Coffee themed card for July swap

Aloha~

This is the card I made for July swap. First I was inspired by Spellbinder's blog for new products. I often make a card for "Christmas in July", so it was perfect. But then, my "color combos" changed from red/green to "icy blue" after looking at the papers from Whimsy Stamps paper pad. Now, the recipient has a white kitty, I think. So, this is the card I came up with. For some years now, the stamp companies make great paper pads which I can't resist buying. lol... 

This is what did, inside. 

Severe weather continues... please take care of yourself. Stay safe! Thank you for stopping by my blog today. Love, Eve 

Coffee card for March swap

Aloha~

I received these layering dies (scallop and stitched) from Poppy stamps as a freebie during Black Friday sale last year, and had been wanting to use them. The glitter paper is from Lawn Fawn. I used Newton's Nook Designs mug cup stencil, using white ink. Those little mug cups are from Simon Says Stamps. Since St. Patrick's day is near, I added those clovers, from Pretty Pink Posh. I usually place some kind of sentiment on the front but for this one, I decided not to. 

Inside, I used the sentiment from Lil' inker designs.  

Thank you for stopping by my blog today. Hope you are having a relaxed weekend. It's always something going on here in Honolulu and feels like no relaxing day, ever. lol 😅

Are you ready for wearing green tomorrow?! 💚 Love, Eve

Coffee card for August card swap

Aloha~

It's been really hot here. So, that thinking led me to make this card! I've been drinking Iced Coffee and Iced Tea a lot cuz it's been HOT! I used Lil' Inker's coffee/tea stamps with ice cubes and straws. I used glossy accent for the straws. I had "lemon slices" embellishment, so I cut it in half, attached them in the tea cup. I used the Whimsy stamps Ripple's Die. This die really need a pressure to cut it, and still I need to snip some parts... but love the design! I used Hero Arts water ripple's stamp in the center. I used Sunny studio's alphabet dies for spelling "HOT", and used Concord & 9th's "summer" stamp. I finished off with a couple of sequins to give a bit of shimmer on the front.

Inside, I wrote, "Iced Coffee?? Iced Tea??" 

Thanks for stopping by my blog today! Have a nice weekend! Stay hydrated! Hugs, Eve

Coffee card for July card swap

Aloha~

Hawaii is known for "Pineapple" but also "Coffee", esp. "Kona" Coffee but 100% Kona coffee is expensive and sell a lot of 10% Kona blended coffee in Hawaii. lol Anyways, this pineapple die is my newest addition from Lawn Fawn. Initially I thought of "Hawaii" and/or "Kona" wording but well, ended up "Aloha". 😊 That's also from Lawn Fawn.

I used LF watercolor paper to die cut the leave's border. The final touch of little hearts are from the local "dollar" store. Hope the recipient will feel the good vibe from Hawaii! 

Mahalo for stopping by my blog today. Have a great rest of the weekend! Stay hydrated! 

Love, Eve

Coffee card for February 2023

Aloha~

Here is my card for February 2023 swap. 

As soon as I received these mug dies, I had to cut out from MANY different papers. You all understand that, right?! lol What a cute die set The Greetery introduced! For this card, I used the papers from Lawn Fawn. I also cut the same die from white card stock to adhere on the Lawn Fawn papers to give a bit of dimention instead of using foam tape. For the background, I used Pretty Pink Posh heart stencil, inked it in white on Kraft card stock from Lawn Fawn. Hope you can see it but I stamped "steam" in white ink, using Lawn Fawn's stamp. The sentiment is from Lil' Inker Designs. I used glitery gold heart stickers from Simon says stamps card kit (from some years ago) to randomly adhere. So what do you think?

Inside, I used Lawn Fawn stamp, crossed out "V", wrote "G" for "Galentine's day", to my lady recipient. You know, on some Hallmark card, they intentionally cross out to write another letter/word. I got the idea from that. 😄

Have a wonderful week! Love, Eve

Coffee card "EXTRA"

 Aloha~

This is an "extra" card to go with my "care" package. A Coffee card swap group member suffered a big damage to her new home from Hurricane which hit her "new" place directly. I'd been thinking about her ever since, and some months later, she posted a picture of her new kitchen. So I'm sending her some coffee from Honolulu! I made this card, to enclose inside of the package. At first, I didn't really think but then, when I was going through my "stash", I found this HM image, already stamped on watercolor card stock. When I buy a new stamp, esp. if it's a large design like this, I usually stamp a couple times for the future use, so that I don't have to clean the stamp each time. And it hit me, this is perfect! I'm sending 2 bags of coffee from Honolulu! And, it came to my mind, "ENJOY" as a sentiment to use, so I browsed my sentiment collection and found this "ENJOY!" from Honey Bee stamp set. Perfect! I want her to enjoy these coffee! 

