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Friday 27 February 2015

...Coffee Lover's blog hop!





Good afternoon! - if you are here to check out our new release sneak peeks for tomorrow's new release please scroll down - if not then you might be here for the Spring Coffee Lovers Bloghop! I'm taking part today and bear with me if I make any mistooks, it's my first time at this hop!

There are a ton of fabby companies sponsoring this hop - of which we here at Waltzingmouse Stamps are delighted to be one! There are prizes galore and to be in with a chance of winning one of the sponsor prizes, you will need to enter a post on the InLinkz List found on The Coffee Lovers Blog here

I hear that you can find all sorts of blog candy and other goodies just by hopping through the entire list so I would strongly advise that you take a peek at all the posts (cough...also see bottom of this post...cough)

The hop will start on Friday, February 27th and run until Friday, March 6th at 11:55 pm pacific. We would love for you to do one link per post, so if you have multiple cards please post them separately.  You must link up a newly created Spring-y project in order to be eligible for any of the Sponsored prizes. You must link your projects to the Inlinkz on the Spring Coffee Lovers Blog Post.


Well since Tea is my liquid of choice I chose to make my card with our Afternoon Tea stamp set. Since I'm literally prepping tomorrows new release, I chose to stamp my main label image in Versamark onto watercolour paper, I then sprinkled on clear embossing powder and heat set it. I used watercolour paints to fill in the negative parts of the label image. It's a bit of a cheat really as the clear embossing resists the paint and it makes it look almost as though I just painted that dinky label by hand! I trimmed out the label and mounted it onto a tag (Waltzingmouse Stamps - Stitched tag dies, see here).


I had embossed the tag with a lovely Tim Holtz embossing folder, the name of which escapes me, and the back panel is embossed with a chevron embossing folder from Spellbinders. A couple of miniature dried rose buds and I was done! I hope you like it!

Blog Candy!
Now for those of you who made it all the way down the page this far, I have blog candy - All I need you to do is leave a comment on this blog post right here. Comments will close on Friday, March 6th at 11:55 pm pacific (which is Saturday March 7th at around 8:00am here in UK) and a winner will be announced later that day! One lucky commenter will win a WMS goodie bag made up of a large set of stamps, a medium set of stamps and a die of their choice from in-stock items!

Hope it tickles! Thanks for playing along!


121 comments:

  1. Fun card!! Love the sentiment, tag, and the embossing/watercolor!!

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  2. Oh, I LOVE this! So fresh and so pretty (that's one of my fav embossing folders!) This is just a perfect invite for a spring tea party!!! What time should I be there??? I'll bring some buns! :)

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  3. OMG! I got so carried away with the fabby gift that I forgot to comment on your beautiful card! I love the embossing and wonderful inking. The roses give it a wonderful feminine feel - perfect for a afternoon tea! Hugs from your muppet!

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  4. Super sweet and beautiful card! Love!

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  5. Gorgeous card- love the soft watercoloured look and -oh dear, love the set too!! Off to look for the set!!

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  6. I too prefer tea over coffee and I love your card. Anything to do with tea is wonderful in my book. Thanks so much for your very generous prize especially considering all the woes you have had lately with the EU nonsense. Cheers.

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  7. Love your tea card! It's so elegant!! Thanks for being a sponsor and for the awesome prize!

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  8. the yellow image on the embossed background is just beautiful

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  9. What an absolutely gorgeous card...the Afternoon Tea Stamp set is wonderful!
    Thanks so much for being a FLASH Sponsor♡

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  10. As you know I have a lot of your gorgeous stampsets and still love them.
    I never would have used that stamp in combination with yellow color. Why?-I don´t know, because it looks amazing.

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  11. Fabulous card. I'll have to have a gander at the Coffee Blog Hop. And thanks for the chance to win such a wonderful prize!

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  12. OMG!! Your card is so AWESOME! I love the colors of your sweet card and that stamp set is amazing and a must have!! Love your card!

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  13. what a lovely tag card Claire! That Tea set is one of my FAVS! the little dried tea roses is the perfect accent!

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  14. What a beautiful card! I love the tea party stamps you used!

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  15. soooooooooooo gorgeous! and definitely has an "afternoon tea" feel to it. love it!!! thanks for being a sponsor :)

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  16. Lovely card! And I love an afternoon cup of tea. ;-)

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  17. Such a stunning design here!! Very pretty and I love the happy colors! ;)

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  18. I love your card design! Sooo pretty! Thanks for sponsoring the hop!

