Café Love – Happy Birthday

Welcome back!  Lots of red, pink, hearts and love stuff out there…

So, Color Dare (#635) is sporting Pink and Red, Seize the Birthday (#298) suggests adding Red and the neutral Kraft while TGIF (#509) introduces a coffee theme.  Bringing all these elements together, I chose the Saturday Sketch (#768) layout which has a theme twist to add a Heart.

Here is the result:

ATTENTION SHOPPERS – MERRY CAFE – CD635 – STB298 – TGIFC509 – SS768

Steps:

  • Card Base: (8½” x 5½” scored at 4¼”) Bubble Bath cardstock.
  • Vertical Rectangles: (1¼” x 2⅝”) Crumb Cake cardstock dry-embossed with the retired Cross Hatch Pattern Basics 3D Embossing Folder.
  • Horizontal Rectangles: (3⅞” x 1¼) Real Red cardstock dry-embossed with the So Swirly Embossing Folder.
  • Central Rectangle: (2½” x 1¼”) Early Espresso cardstock.
    • The sentiment, Happy Birthday, from the Attention Shoppers stamp set was stamped with Versamark ink and heat-set with White Embossing Powder and then dry-embossed with the retired Subtle 3D Embossing Folder.
  • Square: (1¾” x 1¾”) Bubble Bath cardstock scrap die-cut with the (1½” x 1½”) Stitched Square die from the Stylish Shapes Dies set.
  • Heart Inset: Real Red cardstock scrap.
    • The Small Coffee Cup image from the retired Merry Café stamp set was stamped with Versamark ink and also heat-set with White Embossing Powder.
    • Using the Heart die from the retired Hearts A Flutter Framelits Dies set, the Coffee Cup was centrally die-cut within and then dry-embossed with the same Subtle 3D Embossing Folder.
    • Additionally, a Heart was die-cut from the Bubble Bath Square to accommodate the Real Red Heart.

All elements were adhered to the card base to resemble the sketch.

A great themed birthday card to add a Favorite Coffee Shop Gift card as a wee present.

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Published by Jolanda Johnstone

Owner of THE INQUE SPOT STUDIO - Creative Space for Stamping & Paper Crafting and Independent Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator in South Carolina.

8 thoughts on “Café Love – Happy Birthday

  1. Great color-blocking technique, Jolanda! I especially like that you texturized the blocks. (So Swirly is one of my personal favorites.) Great use of our challenge colors and thank you for joining us at Color Dare #635.

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