Coffee in July

Yahooooo! I am drinking coffee....and that is exciting. I don't know what the weather has been like for you, but the past few weeks in Missouri have been extremely hot. I gave up my morning coffee and replaced it with an ice cold Pepsi!!! Today it is raining and cool, so I am enjoying a nice, hot cup of joe. And, the lighting on my porch is perfect for photographing cards! Yay!! I have several new cards to show you!

First, I don't know what your desk looks like....but no matter what I do, mine is always a crazy jumbled mess of paper scraps, loose embellishments, my favorite tools, stamped images, pieces of ribbon, and piles of junk!


This week I challenged myself to use a couple of 4X4 card bases and create as many little cards as possible with the things I found laying on my desk. Aside from a couple of sentiments, I didn't have to stamp any of the images, they were already stamped, they just needed a home!




Finally, a masculine thank you card!! This stamp set (Alfresco) is new to me, but I ordered off my website in June just to get a free set of rubons...I was super excited to use it! It came in the mail yesterday!

Still not making many MAN cards....

It has been so long since I have had a chance to play along over at 365 cards! I decided to give today's Paper Piecing challenge a whirl! (Be fore warned...I will be playing along quite often in July...and next week when school is finally out!)

I love using paper piecing. I really enjoy cutting out tiny things with my micro tip scissors and putting them in place. For my (2) cards, I decided to go with something unexpected. I am combining an animal stamp set with the color pink!


These were super fun to create!! I used some scoring and sanding on white core cardstock....and I used lots of paper piecing on the flowers, hippo, and gator!


All products are CTMH except the white flowered ribbon, it is from ribbonFX via Hobby Lobby.

Monday's Workshop

I am having a workshop at my house. The cost is $10 and I will be demonstrating the basics on setting an eyelet and making a criss cross card. Everyone will make 2 of each card and 2 tags.

For the eyelet card, we will be making a matchbook card (thanks Kristie for the awesome tutorial!) This card will be pretty generic, but I will give everyone the option of creating a card for Father's Day.



For the criss cross card, we will be using the Extreme Happiness stamp set and Moon Doggie paper.




You can see one of the tags here and I will edit this post with the 2nd tag later. (It will feature stamping on watercolor paper!)

All of the products used are Close to My Heart (Except the eyelets and the hemp, they are from my stash...the Eyelets are K&Co.)

Color Me Monday...Heavenly Blue with TLC

I am in love with the new TLC stamp set. The little cloud is soooo cute! I made this little 3X3.5 card using scraps. It will be a mini-card/tag at my workshop on Monday. This week's Color Me Monday color combination by Jeanette Lynton is so pretty, even better in person than in the picture.


This card is all cardstock! No patterned paper. AND I only used one stamp set. I stamped on the Twilight card base with Gray Wool. I stamped the clouds on a scratch piece of paper and cut them out. The heart was made with a little heart punch. The design for this card came from a bigger one I made earlier this week. It is basically the same except for the chocolate card base, colonial white cardstock and addition of the rhinestone on the heart.


And here is one more little cutie card using the TLC stamp set!