Give kindness

I love this Coffee Cup Card die set from Honey Bee Stamps. I cut the card in two so I could make some coffee cup tags. I used a coffee cozy from McDonalds to cut a cozy for my cup. There was this sweet sentiment already on the back of the cozy, kind of hard to read but it says “Give the gift of kindness and hope it gets re-gifted.” I was surprised to find it, but happy I could re-purpose it!
I added some snowflakes cut with Lawn Fawn Stitched Snowflake dies. The snowflake that’s blurred
is a sparkly sticker. I added a gift card holder cut with a die from My Creative Time and added it to the back of the tag. I’m becoming a Tag making addict! They’re so fun :-)

I'm linking to:
STAMPlorations TAGplorations December Challenge-All About Christmas
Coffee Loving Cardmakers Sketch
Dare2BArtzy December Challenge-Spirit of the Season
Joy Clair December and January Challenge
and
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge Anything Goes

Joy Clair December/January Challenge

Away in a manger

I’m still getting my Christmas projects blogged-phew!
This manger die from STAMPlorations is so pretty
and simply states the reason for celebrating Christmas.
I used a pine tree stamp from Memory Box to Stamp in white ink on black card stock
for a little background. I popped up the manger die cut to highlight it and added a few stamps from a mix by Lucy’s Cards. The white tag frame is a from Memory Box die set.

I linking this to:
STAMPlorations CUTplorations December Challenge
STAMPlorations TAGplorations December Challenge-All About Christmas
Tuesday Throwdown-Anything Goes
Dare2BArtzy December Challenge Spirit of the Season
and
Joy Clair December and January Challenge

Joy Clair December/January

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Winter Coffee

I found these Hero Arts Nesting Infinity Tea Cup dies for a good price (gently used) on Amazon and decided to splurge! I wanted to make one more entry for the Blog Named Hero Winter Holiday Challenge, so I made a shape card. I also used Lawn Fawn Stitched Snowflake dies and a banner die from My Creative Time for the sentiment from the Hero Arts Off Beat Holiday Messages set.

I’m linking to:
The Blog Named Hero/Hero Arts Challenge (above)
Coffee Loving Card Makers Sip and Share sketch (a very loose take on the sketch!)
Die Cut Divas Winter time
Paper Sweeties December Challenge #62-the Mint green window and the burlap/kraft color
and
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge-Anything Goes

Peace, Love, Joy

I love this word phrase die from STAMPlorations. I cut it out, using some gold foil card stock. I stamped some pine trees with the Small Forest Pine Memory Box stamp. I used the MFT Stitched Fishtail Banner dies to cut the white stamped panel, a red panel and a vellum panel out and layered them on a panel cut with a Simon Says Stamp Stitched Inside and Out rectangle die, using printed card stock from Kaisercraft and adhered to the Neenah Desert Storm card base.

I’m linking this to:
STAMPlorations December CAS Card Challenge
STAMPlorations CUTplorations December Challenge-Trees
Paper Sweeties December Challenge #62 Inspired by the White and red striped stockings
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge-Anything Goes
and
Die Cut Divas Winter Time
  

Peace

I just had to try this Peace Love Joy word phrase die from STAMPlorations. I also used some Stitched Fishtail banner dies from My Favorite Things.

I’m linking this to:
STAMPlorations December CAS Card Challenge
STAMPlorations CUTplorations December Challenge
Dare2BArtzy December Challenge-Spirit of the Season
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge-Anything Goes
and
The Holly and Ivy Christmas Challenge #21-Anything Christmas Goes

Santa card

This is a CAS card I made for both a niece and a nephew. The stamp set is from Technique Tuesday and has some humorous sentiments. I used a Snow pen from Marvy Uchida to color the white of the hat and Santa's beard and mustache. The "ink" puffs up for some raised texture when you heat it.

Linking up to:
Paper Sweeties December 2017 Challenge inspired by red, white and kraft colors
STAMPlorations December CAS Card Challenge
Happy Little Stampers December Christmas Challenge-Anything Goes
Christmas Card Throwdown December: Pick a Previous Challenge from 2012 or 2013-April 2013 Theme Challenge #16 Santa Claus/Father Christmas
and
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge-Anything Goes

Santa tag

I made a few last minute tags and cards for gifts and this was one of them. I just love this Santa from Technique Tuesday. I used some white Wink of Stella to put a bit of sparkle on his hat and beard, colored his hat with a Copic marker & used some washi tape from Little B. 

