Upcycled coffee cups | D.Ann's Crafting Whims

Hello again! I just couldn’t wait until tomorrow to post this card, so I’m back already. ; ) The Summer 2017 Coffee Lovers Blog Hop is in full swing.

During the spring hop, I saw some cute cards done using the spring coffee cups from Starbucks, but my stores didn’t have them yet. When they finally came in, I snagged a yellow one which I thought was bright and sunny for summer. And when the recent sticker collecting promotion ended, I asked my local manager for some of those fab watercolor-look leftover frap stickers and he kindly obliged.

I took some inspiration from MFT’s Sketch Challenge, added a couple of travelling birds from South America (SSS Monday Challenge) and out comes a fun up-cycled summer card. Another serendipitous moment came when I was looking through my stash for some red embossing powder to match the card and came up empty. Brain fog kept me from remembering to just stamp in red and use clear embossing powder. I tried a neon pink, but it didn’t look right. Then I went over it with a Copic marker… I love the burning after glow the neon left. Unfortunately the camera just doesn’t catch it as well as the eye does in real life. You’ll just have to come over to see it!

Materials used:

My Favorite Things BB Polynesian Paradise stamp set
Core’dinations Parisian Nights A2 card & white cardstock
Memento Tuxedo Black dye ink
Copic Markers: B24,29; BV02; C3,5,7;R29,35; Y13,15,17,35; YR04
Tonic Studios Nuvo Crystal Drops Navy Blue
Pigma Micron 005 green archival ink pen
Tsukineko Versamark ink
Recollections Opaque Neon embossing powder: Neon Pink
Tombow Xtreme permanent Adhesive
Starbucks cup and stickers
Laura’s Loft glitter pearl stickers

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Thank you so much for stopping by! Now off you pop to keep on hoppin’!

~D.Ann

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Good Evening! I have a fun card made with up-cycled coffee cups to share with you:

We recently traveled to support some friends and family going through difficult times and I gathered a collection of coffee cups and sleeves. (We were in the boonies where Starbucks doesn’t exist.)

I used the foam cup as the gift card holder, added ‘Hello’ to the Hot Stuff sleeve and cut out its chevron, too. The McDonad’s cup required carefully rolling off the inner from the outer paper. If you just cut it and try to lay it flat, it will get fold marks on the design. (Guess how I know! Ha!).

I had thought to use it as a background, but the more I looked at those swirls, the more I thought of some of my flower making dies, so I cut around the swirls to make them into flowers.

I used Copic markers on the inside to make them match the gold and red colors on the outside. Then I rolled them up and glued the ends. Once dry, I glued them onto the center of those pretty Technique Tuesday flowers. Once again, I used Copic Markers on the gold glitter paper to made the red glitter paper.

They’re too stiff to curl down the edges for a more natural flowery look, but the outer edges are pretty cute!

I used a Starbucks sleeve to decorate the back of the card:

You may be asking… Where can I find that interesting tag die? You can’t! But you can make it yourself… I placed the circle die where I wanted it, then pressed hard against the back with my fingernail, tracing the die ridge up to where I wanted the other die and then did the same with it.

That gave me an embossed impression that I could easily follow with a scissors and cut.

I then cut a hole in the top to let the Starbucks stirrer through and just stuck it in the pocket with the gift card.

Supplies Used:

Technique Tuesday Garden Flowers dies
Technique Tuesday stamps: Coffee Break Seal & Pansy (Hello)
Spellbinders Petite Labels One and Classic Circles
Tsukineko Versamark Ink
WOW! Pearl Gold embossing glitter
Stampendous PERLustre Rose Quartz embossing powder
Copic Markers: R29, Y28
Core’dinations cardstock – wine
DCWV Glitzy Glitter cardstock stack – gold
Various adhesives and take out coffee cups, stirrer and sleeves. Misc. card base.

I’m playing along with the following hops and challenges… click on any one of them for more information on how you can join the fun!

2016 Winter Coffee Lovers Hop

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge – Gift It
Crop Stop December Challenge Linky Party #23 – Anything Goes (Versamark & WoW!)

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*****Updated to add: This giveaway is now closed *****

Drumroll…. The moment you’ve been waiting for…. while posting cards for the Winter Coffee Lovers Hop, WordPress reminded me that I have made 200 posts. I think that calls for a celebration! I have two very small blog candy offerings for you:

The Technique Tuesday Coffee Break Seal stamp like the one I used on my project or the Taylored Expressions Thanks die. Both are brand new and come from a pet-free, smoke-free house.

If you would like to be in the running to win one of these, pay close attention to the rules: Leave ONE comment on this post before 11:59 pm Pacific, Sunday December 18, 2016, using the phrase Coffee Break somewhere in your comment. If you don’t have the word Coffee Break in your comment, I’ll assume you’re not interested in the blog candy (and won’t be offended!). Also, if you are (or become) a follower of this blog, you may make a SECOND comment telling me so for an additional entry. You may also receive one ADDITIONAL entry EACH by being a follower of my Pintereest account, @dannscrafting , or my Instagram account, @d.ann.c. Come back here and leave another comment with your Pinterest user name and another with your Instagram user name. Duplicate comments will be deleted. There you have it… you may have up to four chances to win. If you have a preference for one prize or the other, please let me know in your comment.

FYI: This particular giveaway IS open to International peeps, too.

On December 19, 2016, I will use Mr. Random org to draw a winner from the comments that qualify and will try to announce it here on the blog some time before noon PACIFIC time. Please come back and check to see if you’re the winner. The winner will have 72 hours to contact me with their snail-mail address or another winner will be chosen.

~D.Ann

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I leave you with a not-the-best-picture from our trip of a cool phenomenon called ‘glory’… it’s the circular rainbow that happens when the sun is directly behind you and the sun is directly in front of you.