Coffee and Christmas!

It's Tuesday, which means it's time to share a project created for Topflight Stamps. This week, my teammates and I are sharing Christmas projects. Topflight Stamps is one of the super-sponsors of the Fall/Winter Coffee Lovers Blog Hop so I decided to combine the challenge with the hop and came up with a card and a tag. Sometimes I'm an overachiever. Or you might just think I'm crazy.

Here's the tag.

Here's the card.

Topflight Products Used for today's projects:

Elena Zinski Art #17 Rubber Cling Mounted Stamp Set by PaperArtsy

Coffee and Tea to Go Unmounted Red Rubber Stamp Set by Katzelkraft

Periwinkle Prism Dye Ink Pad by Hunkydory Crafts

Coffee First #252 Clear Stamp Set by AALL and Create

Classic Sentiments Clear Stamp Set by Heffy Doodle

Winter's Snowflakes Clear Polymer Stamp Set by Hobby Art

Camel Ye Faithful Clear Polymer Stamp Set by Hobby Art

Onyx Black VersaFine™ Ink by Tsukineko®

Black Blending Brushes by Time For Tea Design

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Other Products Used:

Solar White Classic Crest® Cardstock by Neenah Papers

140 lb. Mixed Media Paper by Strathmore®

Tuxedo Black and London Fog Memento™ Inks by Tsukineko®

Abandoned Coral, Festive Berries, Worn Lipstick, Tea Dye, Shabby Shutters, Peeled Paint, and Forest Moss Distress® Inks by Tim Holtz® for Ranger Ink

New Canvas Palette™ Hybrid Ink by Stewart Superior Corporation

Flag Die: Source unknown as it got separated from its pals

Coffee Cup and Finishers Die Set by Top Dog Dies/Accucut®

Speech Bubble D-Lites Die Set by Spellbinders®

Large Circles Background Dinky Stenci® by That's Crafty

Concerto Layering Stencil by Tim Holtz® for Stampers Anonymous

White Blizzard Nuvo Glitter Drops by Tonic

*Plaid Patterned Paper by Basic Grey®

Stained Glass/Orange Peel Patterned Paper from the Fruitcake™ Collection by Basic Grey®

Red Cardstock by Bazzill Basics Paper®

Music Washi Tape by Queen and Company

Narrow Striped Washi Tape by Little B™

Duo Corner Punch by Tonic Studios®

STAY-tion by Wendy Vecchi for Ranger Industries
Stamping Platform
Removable ID Labels by Avery®

Post-It® Notes by 3M

Copic Markers Used:

Parrot: YG13, YG17, R21, R24, R37, B34

Parrot's Hat: R24, R37

Mug: B60, BV23, C1, C2, C3

Camel: E30, E31, E33, E34, E35, E47, E47

Camel's Eyes: YG63, B34

Hat: R24, R56, R59

Pom-Pom and Hat's Brim: BG0000, BG000, BV000, G0000, G000, R000, Y000, C00, C0

Coffee Cup: YG63, YG67

Coffee Cup Lid: C00, C0, C1

Instructions for the Tag:

