Leopard Print

Hello Crafters!

I have a bonus card featuring the “shoe” digi stamp by Coffee Bean Designs. Today is my last guest design team post over on the Coffee Bean Design’s blog which is where you’ll find the first card I made with this digi stamp. I just want to take a second to Thank all the wonderful ladies over at Coffee Bean Designs for letting me craft along with them.

This card was inspired by my favorite pair of heels that I got when I was maybe 19. I have worn my leopard print heels on many occasions because they are fun and flirty which is exactly why I love them.

For my card I printed the heels a little larger so I could play with coloring the leopard print. I am most comfortable coloring with my Copic markers so that is what I used. I started by shading in the whole shoe first with a warm gray combo. The inside of the shoe heel, and sole were all colored in red combo.

W1, W4, W7, &W9R17, R27, R29, & R59Y35, YR23, E35

Drawing the leopard pattern is easy, start my making dots with the lightest yellow then add a mid and dark tone on top off setting a bit. Then make C shaped scribbles around each dot with layers of gray, filling in with smaller gray and yellow dots as needed.

Once everything was colored I fussy cut out my now leopard shoes edging them with a water based black marker. I typed up a sentiment on my computer and printed it out onto white cardstock and trimming it down to slightly smaller then an A2 card base. I like my card to have lots of dimension so I popped the front shoe up with foam. lastly I made two small bow black ribbon from my stash to each shoe.

I hope you enjoyed this craftroom creation as much as I do. If this inspires you to create please tag me on social media @TheCraftBean.

ThanksBrandi M.

The Craft Bean

Birthday Cake

Hello Crafters!

I hope everyone is doing well. My family and I have been spending a lot more time outside since the weather here has been beautiful. Today’s craftroom creation is a Birthday card featuring the “Wedding cake” digital stamp by Coffee Bean Designs.

The great thing about digi stamps is you can resize them to fit your project. For this card I printed my cake larger so it would take up most of the card front. For the Card I made for the Coffee Bean Design’s blog I printed it smaller.

I had a ton of fun turning this Wedding cake image into a rainbow Birthday cake I used the dotting technique to create rainbow sprinkles at the bottom of each cake layer. To add more depth to the cake I used light gray Copic makers to add shading.

I have been stamping for over a decade now, many years ago big box craft stores sold small clear stamp images in the 50 cent bins. well I have a ton of them in my stash so I dug through them and found a rainbow that was perfect to make a cake topper. It is very satisfying to use thing from my stash that haven’t been used in years.

I trimmed out my cake and rainbow with my favorite fiskers scissors and like always when fussy cutting I ran a black water base maker around the edge to hide the white core of the cardstock. I stamped my “Happy Birthday” sentiment on the bottom cake layer. lastly glued my two images together and add foam tape to the back.

I kept the background simple I add light blue clouds with tumbled glass distress ink and my cloud stencil by Kindred stamps. I popped my cake onto my A2 card base and was done.

I hope you enjoyed this card and I will be back soon to share more craftroom creations with you.

Thanks

Brandi M.

@TheCraftBean