My Spring Coffee Lover's Blog Hop Entry #1

Today's card with Craftin' Desert Divas is my first project submission for the Spring/Summer Coffee Lover's Blog Hop. 

This Chibi Coffee digi stamp is part of the new coffee collection over at CDD. I colored it up using colored pencils with clear Spectrum Noir Glitter pen over the top.

The background was embossed and sanded then splashed with FSJ Silver Silk. I added a few layers for texture and heat embossed the "Hi!" sentiment from the Say It Big stamp set. Topped it off with a few teal sequins from the Emerald Isle Sequin pack and I was done!

That's it for me today -please consider joining us for and playing along with the Coffee Lover's Blog Hop~

How to Take a Coffee Break Using the Best Glue Ever

Today's card for ScraPerfect highlights the Best Glue Ever. Since I also used this sketch in my inspiration, I will also be entering it @ The Paper Players.

In gathering my supplies, I used designer series paper from Stampin' Up, clear stamps from STAMPlorations and of course the Best Glue Ever from ScraPerfect along with the No Clog Writing Cap.

I used the BGE to adhere everything on my card except for the die cut oval on the card front, which I adhered with foam tape for added dimension.

Coloring was done with watercolor pencils and a blender pen,.

I used diecuts from Itsy Bitsy for the oval on the front and the circle inside. The two sentiments are both digital stamps from LaLaLand.

I did add a tiny bit of the purple water color pencil behind the sentiment to help it pop.

Pulling this card all together went pretty fast since I used coordinating  pattern papers.

That's it for me today...until next time~happy crafting with ScraPerfect!

Christmas Coffee Card How -To Using the Best Glue Ever

Today's design team post with ScraPerfect is my 5th and last entry for the Winter Coffee Lover's Bloghop that ends today, but I will also be entering it @ the House That Stamps Built: Tic-Tac-Toe Challenge using the the Middle/Vertical row of "Christmas/Red & Green/Glitter", @ Sunny Day Crafting for "X is for Xmas" and @ ABC Christmas for "Y for Yummy". 

I started out this project cutting a top folding horizontal A2 card base from red cardstock and then trimming red and green cardstocks along with the holiday sentiment and wood grained patterned papers to fill my card front.

I then colored my Verve coffee to-go cup digi stamps using Spectrum Noir markers and accenting them with clear Wink of Stella pen before fussy cutting them out. (This is where the glitter part of the game grid comes in, but the camera just didn't capture the sparkle well at all in the pics)

 I then assembled the entire card with the help of ScraPefect's  Best Glue Ever and the No Clog Writing Cap.

I had die cut the sentiment for the inside of the card and free hand cut the one for the front. I then sponged around all the edges using Real Red ink from Stampin' Up! Foam Tape worked perfectly to pop up the wavy Happy Holidays.

Simple and sweet on the inside...

Wrapping the front focal panel with the gold threaded twine set off the wood grained cardstock and emphasizes the horizontal lines of the card, drawing the eye in to the cups.

Don't forget that adding the No Clog Writing Cap to the Best Glue Ever makes it perfect for using on both flat paper projects and anything 3D that you can imagine...and that is why I really do love and recommend this glue! Until next time, happy crafting with ScraPerfect~

Winter Wishes using Coffee Break Marci

Today's card is my 4th entry for the Winter Coffee Lover's Bloghop...and I even have one more yet for you tomorrow too! I will also be entering it @ Cuttlebug Mania for "It's Christmas Time", @ The Crafty Addicts for "Anything Goes with an option of Non-traditional Christmas colors" and @ Mod Squad for "Non-Traditional Christmas Colors".

I colored Marci (digi stamp from LaLaLand Crafts) once again using my new Chameleon colored pencils...gosh, can I just say that I am in love with these pencils?!? I mean really IN LOVE... they make me look pretty darn good at coloring, lol! (and they are such a pleasure to work with!!!)

The sentiments are from the Verve Stamps digi shop and I enhanced them with a tiny bit of my favorite Stardust Gelly Roll Pen.

The frame die cuts are from my new favorite set of Crazy Stitched Frame Dies from Craftin' Desert Diva's and the largest is cut from this pretty patterned paper I got in a holiday pad from ACMoore. The tree background die was one of a set of 3 that was the freebie from one of my favorite British crafting magazines and was cut from white glitter paper that I got at JoAnn Fabrics.

Hope you are enjoying all the gorgeous creations along the Coffee Loving Cardmakers Hop! Until next time~ keep on colorin', craftin' and sipping coffee!

A Wintry Birthday Cup of Cheer

Today's card is my 2nd entry for the Winter Coffee Lover's Bloghop and also the birthday card that I sent to my son last week. I will also be entering it @ The Die Cut Divas for "Winter Cards", @ Hiding in My Craftroom for "Super Scraps Saturday" and @ Glitter 'N Sparkle for "Winter".

If you want to see how I made the scraps that I used for the die cut coffee cup then please check out this post here for the step-by-step tutorial using a stencil and distress inks. Otherwise, I used dies and stamps from Stampin' Up. I even covered the stir-stopper in Glossy Accents to help it stand out on the Basic Gray patterned paper background.

Inside I did some stamp shadowing by using a second generation stamped image on the sentiment and made good use of more scraps.

The front sentiment banner is a die cut and accented with blue matte enamel dots. The thread wrapped around the front has a lovely glitter running through it and made the perfect finishing touch without making it too feminine looking.

There are hundreds of entries over at the Coffee Loving Cardmakers page, so if you are a coffee lover too, be sure to give them a look! Until next time~

How to Decorate Your Planner for the Holidays Using The Best Glue Ever

Today's design team post with ScraPerfect will also be my first entry in the Winter Coffee Lover's Bloghop that begins today. I had some more fun working with digital stamps (this time from Verve) for this planner spread. Follow along with me through the steps below...

The first step was picking my color scheme -which I do by choosing my patterned papers. The papers here are from a holiday paper pack that I got at my local ACMoore. I then laid out my planner pages and marked the spaces where I wanted the paper to go. To quickly trim the rectangles to the perfect size I used my Happy Planner Classic sized box punch. 

Next, I colored the images I had printed out using my Spectrum Noir markers and did some minor shading with a white Prismacolor pencil.

After fussy cutting out all the coffee themed images,  I adhered everything to the planner pages using the Best Glue Ever along with the No Clog Writing Cap.

To add some more color to my pages I also added planner stickers, washi tapes and some subtle ink blending on several of the blocks plus all around the page edges.

To make the large snowflake shine and shimmer, I heat embossed it using a clear glitter embossing powder before cutting it out. I then also used a tiny snowflake punch on the extra embossed cardstock to scatter throughout the spread.

Of course, I couldn't resist using some Wink of Stella and Stardust Gelly Roll accents -that's the bit of glimmer you see above on the whip cream and the letters.

Below, you can see the highlighted definition I was able to achieve by adding the white colored pencil on top of the alcohol markers.

That's it for me today -so remember that the Best Glue Ever is perfect to use in your creative planning because you only need a tiny amount and it then dries clean and smoothly so it won't wrinkle or buckle up your pages! Until next time, happy crafting with ScraPerfect!