Hip Hop! Fun & Funky Fall

Hey guys!  Happy Thursday!  :)  Today I have a fun fall card for you... using very non-traditional colors.  Do you remember this awesome Store Kit for August???  Well... it's still sitting on my desk because I can't stop inking it up!

I really love every square inch of this set!  For this card, I used a couple of the leaf stamps.  If you look closely, you'll see that each leaf has a unique pattern.  Anything with 'text' is super trendy right now... and I love how each leaf contains a tiny text background.  

I trimmed out my leaf images & then adhered them to a scrap of felt.  (I buy most of mine from Heather Bailey's online shop.)  Then, I just trimmed around the image again.  I machine stitched some veins and added lots of Zva pearls.  Check out these sparkle-licious alpha stickers from My Little Shoebox.  They're super duper cute paired with a little Melissa Frances rub-on.  :)  I'm really loving this new shade of green that's popping up, btw.  It's kind of a mintish mermaid green.  Very fun.  :)  The grid paper is by October Afternoon.

 

Your next stop on the blog hop is Jen Erickson's blog!

A Gift For Coffee Lovers

Good morning!  Can I just tell you how much fun it is to have both of my boys home with me?  I love having days off from work. (Hopefully I'll still be saying the same thing later in the summer.)  ;)  We've had such a nice day so far... eating some yummy, made-from-scratch breakfast, watching a couple of cute cartoons together, playing Sorry (my oldest's favorite board game) -- And now, my boys are building Legos while I sort through totes of clothes.  That's one really great thing about having 2 boys.  Between my oldest son's out grown clothes & those from other family members... I don't think I'm ever going to have to buy my youngest son anything for years!

So... onto something crafty!  Have you seen the latest challenge on the Moxie Fab World blog?!?  It's called Fun With Fabric & there are LOTS of cool fabric projects linked to inspire you.  I love incorporating fabric in my projects & today I have something that I made with felt.

My charge nurse at work knows how much I love coffee & buys me a "Friday Treat" from the hospital coffee shop when we've had a tough week.  I usually try to sneak some $$$ into her office, but she finds me out more often than not.  So... I wanted to make her a little something to say 'thank you.

I've been oogling these cute coffee sleeves on Etsy and wanted to try one out for myself.  I buy my felt from Heather Bailey's shop (she has the softest, most colorful felt that I've found!).  I die cut some decorative pieces from a couple of Papertrey Ink dies and then hand-cut some flowers and leaves and stitched everything together.  The crochet flower was from My Mind's Eye.

I think my sleeve turned out kind of cute, but I wanted a card to go along with it... so I just hand-cut a coffee mug shape out of kraft paper and added a stamped sentiment (from MFT).  The card is two pieces.  The piece with the handle is the back and the front was the same shape, minus the handle.  The top of the mug is adhered together and the coffee sleeve just slides right onto the front of the card.  (sorry if this is confusing)  In lieu of an envelope, I slipped my coffee giftie into a little glassine bag and hand delivered it.

Well.... I need to scoot!  My youngest has decided to try on almost every piece of clothing that I've folded while I've been typing my blog post.  ;)  Hope you all have a great day!