Do you have that favorite café with checkered tablecloths and oversized cups where you get that creamy cup of dark roasted coffee and while away the afternoon talking with friends? This card is for you.

Designed around two coffee themed Funny Bones rubber stamps, all the dies used to make this card are by Karen Burniston. (Please note the cup pop-stand, saucer, spoon and swirl of steam are from a die-set she designed for Elizabeth Craft Designs in 2015 and can be found on on-line craft resale shops.)

I recommend watching the assembly video for the cup pop stand before starting this card. To begin, I used a purchased A7 (5-inches tall by 7-inches wide) brown craft paper card base and envelope. I covered the two inside panels with thin red and white checked paper cut as 4 3/4-inches by 6 7/8-inches rectangles butted up almost to the fold, but not covering it. Next, I cut a black and white paper napkin into a 5-inch square and then cut it diagonally into two triangles. I cut and embossed the saucer as shown in the assembly video. Each napkin triangle is adhered to the card base with two pieces of double-sided tape forming a “T”. The saucer is attached using glue that will be absorbed into the napkin and adhering it to the card base.

To get a glossy red coffee cup, I used red cardboard packaging that I had saved from a child’s fast food meal box and cut three cups from it. The alphabet border on the cups is washi tape. The steam die cuts are made with clear vellum.

The humorous coffee spoon sentiment was stamped in brown ink onto a 1 1/2-inches by 3-inches piece of cream cardstock. The red rimmed circles (from the Coffee Cup Pop-Up die set) on the card are for personal messages. Washi tape borders and silver mirror card complete the inside decorations.

For the card front, I stamped the Coffeeology sentiment on a 3 1/4-inches x 2 3/4-inches rectangle and glued diagonally over a 5-inches x 5 1/4-inch piece of decorative paper after stenciling sides of the card using the coffee bean die from the Coffee Cup Pop-Up set with a mini cube of Distress Ink in walnut stain and adding washi tape. The third die-cut steaming coffee cup and another spoon cut from mirror cardstock complete the front.

As is my style, the envelope back flap has stenciled coffee beans in brown ink.

The tiny coffee cup on the card back comes from the coffee charms die set. (See charm assembly video.) White steam was added using a medium tipped opaque white marker with detailed swirls of a white gel pen. More washi tape and a strip of checked paper complete the back’s decorations.

See more coffee themed card by clicking here.

Thank you for reading this blog post. I hope it provides inspiration and joy. Please like and leave comments. 😊

Materials Used:

Dies

• Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – Coffee Cup Pop-Up – 1040
• Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – Coffee Charms – 1041
• Elizabeth Craft Designs – Pop It Ups by Karen Burniston – Cup Pop Stand – 1103

Stamps

• Riley & Company – Funny Bones – Coffeeology -RWD-781
• Riley & Company – Funny Bones – If your eyes hurt -RWD-654

Papers

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• American Crafts -DCWV – 12×12 Inch Paper -Bright Red Checks – CP-002-00171
• Paper Napkin
• Clear Vellum
• Red and Silver Scrap Cardboard Packaging
• White and Cream Cardstock
• Park Lane Paperie – A7 Card Base and Envelope – Kraft

Ink

• Stampin’ Up – Classic Stampin’ Pad – Early Espresso
• Ranger – Tim Holtz – Distress Ink- Walnut Stain
• Recollections Opaque Marker – Snow
• Sakura – Gelly Roll Pen – Medium – White
• Pigma Micron 05 Pen – Black
• Pigma Micron 05 Pen – Brown

Adhesives

• Neutral PH Adhesive by LINECO
• Fine-Tip Glue Bottle
• Scrapbook.com – Double-Sided Tape -1/4-inch wide

Tools

• Die Cutting Machine
• Stamping Platform
• LDRS – Stampendable Stamping Tool
• Stamping Cloth
• Sponge Dauber
• Scissors