Give Me Coffee

Hi friends! It's time for a new TCP challenge and this month we're challenging you to decorate an envelope. Now, I don't know about you, but when I see a decorated envelope in my mail box I do a little happy dance. Sure a coupon from a favorite craft store is nice, but a honest to goodness snail mail package all happy to greet me? I'll take that any day! Here are all the challenge deets:

Each month a new challenge is posted on The Cat’s Pajamas blog and Facebook page.

• To play along, upload your design to the Inlinkz link up on The Cat’s Pajamas blog
• The Cat’s Pajamas products are NOT required, but we do LOVE to see them!
• Winner is announced the first Tuesday of the following month and will receive a $50 gift voucher to The Cat's Pajamas store.

Sounds fun, huh? Hope you can play along. Here's my take on the challenge...

I sometimes start getting a little ancy when it's been too long since I've made a coffee card! I love all types of stamps, but coffee really does make my heart go pitter patter. Add in some cute little penguins and I couldn't wait to put my idea to paper.

I started with the envelope, since that was the challenge! I recently got the adorable Sending You stamp set and thought it would be fun to send some coffee loving rainbows to a friend. I stamped the little postmark waves two times and then colored in rainbow order with Copic markers. (I tucked a bit of cardstock inside the envelope to keep the Copics from bleeding through to the other side.  Next I stamped the Sending and Rainbows words in black and chose a sweet little penguin image from Big Cups. I colored the polka dots in rainbow colors, then added a bit of grey for the mug and orange for his beak and feet.

Next I moved on to the card. I started by stamping this little penguin who's hoping to find even the teeniest little drop of coffee in that empty cup! I colored with Copics, then used a black glaze pen to make him super black and shiny. Next I started on a rainbow background. I swiped Distress Oxide inks in rainbow order across a piece of cardstock, masking off with post-it tape where I didn't want the inks to blend. I then went over the panel with a waterbrush to smooth out the blends.

The give me coffee and no one gets hurt sentiment is embossed in white onto the rainbow panel and then I stamped the sentiment again in black and cut and colored to pop up over the sentiment. I matted this panel with black, then decided I needed a little more oomph, so randomly stamped the star from the Sending You set all over the background in the same distress oxide colors.

I played around with adding one of the Cups Duo Dies, using a portion of the rainbow background I had already made for the back of the cup, then cutting the top layer of the cup from black cardstock, swiping in Versamark and embossing with Sparkle embossing powder for a super shiny, shimmery look. The finished piece overpowered the card a bit, so I decided to turn it into a magnet, but die cutting the cup outline from an adhesive backed thin magnet and adding to the back of the cup. Now my recipient can have a rainbow cup magnet for their fridge!

Thanks so much for stopping by today! For more inspiration from the TCP kitties, click on over to the Cat Pack links on the sidebar to see what everyone created for the challenge!

I hope you find a little time to play along in our challenge! And if you love challenges AND rainbows, be sure to check out the Three Amigos Challenge #24.

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