When I sat down to create, I really wanted to give the Coffee Cup Heart a festive twist. My first instinct was to blast it with peppermint stripes and candy-cane energy, but I realized the cup itself could do all the talking with just a subtle adjustment. By using a single masking technique, I was able to tailor the focal point to fit a holiday theme while still keeping the design clean and balanced. It’s a great reminder that you don’t always need multiple layers or complicated steps—sometimes one well-placed mask is all it takes.
How to Recreate This Card:
For this card is all about masking the Santa's Hat (Lg.) stamp to be on top of the Coffee Cup Heart stamp.
Stamp the Santa's Hat (Lg.) on white cardstock, leaving enough paper to stamp the coffee cup later on, and also onto masking paper using Memento Tuxedo Black Ink. Cut the mask paper following the outside line of the image.
Position your masking image on top of the hat. Position the Coffee Cup Heart stamp where the hat seems to be lying on top of it.
Ink and stamp your image,using Memento Tuxedo Black Ink, on the white paper, stamping on top of the masking paper. Stamp also the cup onto masking paper.
Color your images with alcohol markers.
Mask and stamp Wanna Have a Cup to use as an inside sentiment.
Using the Snowflakes Sm. and Med. Set of 2 create a background (put your masks back on before you stamp.) You can heat gold emboss the snowflakes or simply stamp with a light color.
Using a small blender brush add color to the center of the snowflakes.
Stamp Tinsel sentiment onto white paper and mat with black paper.
Trim focal image to 3 1/2 x 4 and mat with black paper.
Glue your pattern paper (4 x 5 1/4) to white cardbase. Glue your focal point at an angle.
Glue your matted sentiment onto a scrap of the embossed background. and mat onto black again and glue to card.
Assemble as shown.
Hello, Janet here with a simple football card. It is the time of year when all the football fans are glued to the television.
Lightly draw diagonal pencil lines about one inch apart across your card front.
Stamp your large and small coffee beans, rotating the stamps each time to create visual interest.
Follow the ROYGBIV color order for a fun rainbow look! I used Memento ink pads — they’re bright, vibrant, and stay that way beautifully over time.
Once the ink is completely dry, gently erase your pencil lines.
Add a few doodled hearts for a playful touch.
Stamp the “Cool Beans” sentiment with VersaMark ink onto a piece of vellum, then heat emboss it in black.
Color the beans from the back side of the vellum with alcohol markers, then attach it to your card front.
Until next time— Stay colorful, stay crafty! -- Dalis
I’ve been hoarding some patterned paper from my #1900sCraftyStash (you know the one—you love it too!), and decided it was finally time to give it some love. The Coffee Cup Heart stamp was the perfect match for a little paper piecing magic, and let me tell you—it turned out even better than I imagined!
I colored the heart and kraft sections to bring it all together, and even with a little fidgeting on the die-cutting part (looking at you, “BEAN” letters 😜), the whole card came together in about 30 minutes.
Scroll down for the full instructions—hope you give it a try! 💛
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How to Recreate This Card:
Cardbase is a grey cardstock sized at 7x6 inches. Scored at 3.5 on the 7" side to make this mini slimline. Cut out a piece of pattern paper at 3x5.5" and attached to the front, leaving a frame margin all around it.
Stamp the Coffee Cup Heart on white cardstock and also onto your pattern paper of choice. This teal bubbled paper was just perfection (in my humble opinion.)
Cut out the two pieces that make the cup without the sleeve from the pattern paper stamped piece.
Before gluing the paper pieced pieces color the sleeve, heart and the shadow on the lid of the cup. This way in case you color outside the line the pattern paper might cover it.
Glue your pattern paper pieced pieces onto the white stamped image that you just colored.
Stamp your Bean Awhile sentiment, masking the word BEAN onto white cardstock with your Memento Tuxedo Black Ink. Cut the IT'S and AWHILE and colored the borders to make it look distressed.
Die-cut the word BEAN.
Assemble as shown.
