Coffee Loving Cardmakers Spring Summer Blog Hop

(Giveaway Closed)

Well this must be some kind of record!  There are three days left of the Spring/Summer Coffee Loving Cardmakers Blog hop and I'm only just getting my act together!  

Click here for Project 2
Click here for Project 3

In my defense I had TWO Design Team deadlines, iNSD projects the entire weekend and all of Monday was spent at the hospital like this:

It's all good!  Just 8 weekly doses of GoGo Juice to keep Arthur* at arms length.  The week after can be a little interesting which is where we are at today.

Since I am struggling a bit in terms of time, I'm going to use my card from my DT assignment on Tuesday.  It was created after the start of the hop so should be all good.  Click on the link to read more about it and where the idea came from etc.

Is it Spring or Summer themed?  I'm not sure since there aren't any seasons in space, but the colours are warm and iNSD always happens in Spring as does Star Wars Day so I'm going with yes!

OK now to the giveaway part:

Giveaway Now Closed. Thanks For Entering!

📌All prizes are from The Rabbit Hole Designs.  A new company which I can't speak highly enough of.  Most of their current stamps feature hilarious critters and plenty of coffee snark.  Their super speedy shipping and excellent customer service are hard to beat so made sense when I placed my last order to choose to purchase prizes from them as well.
📌 I have three items (and a bonus fourth prize) to give away (pictured below) and I'll pull three names for the first three prizes.  For the  fourth "bonus" prize: it will go to someone who has entered the main blog hop (let me know your project numbers.  You can wait til the blog hop is over to do this since they change sometimes.)
📌 The first name gets first choice, second name gets second choice and so on.  Bonus prize will be SmallCraftyDude's favourite project!
📌 This Giveaway is NOT SPONSORED.  The bonus prize is a stamp set I received free and The Rabbit Hole Designs have given me their blessing to include it in the giveaway.

The first stamp is called "Caffeinated Dino".  I chose him because my SmallCraftyDude says I'm like a T-Rex with my short arms and hair trigger temper! 😳😳😳  The sentiments are so apt also!

This next guy ("Caffeinated Rabbit") is a nod to the White Rabbit from Alice in Wonderland and you know how I love that!

We have a pair of smaller stamps next: ("Caffeinated Crab" and "Caffeinated Bee") just to mix things up a bit

Lastly, the bonus prize is called "Handmade Brew".  As I mentioned above, to be eligible to win this, just let me know which numbers in the main blog hop your projects were.  It's probably better to wait once it's finished.  Just email (alex@pinkcraftymama.com) me or leave me a comment or PM in any of my socials.

You will receive an entry (or entries) for each of the following.  You absolutely don't have to do everything - just how ever many you like.

If you have previously followed my socials then these are already done for you!

📌 The giveaway will remain open until 11:59PM AEST on Friday 17 May (a whole week from today)
📌 The winner will be drawn on Saturday 18 May so PLEASE CHECK BACK HERE!
❗If the winner and I can't make contact by Saturday 25 May, I will have to draw a new winner since I need to get these prizes out altogether.
❗Please try to email me at alex@pinkcraftymama.com This really is the easiest way for me to get in touch with you since not all blogger profiles have an email attached and if you JUST leave comments, I have no other place to search for you.

So...what do you have to do to get entries?
🍵 Follow this blog - 3 entries (in the left sidebar)
🍵 Follow me on Facebook - 2 entries
🍵 Follow me on Instagram - 1 entry
🍵 Comment (once per day per person) on a post between now and the close of the giveaway - 1 entry per post

I don't yet know how many makes I'll have done between now and then, but it will be at least three.  The more love from you guys the better the chances of me getting crafty which gives you more chances to enter.  I may even keep making after the end of the hop, but you'll have to keep checking back since the link up will be closed.

Click here for Project 2
Click here for Project 3

So today...if you want to leave a comment, tell me how you take your coffee/tea/hot choccy/caffeinated beverage (or anything else if this doesn't grab you) and please don't hesitate to  email me with any questions at alex@pinkcraftymama.com


* ⬅⬅⬅ Acronyms and strange terms in left sidebar! 
Love and copious cups of coffee!

Baby Shower Crafting Fun!

My absence has been for a very good reason, I promise!

I have been eating, breathing and sleeping all things baby.  Now before you start any rumours, its my sisters baby we are talking about!  She is due to have a little GIRL in about a week!

We had a baby shower for her on 27th July.  The day was lovely and everyone had a great time but our cooking and crafting had mixed results.

We had savoury finger food and baked Vanilla Rose and Blueberry macarons and Oreo Cupcakes.

The macarons don't LOOK the way they should because the almond meal was not sifted properly by my sous chef.  Ahem. In her defence we should have used a much finer sieve but they tasted delicious and the French Buttercream was textbook perfect.  The shells may not have looked they way they should have but the texture was also perfect.

The Oreo cupcakes were perfect in every way.  The recipe is courtesy of the lovely Shimelle Laine - scrapbooker and cupcake baker extraordinaire.
 

My other sister and I made our cards and we also made an extra one for mum and dad to give. My card is on the left, hers is on the right and we didn't get a photo of the third card!

I wanted to try my hand at making a nappy cake and I'm more or less pleased with the result.  My tissue flowers were a bit uneven since I'm having problems with my fingers but overall I'm happy.

 
















Now we wait for baby to arrive and there will be more crafty things to show you!