Coffee Loving Cardmakers Hop – Mama Elephant Merry Christmas

It’s time for the Coffee Loving Cardmakers Hop so I’m popping in with some caffeinated inspiration to share with you. I always have fun with these because I can mix and match all the companies and create whatever suits me. I love it!

A few weeks ago I shared a card for Doodlebugs that used the inlay pieces from this Mama Elephant frame, but there was no way I was wasting the frame. It turned out to be perfect for my card today!

I colored some Mama Elephant Little Agenda Snowmen and die cut them. Then snagged an extra sentiment I saved from the Mama Elephant Easy Xmas Greetings. These sets are fun because they stamp and die cut three sentiments at a time.

I inked up a background panel with the Newton’s Nook Holiday Foliage stencil, then went over the whole panel with a light layer of the same inks I used on the stencil. This gives a great glow around the images. I love it.

Then I added all of my pieces with foam strips and squares. Finished touches were just some glossy accents on the snowman noses, candy cane and holly berries.

Are you linking up with the Coffee Loving Cardmakers Hop? So many fun prizes up for grabs! Come play with us!

Products used:
Mama Elephant Little Agenda Snowman stamps and dies
Mama Elephant Easy Xmas Greetings stamps and die
Mama Elephant Sweet Shoppe Frame dies
Newton’s Nook Holiday Foliage stencil
Blending brushes
Foam strips and squares
Glossy accents

I appreciate you sharing your time with me. Have a fabulous day!

Coffee Loving Cardmakers – Fall | Winter Blog Hop

Welcome crafty friends! I’m so honored to be a returning super sponsor for the Coffee Loving Cardmakers Fall | Winter Blog Hop! We’ve got tons of goodies available in the shop to make crafting easier, spice up your cards with some cute embellishments and adorn your craft water bottle with our newest stickers! We’re even having a sale for the week of the hop. Click HERE to check out the whole shop and snag some goodies for 15% off.

Remember, if you get lost along the hop, return to the Coffee Lovers main post to get oriented again. Click HERE if that’s what you’re looking for.

Remember to get cracking on those caffeinated creations and link them up for chances to win prizes from all the super sponsors! We’re giving away a $20 code to the shop!

Coffee Loving Cardmakers – National Coffee Day Hop WINNER

Thanks so much for all the love and support for the Coffee Loving Cardmakers National Coffee Day Hop! Let’s not waste any time and get straight to the winner, shall we???

Drum roll please…

Congratulations Karen Letchworth! Email me to claim your prize.

Thank you to everyone who hopped and commented. I truly appreciate each one!

I appreciate you sharing your time with me. Have a fabulous day!

Coffee Loving Cardmakers – National Coffee Day Hop

Happy National Coffee Day friends! I’m so happy to be sponsoring the Coffee Loving Cardmakers hop once again. I have lots of fun products in my shop to fuel your love for coffee, along with others too! I invite you to take a minute to check it out. We’re even having a sale for the duration of the hop!

Today I also have a fun card to share with you for inspiration using some of our embellishments, and of course I used our handy tools while creating my card too!

I started by inking up a panel with the Newton’s Nook Mugs stencil. I used green, pink and brown for my color palette today. I trimmed it down a smidge and inserted it into a Tonic Studios full card shaker pocket, leaving one end open to fill up. I chose Pixie Dust Micro Beads and Princess Rings for my shaker bits today. Then sealed the last opening up.

I stamped and heat embossed a sentiment from Newton’s Nook’s Time for Coffee stamp set. I cut it out with a circle from the Frames Squared dies and then chose the larger circle from Circle Frames to cut as a mat. I used liquid glue to adhere them together and popped them up with foam squares on my card front.

Next, I stamped and colored a mug and steam from the same stamp set and used the coordinating dies to cut them out. I adhered them with a combination of liquid glue and foam squares.

I used tear tape to adhere the shaker to a card base so the adhesive was nice and strong. Then I finished things off with Touch of Gloss to the dots on my coffee mug and two clay hearts to my sentiment.

Products used today:
Twiddler’s Nook Pixie Dust Micro Beads – Rosetta color
Twiddler’s Nook Princess Rings – Tiana color
Twiddler’s Nook Sweetheart Clay embellishment mix
Twiddler’s Nook Pressure Pal
Twiddler’s Nook Blending brushes
Twiddler’s Nook Blending brush caps
Twiddler’s Nook Double wide platform base
Twiddler’s Nook Paw Print Embellishment Tray
Liquid glue
Touch of gloss
Foam squares
Shaker card window
Newton’s Nook Time for Coffee stamps and dies
Newton’s Nook Frames Squared and Circle Frames dies
Newton’s Nook Mugs stencil

PRIZE

I almost forgot about my prize for the hop! Silly me! I’m giving away a $20 gift certificate to the Twiddler’s Nook shop to one lucky commenter. Commenting closes October 3 at noon PDT.

