Cherry Chai Card featuring Erin Lee Creative

Hello lovelies. Today, I'm celebrating a few of my favorite things! First off, Spring is here, and with it comes new Spring beverages at some of my favorite coffee spots. I have been all about the Iced Cherry Chai Latte from Starbucks. I would be totally ok with this being served year round! I decided to celebrate this beautiful, tasty beverage by using it as inspiration for today's card, featuring products from Erin Lee Creative. Scroll down for all the details, including my clickable supply list at the end.

 (FTC Disclosure: as an affiliate for various companies in the craft industry, I will receive a small commission for purchases made through my convenient affiliate links, at no additional cost to you.)

For comparison, the photo below is a recent shot that I took of my Iced Cherry Chai Latte. That cherry cold foam is soooo good! I want to make popsicles out of that stuff! I also love all things tea related, particularly chai. I wasn't too sure how cherry and chai would taste together, but it totally works!

Here's a close-up of my ink blending, including sprinkles and ice cubes! 

For my ink blending, I used Catherine Pooler Inks because they're a water based ink. You'll need water based inks to replicate ice cubes.

By the way, this is an A1 sized card. I generally make larger cards but I wanted a compact little scene to show off my cherry chai die cut. For dimensional purposes, A1 cards are 3.5 x 4.5 inches and are generally the size used to create note cards. 

I began by ink blending my Catherine Pooler inks in Cashmere and Sparkling Berry with blender brushes on white cardstock. I also covered the bottom section afterwards and splattered white paint on my "cold foam" topping.

I only used 2 dies from the Erin Lee Creative "Holiday Cheer" die set; the large outline die and the rim die for the edge of the lid.

When I centered my large outline die for die cutting, I placed it over my ink blending in such a way that the "cold foam" would seep down into the chai tea, rather than sitting completely at the top of the beverage, as that is precisely how Starbucks makes this drink.

To create the ice cubes, use a wet paint brush or water brush to draw and completely fill in squares with the water brush, but don't over saturate. Work with one square at a time, filling in the space, then blotting the wet square with a paper towel.

I'll have a 30 second process reel over on my Tiktok and Instagram account, go have a look!

If I had it to do over again, I might bring my ice cubes higher up into the cold foam, as pictured in my second photo. I should have taken a glance at my photo first! But, I'm totally ok with how this turned out. It's such a fun technique, you should try it!

For my sentiments, I used the Erin Lee Creative stamps from the Love Birds stamp & die set, stamping love you in the Sparkling Berry ink and xoxo in black ink.

I did score and trim this card and can easily make a coordinating envelope with my We R Maker Envelope Punch board.

 My sprinkles were created using OLO Marker RV1.7 Lily Magnolia. I also did a little shading under the vellum cup rim with OLO Marker CG3 Cool Gray.

My pretty patterned paper is from a Scrapbookcom paper pad called, Bouquet and my dark gray cardstock is from my Playful paper pad. I also glued on sequins from a retired Buttons Galore shaker mix.

I hope you're celebrating what makes you happy with Spring's arrival! Thanks so much for popping in. I've provided convenient affiliate shopping links below, if you'd like to browse or shop. These are provided at no additional cost to you! Have a great weekend!

Terri

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Love Story Book Themed Card

I have another card to share for the Erin Lee Creative Birds of a Feather release. Today's card features the Vintage Book die set. I've created an open book, replete with paper trimmed page markers! I did some foiling, some ink blending and created a sweet little page turner, haha. Scroll down for all the details, with my clickable shopping supply list at the end.

 (FTC Disclosure: as an affiliate for various companies in the craft industry, I will receive a small commission for purchases made through my convenient affiliate links, at no additional cost to you.)

I'm also using the ELC Handwriting hot foil plate for this project. There are sooo many uses for this hot plate, and I've used it for the script in my "book".

So, first I created 3 die cuts with the vintage book die. For 2 of my pages, I trimmed off the decorative edging to create my pages, then foiled those pages with my hot plate and and Spellbinders Aura foil which is a shimmery gold iridescent foil.

 

 

Once my foiling was done, I did some ink blending along the edges and all 3 die cuts using Ranger Distress Oxide Vintage Photo ink and my blender brush.

The first foiled die cut was adhered directly to my blank book die cut. The second outline was popped up on top of both die cuts with adhesive foam strips.

(CONFESSION TIME - One thing I wish I'd done differently here? After photographing my final images and editing and doing all the prep involved to share on social media, I saw my card with new eyes and wished I had done some ink blending along the inside center crease of my book page. I think a little definition there would have been a really nice accent. Next time, right?)

For my outline sentiment and bird, I die cut these on white card stock and ink blended the edges with Ranger Distress Oxide ink in Kitsch Flamingo. My word die was cut with black cardstock and glued to my outline. Both elements were popped up on adhesive foam strips, as wel..

I also colored the birds eyes and beaks black, and the wooden branch with my OLO Markers. The bird dies actually leave an impression of the eyes when die cut.

Lastly, I created the page markers or page holders for my book, trimming from the same paper that I used for my background. I'll have that paper pad linked below as well. 

I also hot glued a half pearl embellishment that matched my color scheme, from an older Buttons Galore embellishment mix from my stash. It's somewhat of a copper color and coordinates beautifully! It was also needed to make sure my paper strips don't come loose.

There are also some glued clear sequin embellishments from my stash, scattered about on the card background.

 

Per the usual, I tend to create first and measure later. This card measures in at 4 1/2 x 6 inches. I could have scaled down a bit further but chose not to. I did score and trim my own card from 80 lb white cardstock.

Be sure and check out the entire new release, here! Just look for the "new" category. If you saw something you'd like to purchase, or want more product details, just click my affiliate links below, provided at no additional cost to you!

Have a great day! Terri

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