Blog Hop + Giveaway

Hello there crafty friends!
I want to share a card I made for the Fall Coffee Lovers Blog Hop, although the party has started on Friday, and today is Wednesday, I don't want to miss it!
I had a lot of fun visiting so many blogs in the past few days.
Here is my card.

The background paper is by Lawn Fawn, the coffee cup is by My Favorite Things and the sentiment by Hero Arts.
As a thank you to our awesome crafty community I'm giving away a $ 15 Starbucks gift certificate, you have time to leave your comments until midnight Saturday, I'll post the winner on Sunday.
Thank you for visiting and have a blessed rest of the week.

ETA I'm also adding this to Simon Says Stamps Wednesday Challenge "Anything goes"

Sending Love and Prayers

Hi there sweet crafty friends!
I have a colorful card to share today. I took a wonderful class at Online Card Classes, called "Exploring Mediums". As usual, I'm behind with my homework, so today I'm using Zig Clean Color real brush markers, which we "explore" on Day 1.
I used the sketch by CAS(E) this Sketch and the Butterfly Drift die by Simon Says Stamps, I colored the inside of the butterflies with the markers in rainbow order and them embossed the border of the die with silver embossing powder.  For the sentiment a used the Sending die by SSS and then embossed it with the same embossing powder, for the love and prayers part of the sentiment I  used my Brother label maker. (I wanted to use those words but for unknown reasons my stamp doesn't stamp all the letters?).

And that's all from me for today. Have a blessed rest of the week and I hope to see you all soon.

NBUS - Happy Birthday!

Hello crafty friends! I hope you are enjoying your weekend.
I had lots of fun today, I finally had time to make 2 cards for my coworkers who have birthdays this month.
I used new (to me) dies from Simon Says Stamps and Cole's ABC by Lawn Fawn, so I'm entering this in my bloggie friend Darnell's challenge NBUS # 5. 

 ^{So here is my card}

It's over sized because 12 of us are writing messages for her.

I'm also joining Seize the birthday challenge. 

I'll be back later in the week to share my other card. Have a blessed week!

Loly