Coffee Lovers Bloghop

If you want to check out my FOSTV post please pop down to the post below.

Today I am taking part in the Coffee Lovers blog hop (Amy Tsuruta is the woman behind this fun event).  Check it out here

I actually feel I am participating for my niece and nephew who couldn't survive without their coffee.  In 6th form that certainly applied to me but now - my coffee drinking is after an evening meal out or when in the USA.

We have some really cool sponsors for the hop with fantastic goodies!! Random winners from the hop participants will get some fun coffee-themed goodies See all the prize packages here - http://cutscropscreativity.com/2014/09/coffee-lovers-bloghop/

 We have been asked to answer a few questions:

 1. When did you start drinking coffee?
In the 6th form because I liked black coffee but not black tea and with no refrigeration we couldn't have milk.

 2. What is favorite brand (you can name up to three).
I don't have a favourite brand but I need to mention Miko coffee as my nephew works for them.

3. What is the most amazing coffee that you had? Remember where and when?
The most welcome coffee was one we had in a Starbucks in Washington on a chilly Sunday morning on a short visit to the city a few years ago.  We had been walking about but chilled through we went in to find cosy chairs, hot steamy coffee and Sunday papers.  It was simple black coffee but it was a real treat.

 4. If I don't drink my needed coffee, I will...survive, tea however is a different matter!

After all the chatter here is my card. It uses stamps from Impression Obsession and Marks Finest Papers and was coloured with Copics. and a gold pen.  A few key gems were added to - these girlie mugs needed that!

 

Here is a closer look at the central panel

 

 

Enjoy your cuppa wherever you are today.

 

Miko Master

My nephew starts a new job on Monday and "I won't be driving a car like that!".  Yes that was what he said when I presented him with this good luck card.  Seriously though he was chuffed with the card even if the car was an old classic and not something "cool".

He will be working for Miko coffee and will be doing quite a bit of driving in London and the South East, hopefully not with a coffee cup this big on the roof.

All the stamps are from Marks Finest Papers. 

Good luck Ryan - hope it works out well for you.

Joseph's Coat - Speedy Fox and Friends

Marks Finest Papers has lots of challenges and as team members we concentrate so much on our own projects we rarely seem to find time to play along with challenges being organised by the other teams. 

However, today is different and I am playing along with the Speedy Fox and Friends Joseph's Coat technique.  There are two people responsible for this - one is Angie who I regularly have lovely email exchanges with and with whom I was discussing this technique this past week.  The other is Debbie our leader who posted a tutorial on her blog this week about this technique.

The card uses a multi coloured inkpad with some extra colour sponged on at the edges.  I used the MFP set called Oh Beans for my technique and then used the Cricut Suburbia cartridge for my cups. It is a very simple card but when you have created a nice big background you don't want to cover it up!
I tried a larger size cup in some pink paper I had on hand to check proportion and decided it was too big and obscured too much background - that became the gift tag! I then cut a smaller cup in blue but had fun squeezing in the message.  The glossy paper I used was not really good enough as the black ink didn't take too well in some places - I think it might have been photographic paper so next time I won't just grab the nearest scrap to work with!

Hope you are having a great long weekend.

MFP December Blog Hop - Day 2 - Oh Beans

   December Blog Hop! 

This month's New Stamp Set Releases are

Ivy & Blossoms Featured December 18
Oh Beans Featured December 19
Recipe Card Featured December 20
Kilt Fun Featured December 21

Please hop along with us! You have a chance 
 to win one of the above stamp sets! Just comment on the following blogs (don't forget this one), each day for more chances to win! (You do NOT have to comment on all the blogs each day! The names are drawn randomly!) All four winners will be announced on December 22, 2012 on the Mark's Finest Papers blog. You can go back and comment if you missed a day. (HINT: The more you comment, the more chances you have to win and comments on the MFP blog count twice!) The deadline for commenting is 11PM EST on Friday December 21, 2012.

Today I have 4 things to show you

This is a simple stamped card

This card uses acetate and alcohol inks, plus Acrylic paint and Stazon

This card is for the Tea drinkers!

This is a tile coaster - first layers sanded and the mug then stamped on top.

 

WOW can you believe it is 19th December already? All of us here at Marks Finest Papers, a Heinrich Co want to wish all of you and your families a very Merry Christmas! It is time for our December Blog hop and we have some great deals and stamp sets for you this month. 

 The special stamp set we have for you this month is:

" You've Got Style"