I appreciate you sharing your time with me. Have a fabulous day!

Coffee Loving Cardmakers Hop WINNER

Hello crafty friends!!! I’m popping in with my two winners from the Coffee Loving Cardmakers Hop that happened last Friday.

Drum roll please for our first winner…

Congratulations kimkmom4! You have won the complete set of stickers and a project bag!

Drum roll please for our second winner…

Congratulations jlingraham! You have won a complete set of stickers plus a $20 code to the Twiddler’s Nook shop.

If you could both please email me through the contact form on the blog or at twiddlersnook@gmail.com within 7 days to claim your prize.

Have a fabulous day everyone!!!

Coffee Loving Cardmakers – 2023 Spring Summer Hop

Eeekkk! So excited to be back in the groove of sponsoring these fun hops again! It feels like it’s been a while and I’m here for it! This is the start of the Coffee Loving Cardmakers 2023 Spring | Summer Hop and I’m very proud to be a sponsor of it.

I love carrying a variety of coffee products in the shop to keep you all in perfect theme while crafting – whether it be your tools or embellishments for your creations, we’ve got it.

I’m super excited to announce that I have a new product coming to the shop…

Drum roll please…

The plan is to have them available on Sunday, as long as UPS cooperates and delivers them on Saturday. So be sure to check the shop for new items HERE.

These stickers are going to be so fun! Decorate your water bottles, laptops, project bags…all the things!

GIVEAWAY

I’m going to be giving away a full set of the new stickers plus one of our new project bags to one commenter on today’s post. Then I’m going to give a second set of stickers plus a $20 gift code to the shop to another commenter.

Commenting closes Thursday, May 11 at midnight PDT.

Good luck everyone!

BLOG HOP

This is your last stop on the hop but if you didn’t start at the beginning, head back to the CLC post HERE and catch up whatever you missed.

Coffee Loving Cardmakers – Fall | Winter Hop

Hello everyone! Very happy to be a super sponsor for another Coffee Loving Cardmakers hop! I actually think I’m a little extra excited this time because we’re also having a new release of super fun products today too!!!

We’re releasing a handful of new embellishments along with two new other products too! We have Twiddler’s Nook Stand Up Blending Brushes available! I’m so excited about this and hope you love them too! We also have mesh zipper pouches to hold your embellishments or project pieces! I know, so many exclamations points. Sorry not sorry. I’m really excited, friends!

Okay, so we’ve got our own blending brushes now. They have bright white bristles, come with a cap and stand up on their own. However! They coordinate with our magnetic color coding caps which also coordinate with all of our platforms so they have a place to be. The magnets in the color caps stick to the metal in our platforms so you can have your brushes at your fingertips and they don’t fall over if you bump your desk. Click HERE to check it all out!

Our new mesh zipper pouches measure 6×9 inches and have a gorgeous blue zipper. They work great to keep embellishment bags under control or pieces to your projects that are in process. These are also amazing if you’re a traveling crafter to pack things in manageable amounts. Click HERE to check them out!

Pro Tip: I love cleaning the outside with rubbing alcohol and decorating them with my waterproof stickers!

We also have 5 new embellishment mixes to share with you today! So much fun and so much great color! I hope you enjoy creating with them.

I would love it if you headed to the shop to check out all the great things we have to offer! If you see something you like, use the code COFFEE10 to save 10% on your order from today through November 18.

I appreciate you sharing your time with me. Have a fabulous day!

Coffee Loving Cardmakers – National Coffee Day Winners

Happy Friday everyone! As promised I’m back with our 2 winners from the National Coffee Day hop! They have both won a $20 gift code to the Twiddler’s Nook shop.

Congratulations Amy Cooley and fitkitty1! Please email me at twiddlersnook@gmail.com by Friday, October 14, to claim your prize or I’ll choose new winners.

Thank you so much to everyone who hopped and commented. I appreciate each and every one of you! Have a fabulous day!

Coffee Loving Cardmakers – National Coffee Day Hop

Welcome everyone! I’m so happy to be sponsoring another fun hop with the Coffee Loving Cardmakers! Today instead of my usual rundown of products we sell, I’d like to share a fun card with you and invite you to take a look at the shop to see all the things we have to offer. You’ll get a bonus entry into our giveaway if you check out the shop and comment with your favorite item too! Click HERE to visit the shop.

For my card, I cut down a piece of black cardstock and layered the Newton’s Nook Mugs stencil over top. I spread Thermoweb transfer gel blanco through the stencil and set it aside to dry. While I was waiting, I stamped and colored my favorite image from Newton’s Nook Pumpkin Latte. I used the coordinating die to cut it out and set it aside. Now that I had a bit of a color palette chosen, I switched to my card panel.

