Happy National Cocoa Day!

 

It's National Cocoa Day!!

We’re celebrating with a load of, yes, you guessed it, Cocoa inspiration.  At the bottom of this post is a linky with all the participating design team projects - Click on the blue button.  Leave comments on all the posts for a chance to win a $20 Gift Card to your choice of Super Sponsor.

 

Commenting to stay open until December 16th at 5 am pacific. Winner will be drawn from across all the comments.  Wrap up post will be on the blog, Friday, December 20th.

 You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

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 For my card, I used these fun products:

 Miss Ink Stamps Coffee Time Stencils

Miss Ink Stamps Seasonal Icons Stencils

Spellbinders Merry Mug Creations Dies

 

 

Coffee Loving Papercrafters Fall/Winter Blog Hop!!

 

Today is the start of the 2024 Fall | Winter Coffee Lovers Blog Hop! We're so thrilled to get this hop started:

When: Friday, November 1, 2024 - Friday, November 8, 2024

 

This is a non-seasonal theme hop. This will run like OUR traditional hops, with a link up! To be eligible for any of the prizes, you will need to link up a NEWLY created project:

• caffeinated design [including cocoa + hot apple cider!]
• Card, layouts and gift projects are eligible
• Please no 100% digital designs.  Please PRINT the digi images out, color, arrange etc.
• NEWLY created means just that, please don’t link up a project that you’ve already shared, that’s not cool.
• Love to create tags, that’s great, pop it on a cardbase and you have a card!

Check out all the details, super sponsors and prizes to be won on the Coffee Loving Papercrafters blog HERE.

My card features the new NEWTON'S NOOK Christmas Coffees stamp set!

Warm & Cozy

There's so many warm and cozy images/sentiments in this wonderful NEW Dare 2B Artzy COZY HOLIDAYS set!  Pop over to Dare 2B Artzy's Instagram account for a special IG hop featuring the NEW RELEASE - lots of fun and inspiration!

For my card:

Cozy Holidays stamp set

Cozy Holidays coordinating dies

Rectangle Fancy Framelit dies

Winter Escape Collection paper 

Everyday Sparkle Enamel Stickers

 

 

Winter Greetings

 

September is my crafting nirvana - SO many fun holidays/seasons to create for from Fall/Thanksgiving through Christmas/Winter!   Dare 2B Artzy's newest release is filled with wonderful new goodies for all the upcoming holidays!

My card features:

Winter Wonderland stamp set

Winter Wonderland coordinating dies

Winter Escape Collection paper 

Oval Framelits 

 Everyday Sparkle Enamel Stickers

 

STAMPtember THIS CALLS FOR CONFETTI Exclusive!!

Yippee!!  Today's exclusive STAMPtember set is from THIS CALLS FOR CONFETTI!!  We're thrilled to be collaborating with Simon Says Stamp to bring you:  UNBELIEVABLY BIGFOOT! 

For my card, I created a nighttime Distress Oxide background using the moon and trees from the Unbelievably Bigfoot set.  I combined This Calls For Confetti Forest Landscape Metal Craft Die Add-on set to build out the 'forest'.

I stamped Big Foot - and the feet with Distress Ink - Walnut Stain and wet it a bit with a water brush. Then I added the sentiments -- there's several FUN ones in the set.

 

Be sure to grab this set (also available with coordinating dies) soon as this exclusive set will go quickly and will be gone forever!

 

Caffeinated Christmas Card Challenge #32

 

There' still time to play in the Caffeinated Christmas Card Challenge #32!

The theme is:  Cute Critters

August 1, 2024 - August 25, 2024

Link up a newly created Christmas/Holiday themed card with a Coffee, Tea and/or Cocoa theme!

We are so happy to announce this month's sponsor, Twiddler's Nook!

 

 

 My card features:

 

 Lawn Fawn Woodland Huggers

Lawn Fawn Outside Stitched Mug

 

Lawn Fawn Stitched Mug Frame

 

Twiddler's Nook Embellishments 

 

• Please link NEWLY created cards. No backlinking.
• Please link up cards only.
• Any products can be used with the exception of counterfeit products. 
• No digital projects please, only digital images that are printed and incorporated in your design.  
• Please link back to this post and include the challenge graphic. 
• Use #caffeinatedchristmascardchallenge  #cccc31
•  Just a reminder that cards should have a definite Christmas/holiday theme along with a star.
• The link up is open until the 25th at 11:55 pm pacific.

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Sending Warm Wishes

 

Before you know it, Fall will be sweeping in. While summer is one of my favorite seasons, the beginning of ‘sweater weather’ is really refreshing from hot/humid days.

For my card, I used several new (and a couple tried and true) goodies from Dare 2B Artzy:

Campfire Friends stamps

Campfire Friends dies

Horizontal Center Step

Fall Harvest Collection Variety

 

 

Fall Mushrooms

It's August...time for Fall projects!!  I was super excited to play with these fabulous mushroom-themed goodies from Spellbinders!  Using the embossing folder/dies, wax stamp and blending technique made me a super happy crafter – SO much fun!

 

 

Wax seals are SO fun!  Reminds me of being a young teen using wax seals on the envelopes to my pen pal letters :)

Products used:

Spellbinders 3D Embossing Folder & Dies – Mushrooms From Me To You

Spellbinders3D Wax Seal Stamp – Forest Mushrooms

SpellbindersScallop Labels and Tag

SpellbindersWax Beads – Macha, Golden, Copper

SpellbindersWax Seal Kit

Distress Oxide Inks:  Peeled Paint, Bundled Sage, Rustic Wilderness, Scattered Straw, Ripe Persimmon, Crackling Campfire and Walnut Stain

 

Snow Much Fun

Ok, not to rush summer (which is one of my favorite seasons!), but this adorable snowman die and darling mice are my favorite winter characters!!

For my card, I used these darling Lawn Fawn goodies:

 Build-a Snowman die

 Snowball Fight

Polar Paper

 

I'm excited to submit my card for these challenges:

 

 

 Lawn Fawnatics - Christmas in July

 

 

Jingle Belles - Dashing Through The Snow

Stamping Sensations - Christmas in July

Word Art Wednesday - Anything Goes

 

Shakin' Up Halloween

 

It's almost August which, for me at least, is the beginning of Fall card creating!!  This Calls For Confetti has some cool Halloween goodies (and MORE on the way...hint,  hint!)  

For my card, I used these fun items...

Boo Blend Polymer Confetti

Candy Corn Debossed Shaker Pouch and Die Starter Kit

 Boo! 6x6 Paper Pad

 Shell Pink - Rainbow Pearl Confetti Sequins

Opalescent Mother of Pearl Sequin Confetti  

Sunset On The Beach

 

I'd love to be sitting on a beach,watching the sunset and drinking a yummy adult beverage!  What about you?!  My card features Spellbinders Sunset In A Glass dies.

The inspiration came from these fun challenges...

 

 

 Inspiration Station - Inspired by Colors and the Beach

 

 

 Just Add Ink - Sketch

 

 Craft Rocket - Summertime

 

 

 If You Give A Crafter A Cookie - Aloha

 

Shopping Our Stash - Summer

 

TGIF Challenges - Summer/Vacay

 

 Word Art Wednesday - Anything Goes