I’m linking this to: 

STAMPlorations-TAGplorations December Challenge: All about Christmas
Paper Sweeties December Challenge-inspired by the red and white colors
Joy Clair December & January Challenge
The Holly and Ivy Christmas Challenge-Anything Christmas Goes
and
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge-Anything Goes

Joy Shaker

I bought the Pretty Pink Posh Joy Shaker die a few weeks ago because I love the word, not only for my friend’s name is Joy, but also because the word promotes well being. I decided it was time to try it out on a tag for my friend. I cut it out of the red foil card stock and some white craft foam.
I used a piece of clear packaging from a stamp or die set and found a circle die that was a little bigger than the inside diameter of the Joy die and cut it out. I adhered the plastic circle to the back of the red foil die cut and let it dry a while. I then adhered the white craft foam to the underneath side of the plastic, let it dry for a bit, then added a gold shaker mix from Lucy’s Cards. I had die cut a white circle to put behind the shaker so everything showed up better. The kraft circle tag was die cut with an MFT Pierced Circle die. The Ribbon is from my stash. My friend loved it!

I’m linking this to the following challenges:

STAMPlorations December TAGplorations Challenge-All About Christmas

Tuesday Throwdown Anything Goes

Joy Clair December-January Challenge-Anything Goes

Dare2BArtzy December Challenge-Spirit of the Season

Edit to Add-I also wanted to link up to: Paper Sweeties December Challenge-Anything Goes The colors red, white and kraft in the photo inspired me.

3-D Tag

I wanted to try a 3-D tag inspired by Jennifer McGuire from the 12 Tags with a Feminine Twist 201(Day 1) over at Ellen Hutson’s The Classroom. I used Stitched Snowflake dies from Lawn Fawn, Stitched Tag Die-Namics from MFT and a sentiment stamp from Verve Stamps. The glittery snowflakes are from Michael’s and the Ribbon is from Really Reasonable Ribbon.

I’m linking this to:
The 12 Days of Christmas Tags (link above)
STAMPlorations TAGorations December Challenge-All About Christmas
Word Art Wednesday Challenge #312-#313 Anything Goes
and
Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge-Christmas/Winter Holidays

Let’s get Stuffed

I saw Hero Arts Offbeat Holiday Messages Stamp set and knew that I wanted to have it around for some humorous holiday tags and cards. I wanted to make one more tag for the 12 Tags of Christmas with a Feminine Twist over on Ellen Hutson’s Classroom. I chose to make a neutral tag, inspired by Julie Ebersol’s sweet neutral tag, with this stag head die from Echo Park and adorned it with a poinsettia die cut from Our Daily Bread Peaceful Poinsettia dies. The sparkly snowflake is a Recollections sticker from Michaels. The ribbon and jute are from my stash.

I'm linking this to 12 Tags of Christmas with a Feminine Twist 2017-Day 3: Naturally Neutral
A Blog Named Hero-Winter Holiday
Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: Christmas/Winter Holidays
Tuesday Throwdown #372-Anything Goes
and The Flower Challenge-Anything But a Card

One More

I’m linking up one more card to The Winter Coffee Lover’s Bloghop. I used The Coffee Cup Card die set from Super Sponsor Honey Bee Stamps to cut out my coffee cup card. It has the dies you need to make it a shaker card, but I ran out of time so I made it CAS. The Poinsettia was cut using a die set from Our Daily Bread Designs, the Stamp is from Super Sponsor Verve Stamps and the coffee cozy was cut from the outer paper from a McDonalds coffee cup. I’m also linking this to Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge-Christmas/Winter Holidays, Dare2B Artzy December Challenge-Spirit of the Season and Joy Clair December and January Challenge-Anything Goes/Photo Inspiration.

Joy Clair December-January Challenge Inspiration

Poinsettia-Red or White?

