Coffee Loving Papercrafters

Monday, ugh, my least favorite day of the work week.  I really only get out of bed for ya’ll! 😉

So are you enjoying the coffee hop?  I hope so!  I sure am.  I have two cards for you today, it is gonna be a Hipster Holiday.

Our grand PNW is full of hipsters, especially in Seattle.  Perhaps they originated here, I don’t know.  Perhaps it is Grunge 2.0 in the post Kurt Cobain era?  I have no idea, but making these cards felt right at home to me.

Obviously I made two versions of this card.  I like to represent diversity in my card making.  I haven’t seen Santa myself, so who knows what he really looks like.  But I KNOW if he is a hipster like this guy, he drinks coffee.

This hipster Santa is from Darcie’s Stamps.  I stamped both with my Momento ink and colored them with my Copics and cut them out using my Scan n’ Cut.  I colored them very similarly with a few differences that you will notice when you see the second one.  Obviously skin color, but there are a few other differences too.  In my Hipster Santa vision, he isn’t totally red and green, just kinda, whatever… bold prints and easy colors, hence the patterned papers. I used a couple different reds for my bases.  Both the DP and the CS behind were cut using dies from Super Sponsor Gina Marie.  I wanted to bring in some brighter reds with the ribbon.  The sentiment is stamped on a tag and brushed with Delecata Gold ink.

You’ll see here some slightly different coloring on a few items and different papers.  I wish I had more of the first paper, because I think it stands out more.  Because this paper wasn’t’ quite as bright in the whites, I decided to add a little sparkle.  You’ll notice Santa’s Magical dust on his bag and in the air.  This was done with embellishments from Super Sponsor Trinity Stamps.

I love these guys, I think they are pretty cool dudes. The coffee proves that!

I hope that you find some time to ink up some stamps and join us for the blog hop.  You can find all the details here. 

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