Today I am sharing my second card for Spring Coffee Loving Bloghop. Another clean and simple card with embossing and watercoloring 🙂

I die-cut Canson Watercolor Paper using Fancy Frame Dies (Craftin Desert Diva) with my Evolution Advanced Diecutting Machine (WRMK) for the card mats. Then I added some watercolor paint (CTMH) on the scallop stitched mat for the first layer.

Using my MISTI, I stamped the Coffee Side by Side (Unity Stamp Co.) with Cocoa Mini Pigment Ink (CTMH).

After I heat embossed the images with Clear Embossing Powder (CTMH) and Craft Heater (CTMH) I colored them using Watercolor Paint (CTMH) with the smallest size from the Paintbrush set (CTMH).

I added the top layer of the mat using white fun foam and strong glue so the card will be flat and sturdy.

Don’t forget to check out the Coffee Loving Cardmakers Post for more inspirations from the sponsors and team. You can link up you project(s) until Friday, March 25th at 11:55 pm Pacific. And to be eligible to win the prizes, link up your newly created SPRING themed projects that include coffee, tea and/or cocoa inspired designs. PLEASE no backlinking.

Thank You for visiting and have a fabulous day!

I got the 3 sets of new Tim Holtz Distress Crayons were on sale at Blitsy a couple of weeks ago. And today, I had a chance to create a card using some of the colors.

There are some videos tutorial and reviews on YouTube about these Distress Crayons. I learned one of the easiest way of using them is to scribble some on the craft mat and pick it up with brush.

I use Unity Stamp Co. – February 2016 Kit Of The Month. First, I cut a 4.25″ x 5.5″ Canson Watercolor Paper and stamping the flower using Memento Black Ink using my MISTI and dried the ink using Craft Heater (CTMH).

On the Craft Mat (Ken Oliver), I scribbled some of the Distress Crayons and added some water using the Aquash Waterbrush (Pentel). And I started to colored the image using the brush. I cleaned the brush each time I changed color.

Using the Craft Heater I speed up the drying to make the card 😉 The sentiment I used is also from the same Unity KOTM I stamped with Black Memento Ink Pad.

I found a pretty yellow paper in my stash that I used as the background that matched with the color of the flower. Using adhesive runner, I added the pattern paper, watercolor paper and sentiment strip on the card base.

My card is finisned and I love it! I hope you like it, too 🙂 Thank you for visiting today!

My card I link up at these challenges:

Unity Stamp Co. Weekly Challenge – Color Challenge

Word Art Wednesday Challenge Weeks #222-223 – Anything Goes

Less Is More – Challenge 268

STAMPlorations March CAS Card Challenge

CASEplorations March

Welcome to Spring Coffee Lovers Bloghop! This is the time of every season when the coffee loving papercrafters share their amazing projects!

This bloghop is hosted by Coffee Loving Cardmakers where you can link up your project(s). This blog hop starts today,Friday 3/18/2016, at 9 am EST (6 am Pasific) through Friday 3/25/2016. Since this is Spring Coffee Lovers Bloghop, your new project theme should be Spring and you must use coffee/tea/cocoa images, too.

There are 50 GIVEAWAY PRIZES to win!!!!! More information on prizes and how to win, please visit Coffee Loving Cardmakers blog post. I am one of the sponsors this season and I am giving away these 2 stamp sets.

And this is my first card for today:

I got the new Tim Holtz Distress Crayons and decided to try on the Hero Arts – Coffee cup Rubber Stamp. So easy and fun playing with these distress crayons. I added the Vintage Photo Crayon directly on the stamp and sprayed with little bit of water. Then stamped it twice on a piece of Canson Watercolor Paper. Then I dried it with my Craft Heater (CTMH) and fussy cut them using Non-Stick Micro-Tip Scissors from CTMH (best scissors for fussy cutting ever!)

After cutting them, I added the first cup using adhesive runner and the second one slightly overlapping using 3D foam tape. Check out the detail:

The background card I created using stencil I cutout with Silhouette Cameo and Gelatos. I finished my card with some sequins.

I decided not to use any sentiment for this card, to have it ready for any occasions when I need it 🙂

Don’t forget to check out the Coffee Loving Cardmakers Post for more inspirations from the sponsors and team. And over there you can link up you project(s) from Friday, March 18 at 6:00 am pacific to Friday, March 25th at 11:55 pm pacific. To be eligible to win the prize, link up your newly created SPRING themed projects that include coffee, tea &/or coffee inspired designs. PLEASE no backlinking.

I cannot wait to see what you share with us on this Spring Bloghop.

Thank You for visiting me today and have a one fabulous day!

Visit my Close To My Heart Store to get this month special deal: STAMPAGANZA 2016: Buy Two Stamp Sets, And Get One Stamp Set!

It is time for the Technique Blog Hop again! This month, we are featuring the new coordinating stamp sets and thin cuts (metal dies) from Close To My Heart. Updated on the Thin Cuts: the Spring Critters Thin Cut is limited quantities remain and the Springtime  Wishes is sold out!

You should arrive from Kirsten’s blog. I hope you are inspired by her project 🙂 Today I am sharing a card that I created using Springtime Wishes stamp set and matching Thin Cut set.

I stamped each image from Springtime Wishes with Slate Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad. And then using with the matching thin cuts, I cut the images by running them under my WRMK Evolution Advanced diecutting machine.

Before I arranges those flowers and leaves, on a piece of Watercolor Paper, I added some light Sorbet Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad using aquash watercolor brush. I speed the drying by using the Craft Heater. Once the watercolored background dried completely, I added the flowers and leaves using adhesive runner amd 3D foam.

For the sentiment, I heat embossed one of the sentiment from Joyful Birthday stamp set with Ranger™ Princess Gold Embossing Powder on a strip of Black Cardstock and added it on the card using 3D foam tape. I finished the card with some clear sparkles.

A tip for you: after you die cut the shapes, do not throw away the negative because use can use it as stencil 🙂 I will post a project using this tip later.

How about more inspirations? Here are other cards I created with these stamp set and thin cuts for January Technique blog hop:

I hope you are inspired to create something using CTMH coordinating Stamp Sets and Thin Cuts today 🙂 Your next hop is Wendy’s blog to see what she has created for you this month.

THANK YOU so much for visiting and have a fantastic day!