Coffee Lover's Blog Hop Part 2

I was so impressed by my friend Tonya's 5 cards for the coffee lover's blog hop, so decided I needed to make another!  I used the same Fiskar's Latte Love set and colored it with watercolor pencils and a blender pen. 

It's hard to tell in the picture, but I added some Wink of Stella to the hearts on the cups.  There have been a lot of fun coffee cards in the blog hop - have you added yours?

-Laura

Coffee Blog Hop

Hi!
I'm sharing a card I made for the Coffee Blog Hop on National Coffee Day!! 


 
 

 

 

 

 

 

I used Stampin Up paper and paper pieced my little latte cup.  The perfect sentiment and a perfect way to show some appreciation with a Starbucks gift card!

 

 

Thanks for looking!

-Laura

Fall Thank You

Hi All,
Just popping in today to share a fun fall card I made! 

This card is copied from the wonderful Jennifer McGuire.  She created this beauty last fall, and when I found these leave stamps at JoAnn's I knew I needed to make a card like hers.   Her banner was made from solid cardstock, and I tried that first.  But I didn't like how it covered up so much of the pretty leaves.  So I decided to go with vellum for the banner instead. 



Thanks for stopping by!
-Laura


Supplies: 
Stamps:  Hero Arts real leaves poetic prints
Inks:  Distress inks in wild honey, spiced marmalade, peeled paint, mowed lawn, fired brick, antique linen, versamark
Paper: Neenah Solar white and desert storm, vellum
Embellishments: HA pearls
Other:  white embossing powder

Home Sweet Home

My Brother - in - law and his wife just bought a new house, so off course that is a card occasion!!  I made this card with the Hero Arts Mia Casa stamp set.  I just love the house in that set - the perfect size for a card front.   I used SU paper from the calypso coral celebration add on kit.  The Home Sweet Home saying was pieced together from an HA Alpha set and a friendship sentiment set. 

I got the idea of the little hearts coming out of the chimney from Darlene DeVries of Darlene Designs.  She is uber talented and I have learned so much from watching her videos.  I have also CASed her cards more than once :)

Since this card uses lots of patterned paper, I am submitting it to Virginia's View Challenge.  Love that challenge - always lots of inspiration there!

Thanks for looking!
-Laura

Merry Monday & NBUS

Hello!
I have a fun Christmas Card to share with you that I created for the Merry Monday Challenge.  And since it uses a stamp I bought last Christmas, it falls under the NBUS category and I will link it up to Darnell's challenge too.

Merry Monday's challenge was to use a present on your card.  I used the Memory Box Presents of Joy stamp and then watercolored in my gifts with distress inks Fired Brick & Worn Lipstick and Mowed Lawn & Peeled Paint.  I added the polka dots on the green gift with some white pigment ink after the watercoloring had dried. For a little interest, I added some splatter in both red and green.  Then I popped up the panel on a green card base.   

Thanks for looking!  Are you glad the kids are back in school?  I am a little sad to see summer end, as we had such a great summer this year.  But it nice to get back into a routine again!
-Laura

CASology - Letter

Hello -
I have a last minute entry to the current CASology challenge where the cue card is LETTER.  What a fun idea - so many great cards by the DT and in the gallery.  I immediately thought of the cute Saavy Stamps Mini Envelope Die and used that to create my card.  I cut the envelope out of some SU patterned paper and added a fun wood embellishment that I received as part of a prize package.  I was happy with the way it turned out; hope you like it too!

 

 

Thanks for looking!

-Laura

Curtain Call Tropical Trip

Hello friends!
Today I have a card to share with you that I made for the Curtain Call challenge. 

 

 

The fun inspiration photo brought a lot of ideas, but I thought about being in the tropics and sending postcards home to my loved ones!  So I created this fun card.  I used Lawn Fawn's great You've Got Mail stamp set and patterned papers from My Mind's Eye - Happy Day and Authentique - Gathering.

This is not my normal style of card - there are layers and patterned papers and big embellishments - I'm usually more of a CAS card maker, but it was fun to break out of the normal and do something different!  I hope you like it too!

Thanks for visiting me today!
-Laura