Inspired By All the Little Things

We are having our first Inspired By All the Little Things challenge now that it has it's very own blog & design team!  Lesley is our hostess this week, and has chosen this lovely inspiration photo:

 I was inspired by the colours, and the tea - and of course the overall spring-like feeling!  I even tried to fit a butterfly in there, but it was a little overkill... so here is what I've come up with:

I paired up some brand new Echo Park papers that I just bought yesterday, along with two different Verve stamp sets.  I popped up the circle with the teacup, and let it hang over the edge just a touch.  I also added a little zigzag stitching to finish things off.  We hope you'll join us and play along over on the Inspired By blog - the wonderful Amy Tsurata is this week's guest designer, and the whole Design Team is playing along.  You have until next Friday to link up your creation.

Patterned paper is Spring, by Echo Park; Cardstock is Glacier, Pear & White Daisy, CTMH; Ink is Rich Cocoa, by Memento; Stamp Sets are Better With You and Coffee by Verve; Copic Markers.

Coffee Lovers Spring Blog Hop

How fun - another Coffee Lovers Blog Hop is under way, this time with a spring theme!  So I pulled out some bright & pretty papers and used the current Deconstructed Sketch to make my card:

Patterned papers are Lollydoodle; Cardstock is Cotton Candy, Pear, Juniper, Slate & White Daisy; Ink is Slate - all CTMH; Coffee die, Verve; Stamp sets are Better Together and Coffee, Verve.

A Coffee Card

Coffee cards are my favourite thing to make... and this is my favourite coffee themed stamp set by Verve :o)  So it's only fitting that I use it for the first Viva La Verve sketch for January... and I'm incorporating their optional colour challenge as well.

Patterned papers are Madison by Penny Black and Bundle of Joy Dots & Stripes by Echo Park; Cardstock is Cocoa & White Daisy, CTMH; Ink is Rich Cocoa, Memento; Stamp set is Better With You, Verve; Verve Heart dies.

Vive La Verve! - Viva Dare

Verve's March Diva Dare is a fun one - they've asked us to combine the crafting styles of Maureen Plut & Laurie Schmidlin - both of whom are some of my favourite Verve Divas :o)  Needless to say, I really wanted to play along... so I've taken Laurie's style of many layers, and she often uses tilted panels... and I added a button tied with waxy flax which is something Maureen often does, for my card.  I've used Verve's Week 4 Viva La Verve sketch as well:

 

 Patterned papers are Sidewalks, October Afternoon; Stamp set is Better With You, Verve; Cardstock is Tulip, Black & Colonial White, CTMH; Ink is Tuxedo Black, Memento; Clear button & Crystal Blue Waxy Flax, CTMH; Copic markers.

Dynamic Duos #36

This week our colours are Basic Black & Real Red at Dynamic Duos... with a dessert option of a Valentine theme!  I have a real thing for coffee themed cards (I have an entire Pinterest board called Coffee Cards - you can check it out here!)...  so I pulled out my Better With You set from Verve to make 3 little coffee themed valentines.  They're just 4" square, so they fit nicely into a standard envelope:

Be sure to check out the Dynamic Duos blog to see what the other designers have to show you!  You can see their blogs listed on my sidebar.  We would love to have you play along with us, you'll find all the details on the blog.

Patterned paper is A Very Merry Christmas, Echo Park & Dakota, CTMH; Inks are Black, Cranberry and Whisper, CTMH; Cardstock is Black, Slate and White Daisy, CTMH; Copic Markers; Stamp sets are Better With You & Notebook Plain Jane, Verve; Dies are Verve & Spellbinders.

Another coffee card for Freshly Made Sketches

When I saw this week's sketch at Freshly Made Sketches, I knew that it would be the fourth card in my 'coffee card' series!  (I'm in a set phase lately...)  I've been having fun putting these funky cards together, with their wacky colours & patterns, and distressing the edges way more than I normally would!  Here's my latest card, and then you'll see what the set of 4 looks like so far:

Patterned papers are Life of the Party, Basic Grey; Stamp set is Better With You, Verve; Ink is Tuxedo Black, Memento;

Sketchbook Saturday Challenge #48

If any of you have been following along on my blog for the last few weeks... you'll notice that I've started a little set of coffee cup cards using Verve's Better With You stamp set, and Basic Grey's Life of the Party papers.  Chupa's sketch this week for Sketchbook Saturday was perfect for the 3rd card in my set.  I'm hopeful that whomever I give the set to, will 'get' the coffee cup stains on this one!

Here was our sketch:

Patterned papers are Life of the Party, Basic Grey; Stamp set is Better With You, Verve; Ink is Tuxedo Black, Memento.

Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge #151

I liked my little caffeine card from last week so much, that I decided to stick with the theme (there may be a set brewing...) for this week's Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge.  Here's my newest coffee card:

Patterned papers are Life of the Party, Basic Grey; Stamp set is Better With You, Verve; Ink is Black, CTMH.

Mojo Monday #225

Back in December... Verve had a (pretty amazing) sale... so I picked up a few stamp sets that I'd had my eye on for a little while.  Coffee stamp sets really appeal to me, and I have a couple of girlfriends who get - let's say 'happy' - when they have a good shot of caffeine (you know who you are!), so I wanted to make some fun coffee type cards with some fun papers.  Here's what I came up with using this week's Mojo Monday sketch:

Patterned papers are Life of the Party, Basic Grey; Stamp set is Better With You, Verve; Ink is Black, CTMH.