Enjoy! Coffee Gift Card Holder

Hello crafty friends!

Nicole Wright & I had another crafty play-date this week.

We each needed to make a card to hold a Tim Horton's gift card - so, like we do on many occasions, we shared our stash. I love how we can use the same stuff and create such different projects.

Nicole brought a couple of her Sizzix dies - Eileen Hull Recipe Card & Label

 and Tim Holtz Fresh Brewed. 

I had a package of patterned paper - Coffee & Tea Kit from Designs by Reminisce.
I picked it up at The Scrap Shack in Ponoka.

A few other shared items we used - mat board, Distress Oxides & burlap.
Here is the inside of my card where I adhered the recipe card die cut that holds my gift card.
The label die cut and gift card are held on with 3D adhesive squares.

Here is the front of the card -

Crafty Friends & Coffee Fairies

A few weeks ago I started getting together on Wednesdays with my very best

 crafty friend, Nicole Wright. We alternate between our houses - she has the mother of all Sizzix die collections and I have everything mixed media. It works out pretty well.

This project was one of the first ones we collaborated on without even realizing it. I was in a bit of funk and not feeling very inspired. Nicole was working on a tea & coffee inspired journal page and I decided to let her creation inspire me.

We ended up using the same dies & some Tim Holtz Paper Dolls & loved how different our journal pages turned out.
My background was created a few weeks before using Distress Oxides, stencils and the stencil monoprint technique. I repeated the technique on the tea cups too. I loved how it looks.

On the coffee side of the page I decided to make wings for my paper doll children. I first inked up some watercolor paper with Scattered Straw and Carved Pumpkin Distress Ink with my ink blending tool, a few spritzes of water and quick dry with my heat tool and I was ready to die cut.
I used the Butterfly Duo Bigz Die from Sizzix & Tim Holtz. I then used the coordinating embossing folder, inked with Vintage Photo Distress Oxide, to emboss my 'wings'.

The Paper Dolls & Quote Chips were perfect to finish of my page.

I really loved how this page turned out and dream of the day that I have my own little coffee fairie that will serve me the perfect cup when I wake up in the morning. It's always nice to dream.

Check out Nicole's coffee & tea themed journal page here.

We already have more projects planned to show how to use products in different ways in our own styles. Collaborating with crafty friends is so much fun!

Fresh Brewed Friday

Happy Friday everyone!

I hope you had a fantastic week and here's to a great weekend

 of fabulous weather and maybe a bit of crafting!

I love coffee and when Tim Holtz started coming out with his 

Fresh Brewed products I went a little crazy.....like full on large double double

 with 3 shots of espresso crazy!

Here is a quick 4 card set I made this week - 

It started with the Fresh Brewed stamp set & 4 Distress Ink Custom Blend Ink Pads

The back ground was made by using the same background technique used on Tim's June tag - check it out here.

I then stamped the image directly on the background and then stamped it a second time on cardstock.

I coloured the second image with Distress markers, fussy cut them out and layered them on the background with foam squares to add dimension.

The edges were finished off with some Ground Espresso (of course!) and a bit of twine.

 Thank you for taking the time for visit my blog today!

a Venti Pike Place engagement.....

Engagements between two amazing people are always an exciting & wonderful time...and this one is very special because one half of this engaged couple is my little sister, Jessica.

Simon & Jess ~ Seattle June 2015

The other thing that made this engagement amazing is that Simon planned it as a surprise - everyone knew about it for a month before the actual event happened. I'm so very proud of myself for keeping my mouth shut even though I was absolutely bursting with excitement!

The happy couple met for the first time at a Starbucks in Calgary & the plan was to surprise her with a weekend getaway to Seattle & propose at the very first Starbucks at Pike Place Market. All though the actual "popping of the question" didn't happen there it was still very memorable and romantic. 

I knew as soon as I heard the plan of the engagement from Simon that I had to make a Starbucks themed card for them.

I bought this cool Starbucks stamp at Viva Las VegaStamps

 and knew that it would be perfect with the Fresh Brewed Die from Tim Holtz & Sizzix.

I little burlap & die cut words from the Friendship Script thinlits die set finished it off perfectly.

Thank you so much for visiting my blog today.

I love reading your comments & checking out your blogs!

stay crafty

~~~julia~~~


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