Gratitude & Coffee

I just had to make a card for the Summer Coffee Lovers Blog Hop with the newly released Girl Squad line of supplies by Pebbles. It has the cutest papers, stickers, embellishments and washi !! I am having such fun making cards for this Hop.

• I placed a strip of scalloped washi down the Left side of a Painted Garden card base by Paperlove. 
• I cut the Gratitude card from a 12x12 piece of Girl Squad scrapbook paper.
• The "and coffee too" label was printed with my Pink DYMO Caption Maker and adhered to the bottom of the Gratitude card. 
• 2 strips of Girl Squad washi were placed across the  upper Right side of the Gratitude card.
• The Gratitude card was adhered with my Tombow MONO Adhesive Runner.
• A wooden die-cut coffee cup was placed in the Upper Right corner of the card over the  card. Astrip of washi made a cute sleeve !!

This card was so much fun to make and surprisingly enough for me, it has absolutely NO stamping on it !! The colors and different supplies are fantastic to work with. I hope you like my 4th card for the Hop. There just might be another one on Friday.

Debra Davison / Meticulosity

A Hop and a Skip {ping}

Welcome to my first official Blog Hop as a member of the Skipping Stones Design Team.. I am thrilled to be included in such fabulous company. We will be having a Blog Hop each month on the second Saturday of the month. You might have gotten here from Cornelia's blog. If not, the line-up is listed at the bottom of this page. For my first project, I chose to make a card with one of my favorite themes - Coffee !!

I  used Faber Castell Whipped Spackle and a Dylusions stencil to create a background on a piece of Pebbles "Lakeside" paper. I then sprinkled the background with Mixed Berries glitter. The border at the top of the card was created using the Sizzix "On the Edge" Scallops die. The sentiment was also stamped on Pebbles paper with Memento Tuxedo Black ink..

The 2 stamp sets I used are Funny Coffee Vol. #1 for the sentiment and that gorgeous coffee cup  from Coffee Vol. #2. The cup was stamped on Strathmore Mixed-Media paper  with Memento Tuxedo Black ink. I colored the cup with a combination of Ranger Distress Markers and Faber Castell PITT Artist pens. I mounted the finished piece on a Kraft card base . Kraft cardstock is my all-time favorite !!  The sentiment and cup were adhered to the background using Tombow Foam tabs, A bit of Clear Wink of Stella adds a fantastic highlight to the petals..

Skipping Stones Design will be offering blog candy to one lucky person during this September Hop - a stamp set of your choice. In order to win, you must subscribe to the Skipping Stones blog, like their Facebook page and comment on each of the blogs in this Hop. For extra entries, follow my blog too.I will also be offering some blog candy for those who follow me and leave a comment on my blog.

Here is the order of our hop --
* SSD
* Martha
* Jessie
* Cornelia
* Debra -- YOU ARE HERE
* Ilina
* Tanya

Thank you for visiting Meticulosity..

And supporting my first Blog Hop as a Stamp Tramp with Skipping Stones Design..

Debra Davison

for Skipping Stones Designs

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Stick With Me - GIU Day 2

 When you are making a project, do you know when to say "enough is enough" ?? I have a habit of always thinking I need to add just one more element - glitter, a die-cut, some washi. I also like to mix different patterns and embellishments. So this card for GIU Day 2 has stripes, polka-dots, floral, sequins, a doily, a journaling card, a stamped image and some Wink of Stella !!

This card started out with a polka-dot card base by Pebbles and a MAMBI Journaling card .I have been wanting to use the Stick With Me stamp by Unity because I have an obsession with washi and this stamp is perfect to use with my endless washi collection. I had also just gotten some amazing new  Hobby Lobby Paper Studio washi from a friend so the timing was right !! For the main card, I stamped the image twice and cut the washi tape images out from one and used dimensionals to adhere them to the other image. It was fun matching the colors of the card base and the Recollections Color Splash doily with the journaling card and sequins..

Stick With Me

Steampunk Kitty & Succulents washi from Hobby Lobby Paper Studio

Thanks for checking out my Day 2 GIU blog post. I hope you've gotten some ideas from me. Please leave a comment each day -- you just might win some Unity stamps. See you tomorrow !!

From The Heart for Fathers Day

Fathers Day brings back many wonderful memories. My father and brother are no longer with us, taken way too soon, I miss them every day. Growing up in Pennsylvania, my family hunted and fished. We spent many weekends in the great outdoors and deer were always  everywhere. At relative's houses in the country, we saw deer in their backyards many times. I wanted to honor the memory of my father and brother and knew this die was the perfect one to use on a card for them.

The Design Team of Mountain Plains Crafters is celebrating Fathers Day by creating some projects to honor the men in our lives. Check out their blog to see all of our creations and details on supplies. What do you do to celebrate the special men in your life on Fathers Day?? Share a memory here that you have. Maybe you are honoring someone's memory or celebrating someone's first year as a father. 

We hope you enjoy all of our projects. And stay tuned on June 25 for a new challenge and giveaway.  The theme?  Nautical or Patriotic.  Prize sponsored by May Arts Ribbon

Supplies: Spellbinders "Bird Stand" die, Pebbles "Lakeside" background paper, 

Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Collection "Simple Sayings" for sentiment, 

Sizzix Tim Holtz "Tattered Banners" die

Background woodgrain paper by Webster's Pages