coffee lover's blog hop 2017

this is my first time participating in the annual fall coffee lover's blog hop.  the theme is "fall" and of course coffee (or tea or cocoa)!  here's my make:

the background paper and coffee cup image on this card are from coosty creations. the autumn leaves are from gecko galz and the moon-crow is by rhonda's originals.

more details about the blog hop:

Fall Coffee Lovers Blog Hop 2017!

Created by the fantastic designer Amy Tsuruta.

This Fall Hop is scheduled to start on Friday, September 15th 
at 6:00 a.m. pacific and will run through

Friday September 22nd at 11:59 p.m. pacific.

The blog address is: http://coffeelovingcardmakers.com/

You can share your project just HERE.

& The direct permalink to the post: 

http://coffeelovingcardmakers.com/#fall2017clh

enjoy; love to all.

cheeky coffee and cream

for the challenge formerly known as cheeky, here is my interpretation of the challenge theme: coffee and cream.

the background, coffee cup and sentiment are by coosty creations. the women come from dezinaworld.  butterfly by itKuPiLLi.  stop by the whimsy asylum for another take on this theme.  if you'd like to play along in our weekly fun here is the list of upcoming challenges: 

hey! come back tomorrow for the start of the gecko galz annual blog hop!  free digital collage sheets at EVERY stop!

love to all.

the smell of freshly ground heaven...

last week at tag tuesday the prompt was cups and cutlery and i went with a tea party theme.  this week the prompt is coffee and tea. well, i pretty much went with just the coffee...

because it really does smell like freshly ground heaven!  when i was growing up a coffee pot was ALWAYS on.  so it is a smell i associate with homey things.

vintage lady from the steampunk girls collage sheet by lunagirl. the white coffee pot is from delicious doodles and all the rest of the images are from coosty creations -- the latter two products are sold by stitchy bear digital images.

linking to try it on tuesday and the current challenge to "make us smile."

enjoy and love to all.

digital backgrounds and images at the cheerful stamp pad

this is the second week of the digital backgrounds and images challenge at the cheerful stamp pad. our challenge sponsor is stitchy bear stamps and the randomly selected winner will receive shopping credit at their online digital store.

for this tag i used digital background paper by stitchy bear designer coosty creations and in the corner is a digital stamp of poinsettias also by coosty creations.  the poinsettias were colored with colored pencils.  the santa is a rubber stamp by 100 proof press. i outlined the poinsettia digital stamp and the rubber stamp with black pen.  i added the "no peeking" sentiment, some green stars and ribbon (all from my stash) to finish.

enjoy; love to all.

digital backgrounds and holiday children

happy new week!  today's tag is a two-fer: my DT duties for the cheerful stamp pad's new challenge this week is to use a digital background or image and for lunagirl moonbeams it is to create on the theme of holiday children. for both challenges a randomly selected winner will win shopping credit -- for the cheerful stamp pad prize it will be a shopping credit with stitchy bear stamps digital outlet and for the lunagirl prize it will be shopping at the lunagirl store.

the beautiful background digital poinsettia paper is by designer coosty creations of stitchy bear.  the lovely vintage images -- the girl and the birds are by lunagirl.  the rest is simple, a border, hole reinforcement, ribbon and some distressing.

i hope you will join both challenges!
love to all.

anything goes with fall colors, part 2

here's another chance at an easy challenge for this time of year -- "anything goes with fall colors" at the cheerful stamp pad.  link up any new creation so long as fall colors are involved for a random chance at a nice shopping trip to the online digital outlet store at stitchy bear stamps, our challenge sponsor.

i made a tag featuring background fall leaves paper by stitchy bear designer coosty creations and a sweet digital girl image by stitchy bear designer "my heart pieces."  i printed the girl on some colorful paper and colored her with pencils.  i tore that sheet and added it to the fall leaves background paper. i added a number of fall leaves die cuts and a pumpkin die cut border.

i'm linking up to "anything goes" challenge #43 at scraps of color.

love to all.

anything goes, with fall colors

welcome to challenge #98 at the cheerful stamp pad.  you are invited to make a new creation on the theme of "anything goes" with one requirement -- use fall colors.  that's pretty easy, yes?  our sponsor is once again the great folks at stitchy bear stamps.  a randomly selected winner will get some shopping credit at stitchy bear digital outlet.

for my DT piece "sunflower garden" i used a sunflower digital image by "my heart pieces" and fall leaves background designer paper by "coosty creations" both designers at stitchy bear.

i printed the digi on some colored paper and colored the image with pencils.  after cutting it out i went around the edges with my red gold pro marker.  i added a few embellishments to finish it, keeping things simple.

have fun creating and i hope to see your entry at the cheerful stamp pad!
love to all.

fall leaves at the cheerful stamp pad!

challenge #97 time at the cheerful stamp pad -- "fall leaves" is our new theme.  link up a creation featuring fall leaves for a chance to win a prize from our sponsor stitchy bear.  for this challenge our DT got some coosty creations digital items from our sponsor for our creations.  i used the "autumn basket" digital stamp along with some digital background paper from coosty.

for my tag i covered the tag base with the lovely autumn digital paper which i'd printed with the autumn basket image right on it.  i colored the basket with pencils and all i really did was add the sentiment which comes from the gecko galz thanksgiving digital stamp set.  i added a couple autumn leaves brads which i got from eyelet outlet.

this will also be my tag for the "autumn extravaganza" theme at tag tuesday this week.  i am also linking up to happy fall y'all at craft hoarders anonymous.  and finally to the "fall colors" challenge at scraps of color.

enjoy!  love to all.

penguin painter -- using digital backgrounds

this is week two of the "using digital backgrounds" challenge at the cheerful stamp pad.  our challenge sponsor is stitchy bear digital stamps.  the images our design team is using for this challenge come from designer coosty creations.  a randomly selected challenge winner will get some goodies from stitchy bear.

i really had fun with this one.  most of it was created digitally.  i placed the painter penguin png onto the icy blue background design and then cropped a small square from a different background sheet featuring many little penguins and placed that on the easel.  i printed this and added a border and a "model" penguin (a sticker).  the end result is simple but i thought it was rather clever!  i hope you'll join our challenge -- just one more week to play!

love to all.

coffee heaven -- using digital backgrounds

using digital backgrounds is the new two week challenge at the cheerful stamp pad.  our challenge sponsor is coosty creation at stitchy bear digital stamps.  a randomly selected challenge winner will get some goodies from stitchy bear.

i used two digital backgrounds designed by coosty creations -- the coffee beans is one of them and the coffee mug was cut from another.  the word "heaven" was also cut from a coosty creations sentiment digi. my washi tape has the word chocolate on it.  in my view good coffee and good chocolate are heaven.  thus the diving beauty diving right into that great cuppa joe!  the stamp is by silver crow creations.

love to all.