Brewing Up Birthday Wishes Card

Happy Saturday!  My day is super busy- I'm teaching two classes at my local scrapbook store, Scrapdoodles today!  I love teaching and todays classes will be so fun!!  After that, my girls are going to a sleepover birthday party which means date night for me and my hubby!  No complaints here! :)

Before I got started on my day, I thought I'd share a card I made using the fun Be A Barista set by Reverse Confetti.  I used this month's Sketch For You To Try for it:

I created a mini chalkboard by stamping the coffee cup and sentiment on to a black cardstock panel with Versamark.  I heat embossed it using white powder and then doodled around the edge with a white gel pen.  I stamped the coffee with Whisper White ink and then used a sponge to ink around the edges and in a few random places on my panel.  I splattered it with white mist and let it dry.

The patterned papers are from the Carta Bella It's a Celebration collection- I used the 6x6 pad.  I cut out all my patterned papers and inked around the edges of each piece with a black cat eye ink pad.  Mine's dried out a little and perfect for this!  I did a little faux stitching around the pink panel, too:

Wasn't the sketch cute this month?  I loved it!  I'm so glad I had a little time to play along yesterday.   

Well, I better get in gear and head down to class.  Hope you have a great weekend!!

-tessa

Miss You A Latte Card

Hello!  I don't usually post more than once a day but I decided this afternoon to take the latest class over at Online Card Classes.  This one is all about stencils!  Since so many companies are coming out with them this season, I thought I could brush up on some fun techniques.  Anyways, I'm posting to share the first card I was inspired to make:

This one was inspired by the first video I watched by Debbie.  I wanted to make something soft and pretty and use the white embossing on vellum like she did.  I love how it turned out and I already know just who I'm sending this one to!  The stamps are by Reverse Confetti and the stencil is by Teresa Collins.  I used my Cameo Coral and Crisp Cantaloupe inks by Stampin' Up! with a blending tool to create the background and my Prismacolor pencils to color my latte cup.

So far the class has been fun!  The ladies running it and their guest teachers are such a great bunch and they make the happiest videos!  I hope to create a card inspired by each one! :)

Well, hope you have a great weekend!  I may pop on again if I get another card done- hee!

-tessa

Coffee and Friends Warm the Heart Card

Hi!  It's Monday but it doesn't feel like it- my girls are home from school because of the icy weather we woke up to.  Snow days are always fun and we are definitely enjoying it!

Today I wanted to share a card I made over the weekend.  I pulled out my newest goodies from Reverse Confetti to play along with their December Sketch For You To Try.  Here's my card:

Great sketch, right?  I really enjoyed it!  I also enjoyed playing with the adorable Be a Barista set- being a coffee lover, it's right up my alley!

I paper pieced my coffee cup using some fun prints from the Pink Paislee Hey Kid mini pad.  I added some shadowing with my Copic markers and then added it to the center of my die-cut tag.  I added the sentiment last, die-cutting a banner to put it on.

I'm so glad I found some time to play along with their challenge!  Pop over to the Reverse Confetti blog to see the original sketch.

Thanks for stopping by today!

-tessa