Calling all coffee lovers!

Calling all coffee lovers!  This card is made into a shaker with the beautiful papers from Unity Stamp Company, Coffee Lovers Pattern Paper. I actually used the front page of the paper pack to create this shaker card!  I also used this awesome stencil by A Colorful Life Designs called Big Blot and made it look like a coffee stain. I used my Cricut and the glitter copper vinyl for the "Calling all". The inside is blank for your own sentiment.

 

Coffee: A Hug in a Mug!

Day 5 of the Coffee Loving Card Makers Hop!  I'm bringing to you another card created with that beautiful patterned paper from Unity Stamps!  Simple but to the point as coffee to coffee lovers all around the world, is a hug in a mug!  Once again I went to my Cricut machine and created the mugs for this card.  I also cut out the sentiment for the front of this card and cut it out in black vinyl.  I also used glitter vinyl in copper to create the hearts for the first mug.  Added a few gems and we have a card!  Inside sentiment reads:  "Because adulting is hard".  Am I right?!

Please check out the hop for more great cards and inspiration!  Thanks for stopping by!!
 

Coffee Blog Hop Day 2

 Today is Day 2 for the Coffee Blog Hop! I realize that I neglected to leave a link for the hop on my post from yesterday (OOPS!!) It's being hosted over at Coffee Loving Cardmakers and you will find so many amazing cards and inspiration!  For today's card I created this pretty in pink tea card.  I dug out some pattern paper I've  had for quite a long time and thought they really brought this card together!  I inked the edges of the sentiment and added Nuvo Drops as accents.  Let me know what you think!

Camping Paper Bag Albums

 Over the years I have created a lot of crafts, started out making cards, then scrapbooks, then other types of paper crafty goodies and somewhere along the way paper bag albums became the next fun thing.  I created some over on my other blog but I am unsure how to get to the post link (still after all these years I'm not all that tech savvy, I think it's archived, I can see the post but not get the link).

Not to stress over the matter I know I have evolved in my style and creations, I can assure you that the albums were pretty basic without a lot of fancy embellishments or fun pockets, etc.  I actually created this album about 5 weeks ago, in fact I created 2 camping albums back to back. I used a patterned pack from Cricut and how I was able to lay out and create all the pages I need in my Design Space, it's enough for 2 albums.

Paper crafting is such great therapy!  I also like to challenge myself when using paper, such as being able to use ALL the paper that I have ear-marked for a project. I really don't like waste, although I don't waste, I save!  I do have a basket full of solid paper scraps as well as one with patterned paper.  I like to go to my scrap pile for colors and styles before I use my full sheets, however that doesn't always happen.  When I created these two albums, there really was very little waste, I managed to use all 12 sheets of paper and not have ANY (yes I am serious here) left to put into my scrap bin.  The pieces that were left, were much too small to use for projects (well ok maybe in reality they weren't because let's face it, paper crafters can use even the tiniest of papers, I just didn't want to save those)!

I hope to have a tutorial up over on my You Tube channel for creating a paper bag album, I did make one a few weeks ago but still trying to figure out the editing to it as I don't really have the best editing software right now. I am off camera on a few key areas and I do plan to create another album soon so I may just start afresh!  I'll be sure to blog it and post a link to the video when that happens.  

Thanks for stopping by and have a blessed day!