Caffeinated Christmas Challenge July 24: Stars

Hello my caffeinated crafty friends!

This month I knew quickly what to make for the

Caffeinated Christmas Challenge Blog.

The theme this month is STARS.

This is my finished card with an image from

JessicaLynnOriginals - it is Brentwood!

He always appears when there is a Coffeelovers

blog hop.

For my card I used the new Distress SPRITZ

Tim Holtz just brought out. These have a wonderful

glimmer. I made the background with a star stencil.

I also used it on the image and some gold

(fossilized amber) on the sentiment.

It is a pity you cannot really see it.

Here a close up! I cut out  some stars and added

those on Brentwood and the cup on top of the hearts 

which were in the original digital stamp.

Thank you for looking and have a

wonderful caffeinated creative day!

 

Cards for Jewish New Year

Dear Crafty Friends!

As always around this time of the year, 

I start with my cards for the Jewish New Year: Rosh Hashanah.

It is always on a different date for the Jewish calendar

is a moon calendar and this year the New Year starts

the evening of Friday 15th of September and 

is celebrated on the 16th and 17th too.

This year I use a freebie from my friend Paulette.

She has this fantastic site on Facebook for

Junk Journaling with lots of freebies,

that I use for making cards. You find her site HERE.

These are digital images, that you can print

in whatever size you like.

All over the world, Jewish people will celebrate

Rosh Hashanah, the start of a new year on the Jewish

Calendar, with wishes all around for a 

"happy and sweet new year"- signified by dipping

apples into honey, and greeting one another with

"Shanah Tovah", the Hebrew words for the greeting

meaning "A Good Year"!

So here are a few cards I made:

For the Background I used printed paper from 

Paulette's Ko-fi shop called Autumn Hues.

The sentiment is from Stampin'Up! from a set

called "Slices of Happiness".

Shapes are cut with scissors and glued to some gold paper

and also cut by hand with a little border all around.

For this card I used the same printed background, but 

added apples with a stencil (Funky Fossil).

The sentiment is printed with the computer.

Here you see the background panels adapted with 

the apples through the stencil.

The stencil is also perfect for decorating a matching envelop.

I added Nuvo white blizzard glitter drops on 

the honey jars. Made this close up picture, so you

can see how wonderful it makes the honey jar look.

For more ideas for card for Rosh Hashanah, please type

Rosh Hashanah or Jewish New Year in the search box

that you find on the right side of this blog.

I made many different cards, so lots of ideas.

Thank you so much for looking 

and have a creative caffinated day!

Simon Says: Stencil It

 

For this week there is a stencil challenge on the 

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog.

This is what I came up with:

I had seen Tim Holtz Easter/ Spring inspiration You Tube,

but I did not have the raffia (which I thought looked like fn).

I looked through all my stuff and asked around, but nobody

had any. Then today I went shopping and suddenly it was 

there waiting for me, yeah!!

So I had to try to make the carrot:

Borring! So I got out my stencils and new dies

and this is the result:

This is what I used:

Bottlebrush Trees CMS455

Crazy Talk CMS236

Bunny Stitch Thinlits

Thatched stencil THS104

Distress oxide inks

green raffia

Thank you for looking

and I hope you have a wonderful

creative and caffinated day!

November Christmas coffee card challenge

Happy Sunday caffinated creative friends!

Here I am with my entry for the

Caffinated Christmas Card Challenge.

This time I used mainly Tim Holtz materials.

The cup is a die by Funky Fossil Design.

The design papers are Tim Holtz as wel as the star stencil

and the holly stencil on top and bottom.

The sentiment is a combination of a Tim Holtz and a Honey Bee stamp.

The robin is from the Snarky Cat Christmas set CMS416.

And this robin is from the Stamptember 2020 Snarky Cat set

as well as the cat, but his hat is from the other Snarky Cat set.

The poinsettia and the holly is from a set from my stash.

Thank you for looking and have a 

wonderful creative Sunday!

Rosh Hashanah Blog Hop

 

Hello Crafty Friends,

Tonight is the start of the Jewish New Year. We celebrate this in the synagogue, but also at home.

