Well I am back with my fifth and final card for my guest designer series for July and boy isn't this one true! Adulting is hard and coffee is always my go to for it...some days it may or may not have (defiantly may) a bit of Irish Cream in it for the adulting part 😂
I started off with a solid mat of brown from my K&Company 4x6 paper pad. I found these at Ollies for almost nothing. I bought two of them because I loved them so much and I keep going back to see if they get any more in but Ollies is definitely a hit or miss with card making supplies. Supposedly they bought out some of Joann's stock but our Ollies isn't well stocked at all so I have to go here and there to see if they've gotten anything new in. Do you have an Ollies near you? If so you should definitely check them out because their scrapbook and card making supplies are ridiculously LOW priced!
I pulled out my brand new Pretty Pink Posh die plate and I am LOVING it! They are a SUPER SPONSOR and have some great dies and other goodies in their shop, so if you have a chance, hop over there and take a peek. I used this argyle stitched plate on the brown 4x6 paper for my base and then moved on to making my background.
I'm not going to lie, I struggled with the background. I wanted it awesome with coffee words scattered and inks and splatters and...well it took me 3 tries and I had to calm it down a bit. It got a bit over powering for an A2 card so I ended up using 3 distressed oxides (Feather Peacock, Ground Espresso and Gathered Twigs). After ink blending the background I grabbed a stencil I had in my stash to make some coffee splatters. I reached into one of my stamp sets from Crafter's Companion and stamped the heart "steam" and called the background done...and I am not mad at it! I did use a nested wonky die from Scrapbook. com to die cut it out and adhered it to my base.
That chinchilla stamp set is from La La Land Crafts and is so stinking cute! I love all the sentiments in the set as well. After I colored him in with my Copics I added a sticker of a pair of glasses I found in my stash just to add a little something to him.
The coffee cup is from another SUPER SPONSOR for The Coffee Loving Papercrafters, Crackerbox Stamps. They have some awesome coffee stamp sets so hop on over and take a look. I actually used a light hand with the Gathered Twig distressed oxide to color in the mug along with the Ground Espresso for the top of the cup so it looked like dark coffee. I added some glossy accents to give it a wet look to it and some dimension. I adhered everything together, added some flat pearls from Kat Scrappiness and called it done.
I was so thrilled to be a guest designer for the month of July and I hope I was able to inspire you to get into your crafty space and make a handmade coffee card for someone who shares your love of coffee as much as you do!
Stay Crafty my friends,
Kimberly
