Holidays are coming to Joy Clair!

 Good Morning! I am loving the weather at the moment, lots of sunshine but not too warm. Great for getting outside and walking.

Welcome to the first day of Joy Clair's new release, we have lots to show you and the release is going to be running all week.

During October we are also collaborating with Rinea so you will see their gorgeous foiled papers on my designs.

I'm showcasing 2 cards today, my first one uses Barrels - It is a great fall collection with of course a barrel but lots of fillings for the barrel to choose from and great sentiments:

I arranged my composition onto stamping card, resized and then printed it. I then printed the barrels onto 2 different colors of Rinea foil paper; a dark brown and a copper color

For the dark foil barrels I cut the whole barrel out,  The copper images I just cut the bands and Using the image on stamping card I placed the bands on the barrels and then adhered them into place.

I then colored the contents of barrels with alcohol markers. I matted a black A7 card base with orange cardstock and my image.

My next card uses Coffee Flavors and again I have used Rinea foils.

I started by rearranging one of the sentiments which is the great thing about digital stamps you can cut and paste how ever you want them! I then resized one of the gorgeous cups and added my sentiment to it. This was then printed on stamping card and fussy cut using my scan n cut. I also cut a mat for my cup to lie on. I colored the image with alcohol markers and adhered it to it's mat.

I then used a coffee bean die and cut a ton of beans from the Rinea foil paper. I love how it has given them a sheen!

A A2 card base was matted with same cardstock as my image and I arranged the image on my base. I then glued each individual coffee bean in place so it looks as though it's snowing coffee beans - It is a Holiday image after all!!!!

What I Used:

Digital Images: Joy Clair - Barrels

                          Joy Clair - Coffee Flavors

Foil Papers: Rinea - Variety Earth Tones

Stamping Card: X-Press It

Alcohol Markers: Copic

Black Card for A7 base: Linda Chapman

Grey Card for A2 base: Simon Says Stamp

Orange and Red Cardstock: Core'Dinations Premium

Coffee Bean Die: Memory Box

Glue: ZipDry and Multi Medium Matte

The Joy Clair new release starts today and has some gorgeous new digital stamp sets so check out the Joy Clair Designs Store each day this week for more gorgeous sets. My teamies will be showing their inspiration on the Joy Clair blog as well as the Facebook Group daily.

Thank you for stopping by. I will be back during the month with more inspiration from Joy Clair. 

Winter Coffee anyone?

Good morning from a very snowy Michigan - yes its finally arrived with a vengeance. It snowed all day yesterday and is still coming down!

Today is the start of the famous Winter Coffee Blog Hop  over at the Coffee Loving Cardmakers - Prickley Pear Rubber Stamps and Riley and Company are both sponsors so I am joining in with a cards I have made using both company's stamps.

I have to admit that I hate the taste and smell of coffee but I do love some of the cute coffee stamps that are out there, including this one from Prickley Pear:

As the theme of the blog bop is winter I have added snow flakes!

I masked to cup off the Coffee Stamp and stamped that and the Snowflake Corner with Versamark. I then added gold tinsel embossing powder and heated it. Next I masked off the flourish on the stamp and again using Versamark stamped the cup section. I used black tinsel embossing powder on this. I matted a card blank with gold and black card and added my image layer to this. A few dots of crystal drops just finished the design.

My next card is using one of Riley and Company's Funny Bone stamps, All I Care About:

I stamped it using Espresso colored ink (so fitting don't you think!) I then matted my card with gold and dark brown card. I rounded the corners and added my image layer to my card base.  I then die-cut a coffee set and arranged this on my card. A very simple card but it gets the point of the sentiment across!

You too can join in the coffee blog hop by making up a card with either a coffee, tea or cocoa theme and linking it to the blog. If you are going to join in why not use the Riley and Company or Prickley Pear Rubber Stamps stamps - they have plenty of Coffee related ones to choose from. Whether you like Snark or serious they have the lot!!!!

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you check out the links above for more inspiration 

Day One of Thanksgiving week

Good morning - we had our first real snowfall over the weekend which means winter has finally arrived.

This week I am showcasing a collection of Thanksgiving cards I have made using Riley and Company stamps - well today's is more fall than Thanksgiving but it's like the opening to my theme week 😊

So fall as been and gone but does anyone know when the start of fall is????

Yep when pumpkin fever starts and this stamp from Riley & Company says it all and you all know how right it is! 😄

I colored the pumpkins on the stamp with my pencils, die cut the sentiment and inked with - yes you've guessed it carved pumpkin distress ink. some fall design paper and a coffee grinder die cut just finished is little notelet off.

To see more stamps like this pop over to the Riley and Company online store 

Thank you for stopping by, for more inspiration check out the Riley and Company Blog. Or for more news about what the Moose and his pals are up to head on over to the company Facebook page