fallwinter2019clh link up 2

I'm back with another link up for the Fall/Winter Coffee Loving Papercrafters blog hop. 

Here's my 2nd card using the new Stamps of Life Coffee Cup fold it A2 card die set, along with the November stamp and die hard club sets, penguins2stamp. 

Fall/Winter Coffee Lovers Blog Hop

Yay!  It's time for the Fall/Winter Coffee Loving Papercrafters Blog Hop!  Always so fun and inspirational!

2019 Fall | Winter Coffee Lovers Blog Hop 

Friday, November 1 - Friday, November 8

6 am pacific

Coffee, tea, hot cocoa, apple cider..............  

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I'm super excited to share my first link up:

 How cute is this penguin fold it card!?  RELEASED TODAY at The Stamps of Life, Penguin fold it A2 card die set. Also used TSOL hot chocolate die set, and Christmasgreetings2stamp.

November 1st new releases

There's a whole lot of cuteness being released today at The Stamps of Life!  If you love penguins, that is.. who doesn't love penguins?!? They're adorable!  Ready.... lots of scrolling.....

The November stamp club and die hard club sets: Penguins2stamp, border die, and snow stencil which I used the picket fence blending brushes to apply the ink.

 This is the waddlepenguins2stamp and dies sets that I used with the penny slider die set so the cute little penguins can actually "waddle". I also used the border dies, and the small dotted background die as a stencil.....

 inside....

 in action. lol

and....

PENGUIN fold it die!  CUTENESS!!! It's an A2 card of one penguin, but I made two, glued them together and added some penguin kids for a whole family.  It fits nicely in a 5 3/4 x 8 3/4 envelope which I also decorated.

word stand up cards- CHRISTMAS!

Do you have the word stand up card die set?  If not, you need it!  It's so fun and sure to wow your recipients, BUT.. so easy to do since it's a die set from The Stamps of Life!

It comes with the word HELLO (and other decorative dies like flowers), AND there's an extra word die set you can purchase to go along with it, LOVE THANKS and SMILE. NOW there's CHRISTMAS WORD EXTRAS. The Christmas set is MERRY NOEL and HOHOHO

Here's a card I created using the Merry word, along with the Christmas statement set, Santa Claus is coming to town die, stitched rectangle die, snowflakes from the snowflake background die, santa hat from hats4critters, and a saying from sayings4santa.  Look how festive and fun! 

and other using with the NOEL... I added an ornament topper to the O, the floral/snowflake pieces come with the main set, and happy holidays is a new word die from TSOL.

Christmas is right around the corner..... 

must have dies!

Must have all new Stamps of Life dies, but ..... here are two you really need!  

This one you may already have as this is a RE-Release, a Stephanie Barnard Design from another company and NOW a Stamps of Life die. Yay!  If you don't have it.......... get it. Isn't it just beautiful?  It comes with the circle happy birthday die, but you can use this base for any of card making occasions.


It's the Floral Happy Birthday Drop in card die set.

 I am sooooo excited about this die!  Snowflakes!!  First, this is a snowflake background die, so it creates a beautiful snowflake background, BUT you can use the snowflake pieces as embellishments, so you're going to get a lot of use out of this for your winter/holiday cards. This card I used it with the cute morereindeer2stamp/die set along with the ribbon border die set, and a shape from the fancy frame flip it set.

Another idea using the snowflake background on part of the card, again with the ribbon border die set (this is a fave of mine!) and the hotchocolate2stamp/die set (but I prefer to make it coffee. lol).

AND.... you can also use the background die as a stencil!  On this card front, I used white ink on blue card stock and it came out so soft and pretty looking. Then I stenciled inside with blue.  The mittens2stamp and die set is another favorite......

ribbon edge card die set

NEW! at The Stamps of Life.... the Ribbon Edge A2 card die set and it's soooo pretty and the possibilities are endless. 

It uses the drop in technique so have different options on die cutting your card fronts (check out the website link above to see). Here are two cards I created to share with you:

This one I dropped in the dotted heart onto the card front with the dotted swirl.  Simple, but pretty!  I used the sayings4jar stamps (and dies), along with the ribbon border dies to create this card.

