Coffee and Cards

High Hopes Challenge

2010-03-02T14:36:00.006-05:00

Good Afternoon Everyone,
Boy, it has been forever since I made a card. I think it has to be about four months since I picked up a marker and a paint brush. I can't believe how much you loose when you don't do it, hopefully I can get it back quickly!
For this challenge I picked some stamps that I haven't used in a while and I realized when I went to find a sentiment for him that I need more sentiments!!
For this guy I used tombow markers and watercoloured both of the images. I used Bazill paper for the card and then K&Company patterned paper that I got in a pack. I used just a little stickles on his suspender buttons.
Of course everything that I used on this card can be purchased at the rubber room on online at www.rubberroom.ca
If you haven't seen the new online store yet, you have to pop by and check it out, it is very cool!

Okay, so I took a couple months off and I decided that I wanted to try cake decorating!! Totally different from making cards I have come to realize, but I have enjoyed the challenge. Here is a quick picture of what I did for some ladies at work. Again, I am just starting out, and everything on the cake is done with butter cream icing (really delicious!).

Thanks for stopping by, hopefully it won't be another four months till I get to another card!
Tiff

Wags & Whiskers Challenge 2 & Color Create Challenge 31

2009-11-16T19:37:00.006-05:00

Good Evening Everyone,

It has been forever since I posted my creations and it has been even longer since I played in a challenge, so I thought I would play in two this week!!

For this card I used a new image from the Wags & Whisker line called Sweet Danni and Bella.

I stamped and embossed her and then I used my tombows and watercoloured. I added a lot of little extras like; glitter around her belt, liquid applique on Bella's hat and stickles all over the place!! The punch is a Martha Stewart punch and of course the white background was made with the snowflakes cuddlebug folder.

I like this card because it is my first chirstmas card and it isn't using the normal colours of a traditional christmas card.

Thanks for stopping by!

My New Favourite Picture

2009-10-18T21:31:00.004-04:00

Okay, I know it is not a card, but I had to share this picture with someone because it is my new favourite picture. I took this picture of Charlie when we were up at the cottage for Thanksgiving and I absolutely love it. I think he is smiling at me and saying "I love you Mom, never take me home"!!!

Hope you have a great week.

Tiff

High Hopes Challenge #46

2009-10-03T15:50:00.003-04:00

Greetings Again!
I've managed to get a lot done today, well, cards wise, housework...not so much!
Here is the card for the High Hopes Challenge #46, Happy Birthday.
For this card I water coloured with my Tombows again. I used Brayden's Backside because it is such a cute image. I also used the birthday hat and present and water coloured both of those. I used spellbinder dies to mount Brayden and these new pearls for my accents. Of course I finished Brayden off with a little bit of stickles.
Thanks for stopping by, I hope you like!
Tiffany

Wedding Present

2009-10-03T12:01:00.004-04:00

Good Saturday Afternoon Everyone,
For the last little while I have been working on this "cake" for my cousins wedding present. In the bottom tear I put his gift card and tag.
The cake is from a Darcie's Template that I bought at the Rubber Room. The stamps on the cake are all from Sunshine Design's and they have just been water coloured with my tombows. The wedding colours were what I thought would be black and red because of the invitation, but when I was at the wedding last night, there wasn't a definitive colour scheme, but I liked how this turned out.
The cake topper is a stamp by The Greeting Farm and the patterned paper for the top tear is Magenta.

I can't believe how long it took, but I hope the couple enjoys it.
Thanks for stopping by,
Tiff

P.S. This is what the back looked like.

Scrapmagasinet Challenge #14

2009-08-21T22:57:00.002-04:00

Greetings Everyone,

Here is my card for the challenge this week.

Hope I'm not too late!

Enjoy your weekend!

Tiff

Colour Create Challenge #25 and A spoon full of sugar challenge#64

2009-08-16T14:34:00.003-04:00

Good Sunday Afternoon everyone,
Here is my card that I created for both of these challenges, I thought I would hit two birds with one stone!
The colours definitely challenged me, I struggled to put the card together so that it looked somewhat reasonable.
The stamp set is a Greeting Farm stamp set, it is adorable because it comes with a little boy too!
Anyway, thanks for dropping by!
Tiff

Beach Life ~ Flourishes

2009-08-14T11:35:00.003-04:00

Good Sunny Morning Everyone,

This stamp set is from Flourishes and because of the wonderful weather we are having right now in Southern Ontario, I was in the mood for a little more beach!

Everything is coloured with Tombows and the green and brown was to go with the nature theme! To add a little more sparkle to it I put the dew drops on with stickles!

Hope you like it and have a great weekend!
Tiff

Materials Used
Stamps: Flourishes Beach Life
Cardstock: Bazill

Tombows: 491, 990, 992, 969, 020, 126, 177, 912, 905, 098

Punch: EK Success

Stickles: Golden Rod, icicle, cinnamon

Carpenter Thank You

2009-08-12T10:10:00.005-04:00

Good Morning Everyone,

I used the carpenter ant for this thank you card. I absolutely love this guy and it is perfect for any guys card.

