Coffee, Books and Graphic 45

I'm joining the Sunday Sip n Share Sketch challenge over at Coffee Loving Cardmakers.  You can view any of the Sunday Sip n Share Sketches and create with any of the available sketches each month.  Every Sunday, offers a new sketch by design team member Kerry Urbatch.

I  chose to use products from the Graphic 45 Cafe Parisian collection.  Those tea cups are actually 5 individual cups that I stamped with the no-line water color technique and colored with a mix of Zig Clean color and Tombow dual brush markers.  I fussy cut each cup and stacked them, trimming as needed so they appear to fit.  I also used my mirror image stamp from So Suzy Stamps.  It's a flat rubber square that you can use with your Misti Stamping Tool.  It allows you to stamp a reverse image.  You can see that one of my stack cups is actually reversed.  Isn't that cool?  

I love Kerry's sketch so I totally had to play along.  Look for any of the Sunday Sip n Share Sketches that are posted and link up with the InLinkz at the end of Kerry's post.

Graphic 45 - Cafe Parisian Collection - 8 x 8 Paper Pad

Graphic 45 - Hampton Art - Cafe Parisian Collection - Cling Mounted Rubber Stamps - Three - $10.44

from: Scrapbook.com

You can find all the Graphic 45 Cafe Parisian products, here.

Thanks for stopping by.  I hope you'll join the Sip & Share Sketch Challenge.  Be sure and use hashtag #clcsipandshare when sharing on your social media.

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Growing in Unity Blog Hop + Coffee Loving News!

It's time for the Growing in Unity Blog Hop!  For those of us who've been lucky enough to be one of the Growing in Unity Girls in the last few months, we're coming together for one last fling before the year's end.  Stick around for a minute because I've got some other fun news to share as well.  If you arrived from Amy's blog, you're in the right place.

For my project today, I'm using the September 2015 Kit of the Month, "Our Hearts To Yours".  

Unity has several different membership programs to fit your needs and the KOM membership is very popular.  Of course, there are thousands of stamps available for purchase that don't require membership.  Thank goodness, right?

I'm especially fond of this kit because I love winter stamps and I adore coffee stamps.  This adorable mug could pass for a specialty coffee or cocoa!  I'm using a mix of coloring tools on my project today to include Tombow dual brush and Zig clean color brushes on my Strathmore watercolor paper.  My papers are from Graphic 45's Cafe Parisian collection.  It is no accident that my colored images match my papers.  I love getting all matchy-matchy.  Don't miss my jingle bells, dangling from burlap string, either.  So cute!

If you'd like more information on the amazing products that Unity Stamps has to offer, visit their website, here.  

Now, it's time to hop on over to Helen's blog.   

If you get lost, head back to the Unity Blog.

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Now for the other fun news.......

The Winter Coffee Loving Cardmakers Blog Hop is just around the corner and Unity Stamps is one of the super sponsors which means another chance at an amazing Unity prize!  Be sure and bookmark the link below so you can participate by linking up your newly created coffee, tea or cocoa themed project (must be winter themed).  It's a fun, week long event!

http://coffeelovingcardmakers.com/

Winter Coffee Lovers Blog Hop: Dec 9 – Dec 16 at coffeelovingcardmakers.com

National Cocoa Day 12/13

International Tea Day 12/15

Theme:  winter/holiday

The fun starts at 6 am pacific.

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