Christmas Coffee Joy

I know I've been absent for like a MONTH.  And I'm sorry.  I've been so busy with work and family and my art has really suffered.  I'm trying to get back now and share some new projects with you guys.  There's no better inspiration than the Fall and Winter Coffee Lovers Blog Hop!  There's so many amazing projects and soooooo many fabulous sponsors and prizes!!!  I hope this is my first of many entries into the hop!  Ya'all know how much I love coffee.

I've been experimenting with making things that AREN'T Christmasy, Christmasy.  I just love how this turned out.  I was thinking it would be fun to make cups in red and green prints, too.

Just a few challenges:

• Coffee Lovers Blog Hop
• Happy Little Stampers - Christmas Challenge
• DL Art Linky Party
• Digi Chooseday - #44 Anything Goes 1/2
• Colour Crazy Challenge - #43 Anything Goes 1/2
• A Gem of a Challenge - #21 Anything Goes 1/2
• Through The Craft Room Door - Anything Goes 1/2
• As You Like It - Favorite Papers 1/3 (You can't tell in the photo but the background and coffee cup are both made of shimmery cardstock.  Shimmery is my favorite because it takes a simple card and ups the ante 100%!)
• Aud Sentiments - #239 Anything Goes with a Sentiment 1/3
• Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - #117 Anything Goes 1/3
  QKR Stampede - #370 Anything Goes 1/3
• Creative Crafters - #21 Anything Goes 1/3
• Crafts Galore - #69 Anything Goes 1/3
• Crafty Catz - #481 Anything Goes 1/3
• Penny's Paper Crafting Challenge - #454 Anything Goes 1/3
• Word Art Wednesday - #411 Anything Goes 1/5
• Love to Craft - #40 Anything Goes 1/5
• Not Just Cards - Anything Goes 1/5
• Love To Scrap - #127 Anything Goes 1/5
• Simon Says Stamp Wednesday - Anything Goes 1/5
• Path of Positivity - #74 Anything Positive Goes 1/7
• 613 Avenue Create - #227 Anything Goes 1/8

Thanks so much for looking and happy crafting.  Laters!!!

STAMPtember - Day Thirty - Lookout for Wonder

Happy Monday!!  I cannot believe this month is over already!!!  It's been a whirlwind, that's for sure!  Lots of new stamps may or may not have come into my craft room over the past thirty days, and I've definitely gotten some great cards made.  I just love this time of year because it's fall which means Halloween and my birthday and CHRISTMAS!!  My favorite season lemme tell ya. Anyways, with this last farewell to warm weather I made--wait for it--a  mermaid card!

To make my mermaid card even more special, I used mermaid sequins!!!

Lots of challenges to end the month:

• Happy Little Stampers - Watercolor Challenge
• DL Art Linky Party
• Crafting By Designs - Anything Goes 1/3
• As You Like It - CAS or FAF 1/3 (DEFINITELY NOT CAS--I like lots of embellies and color!)
• Path of Positivity - #72 Curiosity 1/7
• Word Art Wednesday - #406 Anything Goes 3/5
• Simon Says Stamp Wednesday - Anything Goes 3/5
• Tuesday Throwdown - #441 Anything Goes 1/1
• Digi Chooseday - #39 Anything Goes 2/2
• A Gem of a Challenge - #19 Anything Goes 2/2
• Colour Crazy Challenge - #38 Anything Goes 2/2
• Through The Craft Room Door - Anything Goes 2/2
• Everybody Art Challenge - #454 Dies 3/3
• Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - #114 Anything Goes 3/3
• Lemon Shortbread - #103 Anything Goes 3/3
• Creative Crafters - #20 Anything Goes 3/3
• QKR Stampede - #365 Anything Goes 3/3
• Crafty Sentiments - #24 Anything Goes 3/3
• Aud Sentiments - #236 Anything Goes with a Sentiment 3/3
• Penny's Paper Crafting Challenge - #449 Anything Goes 3/3
• Crafts Galore - #67 Anything Goes 3/3
• Scrappers Delight - Anything Goes 3/3
• Crafty Catz - #476 Anything Goes 3/3
• Die Cut Divas - Free Fun Time 4/4 (my fun time is coloring!!!  Stress relieving and calming in general)
• A2Z Scrapbooking - Anything Goes 5/5
• Not Just Cards - Anything Goes 5/5
• Love to Craft - #38 Anything Goes 5/5
• Love To Scrap - #125 Anything Goes 5/5
• 613 Avenue Create - #225 Anything Goes 8/8

Thanks so much for looking and happy crafting. Laters!!!

STAMPtember - Day Twenty-Nine - TAKE TWO - Life Begins AFTER COFFEE!!!

So between being sick so much and working so much I was really really lazy this STAMPtember and I figured, I'll do what I can, when I can and do better next year!!!  So I made two cards for today!

