Cattitude

Hello Nomad friends.   Gotta love a cat.  We have one, and part shares in the one next door too!!  Cats!!!

I used Funky Fossil coffee cat stamp and preprinted chippy sticker Coffee Until Cocktails.

Looks like he can't wait for cocktails!!!

Joining the fun at

As You Like It Challenge - Favourite Pet cats!!  They have personality, attitude, are loving (sometimes, when it suits them), fun and independent.  Not to mention soft and warm and fluffy.
We Love Stamping Challenge - Summertime opt AG
Show Us Your Pussies Challenge 125 
Paper Funday Challenge 89 - Anything Goes opt Summer Splash

Is My Halo Showing

Hello Nomad friends.  Gotta love a cat with attitude.  I've used more Funky Fossil papers and stamps for this fun card. 

 Isn't he adorbs!!!!   

 

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

 

Joining the fun at
Allsorts Challenge 850 - 17th Birthday Party
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes  
Girlz Creative Fun Art of Scrap Challenge 22 

Show Us Your Pussies Challenge 123 

In Perspective

Hello Nomad friends.  Today I am over at the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity with more Gnome fun.

I made a tag using Lost Coast Designs Coffee Gnome, ATC Perspective and Pieces of Calligraphy with Carmen's Veranda Coffee Vs Challenges sentiment.

 I started with a piece of card that had a ray pattern on it and cut it with Daisy Mae tag die.  Then I smeared the edges with yellow archival ink and stamped some of the Pieces of Calligraphy stamps with the same ink to add some texture.  I stamped the ATC Perspective with brown archival ink and the sentiment with black archival ink. I stamped Coffee Gnome on white card, coloured with distress markers, fussy cut and added him to the tag.  I found some curious bobbly lace for my tag tie.

Hope you like my gnomey tag.  You have all month to share your stamped anythings featuring GNOMES!!  Real rubber or clear stamping and the theme must be the focus of your project and we need at least 20 entries to award the prize. 

 

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

 

Joining the fun at
Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Not a Card
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Food and/or Drink 
Allsorts Challenge 846 - Springtime opt AG 
Tag Along and ATC Challenge - Blossoms, Birds, Butterflies opt AG
Paper Funday Challenge 86 - Anything Goes opt Die Cuts/Punches 

 

Mug Hugz

Hello Nomad friends.  Bit dreary here today.  I think autumn has a firm grip.  A good day to craft.  Mr Mojo wasn't so keen, but we did manage this with some pink scraps I had spotted in the patterned scraps bin the other day.

 

The Unity Girl was already stamped on a scrap of pink, I just needed to fussy cut her and add a little salmon pink to the heart.  Sentiment to be added later if required.

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

Joining the fun at
Allsorts Challenge Week 800 - Anything Goes
Snippets Playground Challenge 490 note to self, remember to add the entry to the linky bwaahahahaahahaa
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes
Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Monochrome
Pammies Inky Pinkies Challenge 2438

Bearly Caffienated

Hello Nomad friends.  It's Christmas!!!
Only joking......  Blame it on the coffee

The red star panel was a left over I found and thought I'd make something with it.  I embossed a piece of white with the Let It Snow embossing folder and put it behind the red panel.  Then I decided the red panel needed some texture too so I lined it all up in the folder again!!!   I know, making it difficult.  I cut the snowy hills from white scraps and stamped the Greeting Farm bear on another bit of white, coloured with promarkers and fussy cut.  

  Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

Joining the fun at
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Add A Sentiment
Word Art Wednesday Weeks 661-662
Caffeinated Christmas Card Challenge 32 - Cute Critters
Christmas Kickstart Challenge 89 - Animal Antics
Kreativtanten Challenge 92 - Alles Geht

Cupcakes, Coffee and Bunny Slippers

Hello Nomad friends.  I saw today that Pink and Main are celebrating 10 years.  Congrats Pink and Main.  I like Pink and Main.  Their images are cute.  So I had a rattle through my Pink and Main stamps and found this bunny slippered coffee drinking fan.

I mounted some fun polka dot paper on a slimline card base and added some super size cupcake ribbon.   Then I stamped and coloured the image and die cut it with a stitch circle die.

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

Joining the fun at
We Love Stamping March Challenge - Feminine
Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Food and Drink
Allsorts Challenge Week 773/4 - Keep It Simple opt. AG
Kreativtanten Challenge 87 - CAS
Craftlandia Challenge 18 - Easter/AG

Fair Warning, Coffee and a Winner

Hello Nomad friends.   Distracted today with a virtual scrapmeet.   A good thing to be distracted by.  Also my turn over at the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity with some inspiration for the Stamp on Pattern Paper challenge.  I am finding this such fun, and the rest of the team are making such gorgeous projects.  If you haven't checked the blog do hop over and treat yourself to some eye candy.  Today I have combined a few stamps to make a coffee themed card.

I used Lost Coast Designs Mayan Stele stamped on the stripey paper which I cut with a fancy slimline die.  I stamped Carmen's Veranda My Coffee sentiment and added a fussy cut Lost Coast Designs Robust Dancer with a paper pieced dress. 

