What's Brewing?

Coffee Loving Cardmakers is having their summer blog hop so true coffee lovers are inspired to share their passion.  How could I resist posting my latest coffee card – What’s Brewing?

I used Just For Fun Rubber Stamps’ Cafe' image, stamping it with Rich Cocoa Memento Ink on top of the same designer paper I used for a background layer.  Then I added subtle color with Copic markers, using more of a flicked brush affect.   

The sentiment, What's Brewing, and the coffee bean border from the Coffee Unmounted Sheet, both from Just For Fun, were both stamped on a second designer paper and all was layered on brown.

I spritzed a little Vintage Photo Distress Ink with water on my craft sheet and used a lid to stamp some coffee rings on top of the whole card.  Then I also added some splatters.  Did you know there is a new Distress Ink called Ground Espresso?  I know I need that!

Since I am off for the summer, I am posting from Omaha, NE where I am visiting my mother, and other family members.  It has been extremely hot here but mom and I still have our coffee together each morning and afternoon and are taking lots of time to catch up. 

What’s brewing with you?

E. Marie

Love You Latte!

I am a coffee drinker and I love to have a cup first thing in the morning.  Even in the summer!  My little kindergartners always tell me I smell like coffee and I seem to get a lot of coffee gift cards from them.  I carry my mug around a lot, but I think it is more of a comfort thing than that I actually drink that much coffee.  I actually used left over coffee to stamp on today’s card, along with stamps from Just For Fun.

I started with layers of blue, cream, white, and brown.  Then I used my cup and dipped it in coffee and stamped some rings across the layers.  Some of it ran a bit which added some puddle marks.  I let this dry and stamped the sentiment, A Latte, in red.  I heat embossed the coffee beans from the Coffee Unmounted Sheet, cut them out, and layered them on the card.  The picture makes them look different colors but it must just be the angle.

The main image is Latte' Love, which was heat embossed.  I lightly water colored this, but actually painted the brown sections with coffee and added a few coffee splatters.  I stamped the heart from the image a second time, embossing with red, cut it out and layered it on top.  To create the foam, I used Dimensional Glue and Twinkling Clouds Sparkle N Soft flocking.  Looks almost good enough to drink.

This card is also being entered in the Coffee Loving Cardmakers Summer Coffee Lovers Blog Hop.

Just For Fun has a great assortment of coffee themed images and sayings, so I am sure I will be sharing more cards with this theme. 

E. Marie

Fishin'

With Father’s Day so close, I wanted to share one more masculine card using the new Gone Fishin digital stamp set.  I am sure I have mentioned that one of my favorite activities with my dad was to go fishing.  He taught all his children, grandchildren, and even great grandchildren to fish and it is one of their greatest memories.  This card makes me think of him.

I started with some lovely designer cardstock and layered this on the white card base.  Strips of 1/4” and 1/8” Tear-iffic tape were run across the next layer of black cs and Autumn Spice Velvet Glitter was added.

Rectangular windows, with black frames, were cut from another piece of the designer cs, using Gina Marie Designs' dies.  This was popped up over the printed image and sentiment, using dimensional tape, and added to the card front.

Have a wonderful week and I hope you can have some family time on Father’s Day.

E. Marie

Summer Dreams

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With the beginning of June, four things come to my mind – Birthdays, Father’s Day, School’s Out, and Head for the Beach!  Today we will celebrate the beach using the Crane on Pier Silhouette, Marina, and Cattails stamp sets from Just For Fun Rubber Stamps

The cattails were stamped with Versamark Ink and heat embossed with Black Embossing Powder on the card front and layered on black and blue cardstock.  Zig Clean Color markers were used on watercolor paper to create the colorful sunset.  Then the Crane on Pier Silhouette and Marina images were stamped and heat embossed in black on top.  These were trimmed and layered on black and white and added to the card front.

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The simple sentiment, from The Seasons Word Block, was stamped with Distress Ink across the top of the card.

What cards do you need to make for this month?

E. Marie

Just For Fun June Challenge - 50's Flash Back

If you are looking for the Sparkle N Sprinkle Reveal Blog Hop, scroll down or click here.

June is here and it is time for a new challenge at  

Just For Fun Rubber Stamps Blog.   

This month our theme is 50's Flash Back.  How fun is that!!   

 We also have an optional sketch that you can use.

Remember that the challenge rules have also been changed so you no longer are required to use a JFF stamp on your project to win the monthly gift certificate, but if you do use a JFF stamp you will receive a 2^nd entry in the drawing, doubling your chance to win.

My hubby is an antique car buff and was born in the 50’s so this is the perfect theme for his upcoming birthday.  I started this card by stamping the background with JFF’s Circles Background.  I colored in a few of the circles with red and layered on black and red.

I stamped and fussy cut three 45 RPM record images and arranged these on the front.  The Diner and '57 Chevy were stamped in black and fussy cut.  I added a little splash of red and some grey shading to each and layered them on top of the records.

The sentiment, Good Times, was stamped in red Memento ink, layered on black, and added across the top.  Then I added the Fuzzy Dice, hanging them from the sentiment with some fiber.

My hubby will really enjoy this card.  Just for your info, my hubby and I have the same birthday – wonder what he will make me?

Don’t forget to visit the JFF blog to get full details and rules for the challenge, along with some great inspiration from my fellow designers.

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E. Marie