Love and Coffee

 

Hello and welcome back to my blog!

It's my day to take over the Coffee Loving Cardmaker's blog again and I have a double shot of iced coffee to share with you today! I have been obsessed with the Shaken Iced Espresso from Starbucks lately and I don't usually like their coffee because it's too strong. This particular drink is perfect though and I can't get enough! I found a video by Nichol Spohr on YouTube that shows how to make the perfect iced coffee and I've made quite a few cards lately using it.

Here is a link to her video if you are interested:

Honey Bee Stamps Frappe Shaped Cards

These coffee cups come out looking so realistic!

Here is my card for today, check out the card recipe below:

For my card I started with a piece of Bristol Smooth Cardstock and I cut out a panel using the largest die from the Kat Scrappiness Stitched Rectangle Dies. I wanted a soft color in the background so I used my Domed foam applicators to apply a light covering of Salvaged Patina Distress Oxide Ink.

The next step was to prepare my coffee cups. I used the Honey Bee Coffee Break Dies and some Ground Espresso Distress Oxide Ink mixed with Gathered Twigs Distress Oxide Ink to give the appearance of iced coffee. I intentionally left the bottom of the color light to make it appear like the cream at the bottom of the cup. Nichol's video has great step by step instructions to achieve this look. I sprinkled water over the ink to make it look more realistic. For the foam at the top of the cup I used a Snow Marker to give a puffy foamy effect and I love how it turned out!.

Once I knew where I wanted the placement of the coffee cups I placed my card front into my Mini MISTI stamping tool and stamped my sentiment from the Technique Tuesday Perk Up stamp set with Versafine Black Onyx Ink. That is my favorite black ink for stamping sentiments because it stamps so crisp and dark! All that was left to do was to pop the coffee cups up on some foam tape and add some fun red hearts.

Thank you for joining me today, make sure you try this technique on your own coffee cups and watch Nichol's video for some helpful tips!

Have a great today, I already am!

☕️  Lisa  ☕️ 

Let's Get Caffeinated

Hello Coffee Lovers and welcome back to my blog!

I'm up on the Coffee Loving Cardmaker's blog today with some more

caffeinated inspiration in my ICU!

Lately I've been experimenting with alcohol inks.
I think I'm a little late to the game but when you're having this much fun,
I say, better late than never!
I've had my alcohol inks and yupo paper for quite a while and I finally
broke them out and had some fun.  I made several backgrounds and turned them into
quite a few cards.  Today's caffeine inspired card features a stamp
set from Technique Tuesday called Perk Up.
Here is my card for today:

I just love the combination of the pink and orange alcohol inks and the gold

ink finishes it off so nicely. I heat embossed the sentiment in gold to match the 

highlights in the background. 

I really love how this card came out and I think I'll be playing with my 

alcohol inks a lot more in the near future.  

It's so nice because you never get the same outcome twice!

Here is one more look at my card in all it's alcohol and caffeinated glory.

Thanks so much for joining me today in my ICU and I'll be seeing you back 

here real soon!

Have a great day!

I already am!

☕️Lisa ☕️

I Like Big Cups

Welcome back to my blog and thanks for stopping by!

I'm up on the Coffee Loving Cardmakers blog today with 

your daily dose of caffeine in the Intensive Coffee Unit!

Today I have a fun card to share with you using the Kat Scrappiness
Layered Coffee Cup Die and a funny sentiment stamp from the
Sassy Coffee  stamp set by Technique Tuesday.

I started off with a cream colored A2 sized coffee base and layered a kraft colored panel

cut out with the Kat Scrappiness Wonky Wavy Stitched Rectangle dies.

Then I embossed it with the Tim Holtz On The Go embossing folder.

I used the Kat Scrappiness Layered Coffee Cup Die because I wanted a large

coffee cup die to take up most of the room on the front of the card.

I just think it paired so well with that hilarious sentiment!

A while back I saw a card on Instagram using that Starbucks logo stamp and 

I loved it!  After a little research I found out that it was sold

at Viva Las Vegas Stamps and I had to order it.

The truth is I'm not really a fan of Starbucks coffee (too strong)

but I think their logo is super cool! 

What self respecting Coffee Loving Cardmaker could 

resist a Starbuck's logo stamp.😂🤣

I used Lucky Clover Distress Ink for the Starbuck's stamp.

To get the coffee koozie to match, I also blended the same ink on some paper

to cut the koozie out of and ran it through the EK Succkess paper crimper.

