Spring/Summer Coffee Lovers Hop - Card #2!

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Since my teammates and I have been featuring  PaperArtsy's Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylic Paints this week, I figured I'd just go with the flow and use them to create my coffee-themed project.

Here's my card using the Coffee Time Red Rubber Cling Stamp Set by Darkroom Door with Mermaid, South Pacific, Blah Mange, and Prawn Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylic Paints by PaperArtsy.

Topflight Stamps Products Used:

Coffee Time Red Rubber Cling Stamp Set by Darkroom Door

Mermaid, South Pacific, Blah Mange, and Prawn Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylic Paints by PaperArtsy

2" Speedball Brayer

Roasted Coffee Prism Ink by Hunkydory Crafts

Premier Ink Blending Tool by Hunkydory Crafts

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Other Products Used:

Solar White Classic Crest® Cardstock by Neenah Papers

140 Lb. Mixed Media Paper by Strathmore®

Acorn and Pinecone VersaFine Clair™ Inks by Tsukineko®

Clear Detail Embossing Powder by Stampendous!®

Tuxedo Black Memento™ Ink by Tsukineko®

Copic® Markers: BG07, BG09, E42, E43, B60, BG0000, C0, C1, C4, RV0000

Teal Cardstock by Bazzill Basics Paper®

Dry Embossed Kraft Cardstock: Source Unknown

Clock Patterned Washi Tape: Source Unknown

Black Chalk Pencil by General's Pencil®

Non-Static Powder Bag Thingy

Instructions:

1. Cut, score, and fold teal cardstock to form an A2 card. Set aside. 
2. Cut a piece of 9" x 12" Mixed Media Cardstock in half. Reserve half and cut the other half to 4.5" x 6".
3. Start to create your background by applying a drop or two of Mermaid Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylic Paint to a craft sheet and spread with the brayer.
4. Randomly brayer the paint onto the mixed media cardstock until all the paint on the craft sheet and brayer is gone.
5. Repeat Steps #2 and #3 with Blah Mange Fresco Finish Chalk  Acrylic Paint. These two colors of paint (in Steps #2 to #4) are opaque so the colors will overlap with a bit of blending.
6. Repeat Steps #2 to #4 until the mixed media cardstock is covered with paint.
7. Repeat Steps #2 and #3 with South Pacific Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylic Paint, then with Prawn  Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylic Paint. These paints are tranlucent and semi-opaque respectively, so that you can see some of the color underneath them. 
8. Continue to brayer on the paint until you're happy with the coverage and the patterns.
9. Give the painted background a blast with a heat gun to ensure that it's completely dry. Since the  Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylic Paints are quick drying, it shouldn't take too long.
10. Pounce a non-static powder bag or a used dryer sheet onto the background panel.
11. Use Acorn and Pinecone VersaFine Clair to stamp the bean cluster from the Coffee Set onto the painted background. 
12. Use the same inks to stamp the single coffee bean in the gaps.
13. Add Clear Detail Embossing Powder, dump off the excess, and heat set.
14. Trim the background panel to 4" wide.
15. Use Tuxedo Black Memento ink to stamp the To Go Coffee Cup onto Neenah cardstock.
16. Fussy-cut, color with Copic markers, and edge with a black pen. Set aside.
17. Trim a panel of the dry-embossed Kraft cardstock to 2.25" x 6.
18. Use Roasted Coffee Prism Ink to stamp the Coffee Rings randomly onto the Kraft cardstock.
19. Use Pinecone VersaFine Clair ink to stamp the sentiment towards the top of the panel.
20. Edge the stamped Kraft cardstock panel with Roasted Coffee Prism ink.
21. Cut a strip of the remaining teal cardstock from Step #1 to 2.5" x 6" and use to mat the kraft strip.
22. Trim the matted Kraft panel to 5.5".
23. Apply Clock-patterned Washi tape to the base of the matted Kraft panel as shown, then adhere to the background panel to create the card front.
24. Trim the card front to 5.25" and edge the entire card with Roasted Coffee Prism ink.
25. Adhere the card front to teal A2 card.

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