Join the stamping on patterned paper challenge. Alter the pattern with your stamps, paper piecing, use it as your colour, etc etc. Real rubber or clhear stamping and theme must be the focus of your project for a chance to win Lost Coast $$$$$'s. 1st - 14th November

and a winner.........

Thanks to everyone who entered my special Janis Tribute Challenge which was hosted over on the Christmas Kickstart blog in October.  It was an awesome month and I am quite flabbergasted with all the games and events Jo had running along with all the amazing sponsors.  The prizes have been awarded so make sure you hop over and see it you are one of the lucky winners.  It was an absolutely amazing undertaking and a wonderful remembrance of Janis.  I was giving away an extra little prize for people who entered my tic-tac-toe fun and left a comment here on my blog that they had entered.  43 cards were entered in the linky and I tallied the comments and Mr Random says

HilaryJane 

is the lucky lady.  Email me your address Hilary and I'll get the cat in the post LOL.  

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

Joining the fun at
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Thinking of You
2023 Fall/Winter Coffee Lovers Blog Hop

Fringe Benefits

Hello Nomad friends.  Isn't  it nice to stretch the supplies and make em do things a bit differently.  I used a die that is supposed to be used for boxes to make a lot of fringes from scraps of patterned paper.  

I glued down the uncut bits and left the fringes to flap around.  Then I added three wooden painted embellishments that I believe came as a freebie in an order.  Aren't they adorbs!!!!

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

Joining the fun at
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Food/Drink
Allsorts Challenge Week 751

Gotta Love Coffee

Hello Nomad friends.  We got sunshine today!!   Happy day and ice cream in the garden!!!!  I looked at some UFO's and managed to get this one finished today. 

Slimline card for coffee and love lovers.  I used Kort og Godt yellow star patterned card to make the card base and doodled around the edge with a copper sharpie.  XOXO!!!!   I cut a red scrap that had some failed heat embossing on the back and cut the two red hearts using Funky Fossil Coffee Lovers die set.  The coffee bean heart I used the die to emboss a scrap of ice lolly packaging and hit it big time with Potting Soil archival ink.  Then I cut the loves from little blue scraps using Funky Fossil Funky Word dies.

Love how soft and puffy the embossed heart turned out.  I saw someone online who was colouring with coffee (brewed, cold) the other day and asked her if you get the smell as well.  You do!  I might have to splash a bit around for smell-o-vision!!!!

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

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Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Add Some Doodles
Snippets Playground Challenge 460

 

Coffee Parteee

Hello Nomad friends.   I have been wanting to join the mega Coffee Lovers Blog Hop and decided I'd better get my kettle on or I'll miss the frog!!!  So here I am with my first, hopefully not last, entry to the coffee lovers hop. 

I based my card on a sketch I found at a new to me challenge.  The fun thing about this challenge, and there are two sister challenges too, is that they are concentrating on ephemera.  Well, if my translation from Dutch is as I understand it.........  Dutch is tricky sometimes LOL.  They want the focus to be pictures or printed images and the such.  This got Mr Mojo's attention cos I have some very pretty little pictures and die cut printed images and this gives me that nudge to get em used.  The base card is Kort og Godt brown with snowflakes designer card.  I used patterned paper and the pretty printed image and sentiment from Hunkydory Festive Treats printed die cut sheets. A little plain red paper and glitter tape and three enamel dots from Papirdesigns to finish.  

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

Joining the fun at
2022 Fall/Winter Coffee Lovers Blog Hop
Creative Sketchy Girls Challenge 77
Double D Challenge - Hot Beverages
Christmas Craft Creations November Challenge - Washi Tape
Girlz Creative Crafts Challenge 31 - Kerst/Winter
Allsorts Challenge Week 702 - AG opt Numbers

Snowflake Coffee

Hello Nomad friends.  A quick one layer card to share with you this evening using Unity stamps.  

 

Isn't she pretty.   I kept it CAS, my favourite style and stamped the girl with Magenta Blue archival ink, masked and stamped the snowflakes with Sky Blue archival ink.  I think coloured stamping makes for a softer look.  I coloured the girl with distress markers.  Done! 

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

Joining the fun at
Papercraft Challenge 86 - One Layer Wonder
Pammies Inky Pinkies Challenge 2238
Passion for Marker Challenge Week 659 - Use Rubber or Clear Stamps
Stamping Sensations Challenge - Feminine

 

Unity KOTM Take Your Time and Warmth of Winter

Power Cut Makes

Hello Nomad friends.  The power was out today for essential maintenance so I did a little colouring.  I used a lovely stamp from PowerPoppy from the Short Stacks set and made a bottle tag.

I used an Avery Elle die to cut the bottle tag.  I stamped the Power Poppy Short Stacks best book ever image and the happy birthday sentiment and coloured with distress inks and my water brush. 

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

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Power Poppy The Blossom Challenge - Glassy Eyed
We Love Stamping July Challenge
Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Fabulous Florals

Bearly Time For Coffee

Hello Nomad friends.  A simple little xmas card using my very favourite coffee drinking bear from The Greeting Farm Let It Snow stamp set.

