Coffee is Cool with a Friend for the 2020 Spring/Summer Coffee Lovers Blog Hop

True to form, I am sliding in just under the wire with this wintry shaker for the 2020 Spring/Summer Coffee Lovers Blog Hop!

I won't lie, this one took me a little while to get around to. As I perused my collection of coffee themed stamps and dies, my mind kept wanting to make neutral, brown, coffee colored cards--but I knew I wanted to experiment with some color! That's when I remembered I had recently bought the MFT Stamps Sweater Weather on Safari stamp set & knew it would be a perfect partner for the Doodles Paper Playground Happy Little Flurries Sparkle Blends. 

I pulled out my trusty Double Stitched In & Out Cut Rectangle die set by Gina Marie Designs & used the second largest die to cut a frame from a 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 inch panel of sky blue paper with white polka-dots. I cut an A2 panel of acetate and adhered it to the back of the frame with double sided tape. I cut a background of lavender snowflake paper from the Scrapberry Elegantly Festive to perfectly fit a side folding A2, white card base & mounted it with double sided tape. Next, I cut my 3mm foam mounting tape in half, lengthwise & ran it along all 4 edges of the card base. I added a generous amount of Happy Little Flurries Sparkle Blends & added my acetate and frame to close up the shaker box.

Next I stamped out the zebra and giraffe images from the MFT Stamps Sweater Weather on Safari stamp set with MFT Extreme Black Ink. I colored them using my Nuvo Creative Pens to match the colors in the sequin mix & fussy cut them, leaving a small white border. I adhered them to the bottom corners of the card front using 1mm foam mounting tape. Finally, I stamped the sentiment "I'm thankful for a friend like you" & little coffee bean image in Versafine Clair Nocturne ink on a strip of white cardstock. Finally, I cut fish tails on either end of the sentiment strip & adhered it, centered above the colored images with 1mm foam mounting tape. 

Thank you for visiting my blog today, I hope you liked my project & that you made your own coffee card to link up to the Coffee Lovers Blog Hop! Have a great day!

Crafty Hugs,

Amber