Hot Mess Success ~ Put the coffee on!

 

Hi friends!

It's a new week and a new blog post 

for the Hot Mess Success card group :)

It's also Monday - you know what that means?  

It's a 3 cups of coffee morning!

It's no secret - I LOVE my coffee!

Especially when it's wrapped around a Starbucks :)

And I wish we had smell-a-vision!

These cards smell HEAVENLY!

And can I just say ... these 'messy cards' are getting more crazy

each time I do a card in this series, LOL!

And they give me HUGE anxiety!

But we crafters gonna craft .. amiright?! :)

So, let me tell you about my mess this month!

I decided to create a couple of coffee themed cards

BUT I didn't want to do the traditional 'dip them in coffee water' ...

which is great as I've done that before and it is fun.

This time, I decided to use a distress ink from Ranger

in Vintage Photo and splooshed it down on my glass craft mat.

The water-colory mess off to the right?  That's distress ink - not coffee!

I pounced the #110 hw cardstock into the watery, distressy mess,

heat gun dried it, then splooshed again until I was happy with colors.

Once they were all dry, I stamped the coffee images from Altenew.

I used the same Vintage Photo to stamp the images

but needed something lighter for the coffee stains - that's also a stamp!

For that, I used Crumb Cake from Stampin' Up.

Now here's where the idea - AND the fun - came in!

I wanted to use actual coffee grounds - like the sea salt technique.

I thought if I spritzed the paper again and got it damp

and then added the coffee grounds, it would give the paper some UMPF.

It mostly did!

I didn't give it the pizazz that I thought it would

and more took off the ink from the now damp paper so it still 

gave it that speckled, distressed, splotchy look I was going for.

SO there you go!  

Win/Win!

And here's what I crafted with this YUMMY smelling backgrounds ...

Was this month a success:  YES!

Would I do this technique again?  Yes, only differently :)

This was super fun and I did love the technique,

I'm just not super thrilled with the overall design of my cards.

That's my fault though - not the technique

 and the point was to enjoy it! 

I did - so a success indeed :)

Be sure to stop in and see the rest of the team's messy cards - 

which may be up now or later on their blogs so check back!

Barb, Carol, Darlene, Jeanette!

Here's one final look - and then I'm off to find some water ~

 without coffee in it, LOL!

Thanks for stopping by today!