Hi Friends,
I hope everyone is enjoying their Summer thus far, and Winter for some of you in Australia. Here it has gotten hot again our usual Summer heat is back after giving us about 5 days of relief last week. When New York was having the heat, while we were enjoying the 70-80F they usually enjoy. But today and possibly for the rest of the week we are supposed to get some thunderstorms (Cheering). It would be so welcomed. So we will let it play out the way it is wanting to, let us have some beautiful rain and let you know later if we were served generously or not.
We are supposed to be in the middle of Monsoon season which means torrential rain when it comes it comes by full buckets at once. But we only got one really good rain like that since the end of June. So, we are hoping with a smile on.
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My card today makes me want to have a Perfect blend when the weather is sad so here it is with how I made it and materials needed:
My perfect blend card!
Paper and CS need: SU Close to cocoa (not sure if retired color or not) that's the card base. From my stash I found papers that were going well with my top layer. Corrugated paper from my stash. My top layer is made from a white CS distressed with Tim Holtz Distress ink pads (Tea dye, Thumbled Glass, and Old Paper) Black Memento Tuxedo Black and Crystal Effect for coffee beans, 2 hues of brown colored pencils to color the coffee beans.
Stamps I used: Perfect Blend SU, Gorgeous Grunge SU and finally Coffee beans from an old SU set. Note: I have dismantled all the SU sets I own and put into 3" binders by categories so I can't say what set some stamps are from unless they are recent ones I just purchased.
Step one
Stamp the coffee cups first. You will need to stamp 4 of them. The cover is an additional dimension along with the corrugated paper.
Once stamped images are on white paper, I distressed them with the ink mentionned above. Tea dye and Old paper. Old paper was used mostly on the cover. My next step was to make my top layer where the coffee cups will go after being cut out and put together. When I decided that my top layer was the way I wanted it, I added with a sponge dauber, a few Thumble Glass spots so I could add the blue layer on my card and the other written looking distressed paper. All papers are matted with Close to cocoa CS.
Coffee beans: Easy peasy, colored the beans, cut around them secured them to a paper before adding some crystal effect to all of them, left aside until dry. Glues on to card lastly. Hemp bow was also added to corrugated layer last.
I hope that helped you wanting to make one of your own, and thanks for dropping in, it must have been a shock to see that this card was made without flowers, gotcha!
Next card is another pride and joy card made with daisies for a dear friend. I can post it since she received it and opened it before her Birthday.
Have a Happy Day!