Coffee & Cards with Deb & Celeste - October 2022

I couldn't be any happier that Fall weather is finally here … I actually wore long sleeves today and it felt fantastic .. And an image that is essential Fall for me is our theme for this post  - Pumpkins !! Celeste and I will each create a card and also fill you in on what wonderful coffee we are drinking ..

I was lucky enough to get many red rubber cling stamps from Impression Obsession before they stopped selling them individually .. They are still releasing a limited edition red rubber stamp set each month in addition to their collection of clear stamps, dies etc... I used one of my new stamps for my  October's card ..

• On a piece of white cardstock, I stamped the Pumpkin from Impression Obsession with Gina K Jet Black Amalgam Ink .
• The sentiment  - from Perk Up by Close To My Heart - was stamped in Potting Soil Memento Dew Drop ink .
• I placed a piece of grass washi along the bottom of the stamped panel.
• The stamped panel was adhered at an angle to a piece of plaid paper.
• I tied a piece of twine around the stamped panel, above the sentiment.
• The completed panel was adhered to a dark green card base with foam tabs for added dimension.
• Brown and gold candy dots were placed around the pumpkin. 

To see what Celeste has created for this Pumpkins theme, take a look at her blog post  over at Crafting Junky . For my coffee this month, I'm drinking Sea Salt Caramel in a new reusable cup from Starbucks that changes color when you put in the hot coffee .. I didn't realize that when I bought it - it was an extra added bonus !!

I hope you are enjoying some sweater weather where you are and also some fun coffee . There are some delicious Autumn flavors at our local coffeeshops these days and I want to try them all !!! Take care,  Happy Fall  and we will see you next month !!

Debra Davison / Meticulosity

Coffee & Cards with Deb & Celeste / September 2021

September is the month that many people patiently wait for all year long !! And I'm not talking about parents waiting for children to go back to school . Although this year children are finally trying to get back to a normal school year, while we are still dealing with a pandemic .. I'm actually talking about our theme for this month - Pumpkin Spice !! You either love it or hate it . But it sure does make for a fun collaboration for me & Celeste ..

The stamp I used for my card is Pumpkin Latte by Stampendous . I have had it for awhile and never used it so it was about time.  It is a fun stamp to color and very easy to fussy-cut !!

• I stamped Pumpkin Latte on Mixed Media paper with Memento Tuxedo Black ink .
• The image was fussy-cut and then colored with my COPIC markers .
• I stamped the image again along with the sentiment on an orange vintage-look paper.
• The pumpkins were fussy-cut from the orange paper and I also trimmed the sentiment.
• I adhered the fussy-cut orange pumpkins over the pumpkin images on the cup.
• A piece of autumn striped paper from Bo Bunny's Bella Rosa Collection was adhered to an orange card base.
• The completed cup image was popped up with foam tabs on the left side of the striped panel.
• The sentiment was adhered to a piece of bronze glitter paper and then to the right side of the striped panel.
• A strip of square golden gems from the Glitz Frosting collection was adhered across the bottom of the card.

I am not an obsessed Pumpkin Spice lover but will have a few Pumpkin Spice Lattes during the next few months when I am hanging out at Starbucks. Let's see what Celeste came up with for this month's theme - take a look over at Crafting Junky While making this card, I did have some Toasted Pecan coffee from another mug I found for 99 cents at Hobby Lobby . I don't wear much makeup - maybe just a bit of eyeliner, some mascara and sometimes lipstick . For awhile, we were asked not to wear makeup at the hospital because we were re-using masks So I had stopped wearing lipstick . When I saw this cup, I immediately thought of me at work !!

Thanks for stopping by Meticulosity again !! We really appreciate you taking a look at our projects ! Please stay safe, stay creative and we will see you in October ..

Debra Davison / Meticulosity

October Cookies - Take 1

I am so glad that October is finally here and I really wish that the temperatures would reflect the season!! It has still been in the high 80's here and that is so NOT sweater weather. I want some crisp, cool Autumn days. Our Challenge photo this time reflects the lovely colors of the season.

