Paper tole is a technique that works great for adding dimension, but I have to confess I don’t use it very often because it can add bulk to a card—especially one you plan to mail. But if you’re hand-delivering, it’s a fun way to give an otherwise very simple design some extra visual oomph.

Basically, you fussy cut different portions of an image multiple times and pop each one up with dimensional adhesive; here I fussy cut the coffee cup away from the saucer, and popped it up twice. The under-layers don’t have to be completely colored in, of course, but it does look more polished if any area that can be seen is.

All the images were stamped with Versafine Clair inks (pigment, which, when dry, can be used with water-based mediums) and then watercolored them using Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers + a waterbrush.

There’s something about white on kraft that gets me every time . . . got the stripes stamped on there, perfectly spaced—AND straight (fist pump)—using the Precision Press + Advance Pattern Plate. Very slick. Very slick indeed. Nice card to give someone who loves coffee, or maybe could use a kind word or two.

Over on the Ellen Hutson blog today, they are sharing 10 coffee card ideas and I have a video, to boot! You can check them out HERE, if you’re a fan of coffee. And coffee cards.

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