Coffee Card for January swap

Happy New Year!

This is my first card of 2025. Starting out with my fav. mice seems right, to start the new year. 

This card is pretty much self explanatory. I colored the image with copics but the outside is colored with the mix colors of watercolor mediums. I used Tonic's nuvo paste for the snow outside of windowshill. I made it looked like a gloomy day but I used snowflake stickers (muted color paper stickers, not shiny ones) from Japan, in different colors, so the whole image became a little warm & cheery! My recent purchase is from Honey Bee's nesting dies, and I really wanted to use them, and I did, even for the shape of the card😊  

Inside, I used Lawn Fawn's sentiment. I added coffee bean "washi tape" type stickers, also from Japan. 

I wish you all a great 2025! 

Thank you for stopping by my blog today. Love, Eve

Coffee card swap ~ December

Aloha~

This is the card I made for the swap this month. I was very sad that Impression Obsession was closing after 26 years of being in the industry. That's about the time when I "got addicted" to stamping, and all of a sudden my collection has started to explode! LOL Before that, I stamped, like 50 wedding invitation cards which I "heat embossed", using toaster oven, in early 90s but I only had a medium box, full of stamps, not A Room! LOL  But I could finally got this die set, even on sale, after first seeing this die set. It went "sold out" so fast in stamp stores, so I was happy to get it, finally! 

I got background stamp of candy canes from Taylor's Expression's Grab bag. I really wanted to have their tote bag which came with it, and I don't own many of their products, so I decided to try the grab bag. It comes with peppermint stick stamps, too. Every Christmas time, I crave for "Peppermint Mocha", and I decided to make this card. I just added "red" peppermint bits (with the marker) on the whipped cream of the bear's mocha! 😋

The sentiment is from My Favorite Things. 

This is the inside of the card.

Well, the year of 2025 is almost here... 

Thanks for stopping by my blog today. Hope you are having a nice weekend. Me? Lots of football games; both college bowl games and NFL!  Love, Eve

  

Christmas Card #7

Merry Christmas Eve! 

This card is for my BFF who loves baking! Mrs. Claus is from Purple Onion designs. I colored her with copics. All baked goods are from Honey Bee Stamps. I used nesting die from Spellbinders, cut it in half for the base of the baked goods. I used papers from Lawn Fawn. The sentiment is from Queen & Company kit. I added two snowflake stickers from Japan. 

Inside, I stamped "half" of the sentiment stamp from Sunny Studio. Once again, I used the gingerbread house dies from Honey Bee Stamps. I added epoxy stickers from Doodlebug designs on the roof for a little fun!  

While I prepare for posting this, I'm also tracking Santa & his sleigh. It shows the numbers of gifts he dropped! He's been super busy! 

Thank you for stopping by my blog today. I'm almost finishing my Christmas cards for this year. Tell the truth, I wanna keep going, making Christmas cards! I'm really in the mood! lol ...  Love, Eve

Christmas Card #6

Aloha~

This isn't a "normal type" of Christmas card but since it is for my godmother who had a port visit (Honolulu) recently, I decided to make a card like this. She & her husband had a wonderful time, and although it was so short (only for lunch with me), we had a great time! They flew from east coast, had a couple of days in LA, and 5 days on the ship to Hawaii. 

Inside, I stamped "Mele Kalikimaka" (Merry Christmas in Hawaiian language.)

I can't believe 2024 is almost over... Some places have been snowed in but here in Honolulu, I've been feeling the hottest December... last Saturday, I sweat a lot, running errands, and had to take a shower twice! 

Mahalo for stopping by my blog in your busy schedule today! Mele Kalikimaka! Love, Eve

Christmas card #5

Aloha~

For this card, I used Mail Box and little mails die set from Hero Arts. I stamped and white heat embossed the sentiment from Simon Says Stamps. The gingham paper is from Memory Box. You may not be able to see the "gold" lines on the paper, which looks like "foiling", although it's not foiling. But I attached the golden ribbon to match those thin gold lines on the background paper. I used snow stencil from Lawn Fawn on the kraft card stock from the same company. All greens and red berry dies are from Sizzix/TH. I used Waffle Flower's postage die for the frame, to match the theme of "mail". 

Inside, I stamped the sentiment from Sunny Studio. 

A week left before Christmas! Are you ready??!! 🎅Love, Eve

Christmas card #4

Aloha~

When you think of shaker cards in winter, you have to make a snow globe, right?! 😀

The dies and clear dorm are from My Favorite Things. The church scene in the snow globe are made from Lawn Fawn's stamp set. I used the snowy scene stencil from Lawn Fawn. The sentiment is from Concord & 9th, using the die cut out from Lawn Fawn. Those snow flakes around the sentiment are the stickers from Japan. I used the stitch die from Lil' inker designs on the card base. 

I stamped this sentiment from Sunny Studio stamps inside of this card.

Thank you for stopping by my blog today. 

Red flag warning is effect til tomorrow across the state. Hope everything will stay ok... and hope everyone is ok in US mainland, esp. from that big snow storm which hit the east coast recently.. stay safe! Love, Eve 

Christmas Card #3

Aloha~

I cross stitched the Santa Claus from Lawn Fawn's website. They have many cross stitch patterns there if you'd like to check them out! Snowflakes dies are from Lawn Fawn and so is the back ground paper. The sentiment is from Birch Press. I love this style. When I use some kind of stitches on the design, I often end up with the stitched background, using My Favorite Things stamp's frame die. 😊 

I wanted a little fun sentiment inside for this card. 

Another beautiful day. Honolulu marathon (nation's 4th largest) was held early this morning, started at 5AM. The Fireworks woke me up. lol Over 35,000 participated. Large number of runners are from US mainland and Japan. 

Thank you for stopping by my blog today. Hope you are having a great weekend! Love, Eve