Cocoa Card for The Ribbon Resource and Winter Coffee Loving Cardmakers Hop

Welcome to the Winter Coffee Loving Cardmakers Blog Hop!  

If you love coffee, cocoa or tea and making cards, this is the place for you!  You can link up your winter themed beverage card right at the link below.  There's lots of prizes and so much inspiration to be had; you don't want to miss it!

Winter Coffee Loving Cardmakers Blog Hop

Since National Cocoa Day is Dec. 13th, I thought I'd create a fun cocoa card today, for The Ribbon Resource, Super Sponsor of this event.  

This card features several fun ribbon embellishments including silver twine snowflake centers, a glittery ribbon snow bank, a wired pearl Christmas tree and more.  I even made my own little warm footie socks, to compliment the sentiment,  from the Hello Winter collection by

Echo Park Paper.  Stick around for a few minutes and follow along!  It's easy enough for the kids to do too; cutting and taping - simple as that!

You'll need these ribbons: (Full supply list at end of post)

C-1-30 1" Gold Sheer Ribbon (4")

FY-34 3/16" Light Blue Wired Beads (10")

SE-31 1/8" Silver Curling Ribbon (8")

FF-5-31 1.5" Silver Sheer Glitter Dot Ribbon (16")

412-31 Silver and White Baker's Twine (10")

First, trim and score card to 5.5" x 6".  To make the glittery snow banks, I trimmed my stitched die cut frame to the desired shape and length that I wanted, then ran my Xyron adhesive across the top, fully covering with adhesive.  Lay down a 5" section of Sheer Glitter Ribbon and trim around the edges.  Repeat for each snow bank, adding extra strips of ribbon if necessary for larger pieces.  How easy is that?

Isn't it gorgeous?  And so easy.  No mess either, which is always a bonus.

(*Let me interrupt this message for an important announcement!!  You can get this glitter ribbon in a 5 yard bundle for $6.95 right now, plus for every purchase before Christmas, you get a free 25 yard roll of ribbon, plus..... you may get free shipping when you head over to the the Ribbon Resource site and get the pop up box offer!  Woo hoo!  Merry Christmas to YOU!)

Next, I made little foot socks by drawing out my own little hand designed sock, then tracing the template on the back of two pieces of cardstock that I trimmed from the paper collection, approximately a 4" square.  Just for fun, I ran my Xyron adhesive runner over the top of my square, then added the sheer gold ribbon.  After tracing, I trimmed out my little socks.  Now my socks have a little shimmer.   Adorbs!  One is popped up on a foam square, which adds some dimension.  By the way, the sock dimension for each is approximately 1.5".

I thought I would go ahead and turn these little sock footies into a .png file and share it with you today, so you can upload to your preferred cutting file system.  I've uploaded it to my Cricut Explore and can now cut as many of these cuties as I want on patterned paper, or to color in.  Enjoy!

 Save it to your computer by placing your cursor over the slipper sock, right click, and save.  You can print this out and hand trim, or even use the Print and Cut feature of the Explore.

To finish things off, I wrapped a 10" strand of wired pearls around this tree and popped the tree out with foam squares.  The little snowflake centers are easy to make by wrapping a section of twine around an adhesive dot.  Tuck the end of your strip underneath and add another adhesive dot on the bottom to secure.

Make a little bow with the silver curling ribbon to accent the sentiment and you are done.  Fun little details that make for a special card for the cocoa lover in your life.  

Don't forget, The Ribbon Resource is giving one lucky winner a $25.00 gift card.  Don't miss out!  Thanks for stopping by.  I hope you enjoyed my project today.   

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Additional Supplies:

Echo Park Paper Hello Winter Collection

Xyron Adhesive Runner

Fine Tipped Scissors (Fiskars)

 Medium Adhesive Dots (Tombow)

Ranger Stickles Glitter Glue, Diamond

Lil Inker Designs Large Oval Stitched Die Frame

Die Cut machine (Cuttlebug)

Foam Squares (Tombow)

Trimmer/Scorer (We R Memory Keepers)

Cricut Explore

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CAS Card And Inking With Cotton Balls

You know, I've tried a lot of techniques, usually something that was yanked from my brain.  After I've tested said technique, is when I investigate to see if it's been done before and in most cases, it has.  Todays project is no different.  I rarely research techniques before I try them.  As I've admitted in the past, I'm kind of stubborn that way.  Or maybe I should say, I rarely research ideas that come to me.  Now, if I know of a specific technique that I want to try, I definitely do my research.  Today, however, I decided to test out inking with cotton balls, no research required!  I tried several different looks before I settled on this box style.  

As you can see, I chose to go with a 2 color scheme, to keep it simple, which by the way, is the theme of the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge this week.  Here's the link if you'd care to join in:

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge Keep It Simple

I'm also entering this card into a few other challenges posted below.

I opted for a couple good and juicy inks that I have from Spellbinders and also because they are so bold in color.  These are from the Celebra'tions line; Captivating Coral and Odacious Orange.  

To begin, I used the orange and inked my cotton ball by directly applying it to the ink pad, then swiped a box shape, centered on a 6"x6" card.  Next, I followed the contour by swiping with  my next color.  There is no right or wrong here.  Dab some extra spots or add more color.  Simplicity is the key here.  When finished, I tapped some droplets of the Spellbinders Celebra'tions Silver Shimmer Silk Luster.

To pull this off, I need a really great sentiment.  I chose to ink up this new-to-me stamp from So Suzy Stamps.  This stamp is really large and is the star of the show and was inked with Ranger Adirondack Black ink. The colored backdrop is just that; a showcase for the sentiment.  You can find this stamp at the link below, along with the Doubleclick Skittles which are gorgeous little gems that look like colored water bubbles.  These are glued with Ranger Glossy Accents.

So Suzy Stamps

Entering these other challenges:

Sister Card Act Anything Goes #103

The Card Concept challenge #33 Clean & Simple

Case This Sketch #120

Doubleclick Connections Thank You challenge

Thanks for letting me share my CAS card with you today! (CAS means clean and simple.  Yes, I had to ask that question once as well.)

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Spellbinders Celebra'tions at Simon Says Stamp

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