September 2013

Hello friends! Welcome back to Monday Montage! You should have arrived here from the amazing Bree Renwick’s blog, select the “next” button below and that will take you to the next stop on the hop, the fabulous Dani Dziama’s blog. I can’t wait to see what they have to share this week, you won’t want to miss it!

I have had this idea in my brain ever since I saw the Perfect Blend set in the catalog! Combined with Gorgeous Grunge I think I have created the perfect blend between two of my faves: coffee & grunge! Enough with the weird puns … let’s talk about my card 🙂

Pretty simple really, I used Baked Brown Sugar cardstock and ink and Whisper White card stock. I stamped the coffee cup in Baked Brown Sugar ink on Whisper White cardstock and then cut it out. After I cut the coffee cup out, I cut a slit in the “lid” and pushed a Starbucks stopper in. I hot glued the stopper to the back of the cup and had to cut off the bottom of the stopper with wire cutters. The stopper is a little too big for cup but I think it looks super cute! Garden Green ink matches the Starbucks stopper exactly and I used that for the sentiment. The stopper and the hot glue behind the cup give the whole card a lot of dimension, that cup just pops right off the front of the card!

The rest is the big splatter from Gorgeous Grunge in Baked Brown Sugar added full strength and stamped off to the base and some embellishments.

I hope you have enjoyed my card today! It’s been a rough week at work this week and coffee is just about the only thing that has gotten me through it; so it is really fitting that today’s creation features coffee!

I’m so glad you are back for week 3 of our Monday Montage! The last two weeks have been filled with amazing and beautiful creations! So don’t forget to come back every other Monday for another big dose of creative inspiration!

Make sure you go “Back” if you missed Bree Renwick or you can loop on around by hitting the “Next” button to get to Dani Dziama and the rest of the hop!

This week I am sharing a card that features some of my fave colors right now. I have been stamping EVERYTHING in Encore Silver or Gold! Just love the way this ink looks on lotsa cardstock! Yummy 🙂

My base is Whisper White with a smaller piece of Smokey Slate embossed with the Honeycomb Embossing Folder. I punched several patterns of Eastern Elegance DSP with my Hexagon Punch. Some of these are adhered to the card flat and a couple are popped up on dimensionals. I love the effect this gives to this simple and elegant card! I stamped the sentiment in Silver Encore ink on Crushed Curry cardstock and punched it out. Isn’t that beautiful? Final touches are a piece of Crushed Curry Chevron Ribbon and some Rhinestones.

I hope you have enjoyed my card as much as I enjoyed making it! I felt the need for something simple, the last few weeks in my world have been anything but simple between work and home and this card was just what the doctor ordered: clean & elegant!

I’m so glad you are back for week 2 of our Monday Montage! I thought the last group of projects we shared were simply amazing! So don’t forget to come back every other Monday for another big dose of creative inspiration!

Make sure you go “Back” if you missed Bree Renwick or you can loop on around by hitting the “Next” button to get to Dani Dziama and the rest of the hop!