Coffeesaurus & Friends

Hi everyone, happy Sunday!

This is Milene here today. Welcome to the CDC blog!

Are you a coffee drinker? Or maybe you have a friend that loves coffee?! Either way, you need this cute little Coffeesaurus stamp set in your life! I simply adore the images by Gerda Steiner Design's used on today’s card.

 

I really love one-layer cards. I am also a fan of combining masked images with a beautiful stencil, and that is what I did here. I started out by combining Gerda Steiner Design's stamps sets that I had in my stash. Coffeesaurus, Hedgehog with Coffee and Harvest Mouse. Have fun combining the sets you have in your stash!

When masking for a one-layer card, be sure to stamp “forward to backwards” – meaning you will want to stamp what is on the foreground first. In this case, I first stamped my dinosaur. I then masked him and stamped his friends on each side. I did fussy cut masks for every critter, as I wanted to ink blend the background. After placing the masks in place, I lighted ink blended my background using Evergreen Bough Distress Ink. I then applied the Newton's Nook Starfield stencil to the background using a heavier hand.

Once the background was done, I moved on to the cute critters. I hand drew a scarf around the mouse’s neck with a black Sharpie. I am not very good at hand drawing so, if I can do it, so can you! I colored my images using Tombow markers and a Wink of Stella shimmer pen. I finished it off by stamping my sentiment in Versafine ink and Wilted Violet Distress Oxide ink.

I am off to grab a cup of coffee. See you next time!