March 9th Weekly Post

 Hello there and Happy Sunday!

Hope everyone has survived the week with Fat Tuesday and Ash Wednesday.

Then the weekend with its theft of an hour for some of us.

Ah, the jetlag of Daylight Savings Time change!

Last week for us was Faux Spring warmth and now it's Faux Winter Chilly again, lol.

So, the theme of Espresso which is hosted by Audrey this week at Sunday Postcard Art seems made for our weather, something warm to take the chill off. I have two Inkadinkado espresso cup stamps I've never inked up, so I stamped each in a different shade of brown Versafine Clair and clear heat-embossed them. I used a blue Versafine Clair to do the same with a large Inkadinkado sentiment stamp and a small Clear Dollar sentiment Stamp. I used a CASual Friday coffee bean stencil and some blue Distress Ink to create a ground for the coffee cups. I also stenciled coffee rings with some brown DI and a TCW stencil. Then I blended blue DI's around the edges and stippled DI's in the middle. I colored the cups and edged the card with Promarkers. I used a white gel pen to highlight the coffee steam and then finished it with lots of titan buff acrylic paint splatters using my Tim splatter brush.

Edited to ADD: 

Almost forgot, I wanted to share this old journal page I made with a coffee theme and mentioning espresso. I wrote the poem trying to "explain" the Gecko Galz image: 

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I used a Katy Sue 3D Decoupage kit for the images and sentiment strip on this birthday card for a sister-in-law.

The Crafter Companion green shimmer background cardstock was embossed with a WRMK Next Level Geometric folder. The card base is Recollections. And there is a very skinny sheer red ribbon on the left vertical side and also the bottom horizontal side, largely hidden but there.

 

The sketch I used, stretched to 6x6. I also flipped the ribbon to intersect at bottom.

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And another card for a sister-in-law.

I used a precut A6/R30 insert card and envie in a light peachy pink for the base.

I found some digital strawberry paper at Simply Cianna Etsy shop and printed out some for the front and back, die cutting them with a Cheery Lynn Scalloped Rectangle die.

I used the black Versafine Clair ink to stamp the Papertrey Ink sentiment and then cut it with an SU label punch. Clean and simple.

And the sketch used.
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This is a wedding card with an inset "intarsia" look.

I cut the Sizzix Swirly Heart Frame die 3 times, out of SU winter white, dark pink and lighter pink card. I cut the white card also with a Spellbinders Art Deco Fairmont Label die and drew around the inner perimeter with a gold shadow gel pen. The 2 pink die cuts fit into the white card like puzzle pieces.

I stamped and heat-embossed the Hampton Arts sentiment with Versamark and white powder, and the Visible Image rings stamp with Versamark and gold powder. I colored the rings with a gold glitter brush pen.

For the flowers at the bottom of the heart, I stamped an Avery Elle Modern Floral bouquet on white card with Versamark and heat embossed it with gold powder. Then I colored it using Nuvo watercolor brush pens and die cut it using the coordinating die.

The background striped designer paper is by Paper Symphony and the card base is cut from Bazzil card stock.

 

And the sketch I used, stretching it to 6x6 size.
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That does it for me this week.

I've been streaming episodes of 1923, and also episodes of Nobody Wants This.

Having lost interest in TV and movies for quite a while, it feels weird to watch anything longer than a Facebook reel or TikTok video, LOL.

 I literally have to stop often and put on music (what I'm used to!) or get up and walk around, go to the bathroom, do chores, etc.

It's making me very aware of the time spent sitting in one spot, lol.

Thought I sat a lot when creating, but apparently it can be worse!

Hope everyone has a fabulous week ahead.

Seeya next Sunday!

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