Coffee Loving Papercrafters

Hello Coffee Lovers!!

It’s time for a new Brew & Craft Your Stash!! Challenge #5 in the 75 Creative Card Challenges Magazine by Paper Crafts 2013!! Grab your coffee (or tea) and get ready for some great crafty ideas!!

Challenge #5 –  Make A Quilt Inspired Card!!! The magazine features four cards for this challenge. Three of the cards look very quilt-ish, with either pattern papers or solid colors in very quilt like patterns. One card uses different pattern papers, then embossed them before stitching them together into a panel.

There are a few quilt inspired products out their, but I don’t really have them. I’m not a quilter, so am not really attracted to those kinds of paper crafting supplies. But, my first thought was some great products by Crafter’s Companion that can be very quilt like, or so I like to think!! LOL!!

I started with Vintage Tea Party 6 x 6 paper pad cutting 1″ x 1″ squares from different patterns. Then I arranged them on a white cardbase, when I liked the layout I used Glad Press’N Seal to keep them in the same spot while I put adhesive on the back of the squares. Just a little trick I learned from Jennifer Mcguire!

While, that dried I pulled three die sets from the Vintage Tea Party Collection: Toppling Teacups, Tea & Biscuits, Teatriffic Sentiments. I cut the tea pot from brown cardstock and some CC glitter cardstock. With the teacup I cut some CC mirror card and the sentiment from brown cardstock.

I layered the brown teapot over the glitter cardstock and added a small little bow. To the tea cup I added some hand drawn flowers and swirls with an opaque white pen. I also added faux stitching to each of my pattern paper squares. I thought this helped the background look more quilt like. The background is also not perfect, I liked how it looked, kind of how my quilts would turn out, since I’m so not skilled in sewing!!

I added a strip of glitter cardstock and then added the teapot and cup to the card with foam tape. Last I adhered the sentiment.

Thanks so much for stopping by!! If you happen to have quilt inspired paper crafting supplies, I hope this inspires you to use them! If you don’t, guess what you can do it any!!! 🙂

Dana

Supplies

Crafter’s Companion – Sara Davies Signature Collection: Vintage Tea Party – 6 x 6 paper pad, Toppling Teacup, Teariffic Sentiments and Tea & Biscuits die sets.

Crafter’s Companion – Luxury Cardstock Pack – Pale Dogwood

White Opaque Pen