Life Happens Coffee Helps - TSOT #427

Today, September 29, 2019,  is National Coffee Day.  Out of curiosity I did a bit of research and found that there is an International Coffee Day as well, but it is on Oct. 2 .

You can find a bit of the history of National Coffee Day here

Because of the national designation of this day, I  made a card featuring coffee, using the sketch with Try Stampin ' on Tuesday #427 which ironically has an optional theme of "Coffee, tea, or another warm beverage".

I used the retired stamp set "Coffee Cafe" with its coordinating Coffee Cafe dies  as well as the coordinating but retired DSP .

After die cutting the cup in Whisper White card stock, coffee beans were stamped randomly all over it in Early Espresso ink.  The edges were then sponged with Early Espresso to give it more dimensions. The entire surface of the coffee cup was then embossed with clear embossing powder to make it look like the shiny take out cups. The lid was also stamped in Early Espresso, die cut and adhered to the top of the cup.

The hand protector was die cut using the wood grain pattern of the retired DSP and adhered to the cup.

"Thanks a Latte" was stamped with Garden Green ink, die cut with oval die and adhered to coffee cup using dimensionals.

The coffee cup was adhered with dimensionals, at an angle, to an embossed Whisper White art piece, which had been  die cut with  the stitched rectangle die .  The embossing folder is unknown to me - I found this embossed piece in my left over stash.  The embossed image is a winter one. The swirls reminded me of heat rising off a coffee cup, so I high lighted the them with Balmy Blue ink. 
The art piece is matted with Old Olive card stock and added to the DSP of the card front with dimensionals.

The card base is Old Olive, matted with Whisper White then retired DSP with a pattern of various colours of circles.

The sentiment, stamped in Garden Green ink, is punched with the 1 3/4" circle punch and matted with a 2" Early Espresso circle. This is adhered to the lower right corner of the center piece. Three stamped and die cut coffee beans were embellishments added to the sentiment

At the top is a 1/4" strip of wood grain DSP notched at one end.
 
The inside was finished as indicated in the picture below.

Supplies Used:
Stamp:  Coffee Cafe
Inks:  Black Memento, Early Espresso, Garden Green, Balmy Blue, Versa Mark
Papers:  Old Olive, Whisper White, Coffee Cafe DSP (Retired)
Accessories:  Coffee Cup Dies, 1 3/4" circle punch, 2" circle punch, Dimensionals, Embossing Folder (unknown), Clear Embossing Powder

Coffee Time Shake it Up

How do you like your coffee??  Remember that commercial?

I love my coffee= in the morning, afternoon, evening - well, anytime - with milk and sweetener,  and now as shaker.  Sounded intriguing??

I did think of using real  coffee beans  to make this shaker card, but I refused to share my hoarde, so coffee colored sequins were substituted instead.

On a top fold Garden Green card base,  I adhere a Whisper White piece of card stock layered with Coffee Break DSP.  This layer has an oval die cut in the middle near the top. 

Using 2 sizes of oval framelits a Whisper White frame is die cut and adhered around the front oval window .Window sheet slightly larger than the original oval is adhered to the wrong side.

Here's a tip I've learned making shaker cards this week - apply some embossing buddy to the inside window sheet and edges of the shaker unit to prevent static cling - allowing the shaker elements to shake freely.

The coffee cup, lid and sleeve were stamped,  die cut, and adhered to a piece of Crumb Cake card stock .  I used the same pattern on the cup sleeve as on the outside of the card.

The shaker was assembled in the usual manner with foam tape around the oval and the card stock edges.  As mentioned I used coffee colored shaker elements (non SU) .  The card front and the Crumb Cake layer were adhered together and was then  adhered to the card front.

The sentiment is from the Coffee Break stamp set.  It was stamped in Early Espresso, punched with a large oval punch and adhered to some Early Espresso card stock punched with the Pretty Label Punch.

Some die cut coffee beans decorate  the bottom of the shaker unit on the left side

Supplies Used:

Stamp:  Coffee Cafe

Inks:  Early Espresso, Black Memento

Papers:  Garden Green, Whisper White, Coffee Break DSP

Accessories:  Layering oval framelits, Large oval punch, Pretty Label Punch, Dimensionals, window sheet, embossing buddy, Shaker elements (non SU) Coffee Café framelits