Tuesday Tutorial with Sue...

Hello everyone...

It's Sue here today with a set of 'one layer' coffee themed cards I designed as a gift for a coffee loving friend.  I have also made a little card pouch to put them in.

I thought that the coffee themed stamps we have in store were perfect for this project!

This tutorial shows how I made the cards including straightforward masking techniques which don't involve lots of fussy cutting! (Which I personally find tedious and am terrible at)!

I have used Copics to colour over Distress Inks.  As the inks are water based it is totally safe to do this but please do your own swatch tests first if you aren't sure!  I also coloured onto watercolour card, the card soaks up a lot of ink and I love the effect it gives - you can really lay down a lot of ink and I love that!

I dabbed the Tumbled Glass ink pad onto my glass mat and sprayed it with water.

...then I pressed water colour card onto the wet ink and swooshed the card about a bit until I was happy with the result.

I repeated this with all the colours, Tumbled Glass, Dried Marigold, Pumice Stone and Ground Expresso.

I cut the cards into rectangles measuring 9cm x 11.5cm

I then stamped the coffee themed stamps Hot Sip and Coffee Break onto the inky backgrounds with black ink.

 

I placed acetate over my design to 'test stamp' the add ons to make sure they were in the correct position.

I then coloured each image with Copic Markers - E18, E17, YR27, YR14

...BG57, BG34, BG11

...R27, R05, R02

Y26, Y15, Y11

Next I mixed up a strongish wash of each ink (using the same ink I had used for the background except for this card where I chose the darker ink - Hickory Smoke).  I scrunched up a piece of kitchen towel to cover the coffee cup up and splattered the ink over the design with a fan brush which gives a really fine effect of small dots instead of splodges!

I stamped a sentiment from the Coffee Time Set onto each card in black ink.

I was really happy with how these turned out!

I could get used to making one layer cards - they look so stylish!

I decided to make a little wallet for the cards thinking that they make such a lovely little gift for a coffee loving friend.

This card holder is a doddle to make and was inspired by a visit to Pinterest!

All you have to do is score a piece of A4 card in half vertically and horizontally and burnish the folds with a bone folder tool.

Then mark the folds and cut as shown above.

No glue is required, the card just folds up into a little wallet!

Finally I added some ribbon and a tag...

Ingredients from Whimsy Stamps

Hot Sip Rubber Cling Stamp by Jennifer Dove DoveArt

Coffee Break Clear Stamps by Deb Davis - Amped2Stamp

I used a tag die which is retired - I'm sorry about that!  However, you could use the fabulous 

Bookmark and Tags Die Set instead by cutting the long bookmark die shorter to fit the stamped sentiment.

Thank you so much for popping by today!

I hope life has treated you well since that last time I posted here!

Look after yourselves and those you love

from Sue

  

Other Ingredients

Watercolour Card

Distress Inks in Dried Marigold, Tumbled Glass, Pumice Stone, Hickory Smoke, Ground Expresso

Spray Bottle or Mini Mister

Paint Brush

Black Ink

Copic Markers - 

Browns - E18, E17, YR27, YR14

Reds - R27, R05, R02

Yellows - Y26, Y15, Y11

Blues - BG57, BG34, BG11

Kraft Card

Brown Ribbon and Twine

Craft Box Basics