I used clipart images this time and created a card that shows my favorite flavor of this time of year.  The images  are Pumpkin Spice by LePetite Market. I chose to use colored images for my project, but you can also get them as digital stamp images and color them yourself. 

• On an orange cardstock card base, I adhered a piece of dotted orange patterned paper. 
• I printed the clipart images of the pie and various coffees and fussy cut them.
• The sentiment is from a 6x6 paper pad by Prima Marketing - Amber Moon. I cut it out and mounted it on the upper left side of the card base using Tombow Foam Tabs.
• The clipart images were adhered to the card base using Tombow MONO Aqua Liquid Glue.

I hope you will comment on my card. Do you ever use clip art images on your cards ? Are you a digital stamper ?? I sometimes feel like a cheater when I use pre-colored images on projects. But these were too fun to pass up !! Take a look at the rest of the Design Team's projects and if you feel inspired, pleas link up one of your own. This challenge is open for 2 weeks and you could win a prize from our amazing sponsor Lemon Shortbread.

  

Thank you for visiting Meticulosity. I hope that you are enjoying some cool Fall weather in your part of the world.  Drink your favorite Fall beverage and stay creative !!

Until next time .....

Debra Davison

Yawning & Screaming / #fall2017clh

It's that time of year again.. The leaves change color, it gets chilly at night, sweaters are worn and Pumpkin Spice is back !! And another reason to love this time of year is the Fall Coffee Lovers Blog Hop.It's time for coffee, tea, and cocoa lovers to link up their Fall-themed creations and be inspired by the massive amounts of creativity .. Also to be enabled to buy all of the new fun coffee stamps recently released .. AND for a chance at some amazing prizes from tons of sponsors.. It's a win-win situation, if you ask me !!

A new sponsor this year is Rubber Moon and I'll be playing with many of their stamps throughout the Hop .. Since this time of year also involves Halloween, I thought that for my first card I would use this fun Sugar Doddy stamp. You can create a coffee card even if you don't have many - or any - coffee stamps .  ( But to be completely honest, we all know that I don't have THAT problem )

• On a brown glittered base, I adhered paper from the Pumpkin Spice Paper Pad from Craft Smith, using a Tombow MONO Adhesive Permanent tape runner . 
• I die-cut a coffee-cup image from the Sizzix Pumpkin Spice Collection using a scrap of fall-themed DCWV Four Seasons paper.
• The Sugar Doddy image was stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black ink, colored with fall-colored Distress Markers and Faber-Castell PITT Artist pens, then fussy cut.
• I adhered the cup to the background paper in the Right lower corner, then popped up the skull on the cup with foam dimensionals.
• Using my Pink DYMO Caption Maker, I printed my sentiment, then cut it and adhered it to the card.
• Several gold rhinestones were placed on the center of the flowers. Glossy Accents was applied to the teeth and eyes of the skull to brighten those areas.

Thank you for visiting Meticulosity .. Please take a moment to sign up and follow my blog. I will be posting a few more cards during the Hop. If you comment on all of my 2017 Fall blog hop posts , you have a chance to win a  fun new limited edition Rubber Moon stamp, Java Girl. How perfect is she ?!?!?!

Relax with some coffee, tea or cocoa and check out all of the #fall2017clh links !!

Debra Davison

Meticulosity.blogspot.com

Fall Into A Good Time

I love this time of year with all of the gorgeous colors and awareness of all that we have to be thankful for.  Our Skipping Stones Design Challenge for October is running a bit behind but I wanted to share my card and will update this post if we get the challenge / link-up completed.

