Coffee Day Blog Hop

Hello Stampers,

I love coffee cards, don't you? There is something special sharing a cup of coffee with a friend.

Here is my first card. I made a birthday card that could go to any of my friends.

I cut out the border with a Spellbinder die.

I stamped the background with different coffee stamps.

Happy Birthday was stamped on a separate piece of card stock that matched the light tan. 

The sentiment was edged with the same color of Copic marker I used to color the coffee bean. 

Behind the die-cut out and used pop dots.

This card was fun. The saying and coffee cup is stamped on the card. 

Then masked the coffee cup so I could stencil the table cloth. The chocolate is stamped on a separate piece of card stock and colored it with Copic markers. 

I used Catherine Coffee color ink to stipple around the edges. I also used it on the band of the coffee cup.

The chocolate piece is popped out in the center to give them some dimension.

Here are the stamps I used on my cards.

Happy Birthday Big

Coffee Bean Set

Delicious

Coffee Word Swirl

Coffee Cup Short

Coffee Cup Tall

Coffee Cup Heart

Coffee Chocolate Saying

Candies

Here is the link to get back to Coffee Loving Cardmakers.

Thanks for hopping with us! 

Hugs, Vicky

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Safest Day

Hello Stampers,

I love this time of year when it starts to get a little cooler and it feels like things start slowing down.

I also love this time of year because Halloween is one of my favorite holidays! 

So we came out with NEW witchy stamps. I plan on using a lot of these all year long. 

Here is a new stamp, Witch Wendy and an older snarky one Safest Day.

I used Tim Holtz No. 23 Mini Stencil and a cut sponge with Memento Black ink.

I lightly sponged it with the stencil on and then sponged the entire card after I took the stencil off with the ink I had left in the sponge.

I spritz the stencil with water to clean it.

Then I laid a piece of card stock over the stencil.

It cleaned it real well and gave me another background card!

We also have all of the Halloween stamps on sale this month!

Check out the Halloween Stamps

Thanks for stopping by!

Vicky

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Three Easy Halloween Cards

Here is my first card. After I stamped the words and images, I cut out a mask to put over the words and used my stipple brushes to fill in the background. 

I am going to use this saying all year!

My second card is even easier than the first one!

A witch doesn't always have to be dressed like a witch, LOL.

Stamps Used:

Flying High

Stay Off

Bats Flying By

Witch On Broom

And my last card was just as easy as my first. Colored with Copic and used a stencil with the Clarity Brushes.

Stamps Used:

Into A Frog

Frog Being Sweet

Betty

Stamps Used:

What's Brewing

Cauldron

Crabby Cat

Thanks for taking a look and you can see all the Halloween stamps HERE!

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New Release And 3 Cards

Hi Stampers,

I have a couple of cards because they are quick and easy to do.

For the first one, I cut out the background with a Spellbinder die and drew a line around the die

before it took it off. Pearls were added on the points. 

The next card is even easier. I stamped the wreath and then the vines in 2 different colors of green.

Added the birthday saying. 

There are so many ways to use this wreath; I can't wait to find more things to put on it!

I stamped the flowers in blue and added light blue lines, and cut them out.

This card was fun: stamp, stencil, and color!

Have a great day, Vicky Briggs

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Bee-cause You're Special

Hi Stampers, 

I am sharing a quick Mother's Day card for a Mother who is as sweet as honey!

This is a pretty easy one. Stamped, colored with Copic markers and mounted.

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Blog Hop with Coffee Lovers Blog Hop Spring & Summer

Hello Stampers,

Vicky here to share a couple of coffee cards with you. I have so much fun making coffee cards while I sip, actually gulp on a cup, more like a soup bowl full of coffee so I have 3 cards to show you. We have over 100 drink stamps. If you want to take a look here is the link! 

The first card is with Esther and on of our In The Freezer saying.

It's a simple card with simple coloring, it's just that simple.

I stamped and Esther and saying and then cut off the bottom of the card and just added BoBunny card stock. 

Oh, the BoBunny paper is buy one and get one free until May 6th!

AND everything is 20% off until May 6th!

The second one is how I feel after a couple of soup cups of coffee!

It's another quick and easy one.

Here is Harmony throwing our Tiny Daisy while she is saying what she wants.

The third one a little bit of masking. I masked the flower off and added our Love YOU. This saying also comes in a set of 5. I also added the same Tiny Daisy from the card before.

I added a couple of drops of Nuvo in the corners.

This saying is a custom made stamp that I had John make.

