Coffee and Autumn

     There's something about autumn and the cooler weather which means it's time to break out the coffee pot & mugs and put away the ice tea pitcher & lemonade glasses.  I'm celebrating that coming of autumn with this card, hoping that, finally, it might bring on that cooler weather.  We're so tired of hot, hot, hot out here in dry and drought-stricken California.

     On the other hand, once that cooler weather does set in, we're really grateful for all those wonderful warm drinks poured into a mug, held in our cold hands, and used to warm our insides.  :-D

     Paola, at My Whimsical Little World, has done several of these coffee and teacup images and it was through her that I heard about the Coffee Loving Cardmakers blog hop for National Coffee Day.   She's one of 42 different sponsors!

     I colored the image with ProMarkers, then used a Spellbinders' die to cut it.  I added the ribbon, put everything on a colored card base, and beyond that, left it pretty simple.

     Challenges:
Cards in Envy
City Crafter
Coffee Loving Cardmakers
Crafting with Dragonflies
Cut It Up
Deep Ocean
Fan-Tastic Tuesday
Inspiration Destination
Really Reasonable Ribbon
Scrapy Land
Simon Says Stamp
Stamping Boutique
Sweet Stampin'
Through the Craft Room Door

     OK, the weekend is half over and I still have DT cards to make for this upcoming week.  But my day is without any other plans so crafting the day away will work just fine.  Happy Stamping.  NanaConnie

Coffee Klatch

     I've done a set of simple note cards using new coffee mug designs from Paola at My Whimsical Little World.  She's also working on a set of Tea Cups and I plan to grab those as soon as they hit her shop for another set of note cards.  I've done 3 of each design for a set of 9 cards and I'll probably use them as gifts during the holidays.

     Two of the mugs are paper pieced and the third is colored with Copics.  Copics were also used to color the coffee and the donut on the paper pieced designs.  I used the same dp from the paper piecing to frame the images.  Because these took some time to color and piece, and because they probably will have to go in the mail when used, I left them very CAS - no embellishments at all.

     Challenges:
Artistic Stampers
Crafts Galore Encore
Digistamps 4 Joy
Inspiration Destination
MarkerPOP
Petal Lu
Sugar and Betty

     I hope your weekend is going well and that your weather is perfect.  Did you find time to craft at all?  You may still have time to find something relaxing and refreshing to do with the rest of your Sunday.  Happy Stamping.  NanaConnie