Earlier this week, I used this stamp set - I'd Pick You - by stamping the larger floral design and then cutting out banners, This time, I have used the entire smaller floral stamp for this card 

• I stamped the floral design from "I'd Pick You" onto a piece of off-white cardstock and also stamped the floral petals 3 more times on 3 different autumn-colored patterned papers. I then fussy-cut the 3 floral petal images.
• The leaves of the image were colored using different shades of Green Stampin' Up markers.  I then placed the 3 floral images onto the cardstock, centering the middle one on top of the stamped image and arranging the other 2 on the right and left side.
• I had cut the off-white cardstock to fit on a very dark brown card base. At the top of that piece with the stamped floral image, I placed a piece of Tim Holtz Ideology "Materialize" Design Tape. I then adhered that entire image to the card base with Tombow MONO Aqua Liquid Glue.
• The Pumpkin Spice paper pad by Craft Smith has to be one of my favorite paper collections. They are available at Michaels and I will admit that I bought 7 different pads when I went there about 6 weeks ago !! YES, a bit paper-obsessed here !! All of the Autumn sayings were cut from a piece of the Pumpkin Spice paper. I arranged ( and arranged and re-arranged ) the sayings around the stamped image until I had them exactly how I wanted them on the cardstock. They were adhered with a Tombow MONO Permanent Adhesive Runner.
• To finish the card, I placed 2 wooden buttons on the card. I have been hoarding these buttons by Stampin' Up forever !! I tied a piece of twine through the larger button.

"I'd Pick You" stamp set

Thank you so much for visiting Meticulosity. Please leave me a comment and also follow me if you aren't already. I hope this blog post inspires you to  create a project that shows why you are grateful.

Debra Davison /  SSD Stamp Tramp

Coffee & Cards with Deb & Celeste 10/16

It's week 3 of my creative fun with Celeste and this time,  our theme is Fall colors ...  I absolutely love this crafty stack that I got for $5 at Michaels. It is a 12 x 12 stack from Craft Smith aptly named "Pumpkin Spice". I have been using it on quite a few projects these days. 

• I stamped the Pumpkin image from Unity Stamp Company's  Pumpkin Greetings 3 times - once on plain paper and then again on 2 different patterned papers. I then cut out the patterned pumpkins and adhered them to the plain image. This image was then adhered to a burnt orange card base on the Right side. The ink I used was Memories Black India Ink.
• I cut the journal card from the Pumpkin Spice paper stack by Craft Smith. The '"Autumn is Calling" image was cut from another page. The journal card was adhered to the Left side of the card base and the Autumn image was popped up at the top of that image using Dimensionals.
• Several sequins in both Fall & contrasting colors were placed around the pumpkins. I also scattered some fun glitter around the bottom of the pumpkins. 

Fun sequins and Glitter

This blog post has been brought to you by a Gevalia Mocha Latte made in my Keurig coffee maker and served in my Starbucks re-usable travel cup.  That fun cozy on the cup was made by my creatively talented friend, Hetty Sanders who I met through our mutual love of coffee and papercrafting. I had forwarded her a pic of a cool foxy cozy I had seen and she actually made a few of them herself AND sent me one !! Thanks, Hetty -- I absolutely love it !!

Thank you once again for visiting Meticulosity !! I'm sure Celeste has a fun creation over at her blog, Crafting Junky so head on over there, check it out and leave her a comment.. We hope that you will follow our blogs if you aren't already. It's my turn to pick a theme for next week's card --- any suggestions from my commenters will be welcomed and considered. Have a wonderful week and do something creative !!!

It's Coffee O'clock

Here's my second card for the Coffee Lovers Blog Hop.. This one was made with a Digi stamp from Bugaboo Digi Stamps.. I am not very computer savvy but it was really easy to work with these designs.I love working with different elements, often using contrasting designs that wouldn't seem to go together. Here I used polka dotted and leaf background patterned paper along with some striped washi. Oh yeah, and a small dainty doily folded into quarters. I guess you could say that sometimes I don't know when to say "when"... I colored the image with Distress Markers.

Supplies used :

"Coffee O'clock" by Bugaboo Digi Stamps

Scotch brand washi tape

Craft Smith "Pumpkin Spice" patterned paper

Cabochons by Mark Richards

Tim Holtz Distress Markers

Rhinestone

I hope that you will follow my blog.. If you comment, you might win some blog candy from me -- a few coffee-themed goodies. Thank you so much for stopping by Meticulosity/ Check out all of the wonderful projects over at the Hop.