Make Mine Black, No Sugar...and Tea, Make Mine Tea

I love joining in the seasonal Coffee Lovers' Blog Hop whenever I can, and I just squeaked under the wire for this round...it ends at midnight tonight! You can make any caffeine-drink project and I made two coffee cards this time, though I am a die-hard tea fan.

I won this little stamp in one of the coffee hops in the past, from the Unity Stamp Company. It's adorable. I added the "soon?" for the sentiment. I masked off the image with a rectangle and then dabbed on watercolor from Viviva Watercolor Sheets...I had to dilute them a lot because they are sooo rich and pigmented.

For this one, I spritzed water on my glass mat, then dabbed a wet brush on the Viviva color sheet and added that to the water. Then I placed my cardstock face down and did the smushing technique. It worked perfectly. Again, I added the rest of the sentiment with a marker.

For this last project, I made a tag from tie-dye patterned paper my sister gave me and then stamped, colored, cut out and adhered the kitty cup from Unity Stamp Company. I used Spectrum Noir Alcohol markers on the cup. 

I've been joining in on the Coffee Lovers' Hops for a few years now and here are a couple past projects that I enjoyed making. 

Now I'm off to drink some tea! 

Happy Friday!

Chark

A Cup of Tea, A Cookie and You

I love a cup of tea and a cookie in the evening and I love Witch Hazel from Bugs Bunny so I'm sharing this 6 second video of her so you can enjoy the dulcet tones of Hazel, lolol.

This is my third blog post for The Coffee Lovers Blog Hop...I'm posting them separately just to get a separate url, but there may be a better way to do this. I just haven't figured it out.

For this card, I used classic black for the A Jillian Vance Coffee Cup die and Crystal Tints paint on white cardstock for the stained glass. I love how vibrant and shiny the paint is...I'm certain I'll be using more of it in the future.

I used a white die first and painted within it, with some sloppy edges that I covered with the final die in black. I mounted this one on some Christmas paper that is just blurred lights. The paper pack had a silver-toned and this gold-toned paper and the gold looked best imo.

Happy Friday Hopping!

Chark

Coffee, Tea or Crafts

Here's another post for the Coffee Lovers Blog Hop using a coffee die from A Jillian Vance Designs...I love it. And I used some Crystal Tints paint to make it appear like stained glass.

This time I used clear acetate as the base and then backed it with white cardstock to make the colors pop. I love how glossy it looks on acetate...I used some clear packaging that was a little thicker so it didn't tear with the paint added. This time I didn't actually put down a frame and paint within the lines, just guessed where to put the color...they  mixed a little and flowed as they dried and I like the look. 

The top die is cut from gold cardstock...this is a smaller card and not mounted on an A2 base.

Thanks for stopping & Happy Friday!

Chark

Coffee, Tea or Gingerbread

I'm a big fan of gingerbread, both the edible kind and the decorating kind, and I have a handful of cute gingerbread boys and girls as stamps and dies. This digi came from the Craftin Desert Divas shop, and I cut out a Doodlebug tea cup to give him. He's cute, amma right? 

He comes in color and line art. I printed him in color but my printer started to run out of a vital ink and he came up looking less than tasty. So I took my Prismacolor pencils and made him look more like gingerbread. The bg paper is Doodlebug, as is the sentiment strip. I'm entering him in the Coffee Lovers Blog Hop and you can join me until Friday evening to try to win one of the gazillion prizes!

Come back tomorrow to see who won my four Thanksgiving giveaways (you have until 11:59pm Eastern tonight to enter, just scroll down to the four posts)!

Happy Thursday! 

Chark

Brrrr...Time for a Cuppa

It's time for the Fall/Winter Coffee Lovers Blog Hop. All you gotta do is create a fall or winter themed coffee/tea/cocoa project and then link it to the hop and you're entered to win tons of prizes! I love the hop, it's a great way to get inspiration, learn about new crafty companies and visit some caffeinated friends!

This digi is from Craftin Desert Divas and I got it free in the Kit and Clowder FB group. They have great coloring classes and you can even find a free one. They have 24 days of giveaways right now, but you have to join the Facebook group to comment. They aren't pushy at all and I love the free digis you get occasionally just for being in the group.

I used Prismacolor pencils on this and trimmed it to fit my card, then I wrote out the sentiment because I love the idea of Santa drinking a tea while he sorts his mail. I added dots with a white gel pen and a black Faber-Castell pen.

Hope you'll join in the Coffee Hop with me! And if you wanna win some free crafty stuff, check out the four posts before this one and comment/follow me or head to my IG account (in the sidebar) and enter there! Commenting open until Dec. 6 at 11:59 pm Eastern time...better hurry!

Happy Tuesday!

Chark

Coffee Loving Tag

I used a coffee cup stamp from Hero Arts City Adventures to stamp all over a small manila tag and then colored with my Arteza brush markers. I love how many colors you get for the price and they are fab for lettering, I love the brush tip. 