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  19. Beautiful card! I am so loving yellow lately. Thank you for being a sponsor.

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  20. So much wonderful texture on this card! Loving those sweet flowers too!

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  21. Wow love the card and the stamps are fantastic! My favourite tipple is also tea. A cup of Rosie lea is never far from my hand!!

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  22. Lovely card. Tea is my liquid of choice too! Love the stamp set you used. It has been on my wish list.

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  23. A gorgeous card. I always wanted that tea stamp set, but it isn't yet amongst my vast amount of WMS sets ...

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  24. Well this is just lovely, Clare! Your watercolour effect is gorgeous. Looking forward to the new release!

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  25. This is just gorgeous and I am a tea drinker so this stamp set speaks to me! Thank you for sponsoring the hop and for the chance to win.

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  26. Beautiful card! I have this tea set and will be trying this technique with it. I really like your background embossing. Do you know the name of this embossing folder, is there any name or number on it?
    Can't wait to see your new release.

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  27. Thanks for sharing your beautiful card. LoVe it.
    Thanks for being a generous sponsor.
    Crafty hugs,
    Dawn
    DesignsByDragonfly {blogspot}

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  28. What a beautiful card! Love the inking and the embossing folders.

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  29. This is so pretty. Love the little roses and greenery on your card next to the fabulous tag.

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  30. Beautiful spring design and what a lovely stamp set!! Love my afternoon/evening tea :)

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  31. Great card! Love the design and layout.

    Thank you for being a sponsor ♥

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  32. I LOVE this pretty stamps set, and your card is adorable! So many pretty details!

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  33. Oh I think it is all said and done. Your card is beautiful and I have to grab my Afternoon tea stamp and die set, to create a card, lifted from Your´s.
    Thanks for the chance to win.
    Mona.

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  34. Well, cheat or not, you did a fabulous job on this card. Love the emboss resist. It's gorgeous! Thanks so much for being a sponsor!

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  35. Stunning card. I love the color of your stamped image. TFS

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  36. bella composizione Claire ! delicato e di grande impatto!

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  37. Absolutely gorgeous, but then yellow is my favorite color! I love all the embossing and layers! Thanks for being a sponsor of the blog hop! Have a wonderful weekend!

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  38. Gorgeous card! Great set! Thx for a chance to win :)

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  39. I love the Watercolour look you achieved. So pretty.

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  40. What a gorgeous card, & a great way to colour in round the clear embossing - so effective. Thank you for the opportunity to win a super giveaway.
    Gill

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  41. Just so beautiful. Love this set!

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  42. Oh my, this is just so pretty and feminine! I just love the soft colors and all of the great texture!

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  43. Beautiful!!!! Love that stamp set, wow!

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  44. Your card has so much gorgeous texture! Beautiful card! Thanks for being a sponsor for the hop!

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  45. What a great card for a tea lover (like myself)! I love the bright yellow too - perfect for spring :)

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  46. What an opportunity! Love the site.

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  47. Love the colors and embossing on your card!!! Thank you for sponsoring the hop!

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  48. Beautiful card! That yellow really pops off the white background and those gorgeous rosebuds are the perfect embellies.

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  49. The dried flowers are so pretty. Silly me, after seeing so many flowers on cards, it never occurred to me to try the real thing. Gorgeous.

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  50. This is beautiful Claire ! The yellow is so,pretty and you used the perfect stamp set!

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  51. Always a pleasure reading your posts. Thank you for the inspiration.

    isabelzito at Verizon dot net

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  52. This is gorgeous! Love the bright color & that great background texture!

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  53. Very beautiful! I love all the texture and the water colour.

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  54. Oh this is so fabulous, thanks for a chance to win!

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  55. Beautiful card!!! Clever and pretty!!!!

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  56. If your hadn't said that you felt the card was a wee bit of an easy out I would have never known!! :-) I think it is just lovely!! Hugs, H in Healdsburg

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  57. I fell in love with this card the second I saw it! No cheats here as far as I'm concerned - it's simply beautiful! Thanks for being a sponsor for Amy's hop, and for offering goodies on your own. That's really sweet of you! Bev

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  58. Such an elegant and spring fresh tea time card, Claire! I can't believe you fitted it in amongst all of your release prep but it is just gorgeous :) Love that tea stamp set and the embossed texture!

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  59. Perfect spring colours and a delightfully inviting invitation too !!!

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  60. Wooo hoo!!!! Did you spy the wms stamps I used on my project??

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  61. This is a beautiful tea set. It is has a beautiful vintage look. Great job.

