23 Fall/Winter Coffee Lovers Blog Hop - day 7

 

Hello Caffinated Crafty Friends,

Here I am with two more cards for the 

23 Fall/Winter Coffee Lovers Blog Hop.

I made two cards with images from Paulette.

She has a wonderful shop where you can buy her images,

but there are also freebies if you look well.

These snowman are free if you go here:

Ko-fi shop.

The snowman background is the freebie, but the coffee mug

cam in the November Club. Each month there is a club with

a bunch of images 3x a day for 10 days for a small amount.

The sentiment I made up with the computer.

The second card has a little trick to it. The sentiment here is 

a stamp by Marianne Design. The background is embossed.

The trick is when you extend the coffee mug, you get another

sentiment (by Newtons Nook stamps).

Tomorrow is the last day,

hope you come and see what I have

come up with......nothing yet, so a 

surprise for me too!

Thank you for looking today

and have a caffinated crafty day.

Happy New Year!

Hello Crafty Friends,

I want to wish you all a very Happy and Healthy New Year

with this happy piggy.

I used the Hogs and Kisses stamp set by Funky Fossil Design.

For the background i painted the paper first with a few 

colors of acrylic paint and next I took the 

fireworks stencil by Funky Fossil Design.

Here I used pearl acrylic paint.

This is how iot looked when the stencil came off.

The sentiment is made with the computer 

and the silver numbers are cut out with 

number dies.

Thank you for all your support this year

and hope to see you back in 2021.

January will start with a great surprise 

and some goodies to give away.

Meanwhile:

stay safe, stay healthy

and keep crafting!

 

Shana Tova - Happy New Year!

With this card I want to wish all my family,

my friends on and offline and all those who celebrate

a very Happy, Healthy and Sweet New Year!

I made a z-fold card with images and stencils

 by Funky Fossil Designs.

It was so fun to see that the honey gift bag fitted perectly

inside this card. You find instructions  for the gift bag here.

May 5781 bring goodness for everyone!

Thank you for looking,

have a wonderful celebration

and stay safe.

 

Honey Gift treat

I found some lovely small honey jars that are a 

perfect gift for Rosh Hashanah with an apple.

For on the Jewish New Year we eat an apple with honey

to wish each other a sweet New Year.

It is easy to make, here are the instructions:

I made two so you see here two of each.

For one treat box you need a piece of cardstock of

2x 11 inch and a piece of 4x4 inch.

You can decorate or stamp directly on the cardstock

or use some design paper, like I choose to do here.

We start by scoring the  4x4 piece on each side by 1 inch.

Next we cut the corner square so we can make it into a box.

Glue the corners and you can even add some design papers 

on 2 sides opposite each other on the box.

Take the long strip and scor at 4,5 inch and 6,5 inch.

 For top and bottom of the strip, I used  this topper punch

by Stampin'Up!. I also cut some design paper and used

both sides.

Put the box inside the strip and fold on the score lines.

Glue or tape the bottom to the strip.

I also taped the sides of the box to the front and the back.

I found these mini honey jars for my treat bag

and made the box to fit them.

I added the honey jars inside.

Even my grandson liked to make one.

Coloring and cutting

and adding the images with stapples to the strip.

Her the bacg of the treat box.

For my box I used some stamps, that my friend Donna

made for me by special request. They are not for

sale anywhere: a big and small apple and the honey jar.

The Hebrew sentiment is by Zum Gali Gali.

Thank you so much for looking,

stay safe and'

keep crafting.

 

Cards for the Jewish New Year

Today I have been crafting for the Jewish New Year/ 

Rosh Hashana. This important Jewish Holiday starts this year on

September 18, so it is time to try out some cards.

This year I found some nice apples at the

Funky Fossil Design, 

a home based online shop in the UK.

I used the following:

the Bees Knees stamp set

the apple a day stencil,

the loving tree stencil and

the sunray stencil.

The apple is a special stamp, especially handcarved by request

(thank you so very much Donna, I love it!!)

Why is the apple a symbol for the Jesish New Year?

Apples and honey: One of the most popular Rosh Hashanah customs involves eating apple slices dipped in honey, sometimes after saying a special prayer. Ancient Jews believed apples had healing properties, and the honey signifies the hope that the new year will be sweet.

More info about the Jewis New Year can be found HERE.

So for my cards I used oxide distress ink with the stencils

and markers to color the bees.

To get the bees in a circle, I used one of my circle dies and

drew a line around it with a penil (later erased). It did take some

finding out how many bees in the circle.

The sentiment L'Shana Tova is Hebrew for wishing

a Good Year.

The apples in the background are colored with green

and red oxide distress ink and a stencil.

To see how I did this technique with the Sunray stencil,

look below:

I first stamped the apple and covered it with a piece

of post-it note where i had stamped the apple again and cut out.

This is called a mask. Now I lay the Sunray stencil on

top and color with the blue ink.

I know i am going to need a lot of bees for my card, so I colored

a bunch at the same time. I added a little glossy accent

on the winks for some shine.

This is a totally different card with a big apple on the tree

and a bee wondering what is going on.

I am not sure which card I shall mass produce. 

Which one do you like best?

Thank you for looking,

stay safe and

keep crafting.

Happy Chinese New Year

Today the Chinese New Year starts and this year is the 

year of the rat. Goodbye year of the pig.

The Rat:

If you are born in the year 1948, 1960, 1972, 1984,

1996 of 2008 than you are a rat and rats are believed to be

very industrious and thrifty, dilligent and positive.

Of course I wanted to make a card for the new year and I came across

 a wonderful tutorial here by Frenchie. The tutorial is HERE.

It is a tent card.

I added a little of my own.

The heart is a stamp by Michael Strong

and the sentiment is from my stash.

On the side of the rat I added the flower stamp by Michael Strong.

The are embossed in silver. I was inspired by seeing this decoration

when I googled for the rat image.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!

Color Trowdown Challenge #574

I found the perfect challenge for my 

Club Scrap Coffeehouse papers!

It is the colorchallenge on the

Color Throwdown Blog.

I made another deskcalender in another size

that I used yesterday.

For this deskcalendar I used a piece of cardstock:

6 x 12 and scored it horizontal at

4,5 - 9 - 10 - 11 inch.

Papers and stamps are all Club Scrap

Coffeehouse ( kit from December 2019).

You find the stamps HERE.

This little calendar I bought in a hobby store,

but you can make your own by printing this calendar.

Cut all the months and staple it together.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!