How've You Bean?
Hellooooo! How've you bean?? Today we're looking at the card I completed for the Coffee Loving Cardmakers Blog hop (http://coffeelovingcardmakers.com/)!
I heart coffee...seriously....heart.it. The smell, the taste, the everything. Now I don't know about you, but I like to taste my coffee. My husband does not. I say he likes the "idea" of coffee because he covers up the coffee with sugar and milk by making mochas. At home, we usually use cold brew coffee and I add a little (and I mean a little) bit of whipping cream, stevia and caramel extract. If I'm out and about, my preferred method of coffee is an americano with coconut milk or whipping cream (hot in fall & winter, iced in spring & summer). Sometimes during the summer I'll splurge and get a cold brew but they're a bit pricy for me. I digress....
Last winter, I randomly was looking at card websites and happened to find the Facebook page for Coffee Loving Cardmakers. I entered one of my cards for my secret sister last year in the blog hop, saw some amazing cards from others and made sure to stay tuned for their spring/summer hop. Well, this week is the big hop and I'm excited to post my card!!
I found a pattern to make a gift card holder that looks like a to go cup on jennifermaker.com. If you want to see some really great papercrafts you should check her out (Here's the link to this specific card template:(https://jennifermaker.com/coffee-cup-gift-card-holder/). She gives great tips and tricks and patterns. This particular pattern was an SVG file I could use on my Cricut. So I downloaded the pattern and sized it to an A2 size card on my Cricut. (Note: There are 3 main pieces to this design so if you are using the Cricut, you'll need to group them together in order to size them all to the same size)
I also changed the "Filled up for You" words from a cut to a write function on the pattern. I wasn't sure if the letters would be too small to cut out and I didn't want to chance it so I just had the Cricut write it out, which I think looks just fine.
Once cut out, I glued the lid piece to the inside cup piece. I scored the outside cup piece on either side for it to fold over. I also scored the jacket piece in the same manner and glued up both pieces. Then I fit the inside cup piece inside the outer cup piece and put the jacket piece over the outer cup piece.
I stamped some coffee beans on the jacket, and glued a gold glitter oval on the center of the jacket. I stamped "How've you bean?" from the Fiskars coffee stamp set I have on a piece of white cardstock and cut it out with one of stitched circle dies and glued it to the center of the glitter oval.
Lastly, I put gold and white twine around the top of the jacket and Glossy Accents on the cup lid! Now I just need a coffee gift card and send the cup of cheer on its way! :)
I hope you enjoyed reading my process on the card and go and see what other amazing pieces people are posting on the coffee lovers blog hop! Thanks for visiting!