A Coffee Date With You

Are you a pumpkin spice kind of girl (or guy!)? It’s the season! Hi, it’s Laura, and 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 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 is easy if you use 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 “Coffee Break Additions” from the Clearly Whimsy Stamps Collection. It says “hope you perk up soon” and I 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 8.5×11 inch White Card Stock, my favorite paper for its shimmer, and cut it down to 4.25×5.50 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.