Coffee Loving Papercrafters

We’re excited to announce our April Guest Designer, Kimberly Burdette!

Hi, Kimberly here, I live in Georgia with my husband and fur-baby, Babe. We love to take her to local parks and to the beaches in Fl when we can. I’ve been scrapbooking since 2016 and fell in love with card making about 5 years ago. I hope I’m able to inspire you to get into your crafty space and make a card for someone just to put a smile on their face or a giggle in their heart, or to scrapbook those memories for years to come. Thanks for hanging out with me!

Hey guys this is my very first card as a Guest Designer for July.  Since it’s July 3rd and tomorrow is America’s 250th Birthday I really wanted to make a card to celebrate that!  I remember being a kid in 1976 when we celebrated America’s 200th Bicentennial Birthday and there was such a buzz in the air leading up to the big day!  I just remember being in awe of so much that was going on, the parades, the fireworks, the cookouts, all the neighbors out in the streets shaking hands and really celebrating our 200th birthday!  It was AWESOME.  So I am dedicating this card to America and her 250th birthday!

I started out with a base card mainly blue filled with colorful stars, layered that with a white card stock and then layered a red foiled card stock on top. That red really makes everything pop!  For the “HAPPY” I used a Karen Burniston “HAPPY BIRTHDAY” DIE SET.  I die cut in a heavy white card stock and inked it in red, and leaving some white of the card stock and then blue.  I adhered it to the top and moved on to my focal point.

I’m not going to lie, for those flags, I cut up a 4th of July store bought card my sister sent to me years ago. It was in a bunch of unused store bought cards she no longer wanted.  I mean who doesn’t like to recycle…so I fussy cut them and adhered to the card base.

The coffee cup is from one of our Super Sponsors and a fav of mine, Crackerbox Stamps.  This is from their Coffee 1 collection.  I stamped the cup out and used a couple of Vicki Boutin color wheels (blue/greens and the red orange set) to bring the RED, WHITE and BLUE colors our flag is known for.

After stamping out and inking the cup, I stamped another one on that star pattern paper…it was the packaging from HOMETOWN SUMMER by Renne Lonney, again, recycling at it’s best  I fussy cut the lid and the sleeve and adhered both to the cup, popping up the lid with some foam tape for some added dimension.  I die cut the 250th, which are both from Karen Burniston, and added it to the sleeve and then adhered the cup to the card.

I reached into my American Crafts Thickers FLAGS & FRILLS and found the word AMERICAN so I cut the “N” off so I could use it as the word AMERICA.  

Lastly I added some glitter stars from my stash and called it done.

Are you sending out any 250th USA Birthday cards this year?  Are you as excited as I am to celebrate our 250th?  I can only hope it is as FABULOUS as the Bicentennial 200th birthday celebration I remember as a kid!

Thanks for hanging out with me today and I hope I inspired you to get into your crafty space and make a handmade card for someone and put a smile on their face.

Stay crafty my friends,

Kimberly

For more inspiration make sure to stop by Kimberly’s blog, Scrapbook.com Gallery +  Instagram.