Coffee Loving Papercrafters

Hello, Coffee Lovers!!

For the past year and half my posts have taken us through Paper Crafting Tips & Tricks 2012 magazine! It’s been a great way to use up some of our crafty stash! Not to fear I have another magazine with some more great ideas, but I’ll get into that in the next post!!

I thought I would do a recap! I listed and linked all the posts for products or techniques we learned about! Here and there I’ve included my favorite cards I’ve made along the way! I figured this would be an easy bookmark for you to find some great ideas to use up your crafty stash!!

I didn’t cover every idea in the magazine, living in an on-campus apartment I just can’t bring all of my crafty stash with me, plus there are just some regular household items I don’t have with me.

Adhesives

Alphabet Stickers

Baker’s Twine

Buttons

Canvas, Cork, Burlap

Chipboard

Doilies

Glitter

Journaling Cards

Paint

Patterned Paper

Rhinestones & Pearls

Ribbon & Trim

Square Punches

Vellum

Wood

Die Cutting

Dry Embossing

Fussy Cutting

Layered Product

Layering Stamps

Paper Folding

Stitching & Sewing

Style Squares

DYI Stamping

Heat Embossing

Inking

Markers

Sentiment Stamps

Spray Mists

Border Stamps

Beautiful Borders

DIY Flowers

Textured to Perfection

Fabulous Felt

Get Funky with Fabric

Fancy French Knots

Decorative Tape

Whew! That’s a lot of posts!! Now I couldn’t leave today’s post without a new coffee card for you!! I used Pinkfresh Studio’s July Challenge as a starting point! The challenge is Watercolor and/or Rainbow colors!!

I started with a big piece of watercolor cardstock. Then I used my Papertrey Ink Re-inkers as watercolors. I kept it simple and with a wet brush picked up the color and painted a vertical stripe. At first, I kept added the stripes with a different color, but I got too much bleeding, so after each color, I used my heat gun to almost dry each painted stripe.

After it was all painted and dry I die cut part of it with a stitched rectangle. Then I used Pinkfresh Studio’s teacup stamp from  Tealightful Day. I was able to stamp 3 but only ended up using one on my card. I then fussy cut the cups out.

I added the die cut panel to a white card base and then added a strip of black cards stock. I stamped a couple small triangles on the background. Then I added the cup with foam tape. With my Spectrum Noir Clear Sparkle Pen I added a little shimmer to the triangles and leaves. Last I stamped the Happiness is a Cup of Tea & a Good Book below the teacup.

Thanks so much for all your comments on each of my posts!! I hope you all liked working our way through the magazine because I have another to start next time!!

Dana

Supplies

Stamps: PinkFresh Studio – Tealightful Day

Re-Inkers: Papertrey Ink – Pure Poppy, Orange Zest, Lemon Tart, New Leaf, Blueberry Sky, Royal Velvet.

Watercolor Cardstock

Spectrum Noir Clear Sparkle Pen