Coffee Lovers Blog Hop Day 5

Welcome back to the Fall/Winter 2019 Coffee Lovers Blog Hop!

There are over 600 entries to date so it looks like everyone is 

well caffeinated and getting crafty this week!

For today's project I have a tag to share with you.

I was browsing YouTube looking for inspiration and I came across

a video from last year by Nichol Spohr. She made the cutest coffee cup birthday cards

and they looked so realistic so I wanted to give it a try.

You can see her awesome video here.

She made very large birthday cards with faux foam on top but

since I wanted to make a tag I chose smaller dies and scaled the

project down a bit.

I started with the Sugar Pea Designs Coffee To Go Cup dies.

I used Bristol Smooth Cardstock so I could do some ink blending

on the cup base. I used Gathered Twigs and Ground Espresso Distress Inks

and then spritzed with water for a more realistic look.

For the dome piece of the cup I sponged on a little Tumbled Glass Distress ink

to give a very slight appearance of glass.

For the foam on top I used a super cool product called a Snow Marker.

You just apply the white liquid and then blast it with your heat tool

and like magic you have faux snow (or in this case.... foam)!

How cool is that? I also loved Nichol's idea to add little Coffee Tiny Bubbles

from Honey Bee Stamps for that little extra something on the foam.

Here is a closeup of all that foam and coffee bubble goodness:

For the word "latte" on top of the cup I used the Coffee Words Sugarcuts dies

from Sugar Pea Designs cut from gold foil.

I added a red foil heart under the word because as Nichol said,

a little bit of red just pops out and I couldn't agree more!

For the base of my tag I cut out some vellum using the Stitched Duo 3 dies 

from Pretty Pink Posh. I've always loved the rounded top of that die!

I took  Gathered Twigs Distress ink and sponged it over a 

Gina Marie Coffee Bean Stencil to give the tag some detail.

And last but not least is my cute little heart charm hanging from the twine.

I used the same heart from the tag in red foil and I 

sandwiched my twine in between two of them to look like a charm.

I just love that extra added touch!

I'm not gonna lie, this is probably my most favorite 

project yet for this hop!

Thank you Nichol for the inspiration and I'll see you soon

with another entry for the Fall/Winter 2019 Coffee Lovers Blog Hop!

Have a great day, I already am!

☕️Lisa ❤️

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Wishing You Love & Coffee

Hello coffee lovers and welcome to Lisa's *ICU (Intensive Coffee Unit)

I am so excited to be joining the Coffee Lovers design team and today I'm sharing my first

project with you. I had so much fun with the SugarPea Designs products from  

National Iced Tea Day yesterday I thought I'd make one more card with the 

Coffee To Go Cup dies while they were on my desk.  While I do enjoy a hot cup of coffee, 

my favorite is definitely Iced Coffee.  It has always been a favorite of my Mom and I guess I 

inherited her taste for it.  You might be surprised to hear that my favorite place to get Iced Coffee is McDonalds.  I'm not really a fan of Starbucks, their coffee is too strong for me.  I actually like a little coffee in my cream if truth be told. 

😂😂😂

Along with the Coffee To Go Cup dies I also used another SugarPea Designs stamp set called

Special Delivery for the heart accents on the coffee koozies, 

the stripes on the straws and the sentiment.

Here is the card recipe:

• I started with a kraft colored A2 card base.
• For the base layer on my card I cut a white panel out of the largest Stitched Scalloped Rectangle dies from Kat Scrappiness.  
• Next I used Ground Espresso Distress Oxide Ink to sponge over a Gina Marie Coffee Bean Stencil.  I made sure to fade it out towards the edges, I love that look.
• After I die cut the pieces from the Coffee To Go Cup dies, I stamped the heart images from the Special Delivery stamp set in green on the koozies  The postal stripes stamp from the Special Delivery set were perfect for adding stripes to the straws!
• I made sure to cut the lids from the Coffee To Go Cup dies out of vellum so you could see through them to the whipped cream on top. I sponged some beige ink on the cream to give it some dimension.
• The sentiment from Special Delivery was stamped in Cocoa Bean ink from Papertrey Ink on top between the coffee cups.
• For the finishing touch on the bottom of the card I completed the sentiment by cutting out the "coffee" portion of the "Got Coffee" sentiment die from Kat Scrappiness out of brown paper.

I really love how this card turned out and I am so glad you were able to spend some 

time with me today in my own personal "ICU".  I'll be back again with another caffeinated

creation on the 25th!  Here's hoping you get in some card making and coffee time today!

Have a great day, I already am!

☕️Lisa ☕️