I finished my card off with some cute little coffee beans from the 

Kat Scrappiness Let's Get Caffeinated stamp set and of course 

I used Ground Espresso Distress Ink to stamp them with!

Thanks so much for joining me today in my ICU,

I'll be back in a couple of weeks with some more caffeinated inspiration for you!

Have a great day, I already am!

 ☕️Lisa ☕️

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Happy Little Stampers ATC July Challenge

Hello everyone!
I am super excited to be joining the Happy Little Stampers ATC challenge team.  Thank you Kylie for this great opportunity!  Every month Happy Little Stampers has an ATC challenge and the theme for July is Coffee!  For anyone who isn't familiar with ATC cards, they are mini works of art that measure 2.5" x 3.5" and are traded around the world. Usually they are numbered and signed on the back by the artist.  There is certainly no lack of coffee themed art these days and it is so much fun to create!  For my project I created 4 ATC's with some awesome faux coffee stained backgrounds.  

Here are the 4 cards I made for this challenge.

I used 2 different coffee cup dies, 1 from Spellbinders and 1 from Cas-ual Fridays and the sentiment stamps are from Technique Tuesday and Cas-ual Fridays.

Here are closeups of the individual cards.

I hope you'll play along this month and enter the ATC challenge at Happy Little Stampers!

Winner for this challenge will receive a $20 coupon to spend at the shop! 

IF YOU USE STAMPS BY HAPPY LITTLE STAMPERS AND YOU ARE OUR RANDOM WINNER, YOUR PRIZE WILL BE DOUBLED!

Have a great day, I already am!

☕️Lisa ☕️

Mini Treat Bags

Hello again crafty friends!  I'm back today on the Kat Scrappiness blog to bring you another cute project!  I made 3 adorable mini treat bags using the Stitched Heart Tag die and I decorated them with the Stitched Flag dies and the Double Stitched Circle dies.  I have a video for you today to show how I assembled the bags and it's super easy to follow.  I have to thank my fellow Kat Scrappiness design team member Maria Russell for the fabulous idea to make the bag.  She did a video a while back showing the process and I remade the bags using some current stamps and dies.  

This is the bag I assembled in my video and I used a sentiment from the Punny Snacks stamp set.  

The pretty patterned paper is from the Lawn Fawn paper pack, Gotta Have Gingham .  I started with 2 die cut panels from the larger die in the Stitch Heart Tag dies. I then cut a coordinating piece of paper to 11 7/8" x 2" to attach the 2 die cut panels together.  Next you will score your paper on the 11 7/8" side at 4" and 7 7/8" and then you will score the paper 1/4" in from both sides on the 2" side.

After you score your strip fold on all the score lines and make 

4 snips where the score lines meet each other.

The next step is to place some strong double sided adhesive along the middle sections to 

adhere the 2 heart tags.

Next you want to apply some additional double sided tape to the remaining scored flaps and assemble the box accordingly.

The video will show the assembly process step by step.  The only thing left to do is decorate the front of the box and fill it with pretty tissue paper and treats!

I die cut several Stitched Flag dies from some more gingham paper and arranged them around one of the Double Stitched Circle dies.  I stamped a sentiment from the Punny Snacks stamp set on to a scalloped circle and adhered it to the circle on some foam tape.  

I made the same box with some different patterned paper but essentially followed the same steps.

I also created the same bag a third time for the Coffee Lovers Bloghop that Kat Scrappiness is a super sponsor for.  I used the Layered Coffee Cup die and the "Got Coffee" sentiment die for the front of the bag and I finished it off with a sentiment from the Technique Tuesday stamp set "Sassy Coffee"

I stamped the sentiment on to a Stitched Flag die and finished off the front panel with some paint splatters of Ground Espresso distress ink.

These treat bags are super fun to make and they are very quick and easy to assemble.  They would make great party favors for a kids party or even elegant favors for a wedding or anniversary party.  

Here is a link to the YouTube video showing how to assemble these cute bags.

Thanks for joining me today!  All supplies used are linked below.  

I hope you'll give this technique a try!

Don't forget to use code Lisa10 at KatScrappiness.com to receive 10% off your order at checkout.

Have a great day, I already am!

🍬Lisa 🍬

• Double Stitched Circle dies
• Got Coffee sentiment die
• Gotta Have Gingham
• Ground Espresso distress ink
• Layered Coffee Cup die 
• Punny Snacks
• Sassy Coffee
• Stitched Flag dies
• Stitched Heart Tag die