A Coffee Date!

Are you a pumpkin spice kind of girl (or guy!)? It’s the season! I’m seeing a good friend of mine today for coffee — and our “date” inspired my card. 

I dug through my stash looking for anything coffee-themed and pulled out the stamps and metal die cuts. I began with an intricate die cut of a coffee cup, an old-fashioned percolator — just like my mother-in-law’s— and beautiful swirls of steam.

 

It’s a very difficult die where on the first try it didn’t cut through on my old manual Big Shot die cut machine. But I learned in a Facebook card-making group that with metal dies that just don’t cut all the way, feed the die-cut machine with bubble wrap as a shim. And it worked!

You can see how intricate the die is.

I used Stardream Metallic Saturn 126 lb 8.5 x 11 Card Stock. It’s a sparkly bronze metallic that really catches the light and shines. 

I popped out the tiny pieces of the die using a Cricut tool. 

Then gluing it down was easy if you used a fine-tip glue applicator (I used Art Glitter Glue) and used thin lines or dots.

I feed my coffee obsession with a lot of coffee stamp sets, so after rummaging through them, I found an unused Clearly Whimsy Stamps’ “Coffee Break Additions” from the Clearly Whimsy Stamps Collection. It says “hope you perk up soon,” and think that is a perfect get well soon card sentiment. 

I cut the sentiment with another metal die that I had in my collection — yes I have a collection of them too! I used double-sided tape on the reverse side and adhered to three pieces of metallic bronze ribbon, which to my surprise matched the Bronze color card stock perfectly. I added 3D adhesive dots to the back of the die-cut and placed it on my card.

I then glued the die-cut image to DCS Shimmery Textured Wedding Cake 8.5x11 inch White Card Stock, my favorite paper for its shimmer, and cut it down to 4.25x5.50 inches. 

And my card is finished, ready for my friend today, who needs a little lifting up. Hope that you enjoyed this project — and I’d love to see any coffee-themed projects that you are inspired to make.