Iced Gingerbread & Coffee – Made with Love

Welcome back! Happy Saturday.  Hoping you will find some time to be creative today. A few challenge themes: Paper Craft Crew (#608) Treats and Caffeinated Christmas (#38) Add a Heart. With the Color Throwdown (#826) Palette and the TGIF (#512) Sketch. Here is the result: Steps: Card Base: (8½” x 5½” scored at 4¼”) PecanContinue reading “Iced Gingerbread & Coffee – Made with Love”

Café Love – Happy Birthday

Welcome back!  Lots of red, pink, hearts and love stuff out there… So, Color Dare (#635) is sporting Pink and Red, Seize the Birthday (#298) suggests adding Red and the neutral Kraft while TGIF (#509) introduces a coffee theme.  Bringing all these elements together, I chose the Saturday Sketch (#768) layout which has a themeContinue reading “Café Love – Happy Birthday”

Try Again – Coffee with Friends

Welcome back!  Already the middle of the week…time just flies on by. Today I am having a play with the Time Out (#279) Beginnings theme, selecting three colors from the Color Dare (#633) suggested palette and bringing it all together with a flipped Stampin’ Up! Only (#367) sketch to better accommodate my image. Here isContinue reading “Try Again – Coffee with Friends”

Merry Café – Happy Christmas

While Christmas has just ended, there are several challenges that get you ready for the next one…so here we go.  Ho, Ho, Ho! The challenges: Caffeinated Christmas Cards (#37) adding Snowflakes and Krafty Chicks (#750) Christmas Anything Goes. I am also sharing this card with Jingle Belles (#2502) adding something new – Mixed Labels DiesContinue reading “Merry Café – Happy Christmas”

Holiday Latte Love – Merry Christmas

Welcome back!  Another new work week and I am stepping into the Christmas Holidays with this card. Jingle Belles (#2412) is looking for a patterned paper mix-up using a least three different patterns.  I selected the Shopping Our Stash (#523) Sketch as it had lots of layers to work with. I am sharing this cardContinue reading “Holiday Latte Love – Merry Christmas”

Kitchen Kaffee Klatch with Friends

Welcome back!  Happy Saturday. I found a little time to play…Farm Quest (#52) Kitchen Tools; Creative Colour (#142); with the Atlantic Hearts (#578) Sketch. Here is the result: Steps: Card Base: (8½” x 5½” scored at 4¼”) Basic White cardstock. Accent Panel: (4” x 5¼”) Moody Mauve Stylized Floral patterned piece of paper from theContinue reading “Kitchen Kaffee Klatch with Friends”

Latte Love French Press – Cup Stack

Welcome to Sunday and the newest Paper Players (#690) challenge.  This week, Anne-Marie needs to tickle her punny-bone and is looking for a humorous CAS (clean and simple) card.  I hope a little coffee humor makes you smile… I selected the color palette suggested by Color Throwdown (#793) along with the Freshly Made (#636) SketchContinue reading “Latte Love French Press – Cup Stack”

Latte Love – Be Merry

Welcome to Sunday and the newest Paper Players (#689) challenge.  This week, Ann has selected a lovely set of colors for us to use plus adding a fourth.  I chose Smoky Slate as all the other three have a gray undertone.  Inspiration for this card was influenced by: Inkspirational (#315) to pick a Season andContinue reading “Latte Love – Be Merry”

Latte Love – Christmas Cheer

Welcome back!  It’s Monday – a brand-new week.  And I am heading for the Holidays with a number of Christmas themed challenges. First up: Jingle Belles (#2408) celebrating Earth Day with the use of recycled item(s).  Next: Caffeinated Christmas Card (#28) to include Coffee related items.  Then: Krafty Chicks (#711) for their monthly Christmas AnythingContinue reading “Latte Love – Christmas Cheer”

Blocked Stencils – Hug in a Cup

Welcome to Sunday and the newest Paper Players (#678) challenge.  Anne Marie has given us a fun sketch to play with this week. I decided to have a play with stencils for Just Us Girls (#715) and the Color Dare (#588) Fancy Five picking the warm tones.  I am also sharing this card with KraftyContinue reading “Blocked Stencils – Hug in a Cup”