Materials Used:

Cardstock: Bazill
Tombows: 451, 990, N75, N55, N45, 942, 879, 192, 249, 528,
Stickles: waterfall, icicle, cinnamon
Glossy Accents
Punches: EK Success ~ Swiss cheese (inside)

Hope everyone is enjoying the weather, I wanted to make sure that I got this done so I could spend some time outside worshiping the sun!

Thanks for visiting,
Tiff

Color Create Challenge #24

2009-07-30T17:43:00.004-04:00

Hi Everyone,
This was made for the Color Create Challenge but it was also made for Karen's new addition to her family (well, not her's exactly!).
It was made out of Darcie's patterned paper and the stamps are Greeting Farm, the stamp set is so adorable.
I watercoloured the image with Tombows, the bow was made out of brown paper but I stamped it with a paw stamp before assembling.
Everything on this box can be purchased at the Rubber Room, so head on over to the online store and check it out.
Thanks for visiting,
Tiff

High Hopes Challenge #41

2009-07-26T16:45:00.003-04:00

Greetings Everyone,
Here is my card for this weeks challenge Sparkle and Shine, I went for more of the sparkle then the shine.

Materials:
Cardstock: Bazill and Prism
Patterned Paper: Darcies
Image: Swinging Sherry
Stickles: Fruit Punch, Cinnamon
H2O's: Oyster
Tombows: 491, 942, 990,992, 899, 373, 761, 743, 755, N75, N55

New Flourishes Stamps

2009-07-13T19:38:00.005-04:00

Hi Everyone,

I got a chance this weekend to play around with the new flourishes stamps that we got in at the Rubber Room.

I chose to do the rose stamp but plan on fooling around with some of the other ones that we have. I found them really easy to work with and great because you can do neat things with them.

Hope you had a good start to your week.

Tiff

Materials:

Cardstock: Bazill
Patterned Paper: New Graphic 45 paper!
Die Cut: Nestabilities scalloped oval
Stamp: Flourishes I love Roses
Embellishments: Dew Drops
Cuttlebug Folder: Birds on Vines
Primary Elements: Solar Gold and yellow

Get Well Soon

2009-07-03T09:10:00.006-04:00

Good Morning All!
I made this card to send to my Aunt. I coloured Seymore with my Tombows and I layered his feet, tail and the bag on top of his head. I added a few stickles when I was done layering everything.

Enjoy the rest of your day!
Tiff

High Hopes Challenge #37

2009-07-02T20:12:00.003-04:00

Greetings Everyone!
Sorry it has been so long since my last post, but what better way to get back into it then to go into a challenge.
Here is my card for the HHC #37 Stars and stripes. I used the cute Odie stamp and watercoloured it with my Tombows. The stripes in the back ground are just made with brown ink and "stubbies" that I have.
I added a few stickles and a few dew drops and Voila!!

Enjoy the rest of your week.

Cleaned Up!

2009-06-03T21:41:00.004-04:00

I finally took the time and cleaned up my craft room, so I thought that I would share what I did with my craft space because I'm always cursious to know what others look like!

See you soon,

Tiff

Volunteer Invitations

2009-06-02T20:54:00.007-04:00

Greetings Everyone,
So I have been busy making invitations for the volunteers at school. I am organizing coffee and cake to recognize all of our dedicated volunteers that helped out this year.
I only had $10 to play with and I had almost 30 invites to do. Here are the first batch of them! It is amazing what a little coloured ink and ribbon can do to a piece of cardstock.
Enjoy the rest of your week.
Tiff

Baby Girl

2009-05-12T21:46:00.003-04:00

Forgive me for taking a 4 week hiatus, it has been a busy time lately.

I finally was given a great reason though for making another card. One of my friends had a healthy baby girl on the weekend, so what a great way to get back into making cards.

The stamp is Pink Cat Studio and I used my Tombows to watercolour the image. Once I was done that I used my stickles and a couple of dew drops and voila!

Hope you enjoy it.

Have a great night.

Invitations

2009-04-13T19:31:00.005-04:00

So last week I finished getting ready 60 invitations to go out for the 50th anniversary that my school is having this may.

I needed to do something simple and I wanted to incorporate in the school colours. So I used one of my Cuttlebug embossing plates and embossed them all, then I used my scallop cirle die-cut and ran it through the wizard. I stamped and embossed a lot of 50's and anniversaries and then mounted it all. Again it had to be something simple because there were so many!

This is what my kitchen table looked like with all of them on there!

Enjoy and have a great shortened week!

Welcome

2009-04-13T14:45:00.002-04:00

Welcome to my blog!
This is the first one I have done and am excited to start posting photos, creations and of course my doggie!
I am so excited to be a part of this community and look forward to seeing all of your blogs!

Happy Blogging!