Coffee Loving Papercrafters

Hello hello hello… Helen is here! I am back from my Summer break. But… Today, let’s take a coffee break with me and this card. On my CAS card, I used the Spring Coffee Cup Mega Digital Stamp Set from Graciellie Design. At her digital store, she has quite a collection of the coffee/tea/cocoa digital stamp sets. Working with digital stamps, I like to use the Silhouette Studio software and also Procreate Pro on my MacBook. But you can use any image processing software and any Word Document software will work with any digital images.

I opened both the cup and label files, resized and stacked the them together. And then I printed images and sentiment on a white cardstock with inkjet printer. I always printed the digital stamps on the night before so the ink will dry well. If you print on the same day you want to color, you can dry the ink with craft heater gun, too. I colored the printed cup with Altenew Artist Alcohol Markers. After coloring process, I fussy cut the cup with scissors. I used stamping with acrylic block and dye inks to create that watercolor background. I dabbed some of the Catherine Pooler Dye Inks on an acrylic block and lightly sprayed it with pearl silver spray. And then I stamped it on a white cardstock. I put another acrylic block on top of it and let the ink dried underneath the other block. After I removed the acrylic blocks, I dried watercolor paint with craft heater gun just to make sure it dried well. And then, I cut the background panel with Dare 2B Artzy Rectangles Framelits Dies. I added the cut out frame on the card with 3D foam tape and using permanent  adhesive runner to add the middle mat. I added the coffee cup in the middle of the mat with 3D foam tape. Let’s get some freshly brewed coffee for our souls today… Thanks so much for stopping by our blog. Have fabulous caffeinated day!!!