Monday, July 11, 2022

Critters in Cups 5

 


Hello Crafty Caffinated Friends,

It seems hard to stop playing with this set

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

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,


Saturday, July 9, 2022

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!


2. Coffee (it is a die).
Stencil Lotsa Beans.


3. Bone-Jour!
Dog Bones stencil

4. You are tea-rrific!
Scribble Circles A7 stamp in the background
Bubbles stencil

5. Coffee!
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!












 

Thursday, July 7, 2022

Critters in Cups 3

 



Welcome back my crafty caffinated friends!

It is another day of playing with the awesome  set

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 

Thank you for looking
and have a creative caffinated day!



Wednesday, July 6, 2022

Critters in Cups 2


Hello my crafty friends.

This Critter in Cups set by
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!





 

Tuesday, July 5, 2022

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.







 

Monday, July 4, 2022

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 

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,



Friday, July 1, 2022

Caffinated Christmas Card Challenge #7

 


Hello Caffinated Crafty Friends,

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


Sunday, June 19, 2022

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!







 

Monday, June 6, 2022

Masculine caffinated Christmas card


Hello Caffinated Crafty Friends,

Here I am with my card for the
#6 challenge of the
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!