Coffee Loving Papercrafters

Hello Coffee Lovers!! Happy Holidays!!

I hope everyone has a wonderful and safe holiday and a happy New Year!! It’s time for Brew & Craft Your Stash!! Challenge #67 in the 75 Creative Card Challenges Magazine by Paper Crafts 2013!! Grab your drink of choice and get ready for some great crafty ideas!!!

Challenge #67 – Use Pleats. Two of the magazine cards uses paper to create pleats. One card created pleats with ribbon. The last card folded and pleated paper to crate a dress!!!

For my pleats I went with paper!!! I just used my score board to score two lines every inch or two, then creased them. Then I used liquid adhesive to hold one side of the pleat down. Since I decided to do four stripes of paper, this took some time!! Thank goodness for tiny clips that can hold them close while the pleats dried!!

While my pleats dried I pulled out The Stamps of Life Hot Chocolate 2 and Patterns 4 Hot Chocolate. I stamped the outline cup on white card stock and then used the matching die to cut it out. Then I used the sentiments from Patterns 4 stamp set, masking the different words to make them all fit inside the cup.

Next, I pulled out some pattern paper and used a stitched rectangle die. Then I started adhering the pleats! That took some time too, at which I decided to swatch, reorganize and thin out my ink stash!!!

After the pleats were down and staying in place, I wrapped some black twine around the top pleat and tied in a bow. Then I adhered the cup on top of the pleats. Last, I adhered the panel to a read card base.

Thanks for stopping by! I hope this inspires you to pull out your paper or ribbons and make some pleats for your card!

Dana

Also, the National Cocoa Day Challenge is still going on until the 27th!  You can find the linkup and details for that at this post here!  You could be a Guest Designer here at the CLC!

AND if that’s not enough fun for you, you also have until the 27th to play along with the International Tea Day challenge!  Another chance to participate in our Guest Designer search!  You will find that linkup here!

Hope you’ll join us and we can’t wait to see what you create