Coffee & Cards with Deb & Celeste / December 2024

Celeste and I are back for our December edition of Coffee & Cards. We decided that we would each choose our favorite card that the other had made in 2024. With all the hustle and bustle of the holidays, it was nice to just sit back with a nice cup of coffee and look at all of our creativity throughout the year. I had so much fun scrolling through all of Celeste's wonderful projects ! But there was one that I had loved as soon as I saw it and that is My Favorite .

Celeste posted this card on September 30,2024. I love everything about this card !! The stenciled background, the stamp set she used, her coloring - EVERYTHING !! I especially loved the vintage feel of this card. The stamp set is Tattered Christmas by Whimsy Stamps. You can check out the original post HERE .

For my coffee today, I'm drinking Pecan Praline from a new cup I just had to have !! It reminded me so much of our sweet kitty Pixie !! Target had some of the best holiday cups this year - I had to stop myself from buying each and every one of them !!

Be sure to go to Celeste's page - Crafting Junky - to see which card of mine she close as her favorite of 2024. We look forward to 2025 and continuing to have our virtual Coffee & Cards meet-up each month. Have a wonderful holiday season, stay warm and always drink good coffee !!

Debra Davison / Meticulosity

Coffee & Cards with Deb & Celeste / January 2023

Another year is starting - time to get organized, make resolutions, plan your next 365 days .. Celeste and I are back with our January Coffee and Cards posts to welcome 2023. Our theme is Books. I am an avid reader and know I will have fun choosing a few books to start off my 2023 reading list .

For my card , I chose an older stamp from Whimsy Stamps - Book Worm. It's no longer available but they have a few other fun book-related stamps. I have been a bookworm since childhood - and can remember "reading" with my dad long before learning the alphabet !!

• I stamped the image with a Memento Tuxedo Black ink pad on white Mixed-Media paper.
• The image was colored with COPIC markers.
• I matted the stamped panel with green cardstock,
• I adhered a piece of book patterned paper from the American Crafts Project Life paper pad - Desktop Edition onto a turquoise card base.
• The completed stamped panel was then adhered to the book paper.
• A Tim Holtz Idea-ology sticker phrase was placed in the bottom right corner of the completed stamped panel .

I'm excited to see what Celeste did with one of my favorite themes !! You can check out her project over at her blog - Crafting Junky .  Are you a reader ?? If you are, let me know one of your favorite books so I can add it to my reading list .  I will choose one commenter to send a card and bookmark to .

My coffee today is my all-time favorite - Gingerbread.  I found some Starbucks K-cups on sale at Target and also some boxes of store brand K-cups at Food Lion  for $2 each, so I stocked up !! And because I'm drinking "holiday" coffee, why not use a holiday mug I picked up at Life is Good at a recent sale.. This might just be a new favorite mug .. 

Thank you for joining us as we kick off the New Year with our book-themed posts .. We'll be back in February with more Coffee and Cards. Until then, stay creative !!

Debra Davison / Meticulosity

September Cookies - Take 2

First of all, let me thank everyone who linked up a project for our "Anything Goes" 4th Anniversary Challenge over the past 2 weeks !! At last count, I saw 124 fantastic creations - from holidays to dragons, cute animals to mermaids !! Even a zombie mermaid !! For Challenge #103 over at If You Give a Crafter a Cookie, the theme is a subject near and dear to my heart ... Cats- our furry friends !! And aren't these the cutest cookies for inspiration !! Our sponsor this time is Fabrika Fantasy. 

For my card, I chose to use a wonderful stamp set from Whimsy Stamps. It was designed by Deb Davis, who has become a friend of mine through our love of mostly zombies and card-making and now of cats! LOL  The stamp set is called Purre Love and it is wonderful !! The card I made has a white cat on it, for our new furry friend, Pixie. She came into our lives as a rescue after having lost our beloved Anna after 14 years. We waited a year to even think about another cat and she really is the BEST therapy.

• I stamped the girl with the cat image from Purre Love onto a piece of watercolor paper, a scrap of floral paper and a piece of Neenah Stardust White cardstock ,using Memento Tuxedo Black Ink.
• I had cut the watercolor paper to fit a green ombre' card base and adhered a scrap piece of wood grain paper across the bottom of the girl/cat to look like she has her hand on a wall that they are sitting on. 
• I fussy-cut the shirt and the cat images and adhered them to the watercolor paper. Tombow MONO Aqua Liquid Glue was used to adhere the shirt,cat and wall, as well as the watercolor panel to the card base,
• I colored the girl with a variety of Faber-Castell Markers.
• The sentiment is also from the Purre Love set by Whimsy Stamps. It was stamped on a piece of watercolor paper, using Adirondack Stream Ink . 
• I then popped up the sentiment at the top of the panel using Tombow Foam Tabs.

I hope that you like my creation for this inspiration photo !! I had fun making it. Please  check out the other projects of my teammates over at the Challenge Blog. And there  will be 2 weeks for you to link up a project of your own - you just might win a prize  from our sponsor. Be sure to link it up before  October 4. Thank you for visiting me again at Meticulosity. 

Debra Davison/Meticulosity