Coffee and Cards with Celeste and Deb

Today I share cards I made, because some of my coffee

friends asked me to play along with them by use this moodboard

and come up with a coffee and a tea card.

Most of you know my love for coffee, so I found this great

Coffeeloving Cardmakers group and matching 

Facebook Group. A lot of coffee inspiration.

In this group I started a 

monthly coffeecardlist and this is how I met Celeste and Deb, 

who also share cards on their blogs with this moodboard.

They are here:

Meticulosity Blog by Deb

Craftingjunky Blog by Celeste

Isn't this a sweet anbd tasty moodboard?!

It inspired me for a coffee and tea card.

I  started with this coffee card using Michael Strong's

coffee cup stamps, Club Scrap coffee rings and 

Verve Stamps sentiment and coffee beans. 

The cups are embossed with 

pink and baby blue embossing powder.

And here is the inside of the card with another

sentiment by Verve Stamps.

This is my tea card. For this card I used 

metal dies for the cups, pot and macaroons

and sentiment by Verve Stamps.

Here is the fist look on the closed card.

And this is how the open card look.

I used a piece of cardstock of 8,5 x 5,5 inch.

I folded it double for the card and then folded

half of the front outward. This way you get a z-fold card.

I used various design papers matching the colors of

the moodboard for decorating the different 

panels of the card.

Cutting the teapot from blue and pink paper and

decorating with the pink butterflies from Verve Stamps

and adding paper flowers with a brad for decoration.

Underneat I cut a label like a teabag and adding

a Verve Stamps sentiment. With a piece of

cotton the label is fastned to the teapot.

Inside I also made a panel for writing

that I decorated with a pink and blue spoon

that was also cut out by a metal die.

I found this wonderful teaset dies on 

Aliexress here.

The inside panet is build on design paper

and a white paper doily. Cups cut out of

design paper and the steam is from the Michael

Strong coffee set stamped first bedore adding the

decorated cups. The macaroons are dies from 

a Marianne Creatble set. I used a white gel pen

for the center and after adding the sprinkles on top

I used glossy accent. 

Thank you Celeste and Deb for having me for coffee today!

Here I share my favourite coffee piccture of this moment:

Opa and grandson having a coffee.

My husband drinks his black coffee and Colin is

having lots of luke warm milk with a little spoon

of instant coffee

Hope you all have a wonderful Sunday,

thanks for looking and have a latte creative day!

PS don't forget to look at

Celeste's and Deb's Blog 

for their cards!

Stamping together

The other day after a family outing, my grandson

wanted to come to my house to watch some tv

and play with my stamps. He choose a set that

fitted his t-shirt!

We played with the dino's from 

Stampin'Up! called "No bones about it".

We stamped together, he did the large dino's

and I added the bones. He told me what ink colors to get.

He made a whole page with dino's and we cut

it to size for a card and added some on top with foam tape.

Then decorated the card with glitter glue.

Some of the left over dino's were also ued for the inside

of the card. And he even took some home to finish.

I want to enter Owen's card in the Kid's challenge

on the Simon Says Stamp Blog.

I made this card with the sketch from the

Sundaystamps Blog.

Here you see the inide of the card.

My grandson is a real artist, he made is own art show

in his room, taping all his drawings to the wall.

He just turned 5, so what will he make when he is

a little bit older?!

Thank you so much for looking

and have a creative day!

Cupcake Inspiration 417

I love the new set I have from  Stampin'Up!

called "Crafting Forever" and I used the stamps

for my card for the challenge on Cupcake Inspirations.

This is the inspiration for 

Cupcake Inspirations 417.

I started the background with 2 colors of oxide ink

and did the direct to paper technique. I just love

how the background looks.

Next I stamped the images with chocolate chip

dark brown ink and also used it to color the pot.

To make the background a little more interesting

I used Tim Holtz zig zag and hearts stencil with 

the brown and dark pink ink. Finished the card with

glueing a few hot pink sequins to it.

Thank you for looking and

have a creative day!

CAS and CS Lagoon

With the new Club Scrap Lagoon kit I

played challenge #117 on the Addicted to CAS blog.

You find all the details on the

Addicted to CAS Challenge Blog,

As my real stamps have not arrived yet, I printed the

mermaids tail and the sentiment first on 250 grs

white cardstock and cut it to cardsize and folded it so now 

there is a card of 4,25 x 5,5 inch.

Next I printed the tail again on copy paper and 

cut it out to cover de tail on the card. I got some of 

my Club Scrap stencils and inks  out to make a matching 

background by using belending tools in various colors.

In the end I used a wave and a dotted stencil to

create the background

amd adding some blue splashes with a brush as well.

Here a close up to the background.

This is how I created my one layered card.

Thanks for looking

and have a creative day!

Sunday Viva la Verve sketch: coffee

The sketches of Julee from from Verve Stams

are always wonderful and I just could not resist doing this one

and combined it with the Monday Challenge on 

the Simeon Says Stamp Blog,

where the theme is Food and/or drink.

This is the sketch on the

Viva La Verve Blog.

And you find the details for the

Simon Says Stamp challenge is HERE.

The sentiment I used on the card is by 

Verve stamps,

from a set called Le Typewriter Coffee set.

The coffee cups and the steam stamp are by

Michael Strong and you find them here.

The background is a piece of scrap paper I had left over

(not sure about the brand) , On the top cup there are a few 

 dark brown sticky gemstones.

Thank you for looking 

and have a creative day!

Saturday Sketch card: Turtle

Happy Saturday to you all!

I share with you my card for the

(CAS)E this sketch blog

and I decided to use 

Michael Strong's turtle stamp.

For the background I used the

new digital Club Scrap Lagoon images

from the digital kit.

The sentiment is by Stampin'Funn

and the bubbles are drom my stash.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!

Club Scrap August kit: Lagoon

Each month starts for me with a new digital kit

from Club Scrap. This month the theme is Lagoon.

If you are interrested in these digital images, go HERE.

The whote kit, as seen above, is only $ 4,95.

The paper kit takes another week to arrive.

My first card card was inspired by the 

challenge I noticed on the

Cupcake Inspiration Challenge blog

with a beachy theme.

So I printed a few of the digital images on heave

250 grams paper and took some other papers from various

kits. I cut into the seaweed to make the fish swim through.

The sentiment is also printed and cut with an oval punch.

I printed the seastars in various sizes and in the center

I added a golden metal dot from a previous Club Scrap

kit. I added the seastars with foam tape.

Now the mermaid tail is covered with glossy accent

to make it really shine and before letting it

dry I added tiny golden pearls to give the tail

amore shiny and fishy effect.

Thank you for looking 

and have a creative day!

Hoot and Holler!

Today I have been playingwith this cute digital

owl image, that I received from 

Limited Runs Digital Stamps 

for playing in the

progressive challenge on Facebook.

I used this sketch from the

Die Cuttin'Diva's Blog.

So after printing the image, I colored the sweet owl

with pencil. I printed the image twice for I wanted to

add the eyes and the beak with foam tape.

The branch is the Bird Branch die from Tim Holtz

and the flowers are punched out, glued to the branch and

decorated with a sticky gemstone.

The sentiment is a stamp by Stampin'Funn.

After stamping I cut the sentiment with a die

from Stampin'Up!.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!

CAS Exotic

Here another CAS card.

This time for the CAS on Fiday Blog,

where the theme is 

Exotic.

Here is my card:

I used a very old Club Scrap rubber stamp

and sentiment. The kit is from 2012 and is called Tahiti.

I stamped the fruitbowl in green and brown and

colored the fruits with watercolors.
When finished I added a few light brown sequins.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!