Coffee Bean Christmas Tree with Hero Arts

Can you believe it's that time of year already!?  The Winter Coffee Lovers Blog Hop is upon us and I'm super excited to join the fun!!  Amy and friends work super hard to make this the best blog hop filled with awesome inspiration and crazy generous prizes!  Not familiar?  Hop over and come join the fun!!

My coffee go-to set is by Hero Arts called Kelly's Coffee and Donuts and I decided to make a coffee bean Christmas tree.

I used Hero Arts Ombre ink in Light to Dark Brown and stamped out the coffee beans after creating a triangular stencil out of some scratch paper.  The little coffee cups were colored with copic markers and individually cut and adhered to appear as Christmas ornaments.  The little star is a die cut from silver glitter paper.

The card front uses Hero Arts Snowflake Border Background Stamp for a tone on tone look.  The sentiment is from Hero Arts Christmas Messages (my go-to holiday stamp set this season) and heat embossed in Hero Arts Silver Embossing Powder.  Best part?  It's on sale over at a2z Scrapbooking!

The gals over at a2z Scrapbooking  have some delicious looking projects...go ahead and take a peek!

Mahalo for stopping by!!

Need Coffee!

Aloha friends!  Super excited for this year's Fall Coffee Lovers Bloghop!!  Amy and friends make this an amazing hop, so if you're new, come join the fun by posting a coffee, tea or cocoa themed project!

This is always an exciting time of year for me with the upcoming holiday season which kickstarts with Halloween in this household!

I used the super fun Hero Arts Kelly's Monster Stamp and Cut and colored with copics.  I used the speech bubble and filled with coffee beans from Hero Arts Kelly's Coffee and Donuts (one of my favorite coffee themed stamps). I thought it would be fun to have the bats flying around with coffee cups.  I'm thinkin' I might like bats more if they brought me coffee...lol.  All the stamps were purchased at a2z Scrapbooking and you can use this code NICKI15 for 15% off your purchase of $25 or more! 

Everything was layered on some Doodlebug Designs pattern paper.  I've joined the gals over at a2z Scrapbooking so check them out as well!

Hope you all have a fabulous time with the hop!  Mahalo for stopping by!!

Summer Coffee Lover's Blog Hop with a2z Scrapbooking!

Oh boy, oh boy!  It's here!!  The Coffee Blog Hop is my most FAVORITE hop and I look forward to each one!!!  It's so fun to see everyone's creations and of course the chance for prizes is too good to pass up!

Today I'm with the gals over at a2z Scrapbooking sharing our favorite Hero Arts products with the summer theme.

Here's my card...

I used the fun Hero Arts Paper Layering Palm Tree Pair fancy die and colored with Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers.  I used a Mini Ink blending tool to create the sun with Hero Arts Bold Ink in Dandelion and then smudged some Pool ink  on the edges.  For the "sand" I used some kraft paper torn and inked up the edges with the ombre ink Sand to Chocolate Brown.  My coffee cups are from Kelly's Portland and colored with bright colors for a summer feel.  (side note the hubby was not a fan...lol).  Finally for the sentiment (not to take away from the scene) is from an older Hero Arts Everyday Sayings.

For the supplies I've used on my card and more fun Hero Arts supplies head on over to a2z Scrapbooking and use code NICKI15 for 15% off $25 or more purchase.  Proceeds from the store helps the Behcets and Celiac communities. Big mahalo for stopping by!

Finally...a coffee card!

A big thank you to Amy, the DT and sponsors for always making this such a fun event!!

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I love the Hero Arts/Kelly Purkey Coffee and Donuts set which is perfect for this blog hop! I flipped the little wooden blocks over in its box, inked them up and pressed the paper to it using Hero Arts Summer Sky hybrid ink for a tone on tone look.  I took a strip of pink card stock and stamped out the sentiment from Hero Arts Hello Gorgeous and Kelly's Outline Letters (inked in Hero Arts Caramel hybrid ink).  

I think this card is gonna be perfect for those days when I just need some coffee shop talk with friends!  The panel was then foam taped to pattern paper from Lawn Fawn's Perfectly Plaid collection.

Thanks so much for stopping by!  As a little thank you I would like to giveaway a $20 gift certificate to the A2Z Scrapbooking.  Leave a comment below for your chance to WIN!

MAHALO and have a blessed day!!

Coffee Loving Cardmaker Guestie!

Happy Aloha Friday friends!  I'm guesting over at Coffee Loving Cardmakers!! I look forward to this awesome coffee/tea/cocoa lovin' blog hop each season.  If you haven't heard of it, head on over to the blog and join us each season with some delicious looking projects.  Of course there's lots of prizes from super generous sponsors and even blog hoppers do giveaways too.  Truly the best part of the hop is sitting down with a cup o' joe and ooing and awing over everyone's amazing designs with my favorite theme!

 I'm super ecstatic to share my favorite Coffee Blog Hop card (shown above) and a new one I made just for being a guest.  A BIG MAHALO to Amy the the crew for allowing me to share!

