DTC #152 - Participating with Coffee Lover's Fall/Winter Blog Hop - Day 5

Join us at Double Trouble Challenge #152 and hop on by and enjoy the CRAFTEINATING inspiration by our Design Team and entrants. Used another patterned paper fromCarta Bella Santa's Workshop prize from Build Your Stash Holiday Cardmaker which inspired this card.   

DTC is participating with 2023 Coffee Lover's Fall/Winter Blog Hop and here is my Coffee themed card for Day 5.  

 

Another PERK?  If you have included at least one Holly element on a Christmas coffee  theme card, you can also enter the Coffee Lover's challenge at "Caffeinated Christmas Card Challenge #23" 

Another fun card to put together in meeting all the requirements of the three challenges. 

The Red Snowflake patterned paper, layered on Candy Apple cardstock, was a colorful background for the white bear image with a pop of green.  The "stitched border strips" were cut using glitter paper for separation of the panels as in sketch. The center panel was adhered with thin foam tape for dimension.  

Stamped the bear using black ink, cut with Scan 'N Cut, made some slits around the arm and leg to raise up with thin foam for dimension.  Colored with a variety of colors using Copic Sketch brush pens. Stamped, colored and cut a small holly to place on the bears hat.  

Sentiment was stamped on white cardstock, layered with red cardstock and adhered direct to the background paper.  

This photo shows the dimension of the front of the card and the inside card base using a strip of glitter paper and the same patterned paper along the border.  

Hope to see you at Double Trouble "DeJa-BREW" and win another chance at our random draw if you have entered your coffee themed project at the Coffee Lover's Blog Hop... and add a funny pun on your project for another chance. 

All our Team Members at Double Trouble have BLOG CANDY!  We hope you'll visit each member's individual blog, view the prize, and leave a comment - BUT - this will not qualify you for the prizes. After viewing each individual blog, go back to the Double Trouble Blog and leave a comment. From those comments, we will randomly select the names of Blog Candy recipients. Please join in the fun. Be sure to comment on Double Trouble Challenge post HERE for your chance to win a giveaway from one of our team members.  

And don't forget the perk at Caffeinated Christmas Card Challenge #23 if you have created a Christmas coffee theme card and have included a holly.  

Entered at the Following Challenges: 

BYSHC #39 November Sketch 

Caffeinated Christmas Challenge #23 

Critter Crazy Challenge Blog #80 "Anything Goes w/Featured Creature" 

Just Us Girls "Red and Green"  

Critter Loving Cardmakers and Papercrafters (Facebook) 

Stamping Sensation "AG w/Option Christmas" Must have at least one stamped item on front 

CTMH Products Unless Specified Otherwise: 

Design Papers 

     Winner Prize from BYSHC - 6 x 6 Carta Bella "Santa's Workshop" 

Cardstock 

     Candy Apple and White Daisy 

Stamps 

     Holly - Verve Stamps "Coffee Helps" 

     Sentiment - Lawn Fawn "Thanks a Latte"  

Dies 

     Marianne Designs LR0800 "Stitched Border Strips" 

Inks/Pens 

     Memento "Black" Ink and London Fog "Gray"

     Sakura Gelly Roll "White" 10

     Copic Sketch Brushes (alcohol base) 

        Red:  R02, R29

        Browns:  E77

        Green:  G17 

        Gray:  C0, C1, C3, C7

        Copic Multi-Liner "Black" 

Other: 

      3D Thin Foam Tape 

      Red Glitter Paper   

Happy Bird Day - Double Trouble Challenge #59 3-2-1 Recipe

Here is my DT card for Double Trouble Challenge #59 "3-2-1 Recipe". Double Trouble usually has a pretty simple recipe (This recipe had 3-Colors, 2 Embellishments and 1 seasoned stamp over a year old).  And you can enhance or make a bigger recipe by using additional ingredients. You can stop here and submit your entry or you can use Twisted Sister's Optional Twist and get additional chances at Double Trouble's random draw. I wanted to take that challenge.  

But then when I wanted to challenge myself to Twisted Sister's optional twist using a sketch from Retro Rubber Challenge #137 and using a triangle or quadrilateral shapes...wow and pow. I had the perfect background die that had triangles and every quad shape there is. Now, the hard part is to fit the busy background in the sketch.  

Soooo, off to my daughters blog to see how she would treat a busy background.  She frequently makes busy look simple.  So this is my attempt at a Lisa card and I think I captured a little of her style... what do you think?  Don't answer that.  

For my birdhouse I used a woodgrain design paper along with another design paper for the roof.  The cut of the roof looked like a triangle and the walls of the home were my quads. Not that I really had to worry about Twisted Sister's optional twist to include at least one triangle or quad because the background die had them all.   

