Coffee for Dad

Hello lovely people,

I seem to have been very busy crafting lately as I have a few projects lined up to show you, and today's card is the one I made for my Dad's birthday.

He and I share a love of coffee and since I had just 'acquired' this fab MFT coffee cup die, it seemed it would be rude not to use it!

I thought it would look cute tucked into my new Happy Birthday circle die...and then I realised the lettering exactly matches the lettering in the stitched banner alphabet - perfect!

I used some bean stamps to add detail to the corners of the base layer of DP, and a little coffee steam swirl.  I wanted to use a darker ink than I usually would to ink the edges and stamp the beans so really, I had to use Ground Espresso didn't I?!

If I've tempted you with any of the lovely supplies I've used then you can go straight to the individual products via the thumbnails at the end of my post or just pop over to Dies to Die For and have a little browse around!

I hope the week is going well for you all :-)

Thanks for visiting and I really appreciate any comments that you leave,

Lovely things I've used from Dies to Die For;
Die-namics Coffee cup - My Favorite Things
Die-namics Happy Birthday circle frame - My Favorite Things
Die-namics Stitched banner alphabet - My Favorite Things
Mini remix brewtiful stamp set - The Greeting Farm

Other ingredients;
Joyous 6x6 paper pad - Authentique
Ivory button twine
Ground Espresso Distress Ink

Relaxing with a coffee

Hello lovely people,

Happy weekend to you all!
I am not planning on leaving the house all weekend; as far as I'm concerned it's a good weekend for crafting, watching a film or two, and plenty of coffee!

Today I have a project to share with some gorgeous goodies from The Ribbon Girl because our new 'Use any image' challenge is starting.
As usual, there are 3 fabulous prizes up for grabs so do check out all the details on The Ribbon Girl blog.

Now, talking of coffee...

I have used pink for this image twice now, so thought it was time for a change, so here is Jasmine in blue!
Ok, I still snuck in a little pink for the mug - lol!

The corrugated card is back again, but for this card I actually peeled the back layer off to make it less bulky and rigid.

For the large flower I pulled the stamens out of a cherry blossom and added the pearl and diamante flatback instead, which I think gives a lovely touch of glamour.

I hope you are all staying warm and cosy this weekend and having fun whatever you are up to :-)

Thanks for visiting and I really appreciate any comments that you leave,

The Ribbon Girl products;
Maja Design Vintage Romance 6x6 paper pad
White sweetheart blossoms
Miniature pale blue blossoms
Dusky blue 10mm open roses
Ivory 20mm open roses
Teresa lace now unavailable but Iris or Astrid are similar
Ivory button twine
11mm round pearl and diamante flatback

Other products;

Image: Jasmine - coffee by LOTV
Other flowers: from stash

Sentiment: computer generated

Coffee boy

Hello lovely people,

I have had a short working week as I had Monday/Tuesday off to catch up on my crafty projects, and am now enjoying a relaxing weekend at my parents' house.
I attended a great workshop on Saturday with my Mum and my fab crafty friend Debs, and we had a wonderful time getting inky and covered in glitter!
We walked to a brilliant local firework display in the evening and have been indulging in lots of gorgeous home-cooked food courtesy of my Mum; the white chocolate cheesecake with raspberry puree was a real highlight :-)

While we are sat relaxing with a coffee I thought I'd share the card I made for my brother's birthday.  He loves coffee just like me so I had a great reason to use my fab Greeting Farm stamp set again.  Last time I used it the end result was rather more girly as you can see here.

I coloured this with my Inktense pencils and am delighted that I have now figured out how to add finer details like the shadows that the hair casts on the face and clothing folds.

Since I was doing a masculine card I raided my stash of corrugated card again...I love this stuff!  I am pleased to report that I managed to buy some corrugated card and whilst it's not quite as distressed as this lovely recycled packaging, the colour is perfect and I guess I can have fun distressing it myself!

I hope you are all having super weekends whatever you are getting up to.

Thanks for visiting and I really appreciate any comments that you leave,

Card recipe;

Image: Mini-remix brewtiful - The Greeting Farm

DP: Accomplished - Authentique

Ivory button twine - The Ribbon Girl
Faux hessian - The Ribbon Girl

Sentiment: Happy circular sentiments - LOTV

Dies: Cosmic star set - Memory Box

Inktense colours;
Skin: Baked Earth, Madder Brown, Saddle Brown
Hair: Oak, Bark, Ink Black
Jumper: Deep Indigo
Trousers: Oak
Shoes: Ink Black
Coffee cup: Oak, Iron Green

Give me coffee!

