Skip {ping} into Fall

Welcome to my second official Blog Hop as a Stamp Tramp for the fabulous Skipping Stones Design. As we enjoy our Fall weather here in Virginia Beach,  the scariest thing on our minds is NOT that Halloween is approaching --- it is Hurricane Matthew !! Hoping our area fares well, along with everyone in the path.. My project for today's Hop uses a sentiment & the doodled bird image from the Best of Birds stamp set. Take a look at all of the wonderful supplies available at the  Skipping Stones Store.This stamp set  is great for any season but today, I used rich Fall colors.  You might have gotten here from Jessie's blog; but just in case you haven't, the line-up is listed at the bottom of this post .. As you can see, I used an embroidery hoop to create a scene for a friend. I was an avid counted cross-stitch fanatic in the past and have many hoops and tons of fabric, so I enjoy putting them to good use in my stamping life..

• I first placed some linen fabric in a wooden hoop. If you do not have fabric, you can always use paper cut to the size of the hoop and glued to the outside rim.  The sentiment was stamped on white cardstock using Memories Black India Ink and then the background was colored using a foam applicator and a Tim Holtz Wild Honey Distress Ink Pad . I adhered the sentiment to the larger piece of fabric and then that piece to the fabric in the hoop.
• I fussy-cut 4 of the doodled birds and color-blocked 3 with Distress Inks. The 4th was colored using a combination of Distress Markers and Stabilo pens. They were then attached to the fabric in the hoop using large Glue Dots.
• Along the top of the sentiment, I alternated used 3 Prima flowers and 2 square Making Memories Crystal brads. A round brad from Making Memories completed the project at the bottom of the hoop.

There will be a giveaway of a stamp set of your choice to one lucky person. All you have to do is comment on each member's post and subscribe to each of our blogs. I hope that you enjoy all of our projects for this Hop !!

Here is the order of our Hop :

• Skipping Stones Design
• Cornelia
• Jessie
• Debra   YOU ARE HERE
• Martha
• Tanja

Thank you for visiting Meticulosity
and for hopping with all of the Stamp Tramps from SSD.

Fall 2016 Coffee Lovers Blog Hop Winner

What a fabulous Blog Hop --- we even all helped to beat the record !! There were 826 projects linked ... And I'm already looking forward to the Christmas Coffee Lovers Blog Hop !! I offered some Coffee Blog Candy to someone who commented on my posts during the Hop and today I chose a winner ---

Helen F.October 2, 2016 at 10:46 AM

Lovely Fall card!

Thank you to Helen and everyone else who commented..  I really appreciate you visiting Meticulosity and following my creative journey !! Helen, you have 2 weeks to contact me with your snail mail info ...

Coffee & Cards with Deb and Celeste 10/2

I'm sure there are many people like me, who still haven't gotten enough coffee, even after the recent amazing Fall Coffee Lovers Blog Hop. So my friend Celeste and I decided to continue the theme and bring you a collaboration of coffee and cards. We met through our mutual loves and now want to share them with you on our respective blogs. Celeste has been one of my most supportive friends and creative cheerleaders !! Each Sunday in October, we will offer you a glimpse of our creative world. What coffee are we drinking ?? Or what fun cup are we using ?? The cards will each have a theme, not necessarily coffee-related. For our first card, Celeste chose a Clean & Simple style with any theme. Those of you who know me, know that I love using many different elements on my cards -- paper, washi, glitter, rhinestones, doo-dads of all kinds !! But for today, I will be Clean & Simple.

For my first card, I used a Sizzix Flea Market embossing folder with a piece of orange cardstock. The coffee cups were from a free digi set that Verve Stamps offered at a previous Coffee Blog Hop.They are no longer available but Verve  has several other great coffee sets and dies available.

• Okay, this is as Clean & Simple as I can get !!
• I mounted the embossed design on a Kraft card base using Tombow Mono Aqua Liquid Glue.
• I fussy-cut the Coffee-cup digis and colored them with Distress Markers & Stabilo pens.
• Foam dimensionals were used to mount the cups onto the embossed card front.
• I added a touch of Clear Glitter Wink of Stella to the coffee cup lids.
• I really wanted to add more but restrained myself !!

I actually read up about the "Clean and Simple" style for cards; I learned about white space,focal points and even the Rule of Thirds. So having said that, my idea of Clean & Simple is a minimum of supplies and embellishments.. My card has an embossed base and 3 cups. Pretty simple for me !!

Today's card is brought to you by Cinnabon Coffee in my new Crazy Cat Lady mug that my amazing friend, Kelly gave me.I seem to have an obsession with Coffee cups and try not to buy any more. But I can't prevent people from giving them to me, can I ???

Please go to Celeste's blog, Crafting Junky and see what she is up to for our first collaboration.. I am sure it will be fabulous, just like her !! And remember, we will be back every Sunday in October with more Coffee & Cards..So stay tuned !!

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Flower Jar Autumn

One last card for the 2016 Fall Coffee Lovers Blog Hop.... Made with an Olympic paint sample. I love using them on cards and more likely than not, I keep the names of the paint visible.. I try to match the paint names to the card I am making..  This time, the names of all but 1 are hidden but the paint number is still visible.

