Summer Loving Happiness

Hi friends! Welcome to another week. I'm sharing a new card for the Summer Coffee Lovers Blog Hop today.  This one combines a sentiment from the Coffee Helps set with a sneak peek of stamps from the Happiness Is stamp set that releases on July 10.

I started with the coffee cup from Happiness Is stamped on watercolor paper.  I had just seen a glimpse of the keyword challenge at The Challenge and thought it would be fun to watercolor the cup.  I also chose the background paper to fit the square keyword.  I used Daniel Smith watercolors for the cup, adding in some splatters with some brown watercolor ink.

I then masked off part of the you by my side sentiment to stamp just the you and then added the -and- sentiment to build my pictogram sentiment.  I did also sneak in the steam stamp from the new Always Time set for the coffee steam.  The Summer Loving sentiment is from Coffee Helps and I stamped it on a stitched circle and added to a sun die cut from the Partly Cloudy Die Set.

I masked off the Happiness Is sentiment to stamp just the happiness word in the corner of the designer paper to complete my summer loving happiness sentiment.  I added my pictogram to a 7 gypsies tag with some staples and then added a bit of sponging, splatters and distressed edges all around.

Thanks so much for stopping by today. If you haven't had a chance to link up some cards to the Coffee Lovers hop, there's still plenty of time.  There are bunches of prizes from 77 sponsors, including a chance to win Verve's July release! Link up over at the official hop post.

Enabler's List
Stamps: Coffee Helps (Verve), Happiness Is, Always Time (releasing 7/10/17 from Verve)
Paper: dp scraps, 7 gypsies tag, watercolor paper
Ink: early espresso (SU!), ground espresso (Ranger Distress)
Accessories: Springtime Stitches Die Set, Partly Cloudy Die Set (A Cut Above by VERVE)