We make customs everyday and I had him sneak this one in for me. 😊

I used one of our stencils and the Clarity Brushes. 

I used a magnetic sheet under the paper with a MISTI magnet to hold the stencil in place.

I love these brushes because they unload the ink without much pressure

so you can gently lay down the ink without disturbing the stencil.

 This is the FREE stamp!

Thanks for looking!

Have a great day and enjoy the hop 

Vicky

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Coffee Blog Hop

Hello Stampers,

We are excited to be a super sponsor and doing this blog hop with Coffee Lovers team.

Fall / Winter Coffee Lovers Blog Hop

I hope you get a lot of inspiration from the Crackerbox and Suzy design team! There are some fabulous cards so don't miss ANY of the blogs. Like Super Sponsor we are offering a $25 dollars Gift Card from our Store for one winner of the Blog Hop but as you are also very special for us, we are offering the possibility of win another $25 Gift Card from our store between all the visitors in our blog that left us a comment here in this post.

PLUS we have a coupon for ONLY you Coffee Lovers Stampers!

Use the code...WinterHop...for 20% OFF of all of the DRINK stamps. The coupon code will be good through next Saturday, Dec. 8th at Midnight. Here is the link to the DRINK section.

This is a simple stamp and color card. I really like the Happiness Is...saying. I used it on a lot of cards for all different occasions. I also used Holly Swirls.

 A card that is not a holiday card, just a card to send to a friend that might need to read these words.

Thank you so much for looking and don't forget to check out the other blogs!

December stamp of the month.

Use the coupon code...WinterHop

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New Release!

Welcome Stamper to our New Release Hop!

We are all excited about the new stamps and wanted to share them with you. 
Again, some of our designers have created the images for the new stamps!

Here is my card with some of the new stamps.

 We have a set of Wishing you a... with all different kinds of sayings.

I like having them separate to place them where I want them...together or separate

or even inside the card.

I decided to lay the card out like this.

 I first stamped the saying.

 

And then added the 

Catherine Pooler ink around the edge.

 I stamped the wish bone and the pumpkin

on a separate piece, colored it and cut it out.

Thank you so much for taking a look,

Hugs, Vicky

Back to the beginning

Take a look at the NEW RELEASE!

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Crackerbox Hop with Imagine Inks

Hello Stampers,

I am the lucky one to start everyone out on the hop we are having with the WONDERFUL company, Imagine!

I can't tell you how much I have LOVED their inks for many years, and still do :)!

I owned a store for 18 years and had every color of many of their lines of ink. I could go on and on about how much I love their inks. But let's get started.

This is one of my favorite colors (Pearlescent Sky Blue). It stays on my table all the time! I can't say enough about Brilliance ink. I wish you could see the shimmer. This is the only Pearlescent Pigment ink that stamps on paper, vellum, shrink plastic, and wood that I know of!

It's everything you want in an ink.

I used Clarity Brushes with Tulip Red Versafine ink and brushed it in one direction. This is the first time I have used the Versafine CLAIR, and I like it as much as their other inks. It's the perfect red for Christmas.

Then, I stamped the Knit Sweater And Mittens Set of 2, and the Ball Of Yarn with Versafine ink. 

This is the cleanest container I could find. I LOVE this 

ink for ALL of my words and fine-lined images, and I use it with anything I want to emboss.

I used the Pearlescent Sky Blue and wiped it around the edges to make the card I mounted the saying and card on. Can you see the shimmer?

On white card stock, I stamped Wishing You and Warm Winter, as well as other stamps that go with it.

The saying is 2 stamps.

My second card:

I used Imagine Inks, Tim Holtz Mini stencil set #22 and Clairty Brushes. 

I just dabbed and swiped the different inks all over the stencil.

The stencil is on the left for you to see. 

The colors I used: Acorn, Tulip Red, Sunflower Yellow, Thyme and Copper.

I have my initials on the inks because these are the ones I take with me if I stamp away from home.

OH, they might looks small but they are MIGHTY! 

I have had these little buggers for years and they are still inky.

The VersaFine CLAIR blended so easily and the colors are so rich!

I used Gold and went in from all of the edges and across the card to 

give it the most beautiful shimmer.

I did the same on this card as I did on the last card to make the color match. 

I swiped the ink pad around the edge of the card I used for the saying and the card that I mounted my image on.

Finally, done!

The saying is the stamp that we have on sale this month for $2.89.
You can find it HERE

If you want some of these great inks you can find them at Imaginecrafts.com.

Thanks for hopping with us and I hope you have fun and get some inspiration!

Happy Stamping and Hugs, Vicky

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