I used a subtly patterned card base, a scrap of white card cut with a stitch hill die and stamped the sentiment from TGF set straight on the card. I stamped the bear, fussy cut him and added a little colour with Promarkers.  Then I masked off the bear's scarf so I could stamp the small heart with red archival ink.

Hope you are having a merry day.  

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

Joining the fun at
Caffeinated Christmas Card Challenge 2 - Hearts
Allsorts Challenge Week 664 - I Love...... bears, coffee and bears drinking coffee
Day of the Month Card Club 36 - Polar Bear Day
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes

 

A Latte Birthday Wishes

Hello Nomad friends.  I found some foiled base cards I have had forever and noticed that time and moving em around was starting to cause small damage.  So lets get some of these beauties used!  

I picked a copper foiled base card and used Stamplorations Circles All Over Texture Cover Plate to make that cool dotty pattern.  I stamped Stamplorations Caffeinated Zen 2 coffee cup on a inky scrap, coloured with distress markers and fussy cut.  A happy birthday stamped on a white scrap and done!

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

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Stamplorations January Challenge - Stamps and Cups
Mijn Hobbyhonk Challenge 37 - Alles of Bijna Niks CAS
Creative Crafting Uncles Challenge 25 - Happy Birthday
Scrappelyst Utfordring for Januar - Dies/Punch/Mønstersaks
Stamplorations Anything Goes Challenge

Dear Coffee.....

Hello Nomad friends.  Gosh.  January is galloping!  It's Rudolf Days again!  25th to the end of the month are those important dates, and one of the many challenges that keep me on track for the silly season.
So here's a little coffee cup to make us all cosy.

I found a bit of white card and cut it with Stamplorations Mug die.  Then I embossed it Sizzix ScandiKnit folder.  Then I spotted this little die cut deer that had been snipped out of a bigger diecut piece and I decided he would look perfect on that lovely embossing.  This scrap of green snowflake paper caught my eye and looked perfect on a blue card base.  Then I just needed the perfect sentiment.  This slightly distressed merry Christmas stamp from Unity seemed to fit the bill. 

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

Joining the fun at
January Rudolph Days Challenge
Pixies Snippets Playground Challenge 420
Stamplorations January Challenge - Stamps and Cups
Caffeinated Christmas Card Challenge 1 - Snowflakes

GIU Day 5 Warmth Of Winter

Hello Nomad friends.  Welcome to Day 5 of my GIU posts.  I hope you have enjoyed the cards I have shared this week using Unity Stamps.  Remember you just need to leave a comment on the GIU posts for a chance to win a Unity gift voucher! If you have missed any then do scroll down and comment.  The more comments the better your chance of winning.  I will be drawing my winners, yes two winners, on Monday.  I am finishing today using one of my favourite Angie Girls from KOM December 2014.

I'm still all blue and white, cos I like blue, and it's a great combo for this time of year.  The original plan was to have a lot more colour but this one didn't go quite to plan so I cut it down a bit and this lovely lady insisted on taking advantage of that gorgeous leafy frame.  The leaf border is from KOM January 2019 and the lady from KOM December 2014.  

 

And....... I also went all CAS with her, since she was out.  Like I said, she is a favourite of mine.  I used Night Sky archival to stamp the girl and the sentiment, from KOM October 2019.  Then I smeared the snowflake background from KOM November 2011 with Sky Blue archival.  Smearing instead of patting with the ink pad leaves less ink on your stamp and allowed me to get a super subtle snowfall. 

Joining the fun at
Double D Challenge - Blue and White Winter
Caffeinated Christmas Card Challenge 1 - Snowflakes
Mijn Hobbyhonk Challenge 37 - Alles of Bijna Niks
AAA Cards Challenge 206 - Moodboard

Thank you so much for joining me this week.   Don't forget to leave a little love.  Take care.  Hugz

 

 

Coffee Stripes

Hello Nomad friends.  It's been a day of distractions, but here I am at last with a little inspiration for our current challenge at Let's Squash It! - stencils and embossing folders.  Use any embossing folder and also one or more stencils.  Please make sure you include both parts of the challenge on your card and also check da roolz to ensure your entry will be eligible for the random prize draw!

So here's my card.  I was inspired by Jo's Technique Time post where she used a stripey embossing folder.   My first attempt kinda crashed and burned, but try try again...... 

I used Stamplorations Latte stencil and Sizzix Stripes embossing folder.  I used Ground Espresso distress ink and stencilled the words on my stitch die cut panel.   I lightly smeared the Stripes embossing folder with the Ground Espresso ink, spritzed with water and embossed the wordy panel.  Then I took the mistake from earlier.....  I had stencilled the cup from the latte stencil and embossed with the stripes folder.  I didn't like it as it was but I fussy cut the stencilled embossed cup, saucer and handle and added them here.  Yes!!

Thanks for dropping by.  Looking forward to seeing your stencilled embossed masterpieces.  Hugz

Joining the fun at
2021 Fall/Winter Coffee Lovers Blog Hop
Stamplorations Anything Goes Challenge
Stamplorations November Stencil Challenge