Coffee Lover Hop- Last Card

Found a coffee paper in a 12x12 kit I picked up at Tuesday Morning recently. I really wanted to try my new Concord & 9th Cozy Christmas stamps (of which I bought 2 by mistake. I think there’s a magic age where this starts to happen, I think late 40’s early 50’s. Anyone knows clue me in! Will be putting the 2nd bundle up for sale soon)! Anyway, I then searched for a good coffee cup I thought would match well and happened upon this Unity stamp from the 9/15 KOTM. I like how the paper, the cup and the cozy set all have fabric designs.

To start, I stamped the cup on watercolor paper using a combo of Vicki Boutin blue greens in the bottom and a Beige Simon Says ink on the top. I then pulled out Evergreen Bough, Tumbled Glass and Blueprint Sketch Distress inks. I started by painting the backgrounds around the cup. I then painted the cup, blending inks to keep to the palette colors. I ended up adding a bit of pencil color afterwards and used Spectrum Noir silver and clear glitter inks. I also spattered a little of the colors.

I stamped the sentiments by starting with the word Cozy using Teal Momento ink and a combo of Turquoise and Silver embossing powders. I then lined up the smaller two and using the teal ink and turquoise powder embossed those. I always have a bit of a dilemma, because I never seem to cut the paper large enough to use standard dies. So I had to play a little to get a seam around the paper. I backed that with a gray paper from the pack.

I stamped the stitch pattern using the stamps from the kit using all the inks I already used. I cut that paper down and covered a side of the patterned paper. I used a stitch die on this paper. I also used a Bo Bunny die to create a doily with the same dark gray paper. I mounted everything on a Kraft card base, adding blue ribbon and coordinating sequins. I’ve included a pic of the products used.