Friday, June 5, 2015

Mojo Monday #400 - Coffee Lovers Blog Hop

I am playing along with Mojo Monday today, where Julee is celebrating her 400th sketch!  I decided to team it up with the Summer Coffee Lover's Blog Hop, since Verve's coffee stamp sets are among my favourites.  Here's what I came up with:
 I had a great time putting this together... I started by clear embossing the Coffee sentiment repeatedly on a piece of watercolour paper, and then used two different brown distress inks to add my watercolour background (it's supposed to look like spilled coffee, get it?)  The dark grey/aqua blue/brown colour combo is a little different, but in person it looks quite amazing!  Here's a different angle to show the mocha sparkles a bit better:
 I used a Verve Plain Jane stamp for the inside sentiment:
For her 400th Mojo sketch, Julee went back to her very first sketch from 2007.  I used a little creative license with it, but hopefully you can see the corner element and word background in my card!
Be sure to check out the rest of the hop on the Coffee Loving Cardmaker's blog - it's always inspiring!

Patterned papers are Persimmon, Basic Grey; Stamp sets are Coffee and Simply Irresistible Plain Jane, Verve; Dies are Classy Label Die & From the Heart, Verve; Vintage Photo & Tea Dye distress inks; Rich Cocoa ink by Memento.

76 comments:

  1. Beautiful distress work with the clear embossed letters, loving that look!!

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  2. What an excellent use of the sketch! Your partial resist background is killer with the coffee cup! I am off to peruse your blog -- you just might have a new follower ;)

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  3. Im sure in person it is even more beautiful, but as is I love the color combo! I love the coffee spill and the coffee in clear embossing! I think it is incredible!

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  4. This card is simply gorgeous! Moroccan pattern, coffee and watercolors go along so nicely!

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  5. I saw the spilled coffee right away and loved it!!

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  6. Wow, this is absolutely gorgeous, Karen!! :)

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  7. This is gorgeous blast of subtlety at its finest!

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  8. GORGEOUS colour combo. Love this card and your background is so cool, what a great idea!!

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  9. That is amazing! Wow! I love it!

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  10. Gorgeous! That watercolored spilled coffee background is genius and aqua blue/brown is kind of my thing! {gring} Unfortunately I (with the help of my toddlers) have spilled the entirety of 4 of the last 5 cups of coffee I've made. Thanks for joining in the fun over at Mojo Monday!

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  11. Wow! This is so pretty! I love that terrific color combination!

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  12. Great technique to use for this card!

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  13. Beautiful! It really does look like spilled coffee!

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  14. Great card,i especially love your background.

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  15. I adore your background too Karen
    looks like the coffee was falling done and now you have a new cup of coffee again...
    great coloring the cup and love the dp you used
    awesome card
    see you soon maybe on my entry #125
    hugs
    Monika from Germany

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  16. This is sooo pretty! Love it!

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  17. Love the background you created with the clear embossing and the coffee stain!

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  18. Oh I LOVE this....awesome work!
    Thank you for linking up to the Summer Coffee Lovers Blog Hop♡

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  19. Gorgeous coffee themed card, Karen, love your design and the water color looks amazing! Happy hopping!

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  20. love the background and the color combo. TFS

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  21. The first thing I thought of was a coffee spill in the background. Well done.

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  22. I just love the embossed resist background! It's especially great paired with that beautiful blue.

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  23. Love the watercolored emboss resist background...fabulous design!

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  24. really great card love the background

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  25. Love love love!! love how you watercolored the background as if it was coffee! :)

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  26. I think this is one of my favorites on the hop so far! LOVE this color combination, and the 'spilled' coffee! The embossed sentiments are perfect here. Fantastic card! Love it! Bev

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  27. Lovely card, and fun techniques!

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  28. Great design, I like the colors and the sentiments.

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  29. awesome design! i love how the brown illuminates the coffee sentiment like steam!

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  30. Your "spilt coffee" look is PERFECTION!

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  31. Love your card!! Nice job watercoloring and colors you have chosen. Great job!

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  32. Fabulous, love the watercoloring!

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  33. I sat and stared at this for a long, long while because I just find it soooo lovely. The watercolor wash you've done is sooooo pretty! Beautiful design!

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  34. Oh, I love that subtle background and am going to have to read more detail to see how you did it! Gorgeous and serene!

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  35. I just love how you did the emboss resist with coffee "stain" and coffees popping up all around! So cool and fabulously done!

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  36. I absolutely LOVE your coffee background - fabulous! Great layout and pretty blues...just gorgeous!

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  37. Lovely card and that coffee background is just right x

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  38. beautiful love the watercolor background!!!

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  39. Oh this is fantastic! Love the soft colors and of course that gorgeous watercolored background! Outstanding card!

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  40. Oh Karen this is FABULOUS! LOVE how the coffee words seem to come from the wonderful steam and aroma of the coffee mug! Really gorgeous design and you used that MOJO Monday sketch to perfection!

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  41. Love this! Amazing backgroudn and I love the colour combo!

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  42. Beautiful Karen! I love the spilled coffee look!

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  43. Love it, faux spilled coffee and all. Great job.

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  44. GORGEOUS card!!! Love the design, colors... everything! :-D

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  45. Love, love, love your card. Love the color combo.

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  46. Very cool card. Love the watercolors. Thanks for sharing.

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  47. I love, love, love this awesome card!

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  48. Loving that watercolored background and the little gems, great card!

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  49. Beautiful! Love that background ♥

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  50. Wow such an awesome card love the colorcombo you used and that background is stunning.

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  51. Beautiful with the embossed background!

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  52. Love your embossed background!! Thanks for sharing! ~Annie

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  53. Love the concept of the spilled coffee - this worked out perfect! Super card Karen!

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  54. I love your color combo; it photographed well and looks like spilled coffee! I'm lovin' this card!!

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  55. I love embossed resist and this is amazing! The background is perfect and steals the show :) Thanks for joining in on the fun - happy to be one of the sponsors. Chris from a•muse|studio

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  56. What a lovely card! Beautiful color scheme! Would love for you to stop by my blog for a peek at my entry #354 :-)

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  57. Amazing card! love your background and color choices

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  58. great card - amazing background!

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  59. OMGosh you spilling coffee design is so fabulous, I love it.

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  60. Awesome card, love the colors!

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  61. This is such an awesome card!
    I love the spilled coffee look !

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  62. This is such an elegant card! Your watercolored "coffee" looks amazing.

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  63. Hi Karen!!! Elegant, Beautiful, Perfect Card!!! TFS!!!!

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  64. Hi Karen!
    Love your card. Beautiful treatment to the background, and yummy looking coffee, and cup!

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  65. Karen, That is an effective technique on your background. Sylvia D.

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  66. OMG, Karen, I ADORE this!! What an awesome technique!

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  67. I love coffee, and I love what you're did with this card. The colors are subtle and elegant. The techniques you used support and elegant theme with a tad of whimsy and an element of mystery.

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