‘You’ve Got this in the Bag’ Spellbinders Gift Purse and Verve Card

Surprise! Betcha thought I wouldn’t be back today. Me neither, but my morning plans fell through and, after so much caffeine from the green tea yesterday I was up late last night fiddling around with another project, so here I am posting it.

Let’s talk about that cute Spellbinders purse first. That little purse, like any truly good women’s purse, holds a lot more than you’d think! Yes, the three Starbucks Via and two Ghirardelli chocolates all fit inside and let it latch closed just fine!

Speaking of the latch, I thought I’d gussy mine up and put a mini teacup charm on top of it. Fortunately, I just happened to have put it high enough for the latch to still work. (Note to self: remember to leave room for the latch to bend and fit in place if putting a decorative piece on top next time!)

I just love these beautiful papers from K & Company! I cut out some of the butterflies, wrapped their wings around a small paint brush handle for dimension and added some shimmer to them.

For the card, I used the sweet free digis from Verve Stamps – Thank you, Julee! (Click the pic or HERE to get them.) For those of you dinosaurs like me, digis are digital images you can print from your computer – like what we used to call ‘clip-art’ in the previous century!

  

I followed Verve’s Mojo Monday challenge sketch, too.

The double meaning of the sentiment with this gift set makes me giggle! I love how the shimmer on the blue butterfly makes it look like the real life Morpho Adonis butterfly.

The inside says: ‘May your burdens be light and your coffee strong.’ Hmmm… from this angle, that coffee with the lines reminds me of a kitty… maybe next time Julee will do up a coffee kitty digi for us… (hint-hint, Julee!!)

I used some vellum leaves for the ‘steam’ and added some shimmering bling to the sun.

Supplies used:

• Verve Rise & Shine digi set
• Verve Love Everlasting stamp set
• Verve Beautiful Flowers die set
• Spellbinders Purse contour die, Exquisite Labels Eleven dies
• JustRite Spellbinders Vintage Labels 7 dies
• EK Success: K & Company Susan Winget Floral designer paper pad
• Core’dinations Parisian Nights A2 pink card and white & pink cardstock
• The Paper Studio printed vellum
• Memento dye inks: Pear Tart and London Fog
• Copic markers: R20; Y17, 28, 32; YG61; YR26
• Spectrum Noir Sparkle pen – clear
• Pebbles, Inc. Pearlescent Chalks Jewel Tones
• iCraft Therm-o-Web Easy Tear Tape 1/4″
• Aleene’s Clear Gel Tacky Glue
• Bead Landing Pemberly teacup charm
  • Viva Decor Perlen Pen – Ice White (to fill charm hole in saucer)
  • E6000 adhesive
• Misc. ribbon

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

• Spring Coffee Lovers Bloghop (both the card and the gift purse)
• Verve Spread a Little Sunshine Challenge
• Mojo Monday #490 challenge
• Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Anything Goes
• Simon Says Stamp Work-It-Wednesday: Spring
• Cropstop Linky Party #26: Anything Goes (Aleene’s, Core’dinations, E6000, EKSuccess, Justrite, Memento, Pebbles, Inc, Spellbinders and Viva Decor)

Thank you so much for stopping by and for all your kind comments!!

~D.Ann

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pps: Stopped by and gave yesterday’s card to my favorite barista, who was quite pleased. Enabler’s note: Target cartwheel 25% off Fraps is good through Sunday 4/2/17!

Thanks, Angie! You’re paw-some!

 

All I Want Is… A Coffee Bigger Than My Head Card

Hello! I’m back today with a really fun NORTHERN Winter Coffee card:

The sentiment originally said ‘chocolate bar’ – which is terrific, but didn’t fit the Coffee Lovers Hop. I cut it apart so that I could put the in the die cut ‘Coffee’ lined with brown instead. Sometimes you can mask a sentiment to do this, but the words in this one were too close. Cutting stamps apart is fairly easy with an X-acto knife and they can go right back together to use as originally intended. It’s an easy way to get more mileage out of your stamps. So far I haven’t been struck by lightening for the sacrilege of ‘maiming’ my stamps. lol!

I thought the flower sequin was just the right size to stick in her hair. That helps draw your eye away from the other side of her face where I added some hair to cover for the fact that I got her face stamped in slightly off from her chin angle…. now she just looks like she might have a bad toothache… of course I shouldda kept MY mouth shut and you probl’y wouldn’t’ve noticed! lol!