I added white uniball gel pen and then smudged it a bit, since they are loosely colored. That white highlight in the middle of the cups made them so dimensional.

The wonderful sentiment is from Hero Arts and it comes with a die cut and lots of little sayings (birthday, year, have a, and more) to use with the wonderful die/stamp.

It's my last coffee hop entry, you can enter yours here if you want to join in the fun! Thanks to Amy and the whole crew for another fun hop!

Happy Friday!

Chark

Cozy Hot Cocoa

Squeezing in one last cocoa project for the Winter Coffee Lovers Blog Hop! Got this free cutie stamp recently from Sweet Escape Digis and had to color him up. I love that the marshmallows are smiling and the cup is wearing a scarf! I layered some embossed and die cut pieces to add to the front of this cute pink gift bag. The Hugs die is from Lawn Fawn.

Thanks for stopping—hope you've had a chance to link up with the hop to try to win some prizes! 

Don't forget—Leave a comment on my blog on any posts during the Winter Coffee Hop (Dec. 8-Dec. 15, 2017) to be eligible to win this adorable mini stamp set from The Sweet Stamp Shop. Hope you'll stop by after the hop too, just to say hi once in a while!

If you leave a comment on each post, you'll be entered multiple times. You have until December 16th at 11:59 EST to comment and a winner will be announced on Sunday, December 17th.

Happy Friday!

Chark

Hannah Lynn Hot Cocoa Fairy

I love the digital stamps from Hannah Lynn Designs and this one is just perfect for the Winter Coffee Lovers Hop!

I decided she would be blue since she's a winter fairy. I used some red and greenish blue for the cup of cocoa and I added some Nuvo Drops as the sprinkles she's putting on the whipped cream. 

Don't forget—Leave a comment on my blog on any posts during the Winter Coffee Hop (Dec. 8-Dec. 15, 2017) to be eligible to win this adorable mini stamp set from The Sweet Stamp Shop. Hope you'll stop by after the hop too, just to say hi once in a while!

If you leave a comment on each post, you'll be entered multiple times. You have until December 16th at 11:59 EST to comment and a winner will be announced on Sunday, December 17th.

Happy Monday!

Chark

Coffee Hopping and Giveaway

Hi my caffeinated friends! I have a project up for a2z Scrapbooking today and another project using a digi stamp from Hero Arts (Caffeine Fix). 

I printed it on kraft paper and used Prismacolor pencils to color. Then I added a tree die cut from the Santa Snacks from Hero Arts. I used a white gel pen and black fine tip to add details and gold washi for fun shine!

Leave a comment on my blog on any posts during the Winter Coffee Hop (Dec. 8-Dec. 15, 2017) to be eligible to win this adorable mini stamp set from The Sweet Stamp Shop. Hope you'll stop by after the hop too, just to say hi once in a while!

If you leave a comment on each post, you'll be entered multiple times. You have until December 16th at 11:59 EST to comment and a winner will be announced on Sunday, December 17th.

Happy Friday!
Chark

Where Would I Be Without Coffee

I have this great set of coffee stamps from Big Grins at Stamplorations called Dark Coffee and the sentiment I used on this card is "Where would I be without Coffee?" I masked off the answer, "In bed, of course" and typed a sentiment for the inside of this card...now it reads, "Dead Tired, of course." 

I used the Hero Arts ghost dies on glitter paper, backed them with some patterned vellum and then mounted the panel on MFT aqua striped cardstock. I love this orange glitter paper...no idea where I got it, but the glitter stays put and that's my favorite kind of glitter paper. The coffee cups are from Hero Arts City Adventure stamps.

Even ghosties need a caffeine fix if they're going to be haunting all night!

Hope you'll join in the Fall Coffee Lovers Blog Hop with me and about a million other people :) This hop keeps growing every season and it's been fun to watch.

Happy Monday!
Chark

Easiest Coffee Card Ever

This coffee shop panel caught my eye on a piece of patterned paper by Carta Bella (Metropolitan Girl) and I bought a few single sheets of the collection, including the one with the reading girl.

All I did was trim out the panel, add some inked embossed vellum cut into strips and added a rosette I already had in my stash. The back panel is an inked stencil piece I had from playing around with this Diamond stencil from Hero Arts. 

This is perhaps the fastest Coffee Lovers Blog Hop card I've ever made, since the stenciled part was already inked up. But I like the image so much, I'm sure I'll use this one for a friend.

Thanks for stopping by, join in the hop if you like coffee, tea or cocoa!

Giveaway: Leave a comment on any or all of my Coffee Hop posts this week here on my blog (you can leave one comment per post for more chances to win) and you'll be entered to win either two Hero Arts stencils (for overseas friends) or this Lawn Fawn Large Stitched Rectangle die set (for U.S. buds). Commenting closes July 1 at 11:59 pm EST.

Happy Wednesday!

