Coffee Lovers Summer Blog Hop

Hi everyone,

Thanks for stopping by and for all your wonderful comments. I'm honored to have you here and I truly appreciate each of you more than you know!

I know that the Perfect Blend stamp set from Stampin' Up! is now retired, but regular readers will know that I LOVE it and when I saw the latest blog hop over at Coffee Loving Cardmakers, I reached for it once more. For today's card I've teamed it with the beautiful Kinda Eclectic set and zingy summery 2014-2016 In Colors Hello Honey and Tangelo Twist...

Card: Hello Honey and Whisper White
Ink: Early Espresso, Hello Honey and Tangelo Twist
Stamp sets: Perfect Blend (retired) and Kinda Eclectic
Adhesives: Tombow and Stampin' Dimensionals

Challenges...
Summer hop at Coffee Loving Cardmakers
#186 AAG at Word Art Wednesday
#202 Summer Colors at HIMCR

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I'll be back on Wednesday with another creation, so I hope you'll join me then.

Hugs,
Em

Coffee & Friends TRULY are the Perfect Blend

Hi everyone,

Thanks for stopping by and for all your wonderful comments. I'm honored to have you here and I truly appreciate each of you more than you know!

Did you miss me? I sure missed each of you! I had a really relaxing vacation and attending the Stampin' Up! Regional in Telford on Saturday was the perfect ending to my time off!

The card, or rather card front, that I'm sharing with you is the swap I created for the event. Regular readers will know how much I absolutely LOVE the Perfect Blend stamp set and I was gutted when I saw it on the retiring list. I'd got the set in my starter kit when I joined SU and with Telford being my first event, I decided to use it anyway. I made 60 swaps and also added a cup to my name badge, so I fussy cut 121 cups, lids and wraps! Cutting and putting them together took over 7 hours, but it was WELL worth it...

Card: Pear Pizzazz, Pistachio Pudding, Very Vanilla and Crumb Cake
Ink: Early Espresso, Pear Pizzazz, Crumb Cake
Stamp sets: Perfect Blend and Gorgeous Grunge
Tools and embellishments: Petite Petals, Bracket Label and Decorative Label punches and Basic Rhinestones

Challenges...
#183 AAG at Word Art Wednesday
#177 AAG at Pixie's Snippets Playground
#60 AAG at Crafting From The Heart

Coffee and friends TRULY are the perfect blend and here's a pic of me and my beautiful Stampin' Sister Yvonne. We both had the best day and I can't wait to see her again soon!

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I'll be back on Wednesday with more pix from Telford, so I hope you'll join me then.

Hugs,
Em

Monotone Coffee & Friends

Hi everyone,

Thanks for stopping by and for all your wonderful comments. I'm honored to have you here and I truly appreciate each of you more than you know!

I've absolutely loved sharing some very different cards created with the retiring Perfect Blend stamp set from Stampin' Up! Today's offering is a monotone one, using another of my favorite In-Colors, Lost Lagoon...

Card: Whisper White and Lost Lagoon
Ink: Lost Lagoon
Stamp set: Perfect Blend
Tools: Bracket Label Punch
Adhesive: Stampin' Dimensionals

Now's the time regular readers know all too well, when I ask if you have a favorite from the week's creations. Here's a quick reminder of the others. Click on the images to be taken to the post...

I love them all, but if I had to choose, it would be between Tuesday's and Thursday's.

Challenges for today's card...
May Linky at DL.ART
#57 White at CAS on Sunday
AAG at Through The Craft Room Door

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I'll be back on Sunday with my latest DT creation for 613 Avenue Create, so I hope you'll join me then.

Hugs,
Em

Given Enough Coffee...

Hi everyone,

Thanks for stopping by and for all your wonderful comments. I'm honored to have you here and I truly appreciate each of you more than you know!

I've kept things really quick and easy for today's creation using the Perfect Blend stamp set from Stampin' Up!, and the card literally took just minutes to create using colors that are so appropriate for the stamp set, Early Espresso ink and Crumb Cake and Very Vanilla card.

I LOVE the sentiment on the cup. I can't do anything without my coffee each morning and I like to think that yep, given enough coffee, I could rule the world temporarily ;)

Card: Crumb Cake and Very Vanilla
Ink: Early Espresso
Stamp set: Perfect Blend
Adhesive: Stampin' Dimensionals

Challenges...
AG at Simon Says Wednesday Challenge
#31 AAG at Inspiration Destination
#103 AAG at Sister Act

All Some of the products I've used for today's creation are available 24/7 in my Online Shop. Click the images below to be taken straight to them.

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I'll be back tomorrow with another Perfect Blend creation, so I hope you'll join me then.

Hugs,
Em

Emboss Resist With Perfect Blend

Hi everyone,

Thanks for stopping by and for all your wonderful comments. I'm honored to have you here and I truly appreciate each of you more than you know!

