Ah, Autumn-Coffee And Cards With Celeste And Deb

 

Hello, and welcome to the October Coffee and Cards with Celeste and Deb. This month we chose to use pumpkins as our inspiration. I kept my card pretty simple. Using only papers and cut aparts from the Echo Park Reflections Fall 12x12 paper pad I created a scene of pumpkins on a hilly autumn scape with house, trees, and lots of pumpkins. The pumpkins were created with Lawn Fawn's So Thankful stamps and Gina K Designs charcoal brown ink. I added a little dimension to them by coloring over the patterned paper with my Copic markers. The leaves were created with a mini Recollections punch and more of the patterned paper from the collection. I couldn't make up my mind on this card and created a second card using all of the same elements from the Lawn Fawn stamp set, the patterned papers, and the Recollections punch. You'll have to tell me which one you liked better. 

I usually go buy a fancy specialty coffee for my collaborations with Deb but this week I kept it simple. The coffee is my standard Seattle's Best dark market street dark roast served in a simple mug that sums up my life...Thankful! Now, be sure to hop on over to Debra's blog and see how she was inspired by this month's pumpkin inspiration! 

It's Pumpkin Spice Season-Coffee And Cards With Celeste And Deb

 

Hello and welcome to the September Coffee and Cards with Celeste and Deb collaboration. This month Deb and I are celebrating all things pumpkin spice! I recently picked up the Simon Says Stamp Pumpkin Spice Season stamp set and I couldn't think of anything more perfect for this collaboration than that, right? I started by stamping the focal image and sentiment onto some white Copic-friendly cardstock and colored it using my alcohol markers. I die cut it down to a small panel using a Paper Rose stitched rectangle die. Using papers from Echo Park Reflections Fall 12x12 paper pack and some early espresso cardstock from Stampin' UP I created some stacked rectangle panels and mounted them to my card. I popped my focal panel up off of the card using 3M foam tape and finished it off by added some details with my white Gelly Roll pen and some 4mm espresso sequins from Pretty Pink Posh. I love this card so very much and will probably create a few more in different color combos. 

For my coffee I opted for a nice iced pumpkin spice Frappuccino from Starbucks. I can't wait to see what fun Deb created for this month's challenge!