Holiday Coffee Lovers Blog Hop!

Welcome to the Holiday Coffee Lovers Blog hop!

This blog hop is organised by Amy Tsuruta and team. Being a coffee lover, I decide to participate in the hop especially for the holiday season. First, here is my card for the hop.

All I did was to collect all the stamp sets with coffee cup from my stash. I did that basically to plan on a set I wanted to use to make the card. Then I wanted to use all the coffee cups on my card. Lol! At least a few of them if not all :) So that is how this card came about. I started with white heat embossing the sentiment. I simply white heat embossed the coffee cups on fog cardstock. The coffee cups were from stamp sets from Paper Smooches, Clearly Besotted, Lil' INkers and Jane Doodle. Then white heat embossed the snow flakes from a Clearly Besotted stamp set. I then coloured the coffee cups with distress markers. I instantly loved how it looked - modern and trendy :) I then trimmed the panel and mounted on the white card base. No card of mine is complete without Pretty Pink Posh sequins :)

Here is a closeup.

Check out Amy's blog for more holiday card from coffee lovers :)
There are some fantastic prizes from these lovely sponsors.

17 Turtles:  $15 Store Gift Card

A Muse Studio/Chris Franco:  Cup of Good Cheer stamp set

Add a Little Dazzle:  $25 Store Gift Card

Butterfly Reflections Ink:  Prima Coffee Break

Color Cast Designs:  Coffee Lovers kit

Create a Smile:  Monster Party stamp set

Hero Arts:  A Little & Today's Special stamps/Cup 'O Joe Shadow ink

Kraftin' Kimmie:  $25 Store Gift Card

Kreative Kymona:  Fancy Mug Giveaway

Latina Crafter:  Cafe Wood Veneers + $25 Store Gift Card

Neat & Tangled:  Warm Wishes stamp set

Newton's Nook:  $15 Store Gift Card

Paper Smooches:  $25  Store Gift Card

Pickled Potpourri:  $7 Store Gift Card

Poppystamps:  Tea Cup Stack Die

Reverse Confetti:  $15 Store Gift Card

Stamp Academy:  2 classes

Stampin' Up/Veronica Zalis:  $20 Store Gift Card

STAMPlorations:  $10 Store Gift Card

Stamp Simply Ribbon Store:  Coffee Cup Prize Pack

SugarPea Designs:  $20 Store Gift Card

Sweet 'n Sassy:  Pick Me Up Clear stamp & die set

The Alley Way Stamps:  Tea Par-tea stamp set

Two Paper Divas:  Your Warm My Heart stamp set

Your Next Stamp:  $20

Verve Stamps:  $25

Whole Wild World:  Coffee before Talkee mug

●●Sponsorship prizes are eligible via random draw from linked hop participants only●●

Check out Amy's blog for more details.

Thanks for stopping by!

Coffee Lovers Bloghop!

Hey everybody,

Welcome to the Coffee Lovers Blog hop organised by Chaitali and Amy! 

I am a coffee lover and my day starts with a good cup of coffee every day without fail. Then one at about 3:30PM.  Back in my younger days in India, I loved filter coffee. Oh, the aroma of filter coffee early in the morning is very nostalgic to me. After migrating to Australia, I quickly got the taste of Italian coffee. Melbourne has a great coffee culture. I loved it. That when I bought a coffee machine (manual) trying to mimic the coffee bought from the shop. It was a lot of work to get the right proportions of coffee and froth and milk in the cup.  Soon upgraded to an automatic machine which I still own. Now that I have discovered the Nespresso machine, the automatic have gone into its box in the shed. My favourite Nespresso coffee pod is the purple Arpeggio. So my card for today's Coffee Lovers Blog Hop is inspired by one of Nespresso brochure that came recently. Here is my coffee card.

I have used the ray stencil from MFT to sponge the Frayed Burlap and Mustard Seeds. I also sponged some Delicata gold ink to give some shine. The coffee cup and sentiment is from Lil' Inkers Design. I die cut the cup and coloured using copics with adding some Ice Candy distress glitter for the froth. I then white heat embossed the sentiment on the cup. 

For the bottom part of the card front, I have used wood pattern paper from My Mind's Eye wood paper pad. I sponged some Mustard Seed on the pattern paper to colour coordinate with the rest of the card. I trimmed the paper at an angle so the coffee cup is glued at the centre using foam adhesive. The angled cut gives depth to the card. 

The other sentiment is white heat embossed on the wood pattern paper towards the bottom of the card. Here is a closeup of the card.

Check out Chaitali's blog to see more inspirational card from coffee lovers. 

There are a lot of prizes from these awesome sponsors.

For more details check out Chaitali's blog.

Thanks for stopping by!

Runway Inspired Challenge #65

I have today a new Runway Inspired Challenge #65 to play along.

I love that laced jacket top paired with the beautiful pastel yellow.A bit of bling on the jacket is a nice touch. My card is inspired by them all. I have the beautiful yellow, laced element and a bit of glitter. Here is my take on the challenge.

We have a new sponsor - Altenew. This is one amazing company with stamp sets designed by Tasnim and Jennifer. I am using couple of stamp set from Altenew on my card today. For the lace element, I white heat embossed a cluster of Hennah Element images from Altenew on vellum cardstock. Then cut out the cluster. For the yellow, I used patter paper from Papertrey Ink BrushStroke kit. I layered the cut out vellum on top. I had a colour washed yellow watercolour paper in my stash. I stamped the sentiment, cut them out and layered on top of the laced vellum. For the glitter bit, I had the negatives of the Lil' Inker's Swirls cover up die which I had diecut using silver glitter paper for a project previously. I adhered them randomly. Finally used Lemon Drops sequins from Pretty Pink Posh to highlight the yellow a bit more. I really love the colour combination and the embossed vellum element.

Check out Runaway Inspired Challenge Blog to see how the rest of the designers interpreted the challenge. Now it is your turn to play along. Cannot wait to see what you do :)

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There is still time to play...

the Curtain Call Inspiration Challenge-Cozy Quilt

Here is my second card for the challenge using Lil' Inker Designs Stamp sets.

I have used images from Modern Mehndi and sentiments from Stay Beautiful & Darling Diamonds Stamp Sets on my card.

So come and play along the challenge. Here is the link to the challenge-Cozy Quilt!

Thanks for stopping by!