Coffee or Tea? - The Flower Challenge

Good Morning and Welcome to another card for 

The Flower Challenge.

Our theme is Shaped Cards

I don't normally make shaped cards but it was fun to take myself out of my comfort zone and try and come up with something.  I decided to create a coffee cup shaped card.

I began by following the tutorial on Splitcoast to create the shape of the cup.  It was very easy to do and it's nice that it fits into a regular sized envelope.

The white strip along the cup edge was cut and scored using a ScorPal which adds nice texture.

The blue panel was cut then dry embossed using the Tim Holtz eb folder called Snowfall Speckles.  I like the interest it adds to an otherwise plain panel.

So...onto my flowers.

I recently saw an interesting technique done by Lydia Fiedler called Stamp Etching.  

You can see her video here.

This is a very easy technique and one that you can do while sitting and watching TV or just relaxing.

I placed the flowers from the Sketchy Florals Altenew set into my Misti, inked with black Memento then stamped.  Next, using a black fineline marker, I added the 'flicked' lines all over my flowers.  To add the 'flicked' lines, I began at the inside edge and flicked away from myself letting the marker rest on the edge and then lift as I flicked.  

You can stop at that point but I decided to add some coloured 'flicks' using a Copic marker.  

When I was happy with the look, I fussy cut out the flowers and mounted them using pop dots over the embossed panel.

I stamped some leaves as well but left them plain to add some contrast.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

I hope you will come join us.

Adding my card to these challenges:

CASology- START

(I start each day with a cup of coffee!!)

Simon Says Monday- A TRIO OF SOMETHING

Shopping Our Stash- BLACK/WHITE and ONE OTHER COLOR

Addicted to Stamps and More- ANYTHING GOES

Supplies

Stamps- Sketchy Florals (Altenew)

Inks- Tuxedo Black Memento

Paper- heavy white (local store)

Accessories and Tools- Misti; eb folder-Snowfall Speckles (TH); ScorPal;

Micron 03 fineline marker; Copic marker R27; pop dots