Better With Friends Card

 Hello Crafters!

I wanted to share with you, this card I created with the tea/coffee cup design.

The cup was printed on glossy photo paper. Yes, I know..... I need to work on my blending :o) 

I used Spectrum Noir alcohol markers, then cut the image out.

The background is some board shelf lining paper and a scan of lace on a pillow case.

The edges and tag were inked with Ranger's Antique Linen. 

The sentiment was printed onto beige paper, a tag punch was used, inked and adhered with a mini brad. 

It's all mounted on A4 white cardstock. 

Thank you so much for stopping by the Coffee Bean Design Team Blog.

Have a fabulous day!

Craft on,

Becky

My First Post! Fish Canvas

 Hello Crafty Friends!

I'm so excited to here with the Coffee Bean Design Team and to share my very first project with you. 

I selected the tropical fish sketch to finish off an acrylic pour canvas. 

The acrylic paint pour uses many shades of blue and white.  It's also a "dirty" pour, which means I added various glitters and mica pigments as well as the necessary pouring medium.

The tropical fish was printed on watercolor paper and colored with Spectrum Nor alcohol markers, acrylic paint and a Krylon gold metallic paint pen. 

I cut out the tropical fish and attached it to the canvas with Craft Bond spray adhesive.

It's a shame you can't see all of the shimmer, both in the pour and the fish! 

Thanks for stopping by the Coffee Beans Design Team Blog, I hope you have a wonderful day!

Craft on!

Becky

Shoes to Die for

Hello,
Coffee Bean Design's Fans!

Today is my last guest design team post for Coffee Bean Designs, I hope you have enjoyed all the craftroom creations I have shared over the last couple months. Today's craftroom creation is a card inspired by a pair of iconic red heels.

As soon as I saw the high heel shoe digital stamp I knew it need to be red. I started off by printing my digital stamps on white card stock. My color medium of choice is Copic markers but use whatever you enjoy coloring with.

Copic combos
R17, R27, R29, & R59
C7, C9, & 100

After the shoes were all colored, I covered them with clear wink of Stella and glossy accents. Glossy accents needs time to dry so I set the shoes aside and worked on another card, which you can find over on my blog.

For the background I cut down yellow card stock to 4 by 5 1/4 inches and pulled out my brick stencil by Kindred stamps. Next I inked my background with scattered straw and wild honey distress ink, blending in from the short sides of the yellow cardstock.

Once everything was dry I fussy cut the shoes out remembering to run a water based black marker along the edge to hide the white core of the cardstock. I cut and scored a black A2 card base and added my yellow brick background. To add more dimension to the focal point I glued one shoe down flat while popping up the other on foam. To grounded the focal image I created a sentiment on my computer and cut it into a strip to place under the shoes. I added a red heart gems to each shoes as a final detail.

I love the way this card came out and hope you did too. I want to say thank you all the ladies behind Coffee Bean Designs for letting me be a part of the guess design team. I enjoyed getting to share my craftroom creation with you all. If you want to see more of my work you can find me on social media @TheCraftBean.

Thanks
Brandi M.
The Craft Bean

Wedding Cake

Hello Coffee Bean Design's fans it's Brandi M, I am back to share a card with you featuring the “Wedding Cake” digital stamp by Coffee Bean Designs.

I printed the “Wedding Cake” digital stamp on to white cardstock, one of the things I love about Digital stamps is you can resize them to fit your project. For this card I printed it a bit smaller to use  on my card. On my second card , which you can find on my blog I printed it larger.

For those of you who don't know I love to color with my Copic makers so that's what I pulled out to add more depth and detail to the cake image. I shaded the cake with my light gray combo and then I draw simple flower on my card, I started by drawing a dot for the center. Copic makers are alcohol based and work great for blending. Next I draw five flicks for the petals of the flowers in my darkest shade then add my medium and light on top still using a flicking motion. I went darkest to lightest then back again until I was happy and then a green vine and white gel pen details to the flower centers.

For the cake topper I dug through my stamp stash until I found the small hearts I colored them pink and fussy cut them out. Remember to make it look like they were trimmed out perfectly run a water base black maker a long the edge to hide the white core of the cardstock.

I often pull from my scrap bin when making cards which is exactly what I did for the pink cardstock background. I cut it down to be slightly smaller than an A2 card base. I also used a scrap of white cardstock to stamp the sentiment on with black ink.

