Coffee Loving Papercrafters

Hello there coffee loving friends!  It’s Kerry here and I’m back with another fun Sunday Sip!  Today, I’m sharing a masculine card featuring the yummy new products from Ranger-and the Wendy Vecchi Make Art line.  These products will be available March 31 but I’m sharing a little sneaky-peek courtesy of Ranger.  WOOP!

It isn’t often that I create a masculine themed card, but the new stamp set “Bravo” had my eyes going ga-ga over the little wheat images.  It also sparked my AH HA! moment when I realized I had a mug in my collection that had the same wheat images!  I grabbed this handmade mug (made by Andrew Gilliatt) from my collection…It includes a gorgeous moon and wheat scene!  SOOO…Of course, I HAD to coffee-fy my card!  

I started out by inking up those wheat-like images on a piece of Wendy Vecchi Perfect Cardstock in Grey.  I used several colors (Potting Soil, Acorn, Watering Can and Carnation Red) and layers of stamping using her fun new mini magnetic STAY-tion and Perfect Stamp Positioner as well as her Perfect Stamp Block.  I love that the block is thick and has one straight edge and two scalloped edges- perfect for positioning and for gripping!

After stamping the background, I added some flicks of black acrylic paint and silver metallic paint onto the panel to help tie everything together.  I then grabbed some kraft cardstock and created a sentiment panel.  I stenciled the “Thanks” from the stamp/die/stencil set using the Watering Can ink and then added the “cheering for you” sentiment over that using Carnation Red ink.  I mounted this panel onto a dark gray piece of cardstock and then machine stitched the top before wrapping it with some jute.  To finish things off, I attached a shell button a feather and a trio of coffee beans.  I mounted this panel onto a corrugated kraft panel before mounting the whole thing onto a dark gray card base.

Take a peek at all these yummy goodies coming to Ranger at the end of March!!!  These items are perfectly portable and will be a mainstay in my crop bag.  They’re soooo fun too!

Thanks for hopping over to check out my card and I hope I inspired you to make something coffee-licous and MASCULINE today!  :). See you again next week!