Friday, March 24, 2017

Day 1 of the Spring Coffee Lovers Blog Hop


It's the day we've all been waiting for!  The Spring Coffee Lovers Blog Hop is off to an amazing start and even though I've blogged twice today, I wanted to join in with the coveted prize I won from the Winter Hop. A huge thanks to Lil' Inkers Designs for the amazing Latte Love stamp set and Dies.  

I'm the first to admit that I stink at real stamping so I bought myself a Misti.  All was well while stamping the cup with black Staz-on, the coffee in brown and even the over stamping with (semi)opaque white for the yummy crema.  I stamped on heavy watercolor paper so I could try out my watercolor crayons but it all went to hell when I went and stamped the sentiment.  

I think the paper was too heavy for the magnets as I had to use the foam with the clear stamps and it seemed the paper jumped a bit with my first try, so when I reinked and stamped again, I had a shadow.  Okay fine, so I'll just use the matching die to cut out the cup and I'll restamp the sentiment but so you think I could find it? Honestly, I just HAD it!  I turned around and it was GONE (buried under the stacks of stuff covering every surface of my craft room) sure to be discovered at some later date, but not today.  So please pretend that the shadowed sentiment was intentional.  It's actually starting to grow on me and the way I see things anyway without some sort of vision enhancement.  Cheers!



I'm also entering this in the Outlawz Sunday CAS Birthday Card challenge and Lil Patch of Crafty Friends #54 AG.

19 comments:

  1. Super Cute Donna! Love the soft color palette! xx

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  2. This is so pretty! Love the colors!

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  3. Hello, Donna!
    Fabulous for the Spring Coffee Lovers Blog Hop. Thanks for sharing.

    Blessings,
    Karen Letchworth

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  4. Your card is lovely! I really like the colors and plaid papers.

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  5. I love your design, I entirely understood Stamping can be a disaster, me too so more practices to perfect my stamping.

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  6. What a beautiful card design! Hugs, Autumn (SewPaperPaint)

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  7. You know what, it happens to us all the time, doesn't it...I'm always 'losing' stuff. Your card is beautiful. Hopefully you've found the stamp by now.

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  8. OMG, this sounds like me to a perfect T! LOL Love your post; love your card; love your imperfections. :-)

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  9. Oh Donna, I am right there with you with those stamping boo boo's. If people ripped my cards apart they'd see all my screw-ups. LOL Love this card and the design is great. Your sentiment - thats the way my vision is usually. Thanks for joining us at the Lil Patch of Crafty Friends Challenges for our latest challenge.  {Lil Patch of Crafty Friends Challenges}Good luck and join us again soon. Hugs, Barbara

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  10. So lovely with the plaids and blue colors. I am always happy when I see plaid or gingham on a card.

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  12. Donna this is really pretty with all those blue and your lucky to have won such a sweet prize

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  13. Such a beautiful lay out and a wonderful card.

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  14. So very pretty! Love the patterns and love all of the pretty blues...

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  15. Such a lovely card!!! I love so much the light blue color!!!

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  16. Your colors are yummy and great layout.

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Thanks for making my day!