Today’s card uses another of my printed Whole Latte Love digis from Deedee’s Digis. I wanted to enter a ‘thanks’ card in the current Outlawz Copic/Promarker challenge. This design qualifies as CAS (clean and simple) so I am able to also enter it in the current Addicted to Stamps and More! challenge. Chartreuse is one of my favorite colors and the retired SU Kiwi Kiss totally matched the chartreuse in the TAC patterned paper. All the inlaid hearts come from the same patterned sheet, just different areas. I placed my latte cup on a punched ’saucer’ embellished with a bit of that same patterned sheet. Did you notice that I trimmed away the cinnamon stick on this digi? I wanted to keep the design light and the cinnamon stick would have added a darkness to the overall ambience. I made one of these cards as a ‘thanks’ (using a sentiment I generated in my word processing program with the Amazing Ruler font) and two others (not photographed) with the original ’sending you a whole latte love’ sentiment that comes with this digi. The three will go into my November Operation Write Home box. So now, out of my original 12 printed digis, I’ve made 10 and only have 2 more to share with you.
The technique used for the background is called Inlaid Embossing in which embellishments are temporarily adhered to cardstock and then the embellished cardstock is dry embossed (using a detailed emboss design; the tighter the emboss design, the deeper the embedding of the embellishments) to inlay the embellishments into the overall design.
This card qualifies for several challenges:
The Outlawz Friday Copic/Promarker Challenge November 16th-22nd…Thanskgiving or Thanks in general
Addicted to Stamps and More!…CAS Challenge #4
Stamps: Deedee’s Digis Whole Latte Love, sentiment computer-generated using Amazing Ruler font
Paper: Cougar White 80 lb; SU Kiwi Kiss (retired), Crushed Curry (retired); TAC Pop Rockz patterned paper (available at Red Rubber Designs)
Copics: Cup (YG21, YG01, YG03, YG23); Whipped Cream (E50, 0); Heart (R29, R39, R59, R89)
Accessories: Big Shot, SU Square Lattice embossing folder, Marvy Uchida small and mini heart punches, SU trio heart punch, SU scalloped oval and large oval punches
Posted on November 21st, 2012 by kellyrae
Filed under: CAS (Clean & Simple), Challenges, Copics, Deedee's Digis, Operation Write Home, Techniques, The Outlawz
Loving your latte cards, Kelly. I love your brightly embossed background and all those hearts are beautiful! Thanks so much for playing along in our first challenge at ATSM! xx
whoops - that was meant to say ‘CAS’ challenge!! sorry!!
Priceless - another great creation. Happy Thanksgiving
Another beautiful latte card! i don’t care too much for green, but you made this card look so beautiful, i just love it. The purples of the pattern paper really pop, and blend well with the greens to make a really appealing look. I really like the inlaid embossing trick. you’ve been holding out on me! ha!
Chartruse is one of my favs, too! Love the inlaid embossing–thanks for the tip. Hope you and yours have a great Thanksgiving–we do have much to be thankful for, don’t we?
That’s such a great image! I love the inlaid embossing with the row of hearts! Thanks for joining us at ATS&M.
Thanks for sharing with us during our CAS week at ATS&M. You cup of latte coffee looks very inviting. Caz
Okay, this has got to be my favorite out of all of them! I just love the colors!
Lovely card Kelly Rae, loving these digi stamps. That’s a great embossing technique that I had forgotten about, must have a go! Thanks for playing along again at ATS&M
Val x