It's Autumn coffee time! ♥

Oh what an exciting time of year - 

coffee with friends and Autumn's beauty all around us ♥

It's also time for the 2015 Fall Coffee Hop 

and I just knew I wanted to make a card ~ cards, coffee?  So me! 

 

I've seen so many incredible coffee cards, each one so unique with 

different techniques, coffee stamps that are new to me, 

inspirational card designs and so much more! 

The hop has wonderful sponsors, talented crafters, giveaways ..

so be sure to take a peek!

 

For my card today, I've used one of my favorite stamp sets,

the Breakfast Club from The Alley Way Stamps.

I paper pieced my coffee cup and stamped the steam and sentiment

 right onto the paper and propped it up with 3d foam for dimension.

My coffee themed Fall colored paper has been in my stash

and just feels like Fall when I see it :)

 

I'd also like to enter this into Colour Me: Playful!

Thanks for stopping by today!

Big hugs, Bigger Blessings!
~Kelly

Hi! What's Perking!

 Good Morning ~ what's perking!

I'm lucky to have some free crafty moments this winter break ~

as well as lots and lots of my favorite ... coffee!

 

As part of my goals for this year, 

I am continuing to ink up my treasured stamps.

And you might know from visiting me previously 

how much I adore TAWS stamps!!!

I inked up my Breakfast Club stamp set that has been patiently

waiting for me to ink up due to a hectic past month(s).

It's always fun to play along with the TAWS challenges 

and I try not to miss them if I can help it - they are very inspiring.

As a HUGE coffee fan, this set was a must have for me

and as soon as I saw the challenge photo, an idea arose.

Rather than go with a Christmas theme, I used the photo to

inspire more of a welcome to January card!

 I pulled from the 4 colors of the stockings and used that

as  my paper choice.  I paper-pieced the coffee cup and added

scattering of pearls, as well as using a blue card base like the mantel.

Here is my card:

And the inside of my card:

You can see the inspiration photo here:

 

I used the wonderful sketch from cardabilities to build my card base.

Here is their sketch ~  

I'll enter this into their challenge #90. 

 

 I was recently inspired by several of my friends on SCS to join 

a 100 cards in 100 days challenge.  This is actually my 2nd card of the year.  I won't be doing a card a day or daily blog but will aspire to complete a collection of needed cards to use through-out the year

and that's a great source of inspiration!

Nothing on this card used today was a new purchase ~ just new to use! 

100 cards

 
I'll enter this card into one of my favorite stops~
Word Art Wednesday challenge.

Thanks for stopping by today!

Big hugs, Bigger Blessings!
~Kelly

 Card:  Cardstock:  Bashful Blue from Stampin' Up:  Dsp = MME

Stamp = TAWS "Breakfast Club"

Prismacolor markers, Cuttlebug, nesties, scissorbees, momento ink,

kaiser pearls, glitter cardstock, tombo, 3D dots