 Did you see this month's stamp club and die hard club set yet?  Pinecones2stamp!  So pretty!  I used that here with the new ribbon edge card set.  I used the card front with a solid swirl, but did not drop in anything in the middle. I decided to add the pinecones and flower die (comes with the card die set) instead.  

pinecones....

...2stamp is what you get this month for the Stamps of Life stamp club and die hard club sets, and it's beautiful!!

Here is a card I created just stamping. I sponged green over the pine needle stamps.... I also added a little smooch to the pinecones and sprayed the whole thing with shimmer spray (not from tsol). That huge season's greetings is a die that is part of the die set. WOW! 

 and then a more fun card 'cause you know the sets have to have some punny sayings, so I paired it up with the owl pudgie.  I created my own background paper using the stamps and then I used the small circle background die as a stencil over it. The word bubble dies are from a past card club kit.

As always....

.... so many great releases and RE-RELEASES at The Stamps of Life this month!  Here are a few more card samples....

First up is the 3-d pop-up #2 drop-in SET.   This set includes a base die for the inside of an A2 (4.25 x 5.5 inches) size card with two different pop-up drop-in options, a rectangular shape and a 5-count pop-up die. This set also includes several flowers with center and shadow dies.

This card with the cute bear pudgie and hive4bees is the 5 count pop up..... the set comes with the flower dies!  I also used ants from picnic2stamp die set and tsol border dies.

 and using the rectangle pop up.....  sorry4yourloss

 You can add to the above set with this 3-d basic pop up insert that has 3 pop outs. NOTE: this is a rerelease under the stamps of life brand, so don't buy it again if you already have it ;)  I used monsters4celebrations, monsters4birthdays, drop out words celebrate, stitched star dies

 This treat box is sooooo quick and easy to make and can be done for any occasion! I created this boy baby shower cup using the set. It comes with little dies, too, like the duckie and heart. All I added was Newport uppercase alphabet dies.

 Last one!  Re-release of the party hat fold it die!  It was on HSN last year and sold out! BUT now you can get it at The Stamps of Life.  To show a little versatility, it doesn't have to be birthday.... here's a witch hat :) I used the web die set which comes with the web and spider...

New stamp club and die hard sets coming October 1st!!  :)

more...

...reindeer to stamp!  Another cuuuuute stamp set was released at The Stamps of Life!

Reindeer2stamp is the name and it's a companion set to this month's club set; now you can make a whole family or group of friends.

It also has this fun little saying....  I made my card using it:

I used the tag holder die set to put in a little bag of reindeer food (oats and glitter). I wish I knew this fun little saying and tradition when my son was little, I would have done it and he would have loved it! 

Here comes Halloween....

Yay! There's a new Halloween stamp set at The Stamps of Life! 

Halloween2build

It's called that because you can choose the faces for your Halloween creature. How fun is that?

 Here's a card I created using the stamp set along with the coordinating dies.  I inked the background with TSOL inks, created a star stencil with the scallop envelope liner that has a star drop in die, tree is from a step up card die set, tsol fence die.....  

 Here's a pocket slider card that is so easy to make using TSOL pocket slider die set.

visions of....

Gingerbread!  Did you see!? The Stamps of Life just released two fun fold it card die sets: Gingerbread Girl and Gingerbread Boy.  You're going to want them both!  :)

Here's the super cute Gingerbread Boy:

 The super cute Gingerbread Girl: She's on SALE right now!  

Here I used the Gingerbread Boy fold it to create a pile of gingerbread cookies to make one big fold it card.  For all the cards, I also used the gingerbread2stamp stamps, because they, of course, go perfectly.

Oh deer....

It's that time when you need to start thinking about and making Christmas cards if you want them to be done and ready to mail in time for Christmas.  This set will get you in the mood!  It's ADORABLE!!  Of course, it can be used for non Christmas theme cards, too. 

This month's stamp club and die hard club sets over at The Stamps of Life is Reindeer2stamp.

Here's a card I created using the set with fireplace2stamp and dies as well as stocking2stamp dies.  I stamped the deer, masked him off using a sticky note cut with the detailed deer die and then stamped the fireplace. This in a one layer and still flat with the addition of the die cuts.