Happy Monday… my crafty friends I’m back with another card for this weeks Merry Monday Christmas challenge. This week Leanne challenged us to create a Christmas card with glasses. You can read all about the challenge HERE and also see what the rest of the design team created this week.

For my design this week I went with a coffee theme card.  I love coffee and I have tons of coffee mugs, cups and glasses. I wanted to try something different this week. I took the Newton’s Nook Foliage Stencil and blended several distress inks to create a background strip. I applied a few distress inks to the Hero Arts Coffee Cup Tags stamp to give my coffee cup an ombre look. I die cut the cup and whipped cream topping and copic colored the whip cream top with copic markers.

To finish off my card I die cut borders from the Avery Elle Dotted Borders Die (set) and adhered the stenciled background to the borders and adhered the stenciled borders, coffee cups to an A2 Grout Gray Top Fold card base along with a scattering of some Nuvo Crystal Drops.

Crafty Supplies
Paper: Koh-I-Noor Bristol Smooth, MFT Grout Gray
Stamp: Hero Arts Coffee Cup Tags
Ink: Shabby Shutters, Pined Needles, Mowed Lawn, Gathered Twigs, Candied Apple, Abandoned Coral, Worn Lipstick (Oxide) Distress inks, Copic Markers (W0, W1).
Accessories: Newton’s Nook Holiday Foliage Stencil, Avery Elle Dotted Borders Die, Hero Arts Coffee Cup Tags Die, Nuvo Crystal Drops (Red Berry)

“Ink and Paper Hugs”