Supplies used:

• Spellbinders Elegant Labels 4 die
• Verve Coffee die
• Unity Stamp Co: Hello Love, Angie Girl Faces & Big Chocolate Bar stamps
• Memento: London Fog, Rich Cocoa, Tuxedo Black
• Copics: BG13, 018, 45; C1; E11, 23; R20; RV02, 19, 34; YR21, 24
• Pebbles, Inc. Pearlescent Chalks Jewel Tones
• Core’dinations cardstock – white and teal
• Scrapbook adhesives by 3l EZ Runner permanent adhesive
• Aleene’s Clear Gel Tacky Glue
• Misc sequins

I’m playing along with the following hop(s) and challenge(s)… click on any one of them for more information on how you can join the fun!

• 2016 Winter Coffee Lovers Hop

• MarkerPop! Challenge #110 – Winter

Stay warm, my dear northern friends and I’ll be back soon!

~D.Ann

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Need Help! Please Send Coffee + Blog candy

Good morning!

Are you sitting there with your favorite warm or iced beverage in hand? For those of you who have been following this week, you know I’ve been having fun making coffee themed cards with some watercolor in them. In case you’re here for the first time, here are the fun blog hops and challenges going on:

• The SUMMER COFFEE LOVERS BLOG HOP (click HERE for more info)

• the WATERCOLOR BLOG HOP hosted by PRETTY PINK POSH (click HERE for more info.)

• TheDailyMarker.com‘s 30 DAY COLORING CHALLENGE (click HERE for more info.)

Today’s card was also inspired by the Mojo Monday challenge 400 sketch #mojo400 (click HERE for more info.)

In keeping with the summer coffee lovers theme, I thought… what if a coffee lover were stranded on a desert island? This would probably be the result:

Tee-hee-hee … makes me giggle!  : )

I water colored the background, Stamped the sentiment and glued the die cut “coffee.” The sandy beach is sandpaper and the rest I drew, colored with Copics and fussy cut.

Materials used:

• Strathmore watercolor paper, cold press
• Kuretake Gansai Tambi watercolors Nos. 51, 61, 64
• Verve Chocolate stamp set
  • Verve is a sponsor of the Summer Coffee Lovers Blog Hop : )
• Memento dye ink – rich cocoa
• Copic markers B21 BG15 C3 C5 C7 E3 E37 G99 YG63 YG67 W5
• 3M 60 grit sandpaper
• Tombow Xtreme  and mono-dots adhesives

I’m entering this card in the following blog hops and challenges:

• SUMMER COFFEE LOVERS BLOG HOP  using bright summer colors
• The WATERCOLOR BLOG HOP hosted by PRETTY PINK POSH Watercolor background
• TheDailyMarker.com‘s 30 DAY COLORING CHALLENGE #thedailymarker30day2
• Mojo Monday challenge 400 sketch #mojo400
• MarkerPop! Biweekly Challenge #70 – Anything Goes! MarkerPOP_WC#70 using Copics
• Verve’s June Inspiration Challenge – Eat me. Drink me. Coffee
• Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge – Make It Masculine

If you’d like to join the fun at any of the above, just click on the colored text to go find out what you need to do. Happy crafting!

I want to thank you for taking the time to stop by today!

****************************   But, WAIT, there’s more!!   ****************************

***********    giveaway now closed    ***************

If you’ve been here before, you know I have a small blog candy package to give away:

I figure any coffee loving cardmaker will love these adorable ‘Brewchitecture’ napkins by Jill Seale. One pack is “coffee” the other is “café presse.” And, since we are cardmakers, there’s also a new, small Studio g stamp set: ” delight in little things.”

If you would like to have a chance to win this package, all you have to do is leave a comment on any of my blog hop posts that have “Blog candy” in the title from June 5 – 12, 2015. Of course, I appreciate those who sign up to follow the blog, but it’s not a requirement. If you do sign up to follow, I will give you an extra entry. To sign up, you’ll need to go to the home page and click the box that says “follow” in the right-hand column under the photos. If you’re already a follower, make a second comment telling me so. Otherwise, one comment per post, please.  From all the comments left on my blog posts from June 5 – 12 that have “Blog candy” in the title, I will announce a winner, selected at random, on June 14, 2015. (This date is revised from my original post.) The winner will have 72 hours to respond, or I will draw another winner.

Bye-bye! Have fun stormin’ the blog hops today!!

-D.Ann

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