The Perfect Blend coffee cup from Stampin' Up! lends itself perfectly to stamping large areas quickly, although the stamp is relatively small (approx 1½" x 2½") and is therefore great to create your own background. I've taken it a step further and heat embossed it to create a subtle, yet beautiful backdrop for one of the sentiments from the set...

Card: Whisper White
Ink: Versamark and Pool Party
Stamp set: Perfect Blend
Tools and embellishments: White Stampin' Emboss Powder, Heat tool, stamping sponges and Decorative Label punch
Adhesive: Stampin' Dimensionals

Challenges...
#181 AAG at Word Art Wednesday
#259 AAG at Craft your passion
#57 AAG at Crafting From The Heart

All some of the products I've used for today's creation are available 24/7 in my Online Shop. Click the images below to be taken straight to them.

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I'll be back tomorrow with another Perfect Blend creation, so I hope you'll join me then.

Hugs,
Em

Golden Perfect Blend

Hi everyone,

Thanks for stopping by and for all your wonderful comments. I'm honored to have you here and I truly appreciate each of you more than you know!

Perfect Blend from Stampin' Up! is one of my favorite stamp sets and I'd been planning the series I'll bring you this week for a while. Unfortunately the set is being retired and has in fact sold out, but I hope to inspire you if you did get it.

For today's creation I was inspired by the challenge over at ATCAS, where the theme for the week is to use white, black and gold in your card. I love the texture and dimension that the gold embossing creates and although it's not shown up too well in the photo, the Gorgeous Grunge stamp I've used to ground the cup has also been embossed in gold...

Card: Whisper White and Basic Black
Ink: Versamark
Stamp sets: Perfect Blend and Gorgeous Grunge
Tools and embellishments: Gold Stampin' Emboss Powder and Heat Tool, Scalloped Oval Punch
Adhesive: Stampin' Dimensionals

Challenges...

#62 at ATCAS
CAS at Simon Says Wednesday Challenge
#174 at Pixie's Snippets Playground

All most of the products I've used for today's creation are available 24/7 in my Online Shop. Click the images below to be taken straight to them.

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I'll be back tomorrow with another Perfect Blend creation, so I hope you'll join me then.

Hugs,
Em

Christmas Coffee

Hi everyone,

Thanks for stopping by and for all your wonderful comments. I'm honored to have you here and I truly appreciate each of you more than you know!

Can you believe that Christmas Day is now just two weeks away? I know, me either. Eek! Amid all the hustle and bustle of preparing for the holidays grabbing a coffee with friends or family takes on even more meaning for me.

The card I'm sharing today is perfect for those pre-Christmas drinks, or indeed any time of year. I've teamed one of my favorite stamp sets from Stampin' Up!, Perfect Blend, with the gorgeous All Is Calm DSP...

Together with a touch of Pistachio Pudding and Crumb Cake, the card reminds me of the peppermint beverages available at a well known coffee shop. It is perfect for the Coffee Lovers Blog Hop happening over at Tsuruta Designs where I'm linking up to and also the End of Term hop at House of Cards.


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I'll be back tomorrow with another project using the gorgeous All Is Calm DSP, so I hope you'll join me then.

Hugs,
Em x

Perfect Blend #2

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Thanks for stopping by and for all your wonderful comments. I truly do appreciate each of you more than you know!

This post is one I've scheduled due to my internet only being connected today in my new apartment, although I'm hoping that by the time it goes live I'll be back online!

Today's card is the second of two created using the Perfect Blend stamp set, the other can be seen here.

Both cards follow a similar recipe...
Colored base card folded tent style ~ Cherry Cobbler here
Very Vanilla panel stamped with 2 of the Gorgeous Grunge stamps
Perfect Blend stamped on Very Vanilla and pieced with base color
Tag Talk sentiment stamp punched with the Bracket Label

For this card I stamped the background in Crumb Cake and the coffee cups and sentiment in Rich Razzleberry

All the products used are available 24/7 in my Online Shop. Click the images below to be taken straight to them.

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If everything has gone to plan with the move I'll be back tomorrow with another card and perhaps some pix of the new apartment, so I hope you'll join me then.

Hugs,
Em x

Perfect Blend #1

Hi everyone,

Thanks for stopping by today and for all your wonderful comments. I truly do appreciate each of you more than you know!

I'm moving house this weekend and will be in great need of coffee to sustain me! I absolutely LOVE the Perfect Blend stamp set from Stampin' Up! and it's so appropriate for this weekend. So much so that both this post and Monday's, which I'll schedule for publication due to my internet being reconnected that day, are created using it...

Both cards follow a similar recipe...
Colored base card folded tent style ~ Lost Lagoon here
Very Vanilla panel stamped with 2 of the Gorgeous Grunge stamps ~ Crumb Cake and Lost Lagoon inks used here
Perfect Blend stamped on Very Vanilla and pieced with base color
Tag Talk sentiment stamp punched with the Bracket Label

All the products used are available 24/7 in my Online Shop. Click the images below to be taken straight to them.

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I'll be back on Monday with the scheduled post. Whatever you're doing this weekend, have a great one!

Hugs,
Em