• I used an Olympic paint sample on a Kraft card base and placed 2 strips of washi down the Left side of the card to make a border. The Autumn Wordplay washi is from Little B.
• I fussy-cut the Flower Jar stamp from Hampton Art Inc. and colored it with Distress Markers. The coffee cup is from the Coffee Break stamp set by V's Sweet Ideas. I paper-pieced the sleeve and colored the lid. Dimensionals popped it up on the jar.
• Several rhinestones were added to the flower centers. 

We are almost up to 800 links for this Blog Hop. We need 812 to beat the Summer record !!  My fingers are crossed !! This is card #4 for me  !!  Thanks to Amy and Chaitali for all of their hard work and everyone on the Facebook page and their website !!

Halloween Challenge at SSD

Today starts the Halloween Challenge over at the Skipping Stones Design blog. All of my teammates and I will be making something with our fabulous SSD stamp sets. We would love for you to join us by linking up a project on our blog page here. You do not have to use SSD stamps but we encourage you to if you can. One lucky person will be chosen at random to win a SSD stamp set of your choice !!

Since I didn't have any SSD Halloween stamps, I had to get a little more creative.. And since this week is also the week of the Fall Coffee Lovers Blog Hop ( and we are one of the Super Sponsors ), a coffee cup came to mind. And SSD has some fantastic coffee stamp sets !!  

• I used a coffee cup from the Coffee Volume #2 set. The image was stamped twice using Memories Black India Ink , once on plain cardstock and the second time on a piece of Graphic 45 Steampunk Spells patterned paper. I then cut the coffee sleeve out of the patterned piece.
• The Kraft card base was prepared by using strips of Tim Holtz Idea-ology "Materialize" Design Tape of orange and black glitter. The All Hallows Eve greeting and elements on the coffee sleeve are also from Steampunk Spells.
• I paper-pieced the patterned coffee sleeve onto the coffee cup that I had fussy-cut and then added several elements and rhinestones. The lid of he cup was colored with a Stampin' Up marker and a touch of shimmer was added with a Clear Glitter Wink of Stella Brush.
• Several rhinestones and a small pearl completed the Greeting placed on the left side of the card. The coffee cup was added to the Right. I hope you like my first Challenge card.. It shows that you can create a themed card even without any stamps of that exact theme !!
• I will also be linking this card up to the Fall Coffee Lovers Blog Hop.

Coffee Volume #2

Thank you for visiting  Meticulosity.

I hope that our Halloween Challenge inspires you ..

Debra Davison

It's Coffee O'clock

Here's my second card for the Coffee Lovers Blog Hop.. This one was made with a Digi stamp from Bugaboo Digi Stamps.. I am not very computer savvy but it was really easy to work with these designs.I love working with different elements, often using contrasting designs that wouldn't seem to go together. Here I used polka dotted and leaf background patterned paper along with some striped washi. Oh yeah, and a small dainty doily folded into quarters. I guess you could say that sometimes I don't know when to say "when"... I colored the image with Distress Markers.

Supplies used :

"Coffee O'clock" by Bugaboo Digi Stamps

Scotch brand washi tape

Craft Smith "Pumpkin Spice" patterned paper

Cabochons by Mark Richards

Tim Holtz Distress Markers

Rhinestone

I hope that you will follow my blog.. If you comment, you might win some blog candy from me -- a few coffee-themed goodies. Thank you so much for stopping by Meticulosity/ Check out all of the wonderful projects over at the Hop.

A { Pink } Fresh Fall Hop

I am always SO excited for another Coffee Lovers Blog Hop and this one is no exception, especially since I have several new coffee-themed stamp sets !! I have always loved using paint samples on my cards and this one from  Sherwin Williams was perfect. The colors from top to bottom are Pumpkin Curry, Copper Playa and Outgoing Orange.. I placed the paint sample on the Right side of a kraft card base. Don't you think that Kraft cardstock is absolutely perfect for Fall projects !?!?!? 2 types of washi were just the right touch for the Left side of the card. I stamped and punched 3 images from a new Pinkfresh Studio stamp set and popped them up on the paint sample with dimensionals. I did also stamp the teacup on a piece of patterned paper also and paper-pieced it to the image stamped on the square.

Supplies used :

Pumpkin Patch Gold Foil washi from Little B

My Mind's Eye Metallic Decorative Tape

Tsukineko Memento Rich Cocoa Dye Ink

"Late Nights" stamp set from Pinkfresh Studio

Has my first card for the Hop inspired you to get creative ?? I will choose someone to win some coffee-themed blog candy for commenting on my cards for this Hop.. I would love if you would also follow my blog . Make sure to take a look at the other cards for the Hop.. I am sure we will break the old record for number of projects linked up. I appreciate you taking the time to share in my obsession for all things coffee, tea and cocoa related !!

As always, a BIG shout-out to Amy Tsuruta for co-ordinating this Hop and to all of the amazing Sponsors !! There are 63 Super Sponsors this time with some fabulous prizes !! 

Thank you so much for visiting Meticulosity !!