I took an A2 panel and die cut the stitched banner from Newton’s Nook Frames & Flags die set from the center. This is a sneaky way to save cardstock because you’re going to cover up the hole.

Then I inked up the edge of the panel with distress oxide in rusty hinge and dried marigold. I splattered the panel with water and let it dry. Then I inked the banner with distress oxide in shabby shutters and forest moss and splattered it too.

With my stenciled panel dry, and laminator heated up, I layered Snow Day Deco Foil over the top and place them in a Craft & Carrier sheet. I ran this through my laminator so I have shiny, bright white mugs. Next, I wrapped some recycled packaging around the panel, sealing up 3 sides and sprinkled in Twiddler’s Nook Caffeinated Crafting embellishment mix in the pouch. I sealed it up and adhered that to a dark brown panel. I added foam tape to the back of that and adhered it to the ink blended card front.

Finally, I added my image and sentiment banner with foam squares. Then, for finishing touches I added 3 hearts from the Caffeinated Crafting mix to both. I especially love the heart on the pumpkin. I think it’s extra cute!

Products used today:
Twiddler’s Nook Pressure Pal
Twiddler’s Nook Magnetic Tray
Twiddler’s Nook Magnetic Die Stand
Twiddler’s Nook Caffeinated Crafting embellishment mix
Newton’s Nook Pumpkin Latte stamps and dies
Newton’s Nook Mugs stencil
Newton’s Nook Frames & Flags dies
Thermoweb Transfer Gel Blanco
Thermoweb Deco Foil Snow Day
Thermoweb Stencil Pal
Thermoweb Foam tape and squares
Thermoweb UltraBond liquid glue

HOP LINE UP
The Coffee Loving Cardmakers blog is your home base if you get lost on the hop. You should have come here from Sweet ‘n’ Sassy Stamps and now you’ll carry on to Crackerbox Stamps. Enjoy the hop!

GIVEAWAY
We are giving away 2 $20 gift codes to the Twiddler’s Nook shop. One for a random comment and another for someone who stopped by the shop and shares their favorite product. Remember to do these in two separate comments so you have double the chance to win! Commenting closes October 4 at midnight PT. Winner will be announced here and also on the Coffee Loving Cardmakers on Friday, October 7.

Good luck everyone and, as usual, I appreciate you sharing your time with me. Have a fabulous day!

Coffee Loving Cardmakers – Boba Shaker Card and Tag Combo featuring Mama Elephant

Happy Tuesday everyone! Get ready for your last Tuesday Tea on the Coffee Loving Cardmakers today. Life has gotten a bit too busy and I’m having to step down from a few teams that I design for. Today is my final post – for now – on the Coffee Loving Cardmakers team.

I decided to pull out a fun Mama Elephant set, make some boba shakers and color some adorable critters!

I had a crafty zoom session with some friends a bit ago and decided it would be fun to stamp and color these cuties from the Mama Elephant Boba Tea stamp set. I’m not great a staying on task while socializing so I just focused on coloring while we were chatting and then turned them into this card and tag later on. It was so fun and a great way to connect with crafty friends I’ve met on the internet that live super far away.

The coordinating Boba Tea die set can turn the two cups without critters into shakers if you want. I thought it would be fun so I did that with both and decided instead of having two shakers on my card, I would make a card and coordinating tag.

So, after those were ready to go, I used the Two Scallop Frames dies to create a focal point for my card and the tag as well. I made one landscape and the other portrait to change them up a bit as well.

I stenciled a gray panel with the Heffy Doodle Scribble on my Heart stencil and gray ink for a little texture in the background. This panel measures 3.75×5 inches and is popped up on a white card base. Then the scallop frame is popped up with foam tape on that. The boba cups are all added with liquid glue while the bunny is added with a combo of liquid glue and foam squares to keep it flat.

Last, I stamped and die cut a sentiment using the Easy Sentiments stamps and coordinating die. I popped this up below the frame with a foam strip.

For my tag, I chose a sentiment from Boba Tea and stamped it in the upper left corner so my pup and his shaker cup could be positioned more toward the right for balance. I threaded some twine through the hole and my tag is all set to go too.

I hope you enjoyed today’s projects. My daughter and I love to splurge on boba at a food truck close to our house so that’s what these remind me of. It’s always fun to mix and match different flavors when we go.

Products used today:
Mama Elephant Boba Tea stamps and dies
Mama Elephant Two Scallop Frames dies
Mama Elephant Easy Sentiments stamps and dies
Heffy Doodle Scribbles on My Heart stencil
Thermoweb foam tape
Thermoweb Ultra Bond liquid glue pen
Pink & Main blending brushes
Lawn Fawn dye inks

I get all my Mama Elephant goodies from Doodle Bugs. Click HERE if you’d like a 15% coupon to shop there.

I appreciate you sharing your time with me. Have a fabulous day!