Clouds in my coffee

There’s a fun new image at Simply B Stamps, Coffee Lover Bre, who comes in two versions, I’ve got the hot coffee version on my card today.

Given the coffee flavour to this image I had to go with coffee colours on my card and have pretty much done a monochromatic card giving my E family of Copics a good work out.  Hopefully all the different patterns and shapes stop this from being a boring brown card!

My card follows the current sketch at Outlawz, which had just the right elements to go with the recipe challenge over at Crafter’s Café.  I do have a couple of extra die cuts as I felt I needed something under Bre’s feet so added in the sentiment, my square dies were a bit smaller than the square elements on the sketch.  And, shhh, we won’t mention the extra pearl, it is just an itty bitty one for her earring so I’m sure it doesn’t count.

I tried a couple of different ribbons with images printed on them (cupcakes and dandelions) but finally settled on plain brown as a contrast to the patterned papers.  It would have been good to have had the same shade of brown as my cardstock for the largest die cut square but sometimes you just have to roll with what you’ve got and admit your vast stash doesn’t include everything.  With my ribbon element I am also linking this up at Craft Ribbons’ current challenge.

Ingredients:

Copics

Skin E50, E51, E53 (E02 cheeks)

Eyes E25, Y26, 0

Lips R02, R05

Hair E23, E25, E27, E29

Outfit E30, E31, E33, E35, E37, E42, E44, E47, E49, YR12, YR14, YR16, YR20, YR21, YR23

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

Spellbinders Nestabilities – Marvellous Squares

Spellbinders Shapeabilities – Fancy Framed Tags One

Embellishments

Close to my Heart Bitty Pearls – Mocha

Close to my Heart Opaque Pearls – Mocha

Inks & Paints etc

Tim Holtz Distress Ink – Tea Dye

Papers

Bazzill Cardstock – Charlie & Iced Cocoa

Graphic 45 Couture – Patterns & Solids

Graphic 45 French Country – Montage

Graphic 45 Kraft Reflections – Bed of Roses

Ribbons & Trims etc

The Paper Studio Grosgrain Ribbon – Family

Stamps

Simply B Stamps – Coffee Lover Bre

Challenges

Crafter’s Café #49 – Recipe: One Ribbon, Two Designer Papers, Three Die Cuts and Four Pearls orRhinestones

Crafty Ribbons #75 – Anything goes with ribbon

Outlawz Wednesday Sketch

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