What's Brewin'?

Subconsciously my mind was bewing something, I just could not determine the flavour until while I was creating the card. Had the idea to make a neutral card, that could be sent to both a woman and a man, but realised that I need to send a card next week for one of my best friend's birthday. To assist me, I had the latest Taylored Expressions Sketch Challenge 143.

Tried to use coffee-like colours in the card - the paper underneath the coffee bean bag is actually from an Ikea paper place mat  - the glittered light brown paper is handmade paper from Frontline Papers - and love any excuse to use stamps from Taylored Expressions' "Let's Do Coffee" stamp set.

The receiver is not a bow-kind of person, so attached a crocheted flower (from Panduro's Scrapbooking Moments collection) with his initial: S.

What's brewin? At his house there are plenty of types of coffee as he is really enthusiastic about it. If he should ever get tired of his business and sell it - I could easily imagine that he would be the kind of entrepreneur that would start his own coffee shop chain.

What's brewin? I always need to hear the latest news from his house, as he is married to my best friend and they have two wonderful kids, who regard me as their "aunt".

Beat the Heat...

What heat? It's been raining on and off for almost 3 weeks now, so would not mind just a little sunshine right now.... oh well.

Banners, banners, everywhere banners - a while ago, I showed you some crocheted banners, and Taylored Expressions Sketch Challenge 142 includes banners, so yet another excuse to use banners again :o)

Then there is this challenge, that I dismissed at first, since the weather here is anything but warm so did not have the the best inspirational flow: describing how I am beating the heat. When looking for a digital stamp on my computer, I found the bee and ice cone digis from Beccy's place and suddenly an idea emerged for a card and for the 109th challenge from Opus Gluei. 

For me beating the heat involves icecream or cold drinks like ginger ale or apple cider with icecubes - in other words bee'ing cool :o)