Discombobulated Prima Bloom Floridian Winter Coffee Card

I’m back again with another card for the Winter Coffee Lovers Hop.

This time, I’ll start with the INSIDE, first…

I’m sure you’ve lost a pen, glasses, etc, only to find them stuck up in your hair, haven’t you?! If not, wait a few years!!! lol! Well, this gal is definitely a bit discombobulated!…

Bwah-hahaha! Next time you lose your coffee, be sure to look on top of your head! What a pricelessly entertaining stamp, Prima!!

She’a a super loose translation of the current Prima CAT layers sketch:

Having just been to the McKee Botanical Garden in Vero Beach, Florida, and seen the water lilies in bloom right now, I felt I could beg the Coffee Lovers indulgence and post this as another Floridian WINTER card. : ) The rest will be traditional winter cards, I promise!

If you want to see some great pics of the water lilies and more from the McKee Botanical Garden, see my previous post HERE.

HAD to catch the amazing shine of the WoW! embossing powder!

Supplies used:

• Prima Bloom Collection “Paige” stamp
• Spellbinders Elegant Labels 4 dies
• Tsukineko Versamark ink
• WOW! Pearl Gold Sparkle embossing powder
• Copic Markers: B21, 25; BV00, 02, 08 C3, 5; E00, 02, 31; G05, 09; RV02, 04; Y17; YG17, 61; YR02, 04, 07, 21, 24; V04, 06, 12
• Pebbles, Inc. Pearlescent Chalks – Jewel Tones
• Coredinations cardstock – White & Purple
• Scrapbook adhesives by 3l EZ Runner permanent adhesive
• Aleene’s Clear Gel Tacky 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!

• Prima Cards & Tags December sketch
• 2016 Winter Coffee Lovers Hop
• Simon Says Stamp Work it Wednesday November 2016: Dies
• Crop Stop Linky Party #22: Anything Goes (Aleene, Coredinations, Pebbles, Prima, Spellbinders, Versamark & WOW!)

 

I appreciate all of your kind comments! It’s been great seeing many familiar talents on the hop. Thank you for taking the time to stop by.

~D.Ann

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Graphic 45 Autumn Tea Card

Hello again! I have one final card for the Fall 2016 Coffee Lovers Hop to show you.

Love the suptruously rich colors of Graphic 45 paper! That teapot done with the glittery, shiny WOW! embossing glitter that is so hard to capture in a photo.. It really looks amazing IRL. Those Heartfelt Creations roses are so easy to adapt into many shapes.

Supplies used:

• Graphic 45 Time to Flourish paper (Enabler alert: Found yesterday in the clearance section at Hobby Lobby!)
• Graphic 45/Hampton Art/Sizzix Tea Time stamp and die set
• Heartfelt Creations Botanical Wings die set
• Versamark ink
• WOW! Pearl Gold Sparkle Embossing Glitter
• Copic markers: E00, YR24
• Martha Stewart Crafts Fire Opal Metallic Glass Microbeads
• Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L permanent strips, mounting squares and 3d foam squares
• Scrapbooking Made Simple Simply Defined “Stay Put” adhesive
• Coredinations cream cardstock

I’m playing along with the following hops and challenges – just click on any one for more information:

• 2016 Fall Coffee Lovers Hop (with 63 sponsors and nearly 90 prizes, you’re going to want to join the fun!)
• Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge – Powder Powder (embossing powder)
• Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge – Anything Goes
• Crop Stop Linky Party #20 – Anything Goes (Graphic 45, Heartfelt Creations & WOW! products)

Even though I didn’t get to do all the projects I intended, it’s been a fun hop! Looking forward to the next one this winter. Meanwhile, the Cat Lovers Hop is coming up the end of October. (Just about three weeks away!) If I don’t see you before then, I’ll see you then for sure!

~D.Ann

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Stay Awake – Color Burst Card

Happy Monday! Here’s a little something to brighten up your day!

Yowza! That oughtta wake ya right up! : ) I love spring for the riot of colors busting out all over and now I love Color Bursts for the same reason! Today I was tickled pink to receive a set of Color Burst brights that I’d won from Blitsy Crafts for playing their #BlitsyCraftMonthIGChallenge on Instagram a few days ago. Thanks Blitsy!! There’s still time to play if you’re interested – It runs til the end of March! You can find the details HERE. They’re giving away some fab prizes!

On day 15 their prompt was Home, so I whipped up this little gift tag with Sugar Pea Designs  Home Sweet Home die & Heart Border die, drew in some curtains and posted it – easy-peasy! (BTW: Sugar Pea Designs is one of the Super Sponsors of the Spring Coffee Lovers Hop – Thanks!):

Of course, I HAD to break the Color Bursts out to play with right away! I made an acetate cup as a stencil mask and sprinkled just a few drops of each color of the powder,  spritzed water on it and used my Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Marker Spritzer sans marker to blow the watercolors outward. I had hoped for a nice cup shaped negative space, but the water got under my stencil and it didn’t turn out like I’d hoped. So I cut another cup out of paper, and pressed it into the Versamark pad, sprinkled it with WOW! Metallic Gold Sparkle Embossing Glitter and heated it up for a shiny cup to cover my mistake – um, I mean OPPORTUNITY! The great thing about art is there are plenty of opportunities to fix things and make them better. : )

That fun sentiment from Lil’ Inker Designs (another of the Super Sponsors for the Spring Coffee Lovers Hop – Thanks!!) didn’t look right all by itself, so I took a Perfect Medium Pen and drew in some steam and embossed it, too.

I saw someone recently ask about warped watercolor paper and I wanted to share this tip:

See how warped the paper is? That’s even after trying the trick of turning it over and heating the reverse side. But I find that using Tombow Xtreme permanent adhesive – just around the edges and a short line in the middle will easily solve the problem. It does take a while to get used to snapping off to the side before lifting the applicator at the end, but it’s worth getting used to that one little detail!! (And, no, I don’t have any affiliation with Tombow!) You can then use regular adhesive for the next layers.

Well, I’ve taken up enough of your time! I really didn’t mean to blather on so much… must have had too much caffeine today! : )

Materials used:

• Canson cold press watercolor paper
• Color Burst by Ken Oliver – Brights Assortment (THANKS Blitsy!)
• Spellbinders Tea Cups dies
• Lil’ Inker Designs Coffee Talk stamp set
• Versamark Ink
• WOW! Metallic Gold Sparkle Embossing Glitter
• Ranger Perfect Medium pens
• Recollections Neon Opaque Embossing Powders – Pink, Orange & Purple
• Art Minds sequins
• Nicole Spangles flower sequins
• Core’dinations cardstock – orange & purple
• Recollections Shimmer card – pink
• Tombow Xtreme permanent adhesive & mono adhesive
• Aleene’s Tacky Glue

In case you haven’t already joined the fun, but are thinking about it, here are the hops and challenges I am playing along with… just click on the name for more information on each:

• Spring Coffee Lovers Blog Hop

• DL.Art March Linky Challenge Anything goes
• Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: Food or Drink

Thanks for letting me talk your ears off today! Oh… that reminds me of something funny…

The Brazilian idiomatic expression for stalking waaayyy too much is: ‘falar pelos cotovelos’ which literally means ‘talk through the elbows’! Kkk!! : ) Aren’t languages FUN?!!

If this is your first time to my blog, you can find out what Kkk! means HERE. And there is blog candy HERE.

Hope to see you again tomorrow!

-D.Ann

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