Coffee With Friends

Hello and happy Saturday,

For some reason I was awake really early this morning and just could not get back to sleep so I got up around 5:15 am, I think it was. By 8:00 I had two loads of laundry done and also had gone to the grocery store. I guess it's all good because now I have all day to craft, LOL.

I made a couple of cards last night after dinner. Knowing it was day one of Kathy Rac's 30 Day Coloring Challenge, I wanted to make something to play along. Because of work and work travel, I rarely am able to do the entire 30 days. Day one this time is stencils. I have some Concord & 9th Turnabout Stencils that are super fun to use, so I pulled them out and made my cards.

This first one also uses Jen M's sketch from the current Freshly Made Sketches challenge, although I elected to go with a standard card rather than square. This is pretty simple. Using the stencil with four different shades of SU green ink pads, I made the background. The focal image is from the new coffee themed turnabout set also by Concord & 9th because I wanted to make a card for the Fall Coffee Loving Cardmakers Blog Hop.

For the inside of the card, I used the turnabout stamp from the coffee set along with some of the other set images.

I'll post the second stencil card in another post. I always forget how fun it is to use stencils and how easy now that I have a set of blending brushes.

Have a super great weekend and thanks for looking in,
Colleen

Supplies
Stamps: Coffee Blend Turnabout set by Concord & 9th
Paper: X-Press It Blending card stock and SU Mossy Meadow card stock
Ink: SU shades of green ink, SU Poppy Parade, Hero Cup O' Joe
Other: Concord & 9th Joyful Tiles Turnabout Stencil, Misti, C&9th Coffee Blend dies, SU Corrugated EF, TE Scalloped Border die, SU Baker's Twine, Gemini Jr, dimensionals