Cocoa Warms the Heart

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Hello friends, Larissa here with you today with a few fun Christmas coffee cards. You know me and these fun coffee stamps. I love using them and making different things with them. This past week I have seen a lot of my friends enjoying their expensive morning coffee's in a cut new holiday cup and it gave me an idea. I pulled out two different Christmas stamps and my favorite coffee stamp and got busy. I ended up with not one, not two but three new cards.

I stamped the cup 3 times and then stamped 2 lids and one of the frothy lids. I colored the first card with Prismacolor Pencils after I stamped the Santa in the middle.

One the second card I stamped Believe down the cup and added a little set of bells. I colored the whipped cream image using Red and Green Copic markers and topped it glitter. 

For the 3rd and final card, I stamped Santa's Sleigh and Dear Santa on the cup and colored in the cup using Prismacolor Pencils. 

I adhered all the card fronts to white card bases and added Nuvo drops to finish them off.
I hoped you enjoyed my cards today. Have a wonderful day friends.

For these cards I used:

Paper Wings Productions Stamps

Frothy Concoctions

Dear Santa

Saint Nick 
Holiday Add On's 

Other Supplies Used:
White Cardstock
Versafine Onyx Black Ink
Hot Cherry Ink
Garden Green Ink
Prismacolor Pencils
Copic Markers

Velum
Gold and Silver Glitter Cardstock
Pattern Paper
Nuvo Drops
Spectrum Noir Clear Sparkle Pen

White JellyRoll Pen
Nuvo Liquid Adhesive

What's Up Wednesday - Advent Calendar: Part 1

Hi Peeps!

It's good to be back here on the blog today.  I hope you have been keeping up with all of the recent posts for fall, Halloween, and Day of the Dead from our talented ladies here at the Aviary - Carrie, Norma and Shay!

I'm going to change gears here from fall, to the upcoming winter holidays, and share with you a project I'm working on.  For years I've been intrigued with Advent calendars creadted by other crafters using various papercrafting supplies, and I decided that this would be my year to make my first Advent Calendar and showcase the wide variety of stamps that Paper Wings carries.  Today, I'm highlighting days 1-8.

Aren't these fun?  Let's get a close up look to see more of the details. Just a note:  All of the numbers are stamped in Versa Fine Black Onyx and are from the Perfect Number Clear Set.

Details: Flourish Fun 1 large stamp embossed in Lindy's Gang embossing powder. Winter Mix it Up sentiment stamped in Versa Fine Black Onyx.

Details: The window, bird house and cardinal set up the scene along with one tree trunk from the Howlin' For You set. Distress inks and Distress markers and a Stampin' Up! Chocolate Chip marker add pretty colors and all is finished off with Picket Fence stickles for snow and ice cicles. And, I found a little Liquid Applique and heated it up to make snow on the birdhouse. 

Details: Does this wish list look like yours??  This was too fun to pass up.  The background is inked with Festive Berries distress ink and the ledger is stamped in Pine Needles distress ink. I then added the Top 10 number list and Dear Santa from the Christmas Mix It Up set.

Details: MMM..Marshmallows!  The tag is inked with Tumbled Glass and stamped with flourishes from Flourish Fun 2 and embossed with Irridescent Ice EP from Stampin" Up! The cup from Play with your Coffee is paper pieced on Basic Grey "Figgy" paper.  The cocoa is Chocolate Chip marker again, and the marshmallows are so white from a Souffle pen.

Details: More distress ink on background (love how quick that is) and stamps from the Door set to create the wreath, colored with prisma pencils, and the little gold embossed dots are from Flourish Fun 2 set.  The sentiment is actually from two sets: Christmas Mix It Up and Holiday Mix It Up.

Details: Of course I had to get some sprays out and this one looked a little like a sky to me.  The scene unfolded before my eyes.  A crescent moon from the Build a Scene set, colored in with a VersaMark marker and embossed with Egyptian Gold EP (and the Believe sentiment too from the Dear Santa Cling set).  And the little santa from the Jolly Old St. Nick cling set looks so cute flying in the sky.

Details: I used a little more paper piecing with "vintage" Memory Box Christmas papers, but I accented the papers with the music background and letters from the Perfect Alphabet set to spell out JOY!

Details: This was another tag that I used sprays to create a background.  I thought it was just begging for Whisper White (Stampin' UP!) embossed snowflakes from the Winter Mix It Up set.  I used just a portion of the "peace on earth" from the Typed Wishes to add a simple sentiment.


So, what do you think???  This is only the beginning!  There will be two more installments of the remaining tags.  I've really enjoyed pouring over my Paper Wings stamps and looking for great images to create these fun tags.  I hope you are inspired in some way for your own upcoming holiday projects and we would love to see what you make with these and other Paper Wings Productions stamps.  Add your projects to our flickr group, to Pinterest, comment with a link on this post or even email pictures to us!


"It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas......"
Happy Stamping!

Julie