Inside, I stamped the sentiment from old company, Lil'Inker Design. I thought this sentiment was also perfect for this "care" package! 

The box I used to ship is from Kauai Coffee company. In November, I ordered some coffee from them, online cuz I couldn't get the flavors I wanted, on Oahu, only on the island of Kauai, and perfect fit for my gift! 

I'm glad she is back with us. 😊

Hope you are having a nice week! It will be a short week 😉

Thanks for stopping by my blog today. Love, Eve

 

Coffee card for May swap

Aloha~

I made a "really" "caffeinated" card for this month! I mean, it's only brown (and white) in color! I usually make a cute and colorful card, as you all know... I enjoyed making the background layering card stock. These days, people wants to use stencils and dies for "faster" effect, but once in a while, I wanna just stamp, and stamp! I stamped all individual words and coffee beans. I used the shadow dies to cut out the white card stock, used the same dies to cut out the "cocoa color"card stock, to panel them in the white card stock, and layered the words dies on those shadow dies cut out. It was fun! I used the Frappuccino and iced coffee images cuz it's getting hot, the season for those! 

Inside, I stamped the sentiment from SimonSaysstamp! and the stickers of syphon and coffee beans which I found in Tokyo.

Although we've been living in a crazy time, hope your week is going well. Thanks for stopping by my blog today. Hugs, Eve

Coffee card ~ January 2022

Aloha~

I'm glad that some NICE and "Caffeinated" people on FB have decided to "continue" this coffee swap card group under different group name, after the original admin. has decided to close the one which ran.. for 4? years?... It's not an easy task to run the group like this. I've done it before so I know, and I was just a moderator. So I'm thankful for the original admin and the people who took it over. In 2000s', when PC became more popular and back then, YAHOO groups became very popular, before FB nor My space (if you remember!) nor the Pinterest! There were so many "card swaps" going on, by "snail mails"! But things have changed. Not many people do card swaps any more...😢 I also learned that USPS will increase their postage rate TWICE a year from this summer!! 😞

Anyways, here is my card. 

I used yellow and orange ink for the background stencil. The coffee cup and the building die cut are attached with foam tape to give a bit of dimension. I placed the velum behind all those little cut out windows. I found those stars from the containers of embellishment. I planned to make a card for a "New" Year/January, but instead, I made the card for a "NEW" day 😊 

Hope y'all had a great starting month of 2022!

Thanks for stopping by my blog today! Love, Eve   

Coffee card swap for August, 2021

Aloha~

I recently purchased these "tropical leaf stencils" and "hibiscus die" from Lawn Fawn's new summer release and have been wanting to use them. I was off island in July and finally got home to be able to make a card! I used Distress inks for the stencils, on kraft color card stock from Lawn Fawn, too. Frappuccino stamp is from Lil'inker designs. It's been so hot, and have been drinking lots of iced coffee and Frappuccino! How about you? Those coffee bean's embellishments are from Trinity stamps. "aloha" sentiment is from "dandelion designs". I can't remember exactly where I found this cling stamp but I'm glad I did. 👍 

Forgot to take the picture of the inside before "writing" to the recipient. 

Thank you for stopping by my blog today! Hope y'all are staying safe! 

Hugs, Eve

Coffee card swap for May 2021

 Aloha~ 

Well, this card may looks familiar to some of you.. Yes, I was inspired by the USPS's newly released stamps (last month)! I was making a different card for this recipient, but I got stuck with the idea of finishing that card after coloring the design. So I took a break from making the card, and started to think of what I would write inside, and I remembered that this recipient was asking for these postage stamps cuz she didn't live in US. So I grabbed the stamps to enclose, and it hit me. I would make a card, being inspired by these stamps! I have more ideas from being inspired by these postage stamps but this is my first! What do you think?   

