Critters in Cups 4

Hello Crafty Caffinated Friends!

I cannot stop playing with the Critters in Cups

by Funky Fossil Designs and the matching

Layering Cups metal dies.

I started with cutting the cups in rainbow colors.

I folded the paper and made sure the die was just a little

over the folded line, so the cups stayed together.

When I finished with all 6 colored, I glued first and last 

pages together, so it became a little booklet.

Click on the pictures for a larger version, 

so you can see everything much better!

For all of this mini book I used the new paper pad

and other stamps from different Funky Fossil sets too.

Also some stencils.

So below you see all the pages of my booklet,

if you have any questions feel free to ask in the comment

box (not anonymous, because than I cannot answer you).

1. You are my cup of tea!

Stencil Pawprint Background.

Vintage Script A7 stamp

2. Coffee (it is a die).

Stencil Lotsa Beans.

3. Bone-Jour!

(More Furry Friends)

Dog Bones stencil

4. You are tea-rrific!

Scribble Circles A7 stamp in the background

Bubbles stencil

5. Coffee!

A7 Don't make me laugh

Coffee Lover Die Set

6. Tea Time

(letter dies from my stash).

Zesty stencil

Hope you like my mini book

and gave you inspiration for your art.

Thank you for looking and 

have a creative caffinated weekend!

 

Critters in Cups 3

 

Welcome back my crafty caffinated friends!

It is another day of playing with the awesome  set

Critters in Cups by 

Funky Fossil Designs.

Today the dog is the main character on the card.

You may notice that the dog in the cup looks the other way

and may wonder how I did this. There is a mirror stamp, but I never

have a good result with it, so I stamp  real well and than 

scan the image in my printer. I save it as a jpg and

in my word program I reverse the image, print it,

color it and cut it to use on my card.

The images are colored with watercolor.

The cup is made with the Layering Cup die set.

Here the inside of the card.

The sentiment on the front and on the inside are from 

another Funky Fossil Designs set called 

Coffee and Friends.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative caffinated day!

Critters in Cups 2

Hello my crafty friends.

This Critter in Cups set by

Funky Fossil Designs 

is keeping me busy! I get new ideas all the time,

so here is my 3rd card with this set.

This time it is a tea card. 

This set can be used to make tea or coffee cards.

I has 3 animals: a dog, a cat and  a bunny.

Today it is the bunny's turn for a card.

I started by stamping a border of teabags 

on the background of the card.

Coloring them with brown and red watercolor ink.

Next I cut the papers and the cup (with the dies)

After coloring the bunny and cutting him out,

I assembled all the pieces and glued everything together.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative

caffinated day!

 

Critters in Cups

Hello Crafty Friends,

I am having fun with my new stamps and dies from

Funky Fossil Design.

I worked with the Critters in Cups clear stamp set

and the matching Layering Cup dies.

As you see the neighbourhood cat likes the card too!

For my card I stamped the background with the tea bag and coffee 

beans stamps from the Crittes in Cups set and colored them

with distress oxide inks. Also did some spattering on the background.

The Cup is decorated with the flower stamp from the set.

Fun bit of flower power.

So what do you think?

Tea or coffee today!

Thank you for looking

and have a creative caffinated day.

 

Happy 4th of July!

Good Morning my crafty caffinated friends!

Have you had your first cup today?

Sipping your coffee and browsing around?

Well today I want to wish my American friends

a very Happy and wonderful 4th of July.

I made this card with my new 

Funky Fossil Design stamps

called Critters in Cups.

This company is a UK based company, but you

can find the stamps in the USA too HERE.

For my card i started with making the background with

Funky Fossil stencils Starry night and Sunray

with distress oxide inks.

The cup is made with the Layering Cups die set.

The stars in gold are punched out with a punch from

my stash. The blue and gold are very shiny, but as 

usual this is not shown on the picture.

The sentiment is from a Tim Holtz stampset.

You see Fred (the cat) has decorated his tail to match

the Holiday. I drew his tail by hand, for the set has the

cat without its tail.

Wisging you all a wonderful day!

Creative 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!

Happy Father's Day!

Hello Crafty Friends,

It is always a stuggle what to get my dearest husband for Father's Day.

Socks he has enough, perfumes and books too. No wishlist.

So I noticed we only had one beer glass left and so I ordered six new

beer glasses ans some bottles of beer to fill it with.

