Spectrum Ink: Thanks A Latte and Making a Patterned Background

9/10/2021

Thanks A Latte and Making a Patterned Background

Happy Friday! Today I have a thank you card for the coffee lover in your life. In my case the biggest coffee lovers I know are ME and my husband! I drink it all day long and even have an espresso machine. Naturally I love the new Coffee Time stamps and dies from Lil' Bluebird Designs.

For this card I created my own patterned paper by stamping some of the images at random on a piece of 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 inch Crumb Cake cardstock. I say random, but it wasn't completely. I knew I was going to highlight one of the coffee cups so I needed to make sure at least one was off center and did not overlap the edge. To fill in the space between the cups I used the coffee beans.

I chose red to add a pop of color to the card. I colored one coffee cup using Prismacolors and then die cut the Thanks w/Shadow sentiment in coordinating colors. I used Soft Suede, a brown that is slightly darker than the Crumb Cake and Real Red.

For as simple as this image is, I sure used a lot of reds. But that what gives the cup it's nice shading.

I stamped the sentiment Thanks A Latte slightly off center on my card using black ink. I wanted to make sure it stood out from the background.

Then I added my sentiment with shadow on top. This makes a strong focal point and covers the top line of stamping nicely. I had originally planned to mask off the sentiment but this works just as well and is easier!