Happy Tuesday! Today’s card is Sending you a Cup of Christmas Joy for today’s Random Acts of Cardness theme, coffee.
I finally took some time to play with the new Villainous Potion Distress Inks this week and I challenged myself to use them for this theme! I first got inky, creating some background paper with a mix of regular Distress & Oxide Inks. I splattered a bit of silver over it and also inked up some thin crinkle ribbon to match. Love it!
I pulled out the Coffee Understands set by Picket Fence Studios and the Sending Christmas Joy die by MFT. While I love this big sentiment, sometimes it’s a challenge fitting other images with it on a card. I played around with my layout a bit and decided on a 5.5″ square card with the girl from the stamp set stamped beside it, since she’s almost as tall as the text. The tall to-go cup is a great fit to sit over the open “O” in JOY.
I decided to pull it all together with some snowflakes on the background, using Distress Oxide ink through a snowflake stencil (by Paper Rose) which is really bold on the Kraft card base. I layered it all together and decided to keep it simple and call it done! The offset layers are a fun & different twist, but the ribbon seems to balance it all out.
And yep… my fingers are still inky!
Inky hugs,
Tara
Love this!