Coffee Card by January Guest Designer Peggy Emmerink-Moonen

Hi crafty friends! Peggy here with a card inspired by the cold weather outside. If you need a card for a coffee-lover, tea-fanatic or chocoholic, this is the idea you were looking for. The Newton Loves Coffee Stamp Set is perfect for this!

I wanted to make a shaped card that could fit a gift card, for example to spend at the recipient’s favorite coffeeshop or tea house. I searched online for a printable template of a coffee cup and found there are lots of free ones available. It’s a really fun and thrifty way to stretch your supplies.

I printed the template on some slightly sturdier paper and cut the pieces with my scissors. I used the templates to cut the coffee cup shaped base piece for my card from some white stamping cardstock. I cut the lid for my cup from some pink cardstock twice, so I would be able to layer them to create some dimension.

I cut the sleeve for the coffee cup twice, once from kraft cardstock with a hand-cut scalloped edge, and a slightly shorter one from patterned paper.

Next, I took the white base piece and chose three colors of ink suitable for solid stamping. I took out the two little cup stamps and the coffee beans from the Newton Loves Coffee Stamp Set. I stamped these small images all over my base piece and set it aside to dry.

I stamped Newton drinking from his cup also from the Newton Loves Coffee Stamp Set with alcohol marker friendly ink and colored with copics (E50 series for the cat). I stamped the sentiment ‘Coffee is always a good idea’ on some masking paper and fussy cut around it. I stuck the mask to a piece of white stamping card and stamped two of the cup stamps and the coffee beans around the sentiment. I removed the mask and stamped the sentiment in the middle with some coffee colored ink. I colored the images with the copic BV00 and RV10 series. I fussy cut around my handmade sentiment piece.

I used some Distress inks to give dimension to all the separate pieces of the cup. Now it was time to put together the card. I used a combination of liquid glue and foam tape to adhere the pieces. Before attaching the patterned paper cup sleeve, I wrapped some baker’s twine around it and tied a bow. I fastened the sentiment piece over top. As a finishing touch I used a white gel pen and some glossy accents.

Hope my card warms your heart!

Long distance hugs,

-Peggy

(Come say hi on Instagram @peggyemmerink)