Hello Coffee/Cocoa/Tea Crafty Friends… Welcome to the Coffee Loving Cardmakers and Little Acres Creations Collaboration Blog Hop!

Today both design team is sharing their coffee/cocoa/tea themed projects showcasing the new stamp, Cafe Dreamers stamp set from Little Acres Creations. And I have 2 cards to share with you today.

My first card is a mixed media card. I created the night sky background with Gelatos. I scribble the shades of blues and black Gelatos on a watercolor paper and blended them with baby wipe. Then, I added some white acrylic paint with fan brush.

I stamped the sentiment with Versafine Clair Nocturne and Mini MISTI. And I dry it with craft heater because this is a pigment ink that dries slowly. With Mini MISTI, I can arrange the 2 sentiments on the card and I bend the top shaped like an arch.

I added the finished background panel on a card base with dries-clear adhesive glue.

I stamped mouse sitting on the cup image twice, one I stamped on a green patteren paper and one I stamped on a white cardstock with Versafine Clair Nocturne. I dried them with craft heater so I can add colors immediately.

I fussy cut the cup and cut off the mouse then I added some black Gelato and blend it with baby wipe. For the mouse,  I colored it with Grey watercolor pencil, and pull the colors with watercolor brush, then I fussy cut the mouse. I added the mouse on the cup with dries-clear adhesive glue.

I added the cup on the card with 3D adhesive. And I added some clear star sequins and more white stars that I drew with White UniBall Gel Pen.

First card is done…. but I cannot stop… I just had to make one more card with this adorable stamp set 😀

On my second card, I tried the no-line coloring technique. It is a challenge for me. I stamped the image on a white cardstock with Antique Linen Distress Ink using Mini MISTI.

I colored the image with Prismacolor Premier Colored Pencils and Prismacolor Colorless Blender Pencil. I added some shadow at the bottom of the cup with Watercolor pencils and watercolor brush. And then I cut it with one of the Fancy Frame Dies – Craftin Desert Divas.

I stamped the sentiment on a white cardstock with Versafine Clair Cheerful and trimmed it with paper trimmer.

I added the flower patterned paper on the card base as the background, and then I added the polkadots and brown stripe paper strips on the card with dries-clear adhesive glue.

I wrapped some natural twine ribbon on the colored panel and added on the card with 3D foam tape, and then I added the sentiment also with the 3D foam tape.

Second card is done…

***GIVEAWAY***

Little Acres Creations is generously giving away two (2) $10 Little Acres Gift Certificate. For chances to win, leave a comment on each participant’s blog. Commenting closes Friday, April 20th at 11:55 pm pacific with the winner announced on Monday, April 23rd on Coffee Loving Cardmakers Blog. Here’s the full list of participants:

Little Acres Creations

Chelle Ratcliffe

Heather Clay

Julie Tucker-Wolek

Lisa Bzibziak

Coffee Loving Cardmakers

Amy Tsuruta

Kerry Urbatch

Helen Gullett —> You’re here

Becca Cruger —> You’re next stop

Dana Gong

Dana Warren

Katie Brooks

Kathy Schweinfurth

Laurel Seabrook

Robyn Jordan

Thank you so much for stopping by my blog today! I hope you all enjoy the blog hop and the projects. Have a fabulous day!

I also play along with:

Challenge Week 330-331

HLS April 2018 Challenge

April Challenge – Anything Goes

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Hello everyone… We start to plan our garden and so looking forward to enjoy the flowers. Today, inspired by Spring flowers, I have a mixed media card for a friend to share with you all.

I created my mixed media card today using Doodle Flowers Clear Stamps and Hello Sentiments Clear Stamps together with TCW stencil, Imagine Crafts Shimmer Creative Medium, Memento Ink, ShinHan Alcohol Markers, and acrylic paints.

In the last several days, I learned fun mixed media technique at Stamp Nation, one of then is creating background and turn it into a finished project. I used couple techniques on this card 🙂

For you who love sending some handmade cards, these stamp sets are perfect. They are couple of my favorites from Joy Clair. Head over to Joy Clair Blog today to read full details and tutorial how I created this mixed media card for friend. I hope you all will enjoy the post 🙂

THANK YOU so much for stopping by today. Have a wonderful day!

I also play along with:

Simon Says: Add Some Texture

Challenge Week 330-331

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Hello everyone… Today I am one of the STAMPlorations Spotlight Project Guest Designers this month. I am so excited to have this opportunity to share with you a project with layers and fussy cutting.

If you have been visiting my blog, you know me that I like clean-and-simple style. But my card today has lots of layers and fussy cutting which a challenge for myself to work with them 🙂 It is also a mixed media card using STAMPlorations 5×7 stamp sets, CUTplorations dies, and ARTplorations stencil. I also use archival inks, distress oxide inks, clear gesso, and glitter brush pen.

Head over to STAMPlorations blog today to read my full post and step-by-step tutorial. Here are couple of close up sneak peeks of the card:

Before you go…get 20% off on all STAMPlorations regular and sale-priced stamps, stencils, and dies by using this code: STAMPGIRLHELEN when you check out (please copy and paste the code). Code can not be combined your code with any other discount codes. HAPPY SHOPPING!

I hope you enjoy this post today. Thank you so much for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

I link up at:

Simon Says: A Trio of Something

Anything Goes Challenge #328 – #329

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