Coffee to my Donut

 

Happy Tuesday Blogger Friends and thanks for taking the time to visit the Charmed Life Blog. Our big snowfall is history now and we all survived.

 

The news media makes such big events out of these storms. Sometimes it's warranted and sometimes its just hype. This one fell somewhere in the middle. Our area had 8" of snow. I just enjoyed the day with my hubby. I even helped him shovel the snow which was a bit tiring.  We waited until the snow was done and then went out.

 

Now we are supposed to have sunshine for the next 5 days. That is unusual for Pittsburgh. Our days in January and February are mostly cloudy and we don't see much of the sun. So this will be great and help to melt the snow that's here.

 

Now onto my card for today. This is my sample for the color challenge #567 on Splitcoaststampers. I am the hostess this week and I chose

strawberry slush, mint macaron and early espresso  for my color trio. Optional this week is to make a Valentine using these non-traditional colors.

 

I went with the Valentine option and I am using some new to me dies and stamps I just purchased from Taylored Expressions. My background hearts are cut in mint macaron cardstock, and I used the blooming hearts cutting plate. I popped out the macaron hearts and added  strawberry slush hearts. This is layered over early espresso cardstock.

 

My cute images are from the “pizza my heart” set and matching dies. I did some paper piecing on the images. The sentiment is from the “we go together” set and I stamped in early espresso ink. Layered onto very vanilla and then early espresso for some contrast.

 

Well that's my card. Hope you will drop by Splitcoaststampers and check out the color challenge. I would love to have you all play along.

 

So until next time........God bless.

 

card details:

Stamps: pizza my heart, we go together (Taylored Expressions)
Paper: strawberry slush, mint macaron, early espresso, very vanilla (Stampin’-Up)
Ink: early espresso

Accessories: blooming hearts cutting plate, pizza my heart dies (Taylored Expressions), pierced rectangle stax (MFT)

I am also entering:
1.  Creative Card Crew has an anything goes challenge #105
2.  Crafty CardMakers has a punches/dies challenge #156
3.  Make My Monday wants us to use our newest or most favorite stamp. These are my newest.
4.  Where the HeArt is has an anything goes challenge #5.
5.  613 Avenue Create has an anything goes challenge #160
6.  ABC Challenge has a "z" for zero challenge - no embellishments