Vintage coffee

Good Morning everyone

I am honoured to be starting on the design team at We Love Stamping

 and the theme for this month is Vintage.  Slightly outside my comfort Zone but decided to use this fab vintage coffee grinder stamp, using kraft card and a bit of old lace to add to the vintage feel.

5x5" kraft card base with i rounded the corners on.  I took a smaller piece of cream cardstock and again rounded the corners and stamped the image with a dark brown ink, i stamped the image again onto more of the cream and kraft card.  On the cream version i watercoloured the flowers with distress inks and on the kraft version i added a little colour with vintage photo distress ink and a touch of pistachio oxide ink and cut them out. I also stamped and coloured some coffee beans.

On the base image i splattered on some of the inks i used to colour the images, added a strip of kraft card and the lace and adhered to the card front.  I added the flowers and coffee grinder with glue gel for a little dimension.  Added the coffee beans to finish.

Just a close up.  This is a great image with the good morning to say hello to a friend and maybe a catch up over a coffee or two

Items Used:

aall&create stamps 'caffeinated' 

Distress inks - wild honey, ripe persimmon, vintage photo

Distress Oxide inks - cracked pistachio fossilised amber

Kraft & cream cardstock

Lace

WRMK corner chomper

So please do pop over to welovestamping to join in with your vintage makes.  The prizes this month are

Thank you all for stopping by, i hope you have a great week. Emmax

Id love to enter the following:

https://farmquesthomestylekitchenchallenges.blogspot.com/2024/05/fq-homestyle-kitchen-challenges-5-with.html

https://kraftychickschallenge.blogspot.com/2024/05/krafty-chicks-challenge-714-stamps.html

https://mytimetocraftchallenge.blogspot.com/2024/05/mttc-533-theme-is-mothers-day-or.html - gone with the friendship option

 

coffee & flowers

Good Morning everyone

Here Ive used another of the stamps from the aall&create stamp set 'caffeinated'  - this lovely old coffee grinder reminds me of holidays spent at my grandparents when my brothers & I would argue over whos turn it was to grind the coffee beans - great fun😊

I made these 2 cards as happy mail for friends to give them a pick me up

6X6" card base which i die cut from a dark brown cardstock.  I stamped the image with brown ink onto cream cardstock, stencilled on some flowers with wild honey & vintage photo distress inks and then die cut with 2 of the smaller label shapes, creating a frame with the image in the middle section, .  I added the outside frame to the card front with foam tape and adhered the middle section back in flat - just to add some interest and dimension.

I stamped the image again onto cream card and watercoloured with distress inks, i then cut out the coffee grinder and flowers and added to the base image with glue gel.  Touch of glitter glue to the flower centres to finish with a little bling.

Version 2.  I used a coffee/ latte coloured cardstock here and my hexagon nested dies.  I stamped the image onto the coffee cardstock  and added a little colour with vintage photo distress ink.  i stamped again onto yellow patterned paper and cut out just the flowers, these i paper pieced onto the base image.  I die cut my shaped card base, die cut a smaller hexagon of lime green paper and stamped the coffee ring stamp with vintage photo, i then added the topper panel in place.  Rare for me as this is a totally flat card.

Items Used 

aall&create stamps 'caffeinated'

XL Nested shape dies

stencils

Distress Inks -wild honey, vintage photo, twisted citron, salty ocean

6x6" papers

Thank you all for stopping by once again, i really do appreciate all your visits and comments. Emmax

Id love to enter the following:

https://dayofthemonthcardclub.blogspot.com/2024/02/challenge-60-random-acts-of-kindness-day.html 

My cards are happy mail to cheer friends up

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https://farmquesthomestylekitchenchallenges.blogspot.com/2024/02/fqhskcb-2-afg-theme-with-option-include.html

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https://theoutlawzchallenges-monday.blogspot.com/2024/02/february-5th-monday-greetings-challenge.html

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Sunflowers

Good Morning everyone

2 cards today using these lovely flower stamps from aall&create 'caffeinated' stamp set. I decided to stamp them in green and the card base is a lovely green too but looks dark in the photos. 

