Tea Pot

I can hardly believe it but I have managed to make a fourth card for the Coffee Lovers blog hop!  This time I went with a tea theme.  I really LOVE coffee but I also enjoy tea so I wanted to show it some love.

First thing I did was to create the main card panel.  I cut a piece of natural ivory cardstock down to 4 1/4" x 5 1/2".  Then I used an embossing folder from Stampin Up! in the center of the card.  Next I lightly sponged Frayed Burlap Distress Oxide ink over the embossed area and around the top edge of the panel.

I picked out a piece of patterned paper from the Echo Park Coffee Collection paper pad.  I used one of the Hero Arts tea cup dies to cut the patterned paper.  I felt it needed some shading to give it more life.  I used Copic markers BG75, BG72 and BG70.  I just freehanded some lines and blended them out until I was happy.  I gave this a spritz with a gold glimmer spray and set it aside.

Now for those lovely flowers!  I used the Flower Silhouettes stamps and dies from My Favorite Things for all of them.  I pulled out my Altenew mini ink cubes to find inks that would coordinate with the patterned paper.  The colors I picked were Blush, Coral Bliss and Heart Beat for the pinks/reds.  Forest Glades and Evergreen for the greens.  I stamped out several of the flowers and leaves in various color combinations.  Then I cut them all out with the coordinating dies.  I started to play around with the layout on the card.  I would lay the tea pot over the flowers and moved the pieces around until I was happy with it.

I removed the tea pot carefully and used a piece of Glad Press n Seal to hold all of the flowers together.  I turned the whole thing over and used a combination of the Zig 2-way glue and Tombow mono multi glue to adhere them together.  Then I added glue to the whole piece and layed it down on the card.  I layed a stamp block on top and let it sit for just a few minutes.  While it was drying, I added foam tape to the back of the tea pot.  I peeled off the Press and Seal and splattered gold Finetec paint over the entire card panel BEFORE adhering the tea pot over the flowers.  Some of the flowers and part of the tea pot were hanging over the edge of the panel.  I simply cut them off with a pair of scissors.

The very last step was to add it to a card base made out of 110lb Neenah Solar white cardstock and this bad boy was done!

You can check out the details and the link for the Coffee Lovers blog hop HERE.  Don't forget to use #springsummer2019clh!

Bye for now!
~Kristina

Neenah Solar White Shop at: SBC | EH	Tombow Mono Multi Liquid glue Shop at: SBC | EH	Tonic Studios-Retractable Craft Pick Shop at: SBC | EH	Zig 2-way glue pen Shop at: SBC | EH
Therm O Web Foam Tape Shop at: SBC | EH	White Gelly Roll pen Shop at: SBC	Shop at: SBC | EH	Copic Marker BG75 Shop at: EH
Copic Marker BG72 Shop at: EH	Copic Marker BG70 Shop at: EH	Altenew Green Fields ink cubes Shop at: Altenew | EH	Altenew Tea Party ink cubes Shop at: Altenew | EH
Altenew Red Sunset ink cubes Shop at: Altenew | EH	Flower Silhouettes stamps, My Favorite Things Shop at: EH	Flower Silhouettes dies, My Favorite Things Shop at: EH	Echo Park Coffee Collection paper Shop at: SBC
Frayed Burlap Distress Oxide ink Shop at: SBC | EH

Coffee and a sketch

Somehow I managed to find myself with a bit of free time last night so I decided to make another coffee themed card!  To make it even quicker, I used the current sketch from Freshly Made Sketches.

Here is the sketch:

And here's my card:

I think the color in the picture doesn't quite compare to real life.  It is more of a vibrant grape purple.  Anywho, I had to use purples since they are my favorite!

Here is a close up of the Hero Arts White Satin Pearl embossing detail.  I just love how it takes on the tones of the paper behind it.

I'm off to link this up for the Coffee Lovers blog hop HERE. Don't forget to use #springsummer2019clh to share your own coffee creations!

I'm also linking up to Freshly Made Sketches challenge HERE. #fms386

I will be back tomorrow with another new project!

~Kristina

Supplies used:

Neenah Solar White Shop at: SBC | EH	Tombow Mono Multi Liquid glue Shop at: SBC | EH	Mini Ink Blending Tool Shop at: SBC | EH	Therm O Web Foam Tape Shop at: SBC | EH
Mini MISTI Shop at: SBC | EH	Altenew Shades of Purple ink cubes Shop at: Altenew | EH	Altenew Coffee Love stamps Shop at: Altenew | SBC	Unicorn White ink pad Hero Arts Shop at: EH
Pearl Strings stamp Hero Arts Shop at: SBC	White Satin Pearl embossing powder Hero Arts Shop at: SBC | EH	White embossing powder Ranger Shop at: SBC | EH	Honey Bee Stamps Perfect Blend Shop at: SBC | EH

Awesome

Hey there everyone.  I'm popping in with a super quick post for a card that I am entering in two different challenges.  I have been enjoying the challenges and I feel like they push me to create outside some of my comfort zones!

I am linking up for the Freshly Made Sketches 372 #fms372.  You can find the link up right HERE.

The second challenge I'm linking up to is Color Throwdown 527 #ctd527.  You can find that link up
HERE.

Here is the list of supplies I used:

Distress Oxide inks in Faded Jeans, Lucky Clover and Hickory Smoke
White acrylic paint
Awesome die by Paper Rose
Sizzix/Tim Holtz Funky Floral #3 dies
Paper from Amy Tangerine Better Together paper pad
Altenew Beveled Squares stencil
Stampin up Petail Pair embossing folder
Mama Elephant Basic Set dies
Hero Arts Unicorn White ink pad

Thanks for taking a peek!
~Kristina

Color Throwdown 504

Happy Sunday one and all!  I'm sorry I have been quiet lately.  I have been busy working on some quilting projects.  If I ever get around to taking some nice pictures, I will share them here.

Today I really, really wanted to make a card.  I have purchased a lot of great products lately and I NEED to use them.  I happened to get an email reminder today that the Color Throwdown challenge #ctd 504 would be ending tomorrow.  I checked out the colors and decided to go with it.  I took a look around my very messy desk and grabbed a few items that I had out.

Here is this weeks inspiration:

You can find all the details on how to participate and link up HERE.  The middle color is copper and I knew I had a gorgeous copper embossing powder from Hero Arts in my stash.

Oh that splendid copper!!  Swoon!!  I stamped the Love of Coffee background stamp from Picket Fence Studios on to a piece of Neenah Solar white with the Ink on 3 embossing ink pad.  I sprinkled the embossing powder liberally over the entire card front.  I let my heat gun warm up and watched the magic happen.  Gets me every time.  I set it aside.

Next I grabbed a scrap piece of black cardstock and stamped the Candy Stripe background stamp from Hero Arts and used the same copper embossing powder.  I stamped the coffee cup from the Coffee with a Splash set from Altenew using black Versafine ink.  I sprinked it with clear embossing powder and hit it with the heat tool.

I cut the coffee cup out with a circle die from MFT Stamps.  I used the Ink on 3 embossing powder and gently swiped it all around the circle edges.  Copper embossing powder and melt.  I layered all of the pieces onto the black card base.  The circle was adhered with foam tape.  For the last bit of detail I added dots of black Pico Embellisher.  All done.  I am quite pleased with the final product!

Hopefully I'll be back soon with more cards to share!

~Kristina