Day 8: Birthday and Coffee

Welcome to another card on day 8 of the

Coffee Blog Hop.

So many sponsors, so many prizes to win, so don't forget 

to add your card and have a chance to win some goodies.

Hope you get a chance to add something today, for today is 

the last day!

Today is a special day for it is the birthday of

the twins (my grandsons). They are now 2 years.

They are a handful at the moment, but we also have so much fun

together. We make many memories. May they grow up to

give us many more great moments.

Of course I had to make them a card and this is it.

Using a wonderful die-set by Marianne Design.

So why not using it for my coffee card too!

I came up with this tag.

The background was first made with 2 different

stencils and distress oxide inks by Tim Holtz.

The cup is a stamp from Tim Holtz stamped 5 times.

One time on the tag, on time on cream paper, 1 time

on white, on kraft and on green. Cut out the different

parts, And the banana is from the die set.

Both  sentiments are by Create with TLC.

Here I just left out the "hi" and replaced it by

the second sentiment.

And finishing of the sentiment with a few coffee rings.

Oh now the hop is over.......and I still have so many ideas!

I am glad there will be another hop in the fall.

Thank you Amy and team for all the organization

and all the fun. It was a great show of cards and  projects!

Thanks for looking

and have a latte creative day!

Day 7: Coffee Candle

Welcome to another coffee project on day 7 of the

Coffee Blog Hop.

So many sponsors, so many prizes to win, so don't forget 

to add your card and have a chance to win some goodies.

Here are some more decorated candles.

This time with totally different images.

These are from:

Inkadinkdo - coffee and friends (not available anymore)

Inky Antics - cafeine sentiment

JavaJoanne - Java Great Day

When i bought the candles, they came like this.

These are scented candles.

I colored the images with pencil

and cut them out with a shaped spellbinder die.

To have the second layer, I traced the die

with pencil on the gold paper and cut this out

by hand so i could layer it with the image.

Tiny prima flowers were added with tiny brads

and the ribbons are the beautiful hand dyed 

ribbons by Diana Larson.

So my grandson also plays along this time. 

He drew two cups of coffee: one for me and one for him.

I played with his drawing, using a stencil

some stamps and direct to paper ink

method to make it into this card.

The sentiment is by Tim Holtz.

Well, just one more day and the hop

is over. Hope you find some time to 

come back tomorrow.

Thanks for looking and

have a latte creative day!

Club Scrap Blog Hop: Pattern Play

Welcome to the monthly blog hop of 

Club Scrap

where we show you the kit of the month June

and this kit is called Pattern Play.

I hope you have arrived here from

Pam's Blog

and seen how she has played with her kit.

I was a little unlucky this month for my box

only arrived last Saturday, so I had to come

up with a quick project. As I also play in the

Summer Coffeelovers Blog Hop, it has to 

be something coffee related. I guess some of you

 know I can turn any kit into something coffee!

I made this coffee/card gift box.

For the box I used the Stationer's Box that Tricia made with

us at the Retreat in 2013. And for a period of one

month you can download the instructions here.

And there are even an instruction about 

how to assemble the box:

video instruction is here.

Stationer's Box Part 1 from Club Scrap on Vimeo.

In the original box there are only cards, but I noticed that 

where there can be the little cards, it also holds 2 times

4 Nespresso cups and that was just perfect.

The box comes with a lid with a window.

After I followed all the instructions, I had the bottom and

the lid. I assembled the bottom and made the dividers.

For the lid I did some stamping for decoration, before

folding and glueing everything together. I used tone

of the pattern stamps from the kit. You find the stamps here.

Around the box I just the silver ribbon from the kit.

The tag is one of the cut apparts from this kit and

I decorated it with this cute coffee die using some

left over paper (red from stash). On the back you can 

write a wish or stamp a sentiment.

Here a look at the inside. On the left the cups

and on the right there are 4 cards.

I took the cards out to show them to you.

