Autumn always brings the coffee themed birthday cards. I struggle with masculine cards and try not to make them boring and brown, but these stamps and colours came together over on the Seven Hills Crafts blog today to create the perfect coffee themed birthday card for my coffee/donut/pretzel-loving friend!
Coffee Themed Card Tutorial
I started out with repeatedly stamping the coffee cup, donut and pretzel from the Hero Arts City Adventure set with MFT Black Licorice Hybrid ink on some white card until I covered the background. Next, I coloured in the images with my alcohol markers, keeping to warmer grey and brown tones.
Then, I used a little Nuvo Crystal Glaze for the icing on the donut to finish the background. To finish the background, I mounted it on an A6 top folding kraft card base to bring out the brown tones of the stamps.
I needed a simple greeting and the Happy Birthday speech bubble from the Lawn Fawn Chit Chat set fit the bill. Then, I stamped it in two tones of brown ink and clear heat embossed it to match the donut icing. I die cut with the coordinating dies and foam mounted it on the background.
Love this birthday card design – I’ll have to try this again with some of my other stamp sets! It makes great use of some of those larger sets that have multiple smaller stamps that you probably don’t get to use very much.
Check out my DT post over at Seven Hills Crafts Blog for this coffee themed birthday card.
Supplies
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- Hero Arts City Adventures stamp set
- Nuvo Crystal Glaze (Simon Says Stamp*, Seven Hills Crafts)