Coffee Break DSP by Stampin’ Up

Merry Café – Winter Coffee Lovers Blog Hop 2017

December 11, 2017 Jentimko 8 Comments

I had a chance to create a card for the Winter Coffee Lovers Blog Hop 2017 and I’m so excited to share it with you! Truthfully, I thought about this Merry Café stamp set (and coordinating dies) as soon as the hop went live.

I let the dies do a lot of the work here and simply rolled out the coffee cup with my Big Shot. I stamped the little berry images on the cup and added a fun red sleeve out of some designer paper. I stamped the little sentiment and created a tag for the cup to tie on with some Linen Thread.

I used the wood grain print from Coffee Break DSP and the tree print from Be Merry DSP. These two sets are totally meant to work together which makes creating so easy. And this is the perfect holiday card for any coffee loving friend.

Super quick post today. Just wanted to pop in with this fun little extra. I’ll be back later this week with a couple more projects. Until then, have a great day! And don’t forget to hop over to the Winter Coffee Lovers Blog Hop. There is so much inspiration and a chance to win stuff too! See you soon.

Supplies:

Stamp: Merry Café (SU); Paper: Crumb Cake (SU), Early Espresso (SU), Be Merry DSP (SU), Coffee Break DSP (SU); Ink: Early Espresso (SU); Accessories: Misti, Big Shot, Coffee Cups Framelits Dies (SU), Stitched Shapes Dies (SU), Linen Thread (SU)

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Fancy Friday

November 16, 2017 Jentimko 8 Comments

Welcome to this month’s Fancy Friday Blog Hop! Our team is a group of stampers who love to make beautiful things. Sometimes they are clean, sometimes they are layered but the one thing I can say for sure is that our projects will be fancy! If you hopped over from the amazing Marisa Gunn, welcome to the next stop. For November, we are all working with a sketch. And you know I cannot resist a sketch!!

I thought the sketch was a perfect one to show off this fun coffee cup set from Stampin’ Up. It is called Merry Café and it can be found in the Holiday Catalog. It is a sister set to the Coffee Café set from the main catalog and the dies from that set are used for both. Fabulous! I chose to do a quick watercolor on the cup using Soft Sky ink after stamping the cup, sentiments and snowflakes in Versafine Ink. You want to make sure you use a water safe ink when you stamp. After cutting them with the framelits and the Big Shot, I just popped them up on Dimensionals for the image panel. To keep with the sketch, I added a strip of Soft Sky card stock along the side for a simple extra border that is a great way to use scraps. The patterned paper for the crossing panel is from the Coffee Break DSP pack and I love those subtle chevrons. I added some white cotton ribbon (SU ret) across the panel and tied it with some White Baker’s Twine. Finally, I pulled some of the sequins from the October Paper Pumpkin kit as a finishing touch. This card hits the sweet spot for this time of year for me. Quick, cute and easy to duplicate! I hope you enjoy it too!

Now I am really, REALLY excited to tell you that our Fancy Team has grown a bit. Our new members will be introducing themselves over the next few months but I get the extraordinary pleasure of sending you over to one of my favorite stampers. As an Artisan in 2011, Jennifer Picard has been one of my crafty heroes for a long time. Truth be told, I’m a little star struck! I know you will love her work as much as I do so hop right over to see what she has created.

You can click our logo above to get to the Fancy Friday Pinterest page!

Products used:

Stamp: Merry Café (SU); Ink: Versafine Onyx Back; Paper: Fabriano Extra White Watercolor Paper, Thick Whisper White (SU); Accessories: Paper Pumpkin October Sequins, Big Shot, Coffee Cups Framelits (SU), White Baker’s Twine (SU), White Cotton Ribbon (SU ret)

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Freshly Made Sketches #310

October 25, 2017 Jentimko 6 Comments

Happy Wednesday!! We have a fabulous new sketch for you at Freshly Made Sketches. The incredible Kim Singdahlsen is our sketch hostess this week and you are just going to fall in love!

It seems that traditional colors are the way I’m leaning this year on my Christmas cards. I remain obsessed with this Be Merry DSP from Stampin’ Up and I added on this speckled woodgrain print from Coffee Break DSP (also SU). I think the prints work really well together! I kept this pretty simple and used one of my go-to Christmas sentiments from the Be Merry Stamp Set by WPlus9. The little flower and holly leaves are from the same set and I did some quick Copic coloring. The sentiment is from the Be Merry Stamp Set from WPlus9 and it is one of my favorites again this year. It is stamped in Early Espresso ink to match the woodgrain paper. To create all the rectangles, I used the Stitched Rectangles Dies by Simon Says Stamp.

I’m trying to get a little more serious about my holiday cards so I think you can expect to see more of those in the upcoming weeks. Make sure you stop over to say hi to the team at Freshly Made Sketches. They have created wonderful projects this week! Thanks for stopping in today. See you soon.

Supplies (affiliate links included):

Stamp: Be Merry (WPlus9); Paper: Thick Whisper White (SU), Be Merry DSP (SU), Coffee Break DSP (SU); Ink: Early Espresso (SU); Accessories: Misti, Big Shot, Stitched Rectangles Dies (Simon Says Stamp), Basic Pearls (SU)

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Freshly Made Sketches #294

June 28, 2017 Jentimko 14 Comments

FMS294 by Jen Timko | Coffee Break DSP by Stampin' Up, Funny Coffee Stamp by Skipping Stones Designs I’m sure you have already seen the gazillions of coffee cards across blog land this week and I could not resist adding one more! It is the week for the 2017 Summer Coffee Lovers Blog Hop and I just had to combine the coffee theme with this week’s new challenge from Freshly Made Sketches. The lovely queen of color, Amy O’Neill, is our sketch designer this week and I love this classic look.

I started with the new Coffee Break DSP from Stampin’ Up and pretty much let the paper do all the work. The French Press and the cup…straight from the paper (just fussy cut and off you go). And check out that coffee bean paper!!! I was in a huge hurry to create this but just could not let the hop and great sketch go by without playing along. I only stamped this fun sentiment from Skipping Stones Designs and put the card together. I added a few sequins from an old Paper Pumpkin set to give it a little bling and still keep it on the masculine side. I thought the colors lent themselves to that and I always seem a little short on “man cards”.

So I have been stamping a ton with a lot to share in the upcoming weeks. And also, flying lots and lots. Summer is always the busy time for us airline folks! I love having all the summer people on the planes. There is a great energy and excitement for vacations. I particularly love when the kids visit us in the front!! So I apologize for some of my absences. I am, however, super excited about the Fancy Friday hop we have coming up this week. I hope you’ll join us.

For now, hop on over to Freshly Made Sketches and see all the amazing work from the design team this week. You’ll be happy you did. Have a great day!

Supplies:

Stamp: Funny Coffee (Skipping Stones Designs); Paper: Coffee Break DSP (SU), Thick Whisper White (SU), Old Olive; Ink: Early Espresso; Accessories: Bronze Sequins (Paper Pumpkin by SU)

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