Friends, Coffee & Crafts

Seriously what more could a person ask for?!

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FRIENDS:

I have this friend, Deb, who I use to be on a design team with.

That group dissolved but not our friendship!

She is absolutely one of the most wonderful people &

I hope that one of these days we get to meet IRL!

And now she & her friend, Celeste, have started this

wonderful thing about well...

Friends, Coffee & Crafts

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COFFEE:

I am such a coffee simpleton.

I drink it black and strong.

My coffee is so strong in-fact that at work I'm not allowed

to make it as strong as I want it to be or the men all whine!

When I'm splurging I'll make Vanilla coffee, ooo ahhhh

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CRAFTS:

Here's what I came up with using the inspiration photo

TaDah!

Coffee mugs were die cut from Pink Paislee 6x6 pad

called Turn the Page, it's fabulous due to the Gold Foil!

Of course I had to use some Gold on the card.

When I showed it to my 20-year old son, he really

liked the doily and how it looks like a table cloth. Success!

Sentiment stamp is from Unity Stamp Company

but I have no clue which set because I cleaned-up too soon.

This is a problem with me. I like my work space clean ;-)

The lighter background teal paper which is white core,

I dry embossed with a tiny dot folder then

distressed the dots to make them pop!

That big blingy pink & was in some stuff a friend

(Laura Beth) gave me in Minnesota almost two years ago.

A bit of pearl bling & small length of lacish ribbon.

Hope you've enjoyed!
Now go visit my friends, DEB & CELESTE

Spring At Last

I have fallen in love with Santoro images. They come in different sizes, the minis you can from from around $2. Medium are a little over $7 and is my favorite size. Then there are some high ones, I'm talking 8"tall for the one I purchased which I think was over $12 (I only have one, they're just too big for me).

For today's card (standard A2), I uses Spring At Last which I just received this week in my Blitsy order! It comes with not only this great image, she's about 5" tall, and the little flowers, butterfly & book come in the kit as well. Plus a few images I didn't use like a bee & postage stamp.

I stamped thr image using Memento in Tuxedo Black, colored with Copic markers. The b.s. ground I made with Tim Holtz Oxide & regular Distress inks.

Here's what the package looks like, so you even have a coloring idea