Coffee & Cards With Deb & Celeste / June

For our June post, it's Anything Goes !!Celeste is back and we also have our friend Michael Trent of  World of Michael Trent as our guest .I have had my eye on this new stamp set of mine and knew I wanted to make a card with it for today . Thanks to my friend Chris Franco for enabling me once again to get this Stamp of the Month from Close to My Heart . It's called To My Bestie and I absolutely love it !!

• I have a serious addiction to boxed cards that I use as my card bases and this one is from a set designed Amy Tangerine for American Crafts. There are 40 cards to a box with 10 designs in each . I chose this floral pattern for my card base,
• The Bestie image and sentiment were stamped om Strathmore Watercolor paper with Versafine Clair Nocturne Ink.
• I cut the Besties image to fit in this cute pom-pom frame by Crate Paper. Isn't it fabulous !!
• The image was colored with my favorite markers by Faber-Castell, 
• I adhered the Besties image to the frame then centered the frame to the upper area of the card base.
• The sentiment was adhered below the stamped image. All items were adhered with my Scotch Pink ATG Gun .

This image reminds me of my best friend, Sue and I .We met in 1987 in the Sentara Leigh ICU and though life has taken us in different directions, she will always be my BFF. I can't wait to send her this card !! I'm excited to see what Celeste has made -- you can find her at Crafting Junky. We're excited that Michael is joining us again so please head over to World of Michael Trent for a look at his card . We hope that you will leave each of us a comment and also sign up to follow our blogs if you don't already . 

I have the coolest coffee cup for my Coconut Coffee this time. My guy Brian found it at a local 7-11 and it has an Oceana NAS, Virginia Beach design on it . We live right near the base and are very familiar with the sounds of jet planes taking off. " The Sound of Freedom " is what we call it.

Thank you for visiting Meticulosity and until my next post, Stay Creative !!

Debra Davison / Meticulosity

June Cookies - Take 2

Our inspiration at If You Give a Crafter a Cookie for Challenge #120 is about all things fruity.  When I saw this picture, I immediately thought of a great big glass of iced tea for some reason !! Probably because of my  fun new digi stamp set  from Polka Dot Orchard . I often have Pineapple or Strawberry Iced Tea at Starbucks  and they are delicious !!

The digi stamp set that I used for my card is called Endless Potential and it's only one of many fabulous sets  from Polka Dot Orchard.  And it seemed like the stars were aligned for me to use this set after I saw what my guy brought back from his latest trip to Wal-Mart. A large Sun Tea Pitcher !!

When Life Give You Lemons, Make Iced Tea

• I printed the fruity background, the iced tea cup and the sentiment on Neenah Stardust White cardstock.
• I cut the fruity background to fit on an A2 card and adhered it with my Scotch Pink ATG gun.
• The cup and background were colored with my favorite assortment of markers and colored pencils. I also used a fun Citrus Marker Set from Tombow for the first time !! How perfect ..
• I cut the sentiment, mounted it onto a piece of lime green cardstock and adhered it at a diagonal on the upper left side of the card with foam squares.
• The iced tea glass was also adhered with foam squares.
• Golden rhinestones were placed in the center of all of the large flowers on the background.

 Tombow Dual Brush Citrus Pens

I'm sure our Design Team has come up with some fun projects for this Challenge. Take a look at them here. We would also love for you to link up something before July 11.  Be inspired by the entire picture, the fruits, or the colors and start creating !! 

Enjoy your summer with a big glass of  Creativi - TEA !!

Debra Davison / Meticulosity

Crafty Elves' Countdown to Christmas - June

Well, here we are at the halfway mark of our year long project to create a Christmas card each week throughout 2019.  Lisa Reynolds Bzibziak  - aka BZscrapper - and I are blogging each month on the 25th . This is the first month that I actually made all 4 cards on the same day - today !! I had 1 image already stamped and colored, but the rest were all completed in about 2 hours. Creative time has really gotten away from me lately but I am going to make it a point to make 1 card each week . Promise !!

For my cards this time, I went back to my love of wood-mounted stamps for 3 out of the 4 cards. But I had these Rubber Moon ornaments stamped and colored, so they became my first card . 

• On a piece of watercolor paper, I stamped the Shiny Brite ornaments in Versafine CLAIR Nocturne Ink and trimmed the paper to fit a bright blue card base.
• A piece of Signature Rubber Moon washi tape was placed at the top of the stamped image after I drew ornament hangers with a silver gel pen. 
• The ornaments were colored with my favorite collection of Faber-Castells, ZIG markers and Tombow Dual Brush Pens.
• The sentiment was stamped on the lower left with Staz On Emerald City ink .
• Several red sequins were scattered  around the stamped image. 

• I stamped the Stampendous Fireside Joy image on watercolor paper with Nocturne ink.
• The image was trimmed and fit perfectly on my bright red card base.
• I colored the image with my favorite markers and added some glittery highlights to the berries with a gel pen.

• This is one of my favorite wood-mounted stamps ! It is an older stamp by Inkadinkado. I stamped the image 3 times on watercolor paper with Staz-On inks - Spiced Chai, St. Valentine and Emerald City.
• I trimmed the image, leaving only a small unstamped margin.
• I cut the ornament and figgy pudding squares from the Spiced Chai image and mounted them on the Emerald City base on their matching images.
• The angel image was cut from the St. Valentine image and also mounted on the Emerald City base . I popped them up with foam squares. 
• A piece of Red/Green holiday twine  was wrapped around the upper area of the stamped image and tied in a knot on the front.
• The entire stamped image was adhered to a dark brown card base . 

