue

I’m playing along with the following hops and challenges – click on them for all the details.

• 2017 Cat Lovers Hop
• Art Impressions Challenge #219 – Stamp a Scene
• Simon Says Stamp Aug/Sept 2017 Work-It-Wednesday – Stamps
• CropStop October Challenge – Linky Party #33 Anything Goes
  • (Aleene’s, Art Impressions, Core’dinations, Spellbinders. Tombow…)

~D.Ann

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CDD Toucans: Coffee With You Card

Welcome back to another day of the Summer 2017 Coffee Lovers Blog Hop.

  

The colors of today’s card were inspired by the Craftin’ Desert Divas June Mood Board challenge.

I stepped out of my comfort zone by using these cool summer colors on some Toucans. I’d love to take a vacation down to South American and see some Toucans in real life again!  (SSS Monday Challenge Let’s Take a Vacation) They’re really quite gregarious.

I love that donut stuck on his beak!I tried to use THIS cool gelatos technique to get some leaves and butterflies in the background sky, but you can just barely see it…

I’ll have to work on that technique again some other time.

Materials used:

• Craftin’ Desert Divas: Coffee Break, Feathered Friends & Flutter By stamp sets
• Spellbinders Decorative Labels One and Labels One dies
• Core’dinations cardstock: white and lime green cardstock
• Strathmore Mixed media 90# paper
• Copic Markers: B02; C3,7; E13,25,79; G24; RV02,04; Y13; YR02
• Faber-Castell Gelatos: Butter Cream, Cotton Candy, Guava, Mango
• Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L E-Z Runner permanent strips
• This n That foam dots
• Simply Defined “Stay Put” All Purposed Liquid Adhesive

I am playing along with the following challenges… click on any one of them for more information on how you can join the fun…

• Summer 2017 Coffee Lovers Blog Hop
• Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: Let’s Take a Vacation
• Craftin’ Desert Divas June Mood Board Monthly Challenge

Thank you so much for stopping by, and for all the blog love you’ve been leaving!

Enjoy the rest of your weekend!!

~D.Ann

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It’s Always Tea Time Dozing Dormouse Card

Popping in quickly to share another quick little card to pair with a tea gift… this cutie-patootie dozing dormouse:

Supplies used:

• Spellbinders dies: Decorative Labels One and Scalloped Labels One
• Kraftin’ Kimmie Stamps: Dormouse
• Copic markers: BG13, 15, 18, 45; C1, 3, 5; R20, 22, 24, 29, 35; Y32
• Core’dinations cardstock: red and white
• Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L EZ Runner permanent adhesive
• Misc. PVC glue

I’m playing along with the following hops and challenges… click on any one of them for more information on how you can join the fun!

• 2016 Winter Coffee Lovers Hop

• Kraftin’ Kimmie Stamps Saturday Challenge #161 – Clean & Simple with a Sentiment
• Kraftin’ Kimmie Stamps Wonderful Wednesday – Anything Goes
• Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge – Gift It

Today is the last day of the Winter Coffee Lovers Hop… We’ll see if I get another card in before the day is done…

Have a lovely day!

~D.Ann

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A Cup of Kindness Card

Welcome back to another card for the Winter Coffee Lovers Blog Hop.

This card was inspired by the Mojo Monday #427 sketch:

and by the Verve December inspiration challenge: A Cup of Kindness:

This will make a nice card to give a package of each of the hot beverages we’re highlighting and a mug… (had it not be nearing deadline, I would have put one together, but I’ll have to do that later.)

This was my first time playing with Amplify… WoW! It really puffs up when you heat it! Cool stuff!! Once again I made my own word Cocoa from the Chocolate die and Tea from a set that had the words “Thank” and “friend” in it and just cut out the letters needed.

Materials:

• Verve Stamps Cup of Kindness Free Digi that you can find HERE
• Verve Stamps “Chocolate” and “Coffee” dies
• Spellbinders Labels One and Decorative Labels One
• Spellbinders In’spire Celebration 2 “Thank You” and “Hello Friend”
• Spellbinders Gilded Life Petite Lace die
• Simon Says Stamp “Sending” die
• Sakura Gelly Roll pen – white
• Tsukineko Radiant Neon Amplify – white
• Core’dinations cardstock red, pink, teal, kraft
• Misc. Adhesives

I’m playing along in the following hops and challenges:

• Coffee Lovers 2015 Winter Blog Hop: http://wp.me/p5K3PQ-4w
• Mojo Monday #472 http://mojomonday.blogspot.com/2015/12/mojo-monday-427-contest.html
• Verve’s  A Cup of Kindness challenge  http://vervestamps.blogspot.com/p/inspiration-challenge.html

Thanks again for stopping by and for your kind comments!

-D.Ann

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