A Girl's Best Friend - Coffee

It's finally friday, whew!  This has been a long week.  I'd like to wrap it up today with a couple cards featuring one of my favorite comfort drinks.  mmmmm Coffee!

 

I make coffee cards for my daughter Amber a lot and I fell in love with these stamps from Unity Stamp Company, mainly because they remind me so much of her.  Amber has the most beautiful, long, thick brown hair so of course my Copic browns were put to good use.

 

For this first card I water colored the background using distress inks.   I wanted the background to be busy and messy like my head is sometimes in the morning, before I've had my first cup of coffee. There's something about just losing yourself in that first cup.  Taking in the warmth and rich aroma.  Aaaah, I love mornings.  Ok....if you know me you know that last line is not true.  LOL!  But I do love my coffee!

Stamps: Cup of Love (Unity Stamp Co.), Caffeine Crush (The Ton).   Ink: broken china, tumbled glass, abandoned coral (Ranger Distress Ink), tuxedo black (Memento), copic markers.   Paper: 140 lb water color (Canson), white 140 lb cardstock (Neenah).   Accessories: Speech Bubbles 2 dies (Lil' Inker Designs), Blueprints #15 dies (My Favorite Things), dimensional tape (3M).

Brrrrrrr!  The next card I made is a wintery mix of embossed snowflakes and ink blending to go with this lovely lady's big warm sweater.   I think this stamp is gorgeous!  So much great detail from the stitching to the strands of hair falling around her face.  While I'm not a pro with Copics I still had fun coloring and attempting to shade this image for as much depth as I could.

Stamps: Dream of Being (Unity Stamp Co), Basic Labels (The Ton), Bring on The Snowflakes (Stamp of Approval Holiday Magic Collection/CAS-ual Fridays).   Ink: tuxedo black (Memento), clear emboss (Versamark), festive berries (Ranger Distress Ink), Copic markers.   Paper: white 140 lb cardstock (Neenah).  Accessories: Funky Flakes dies (Stamp of Approval Holiday Magic Collection/ CAS-ual Fridays), white Stitched Mats Rectangles dies (Lil' Inker Designs), embossing powder (WOW!), clear sequins.

 Thanks so much for stopping by today.   I'll be back next week with some more fun cards and a blog hop on Tuesday that you won't want to miss!   Until then, have a great weekend and.....take a little time to smell the coffee!

For more information on the upcoming release of the  Foundations Box by Catherine Pooler Designs, click on the photo below.