Looking for that perfect piece of paper that will tie your entire project together? Try this technique to find the perfect match!
Today’s stunning Autumn Spice Latte Card comes from our designer, Dominique, who is really bringing all the fall vibes with this vibrant color pallet. What we love most about this card, is how she took this lovely designer paper from our Java Good Time pad, and ink blended over it to ensure that it matched her project perfectly! She did such a good job transforming this paper, that we almost couldn’t recognize it was OURS!! haha. Follow along to see how to elevate your patterned paper and create projects that rock!
How to create this card:
- Using white card stock, die cut, 5215D 3 Maple Leaves Die Cut, and also the sleeve and lid from 5706D Mix and Match Coffee Cups. The coffee cup I cut from brown specked off-white card stock.
- Using your detailed blending brushes color the leaves. I used Apricot and Pumpkin from Color Fuse Set #2. Set these aside.
- Next, ink blend your sleeve. I used Mocha from Color Fuse Set #3. I also added texture by scoring lines into it.
- Adhere your sleeve to the coffee cup. Then add one of the leaves to the center of the sleeve using foam adhesive. Also add your lid using some tape.
Here is where the magic happens:
- Now I’m going to move on to my patterned paper. I took a sheet of the swirlies and coffee beans from Java Good Time 6×6 Paper Pad. The pattern was beautiful but the stark white background of the paper wasn’t giving me the Autumn vibes I was looking for. I needed something rich to pull the design together, but none of the other paper was really vibing. I decided that I would use my Color Fuse Inks to jazz up this paper and make it fit with the project perfectly. I decided to color it up using an ombre’ type blending style starting with the Pumpkin and fading down into Apricot from Color Fuse Set #2. The paper pad has thick high quality paper, and the rich. inks glided over it so smoothly. The result was exactly what I needed and I couldn’t be more happy with how it turned out.
- Once I was complete with my coloring, I cut an oval from the center. I used the 3.375″x4.375″ oval from the 5014D Nested Oval Sm Stitch Dies set.
- Next, I added double sided tape to my card base and then I adhered the solid dark brown sheet from Java Good Time 6×6 Paper Pad. I then trimmed off the excess paper.
- Next, using white card stock I die cut some of the foliage from 5726-01D Fall Mushroom Bouquet Die set and also the acorn from the 5623-02D Fall Mushroom Acorn Die set.
- I ink blended the leaves using Juniper (Color Fuse Set #11) and Cinnamon (Color Fuse Set #3). I colored the acorn using Cinnamon and Mocha (Color Fuse Set #3).
- I adhered the orange swirl frame to the to the card base. I then added foam tape to the back of the coffee cut and added that to the center.
- Next, I arranged my foliage in the bottom left of the card, adding foam tape of the backs of the leaves and acorn.
- On vellum, stamp the “You Are Brew-Tiful” sentiment from the 36036 Let’s Meet for Coffee stamp set. Because the ink was still very wet, I added from clear embossing power to the top and heat embossed. Doing this prevented my ink from smudging.
- I then die cut the sentiment using one of the banner dies from 5605-03D Off Set Tags Die.
- Lastly I added that to the bottom of the coffee cup using glue that dries clear.
What a fun fall project. The colors are so vibrant and that background ties it all together so beautifully. We hope you enjoyed learning how to elevate your patterned paper, and try a bit of ink blending for your next project!