Birthday Buffet Left Overs!

What's the best thing about a good buffet? Why the left-overs, of course, and that's what I'm sharing with you today! Last weekend, I held another Birthday Buffet class and I want to share with you a few more of the cards that I featured as part of that class. Here's the first:

• Using the Cool Treats stamp set and Frozen Treat Framelits, this card reminds me of a Soda Shoppe with its bright colours! I love Lemon Lime Twist and Bermuda Bay together and Melon Mambo turns up the intensity a notch or two! 
• The stamp set was used for the sentiment and embellishments around it, while the framelits die-cut the bowl of ice cream that forms the main image.
• The background paper is from the Fresh Florals Designer Series Paper Stack.

• This is one of a pair of cards made with the Coffee Cafe bundle and the Five for All stamp set. I love the way the coffee images and the humorous sentiments from Five for All work together in these cards.
• The background Designer Series Paper is from the Coffee Break DSP. It has some great background designs that would work with a variety of cards, not just ones associated with coffee.
• I'm still loving the coffee cup sleeve you can die cut AND emboss using one of the framelits from the Coffee Cups Dies. It's so clever!
• The Stitched Shapes Framelits came in handy for the ovals on these two, backed by scallop ovals from the Layering Ovals Framelits.

I guess you can tell I'm in a kind of a hurry today. I'm excited to be going to see Billy Elliot on stage tonight and in two days my girls are coming home for a week's visit with the grandkids, so I'm madly trying to get the house ready for that! We're having a Mom & Me class right in the middle of their visit and my grandkids will be taking part so that will be a first. Since two of my grandsons will be starting school for the first time in September, I'm planning on having everyone make a personalized pencil case using the Stampin' Up! Wide Stamp cases (the ones the wood mount stamps come in)!

Have a great weekend! Sometime next week, I should get my pre-order of my new Holiday Catalogue goodies, but with all the grandkids here, I might have to wait a week for the unboxing video! It's going to be near impossible to film it otherwise, with all the child energy floating around. But who knows, maybe there will be a spot of time I can do a FB live session for you. We'll see!

Click on the links below to take you to my On-Line Store, where you can read about, look at, and purchase if you wish, the products used to make this card today.

Product List

Cool Treats Photopolymer Stamp Set [142982]	Coffee Café Photopolymer Stamp Set [143677]	Coffee Café Photopolymer Bundle [145331]	Five For All Wood-Mount Stamp Set [143781]	Five For All Clear-Mount Stamp Set [143784]
Fresh Florals Designer Series Paper Stack [144131]	Coffee Break Designer Series Paper [144155]	Melon Mambo 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [115320]	Bermuda Bay 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [131197]	Lemon Lime Twist 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [144245]
Cherry Cobbler 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [119685]	Flirty Flamingo 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [141416]	Very Vanilla 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [101650]	Chocolate Chip 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [102128]	Early Espresso 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [119686]
Garden Green 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [102584]	Crumb Cake 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [120953]	Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [100730]	Melon Mambo Classic Stampin' Pad [126948]	Lemon Lime Twist Classic Stampin' Pad [144086]
Bermuda Bay Classic Stampin' Pad [131171]	Garden Green Classic Stampin' Pad [126973]	Regals Enamel Shapes [141681]	Frozen Treats Framelits Dies [142756]	Coffee Cups Framelits Dies [143745]
Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies [145372]	Layering Ovals Framelits Dies [141706]	Big Shot [143263]	SNAIL Permanent Adhesive [104332]	Glue Dots [103683]
Stampin' Dimensionals [104430]

Coffee Break for Global Design Project

This is my week for playing challenges! I'm having a good time! Today, I'm playing along with the Global Design Project's Stripes Challenge!

I immediately thought about the stripey Designer Series Paper that I thought was in the Coffee Break set, so I had a coffee cup design already planned out. Then I found out that I was out of stripey paper in my Coffee Break series and the paper I was thinking of was actually in the Whole Lot of Lovely DSP series anyway. But I went ahead with the coffee cup design! But due to the fact that it was 40 degrees Celsius here today (that's 104 degrees Fahrenheit, American friends) and yes, that's here in Canada, I had to do a frappucino, not a hot coffee!  Here's my card:

• This one has all sorts of texture on it, which is one reason I love this suite so much. I will be using it for my Technique Night classes this week, because the theme is creating texture!
• The furthest layer on the Soft Suede card base is some of the Coffee Break Designer Series Paper in a Soft Sky design, kind of a herringbone effect. Then comes the stripes from Whole Lot of Lovely, backed with some Tranquil Tide cardstock.
• The cup itself is stamped in Soft Suede and look at the texture in that stamp! I love all the little pieces you can create with the Coffee Cafe stamp set! The whipped cream, the clear top, which I stamped with Basic Black Archival Ink onto a Window Sheet and dried with the Heat Tool before die cutting it with one of the Coffee Cup Framelits so it wouldn't smudge, the straw and the cup sleeve with the Thanks a Latte label are all so cute!  
• The Corrugated Elements are embellishments that are part of the Coffee Break Suite and just add to the texture of the design with the hearts and the backing to the cup label.
• The sentiment is actually from the Jar of Love stamp set and I die cut it using one of the Bunch of Banners framelits. I cut two others, one from Soft Sky, and one from Tranquil Tide, cut them in half and layered them on the back of the sentiment, off-setting them slightly left and right to create the designed backing you see.
• Some Metallic Enamel Shapes in silver added the finishing touches.

I wanted to give you a little motivation here to encourage you to splurge a little in July so that you can earn your Bonus Days coupons! Something big is coming in August that you will want to have some coupons to spend on. The Carols of Christmas bundle is an early release from our new up-coming Holiday Catalogue and I have some samples to show you that will blow you away. The stamp set and framelits together are a must and here's why:

This set is really going to give you a very classy head start on your holiday greeting cards this year, so give yourself a boost by stocking up on some basics in July and earn a $6 Bonus Days Coupon for every $60 you spend. Or get some of those amazing products you've been drooling over in the Annual Catalogue! There are sooo many!

Click on the links below to take you to my On-Line Store, where you can read about, look at, and purchase if you wish, the products used to make this card today.

Product List

Coffee Café Photopolymer Stamp Set [143677]	Coffee Café Photopolymer Bundle [145331]	Jar Of Love Photopolymer Stamp Set [141587]	Window Sheets [142314]	Coffee Break Designer Series Paper [144155]
Whole Lot Of Lovely Designer Series Paper [144110]	Soft Suede 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [115318]	Tranquil Tide 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [144246]	Soft Sky 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [131203]	Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [100730]
Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad [132708]	Basic Black Archival Stampin’ Pad [140931]	Soft Suede Classic Stampin' Pad [126978]	Tranquil Tide Classic Stampin' Pad [144085]	Corrugated Elements [144158]
Metallic Enamel Shapes [141678]	Heat Tool [129053]	Coffee Cups Framelits Dies [143745]	Bunch Of Banners Framelits Dies [141488]	Big Shot [143263]
Liquid Multipurpose Glue [110755]	Stampin' Dimensionals [104430]	Mini Stampin' Dimensionals [144108]