1. Use magnets to secure a piece of white cardstock onto the stamping platform.
2. Position the coffee cup stamp, face down on the white cardstock.
3. Press the lid of the stamping platform onto the stamp, lift, ink the stamp, and stamp. Repeat if necessary for a clear impression.
4. Place a piece of Removable Label paper onto the platform (over the image panel), re-ink the stamp, and stamp. 
5. Fussy-cut the label version to use as a mask.
6. Remove the stamp from the stamping platform and clean.
7. Place a scrap of Post-It Note or label paper over the bottom of the coffee cup.
8. Position the Santa Parrot stamp face down as desired on the coffee cup. 
9. Press the lid of the stamping platform onto the stamp, lift, ink the stamp, and stamp. Repeat if necessary for a clear impression.
10. Place a piece of Removable Label paper onto the platform (over the image panel), re-ink the stamp, and stamp.
11. Fussy-cut the label version of the parrot and place it on its counterpart on the image panel.
12. Remove the image panel from the stamping platform and secure it to the STAY-tion with magnets.
13. Position Post-It Notes along the sides of the coffee cup, under it, and to cover the lid.
14. Place the magnetic ruler across the coffee cup over the parrot's feet.
15. Brush Periwinkle Prism ink over the top part of the masked parrot onto the image panel.
16. Shift the ruler so that it's covering the top part of the coffee cup/parrot image.
17. Brush London Fog Memento ink over the image.
18. Remove Post-It Notes from the sides of the coffee cup.
19. Adhere the mask over the coffee cup.
20. Tear a piece of Label paper and position it horizontally over the bottom of the image panel.
21. Brush Abandoned Coral and Festive Berries Distress inks over the image panel.
22. Blot the background ink with a baby wipe to soften the colors. Heat set.
23. Remove the image panel from the STAY-tion and place it back onto the stamping platform, secured with magnets.
24. Position the snowflake stamps face down on the inked background as desired.
25. Press the lid of the stamping platform onto the stamp, lift, ink the stamp with New Canvas White Palette ink, and stamp. Repeat if necessary for a clear impression. 
26. Repeat steps #24 and #25 until you have the coverage you like.
27. Take the coffee steam stamp and position it face down on the image panel.
28. Repeat Step #25.
29. Ink the stamp with London Fog Memento ink and stamp again. This will add a bit of contrast to the white ink to make it look more vapory. (Today's word).
30. Ink the stamp with the white ink again and stamp to lighten the grey.
31. Remove the image panel from the stamping platform and heat set.
32. Lift the masks and color the parrot and the ground under him.
33. Add the Nuvo drops to the ground and spread with your finger. Set aside to let dry.
34. Trim a piece of patterned paper to 3.25" x 6".
35. Trim a piece of white cardstock to 3.5" x 6.25".
36. Use the Duo Punch on both of the top corners of the plaid paper and the white cardstock to create the tag shape.
37. Sponge the edges of the plaid paper with Worn Lipstick Distress ink, then adhere to the white tag. 
38. Secure a piece of the plaid patterned paper to the stamping platform with magnets.
39. Position the "Merry Christmas" sentiment from the Classic Sentiments Stamp set face down onto the center of the plaid panel.
40. Press the lid onto the stamp, lift, ink with Onyx Black VersaFine ink, and stamp. Ink and stamp again if necessary. Remove the stamp.
41. Position the "OK. But.Coffee.First" stamp face down under the Christmas sentiment on the plaid panel.
42. Repeat Step #37, remove the plaid paper from the platform, and heat set.
43. Cut the sentiment with a speech bubble die, cut off the left edge of the bubble, and sponge the bubble with Worn Lipstick Distress Ink.
44. When the glitter glue is dry, trim the image panel, then adhere to the tag.
45. Determine the center of the top of the tag, punch a circle, then thread fibers through the tag to finish it. 

Gah. Now it's time for you to go get a cup of coffee or a leisure beverage. Or maybe combine both in form of  spiked coffee. Yum!!!

Prepared? Ready for instructions set #2.

Instructions for the card:

1. Cut mixed media cardstock with the coffee cup die.
2. Cut white cardstock with the coffee lid die from the set.
3. Secure the coffee cup on a stamping platform with magnets and position the Santa Hat facedown on the coffee cup.
4. Press the stamping platform's lid onto the stamp, ink with Memento ink, and stamp.  Repeat if necessary to get a good image.
5. Stamp the Santa Hat onto a Post-It Note or removable label paper, then fussy-cut to create a mask.
6. Place the mask over the hat's counterpart on the coffee cup.
7. Position the camel's face and neck down on the coffee cup/image panel so that the top part of his head will be covered by the Santa Hat.
8. Repeat Step #3 and Step #4, though this time you'll be be creating a mask for the camel.
9. Place the camel mask over the camel on the coffee cup/image panel.
10. Remove the coffee cup from the stamping platform and move it to the STAY-tion, secured with magnets.
11. Sponge Shabby Shutters and Peeled Paint Distress ink over the mask and onto the coffee cup/image panel.
12. Dab the inked cup to lighten/soften the intensity of the green ink. This didn't work as well as it did with the pinks/reds on the tag.
13. Heat set.
14. Brush Forest Moss Distress ink over the Concerto stencil on the top part of the coffee cup and over the Large Circles Dinky stencil on the bottom of the cup. This kind of faded in, but still looked cool, so I perservered.
15. Heat set.
16. Remove the coffee cup/image panel from the STAY-tion and remove the masks.
17. Color the camel and his hat with Copic markers. I also used Copic markers to color the background around the cup to even it out and add some shading. Overkill probably. What do I know?
18. Use Copic markers to add some shading to the white coffee cup lid.
19. Adhere the lid of the coffee cup to the the coffee cup.
20. Cut a piece of patterned paper to 4.75" x 6.75" and edge with Tea Dye Distress ink.
21. The patterned paper has a reverse side, which matches perfectly. Secure a piece of this to the stamping platform with magnets.
22. Place the sentiment stamp face down onto the the solid-ish patterned paper.
23. Press the lid of the platform onto the back of the stamp, lift the platform, ink the stamp with Onyx Black VersaFine ink, and stamp the sentiment.
24. Heat set.
25. Use the speech bubble die to cut the sentiment, trim it slightly, then edge it with Tea Dye Distress ink.
26. Add the two patterns of washi tape to the base of the patterned paper as shown.
27. Adhere the coffee cup to the card front.
28. Adhere the sentiment as shown.
29. Adhere the card front to a 5" x 7" red card.
30. Pat yourself on the back if you made it through both sets of instructions.

Thanks for visiting today!