Spring/Summer Coffee Lovers Blog Hop

Today, I have a card to share for the current Coffee Lovers Blog Hop.

My inspiration came from the recent Stamp of Approval collection, which contained a border die that reminded me of the border die that I won a long time ago but had never used ... until now.

Materials used: 
Dies - Lace Edger 2, Joanna Sheen Signature Dies; SSS stitched rectangle die
Stamps - All you need is coffee, STAMPlorations/Shery Russ
Patterned paper for paper-pieced cup and background panel - DCWV
Ink - Versafine sepia; Antique linen distress ink
Colouring medium for the coffee in my cup - Prismacolors

MCV100 Merry Christmas

I'm popping in with a quick post and a card celebrating the 100th Christmas challenge party at Muse: ChristmasVisions. Congrats to Ardyth and the inspirational muses.

Here's my card:

Below is the inspiration card from our Christmas Muse, Chriss:

I copied all of Chriss's elements: flower arrangement with one white poinsettia and three red ones plus greenery, blue background and gold embossed sentiment. I stamped the white poinsettia (Winnie and Walter) in Antique linen distress ink, masked it off and then stamped the red poinsettias and holly (Uniko) using dye inks (Frayed leaf - Altenew, Pale tomato - HA and Ruby red - Altenew). I coloured in the white poinsettia and the background using Prismacolors. The sentiment stamp is an older one by Elle's Studio. I adhered my die cut panel (SSS stitched rectangle) flat onto my card base.

I'm also linking up my card at:

SSS Wednesday - Use more than one stamp

ABC Christmas - K for Keep it simple

ATSM - 293 Holiday

It's also time for the May Rudolph Days at Maureen's blog

Best birthday wishes

Here's one of four cards that I created using the stamps from an older Stamp of Approval Collection by Catherine Pooler.

I stamped the medallions using Catherine Pooler inks onto a large panel and then cut up the panel to create my four cards. Since I'm rather in a rush right now, I will share the other cards in my next blog post. I white heat embossed the Birthday wishes sentiment onto a snippet of black cardstock and the  Best sentiment was die cut from another snippet using a die that was included in my SOA box. 

I'm linking up my card at:

Allsorts - 9th birthday celebration

Seize the Birthday - Anything goes (no toppings for me, 

although you could argue that I created my own patterned paper LOL)

Pixie's Snippets Playground -  #326 Alwaya anything goes with snippets