Coffee Loving Papercrafters

Hello there coffee-loving friends!  It’s Kerry here with another Sunday Sip-and-Share. I hope you’ve been enjoying my yummy creations and have been inspired to create something delish with the sketches.  Today’s sketch is the third for this month and I hope you’ll find some time to create one or more coffee (tea or hot chocolate)-loving cards with them.  If you do, please make sure to to add them to our inlinkz collection that is located at the bottom of my post!  We’d love to see what you create!  When posting to social media, please include the hashtag #clcsipandshare.  You never know..It could lead to a yummy coffee-loving treat in your mailbox!

Check out today’s card that inspired our sketch this week!

MMMM…  I love to create tasty backgrounds and this card was just too fun!  I pulled out my Fun Stampers Journey acrylic paints and a small stencil and got to work.  It’s fun using acrylic paints to create card backgrounds so I encourage you to have some fun with paints!     For this creation, I used the following Acrylic colors:  Butter Cream, Pineapple Smoothie, Sweet Berry, Cool Pool and Blue Lagoon. My stencil of choice was:  Vintage Screen.

I wanted the hexie pattern in the stencil to show up bold and beautiful so I selected some Black Licorice cardstock as my base layer.  After applying acrylic paint in a random dabbing pattern with my brush, I peeled the stencil off and let it dry with my heat gun a bit.  After it was dry, I trimmed this layer down and added some silver polka dot vellum in an asymmetrical design.  I like how the vellum allows the stenciled design to peek through.  After that layer, I attached some Cool Pool satin ribbon and started working on the tag.

My tag was created with the Tag Steel Rule Die and Watercolor paper.  I used my stamp positioner tool to apply the stamps in the Le Cafe’ set to the tag.  The steamy coffee cup image in the background was stamped with Oatmeal Cookie ink.  After that,  I applied the coffee press image and the Le Cafe’ sentiment with Versafine Onyx ink.  I embossed it with Journey Clear embossing powder so that I could apply some color to the tag.  After embossing and coloring the image with Copic Markers, I used the watered-down acrylic paints as a wash over the whole tag.  I added a bit more stenciling on the tag to tie it into the card design.

Once the tag was dry, I added some Black Journey Twine  and Whip Cream Journey Thread and attached it to the card.  A little Cool Mint Stickles was added over some of the stenciled background to add some fun and sparkle.  Gotta love my sparkle!!!  To finish the card off, I stamped the spoon with Black Licorice Ink, then colored with some Gray Copic Markers and added some Liquitex Metallic Silver ink over the top.  I also applied some Journey Glaze to give it a fun glossy shine.  I mounted the inked and stamped panel onto Whip Cream cardstock then attached it “wonky style” to an A2 top-fold card base in Blue Lagoon.

What a fun card to create.  I can’t wait to send this card to a special someone this month! If you haven’t explored the use of acrylic paints in cardmaking and stenciling, I recommend you give it a try!  You’ll fall in LOVE!!!

Now let’s take a peek at the sketch…Remember, I work backwards and create sketches from my finished card designs… So let’s take a peek at today’s sketch, shall we?

If you decide to join us and create a card using this sketch (or any of August’s sketch layouts, please add your masterpiece to the inlinkz below! We’ll be watching social media too, so make sure to include the hashtag #clcsipandshare!