Coffee Loving Papercrafters

We’re so excited to welcome Maria Giselle to the blog.  She is an International Tea Day Top Pick.

Hello! I am Maria Giselle of Maria Giselle’s Creative Cuts. I am so glad to be here with you as one of the Guest Designers here at Coffee Loving Cardmakers Blog. I am so honored to be given a chance to do this. I hope you like my project.

My project is a shaped coffee cup note card that has its fold on the bottom. A bit of a change from the usual top folding card.

I used the Honey Bee Coffee Cup Gift Card Holder to cut the coffee cup. Even though this die is intended to create a gift card holder, it does not mean we cannot create other things using this die, right? I enjoy creating new things out of specialty dies.

I usually sketch my plan before I start creating. It makes the process easy for me. I did a bit of partial die cutting to achieve the layers I need to create the cup.

I cross stitched a heart on a cardstock. The holes were created using a Paper Smooches Cross Stitch die. I traced a heart on the holed panel and used this as a guide in stitching the heart. I am using a variegated DMC floss. I adhered a scrap heart die cut on the back of the stitched to heart to keep the stitching secure. I then carefully fussy cut the heart, making sure I don’t cut any cross stitching.

I heat embossed the sentiment on vellum using Versafine Onyx Black ink and clear embossing powder. The sentiment is from the Honey Bee Perfect Blend stamp set. Using a scrap cross stitched holed panel as a guide, I poked holes on the vellum around the sentiment. I trimmed off the excess on the sides of the sentiment strip. I stitched a silver floss to create a frame around the sentiment and at the same time, secure the vellum sentiment strip to the stitched heart. 

I die cut arms using the Honey Bee Paper Hugs Honey Cuts. I layered each arm with two die cuts for some dimension. I adhered the arms to the heart with a liquid adhesive.

I hope you like this shaped card I created. The sentiment I chose for this card means a lot to me. I feel like I created this card to give to myself because I needed someone to say this to me during this time. How about you? Have you had moments like this when you feel that the card you have created is actually for yourself?

Thank you again, Amy for this great opportunity of allowing me to be a guest designer at Coffee Loving Cardmakers Blog. Have a blessed, brilliant and creative day everyone!

Maria Giselle B.

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