Chark

It's Doodlebug Coffee Time

I love Doodlebug Designs because they have the cutest lines. I had to get some of the Cream & Sugar line for the Coffee Hops. 

Today I used the adorable Coffee Cup Doodle-Pop sticker and some of the donut stickers. I used the Hero Arts 3-D Shopping Bag die and some of the 6x6 Doodlebug paper. The sentiment strip is from the paper pack too. Can I interest you in a bag of donuts?

I love those coffee bean stickers especially. They are sooo cute! Hope you'll join in the Coffee Lovers Blog Hop too, tons of prizes are up for grabs and making coffee, tea and cocoa cards is as addictive as caffeine! 

Giveaway: Leave a comment on any or all of my Coffee Hop posts this week here on my blog (you can leave one comment per post for more chances to win) and you'll be entered to win either two Hero Arts stencils (for overseas friends) or this Lawn Fawn Large Stitched Rectangle die set (for U.S. buds). Commenting closes July 1 at 11:59 pm EST.

Happy Monday! 

Chark

One Bunny or Two?

I love these Bunny Teatime stamps from Memory Box. When I saw them in the local scrap store, I didn't buy them immediately, mostly because I didn't need them. But then I got them the next visit, anyway. After all, there's always another Coffee Lovers Blog Hop around the corner! 

I made them into a birthday card with a Memory Box birthday sentiment die and a frame die from Lawn Fawn.

Giveaway: Leave a comment on any or all of my Coffee Hop posts this week here on my blog (you can leave one comment per post for more chances to win) and you'll be entered to win either two Hero Arts stencils (for overseas friends) or this Lawn Fawn Large Stitched Rectangle die set (for U.S. buds). 

Commenting closes July 1 at 11:59 pm EST.

Happy Hopping!

Chark

Loving the Coffee Hop

It's Day One of the Summer Coffee Lovers Blog Hop and I've got an Anne Taintor-inspired card with vintage digi stamp and sentiment typed out in a typewriter font. It's a little less snarky than my cards up on the a2z Scrapbooking blog today.

You can see the stars and glitter line stickers at the top and bottom of the coffee cup panel shining in this pic below.

I used the Hero Arts Digital Stamp set called Make Your Own Sewing Fashion ($11.99 for a ton of sewing images and sentiments) for the woman. 

I colored her red, white and blue and put her on cherry paper to make her summer-themed. Then I realized, one doesn't wear capes in summer. It might even be a wool cape. Ah well, she might be toasty in her outfit if she's outside, but if she's at the office, she might be all right, depending on how frigid the air conditioner is!

The coffee cup background is from the Hero Arts Caffeine Fix Digital Stamps. I'm not great with digis, and couldn't figure out how to lighten the cups, so I just used a piece of vellum to make the background less busy.

Special blog reader benefit--if you head to the a2z Scrapbooking store and put in $25 or more in your cart, you can use my super-secret buddy code to get 15% off! It's CHARK15 but you didn't hear it from me. You can almost always find a 10% off code in the store, but 15 is greater than 10...and even this English major knows that. lololol.

Giveaway: Leave a comment on any or all of my Coffee Hop posts this week here on my blog (you can leave one comment per post for more chances to win) and you'll be entered to win either two Hero Arts stencils (for overseas friends) or this Lawn Fawn Large Stitched Rectangle die set (for U.S. buds). 

Commenting closes July 1 at 11:59 pm EST.

Happy Friday!

Chark

Last Minute Entry

Here's my last Spring Coffee Lovers Blog Hop Entry. Doodlebug Designs mug stickers and the have joy is a journaling card. The words Have Joy are actually gold foil, but you can't tell here. The background piece is made from Distress Oxide Inks...they are so fun! I have a million pieces of paper that will end up as backgrounds or die cuts. I couldn't stop experimenting with them!

Big thanks to everyone who comments on my blog, thanks for stopping by. And big thanks and a "latte" love to Amy and her crew for this fun hop...it has got to be the biggest project!!

Happy Friday!
Chark

Coffee Hugs

Another Coffee Lovers Blog Hop entry...I'm telling you this hop is addictive!

I'm using these hugging coffee cups from 2 Cute Ink for today's post. I love the images at 2 Cute Ink--you can get them singly in the Etsy store or you can join the club and get 6 images each month. The club images are exclusive for club members and that's where this adorable cup couple came from. You still have a couple of days left in the month to score this image.

One thing for sure is that your images are going to be cute! I went with Fall Ombre colors with my Prismacolor pencils for this one and thin silver sticker lines (Dazzles) for the edge. 

Happy Thursday!

Chark

Monster Freebies

This cute little coffee guy comes free from Useless Trinkets and I had to save him for the fall coffee hop. Jessa has a ton of cute little freebies and sentiments! I had to scoop them all up and save them to color later.

I colored him with fall colors and put a bunch of Halloween papers behind him. He's got a little glimmer with Nuvo Silver Glitter drops in random spots.

Happy Monday!
Chark