Coffee Loving Papercrafters

Hello!

It’s Dana with a new Brew & Craft Your Stash! We all have Rhinestones & pearls in our crafty stash, so grab your cup and keep ready for some great crafty ideas!! If this is the first time you are seeing my feature or need a refresher, click here for my very first post, it gives a little background explanation of my feature!

The next Creating with Product in the Paper Crafting Tips & Tricks magazine is Rhinestones and Pearls! I know we all have them! Some more then others, I’ll be the first to admit that I have more then I will ever use!!! Kim Hughes has some great ideas for using these sparkly elements to our cards:

• Add Rhinestones and/or pearls to the center of flowers
• Create a frame with rhinestones around your main image or sentiment
• Use your sentiments and the rhinestones/pearls as bullet points
• Create a unique shape, such as a heart or star with rhinestones or pearls
• Add rhinestones or pearls to stamped images
• Create curly q’s and flourishes with rhinestones or pearls, feel free to mix up the color and shapes.

For my card, I decided to see if I could create a word with Rhinestones. To start with I cut out the word Coffee (of course, lol) with Winnie & Walter’s Typecast: Cary Letter dies. Then I arranged the letters on a horizontal A2 card base to make sure I could get Coffee to fit, which it did if I did it an arch. With a pencil, I lightly traced over each of the letters.

Then I found in my stash some rose gold rhinestones that came in several different sizes. I picked them up at least a couple years ago on clearance at one of the craft stores. Then I set about to arranging the different sized rhinestones inside my penciled letters. When I was happy with the letters I used liquid glue to adhere them. I don’t trust the adhesive they come with, I want to make sure they are not going anywhere!!

Next, I pulled the stamps Bacon My Heart and Milk and Cookies by Darcie’s Heart & Home. I stamped most of the images from each set and used my Spectrum Noir Markers to color them. Then I fussy cut them all out.

Above my rhinestone Coffee, I added the images, some directly to the card and others with foam tape. Last I rounded the corners.

Thanks for stopping by, I hope this gives you some ideas for using Rhinestones or Pearls on your creations! We all have plenty of them, so use them!! 🙂

Dana

Supplies

Stamps: Darcie’s Heart & Home – Bacon My Heart, Milk & Cookies

Dies: Winnie & Walter – Typecast: Cary Letters

Spectrum Noir Markers