This card was inspired by the latest Avery Elle Challenge

 using their fun set Pixie Dust and Tea Time.  The background was made with Distress Inks in Spun Sugar and Carved Pumpkin on the edges and Hickory Smoke for grounding.  The images were copic colored and die cut with the matching dies.  I hope you'll stop on by and leave me some comment love!

Have a Mocha-chino and Cocoa-licious Holiday!

Oh yeah!  It's that time of year again for the 

Love this time of year with the cooler weather, festivities and sippin' cocoa!

Today's card wishes you all a very mocha-chino and cocoa-licious holiday!

I took some Doodlebug Design North Pole pattern paper and die cut a rectangle to create a window for a shaker.  On my card front I stamped out that sweet Darcie's Heart and Home sentiment

and masked off a part of the penguin to make him look like he's popping out of the sentiment.

Of course he needed a little hot cocoa in his hands so I stamped out the to go cup.  Everything was colored in with colored pencils and I reluctantly used those fun shaker bits gifted by my sweet friend

Annette Allen from My Clever Creations!

A closeup...

I hope to be back with more so stay tuned for a giveaway!

Mahalo for stopping by!!

Please Send Coffee and GIVEAWAY

TGIF friends!!!

ok and just to clarify my first favorite F-word is FREE...hahaha!

Okey dokey, down to the wire to get my second card in for 

I was totally having a blast with hopping around and was so happy to see

 Halloween cards (my fave holiday!) so I decided to make one myself!

The background was stamped with the latest Hero Arts Kelly's Coffee and Donuts

For us coffee lovers this set is a must have with such fun sentiments and cute images!

I thought the little Lawn Fawn Franken-boo (colored in copics) 

from the set Booyah, would be perfect for the sentiment

"please send coffee."

The oval was embossed with an embossing folder and

then I used a new-to-me item StazOn Studio Glaze!

It's a pretty cool medium in that it highlights the embossed areas

and gives it a cool glazed/glossy look for a bit of shine.

I just used a palette knife to spread over the entire surface and it dries pretty quickly!

For a bit more color I added on the orange polka dot panel from 

Lawn Fawn's Let's Polka in the Dark and added some 

Lawn Trimmings in Spooky which is a hemp twine with 3 different colors...so fun!!

Here's a closeup...

I totally giggled at this card adding all the little details.

Do you like the little spider on the mug?!

All right folks...that's it for me!  

I would love it if you would follow me here, on Instagram, and/or Flickr

and in return I have a $20 gift code

GIVEAWAY to A2Z Scrapbooking

(one of the sponsors for the Fall Coffee Lover's Blog Hop)

I fully support this store as proceeds go towards 

auto immune disease communities such as

Behcets and Celiac Disease.  

Don't want to wait for the giveaway? 

Go to the store by clicking on the link above

and use code Nicki15 for 15% off your entire order!

Mahalo for stopping by!!

I'd like to enter this in the following challenges:

and 

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge: Anything Goes

Falling For You

Aloha and welcome to my blog!

If you're new, I hope you'll return!!

I'm super excited for another round of Coffee Lover's Bloghop and

can't wait to hop around and indulge in a few cups of coffee.

I'm making this a quick post as I have family in town from

Portland and Guam, but I'm definitely returning for more coffee 

inspired cards and a GIVEAWAY...so definitely stay tuned!

Today's card...

I'm a huge Lawn Fawn fan and used a few of their sets

(Holiday Party Animal, Sweater Weather, Let's Bokeh)

to create a sweet little Fall scene.

If you're wanting to join the fun I highly recommend going to the blog

as there are a lot of sponsors and awesome prizes being given away!

Have a great weekend and 

MAHALO for stopping by!!

Brewing Up Wishes for the Summer Coffee Lover's Blog Hop

ALOHA!

This is my 3rd time being a part of this 

AWESOME

Coffee Lover's Blog Hop

and each time I get more and more excited by

the amazing inspiration and my ridiculous

cravings for COFFEE!!

Make it to the end of this post for a fun GIVEAWAY!

For today's card I used Avery Elle's Tea Time set
and actually got out a Halloween set as well.
Yup...Halloween!
I had an Inky Antics Halloween Frog set that had the
perfect sentiment I needed.

I started with stamping the leaves of Avery Elle's Thanks A Bunch,
then masked it and stamped the cup.
The cup was colored with copics and the birthday sentiment
is from Avery Elle's Party Animal.
(I LOVE that it fit perfectly)
I stamped out the flowers using Hero Arts Pink to Red Ombre Ink
and added some darker areas with
Distress Markers for a bit more shading and texture.
This was then all fussy cut and adhered with foam tape.
My Kraft card base info can be found HERE.
I die cut that yellow panel with Avery Elle's Finished Frames dies.

I hope you'll continue along the hop for your chance
at some amazing prizes from these super generous sponsors!

I've got a GIVEAWAY myself to give to one random commenter!
(US residents only....sorry)

I have this Lawn Fawn Scripty Love die perfect for any project!

Mahalo for stopping by!!!