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Saturday, 8 April 2023

Perk Me Up!

Good Morning

Meet today's card, something for all the coffee lovers out there which would include me!

A Colorful Life Designs has come out with 2 more fun stencils called Coffee Love and Coffee Pot that I paired up for my card. There is also a fun new stamp set to go with it called Coffee.

So, here's what I did to create my card.

I began by making the background first using the Coffee Love stencil on my Gel Plate.
I inked up my Gel Plate by pressing my Rusty Hinge Distress Oxide pad directly onto the plate, laid the stencil over that, then rubbed over it with a piece of white cardstock. It lifted off some of the ink.
I removed the stencil and rubbed another piece of white cardstock over the whole plate to pull the print that I used for my background. **I repeated that process twice so I could fill up the whole card front panel. **
Next, I took another piece of white cardstock, set it onto my Make Art Station and positioned the Coffee Pot stencil over that. I inked it up with some black ink then I removed the stencil and cut the pot out.
I traced the bottom part of the pot which is a separate part of that stencil, onto the cardstock that I had rubbed over the stencil on the Gel Plate and cut that out too. It wasn't quite dark enough, so I rubbed some more Rusty Hinge over it. I glued that onto the bottom of the pot to look like the coffee.
I set the pot into my Misti to stamp the sentiment from the new Coffee stamp set also from A Colorful Life Designs.
I pop dotted the coffee pot over the background and then stenciled in the coffee steam.
I glue the finished panel onto a piece of white cardstock, then onto a piece of brown cardstock and finally onto an A2 card base.