No Talkie Before Coffee ft. Pajama Crafter Stamps

 

Hello everyone!  I don't know about you, but this pretty much sums up me in the morning!  

Today I'm sharing a very cute coffee card made with products from

Pajama Crafter Stamps

But First Coffee Flash Cards

Spring Plaid Paper Pad

High Five Stamp Set

Night Out Pearl Embellishments

A Mermaid's Tail Confetti

This project definitely had it's ups and downs, but I think the end result is so adorable!

Let me show you how I made my card!

The first thing I did was to foil my flashcard. I used a bronze colored foil. Then I chose my background papers and made my layers for the card. I started out with this plan but in the end I don't use it.

I color-matched my coffee mug to the plaid paper I had die cut. I stamped 2 of the paw prints onto the mug. I used a metallic ink but it jut wasn't showing off the metallic property of it. So, I took a brown gel pen - that was quite juicy - and colored in the 2 paw prints. That's when things started to go south. Somehow I got the gel pen ink on my left hand and smeared the coffee cup (you can see the smear on the bottom) and on the white part of the card base. I was able to get most of the gel pen off the mug but you could still see it. The card base with all the layers of card stock just couldn't be saved, so I made a new one. For the mug I stamped another paw print over the stain and very carefully went over it with the gel pen. It worked!

Then I made a new card base that I actually liked better than the first!

I added some Night Out Embellishments for the eyes. And then I used A Mermaid's Tale Confetti to dot the mug so it looked like it had a pattern. I re-did my background and left off one of the layers. I die cut the plaid paper and a white piece of card stock with scalloped nested rectangle dies. I made the white one 2 sizes smaller so more of the plaid paper would show and I wanted it smaller than the mug. I originally was going to have this card be a portrait orientation, but in the end decided I liked the landscape orientation better.  I popped the mug up with foam tape and that finished my card!

I hope you enjoyed today's tutorial. I feel with this card - you win some (the paw print on the mug to hide the stain) and you lose some (making a new card base). It is just paper and we shouldn't be afraid of making mistakes, fixing mistakes, or just chucking the whole thing into the trash! It's just paper!

Supplies used:

• But First Coffee Flash Cards
• Spring Plaids Paper Pad
• High Five Stamp Set
• Night Out Pearl Embellishments
• A Mermaid's Tail Confetti
• Copic markers:BG10, BG11, BG01, BG13, BG53, W1
• Foam Tape
• Scalloped Nesting Rectangle Dies
• Brown Metallic Pen
• Brown or Bronze foil
• Coordinating card stock for card base
• Low loft foam tape

Til next time...

Betsy

In my capacity as a design team member for Pajama Crafter Stamps, I do receive the products I use from them. All opinions and creative decisions remain my own, and I only work with companies/use products that I love.

 

Birds of a Feather ft. Pajama Crafter Stamps

 

Hello everyone!  Hope everyone is doing well and Spring has

arrived in your area.  It's yet to arrive where I live, but I've made

another sweet Spring card using products from

Pajama Crafter Stamps

Birds of a Feather Stamp Set

Spring Plaids Paper Pad

I love creating with plaid paper.  I love all the different colors and

patterns which provide endless inspiration!  Let me show you how

I made my card.  I had previously stamped out this little line of birds

from the stamps set.

I had already chosen the plaid paper that I wanted to use and a solid

background color.

 I color-matched my coloring to the paper.  I colored the little birds in

rainbow colors, but not rainbow order.  Instead they sit beside their

complimentary color, except for the yellow whose compliment is

purple.  Once they were colored I fussy cut the image leaving a

narrow white outline.

For my pink background I used the Dainty Scalloped Rectangle die

from Trinity Stamps and the Fancy Rectangle Frame Die is from

Pink Fresh Studio.  The middle actually cuts out, but I adhered it

inside the frame.  I stamped out the sentiment onto a scrap of white

card stock, cut it out and adhered to a piece of the pink card stock.

I popped up both the birds and the sentiment on foam tape, centered

both on the card base and that finished my card!

I hope you enjoyed this springtime tutorial.  It was so easy!  And

it's pretty sweet as well!  You can find the supplies and many more at

Pajama Crafter Stamps

Supplies used:

Birds of a Feather Stamp Set

Spring Plaids Paper Pack

Copic Colors - BG01, BG10, BG13, YG20,YG61, YG03,

Y00, Y11, Y21, YR00, YR61, YR02, R81, R83, R85, W5

Dainty Scalloped Rectangle Die (Trinity Stamps)

Fancy Rectangle Frame Die

A2 white card base

Pink card stock

Scrap of white card stock

Foam Tape

Til next time...

Betsy

In my capacity as a design team member for Pajama Crafter Stamps, I do receive the products I use from them..

All opinions and creative decisions remain my own, and I only work with companies/use products that I love.