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 

Blue snowfall

Good evening, It's going to be a great week! Do you know why? It's time for a new Prickley Pear Rubber Stamps fall/winter release!

Be sure to check out 2 whole pages of new goodies on the website AND you can get free shipping until 21st November! All you have to do is enter the code FREESHIP at checkout.

So each day this week me and my teamies will be posting our designs using the gorgeous new releases.

Today I have decided to go all snowy - we still haven't had any here and fingers crossed it's a few weeks away yet!

I embossed a sheet of whit card with snowflakes and matted this with blue card onto my card base. 

I used 3 of the new stamps, the first is the gorgeous Snowflake Corner. I then used the Snowflake Border - which is 3 snowflakes, I repeated this 3 times around the opposite corner. I then added Celebrate the Season to the center . All were stamped with blue ink and the images added to the top of my card. I added silver and dark blue ribbon to hide the bottom of my stamped card. continuing with the snowflake theme I added a die cut. A few pearls colored to match in with the card were added to balance the design 

Check out these and lots more over at Prickley Pear Rubber Stamps, there is a section just for the New Releases so you don't have to go hunting for them.

Whilst you are there why not click over to the blog and see all of the design teams creations - there will be a new post every day this week! Also don't forget to check out the Facebook Page to keep you up to date with our news 

Thanks for stopping by - now go shop!!!