Winter Coffee Lovers Blog Hop + Paper Sweeties and Visions of Sugar Plums Challenge

Hello again....I am back tonight with another quick post for the Winter Coffee Lovers Blog Hop on behalf of Paper Sweeties!

I am also linking up to Lori Hairston's wonderful "Visions of Sugarplums Challenge 2016"!  

 I hope you will check out both of these wonderful challenges!!!!


Paper Sweeties is once again one of the many wonderful Super Sponsors for the Coffee Lovers Blog Hop:

Here is a little more info about my card:

(This card uses a lot of the same products as yesterday's card.  I needed this card to send to someone tomorrow morning so I used a bunch of left over die cuts on my desk and came up with it quickly this evening.)   I used the wonderful "Eat Cake" stamps and die to create my cup of cocoa!  The whip cream is the cupcake frosting in the "Sending Sweet Thoughts" sweet cuts set.  My background card panel is embossed with a snowflake embossing folder and then glittered with some Diamond Stickles.

The sentiment is from the "But First Coffee" stamp set!  And the heart on the mug is from the heart border die in the Sweet Borders Sweet Cuts.  I stacked 4 on top of each other to create some dimension.  A sweet sparkle pipe cleaner formed into a bow adds a finishing touch to this card! I hot glued it in place so it would not fall off!

Thanks for taking a look!
Hugs,
Jill

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Winter Coffee Lovers Blog Hop + Paper Sweeties

Hi Friends!  Today is National Cocoa Day which is definitely something to celebrate!  And Paper Sweeties is once again a sponsor for the amazing Winter Coffee Lover's Blog Hop:

 

The event has been running since December 9th and this is my first post!  I am hoping to maybe squeeze in a few more before the 16th!!!!  If you play along you will be eligible for a chance at this prize from Paper Sweeties:

 A $25.00 gift card!  Yummy!  And this is just one of MANY prizes and MANY WONDERFUL SPONSORS!  See what I mean.... it is an AMAZING EVENT!  I hope you will play along too!  The more the merrier especially at this time of year! :)

To create my card I drew inspiration from this month's inspiration graphic for Paper Sweeties Challenge:

 If you make a card based on the inspiration photo or colors and link it up at the Paper Sweeties Blog or on our Facebook Paper Sweeties Inspiration page in the challenge album you can be eligible for this month's prize which is a $100.00 gift certificate!  Did I mention that Paper Sweeties carries the MISTI stamping tool?  I hope you will join in the fun!!!!!

Onto my card.....

My sweet "Christmas Cocoa" card uses lots of yummy stamps and sweet cuts dies from Paper Sweeties!  The sweet cup and saucer are from the "Eat Cake" stamp set.  The holly is from the new "Jingle All The Way" sweet cuts.  The whip cream is actually the cupcake frosting die from the "Sending Sweet Thoughts" Sweet Cuts.

I created the background with the heart border die from the Sweet Borders Sweet Cuts.  I cut it repeatedly down the front of a card base.  I then backed the openings with a sweet gingham patterned paper and inlaid the die cuts back into the card front with only some of the hearts in place.  I added "Stickles" diamond to some of the hearts for a little bit of holiday shine!

Thanks for taking a look at my card!  I cannot wait to hop around and see more of the wonderful projects being posted!  Gorgeous Inspiration!  Thanks to everyone that makes this event happen and to all of the incredible sponsors!  Happy Holidays to all!
Jill

Edited on 12-14-2016 to ADD:

I forgot to link up to Lori Hairston's wonderful Visions of Sugarplums Challenge 2016!  Oops!

I try to link up each year and join all of the fabulous inspiration!  Lori always has free downloads for Christmas crafting and there is a ton of wonderful inspiration from her team of designers!  Join in the fun!
And thanks to Lori and all of her sponsors for this wonderful event each year!!!!!  I love it!!!!

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25 Days of Christmas with Paper Sweeties

 Welcome to Day 10 of the 25 Days of Christmas Blog Hop with Paper Sweeties!  I am so excited to share my projects with you today!

In case you have not been following along or have missed some of the wonderful posts you can find links to all of the posts and info on the sales Debbie has going at the  25 Days of Christmas Paper Sweeties Blog Post:   HERE.

I have three wonderful projects to share with you today:

The first is a set of hot cocoa tags:

 My son and I have a love of hot cocoa especially on really cold winter mornings!  I created 3 hot cocoa tags using a variety of Paper Sweeties products.  The tag base is the Paper Sweeties Window Sweet Cut.  I inked it in some Memento Toffee Crunch ink to make it look like a toasted marshmallow.  The sweet teacup is from the Eat Cake stamps and sweet cuts!  I love this set!!!!  I added a heart to the teacup from the Sweet Borders Sweet Cuts dies.  To make my whip cream or marshmallows on top of the teacup I used the "Sending Sweet Thoughts" sweet cuts.  And the candy cane is stamped and die cut using the Ho Ho Ho sets.  The sweet little gingerbread man is from the new Planner Series: Happy Holiday Stamp set!  Isn't it adorable!  You have to have cookies with your cocoa right?!  The sentiments are from the "But First Coffee" stamp set and the "Warm Winter Wishes" stamp set.  I love how these turned out.  

 On this tag I left the background clean and simple!  I love the fresh look it has!

 On this tag I used the leftover negative candy cane die cut paper as a stencil on the tag background!  I love how this turned out!  So.....

 I used the stencil again on this tag too but left it a little bit lighter. 

Next I made a sweet little reindeer ornament:

 I used the deer sweet cut from the Jingle All The Way sweet cuts.  I cut if 4 times from a tan colored wool felt and then sewed a blanket stitch around the edge of all 4 at once. This made a nice thick ornament.

I then created a jingle bell collar using some red wool felt and some teeny tiny rusty jingle bells from my stash.  A red bow finishes off the front of the collar.

 He looks so cute hanging on our Christmas Tree! 

My last project is another tag:

I decided I needed to make a cookie jar full of the sweet little gingerbread men from the Planner Series: Happy Holiday Stamp set!

 
I used Clear Card Stock and my tiny attacher stapler to create my jar filled with the gingerbread men!  The "cookies" sentiment is also from the same planner stamp set.  The heart tag is from the Beautiful Little Wishes sweet cuts.  And I paper pieced the topper on the jar using some red gingham paper from my stash.  Love how this turned out!  Some rusty jingle bells from the Paper Sweeties shop and a red sparkle pipe cleaner and velvet ribbon make a lovely hanger for my tag.


Well that is it for me today!  I am praying that this post goes through on Blogger as it is the second time I have had to completely re-do it!  Blogger is having problems today for some reason!  If you are seeing anything strange that may be why!  LoL! 

I hope you will also join in Paper Sweeties December Inspiration Challenge!  Debbie is offering a wonderful $100.00 gift certificate to this month's winner!

 And each day of this wonderful 25 Days of Christmas Hop she is also running specials and other fun things via the blog and Paper Sweeties website and on our Paper Sweeties Facebook Inspiration Page! 

 I wish you all a wonderful Holiday Season! 
Blessing and Hugs to you and your families!
Jill

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