More Chocolate!

Its World Card Making Day and I was browsing so many lovely cards online today while drinking a cup of coffee and eating some Hershey Hugs (perfect together in case you were wondering!). 

I was inspired to make this card using the candy wrapper for CASology's challenge this week..... 

I dry embossed stripes on the card front and added the sentiment from Hero Arts that I thought would be perfect with the candy wrapper. 

Hope you are having a great weekend and able to create something today for World Card Making Day! Thanks so much for stopping by. 

ColourQ #261

Feels like a long time since I've joined in the ColourQ challenge. But these colors were just too fun and autumn-ish to pass up! 

I created a split panel card with an assortment of pretty fall peeking out of the middle.  I brought out my old trusty bendable ruler to create the split middle. 

Sentiment is heat embossed in white. Think it looks pretty striking in the corner against the brown. 

Have a wonderful weekend and thanks for stopping by! 

CHOCOLATE!

I was very excited to see the new CASology Cue Card this week.  CHOCOLATE is already on my mind this week as I am almost elbow deep in chocolate today.

My daughter's 11th birthday is tomorrow and I made her favorite chocolate covered strawberries and marshmallows for her to bring in and share with her class. I won't say how many I had to sample in order to make sure the quality was good. :)  But trust me, they are delish!

For my card I started with a chocolate ice cream cone. I heat embossed the brown card stock in brown to give it a shiny look. Wish the photo could better show you its glossiness. But then I thought the ice cream cone was a bit lonely and could use some company so I made a shaker card with some sprinkles from the Make It Market kit.  

I tried to keep the card clean and simple keeping all the elements in the middle with plenty of white space around it. 

Twas my first time making a shaker out of just a plain old die (vs the special shaker dies in the kit) and wasn't as hard as I thought it would be. Shaker cards generally take me WAY longer than regular cards but they are so fun and the recipient always loves it. This card is for my 3 year old niece's birthday this coming weekend. I think she'll get a kick out of this card! 

One last parting chocolate thought....have a great week and thanks for stopping by! 

Colour Me.....Monochromatic! #40

Happy Wednesday! Wednesday means its time for a new Colour Me......Monochromatic! challenge this week and it features such a pretty coral color. 

I used one of my favorite sets, PTI Friendly Flowers, again to demonstrate how one great set can be used in so many different ways & colors giving you a variety of different looks.  See, no need for a TON of stamps in your stash if you have a few good ones! (LOL, this is what I'll be telling myself when my crafting budget runs dry!)

I stamped Friendly Flowers in Melon Berry on Melon Berry for a tone on tone look. 

I heat embossed the sentiment as well as a few flower centers in gold. Heat embossing is my favorite way to add a special element to a single layer card. 

To see my other recent cards using Friendly Flowers, check out these other posts HERE, HERE, and HERE. 

I hope you will play along at Colour Me this week. The Colour Me...! team has made some fabulous cards for your inspiration this week so head on over their blogs and check them out.

Claire Broadwater

Hayley Kew
Joanne James

Julia Altermann

Tara Bourgoin

And our lovely featured designer for October...! 
Jen Mitchell

Can't wait to see what you come up with in the gallery! Thanks for taking time to visit.

12 Kits of Occasions - May Rewind

So its REWIND month at 12 Kits of Occasions and I'm playing along using the leftovers from the fabulous May kit sent by Joyce. My original Guest DT post featured six cards I made using this nautical masculine themed kit. 

I created a bunch of new cards this second time around and I STILL have a few bits and pieces left over! 

Thanks ladies for letting me play along with you guys again this month!

Coffee Lovers Bloghop

I'm playing along today with the coffee lovers' blog hop in celebration of National Coffee Day and joining the fun with fellow card-makers who share my love for COFFEE! 

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For my friends who visit my blog often, you may recognize a similar card I posted for the Make It Monday easel challenge earlier this month. You can see my original card HERE. It was so much fun to make and the recipient LOVED the unusual card design I decided to make another. I think the easel and chalkboard is a perfect compliment to coffee. Most of the cafes I've been in have some type of chalkboard on the premises or outside. 

I used PTI Love Latte set again and die cut and color a fun stack of coffee cups. I don't color with Copics a lot because its so hard to get the shading right sometimes. But this stack is so easy to color and I love coming up with wacky color combos. I heat embossed the outline of the cups in brown to make it easier to color. 

I created an easel by die cutting a portion of the bottom out with a Half and Half die. I stamped my sentiment in white and rubbed my ink pad along the sides of the black 'chalkboard' panel. 

I drank cappuccinos and lattes a lot back in the early 90s when these hot drinks first seemed to hit the scene. I never drank brewed coffee though until my first daughter was born and coffee helped me survive a baby and full time job. And then two years later, my twin girls were born and well, I grew quite dependent on coffee. If I'm cranky or in a bad mood, my girls will say to me 'Mommy, have you had your coffee today?'. Ok, ok, you can say I'm addicted! 

I have a Kurig now and drink several brands but don't have a favorite really.  I do have very strong feelings about what I don't like....Starbucks tastes burnt to me and I have never enjoyed 'Morning Blend' made by any brand.  

My one rule....life is too short to settle for a bad cup of coffee.

Can't wait to hop around and see everyone's coffee cards. And if you have time today, check out all the information and prizes on Chaitali's Blog where all the Coffee Lovers BlogHop starts!

Thanks for stopping by! 

CASology:Flutter

Quick share with you tonite. Working all day today and I'm exhausted but tomorrow promises to be even busier so wanted to get this in before deadline Monday. 

Wish I was a little more novel on my take of CASology challenge cue FLUTTER. First thing I thought of was butterflies of course and didn't take it any further than that. 

I wanted to simulate movement so I die cut three colorful butterflies from Beautiful Butterflies and also die cut the same out of the white card base so the colorful ones could be inlaid into the card stock.  Finished it off with a Wet Paint sentiment. 

Hope you are having a great weekend. Thanks so much for stopping by! 

PTI September Blog Hop

Its the 25th of the month and you know what that means....PTI Blog Hop! This month's inspiration photo highlights Autumn Rose which is an often neglected color in my stash. 

I created a small thank you card set in each of the challenge color palettes. All are square....my new favorite card size. 

First card uses the recipe of Enchanted Evening, Sweet Blush, and Autumn Rose. This was my favorite of the three color palettes. 

I stamped a background in the three colors using a pattern from Ombre Builders. Sentiment from Thank You Kindly. 

I layered the butterflies from Life is Beautiful and only adhered the top one in the middle while plumping up the wings a little. 

Second card uses the the palette of Autumn Rose, Smokey Shadow, and Soft Stone. I stamped the flowers from Mums The Word on Soft Stone dotted pattern paper.

Last card features the final palette of Smokey Shadow, Autumn Rose, and Ripe Avocado which I paired with one of the challenge sketches. 

I pulled out Round Repeats for this card, one of my favorite sets which I've forgotten about for a while. 

Finished the colorful medallion off with an dusty pink enamel dot. 

That's it for me. I can't wait to see what else everyone created for this month's challenge. Thanks for stopping by!