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.

SUPPLIES:

• Latte Love by Julie Ebersole, Essentials by Ellen Clear Stamps

• Latte Love by Julie Ebersole, Essentials by Ellen Designer Dies

• Precision Press Advanced, We R Memory Keepers

• Precision Press Advance Pattern Plate, We R Memory Keepers

• Painted Stripes by Julie Ebersole, Essentials By Ellen Clear Stamps

• VersaFine Clair Ink Pad, Pinecone

• VersaFine Clair Ink Pad, Nocturne

• Unicorn White, Hero Arts Pigment Ink Pad

• Watercolor Paper Pad 9x12, Canson XL

• Desert Storm - 25 pk, Neenah Environment Cardstock

• Solar White - 25 pk, Neenah Classic Crest Cardstock

• 023 - Scarlet Red, ZIG Clean Color Real Brush Marker

• 302 - Haze Blue, ZIG Clean Color Real Brush Marker

• 065 - Mid Brown, ZIG Clean Color Real Brush Marker

• Scrapbook Adhesives Thin 3-D Foam Squares, Mix White

• Ranger Stickles, Diamond

• Small Fine Point (23638), Pentel Arts Aquash Water Brush

• String by the Spool - Natural Burlap, May Arts

• X-Press It Tape Runner

• Crafter's Companion Gemini Junior

• Platinum 6 Die Cutting And Embossing Machine, Spellbinders Tools

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