Sunday, April 19, 2015

CYCI#66 Designer's Choice


Hello and Happy Sunday to you from Middle Tennessee!  I am Tina Riddle and am one of the new Design Team members on the CYCI Design Team. In addition to being a Card Maker, I work full time as an Import Manager at a Retail Chain, and am a wife, a Mom, and a Grandmom to 5 beautiful granddaughters.   I would like to thank both Justin Krieger and Eva Bussom for allowing me this opportunity, and I certainly hope I don't let you down!

I was excited to see that this week's theme is Designer's Choice!  Since I am a huge Coffee fan, the choice was a pretty easy one for me!  Today's card is all about Coffee and features the Stampin' Up! Perfect Blend Stamp Set as well as 2 retired stamp sets from Our Craft Lounge and Skipping Stones.



For my card, I started with a card base of Early Espresso (could it be anything else?? lol).  I then dry embossed a layer of Coastal Cabana cardstock in a Tim Holtz Texture Fades "On the 'Go" Embossing Folder.  I cut 2 layers of Deco Label Framelits, the larger in Early Espresso and smaller in Coastal Cabana.  I stamped the Coffee & friends sentiment from the Perfect Blend set onto the bottom left of the label in Early Espresso Ink.  I then stamped the To-Go cup from Perfect Blend Set 3 times on Whisper white paper and 3 times on Coordinating DSP.  I fussy cut the label portion from the DSP and glued onto the white cups and then fussy cut around the white cups.  Linen thread was tied around the 3 cups and they were layered on the right side of the card.  The upper bottom cup was glued directly onto the card and the others were popped up with dimensionals.  I cut and folded a piece of Chocolate Chip Chevron Ribbon and then stapled it to hold it's shape and adhered to the top of the card with glue dots.  I ran linen thread through a Gold Basic Button and looped it several times at the back of the button and secured with glue dots and adhered to the ribbon.  I then stamped a row of coffee beans from one of my vintage stamp sets onto Baked Brown Super Cardstock in Early Espresso Ink and fussy cut five of the coffee beans out and glued them down randomly.

For the inside of my card I layered in Whisper White Cardstock that had been stamped 3 times with a Coffee ring stamp in Sahara Sand.  I then stamped the inside sentiment "Let's Do Coffee" in Early Espresso.   I was really happy with how it turned out and I hope you like it too! 

Blessings,
Tina

Non-Stampin Up! Products Used:  Our Craft Lounge "Fueled by Caffeine" Stamp Set, Skipping Stones "Funny Coffee, Vol 1" Stamp Set, Tim Holtz Texture Fades "On the Go" Embossing Folder

Stampin' Up! Products used as follows:


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19 comments:

  1. Congrats on joining the DT. This is a fabby card, as I also am a coffee lover! This challenge site is new to me, found through you on FB. Helene

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    1. Thanks so much Helene! I really appreciate you stopping by! :)

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  2. Love this card Tina!! Absolutely adore the inside!

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    1. Thank you so much Michael! The inside is my favorite too! :)

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  3. Tina.... love the card, and welcome to the Design Team at CYCI!!! :) Eva

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    1. Thanks so much Eva! I'm excited to be around so much creativity! :)

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  4. Tina, you have truly inspired me with this card. You're a lady after my own heart because I love coffee so much that I sometimes drink it before going to bed. LOL... I love the rings inside the card too...so authentic. I rarely write inside of my cards, but I think I'm going to start. Thank you for sharing and I'm so thrilled we are on the same team.

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    1. Thanks so much Maggie! You have some serious card marking stills Maggie! It is an honor to be on your team!

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  5. I just love everything about this card and I'm so happy to see what that TH EF looks like actually used on a card. That SU coffee set is awesome, I need it! And the inside of your card is just as much fun! Great project and congrats on the DT assignment!

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  6. I just love everything about this card and I'm so happy to see what that TH EF looks like actually used on a card. That SU coffee set is awesome, I need it! And the inside of your card is just as much fun! Great project and congrats on the DT assignment!

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    1. Thanks so much AJ! You know I love my coffee and when I saw that coffee ring stamp I knew I would use it on the inside of a card. I have quite the collection of coffee themed stamp sets now :)

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  7. Wow!!! Love the embossing folder, the beans, the coffee rings!! It's all perfect! Welcome aboard the team! Glad we can share this together ;)

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    1. Thanks so much Holly! I'm glad we can share this together too! :)

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  8. hello Tina! awesome card, way to go and a super congrats on the DT gig...whoop, whoop! so glad you joined us this week at Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge!

    sparkle & shine *~*

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  9. Awesome team challenge card this week. I love coffee!!! Great job!

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