I like unusual color combos (sometimes), I kept looking at this week's, thinking I'd seen it before. I sort of had: it's close to the colors of the Irish flag! Cajun craze has a bit more red in it than the Irish orange but it sure made me pause. We are brewing either Irish coffee or Chai latte tea. This is also for Wednesday's sketch...thanks, Pat!
I started out by making a DOx background with the lucky clover, rusty hinge and spiced marmalade. Added some ground espresso because it needed some depth. As I'm doing this, I'm starting to think 'this looks like a coffee cup of chai latte tea.' So that's where I went with it. I didn't use much of my background, just the strips at the top and bottom and the 'brew'. I made a simple DOx background just with the clover, stamped my coffee cups in the Distress espresso, fussy cut them, then used my background to restamp the cups, fussy cut out the two that showed some of the brew and added some copper metallic wc paint to the cups and strips. Stamped some tea rings in the espresso and rusty hinge, sentiment in espresso and used the kraft dotted dp that I've had forever, just scraps left. I didn't think I was going to be crazy about this, although these colors didn't make my lips freeze, but I had a lot of fun making it. BTW, I'm whispering, 'we're all crazy!!!!!!'
Date: Thursday, January 21, 2021 GMT Views: 811
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Registered: February 19, 2011 Location: Fullerton, CA Posts: 14985
Sat, Jan 23, 2021 @ 3:01 PM
Fun card. The first thing I noticed is the rings and even before I read your post I thought they looked like coffee rings. So perfect for this card. A warm delight, for sure.
Registered: November 7, 2006 Location: Willamette Valley Oregon Posts: 34503
Sun, Jan 24, 2021 @ 2:43 PM
it would be my CC favorite of the week, bfnm!!! LOVE the bg...glad you just used snippets of it...filling up that original stash folder for sure. Think I'll head into the kitchen for a pour of the Irish...and drink to this card. What's not to luv? espresso and Irish, yum.
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