Hi there! Elena here.
I'm thrilled to be here showing off Cool Beans
for Christmas. I give away a ton of Starbucks gift cards to tired
teachers and this card would be perfect to give along with those gift
cards:
I used the very cool Waves cover plate to add interest to the background. I love how festive it looks in white over the red background!
For
the coffee cup, I knew I wanted a circle with a heart inside, but I
didn't have a circle I could stamp (I really wanted that black outlined
image!) so I made my own:
I
stamped the balloon from Hats Off - but can you see how the ink at the
bottom was wiped away before I stamped it down? I stamped the heart from
City Celebrations in the middle - perfect fit!
After
die-cutting the balloon, I snipped off the balloon nub and re-drew the
missing part of the circle with a copic multiliner pen.
Sometimes getting the look you want is as easy as looking at the stamps in your stash.
I colored the cup a vibrant red, and the circle a bright green.
To add some punch, I heat-embossed the sentiment (from Polar Pals) onto a rectangle of black cardstock.
I added highlights with a white gel pen to finish things off.
♥.