Tonight I will coock something that goes perfect with a glass of beer.

Ok, not an original present, but just what we needed :-)

At least I had the right stamps to make the matching card!!

They are all by Stampin'Up! with matching dies.

The sets I used are Bubble Over and Mixed Drinks.

De sentiment is from Guy Greetings.

A pity you do not see the Nuovo glitter on the beer glasses.

This is going to be a Happy Father's Day!

Hope all your men will have one too.

Thanks for looking and

have a creative day!

 

Masculine caffinated Christmas card

Hello Caffinated Crafty Friends,

Here I am with my card for the

#6 challenge of the

Caffinated Christmas Card Callenge.

The theme this month is: Masculine.

So for my card I used a Christmas theme filefolder by Tim Holtz

and his Inquisitive stamps. The coffee cup die is a Big die

and the sentiment is by Verve Stamps (not available anymore).

I thought these men needed lots of good cheer in their cups!

The Merry Christmas is a piece of washi tape and of corse a ribbon

is used to decorate the file folder.

Inside the filefolder I made a card for writing your message.

Wishing you all a wonderful

crafty caffinated day!

 

Proost!

 Hello Crafty Friends,

Here are some masculine cards I made with the ladies of the carehome.

I used a new die by Marianne Design with "Proost" all round the circle.

This is Dutch for  Cheers!

The bottle and glass stamps are by Tim Holts (whine blueprints).

And some golden corner stickers.

The dark brown middle part is embossed with 3d woodgrain

and the background is a piece of design paper.

For the 2nd card (we usually make 2 cards) I used a coloring

page, but rezized it so it would fit in the circle.

Some of the ladies love to color.

I love using the Tim Holtz stamps, so I made another card for my own

collection. The sentiment: Proost! op je gezondheid, means:

Cheers! to your health.

For the background I used a TH stencil and rusty hinge distress ink,

some splatter and washi tape.

The images are colored with alcohol markers and on the glass I added

some glossy accent.

Thank you for looking

and have a crafty day!

Caffinated Christmas Challenge May

Hello Coffee Loving Crafty Friends!

Every month there is a coffee/tea challenge on the

Caffinated Christmas Challenge Blog.

Each month there is a theme and this month

it is: Flowers.

One of my favourite gifts for Christmas is this little

package for tea bags. I have some folding instructions

HERE.

You start with a 6x6 inch piece of design paper.

Paper, stamps and dies are all Stampin'Up!

Christmas Cheer stamps and Cup of Christmas dies.

Thank you for looking

and have a caffinated creative day!

 

Beautiful Peony

 Hello Crafty Friends!

Today I share with you a card I made,

that is inspired by a sudden discovery in my garden:

This beautiful yellow and pink peony was hiding

 in a corner of my garden.

As I live here for 2 Springs now, it must have been here last year too,

but I just did not see it. This peony bush is behind a tree and as you

can see from my hand behind the flower, it is a very large flower.

Because of this they hang underneath the leaves.

On facebook I shared some pictures and got so many comments,

especially about  the color. Yes, this is so special.

I have some red peonies too, but these are not open yet.

For my card I used a flower stamp from Stampin'Up! called

Blended Bloom. The sentiment (congratulations in Dutch)

is a clear stamp from my stash.

The friends background stamp i think is from SU!, but I am not sure.

Thank you for looking

and have a wonderful day!

Cards for the Carehome

 

Hello Crafty Friends,

I haven't been around for some time. Not because I have not been crafty, but because our computer had crashed and I had no idea how to do this blogging on my ipad. Than I found instagram quite easy to share my cards, so please start follow me there tto (4hetty it is on instagram).

So, what have I been doing?

Not so much challenges, for this reason: postage and VAT!

If  I win something, it means I can choose from a shop, but have to pay my own postage. This is usually from the US to The Netherlands a lot! Then when the package arrives over here I even have to pay taxes. I think you can understand it is no more fun anymore to play along.

Most of my time goes to my volunteer work 

for the carehome my mom is in. 

Every Friday I make cards with a bunch of ladies. 

I love using the stuff I have (it never seems to finish), 

my old stamps and design papers. 

So here you see some cards we are going to make next week 

with the set "You've got this" by Stampin'Up!

Most of the time they manage to make two cards.

I hope you all have a lovely Sunday and hope to

see you soon again!