Hi! I’m here with a second card today for the 2016 Winter Coffee Lovers Blog Hop! 🙂
Here it is!
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Here’s a short slideshow of the process I used:
I matted the panel in red, added some die cut snowflakes, and mounted it to a watercolor panel.
Thanks for stopping by!
Grace, Peace & Merry Christmas,
Melissa
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Hi! I’m here with a card for the 2016 Winter Coffee Lovers Blog Hop!
First, I drew the cup.
Then I fussy cut it out.
I created the background by sponging green ink through a paper doily.
I added some cream (acrylic paint) to the top of my hot chocolate. (I’m not a coffee drinker. 😉 )
I added some silver ink to the rim and handle of the cup.
 I traced the cup image onto some copy/printer paper, created a mask and then sponged on the silvery-gray shadow to the left of the cup onto the white background. 
 Thanks for stopping by!
Grace, Peace & Merry Christmas,
Melissa
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I was inspired by the green and white and the cozy feeling evoked by both Fusion and The Card Concept’s inspiration photos.
Hi! I’m here with a card for the 2016 Winter Coffee Lovers Blog Hop!!!!
To start, first I sketched the cup. 🙂
Then I fussy cut my cup out.
I created the background by sponging red ink through a paper doily onto white cardstock. I stamped the sentiment in the same red.
I watercolored the hot chocolate. (I’m not a coffee drinker. 😉 )
I made the curls of frothy foamy cream by stamping and heat embossing with my super prize (a very nice rubber background stamp) from the Fall CLBH! (I masked off a circle and then stamped in white pigment ink and heat embossed the stamped image.)Â
Thanks, Jillian! I love this stamp and have designed 2 more cards for the Winter CLBH with it. I’ll be posting those tomorrow & on the 15th. 
I added some red Stickles the rim of the cup.
   
 Thanks for stopping by!
Grace, Peace & Merry Christmas,
Melissa
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Hi! I’m happy to be here for Tracey McNeely’s 25 Days of Christmas Tags with today’s sponsor, STAMPlorations, on this 26th day!
I have 3 tags to share with you and here they are:
I designed my own sentiments and printed them on vellum (Stampin’ Up’s works very well) and I also made a PDF version of them for you.
Please click here or on the image below for a printable version of my sentiments.
I’m like to play this 1rst tag at Really Reasonable Ribbon Challenge #153 – Silver and Gold Theme.
 I’d like to play this next tag at Simon Says: Christmas To Die For. 
I stenciled over a print of my own holly sketch/painting and then used 2 sizes of the TAGplorations luggage/tag nesting dies to make a frame for the tag. I love the red and white striped paper.
 There are lots of prizes and sponsors, including STAMPlorations. Be sure to visit Tracey’s blog for all of the details. Her linky will close December 2, 2016 at 12:00 am (EST). Prizes will be announced on December 9th on her blog.
Thanks for stopping by!
Grace, Peace & Merry Christmas,
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Hi! I’m excited to be here for STAMPlorations for the first day of our Holiday TAGplorations event.
I have a bunch of tags to share with you today. 
I used the CUTplorations Luggage Tags Nesting Dies to make all of my tags. I also used lots of different ARTplorations stencils on these tags. Please see the bottom of the post.
First, I’ll give you a closer look at the 5 Thanksgiving tags that I made.
Printed with inked up real leaves
I used Brusho Crystal Colors, heat embossing and ink-blending on the tag above.
 
This next tag has a smooshed background as the tag base (variety of coral colored inks with red Stickles mixed in). I also stamped in red with the real leaves (attached) on the base tag, die cut another tag from a disposable coffee cup and added the inked up leaves to the fussy cut mug. 
I love the honeycomb stencil that I used on this next tag.
As you can see, I designed, and then printed, my own digital sentiments on vellum. I included a PDF of the sentiments for you to use. Please click here or on the image below to be taken to the printable version.
And now, for a closer look at my 4 Christmas tags.
My own watercolored holly print.
I hope that you enjoyed and were inspired by my tags today. Please do come and play along!
Thanks for stopping by!
Thanks for stopping by!
Grace & Peace,
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Event details:
*When: November 4, Friday, 8 a.m. Pacific/Los Angeles Time (GMT-7)
*Commenting and linking up is from November 4 to November 25, 11:55 p.m. Pacific (3 weeks)
*Winners will be announced on December 9 in the November Challenges & Hops winners post
*Prizes:
10 prizes (with a value of $178+) will be distributed among randomly drawn winners:
– (3) randomly drawn winners from all comments left on the STAMP blog and participating designers blog will each receive a $15 gift certificate to the store
– (3) randomly drawn participants to the TAGplorations linky party will each receive the Luggage Tag Dies
– (3) randomly drawn participants to the TAGplorations linky party will each receive the ATC Tag Builder Dies
– (1) randomly drawn participant to the TAGplorations linky party will receive a $25 gift certificate to the store
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