A couple of years ago I started weaning myself off of excess coffee and am finally down to a single cup every morning, which I think makes it especially appreciated! I make myself a single cup of latte each morning to greet the day. It's particularly special on the days I meet a friend at one of our favorite nearby coffee shops. But as much as I love my coffee, I seem to have a hole in my cardmaking supplies with regard to coffee - now wine is another story!
All of that to say that this morning's card offering is inspired by the year's first Fusion Card Challenge - "Coffee Chalkboard". To say that this card was a struggle for me is an understatement. I think I worked on it almost all day yesterday after having decided not to participate in the challenge. But thumbing through some very old stamp sets I found this single coffee cup among some Inkadinkado "Inchies" that remained mostly unused over the years. Try as I might, I couldn't manage to convert this single image into a coffee shop chalk board, so I decided to use it alone in the sketch challenge.
I started with some printed dark gray paper that was slightly grungy. It's a very light-weight paper so I adhered it first to cardstock so that the stitched rectangle would have a bit of dimension to it. Then I went in search of something akin to newspaper and all I could find was a scrap of cardstock with the image printed on a gold linen. I copied it with my copier in black only and liked the gray paper that came out. This I glued to the face of the pre-die cut rectangle and cut an opening with a stitched circle die from LDRS Creative. I stamped the sentiment from Hero Arts #D1598 Color Layering "Sea & Sky" and heat embossed it with white embossing powder. I did the same on the circle I cut out from the face of the card and die cut it again with a slightly smaller circle die. Everything was mounted onto a white card base, and I colored the coffee cup with a yellow-gold Prismacolor pencil. The final step was to use my anti-static powder bag to rub on some white powder to make it look like chalk. It's such a simple card that I have no idea why it took me nearly a day to create!
I think you've done quite well with the challenge, Fran this is adorable!
ReplyDeleteYour chalkboard look is perfect! great card for the challenge! Glad you joined us at fusion!
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