Enjoy! Coffee Gift Card Holder

Hello crafty friends!

Nicole Wright & I had another crafty play-date this week.

We each needed to make a card to hold a Tim Horton's gift card - so, like we do on many occasions, we shared our stash. I love how we can use the same stuff and create such different projects.

Nicole brought a couple of her Sizzix dies - Eileen Hull Recipe Card & Label

 and Tim Holtz Fresh Brewed. 

I had a package of patterned paper - Coffee & Tea Kit from Designs by Reminisce.
I picked it up at The Scrap Shack in Ponoka.

A few other shared items we used - mat board, Distress Oxides & burlap.
Here is the inside of my card where I adhered the recipe card die cut that holds my gift card.
The label die cut and gift card are held on with 3D adhesive squares.

Here is the front of the card -

Love is {NOT} in the air......Emerald Creek Dare

It is time for a new challenge at Emerald Creek Dares and this time

the team was challenged to create Valentine's ~ For All The Single People. Sort of Valentine's Day themed but not necessarily filled with all the mushy romance if that's not your thing. Quite a challenge since I have not been single for 25+ years. So as I pondered this challenge while enjoying a Venti Pike Place it came to me - I LOVE COFFEE!

I decided to do a small 5x7 canvas ~ this is one of series of canvases that will be hot beverage themed and displayed above my coffee/tea corner in my kitchen.

Let's get started.....

I started by mixing some Dina Wakely Glazing Medium with a bit of Candied Apple Distress Paint.

I appled this to my canvas with a pallet knife and my fingers. While this layer was still wet I added a couple of drops Fired Brick Distress Paint to my red glaze mixture and using my pallet knife added this colour to my canvas. Lastly, I added a couple of drops of Aged Mahogany to my glaze and using my fingers added some to my canvas.

I next made a mixture of Crackle Paste and Texture Sand Paste (both from DecoArt Media) to use with my Tim Holtz Brick Stencil. My mixture was probably 50/50 but if I was to try this again I will definitely make sure that I went heavier on the Crackle Paste so the cracks would be more visible.

After I let the paste dry completely, I applied a mixture of Golden Fluid Acrylic Burnt Sienna & Glazing Medium to the entire canvas. while this was still wet I used a baby wipe to wipe back some of the colour. I applied more of this mixture to the bricks 2 more times until I got the colour I liked.

I then added some stamping to my canvas using Archival Ink in Black & Potting Soil. I love how the stamping on the bricks looks like graffiti.

I used my Fresh Brewed Die from Tim Holtz/Sizzix for my main focal point.
I cut it from chipboard, painted with Picket Fence Distress Paint and gently sanded the edges before spritzing with Ground Espresso Distress Marker.

The sentiment was one I found on Pinterest and I used a combination of Chit Chat stickers & stamping on paper.

I used my Interlaced Hearts Stamp from Emerald Creek as the steam coming from my coffee cup.
Mmmmmm........coffee. ;)
A Prize Cameo Charm, also from Emerald Creek, was perfect for the the front of the cup.
I added some Burnt Copper Leaves Embossing Powder to the outer edge of the charm before filling the centre with glossy accents, 3 coffee beans and some red glitter.

Thank you so much for dropping by my blog today!
Be sure to visit the rest of Emerald Creek DT blogs for more
 "Valentine's ~ For All The Single People" inspiration
and enter our challenge at Emerald Creek Dares for a chance to win
a $25 online store credit!

Emerald Creek Design Team

Karon
Diana
Katelyn
Cathy
Claudia
Shilpa

~stay crafty~

julia


Challenges Entered 
Simon Says Monday Challenge: love is in the air

Fresh Brewed Friday

Happy Friday everyone!

I hope you had a fantastic week and here's to a great weekend

 of fabulous weather and maybe a bit of crafting!

I love coffee and when Tim Holtz started coming out with his 

Fresh Brewed products I went a little crazy.....like full on large double double

 with 3 shots of espresso crazy!

Here is a quick 4 card set I made this week - 

It started with the Fresh Brewed stamp set & 4 Distress Ink Custom Blend Ink Pads

The back ground was made by using the same background technique used on Tim's June tag - check it out here.

I then stamped the image directly on the background and then stamped it a second time on cardstock.

I coloured the second image with Distress markers, fussy cut them out and layered them on the background with foam squares to add dimension.

The edges were finished off with some Ground Espresso (of course!) and a bit of twine.

 Thank you for taking the time for visit my blog today!