Coffee Loving Papercrafters

Up today on the blog is one of the Designer Picks from the 2021 Spring | Summer Coffee Lovers Blog Hop!  Please welcome Ericka!

I’m Ericka Strange or aka Strangely Creative. I’m a wife, mom, and a Preschool Teacher just outside of Houston, Texas.  I love all types of crafting but papercrafting and making cards is my favorite. I love working with a variety of colors and mediums to create fun and colorful cards. I grew up in the NW and so of course coffee has been a staple in my life since high school. You can never have too much coffee or too many stamps! I love being part of such an encouraging and kind crafting community and I look forward to inspiring others.

Hello Coffee Lovers! Ericka here aka Strangely Creative and I’m so excited to be a Guest Designer this month at the Coffee Loving Cardmakers Blog. I’m not sure which I love more coffee or coffee stamps and I feel like you can never have too many of either. I love participating in the Coffee Lovers Blog Hops and so for my cards today I used a set I won from one of the sponsors, Anthony’s Papercraft. I had to made two cards using the Travel Coffee set as well as the Coffee 2 stamp set.

For my first card, I used the background panel included in the Travel Coffee set and did some ink blending with Peacock Feather and Ground Espresso Distress Oxides. I then used Dylusions Shimmer Spray to add a little sparkle.

I stamped the coffee cup from the Coffee 2 set and heat embossed it in WOW! Weathered Gold.

I added the cups to my panel with foam tape and then added this awesome sentiment from the Travel Coffee set to finish my card.

For my second card I used the cup and sentiment from the Travel Coffee set. I colored the cup with Copics in pinks.

I created the background with PaperArtsy Infusions in Emerald Isle and used a piece of plastic to smoosh it on my background. Once it was dry, I used foam tape to adhere both the coffee cup and sentiment to my card base.

Thanks so much for stopping by and thank you CLC for the chance to create some more coffee cards! Cheers and have a wonderful week!

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