Holly Jolly Christmas Wishes card

Hey guys,  I'm here as a guest designer again for the month of July for the Caffeinated Christmas Card Challenge Blog #55 and I am so excited!

If you are a coffee lover this blog and challenge is for you!  Each month they host a challenge, challenging you to make a Christmas card using either coffee or hot cocoa/tea themed card.  I am a huge coffee lover and I also have a love for coffee cards.  My stash of coffee/hot cocoa and tea overrunneth, just like my coffee cup in the mornings!  

Today I started out with a little inspiration I took from one of the Pretty Pink Posh cards on their website...I love getting inspired by others! 

I used a die set from them called WINTER MUG.  It is so good and comes with a large coffee mug, a candy cane, ghost, leaf, marshmallow and a couple of other bits.

OK, so is anyone else like me and have quite a collection of old stash of just about everything?  I have 2 bins of Christmas bits and bobs and paper and an entire 9x7 storage bin full of Christmas dies and stamps.  So when I reached into my stash of Christmas papers I had plenty to pick from.

I found this nice shade of textured red card stock which I loved. I die cut the coffee cup but wasn't satisfied with it so I ran it through a 3D embossing folder I have from Spellbinders and loved how it came out.

I then reached into my stash of Whimsy stamps goodies...oh I just love that shop!  I had purchased a honeycomb drips stencil a few months ago and hadn't used it yet so I pulled it out and used the drip part to make the mug look like it was overflowing with goodness.  I actually cut another mug, stenciled the white card stock with some CTMH SHORTBREAD ink and then fussy cut the the drips and adhered it to the red mug.

I started digging through all the Christmas papers and goodies I have in my stash and came across the paper with the music notes with a vintage vibe to it.  I also had a scrap piece with MERRY EVERTHING and HAPPY ALWAYS printed on it so I layered them at an angle and adhered it down to the the green gingham paper which I layered on top of a black 85lb card stock.

I grabbed my Stampendous! SNOWMAN HUGS die set and die cut the candy cane.

I thought something else was missing so I die cut it again out of some red foil card stock and snipped it so it didn't have the curved part...so it looks like a peppermint stick or cinnamon stick.  

I decided to give it a little extra and added some WOW embossing SPARKLING SNOW and heat embossed some of the candy cane, cinnamon stick and the drips.  I adhered it all together and layered it on top of the Christmas papers.

I found my Arden laser cuts, SEASON OF JOY and pulled out some Christmas stamps, poinsettia leaves, a heart and a small tag with a cute bow from the collection and layered them around the mug.  I also found the HOLLY JOLLY CHRISTMAS and CHRISTMAS WISHES sentiments in the collection and thought they would be perfect for this card!

I die cut the snowflake from the Pretty Pink Posh Winter Mug set and adhered it down.  I added a thin piece of green foiled card stock, that I ran through another 3D embossing folder, to the bottom of the card just for added texture, adhered it all down and called it done!

I hope I inspired you to hop along with us this month for this coffee loving, Christmas fueled hop; make a coffee inspired Christmas card for someone special, get some inspiration from others and don't forget, there is a prize each month, so maybe even win a prize!

Thanks for hanging out with me today,

Stay crafty,

Kimberly

Bah Humbug!

Hey guys, I'm up on the Blogger with another Christmas card for February's challenge over on the The 12 Months of Christmas Link Up !  If you guys want to stay caught up on your Christmas cards for this year this is a fun way to do it!

Today I'm working on Challenge #131 and made a Grinch card for it.   I absolutely love the Grinch and I found this AI image I printed on watercolor card stock.  I used the smooth side so I could add the stamp sentiment from WHIMSY STAMPS - - BAH HUMBUG!  From their Grumpy Holidays Clear stamps set.  It was still available at the time of this blog and it's super cute with a dog and a Charlie Brown Christmas tree!

After I stamped my sentiment I reached into my card stock and pulled this gorgeous shinny red card stock and framed the Grinch.  I then grabbed some washi tape, because don't we all have a ton of that!  I added a piece of washi to each side of the card to balance it out.  I popped up the Grinch on foam tape, added a sentiment inside and called it done!  Easy Peasy!

If you guys are like me and need some motivation to get those Christmas cards done early so you are not adding any stress to the Holidays, because who needs more of that!  Head over to the 12 MONTHS OF CHRISTAMAS LINK UP CHALLENGE and get some inspiration and some fun prizes and your cards done for a stress free Holiday!

Thanks for hanging out with me today!  Have a crafty day.

Kimberly

Cheers to All and to all a Good Night!

Hey guys I hope everyone one is keeping warm...Old Man Winter is really giving it to us this year!  

I'm up on the Blogger with this cute Hot cocoa/coffee themed Christmas card.  I know we just got over the Christmas rush but it will be upon us before you know it and I always try to get at least 2 done a month so I am not scrambling at the last minute.  I say that but the inside of my cards seem to take me just as long as the outside some times and until I know exactly who I am sending them to I hold off on doing the inside of them.

I am playing along with a couple of different CHALLENGES this week:

12 Months of Christmas-Christmas card (option-cocoa)
 

Caffeinated Christmas Card Challenge #50

I was surprised on how fast this on came together using 2 wonky stitched circle dies, an image from Angie Bloom Designs, a stencil in my stash and some Copic Markers and a cute Stamp set from Scrapbook.com  

I love these 2 challenges because they get me making those Christmas cards during the year so a lot less stressing in December! Click on the links to join in on the fun and to win some prizes and to get inspired! 

Thanks for hanging out with me,

Have a crafty day!

Kimberly

Caffeinated Christmas Challenge #46

Hey guys, I'm up on Blogger with a Caffeinated Christmas Card...this is for Challenge #46.  Here is a link to the challenge if you want to play along.

I started out with a red metallic card stock cut to an A2 size card base.  I reached into my 49 and Market Christmas collection and grabbed a rub-on that says SANTA.

I set it aside and then started using my new TO GO CUP coffee die set from LA LA LAND CRAFTS -- It was August's Monthly Kit, full of everything coffee so I just had to grab the kit.  Sorry if you missed it because it was AWESOME!  They have some amazing stamps and dies and paper collections, here is a link to check them out - - I used a packaging from a Vicki Boutin Christmas collection to cut the cup.  The die set comes with an outline of the cup as well so I cut that out of a metallic green card stock so that it would pop off of the metallic red card stock I used for the base.  I reached into my stash and pulled out a snowflake die that fit the JOY ephemera sticker perfectly.  I cut that out of the same green metallic card stock so that it pops against the to go cup.  

I pulled out my stash a scrapy friend sent me that was full of Christmas ephemera pieces and found this HAPPY HOLIDAYS wreath along with that cute bow, a poinsettia and the word MERRY.  After arranging them the way I wandered I adhered it all down, using some foam tape on a few pieces and I was done.  It came together pretty quick.

Thanks so much for hanging out with me to see how this came together.  Don't forget to head over to the challenge for some fun inspiration.

Have a crafty day,

Kimberly