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Jun 22, 2021

Coffee = A Good Day

Good Tuesday morning!! Lisa here with a caffeine fueled all-occasion card. It's funny because I LOVE coffee candy and ice cream and cakes but I don't actually drink it. I make a lot of coffee-themed projects, but I think the cool thing about this Tutti Designs die in particular is it can be a coffee cup or a tea cup. I'll admit to drinking copious amounts of tea daily, both iced and hot. Caffeine makes every day better, right?

I started my card by cutting the Tutti Designs Have a Good Day out of adhesive foil. I like the adhesive foils and vinyls cause it saves me a step with fancy die cuts.

I knew I wanted the cup die cut on a circle, so I took a scrap of purple cardstock and laid my circle die on it before adhering the coffee cup. That way, I don't have to worry about centering my die cut image onto the circle, I can tape my die in place around the cup once it's adhered. It's sort of like cheating, but it keeps me from ripping my paper when I put the cup down crooked and have to pull it up and start over.

When I first cut the bottles out, I decided I wanted to fill in all the die cut holes, so I glued them to foil cardstock with Bearly Art glue and fussy cut around them.

I still had one little area where my vinyl wouldn't lay straight, so I positioned one of my stones over it to hide my mistake 😎

I thought the card was missing something so I cut a couple of the Tutti Designs Cross Stitch Banners out of foil scraps. Little banner accents always tie everything together.

I know I'm not the only one who needs caffeine to fuel her mornings! Hopefully this inspires you to make some caffeine themed creations too. --Lisa

Products Used:

Tutti Designs Have a Good Day die
Tutti Designs Cross Stitch Banners die set
Sizzix Basics Circle die set
1/4" Scor Tape
1/2" Scor Tape
Cricut Silver adhesive foil
Sticky Thumb Foam Dots
Hunkydory Rainbow cardstock
Black cardstock
Assorted Foil cardstock scraps
Silver shimmer text weight cardstock
glitter gems

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Sep 2, 2020

Banners and Roses

Roses And Hello, Just Go.

Welcome back! I'm so glad you could join me for today's craft. I have a cute little hello card. I wanted to send a card to my mother at her nursing home since at this time I can't visit her. She always loved my hand made cards. Especially those with flowers. I recently purchased two set of dies from the European sale that I felt would really make this card just stand out. I wanted the card to say "Hello" as the sentiment but didn't just want a paper cut out, so I figured why not cross-stitch it out! Then I thought this may needs some flowers too and why not some paper roses? Recently Dies R Us had a sale on European dies and these lovelies just jumped out at me. These items come from time to time so when you see them you jump on them!

Supplies

Embroidery Shapes Dies

Foam Rose Die

White Cardstock

Red Cardstock

Green Cardstock

Black & Poinsettia Paper - Echo Park

Small Dots Embossing Folder

Pearl Embellishments

Green Embroidery Floss

Red Embroidery Floss

Black Embroidery Floss

Liquid Glue

1/4" Foam Square

Flower Shaping Tools

1/2" Foam Pad

A7 Card base

It's Bunting Time!

To begin, die cut out 5 of the bunting flags. Stitch around the flags with black floss. make sure to keep the banners attached. Next, cross stitch the letters H-E-L-L-O onto each pennant. Then make french notes along the letters to emulate roses.

Die cut one large flower, three smaller flowers, 4 of the three petal flowers and 3 of the rolled flower section. Using a flower shaping tool with an 8 mm head, roll the edges of the flowers and press the center down into the foam pad. Once the flower section are shaped, add a dab of glue to the center of the larges and adhere the next size down and repeat to the three petal flower piece.

Once you have the main part of the rose complete, you will quill roll the the rolled flower section to make a bud. this will then be glued down to the center of the rose.

For the leaves, you will crease them gently down the center, then roll the edges of the leaf and adhere them to the rose to your liking.

With the flowers all complete, it's time to assemble the card. First Emboss a piece of white card stock (6.75" x 5.25") and then take your print cardstock (6.5" x 5") and adhere it down to the A7 card base.

Using 1" foam tape, adhere the white embossed piece to the card base ensuring yu have a 1/8" boarder all around.

Line the back of the banner pieces with foam dots or squares and adhere it across the card from one corner to the other side so that it is at an angle. Once that is done, it's time to add the flowers. I dried to keep my flowers to on of the lower corners. Using quilling paper in green, I made a view vine spirals to add to the flower bouquet here and there.

Finally embellish with some self-adhesive pearls in clusters of three. Done, a simple and clean card with lots of beauty.

Thanks for visiting the bog. I hope you find some inspiration. Maybe you'll visit the Dies R Us Shop in the hopes of finding some really great deals on dies and stamps.

XOXO - HeartcraftPaper

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