Card size approx 5x7"  I made my card base from a green card that matched the ink nicely and nested dies.  I die cut a smaller die from white cardstock and stamped the image in green.  I stencilled a background and then die cut this panel again with a smaller die to give me a frame, i attached the frame to the card front with foam tape and adhered the middle panel flat to the front - i do this quite a bit, its a good way to add some interest.

I stamped the flowers again onto white card, watercoloured with distress inks, cut out and decoupaged on top of the base image, touch of glitter glue added to the flower centre to finish. 

Version 2 using the other sunflower stamp in the set, made the same way just a different set of nesting dies and softer stencilling.  Size 6x6"

Items Used

aall&create stamps 'caffeinated' 

Funky fossil stencil 'umbrellas'

Crazy pathing stencil

XL nesting dies

Green & White cardstock

Distress Oxide inks - cracked pistachio, salty ocean, tumbled glass

Distress inks - Squeezed lemonade, wild honey, ripe persimmon, twisted citron, 

Thank you all for stopping by, i hope its a good week for you.  Last week was half term down here so i spent alot time crafting with my nieces which was fun!  Emmax

Id love to enter the following:

https://stencilfun.blogspot.com/2024/02/february-stencil-fun-challenge.html

https://beautifulblossomschallenge.blogspot.com/2024/02/beautiful-blossoms-challenge-anything.html

https://daisychainchallenge.blogspot.com/2024/02/challenge-82-flowers.html

https://dd-tripleb.blogspot.com/2024/02/february-2024-challenge.html

 

Jacks birthday

Good Morning everyone

December and January are busy months for birthdays in my family.  These are the 2 cards i made for my brothers birthday this month

While wondering what to do for him, I saw these coffee themed stamps from aall&create in the countryview crafts Christmas advent sale which are perfect as he is a coffee addict for sure. 

A5 card size.  I used soft cream cardstock so its softer than white and stamped in brown ink.  I stamped the coffee cup twice,  one i die cut into the label shape, on the 2nd one I lightly watercoloured the cup with vintage photo and label with twisted citron distress inks, cut out and decoupaged onto the base image with glue gel, putting a curve in the cup. I die cut my card blank using a larger nesting shape and then found 2 pieces of paper in my stash to coordinate, die cut smaller than the base and adhered.  

I splattered some of the vintage photo ink onto the background too. The topper panel i added with foam tape for some dimension.

The stamped image had some flowery words which weren't suitable for my brother so i covered them up with a stamped birthday sentiment die cut into a fish tail banner.  I added some stamped and cut out coffee beans to finish.

Items Used:

aall&create stamps #642 'caffeinated'

stampin up sentiment stamp 'curly cute'

XL nested label die set

Distress inks - vintage photo, walnut stain, twisted citron

Patterned papers

Hammered ivory cardstock

Id love to enter this card in the following:

https://letscreatechallenges.blogspot.com/2024/01/challenge-203-ag-penny-for-your-thoughts.html

https://creativecrafterschallenge.blogspot.com/2024/01/challenge-72.html

https://www.welovestamping.co.uk/2024/01/january-challenge.html - the stamps are new

https://pammiesinkypinkieschallenges.blogspot.com/2024/01/pip-challenge-2402.html

https://fabnfunkychallenges.blogspot.com/2024/01/challenge-587-stamp-it.html

https://colorhuesthecolorchallenge.blogspot.com/2024/01/color-hues-79-copper-and-green.html

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and card 2 I made while i was making my building block fold cards in November (see here), i found this fab monochrome paper in my stash which was ideal teamed up with black and white cardstock.

After making the base card from white cardstock, i matted the paper onto black card and then the base.  To add some interest i die cut barbed wire dies from silver holographic mirror cardstock and adhered to the front left edge and back right edge, sadly the photos don't pick up how it dances in the light.

Die cut birthday sentiment from white card, matted onto larger black circle and a bigger white circle and then added to the front

Showing it opened up. I die cut the alphas from white card and the silver holographic and off set them so have the mirror card drop shadow.  Not the best photos as it is much brighter in real life and especially when the light hits the silver holographic mirror card

Items Used:

Memory box alpha die set

Birthday sentiment die

Cheerylynn barbed wire die set

Patterned paper

Black & white card

Silver holographic mirri card

Thank you all for popping by once again.