The woodgrain design paper looked like a Birch tree.  Since the sketch called for a panel down the side, I cut another background die with the same woodgrain and pieced them to look like it was a Birch tree trunk outside my glass window and used sequins for the leaves falling off the tree.  And of course the sentiment was stamped on the woodgrain design paper, curved the sides and adhered with 3D thin foam tape to appear as a birdhouse post.   

I knew I was going to use the sentiment "Happy Bird-Day" so went through all my stamps to find the right bird.  

To join us at Double Trouble just follow one of our favorite 3-2-1 Recipe and take on the challenge of Twisted Sister's Optional Twist using our partner's sketch and enter your project at Retro Rubber. 

Please follow us on Double Trouble Challenge and receive notices of our new challenge on the 1st and 3rd Mondays of the month, and if there is a 5th Monday we run a special one week challenge like this one for our "Something, Everything, Anything", which will be coming up the end of this challenge.  

Also entered in the following challenges:
The Cutie Pie "June" Challenge "Layer It Up" 

The Crafter's Cafe "Things with Wings" 
Paper Craft Challenges #59 "Geometric" 
Just Us Girls #540 "Frame It" 
Daring Cardmakers "Wing It" 
Your Next Stamp #141 "Shake It Up" 
Moving Along With the Times "Things with Wings"

CTMH Products Unless Specified Otherwise: 

Design Paper 

     Celebrate Mix-In 

     Clear Plastic for Shaker Card 

Cardstock 

     White Daisy and Black 

Stamps 

     B1432 Love This "Seasons & Nature" - Bird  (July 2016)

     Paper Smooches "Baby Birds" - Sentiment (Nov 2017)

Dies 

     Cricut Cut #M3B555 - Bird House "Modified" 

Pens / Inks 

     Black Ink 

     Copic Pens - alcohol-based Sketch Pens 

        C1, C3, C5, E42, Y15 

        Copic Multi-Liner 0.3

Embellishments 

     Kat Scrappiness 

Other 

     3D Thin and Regular Foam Tape

Bobalicious - Waterfall and Gift Certificate Card

Exciting Change at the Coffee Lovers Blog Hop ... The seasonal Blog Hop is moving to an "Anything Goes" theme, however, you still need to include some sort of coffee, tea, cocoa or cider element or sentiment. How simple is that?

There are many super sponsors and there are no limits to the number of projects you enter. The more entries the better your chances for winning Coffee Lovers' random draw prizes. Click HERE to see the variety of sponsors and the gifts they are donating, and don't forget to look for Blog Candy along the way. 

Day 2 - P.M. Fall/Winter Coffee Lovers Blog Hop 

(CLBH #238)

One of our entrants on our previous challenge had a waterfall card and it gave me a perfect idea to create a card with a new stamp set just purchased from Paper Smooches. The tutorial used was Dawn's Stamping Thoughts "Waterfall Card" with a couple modifications such as adding a pocket for a coffee/tea gift card on the back side of the card and a little bubble to pull the waterfall down. Creating the card is fairly simple, so all you need is inspiration and an idea.

Waterfall Card - Front

Waterfall Card - Back (Gift Certificate)

Down the street from Paper Smooches there is a tea shop and my daughter introduced me to a Bubble Tea and she ordered Matcha Green Milk Tea with Blueberry Poppers, and it bobalicious and a fun drink when these bubbles of blueberry burst in your mouth.  When we were in Sedona earlier this year, we spent a considerable amount of time trying to locate a tea shop that sold them...and we did.  

For those of you that are not familiar with  Bubble Tea 

Click HERE and see the history of this bobalicious drink 

Don't forget to head back to Double Trouble's Challenge #42 "You Have Us in Stitches" to earn extra chances for our Blog Candy (give-aways). Although Double Trouble is not a sponsor in the Coffee Lovers Blog Hop, we are giving away Blog Candy in addition to our usual random draw prize. To be eligible all you have to do is to make a comment on our challenge post (Click HERE) and tell us what your favorite Double Trouble Challenge has been or challenge you would like us to create. And...if you add a comment to our Design Team and Guest Designer blogs on Challenge #42 you will get additional chances to our Draw. We have lots of give-a-ways, the more participants, the more give-a-ways.  

Also sent to the following challenges: 
Just Us Girls #504 "Word Week" 

Products Used: 

Design Paper 
     CTMH "True Love" 
Cardstock 
     CTMH Sapphire, Sage and White Daisy
Stamps 
     Paper Smooches "Caffeinated" 
     Paper Smooches "Caffeinated 2" 
Ink / Pens 
     CTMH Sapphire Ink 
     Copic Sketch Brush Pens (alcohol-base) 
        G12, B21, B24, B26 
Other 
     CTMH Embossing Folder