Forever Grateful + Thanks A Million

So here's a couple more one layer cards I made for the current Time Out Challenges. My other cards are here. They're to remind you that there's still a week left to play in the Inspired by Words challenge:

Link up your projects here! The winner (voted by the design team) will receive a $15 gift certificate to spend on the STAMPlorations store and another winner (randomly drawn) will receive a goodie bag containing at least $20 worth of STAMPlorations products.

Card #1 - Forever Grateful

Ingredients: Grateful Flutters, Art Marks, Mixed Media Grunge

Linking up my first card to the following fun challenges:

• Addicted to Stamps and More #316 - Anything Goes
• Creative Moments #155 - Anything Goes
• Word Art Wednesday #358-359 - Anything Goes

Card #2 - Thanks A Million

Ingredients: Coffee to Go - Fall and Winter, Leaves of Thanks, Mixed Media Grunge, Art Marks

Linking up my second card to the following fun challenges:

• Inspire.Create.Challenge #30 - Theme - Thankful

• The Card Concept #101 - Rustic Fall (my card is CAS...or Clean and Graphic)

• Watercooler Wednesday Challenge #194 - Anything Goes

• Addicted to CAS #148 - One layer

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Products used:

An InLinkz Link-up

Coffee and Good Tidings

One of the things I miss is coffee. I have cut WAY back on my coffee consumption...as in zero coffee consumption since my second child, Winter, was born. I read that caffeine could affect breast milk production and because I truly wanted to breastfeed Winter for as long as possible, I gave up coffee completely. (I drank a cup of coffee here and there when Kathryn was born and I had a hard time producing breast milk then...barely produced any that Kathryn simply stopped wanting to breastfeed when she was 9 months.) Winter is 10 months now and still happily breastfeeding...and while I miss coffee so much, I wouldn't take a sip of it if it means breastfeeding her for another 10 months :o)

So what's a caffeine-frustrated mama to do? Design coffee-themed stamps! And my latest coffee stamp set, Coffee to Go: Fall and Coffee, is so much fun. I did some masking (well, plenty of masking!) to create my one layer coffee-themed Christmas card. Made one coffee cup stand out by stamping it in festive Christmas red then finished it off with a sentiment from Scripty Christmas Sentiments.

Want a shot at the Coffee to Go set? You might just win it when you check out this post :o)

Challenges:

• Paperminutes #561 - Coffee or tea
• Papercraft Challenges #23 - Inspired by a Song (mine is inspired by We Wish You A Merry Christmas)
• Through the Craft Room Door - Anything Goes
• The Holly and Ivy Christmas Challenge #39 - Anything Christmas Goes
• Cards in Envy - Favorite holiday cards challenge
• Crafting from the Heart #226 - Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by! Don't forget to smile :o)

Products used:

An InLinkz Link-up

Christmas Coffee to Go

Well it's been nearly a year since I posted here. A lot has happened since my last post (including giving birth to my second child last December). Between managing my little stamp company and taking care of two little girls (the Kat is now 3 years old and Winter just turned 10 months), I simply wasn't able to make cards for pleasure and post them here. I am hoping, though, that I'll be able to post more often here again and play in challenges :o)

Anyway, I couldn't wait to ink up the newest coffee stamp set I designed, Coffee to Go: Fall and Winter. I had lots of fun designing this stamp set and it was even more fun to actually stamp with it and create a coffee-themed Christmas card. (Should be able to send this one to a coffee-loving bloggy friend!) The set is sort of like a dress-your-coffee-cup -- there's a big cup and 4 fall and winter/Christmas themed designs that you stamp inside the cup.

How I made this one layer card: I stamped the coffee to go cup and then stamped the poinsettia design inside it. Masked the cup and stamped the various greetings from another new stamp set, Hello Christmas, all over in different ink colors. Grunged it up a little with the text background stamp from Mixed Media Grunge. I colored the coffee cup with Derwent Inktense pencils.

Like this coffee cup set? You might just win it when you check out this post :o)

Challenges:

• 52 Christmas Card Throwdown - October Technique Challenge (Masking)

• Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge #409
• Winter Wonderland - Colour It

Thanks for stopping by! Don't forget to smile :o)

An InLinkz Link-up

Paper craft project no. 508: Gratitude blossoms and thankful always

!BIG EXTRA PRIZE ALERT!

If you comment on ALL 36 stops in the hop, make sure you include this line when you leave a comment on my post below: "Yes to 36!" in order to be included in the drawing for a $50 gift certificate to the store!

A big hop happening over at STAMPlorations today: the 3rd Annual Giving Thanks Blog Hop and Wishlist Linky Party. There are 35 participating designers in the hop (8 awesome guest designers representing various challenge blogs), a linky party for you to share your STAMPlorations wishlist + up to 3 thankful/gratitude projects, and tons of prizes up for grabs.

This is the last stop in the hop and you should have arrived here from Nonni's blog.

I made 2 one layer cards using 2 of the 11 new products for the hop: Gratitude is the Blossom and Something to be Thankful For from the Typografia Thankful line. (I also used stamps from Mixed Media Grunge and Scribbly Splattery Grunge.)

I hope you'll check out the event and see the projects that the other designers made. You have until the end of the month to leave comments and link up your wishlist, as well as a project or two of your own. You'll find all the details here. Plus if you scroll down some more, you'll find links to all the designers.

And last, there's a huge sale going on at the STAMPlorations store. Stamps, stencils, and dies are 40% off* until November 30. All orders of up to $39 ship worldwide for a flat rate of $5 while orders of $40 or more automatically get free worldwide shipping.

Thanks for stopping by! Don't forget to smile :o)

!BIG EXTRA PRIZE ALERT!

If you comment on ALL 36 stops in the hop, make sure you include this line when you leave a comment on my post below: "Yes to 36!" in order to be included in the drawing for a $50 gift certificate to the store!

Paper craft project no. 507: Life is an adventure

Hello! Here's a card for the new challenge at Time Out. For the next two weeks, the challenge is Home Sweet Home, where we have this inspiration photo:

I took my inspiration from the colors, that rustic table that looks like a suitcase, and the big map in the background to create my one-layer card. I stamped the stack of suitcases and sentiment (Born to Roam), then masked the suitcases before stamping the various grunge background (Mixed Media Elements, Mixed Media Grunge). I gave the suitcases a bit of color with PrismaColor pencils and the card is done.

Check out the cards that the TO team + guest designer Trinia made and then come play with us! STAMPlorations is sponsoring the challenge. The winner (voted by the design team) will receive a $15 gift certificate.

Thanks for stopping by! Don't forget to smile :o)