I don’t know about you, but this pretty much sums up me in the morning! Hello everyone! Betsy here with a very cute coffee card made with the But First Coffee Flash Cards! I also used the paw print stamp from the High Five Stamp Set, Spring Plaids Paper Pad, Night Out Pearl Embellishments and A Mermaid’s Tail Confetti. Let me show you how I made my card!
The first thing I did was to foil my flashcard. I used a bronze colored foil. Then I chose my background papers and made my layers for the card. I started out with this plan but in the end I don’t use it.
I color-matched my coffee mug to the plaid paper I had die cut. I stamped 2 of the paw prints onto the mug. I used a metallic ink but it jut wasn’t showing off the metallic property of it. So, I took a brown gel pen – that was quite juicy – and colored in the 2 paw prints. That’s when things started to go south. Somehow I got the gel pen ink on my left hand and smeared the coffee cup (you can see the smear on the bottom) and on the white part of the card base. I was able to get most of the gel pen off the mug but you could still see it. The card base with all the layers of card stock just couldn’t be saved, so I made a new one. For the mug I stamped another paw print over the stain and very carefully went over it with the gel pen. It worked!
I added some Night Out Embellishments for the eyes. And then I used A Mermaid’s Tale Confetti to dot the mug so it looked like it had a pattern. I re-did my background and left off one of the layers. I die cut the plaid paper and a white piece of card stock with scalloped nested rectangle dies. I made the white one 2 sizes smaller so more of the plaid paper would show and I wanted it smaller than the mug. I popped the mug up with foam tape and that finished my card!
I hope you enjoyed today’s tutorial. I feel with this card – you win some (the paw print on the mug to hide the stain) and you lose some (making a new card base). It is just paper and we shouldn’t be afraid of making mistakes, fixing mistakes, or just chucking the whole thing into the trash! It’s just paper!
Supplies used:
- But First Coffee Flash Cards
- Spring Plaids Paper Pad
- High Five Stamp Set
- Night Out Pearl Embellishments
- A Mermaid’s Tail Confetti
- Copic markers:BG10, BG11, BG01, BG13, BG53, W1
- Foam Tape
- Scalloped Nesting Rectangle Dies
- Brown Metallic Pen
- Brown or Bronze foil
- Coordinating card stock for card base
- Low loft foam tape
Til next time…
Betsy