DRS Blog Hop

If you arrived here from Heather's, then you're in the right spot! Otherwise, you need to go to Vicki's to start at the beginning!

Have you been seeing all of the DRS Designs sneak peeks this week? My design team mates have been creating some wonderful things, making ready for the release this Saturday! Lots of great stamps! Can you tell which ones are my favorites? LOL! All week I've been on a kick with these coffee stamps. Maybe it is also because I have needed a little caffeine kick to get all of my *to-do's* done!

I *love* coffee! I grew up in Southwest Louisiana, and have fond memories of the neighborhood moms gathering for coffee while all of us kids played. I wasn't allowed to drink coffee unless it was coffeemilk--equal portions of each with lots of sugar! Maybe that is why even still, I just can't quite embrace drinking it black! I love going to New Orleans to Cafe` du Monde to have chicory coffee and beignets. YUM!

I am sharing another wood project with you, along with the mug hanger that was featured on DRS' blog yesterday. This is a frame that could be hung on a wall or displayed on a shelf or tabletop. (If you missed that post, you should check it out...I gave instructions for painting with acrylics and tips for working with wood.) The windows were just the right size for one of the three cups that are part of a single stamp, H960. I used a marker directly to the rubber to stamp each one individually, then colored with prismas and gamsol, cut them out and adhered them with dimensionals. To dress it up a bit, I used the Fresh Roast stamp, also marker to rubber, to stamp the words above and below the center window.

I am debating going back with a brown micron to add in some little squiggly shapes (like the ones on each of the coffee cups) around each of the windows. It would add some great detail, but it gives me a bit of trepidation to doodle with permanent ink on a nearly finished project!

As I already mentioned, in my opinion no cup of coffee is complete without a spoonful of sugar, so I altered a little jelly jar to fill with Hawaii vanilla flavored turbinado sugar. Just pour the sugar in, and then poke a few pieces of a vanilla bean into the jar and let it sit, cool and dry, for a while. It's great to sprinkle on pie crusts too!

From here, go to Cathy's...and remember to visit DRS Designs for the big release this weekend! Make sure you leave comments all along the way on today's hop...there'll be a reward for your efforts come Saturday! DRS Designs is the proud sponsor of the Cute Card Thursday challenge blog this week. Participate in their challenge for yet another chance to win some cool DRS Designs stamps!!