Sending a Cuppa Love

Here’s my go at this month’s Market Street Stamps Paint the Town color challenge. This month’s colors (and inspiration photo) screamed retro kitchen to me, so I went with a coffee themed card using Market Street’s Daily Grind stamp set and the current Deconstructed Sketch challenge.

I stamped one of the set’s mug images, using brown and red tear-drop shaped ink pads to get the image inked up in two different colors. I colored the image with Copic markers, then cut it out and attached it to a white oval with dimensional dots.

The patterned papers I used on the card come from three different 6x6 paper pads, but still work well together. I picked a small dotted pattern to cover most of the cardfront, a sunny gingham one for the strip across the cardfront, and a pretty lacy doily patterned one for the fancy edged strip. The fancy edge was cut with a pair of nesting frame dies. I dressed up the gingham panel with a strip of red faux suede ribbon with a little gold ruffle-edged trim along the bottom, then added the image panel on top using dimensional dots.

Materials Used:
from i {heart} papers: Market Street Stamps Daily Grind stamp set, X-Press white Copic blending cardstock, Tsukineko Memento Rhubarb Stalk and Rich Cocoa inks, Copic markers (YR21, YR24, YR30), Simple Stories Summer Fresh 6x6 paper pad, My Mind’s Eye On the Bright Side-One 6x6 paper pad, Lily Bee Design Double Dutch 6x6 paper pad, Lifestyle Crafts Nesting Frame 2 dies, May Arts red faux suede ribbon, Maya Road gold ruffle edge trim, Sticky Thumb dimensional dots

other: Ripe Avocado cardstock (Papertrey Ink); Sweet Corn cardstock (Gina K Designs); Riding Hood Red cardstock (Stampin’ Up!)