Coffee & Friends

 

Annie’s Ink-Lings

 

One of my favorite drinks is a Mocha.  So when this challenge came up at Cardz 4 Galz, I was definitely in.  The challenge is #138 Cocktails, Wine or Coffee.  I have a great supply of coffee related stamps to choose from.  The hard part was choosing which ones to use.  Here they are, all mounted on my card.

Having chosen three stamps to use necessitated making a slimline card.  As you might guess, I never know what size card I'm going to make until I've chosen my stamps.  The twill coffee ribbon I used was just the perfect embellishment, along with three small pink acrylic dots.  I used both Stampin' Up Stampin' Blends and Copic Markers to color the images.  The brown panel was mounted with Stampin' Up Adhesive Strips.  They are nice and long, and are really handy when you want to 3D a large area. Using a blender brush and Dune (color) ink pad, I brushed on a little ink around the borders of the white panels before adhering them to the pink layers.

Here are the supplies I used:

Inkadinkadoo - Sentiment and Image stamps

Ann-ticipations Coffee Background stamp

Pink Acrylic Dots

Corner Rounder

Stampin' Up Adhesive Strips (3D)

Picket Fence Studios Blending Brush

Color Box Ink Pad - Dune

Now, I think I just need to go make myself a mocha, relax a little, and think about my next card!

Blessings,

Annie

Mocha Cup Happy Fall Card

Annie’s Ink-Lings

                        

Hello Stampers,

Today's card features my favorite drink - a hot mocha!  I'm thinking I just might have one after I finish this post.  Oh, and a red, white, and blue scone would be delicious to go with it.  If you haven't yet had one of these scones, you don't know what you're missing - raspberries, blue berries, and white chocolate chips - yummy!  Well, back to the subject at hand.  This is a fun little card for fall, but it could easily be used as a fall-themed birthday card, too.  A great idea since I need two birthday cards for October and both people are latte drinkers.  So here's the card - enjoy!

1.  With Walnut Stain Distress Ink stamp mocha cup on brown CS and cut out.  Also stamp

            “happy fall” on light green CS, punch out using SU Classic Label punch.  Cut off the point on

            the left side of the label and punch a 1/8” hole.

2.  String twine through the hole, wrap it around the cup at the top and tie a bow on the right side of 

            the cup.  Glue the twine in place and put a dab of glue on the twine knot.

3.  On the back side of the small decorative piece of CS trace the sleeve template.  Run it through the

            crimping tool then adhere it to the cup.

4.  Adhere the flowers and leaf stems to the cup, and set aside.

5.  Adhere the green panel to the card base and then add the 2 decorative strips at the bottom of the card.  And finally mount the cup onto the card and add sequins.

Card Base:      5 ½” x 8 ½”

Panel:              4” x 5 ¼”

2 DP Strips:    ½” x 4”

Ink:                  Tim Holtz Walnut Distress

 Stamps:           Hero Arts Cup of Coffee K5332; Memory Box Happy Fall B946

Punches:          Stampin' Up Classic Label Punch and a small leafy stem punch

Thanks for visiting my blog today.

Blessings,

Annie

A Latte Thanks

Hi friends,

My most favorite drink is a Mocha.  Just love that chocolate and coffee flavor!  So when I saw this Impression Obsession Coffee Cup die set, I fell in love.  It makes the cutest little latte cups I've ever seen.  I also have this liking for "little" things.  This is my first card using this die set and I can hardly wait until I have time to do some more designing with it.  This particular design is quick and easy.

Supplies

A2 White Card Base

4” x 5 ¼” DP for Front Background Layer

Take Out Coffee Cup Die by Impression Obsession

            Die cut 3 cups from coordinating DP

            Die cut 3 lids and 1 straw from light brown DP

Cut 3 squares ½” x ½” from the Background DP

Computer generate the sentiment “Sending You a LATTE THANKS,” or use one of your own coffee

            sentiment stamps, onto white cardstock

1 Dew Drop

Aleene’s Turbo Tacky Glue Pen (or any strong, quick-dry glue)

Glossy Accents

Tape Runner

Scotch 3-D Mounting Tape

Paper Trimmer

Sizzix Big Shot

T-Ruler

Directions

1.  Mat the background layer onto the front of the card.

2.  Trim the sentiment to ½” x  4 ¼” .  Cut off the left end in a downward diagonal.

3.  Adhere the sentiment strip to the right side of the card front with right end aligned with the DP panel, and 5/8” from the bottom of the white card base.

4.  Using Glossy Accents, glue the Dew Drop onto the right end of the sentiment strip.

5.  Assemble the little coffee cups.

            a.  Glue the DP square behind each of the oval openings of the sleeve dies.

            b.  Slide the coffee cups through the top slit in the sleeve dies and glue in place.

            c.  Glue the lids onto two of the coffee cups.

            d.  With the third cup, slide the straw through the opening in the coffee cup and glue in place.

            e.  Glue the lid behind the cup opening and the straw.

6.  Place a strip of mounting tape on the back of each of the coffee cups.  I used a T-Ruler to make sure that I lined up the coffee cups evenly, a little to the left side of the card. There is approximately a ½” space between the bottom of the coffee cups and the top of the sentiment strip.

It was really fun to make this little thank you card.  Hope you give it a try.

Blessings,

Annie

Triple-Tier Slider Card

I just finished making the cutest card (not in the bragging sense)!  I love it!!!!  Can you tell I'm excited? The coffee theme stamps were so fun to use and the slider mechanism is awesome. I couldn't have done it without using a tutorial I found at Dawn's Stamping Thoughts.  Ms. Dawn, thank you for your wonderfully, easy-to-follow tutorial.

Here's my version of the card:

I used Stampin' Up Gorgeous Grunge for the background, using Distress Ink Brick Red, Tea Dye, and Broken China.  This is really a fun card to make.  I hope you'll give it a try.

Blessings,
Annie