We send each other cards and the symbol you see very often is the apple with a jar of honey. This symbolizes the wish of a very sweet New Year.

On the 2nd day of the New Year we eat a pomegranate with honey.

 So that is also a fruit you see on the card. 

For the first card I used all SU! materials and papers.

The stampset I used is Harvest Hellos and Jar of Love.

The sentiment is from a very old set called Mazel Tov (2003).

This is the inside of the card with a Jewish sentiment

from my stash.

All coloring is done with stamping ink and a waterbrush.

For this card I made a stencil out of the Honeycomb Hello die.

And the pomegranate stamps and flower are from a set

you cout get for free in the SAB sale this year called

Perfect Pomegranate.

The gold embossed dove is SU!

and the sentiment is Hebrew - Shanah Tovah - a good year!

(by zumgaligali rubber stamps).

Here another version with the Perfect Pomegranate stampset.

Sentiment from my stash (unknown origine)

Wishing all my creative Jewish  friends and those who celebrate

 a very sweet, healthy, prosperous and creative New Year!

A good year!

International Cat Day

 

Hello my crafty friends,

Besides coffee I am also a cat lover.

Although i do not have a cat of my own anymore,

I have 2 cats from the neighbourhood who come

here nearly every day.

So because it is International Cat Day,

I also made a cat card.

I started with this flower stencil (Blossom) and pink and

yellow distress oxide ink.

I used some washi tape to create a border on the card.

The stamps I used are by Funky Fossil Designs

and is called Flowery Felines (design by Donna).

I stamped the tiny flower on top of the stencil in the

heart of the large flowers. A tiny leave I stamped when 

the stencil was lifted off.

Here you see the finished card.

The image of the cat is raised with foam tape.

As it is impossible to cut the cat whiskers,

I have a trick for that. Stamp the image first

on the card and the cut out image you lau on top of that.

This way you can cut of the whiskers, because they

are already on the card.

Thank you for looking and cuddle a little

extra with your cat today!

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Critters in Cups 5

 

Hello Crafty Caffinated Friends,

It seems hard to stop playing with this set

Critters in Cups by 

Funky Fossil Designs.

Today I will share with you how I made this card:

I started the card with the background using the stencil 

Chatty Cups and worn lipstick and fossilized amber

distress oxide ink.

Next I added 2 different stamps on top:

scribble circles with frayed burlap distress oxide

and vintage script with black ink.

Than i stamped the images I wanted to use.

Not only the Critters in Cups, but also one of

the sentiments from the Coffee and Friends set.

I also added a rol of washi tape from the set Flowerful

Washi tape to put on the background panel later on.

Next the coloring of the images. I used the same 

distress oxide inks as I used for the stencil and the

stamping.

And here is the finished card with the washi tape

 on the left side and a little flower on top

of the head of the cat.

I nearly always have a piece of paper left, for 

I never cut the panel the right size for you never

know if you make a mistake (and than you can cut it off).

Thank you for looking.

Hope you enjoyed seeing the proces 

of how I make a card.

Enjoy your day!

Caffinated greetings,

Caffinated Christmas Card Challenge #7

 

Hello Caffinated Crafty Friends,

Today is the start of  a new month and a new challenge #7 on the

Caffinated Christmas Card Challenge Blog.

If you hop over to the main blog you will see more inspiration

and it is also the place where you can link your own card

for an opportunity to win a prize at Twiddler's Nook.

I have been asked to be a guest designer for this month

and today I share with you my card with the new star

theme for this month.

I started out with making the background with 

a star ad dotted stencil by Tim Holtz. I used texture pase

and tumbled glass distress ink.

The images on my card are dies by Tim Holtz,

but the sentiment is a stamp by Verve Stamps (not

available anymore unfortunately).

Tim's dies are from: Café Colorize and Santa's Helper.

The stars on the cup I did with a white signo pen.

Papers are also Tim's Christmas paper block.

Fisishing off the card with a few sticky white pearls.

Hope you all enjoy a great Summer and still

plan and enjoy to make a Christmas coffee card.

Wishing you all a wonderful

caffinated and creative day!