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Monday, May 28, 2018

All the Goodness of Life in A Cup

Happy Memorial Day,

I hope you are having a relaxing and meaningful day. Maybe spending it with friends and/or family. Me, I've been packing so I can head to the airport in a couple of hours. I'm working in Northern Arizona this week and I need to be at the customer site tomorrow morning, which means that I have to fly on the holiday. Poor me!

Yesterday I had a few hours in my craft room. Since I'll be gone until Friday afternoon, I wanted to get my card made for this week's Paper Players Challenge. LeAnne is hostess with a fun sketch challenge. I'm also linking this up to the 2018 Spring/Summer Coffee Lovers Blog Hop.

I pulled out a pretty old Taylored Expressions set called Let's Do Coffee to make my card.





I stamped the border coffee cups stamp using Dapper Denim ink onto the card base. The panel is a layer of MFT gingham patterned paper matted with a layer of Dapper Denim card stock. The images are stamped with memento tuxedo black and colored with Copics. I used some random white card stock instead of my usual X-Press It Blending and the Copics didn't blend well. Very disappointing, but I didn't want to re-do. After coloring, they were fussy cut and adhered to the gingham paper. The sentiment is from the same set. I masked off the lower part and stamped Coffee in Dapper Denim, then cut the circle. Then I masked off the Coffee and stamped the lower part on Dapper Denim card stock using VersaMark and heat embossed with white EP. Then, it's cut with a Die-namics Flag die. I added red, white and blue enamel hearts at the bottom of the circle for embellishment.

Here's the inside:




Again, all images are from the TE stamp set.

That's it from me for now. Enjoy your holiday and thanks for looking in!
Colleen


Supplies
Stamps: Let's Do Coffee set by Taylored Expressions
Paper: Neenah Desert Storm, SU Dapper Denim, & "random" white card stocks,  blue gingham patterned paper from MFT
Ink: Memento tuxedo black, SU Dapper Denim, VersaMark, SU Crumb Cake, SU Emerald Envy marker
Other: White EP, heat tool, Die-namics dies, mini-dimensionals, Gemini Jr, Misti, enamel hearts

13 comments:

  1. This is awesome inside and out, Colleen. I absolutely LOVE the sentiment, too. Thanks for sharing!

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  2. Cute image. Great job coloring. It really stands out with the kraft colored base. Great job decorating the inside too.

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  3. Cute card and image. Love the papers and coloring.

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  4. What a beautiful and neat fussy cutting of the image, so pretty, love it!

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  5. Such a wonderful card, love all your stamping AND the interior of your card too!

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  6. So cute! What a great design... love that cute image and your coloring and even the inside is decorated awesomely... fantastic!

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  7. How fun is this...love the coloring, the gingham and the background stamping, but I am QUITE impressed with your fussy cutting! Amazing!!! Thanks for using my sketch this week! Hope your work trip is going smoothly!

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  8. What a happy card design. I love your image and you really did awesome fussy cutting of it too.

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  9. Fabulous card, I cant believe all the work you have put into the design even the inside. Its just amazing and so beautifully put together and coloured. I love it.

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  10. What a lovely card! Beautiful sentiment inside!!!

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  11. So cute, Colleen! Love the gingham paper and your stamped background--expert coloring on the main image too. Thank you for joining us at The Paper Players!

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  12. Colleen...hope you had a good work week! Your card is so much fun! Love the image and the sentiment! Great job! Thanks for joining us at The Paper Players this week!

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