Hello lovely people,

Happy Sunday folks and I hope you're all having a wonderful weekend whatever you may be doing.

I have been enjoying a catch up with friends and just about to start my day with some yummy homemade banana pancakes with blueberries and maple syrup - mmmmmm :-)

While I tuck into those, I have a project to share with you using some gorgeous goodies from The Ribbon Girl.

I couldn't resist making another card with this beautiful paper pad and I have to admit that aqua is probably my fave colour after pink.

I also took the opportunity to play with yet another new stamp and this time it's an adorable little girl with a coffee cup...this could be me as I do need regular caffeine hits throughout the day to function properly!

I do love the shabby chic look and have admired many a card with cheesecloth and/or chipboard pieces on them but haven't really being confident enough to try these...until now!

I am really pleased with how it turned out :-)

I was clearly feeling very experimental with this card so also decided to pull out the stamens from the turquoise cosmos flower and replace it with a sparkler...ooooh, that is so sparkly and gorgeous!

I hope you all have a fab Sunday!

Thanks for visiting and I really appreciate any comments that you leave,

The Ribbon Girl products;
Lemoncraft Forget-me-not 6x6" paper pad
Scrapiniec chipboard Park Avenue round frames
15mm aqua no.78 Berisford satin ribbon
Cheesecloth fabric
Cream hip rosebuds
5mm sea charm mixed self-adhesive pearls

Other products;

Image: Mini Remix Brewtiful - The Greeting Farm

Other flowers: from stash

Dies: Large frilly frames #10 - Go Kreate, Mini sentiment tags - Mama Elephant

Sentiment: Mini messages - Mama Elephant

Copic colours;
Skin: E000/00/21/11/04 & R20
Hair: E41/43/47
Dress: BG45/49/09
Cup: W4/5/6

Brewtiful gift boxes

Hello lovely people,

Scorchio!!
I am so not going to complain that it's too hot because we have been waiting a long time for some Summer weather and I am going to enjoy it!
Plus it's a great excuse to eat ice cream...I LOVE ice cream :-)

It's never too hot to stop me drinking coffee though, as I love it even more than ice cream, which leads me on to my project today...

I worked out the template for this pair of gift boxes so that the top section is just slightly bigger than the bottom section.

I used a new die that Sue *insisted* that I bought a few weeks ago at the Dies to Die For pop-up shop...to be fair, I didn't need a lot of persuading!

It is really lovely, and includes dies to cut out the 3 small shapes to place behind the main die cut.
 I coloured each of these sections with Copics to match the papers as I didn't have any plain papers in the collection.

I used a sentiment from my new Greeting Farm stamp set as it was the perfect fit for the coffee theme.
Oh yes, and I used my new MISTI tool to make sure it was perfectly positioned - yay!

For the top I layered up circles with the top one on foam pads and just taped the ends of the cord inside the box lid.

I need to crack on with a big crafty project today so if you spot me snoozing in the garden instead, give me a poke!

Thanks for visiting and I really appreciate any comments that you leave,

Card recipe;

DP: XOXO - American Crafts

Dies (from Dies to Die For): Stacked coffee mugs - Taylored Expressions, Circle stax - MFT Die-namics, Scalloped circles - Tonic studios
Sentiment: Brewtiful stamp set - The Greeting Farm
Cord: from stash

A 'fairy' special announcement

Hello lovely people,

My special announcement is that I have been chosen to join the Fairies over at the fabulous Lili's Little Fairies challenge!!  So excited!  And of course, such a good excuse to buy some more LOTV stamps ;-)

Our challenge this week is to use this gorgeous photo as inspiration;

I have taken the colours as my starting point and added a few of my favourite things - stitching, layers, fishtails, flowers and of course, a LOTV image!

Here is a close up of the cute image which I have coloured with Copics;

Card recipe;

Image: Coffee break from LOTV
DP: Maja Design Vintage Spring Basics
Leaf die: Memory Box Lavish Branch
Edge punch: Martha Stewart
Flowers: Prima Country Elegance
Sentiment: Personal Impressions All Year Round stamp set
Pearls: Kaisercraft

Don't forget to pop over to Lili's Litle Fairies to see what the rest of the DT have created.

Thanks for visiting.

Hugs,

Kat xx