Summer Coffee Lover's Blog Hop

I was able to play along with the Summer 2017 Coffee Lover's Blog Hop tonight!  I haven't missed one of them yet, and I'm hoping to enter more than one this time around.  I recently acquired the Fresh Brewed Tim Holtz stamps, and thought this would work really well for the summer theme:

I paired my image with a sentiment from Verve's Coffee stamp set, along with the matching Coffee die, and used some Close To My Heart papers from a few years ago.  I stitched the main panel onto the mat with my sewing machine, and finished up with a few Gumdrops from YNS.

Jean from Art Impressions!

 The Golden Oldies are such classic Ai images!!  I really love using them for cards - today I'm sharing Jean (Sku # T3476) paired up with Not Deaf (Sku # E3477) as my sentiment:

 The socks and the tennis balls simply make the image - and I love that she's all dolled up with earrings and makeup!

 I zigzagged with my sewing machine to finish her off, added some enamel dots and popped up my sentiment.

Copics used: Greys - C5, C3, C1, C00

Skin tones - E11, E00, E000, R20

Blues - B05, B02, B01, B00, B000, B0000

Pinks - RV17, RV14, RV13, RV10

Oranges - YR18, YR16, YR15

Yellows - Y38, Y35, Y32

Greens - YG03, YG01, YG00

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Art Impressions Southwest Watercolour Mini

 I pulled out my Tombow markers and the new Ai Watercolor Mini - Southwest (Sku #4763) recently and painted up a storm!  So today I have two cards to share with you from my paintfest:

 Both images are quite similar, I changed up the colours of the foliage a little, and added a bit of a design to one of the pots.  I used my Tombow markers to colour directly onto the stamps, and after using my damp paintbrush to soften the lines, I went back in and added some colour by scribbling the markers onto my palette, and picking up the colour with my brush.  It doesn't show much in the photos, but there is a lovely pale turquoise sky around the plants.

 There are all kinds of Ai Watercolor videos on our You Tube channel done by both Bonnie & Kendra that give step by step instructions on using the wonderful Ai Watercolor stamp sets  You can find the one that is using the Southwest stamp set here.

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The cutest owls!!

Happy Monday, everyone!  I'm going to do a few posts this week, featuring the cutest new owl stamps from the new High Hopes release.  If you're impatient and want to see them all at once - check out my April 8th post on the One Crazy Stamper blog where I show all six of them!  And if you stopped by the booth at Scrapfest in Kitchener this weekend, you would've seen them all live.  Here are the first two:

These are so fun and quick to colour... and the best thing, is that there are accessory stamps that you can purchase to dress up your owls if you so desire!  So for the card on the left, I've added the birthday hat and balloons.  There is also a bow tie, hair bow, branch, tree stump and spectacles (stay tuned and I'll show you the rest, this week).

 For this little guy, (Waving Owl) I got on Pinterest and searched how to colour balloons with Copic markers, as I wanted to achieve that transparent look.  For a first effort, I'm fairly happy with how they turned out.

This is Happy Owl - I fussy cut him out, and popped him up on some pop dots along with the sentiment.  Oh, and did I mention that there are a whole bunch of "owlish" sentiments that go with the images??  Check out the High Hopes stamp section on the One Crazy Stamper website, and you'll find the entire new HH release.  And if you use SVG files - you can get them for each of the new images!  I'll be back later this week with my next two owls :o)

Art Impressions Bowlers

 Have you seen the new Art Impressions sets that are arriving at Michaels stores this spring??  I spent some time having fun colouring up the new bowling themed set SCO680 :

 For this one, I made my own bowling ball with a small circle die, and a 1/8" hole punch to make the finger holes on the ball:

 The set includes the two larger images that I've used on my cards, the small bowling pin, a bowling bag image - and six wonderful sentiments.

 Copics used:  Skin tones - E31, E34, E37, E11, E00, E000, R20

Hair - C3, C1, E18, E07, E02, E29

Oranges - YR19, YR16, YR15, YR12

Yellows - Y17, Y15, Y13, Y11

Blues - B28, B26, B24, B23, B21

Greys - C9, C7, C5, C3, C1, C00

Teals - BG15, BG13, BG11

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Brand new High Hopes & OCS challenge

Both the High Hopes Stamps and One Crazy Stamper design teams are helping to launch the brand new Spring 2016 High Hopes collection on the company blogs today!  It's a really fun selection of images, great sentiments and the cutest little owls with some fun accessories.  I'm sharing the very fun "Shake Your Booty UU001":

 This is a treat for me to be using this stamp set today, because I got to name it!!  The design teams had a fun contest a few months ago, and all submitted possible names - and Shake Your Booty won.  The sentiment is Get Your Happy On HH018.  Here is a close up of the ladies:

 Today also marks a new month on the OCS blog, so we are starting our April challenge, which is anything goes - you can link up your creation at the bottom of todays post, and while you're there, have a look at what the rest of the design team has to share with the great new release!  I'll be back tomorrow with another HH card.

One Crazy Stamper products used: High Hopes Stamps "Shake Your Booty UU001"

High Hopes Stamps "Get Your Happy On HH018"

Xpress It Blending Cardstock

3D Foam squares by Scrapbook Adhesives

Versafine Black Onyx Ink

Memento Tuxedo Black Ink

Your Next Embellie Gumdrops - Apricot, Kiwi, Strawberry, Pumpkin, Blue Raspberry

Copics - E11, E00, E000, R20, W5, W3, W1, W00, B38, B34, B32, B30, R25, R14, R13, R10, BG18, BG15, BG00, E57, E55, E53, E51, Y26, Y23, E50, YG05, YG03, YG01, YG00, YR16