Fall/Winter Coffee Lovers Blog Hop - Day 3

 

It's Day 2 of the 2023 Fall | Winter Coffee Lovers Blog Hop!   Join the fun with opportunities to earn lots of prizes from our Super Sponsors!!

When:  Friday, November 3, 2023 – Friday, November 10, 2023

We have moved to 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 HERE.  Guidelines:

• 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.

My card features this stamp/die set from Ellen Hutson.  I was so very sad that she's closed up shop but wish her all the best in the next part of her exciting journey!

Good Books + Good Coffee = Perfection

 

 Happy Saturday and welcome to the cafe!  I'm so glad you stopped in today to see what's brewin'...

Today's my daughter's birthday and she is an avid reader - and I'm an avid coffee drinker - so I guess this card is for both of us :)

 

For my card, I used papers from Echo Park Coffee & Friends paper pad to create the background.  These cute images are from Ellen Hudson Leading Ladies - Book Lady and the sentiment is from STAMPlorations Good Books and Coffee.

 

It's a date...a COFFEE date!

 

Hi, Coffee Loving fans!  I'm really excited about our feature where each of the DT invite one of their friends for a crafting 'Coffee Date'!

I'm thrilled to have my good friend Melody Blake join me today!  Melody and I have been crafty friends for several years and we are also DT teamies with Divinity Designs.  BTW - Meldoy is crazy talented (she inspires me constantly) and has THE best sense of humor (her storytelling will leave you in stitches)!  Here's a little bit about Melody...

Hello!

I live in Ohio with my craft-enabling husband of 43 years!  Paper crafting became a passion of mine when our two sons were young, and I was introduced to scrapbooking!  Making cards soon followed, and after retiring from a 37 year career in education, I have had lots more time to craft and to collect crafting supplies!

Kathy and I met at Legacy Paper Arts in Powell, Ohio, while attending Ohio Stamp Junkie events.  I hope this pandemic comes under control soon so we can start crafting together once again with all of our talented, crafty friends!

Thank you so much, Kathy, for inviting me to be your “Coffee Date!”

 

We decided to each create a card based off the same sketch...

Here's Melody's beautiful card:

The supplies I used for my card are all from Dare 2B Artzy and include the Latte Love Stamp Set and the Be Frappe Stamp Set.  The dies used were the Frappe & Donut Die, the Circle Framelits, the Slim-Mini Snowflake Background Die, and the Rectangle Framelits.  The D2BA papers on my project were Penguin Plunge and That’s a Wrap.

Here's mine:

For my card, I used several patterns from Echo Park Farmhouse Kitchen for layering.  The fabulous images and sentiment are from an Ellen Hutson set called A Breve Note.

Hope you and a friend can get together for a crafty coffee date, too!

Saturday Coffee Cafe - My Peeps

Happy Saturday and welcome to the Cafe!  I'm so glad you decided to drop in to see what's brewin' today!
 

 

I giggle at this saying "Coffee is My Spirit Animal", because it's true for me :)

For my card, I layered two patterns from Echo Park Little Dreamer Girl paper pad onto the card base.  These darling little critters, colorful coffee cups and sentiment are from Ellen Hutson Latte Love set...SO cute!  To finish, I added a few Coffee Bean embellishments from Kat Scrappiness.

 

 

Coffee is a Must!

There's still ONE MORE DAY left!   LINK UP your Spring/Summer COFFEE OR TEA projects for a chance to win (pssst...there are TONS of prizes to be won from over 60 Super Sponsors!! Winners are randomly selected from entries)!  Enter as many projects as you'd like!  This hop is SO much fun and filled with incredible inspiration, too -- see you on the hop!

 

For my second card tonight, I used Kat Scrappiness Mini Slimline Scalloped Edge die.  The stamped sentiment and images are all  from Ellen Hutson A Breve Note - such a cute set!

 

Coffee and Crafting

 

I can't believe we're almost wrapping up the Spring/Summer Coffee Lovers Hop!  Hopefully, you've had time to join the fun and have been enjoying all the wonderful creations that have been linked up!!

There's still ONE MORE DAY left!   LINK UP your Spring/Summer COFFEE OR TEA projects for a chance to win (pssst...there are TONS of prizes to be won from over 60 Super Sponsors!! Winners are randomly selected from entries)!  Enter as many projects as you'd like!  This hop is SO much fun and filled with incredible inspiration, too -- see you on the hop!

 

I managed to get a couple cards completed tonight...with some extra caffeine!  For this card, I layered a design from Trinity Stamps Black & White slimline paper pad onto the card base.  These fun cup shapes were created using STAMPlorations Zen Coffee Cups Layering Dies and the sweet crafty images are from Gina K Designs Crafty Notes!