Coffee Loving Papercrafters

I don’t know about all of you but I am celebrating the start of 2018 with lots of caffeinated goodness. I hope you all had very merry holiday seasons and didn’t murder any members of your immediate or extended families with all that visiting. 🙂

I was trying to think of how I should approach the very first coffee card of the new year, and I couldn’t help but to picture a giant 2018 all dressed up in coffee beans. So I sketched out a 2018 in pencil and went to work.

I used a coffee bean from Technique Tuesday’s Sassy Coffee Stamp set and followed the outline of my pencil masterpiece.

I was really bad because I didn’t take a pic of my coloring process, but essentially I used Distress Markers and a paintbrush to color in the little beanies.

I stamped a very apropos sentiment to ring in the new year to finish out my card.

I know you all must be wondering what happened to my normal mixed media aesthetic – don’t worry, I did NOT make a new year’s resolution to give that up, but this card just seemed to be the perfect CAS start to what I’m sure will be a year filled with creativity. I hope you all are getting crafty in your studios, too!