I whipped together this card last night for the The Winter Coffee Lovers Blog Hop. I used some Poinsettia dies from Our Daily Bread Designs to cut Poinsettia layers from some (cheap) felt. I guess I should listen to people when they say that nicer wool felt cuts better with thin metal dies. I ended up having to trim them out because they didn’t cut completely. Anyway, I have always loved poinsettias, but have been torn between which color I like best, red or white. So I made a felt Poinsettia in both red and white and now need you to vote which one looks best. I am offering some blog candy for the hop...a package of the to go Coffee cup stickers you see in the card, some red Poinsettia dimensional flower stickers, a couple of coffee/tea stamps that I have duplicates of and surprise or two. Just tell me which color looks better, red or white.
I’m linking this to: the Winter Coffee Lovers Hop (link above),
Die Cut Divas-Winter Time, Christmas Card Throwdown-December: Pick a Previous Challenge from 2012-2013 (Challenge 1 January 2012-Christmas Flowers), Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge-Christmas/Winter Holidays, Joy Claire December & January Challenge and Word Art Wednesday #312-#313 Anything Goes

Edit to Add-The winner of my blog candy is Vinita Jain.
I will include this on the Coffee Lovers Facebook blog candy document too.

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Coffee Lover Shaker tag

I’m not really a tag maker, but got inspired after hopping along on Tracey McNeely’s 25 Days of Christmas Tags. There were so many fun and gorgeous tags! It’s too late to link up and win prizes, but the inspiration is still there. There’s also some amazing tags over at Ellen Hutson’s The Classroom-12 Days of Tags going on now. I’m linking this to Day 5-Snow, inspired by Carissa Wiley’s tag.
So here it goes...my try at tag making. I used MFT Stitched Tag Stax to cut out 2 of the same sized tags from Neenah Solar White card stock. I used MFT Stitched Circle Scalloped Edge Frames to cut the circle out of the top tag for the shaker window. I used MFT Circle Shaker Pouches and filled one with some Iridescent White shaker filler from Lucy’s Things to look like snow. The Pretty Pink Posh Holly dies are cut with DCWV glitter paper. The sentiment and the coffee cup (colored with Copics) are from Verve Stamps Holiday Sweets Digital set. A few gems and some Ribbon from my stash and that’s it. Kind of CAS.
I’m linking up to the 2017 Winter Coffee Lovers Blog Hop, Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge-Icy, Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge-Gift it, Die Cut Divas-Winter Time and Word Art Wednesday #313-#313 Anything Goes.
Edit to Add: I'm also linking this up to STAMPlorations Blog December TAGplorations Challenge-All About Christmas

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Thankful Tag

I wanted to join in Stamplorations TAGplorations November Challenge:-All about Gratitude as well as Stamplorations 3rd Giving Thanks Blog Hop and Wishlist Linky Party.
I have never really made a tag before-well maybe one to put on a card, but not a free standing tag.
I had bought some MFT Stitched tags a couple of weeks ago and decided to give it a try. I used some Spellbinder leaf dies and a sweet scripty Thanks die from My Creative Time. I just had to add some sequins from Pretty Pink Posh for some bling. I have to admit, it was fun and fairly easy to make this.
I am thankful for family, friends, being able to spend time crafting and sharing my joy when I mail hand made cards to people and the ability to work in a service related field.

I'm also linking this to Joy Clair November Challenge-Anything Goes (with photo inspiration below)

Joy Clair November Challenge-Anything Goes

Silly Monster

I made a quick card for my grandson for a Halloween gift card (I'm a little late!). I used Your Next Stamp Silly Monsters to stamp my little gift card bag that I cut using Paper Smooches Deco Bag Wise Die (Code for $5 off orders of $5 or more at Simon Says Stamp is HARVEST as of this posting).

I used Faber Castell Polychromos pencils to color my monster.

I'm linking to Your Next Stamp Color Challenge #76, Addicted to Stamps and More Challenge #267-Make Your Mark, Paper Smooches November Challenge-Fall and Word Art Wednesday: Challenge #308-#09-Anything Goes.

Candy Corn/Coffee Lovers Sketch

I saw this fun sketch from Kerry on the Coffee Loving Cardmakers blog and had to make something from some ink smooshing backgrounds I had laying around. I like to eat candy corn with peanuts...Mmmm! I liked the candy corn color scheme and went with it. I used a coffee flair from D.L. Art. The stamp has no company name on it and I bought it from a stamp shop in southern Indiana. The Trendy Twine is from Annie’s Paper Place.
I'm linking this to the Coffee Loving Cardmakers sketch (link is above), DL.ART October Linky challenge and Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge-Anything Goes.