• This Penny Black Sweet Thing stamp is just the cutest and this card was inspired by my friend Liz McGuire in Scotland. She makes the most beautiful cards with Penny Black stamps. 
• I stamped the image on watercolor paper with Clair Nocturne ink
• The image was colored with my favorite markers and glittery highlights  were added to the cupcake and hair bow.
• A piece of plaid washi was placed down the left side of a lime green card base .
•  Christmas Magic stickers from PaperHouse were placed at the top of the card. 

Don't forget to take a look at Lisa's cards over at Life of a BZ Scrapper . She and I have been having fun keeping each other in the holiday spirit, even though this month I was frantically starting all of my cards today !! Are you being inspired to start your holiday cards ?? Next month I'll be celebrating Christmas in July with a giveaway to help you get some cards ready for your holiday Happy Mail. 

Until next time, Stay Creative.

Debra Davison / Meticulosity

Set Sail With a Good Book

This month, Anthony's Paper Craft is highlighting the Nautical 1 stamp set as the June Stamp of the Month. If you add this to your cart during the month of June, you will receive free shipping on your entire order in the United States. So now is the time to add this set and a few others to your "must-have" list and place an order .  

It's been a hectic few months here and there hasn't been much creative time. But at the end of every day, before bed, I always try to read a few pages of a book.  I have many friends online who are avid readers and I get great ideas for new reads from them.  I also love bookmarks and even keep them in my e-readers. I wanted to make a bookmark I could write on and keep track of books I've read and also those I want to read . 

The book Wicked Deep by Shea Ernshaw seemed the perfect book to place my new bookmark in . I've already read it once and have been going through it again.  I'm also looking forward to her new book Winterwood to be released in November. 

• I started by cutting a piece of Bazzill Robin's Egg Marble cardstock to the size I wanted my bookmark to be. It turned out to be 8.5 x 3 inches. 
• The front of the bookmark is text paper and the back is ledger paper - both from the amazing paper pad from DCWV - Maps, Text & Ledgers Stack .This pad is worth your while if you love stamping on patterned paper and also to use as backgrounds !!
• Versafine CLAIR Nocturne ink was used to stamp all the images from Nautical 1 . I placed the lighthouse, compass, ship's wheel  anchor and sentiment on the text paper and the compass on the ledger paper.
• Various patterns of  Ahoy  washi tape from Nicole ( found at AC Moore ) were placed across the text and ledger stamped papers.
• I used some planner stickers to place 2019 on the front of the bookmark. 
• The patterned papers were adhered to the Robin's Egg Marble cardstock with my Scotch Pink ATG Runner.

I am already making more of these bookmarks for friends of mine. The stamps in Nautical 1 are the perfect size and I love using the text and ledger papers to stamp the images on. Be sure to check out this  Stamp of the Month at Anthony's Paper Craft for free U.S. shipping through June 30.  My teammate Mary Kay Werry has also used Nautical 1 this week to make some fabulous cards - you can find her creations here at MKW Cards. 

So, set sail with a good book and leave me a comment about your latest favorite read !! I'm pretty sure I'm  not the only bookworm among my crafty friends !! And until next time, Stay Creative ..

Debra Davison / Meticulosity

Anthony's Paper Craft Design Team

June Cookies - Take 1

I loved the picture for this Challenge because I really did have the BEST Dad ever !! He was my hero, my best friend, my reading buddy. He always made me feel better no matter what and I miss him every day.  I was only lucky enough to have him for 17 years but I cherish every memory of us together. And every year for Father's Day, I make a card that I know he would love. I hope that you love it too !! 

My dad and I were inseparable. He loved to read and passed his love of books on to me. We walked to the library several times a week . I can remember that long before I could actually read,  I would sit with him and hold my book, turning the pages when he did. To this day, I still sometimes find myself wishing I could tell him about a fantastic book that I've just read.  I wonder what he would think of my 2 e-readers . Probably would not be a fan !! My card today celebrates my love for my father and our shared love of books.  I used the perfect digi-stamp sets from Vera Lane Studio :  Father Daughter and Book Lover. 

• I printed the  images of the father, daughter, sentiment and the books on Neenah Stardust White cardstock, and fussy-cut them .  
• The images were colored with Akashiya SAI Watercolor Brush pens and my new fabulous Zebra Mildliner Creative Marking Tools .
• On a black glossy card base, I adhered a piece of outdoorsy paper from a fun paper pad I found at Joanns.
• I cut the sentiment, leaving  room on the right edge for a fun strip of washi. 
• I adhered the books, father, daughter and sentiment to the card base with my Tombow MONO + Adhesive Runner .
• Glossy Accents was applied to the lenses of the glasses .

This Challenge will be live for 2 weeks so link up a project by June 27. Show the fathers in your life how much they mean to you with a fun project !! And don't forget to take a look at all of my teammate's creativity over at If You Give a Crafter a Cookie . 

Until next time, Stay Creative.

Debra Davison / Meticulosity