This is the "inspiration" 😀

I always loved collecting postage stamps, so I have bought a couple of "postage stamp shape" die sets, but haven't really used them before.. I'm happy I could use them! Since this is a slim line card, my huge collection of 6 x 6 pretty background paper wouldn't work, and went through my much smaller stash of larger designer's papers. Well, I found this. I think I had this paper for like 20 years!! LOL! I think the colors and design matched the most among all the larger papers I had. If I didn't find the match, I didn't mind, making one but I like how this paper worked out for this card. 😊 I used the foam tape for the sentiment on the top but used 5 die cut background card stock under "Coffee" sentiment, because it was easier than using foam tape for curved shape, not to mention I couldn't decide which color would be the best for dark brown "coffee" sentiment on top, at first, so I die cut 5 different colored card stock.lol They became in handy! 😊

"Inspiration" is everywhere! Thank you for stopping by my blog today! 

Hope your week has started great! Love, Eve

3 Coffee cards, to start the new year!

 Aloha~ 

I made these 3 cards in January, all 3 for different reasons but the recipients are all in the same coffee card group on FB. Yes, I'm behind to post these as usual.. lol.. 

I love these coffee stamps from Lil' Inker Design! I can "customize" them a lot! 💓

Wishing all of you the MUCH Happier 2021!!! 

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

Coffee Card Swap for September, 2019

September was very busy. I had to go off island. I finally made this for the swap. September is the beginning of PSL season! 💓 I love this stamp set, as much as I love PSL! I also love Sunny Studio's papers! 

Thank you for stopping by my blog today! It seems like I find only time to make coffee cards these days... Eve

Coffee Card swap for July, 2019

Well, Frappuccino season is in full swing! At least, to me! lol 
I love Starbucks green tea frappuccino and mocha frappuccino :) 
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Apparently, I forgot to post this, and was sitting in my DRAFT.. oh, well, so, the season is over, but this is the card I made for the July swap for Coffee loving peeps group. 

Thank you for stopping by my blog today! 
Eve

Coffee card swap March 2019

So, when the new "coffee/tea stamps set" from Essentials by Ellen was released last month, I had to order it, cuz the saying on the front is so true and wanted to make some cards with it! 😃

For the inside, I used the one which also made me want to order it right after the release last summer, from Lil'inker designs. 

Thank you for stopping by my blog today.
Hope y'all are having a nice day!
Eve 

August coffee card swap

As soon as I saw this stamp set got released, I had to have it! lol Now I live in Hawaii, so I had to place HIM on a surfboard. I don't have a surfboard stamp, so I cut the yellow card stock into the shape of surfboard, stamped the design, and clear embossed it to give the natural shiny look on the surfboard. He had to wear the sunglasses. Hawaii's sun shine is bright! 😎 But I don't have a stamp for that, so I used black gel pen to draw the sunglasses. It turned out to be good cuz the gel pen also gave the shiny look, like a real sunglasses! It's always windy here so I used LF's swirl background die, and used MFS's sunray stencil. The coffee cup got the water splash, or can be the design of the cup! 😊 I had fun making this card, and will be using this stamp set more often in the future. The sentiments of this small stamp set are also funny! 

Inside, it says, "Drink Coffee, Be AWESOME!" 👍

Thank you for stopping by my blog today  😊
Eve

July Coffee Card for the swap

Aloha~ NOT that I needed another paper. I have more than enough in my life time but as soon as I saw this 12 x 12 paper from BoBunny, I had to have it, and wanted to use it. For colors, I thought I could use it for my July Coffee Swap card I needed to make, but it was hard to find the right sentiment. So, I used the sentiment on the paper, and inside, it says, "But First, COFFEE!". lol 

Hope everyone is having a great weekend! Thank you for stopping by my blog today. 

Eve

Happy Valentine's day! #3 & #4

I made two more Valentine's day cards, one for my godmother and one for my best friend from college, as I always do 😊

I used Lawn Fawn stamp set and outside in stitched heart die and WeRmemory keeper's 3D embossing folder. I used foam adhesives for most of the stamped images, to give a bit of interest. 

I used Lil'inker Designs Latte stamp set. As soon as I saw the stamp set a couple of months ago, I had to have it! lol 😊 Valentine's day sentiment is from Lawn Fawn. I used outside in stitched die for the heart, and small heart dies and sentiment die are from My Favorite Things. I used 3D embossing folder from WeRmemory keepers and used nuvo drops randomly, to give a bit of shimmer. 

Hope you are having a nice week! Thank you for stopping by my blog today! 

Eve