Coffee Lovers #3

... and then, of course, I had to use up the Gathered Twigs from the mini Burlap stencil...

Supplies:

• As I said, I had to use the remaining DI on the Burlap stencil,  so I sprayed it with my custom Heirloom Gold Perfect Pearls mix and monoprinted onto a pre-diecut stitched circle (die from Autumn... thanks-- can't believe how much I use these!)
• Had a black circle also pre-diecut and affixed them together
• I sketched the coffee cup on Strathmore watercolor paper and attached it
• I used a coveted un-cut BasicGrey DP from 2010 for the perfect background... don't you agree???  If you recall from this line (Curio, I think it is), all edges are darkened, so when I cut a 4x6", I needed to get the other edges.  I used Walnut Stain and Black Soot Distress Paint, running the edges with the older sponge-tops.
• Quote from my stash, inked with Gathered Twigs DI and sprayed with my Perfect Pearls mix.

Yay!  

A third card for the Summer 2017 Coffee Lovers Hop.  This particular card has nothing summery about it... unless you are in Seattle.  Picture a rainy coffeeshop. Wouldn't this card just fit in during a summer rain? LOL. 

I will also share this at Simon Says AG on Wednesday... just in case they kick this card out of the Coffee Lovers party...

Coffee Lovers #2

...and here's the second card.  This actually happened hours after the first one... I came back to the scrap shack and liked the first one so much that I started this one:

Supplies:

• Tim's collaborative kraft-core by Core-dinations (the purple paper)
• Paper from one of Tim's pads... my husband was talking to his cousin who lives in the East Village, so I was thinking "New York"... anyway, I added some Rusty Hinge to this sheet and spritzed it.
• Coffee mug drawn on Strathmore watercolor paper and painted with Color Bursts and generic brown acrylic.  Gathered Twigs daubed on edges and then this panel was spritzed with water.  I caught when the purple bled too much, but it turned out pretty cool.
• Vintage ribbon from my stash
• Quote from my stash, daubed with Gathered Twigs
• The kraft card base was inked with Gathered Twigs DI through the mini Burlap stencil

A second card for the Summer Coffee Lovers Hop... not what you might call summery... but here's my pitch: if you are working hard and grinding through your week in NYC, this might be as much summer as you see on the daily!  I mean, that *is* bright purple!  

If they don't accept this as a legitimate summer coffee card, that's ok. The payoff was in the creating!

...and I'll link with Simon Says Stencil It on Monday... they accept me :)

Coffee Lovers #1

My mojo has been out of whack lately, as evidenced by my style lately: all over the place.

The Coffee Lovers Hop caught my attention, and mid-day I kind of had some coffee -inspiration!

This is the first card I made (...and the most summery):

Supplies:

• Scraps of stashed paper
• Tim's Mixed Media die
• Coffee mug drawn on Strathmore watercolor paper then painted with Violet Color Bursts and generic brown acrylic
• Green seam binding from my 
• Tim's Patchwork stitching stamp inked with Color Box archival ink in Glacier Lake
• Quote typed a few months ago

(Get ready to go down Memory Lane...)

I guess the summery-feel of this comes strictly from the brights, but it must be my roots in the 1990s shops... coffee is so dark to me.  Coffee+summer, to me, doesn't make me think of Frappaccinos (though I'll have a Midnight Mint and wash it down with a S'mores any day...)... no, to me, when I hear coffee+summer, I harken back to like 1996 when there was like one Starbucks in Roseville, and summer nights were spent drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes (though I was well under 18...).  I think of my goth-sister and her friends, and my "skater" friends.  I was definitely listening to The Breeders, Beastie Boys, The Beatles... Kelsey was listening to NIN, The Cure, Depeche Mode... 

So coffee and summer is special, but I'll have to stretch to make something much brighter than this... that will be a good challenge for me...

SOS: The lazy days of summer

Happy summer!

This week, the Shopping Our Stash team wants to see how you plan to spend the lazy days of summer, or at least how you would like to spend them!

I have already spent a couple days in the sun with a drink in my hand...
summer in the Sierra Nevada is the BEST place to be!

Here's a close-up... don't compare mine to my teammie, Deena!  She's good!

Supplies:

• Image by Art Impressions inked with Ranger Archival Ink in Jet Black on Strathmore watercolor paper.  I own only a few cartoony stamps, and they are all humorous... but I don't use them often because I am not patient enough to color!  LOL!
• Lady "painted" using my oldest waterbrush (Tim's) using DIs in Barn Door, Picked Raspberry, Dried Marigold, and Crushed Olive.  I added metallic detail with a gel pen I bought at the book fair at school two years ago. 
• The background is Broken China and Scattered Straw
• Watercolor panel mounted on a yellow scrap of paper from a thrift-store stationary set
• Striped paper is from a DCWV pad, pre-cut from a different project
• Pink paper by Core'dinations-- in the stash for a couple years at least
• Flowers added by using my most recent punch purchase: Fiskars.  This was probably a year ago.  Black Diamond Stickles added to the flowers.

Join us!  This is the perfect opportunity to use stash items to make a card to send a summer greeting to a buddy! 

CAS Hello

I am all over the place lately, like The Beatles' White Album!

Here is a CAS greeting:

Supplies:

• Shoe stamp from Graphic 45, bought last summer, inked in DOx in Cracked Pistachio
• "Oh Happy Day" washi added as a divider
• "Hello" written with Uniball Signo 

I used the sketch provided by Retro Rubber:

Inspired by Inkspirational

How about a postcard?

This project was thoroughly inspired by the current photo challenge at Inkspirational:

Supplies:

• Ranger Yupo cut down to 4x6"
• Ranger alcohol ink in Purple Twilight added along with Snow Cap mixative and some blending solution pounced to create the inky background
• Flower from STAMPlorations inked with Ranger Archival in Jet Black
• "Word" stamp by Recollections

This will go to my daughter's friend, who will be at camp with my girls next week.  Very "teen girl"-esque, don't you agree?

I'd like to share this (obviously) with Inkspirational, and also with STAMPlorations for their never-ending AG linky:
 

She liked to wear high heels...

This was made in honor of my niece:

Since I got Tim's paper dolls, this paper-doll girl always looked like my niece, Viv, to me:

This was us last weekend in G & G's pool... I chose this picture because she looks serious like the paper doll.

This was also last weekend... Viv normally looks all smiley like this!  Aren't they cute?

When I went to make this tag, I found this quote in my clippings tin and it was like,  "Oh yeah..."-- we had just visited, and Viv is very into wearing Grandma's old high heels!

Supplies:

• Took advantage of the current SS Wednesday challenge and used a bunch of patterned paper scraps to punch hexagons from with a Fiskars punch.
• Hexagons adhered to a library card base using Distress Collage Medium in Matte.  Some spots were empty so that the library card could show through.  
• Once covered, the card was coated with Distress Collage Medium in Crazing, however, it was very hot out and it's likely that the medium dried too quickly for many cracks to form.  Distress Crayon drawn around the edges in Chipped Sapphire and rubbed it in to accentuate the few cracks that showed up.
• "Viv" was coated with a layer of Distress Collage Medium in Vintage and adhered to the card using 3M dimensional tape.
• The quote from an old book was adhered using Distress Collage Medium in Vintage.
• Liquid Pearls in Rose Gold were added for additional flare.
• Vintage seam binding from my stash.

As I mentioned, I'm taking advantage of the current Simon Says Stamp on Wednesday challenge: use patterned paper.