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  62. Oh my goodness, I love your watercolor-y vintage label! I definitely need to try this technique.

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  63. Beautiful card, love the stamps

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  64. Thank you for the chance to win this gorgeous set!. I have its companion, and this has been on my wish list forever! Looking forward to the new release today as well! Cheers :)

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  65. Lovely Card, Claire! The rich yellow reminds me of spring and crocuses. What a treat. Love, Rita

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  66. I have long had your tea set on my wishlist with a boatload of other fab products... That card is one more reminder of why! Hopefully one day...
    Thanks for the sponsorship and blog candy!!

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  67. Ohhh, what an absolutely stunning card! Love the cheerful colors and design

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  68. gorgeous card. I love all the textures you have added! Thank you for sponsoring the hop!

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  69. Gorgeous card. Love how you did the sentiment.

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  70. Gorgeous card! Love all the details and tea is my choice as well! Thanks for sharing and sponsoring!

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  71. Such a pretty card . I love the vintage garden look with the warm golden yellow colors. A real delight!

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  72. VERY pretty card! I especially like the little swipes of green on the embossing

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  73. What a stunning card, love the set, thanks for sponsoring.

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  74. This card is just the epitome of elegance! I LOVE that lemony yellow and all the layered texture. Thank you so much for sponsoring the hop and helping to make it so much fun for the rest of us!

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  75. Daphne Campbell1 March 2015 at 07:41

    These are lovely! Just my style!

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  76. So pretty, Claire ... fabulous spring time colours and lovely detailing! Anita :)

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  77. OMGoodness, I just love everything about this gorgeous card! So elegant! Yes, I accept your lovely invite :)

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  78. What a lovely card! Thanks for being a part of this fun hop!

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  79. What a gorgeous card! Love the embossed background and beautiful warm yellow!!

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  80. Beautiful card,it's so elegant,nice and romantic. Thanks for your creativity and inspiration.

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  81. hi Claire! It's absolutely Gorgeous!! I really need to do this technique more often. It's such a wonderful Wow!

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  82. How fabulous!!! This is one of the best WM stamp sets!!!! Love your beautiful card!

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  83. OMG - what a pretty card! Fabulous cards! Thank you for sponsoring this fun blog hop!

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  84. I love all things tea, especially when it comes to stamping. I love the set your used to make the delightful card!

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  85. Such a cute creation in fresh colors. love your embossing and watercoloring, a great card!!!

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  86. This is the first time I have been to your blog - I have never heard of you before! But, I have bookmarked you & I will be back - your card is so cute, I love the trick about the Versamark :)

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  87. Wow this card is awesome love the yellow how great and that stampset is gorgeous. Thanks for being a sponsor.

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  88. Stunning design, Claire! Love that stamp set! Thanks for being a sponsor!

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  89. Very pretty card...love the warm yellows.

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  90. Love this stamp set. The bright yellow is stunning!

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  91. Gorgeous, gorgeous, love this set!

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  92. This is really pretty! Love the textures and colors. Those little flowers are fabulous.

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  93. Gorgeous Claire. What a fun set!

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  94. Love your card. Love the stamp and that lovely yellow. Gorgeous. Hugz

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  95. All the texture on your card is great. Good work!

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  96. What a beautiful card! Love the tag added in the background. That stamp set is wonderful! Thanks for the chance to win :)

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  97. Beautiful card--I like the layers and texture.
    slrdowney at hotmail dot com

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  98. Beautiful card!!! :-D Love the design, stamps, colors... well EVERYTHING! :-D

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  99. That card is just stunning!!! LOVE the yellow image against the delicately embossed background!!
    Thanks so much for the chance to win your generous blog candy!!
    <3 J

    jwoolbright at gmail dot com
    HerPeacefulGarden.blogspot.com

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  100. Gorgeous work on the card!! And thank you for the chance to win such a generous gift!!! I really love your products!!

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  101. how gorgeous is this? thanks for the chance to win too!

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  102. A stunningly beautiful card.

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  103. Beautiful card!! LOVE the green and yellow!

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  104. Stunning card I love it. Your stamps are awesome
    Thank you for your inspiration!!! I am lovin’ the coffee lovers Blog Hop.
    Have a blessed day DIANA L.

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  105. Beautiful card. Loving the elegant look.

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  106. such a pretty card! thanks for sponsoring!

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  107. Who can say "No" to this beautiful card?!? The choice of color and design is just so inviting! Who wouldn't want to attend an afternoon tea with that has the invitation. Thanks for the chance to win.

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