Fall Coffee Lovers Blog Hop - Card #2

I'm back with another card for the Fall Coffee Lovers Bloghop!   For this card, I stamped the leaf background and added Perfect Pearls for a shimmery touch of Autumn.   The tag is Distress Stains on watercolor paper and the sentiment and stamp are from PTI.    

I'm not happy with how the cup turned out - I outlined it in white gel pen, but it picked up a bit of the ink color and it's not a nice pure white. Oh well - live & learn!   It's still pretty cute, and I'm sure a coffee loving friend would like to receive it in the mail! Maybe an enclosed gift card would distract from the imperfect coffee cup, perhaps?  Lol!

Wedding Shaker Card

I'm here today with a shaker card I made for my sister's friend and her new husband - they were married (by my sister!!!) on the beach in Mexico.   My sis brought back some beach sand and I knew it'd make the perfect shaker filler! 

 **Excuse the poor iPhone photos.   I was in a hurry to get it to my sister and didn't have time to pull out my good camera!

The shaker portion is from the Sprinkles & Shakers set from PTI.    I printed out a verse from their ceremony on vellum and layered it over some ocean print patterned paper.    The filler is sand and microbeads as well as a few small shells.   Since the shaker was the main focus, the only additional things I added were the gold strip down the side of the card and the embossed front panel.

I hope they enjoy the card  - it was fun to make something that included a special memory for them!

Challenges:

Muse Challenge #114 (I utilized the embossed background and simple main focus element from Marion's gorgeous card)

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Clean & Simple (maybe the shaker part wasn't exactly "simple", but it does have a clean & simple look, lol!)

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge  - Due Date (This was definitely on my to-do list - my sister needs the card for this weekend :)