Christmas Gnomies!

 Is it too early for Christmas?  Not according to any store you walk into today or last month so I'm up on the blog with a Gnome Christmas card I made for the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity Blog CHALLENGE  This is for Challenge #191, Gnome-Vember (that's cute right? Because you have to use Gnomes on your card...get it😂😂)

Anyhoo, I have had this rubber slim cling stamp in my stash for about 2 years now and it's never been opened!  I love gnomes but I don't do many slim line cards so there it sat but when I came across this Hop I knew I had to use it!

The stamp is from STAMPENDOUS! and called SLIM WINTER GNOMES.  I do love their stamps, they are so crisp when you stamp them!

I stamped the image on 110lb white card stock and used Versa Fine Clair ink in nocturnal and then colored them in using mostly Spectrum Noir alcohol markers with a couple of Copic markers thrown in for good measure...only because I started off with Spectrum markers when I first started using alcohol markers before discovering Copic and I'm trying to get my marker stash built up so I only have a couple. 

After coloring all the gnomes, I added some sparkle with a glitter pen on the snow flakes and the brim of the hats and the snow and then added the chip board sentiments from the 49 and Market Christmas collection I have.

I backed it on a red color textured card stock and green color textured card stock and I called it done!

I just discovered this group so it is the first time joining in on a hop.  Here is a link if you want to check them out and join in...I mean WHO doesn't LOVE GNOMES!!!

Thanks for stopping by,

Kimberly

Blessed and Thankful

Hello, today is the last day of the Coffee Lovers Fall/Winter Blog hop and this is my last card of the week!  Wowsa, I did way more than I thought I would but there is something about making a coffee card, I think it's all the great inspiration I get from the hop!  Have you checked it out yet?  I will leave a link HERE if you need some good Coffee Card Inspiration!

Today I made a card with the BLESSED AND THANKFUL sentiment, because really, I am so blessed and thankful for all I have and the people in my life and some times I think life is so fast that we forget to be thankful for all we do have.

This card came together pretty quick because I used a sketch from a challenge I am in over on Scrapbook com.

I am so over the moon that most of my cards I used on this hop were made from scraps!  Yay me!! This entire card except for the ephemera, was made from scraps I had left from some other cards and layouts I did.  

I started off with an A2 size yellow/orange colored card stock, adhered that gorgeous pumpkin paper (it's almost a water color picture) to it.  Found some craft colored card stock and die cut a circle in the middle of it to leave more of that gorgeous paper peaking through.  I adhered the sentiment in the middle after inking it up, it was a bit too white so I toned it down with using some gathered twigs distressed oxide.  

I added a piece of washi tape for a pop of color, wrapping the washing all the way around the craft paper and added another sentiment and adhered it to the front of the card.

I pulled out the Simple Stories Farm Fall House ephemera pack that I had and made a cluster on the lower left side, isn't that tiny to go cup cute!  Again, it was a bit too white for me so I toned it down with some gathered twigs distressed oxide.  

Well that wraps up my very last card for this hop, thanks so much for joining me this week, it was so much fun!

Kimberly

Autumn Blessings

Hey everyone, I'm up on the blog for Day 8 of the Coffee Lovers Blog hop and today I have a very Fall vibes card I put together.

I used a white A2 Card base and used some Wild Honey and Carved Pumpkin on it to ink distress the background.  I used my favorite stamp and die set from AlteNew to stamp and die cut the to go cup.  I actually die cut this and stamped it afterwards...I usually don't do that but it turned out great! 

I have this awesome leaf die and stamp set that came with a mini embossing folder, called Autumn Morning.  I die cut the leaves and inked them with Carved Pumkin and Gathered Twigs and I used the embossing folder to emboss the bottom 2" strip under the sentiment and the sleeve for the cup.

I started placing my leaves where I wanted them and tuck a few under the to go cup and adhered it all down.  I backed the 2" strip with a scrap piece from the JAVA GOOD TIME paper pad I had left and popped it up on foam tape. 

I added that cute little fox from Doodlebug (Doodlepop) isn't he adorable?  I added a few sequins and then stamped the sentiment, that came with the die set, inked it as well and adhered it to the card.  This card just screams FALL to me!

If you are still interested in getting in on the hop, today is the last day so hurry!  Here is the link.

Thanks for stopping by,

Kimberly

I Like Big Cups & I Can Not Lie!

Here is another card for Day 7 of the Coffee Lovers Fall/Winter Blog Hop.  I am having so much fun making these coffee/tea/hot cocoa themed cards this year.

This one is another stash busting card, oh that makes me so happy!  I used the print paper left over from another project as my base and I found another piece of card stock in my stash I had leftover from a CTMH collection (it was so pretty).  I stacked a black card stock on top and then found 2 journaling cards, from a Echo Park Coffee collection from 2023 I still had, and stacked one on top of the black card stock.  The one that says I LIKE BIG CUPS & I CAN NOT LIE I adhered to some foam adhesive and popped it up for a bit of dimension.  The girl holding the coffee I fussy cut from another card in the EP collection, I also popped her up on some foam adhesive.

I stamped the sentiment from LET'S MEET FOR COFFEE stamp set from Brass and Bliss on to the last piece of that CTMH paper and popped it up on foam adhesive and called it done!

I was SO EXCITED to use everything from scraps!  I mean we pay good money for our products no need to waist them.

There is one more day to get your cards made and uploaded for this hop, it ends tomorrow, November 8th, 2024.  I will be uploading a couple of more tomorrow and that will be that for this year's Coffee Lovers Fall/Winter Blog Hop.  Here is a link if you want to play along.

Thanks for stopping my,

Kimberly