Coffee Loving Papercrafters

Michael Trent, our February Guest Designer is back with us!

Hello, everyone!  It’s Michael, again, back for Week 3 as Guest Designer for the Coffee Loving Papercrafters Blog.  This week, we are paper-piecing a coffee-to-go cup using the Sketched Coffee Cup digital image from Stamplorations.  

Even though Valentine’s Day is over, we still need cards throughout the year to let those coffee-loving people in our lives know how much we love them.  Right?    

• I made a top-folding A2 from red cardstock, and I adhered a piece of white cardstock to the inside for a message.   
• I die-cut a piece of white cardstock using the Hugs & Kisses Cover-Up from MFT.  Then I used a variety of Distress Inks from Ranger to blend color in the center.  I wrapped red and white baker’s twine around it and adhered it to the card front.   
• I printed four of the Sketched Coffee Cups at 50% and fussy cut two of the cups.   
• I paper-pieced them using scraps of paper from my stash, keeping the “love” theme going.   
• I fussy-cut the cup wrapper from the other two cups, traced and fussy-cut them using red cardstock, embossed them, and adhered them to the cups.  
• I adhered the two cups to the card front using foam tape and added two tiny clothespins to the baker’s twine.
• Lastly, I printed one of the sentiments from the Word Snippets: Valentine’s digital kit from KCS Designs by Kim, layered it on a piece of the red cardstock, and adhered it to the card front using foam tape.  

Here’s another idea using the paper pieced cups but this time I used scrap paper for my card front, and I left out the baker’s twine. 

I hope you enjoy this week’s card and appreciate you stopping by the blog today.  To view more of my work, follow me on my social media channels: Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube. 
Enjoy the rest of your day.  Until next week…

Hugs from Brasil…

~Michael   

For more inspiration make sure to stop by Michael’s Blog, Instagram, Facebook & YouTube.