Here are the cards. You see they are all coffee related.

For my cards I used dies from Tim Hotz.

The coffee cup to go is die cut out of the

patterned papers from the kit. The flower

is punched out and decorated with one of the cute

enameled dots that were also in the box.

Sentiment from the stampsheet.

Ok, so one card for the tea lovers too!

Ribbon from the kit.

Here I stamped on the cup with white ink.

I cut up one of the stamped sentiments

and made it fit my card. Enameled dots posing

as a little milk in the coffee.

Background embossed with coffee beans and

cut with a thinlit and now showing the

green of the card through. Some gesso

was added to the embossed part of the panel.

For this card I embossed the background

with a tim Holtz embossing folder and added

white gesso for a little more effect.

Cup is stamped with green ink and a decorative

pattern. Sentiment is also from the kit and tag

is made up out of a left over piece.

Here a little info about the Coffeelovers hop:

Welcome to another card on day 6 of the 

Coffee Blog Hop.

So many sponsors, so many prizes to win, so don't forget 

to add your card and have a chance to win some goodies.

And now it is time to hop over to

Jennifer's Blog

and she what totally different project she has come up with.

If you happen to loose your way, you can always 

go to the Club Scrap Blog where

you find all the participants of the blog hop.

Thank you very much for looking

and have a creative day!

Day 5: coffee and candles

Welcome to another card on day 5 of the

Coffee Blog Hop.

So many sponsors, so many prizes to win, so don't forget 

to add your card and have a chance to win some goodies.

And if you have no coffee stamps, there are

 many freebies to grab, like this iced tea set

from Create with TLC.

You might have noticed on my garden decoration, there

was something in between the cups and the pot. Did you wonder

what it was? It was a candle with coffee decoration.

Also great to make as a gift.

I got this cute glass candle holders at the dollar store

and new right away that I was going to decorate them. 

So again I used the rolograph (very vintage!!),

some blue cardstock to match all the others

things on the tray. Ribbons for decoration

(by Diana Larson) and pencils for coloring.

So I rolled out the images only ones

for I do not need more for the candleholders.

Next colouring the images (you don't have to,

but I thought this looked more like Summer).

Then I cut strips of 1,5 inch and added a strip

of double sided tape to the back. This way it is

easy to place on the candleholder.

Now tie the ribben around the bottom and your gift

is ready.

Here a little card to go with your gift.

The sentiment is by Verve Stamps.

Thanks for looking

and have a latte creative day!

Day 3: Coffee in the Garden

Welcome to another card on day 3 of the

Coffee Blog Hop.

So many sponsors, so many prizes to win, so don't forget 

to add your card and have a chance to win some goodies.

And if you have no coffee stamps, there are

 many freebies to grab, like this iced tea set

from Create with TLC.

For today I have something totally different.

I was inspired by pinterest when looking for

Summer ideas. I noticed lots of these signs

and came up with  this for my garden.

I have this cute sidetable in my garden where I usually

put my cup of coffee when reading.

Now I have this neat tray and sign.

I used a regular stone flower pot and painted it 

with gesso first. For the sign I used paint stirring stick

(not sure how you call these in English, but I guess

 you understand what I mean). I broke them into small

pieces before painting.

When the gesso ws dry I colored the flower pot 

and the paint sticks in all kinds of Summer colors.

Acrylic paints were used.

With a background stamp of wood grain I stamped on

all the pieces to make them look a little like driftwood.

Then  - except for the coffee - I used 

2 kinds of alphabet stamp sets to make up

the sentiment.

The sticks were added with wood glue to the main stick

and put into the flower pot that was filled with

small stones.

The sentiment on the flower pot is done with a marker

and after some practise handlettered on the pot.

I am very happy with the overall result and it

looks perfect on my table. I can''t wait to go out in

the garden again and read (or just look at the sign and 

drink coffee!).

Thank you for looking 

and have a latte creative day!