The Cat’s Pajamas 5 Petal Posy | D.Ann's Crafting Whims

Hello, again. What’s mew with you? >^.^<

The Fall Coffee Lovers Blog Hop continues, and today I have a fun card using up-cycled coffee cup sleeves and coffee filter flowers in fall colors.

I like the background the Panera coffee sleeve provides for the fussy-cut cat from The Cat’s Pajamas. The coffee cup was cut from a Dunkin’ Donuts sleeve.

Coloring those coffee filter flowers new technique for me to try, but it turned out to be quite easy. In case you’d like to try, here’s how I did it:

I die cut my The Cat’s Pajamas posies and leaves first… It might have been easier to die the whole filter first, but I never do anything the easy way. ha.

Then I smooshed my Distress ink pads onto a craft mat and spritzed them with water

Next I dragged my die- cut pieces through the ink until they were saturated to my liking.

When I ran out of ink, I’d just spritz more water on the darker ones and drag them along, leaving a trail of ink for a lighter one to use.

Separate and lay flat to dry.For the greens, this results in an ombre look – varying tones of greens.

To Make the flower, I gathered 4 of the flowers, rotating the leaves slightly and made a slit in the middle, inserting a brad. Then I lifted up each layer and squished it around the brad. You can see the three sages below.

Materials used:

The Cat’s Pajamas dies: 5 Petal Posies, Lacy Posies, and Leaf Scrolls
The Cat’s Pajamas stamp set: What’s Mew?
DCWV card
Coffee filters
Tim Holtz Distress Inks: Barn Door, Dried Marigold, Mustard Seed, Rusty Hinge, Scattered Straw, Spiced Marmalade, Vintage Photo, Wild Honey (flowers) Bundled Sage, Crushed Olive, Forest Moss, Old Paper, Peeled Paint, Shabby Shutters (leaves)
Versamark Ink
Recollections detail embossing powder: ebony
Uniball gel impact pen – gold
Zig chalk writer – pink
Aleene’s Original Tacky Glue