To pull the card together I layered the pink cardstock onto a white A2 card base. Using foam tape I popped up the sentiment strip and then glued down the wedding card using the sentiment to ground the image. I topped the cake with the pink hearts. To add more detail to the card I added wink of stella over the cake and scattered flat back pearls.

I hope you enjoyed this card! If you want to see more you can head over to my blog and see how I turn this image into a Birthday cake.

Thanks

Brandi M.

@TheCraftBean

Absolutely Magical!

I used two images from created by our lovely Judy Markowitz of the Lady Beans - both are available for purchase in the Multi Crafters Craft Cafe on Facebook.

To create this card, I first made the background. I used watercolor cardstock cut at 4x6. For the background I alternated Mustard Seed and Pickled Raspberry crayons by Distress Inks. They are water reactive. I then used gold glitter ink by Spectrum Noir. Once I had the background created I printed the musical background.

 I printed and cut out Anicorn. I used both Spectrum Noir and Copics to color her.

 Spectrum Noirs:

HB1, GN2, LV1, LV2, and LV3

 Copics:

BV000, BV00, and RV02 for the wings.

 The two images just work perfectly together!

Pink Perfume

Hello all!

I am back with another craftroom Creation featuring Coffee Bean Design digital stamps, For my cards today I played with the perfume jars collection.

To start off you'll need to print your images out I recommend on card stock, I used 80 pound white card stock but you can use whatever you have. I find coloring relaxing so I choose to use my Copic markers to color in these images. I am working on improving my pink blends (RV/R) since I struggle with them a bit and practice makes progress.

Heart Jar: RV11, R83, R85, RV34, R59, W1, W3, W5

Tear Drop Jar: RV02, RV04, RV06, RV19, N2, N5,C7 C9

I find with the RV/R color family I need to use more colors to get the blend I want. I tried 3 and 4 marker blends and they work but I wasn't getting the depth I wanted. I added another marker to my blends and got much better dimension. I notice with the RV/R color family the lighter colors pick up  more of the darker color than with other color families. When coloring I went lightest to darkest then back out but didn't color over the previous area just blended out the edge. After my images were all colored I added details with my white gel pen and a small “kisses” stamp.

These images are easy to fussy cut out but even if it's not perfect just run a water based black marker along the edge to cover the white core of the paper and it will look perfect.

If you are anything like me you have plenty of pattern paper hanging out in you craftspace, so use it! I pulled out scraps from the “Me and You” collection by “Me And My Big Ideas” to created 3 cards, you can find the bonus card over on my blog. I cut my scraps down to make layers for an A2 card (4 ¼ by 5 ½ inches) and uses foam tape to pop up my colored jars. Once I had the placement for my heart jar I colored in a shadow on the pattern paper to ground it.

Using digital stamps along with pattern paper scraps is a great way to make easy beautiful cards. I hope you enjoyed these cards. If you want see more of my craft room creation you can follow me on social media @TheCraftBean.

Happy Crafting

Brandi M.

The Craft Bean

Wishing Ewe a Great Day!

Wishing Ewe

Hello, this is Jacqueline with the Lady Beans. I just love this little ewe. She is a star! Wishing Ewe is by Bugaboo Stamps.

I created a 6x6 card. I love using alcohol markers to color. I decided to use my Blick Studio Markers for this stamp. I like to show that you can blend and shade with the different brands of alcohol markers. You can even mix them together.

The sentiment that comes with this stamp is "Wishing Ewe", which is just perfect. I did decide to use a different sentiment for my card this time. Wishing Ewe reminds me of a Fairy Godmother granting wishes. Wouldn't that be nice?

Blick Studio Markers:

Hair = Camel, Walnut, and Dark Umber
Face - Camel, Tan, and Shell
Skirt - Pink, and Very Berry
Fur - Coral Peach, Rose Petal, and Peach Blush
Wings - Canary Yellow and Light Periwinkle
Wand  and Shoes- Purple and Lilac
Tights - Pink and Coral Pink
I outline the image with Warm Gray 10% and Warm Gray 20%

Please follow me on my Face Book Creative Paper Crafting with Jacquie. Please join in on the fun at The Coffee Bean Challenge Blog and in the Facebook group The Multi Crafters Cafe.  

Until next time, take care!