Just a few challenges:

• Unity Stamps Yummy Mini Challenge (anything with food)
• Digi Chooseday - #39 Anything Goes 1/2
• Through The Craft Room Door - Anything Goes 1/2
• Colour Crazy Challenge - #38 Anything Goes 1/2
• Everybody Art Challenge - #454 Dies 2/3
• QKR Stampede - #365 Anything Goes 2/3
• Lemon Shortbread - #103 Anything Goes 2/3
• Scrappers Delight - Anything Goes 2/3
• Aud Sentiments - #236 Anything Goes with a Sentiment 2/3
• Crafty Catz - #476 Anything Goes 2/3
• Crafty Sentiments - #24 Anything Goes 2/3
• Penny's Paper Crafting Challenge - #449 Anything Goes 2/3
• Word Art Wednesday - #406 Anything Goes 2/5
• Simon Says Stamp Wednesday - Anything Goes 2/5
• Crazy 4 Challenges - #504 DRINK (coffee, obviously)
• Pixie Snippets Playground - #362 Use Snippets 1/1 (used a ton of scraps on this card!)
• The Card Concept - #120 Cozy Cottage (I was inspired by the colors, the COFFEE and the shelves on the wall!)

Thanks so much for looking and happy stamping!  Laters!!!

STAMPtember - Day Twenty-Nine - Pumpkin Spice

HAPPY NATIONAL COFFEE DAY!!!!!  I know, I know, I don't drink coffee but I LOVE coffee so I always love to make coffee-themed cards.

Just a few challenges:

• Unity Stamps Yummy Mini Challenge (anything with food)
• A Gem of a Challenge - #19 Anything Goes 1/2
• Creative Friday - #240 Autumn 1/3
• Crafty Gals Corner - #199 Fall Colors 1/3
• Ellibelle's Crafty Wednesday - Something that Begins with B (BORDER) 1/3
• Paper Shelter - #399 Colors of Fall 1/3
• Everybody Art Challenge - #454 Dies 1/3
• QKR Stampede - #365 Anything Goes 1/3
• Penny's Paper Crafting Challenge - #449 Anything Goes 1/3
• Aud Sentiments - #236 Anything Goes with a Sentiment 1/3
• Scrappers Delight - Anything Goes 1/3
• Crafty Catz - #476 Anything Goes 1/3
• Lemon Shortbread - #103 Anything Goes 1/3
• Crafty Sentiments - #24 Anything Goes 1/3
• Word Art Wednesday - #406 Anything Goes 1/5
• Simon Says Stamp Wednesday - Anything Goes 1/5
• Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - #114 Anything Goes 2/3
• 613 Avenue Create - #225 Anything Goes 7/8
• Fusion Card Challenge - COFFEE - Sketch/And/Or Inspiration Photo (I used BOTH!)
• Crazy 4 Challenges - #504 DRINK (coffee, obviously)
• Moo Mania and More - Autumn Glory
• Lil Red Wagon - #516 Fall It

Thanks so much for looking and happy stamping!  Laters!!!!

STAMPtember - Day Twenty-Two - It was 25 Years Ago Today.....

It's no secret that Friends is my favorite show of all time.  It's seriously the best thing ever created anywhere ever and if you didn't know that, well, you've clearly never seen it because OMG.  I laugh everytime I watch it and I've seen every episode a thousand times, easy.

ANYWAYS.  That show is TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OLD TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!

So I of course made an amazing card to celebrate it today!

The six colors of coffee cups represent the six Friends (the center cup is blue, for Chandler, because he's my favorite), and the hearts are the same colors as the dots in the Friends opening sequence.  I'm so happy with how this turned out.  And I know it's hard to tell in the photos, but there are actually six colors of microbeads in the shaker, to represent the characters.

Just a few challenges:

• Polkadoodles - #38 Anything Goes 1/2
• Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - #114 Anything Goes 1/3
• Creative Fingers - #171 Anything Goes 1/3
• Crafty Friends Challenge - #119 Special Occasion 1/3 (25th anniversary woohoo)
• Creative Crafters - #20 Anything Goes 2/3
• Not Just Cards - Anything Goes 4/5
• 613 Avenue Create - #225 Anything Goes 6/8

Thanks so much for looking and happy stamping.  Laters!!!

STAMPtember - Day Sixteen - YOU Are Capable

Everyone of us has the ability in us to make stuff happen.  Some of can make amazing things like cleaning up the environment happen.

Me, I get a great deal on a stack of cardstock and that's my amazing for the week.

We all bring our own cards to the table, right?

My point is that there's nothing stopping any of us from doing what we want to do.  And there's nothing wrong with shopping being what you want to do!

Just a few challenges:

• Creative Crafters - #20 Anything Goes 1/3
• Not Just Cards - Anything Goes 3/5
• 613 Avenue Create - #225 Anything Goes 5/8
• A2Z Scrapbooking - Anything Goes 5/5

Thanks so much for looking and happy stamping.  Laters!!

STAMPtember - Day Fourteen - A Blast From My Past

So I may have mentioned the ridiculous feat I'm attempting to overhaul and redo my entire crafting stash.  It's really not something I ever should've endeavored but whatever.  So I was going through a box of stickers, and I found a card I started in 2005!!  Do you even believe this?  It was unfinished and what I had assembled was coming apart because those were still the dark days when I used the (useless) Tombow tape runner.  So I carefully took the rest of it apart and reassembled it, adding embellies and dimension because it's a different crafting world now. I'm pretty happy with the turnout.

I'm actually kind of hoping I find other started cards in the melee, it might be fun to see what I can do with them.

Just a few challenges:

• DL Art Linky Party
• A Perfect Time To Craft - #9 Anything Goes
• Not Just Cards - Anything Goes 2/5
• Brown Sugar - #293 Anything Goes 3/3
• A2Z Scrapbooking - Anything Goes 4/5
• 613 Avenue Create - #225 Anything Goes 4/8

Thanks so much for looking and happy stamping.  Laters!!!