A Latte Love

Oh, hello!  So, have you seen the August My Monthly Hero kit?  Dude!  It's all about coffee!  I used to be quite the coffee drinker . . . all day, every day.  Not so much anymore, but I do love a good coffee stamp set.  And this one has it all.

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For this card, I stamped the coffee cup using Rich Cocoa Memento ink onto the tea-dyed paper that came with the kit.  I thought it would be a perfect pattern for that cup.  I colored the coffee using E25 and E27 Copic Markers and added the highlights using a White Gel Pen.  Then, I fussy cut the image with scissors.

Now then, that tea-dyed paper is pretty fragile, so to beef it up a bit, I used the coordinating coffee cup die and cut it twice from Neenah Solar White card stock.  I adhered the stamped image to the die cut coffee cups and viola! Nice and sturdy.

I stamped the steam using Brushed Corduroy Distress Ink on a scrap of Neenah Natural White card stock, used the coordinating die to cut it out and adhered it to the back of the cup.

I used my Standard Circle Nestabilities to cut a circle, also from Neenah Natural White card stock. I adhered that to a scalloped circle cut from Kraft card stock and used foam tape to adhere the coffee cup and steam.

The patterned paper panel is from a stack that has been living in my studio for quite some time.  But seriously, you guys, it's perfect with all the coffee stains on it . . . or, I suppose they could be tea stains.

I added ribbon, which also came with the kit by the way, to cover up where the two patterned pieces meet.  I mounted that onto a piece of 4 1/8" x 5 3/8" Kraft card stock, and added that to the card base, which is also Natural white, because Solar White was just too stark for this card.

Finally, I adhered the circles with the coffee cup to the card with foam tape (because one can never use too much of that stuff) and then stamped the sentiment using Jumbo Java VersaMagic ink.

And there ya have it!

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