Hello Honey Bee friends! Today my card features the new Coffee Shop House Builder Add-on Stamps and Honey Cuts! I have it all fixed up for autumn with cute pumpkins and autumn colors!
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I began by die cutting three house bases from the House Builder Card Base Honey Cuts. I cut these from Neenah 80# Solar White card stock. This set is the very first house builder set and is the base for all of the subsequent add-ons. Next I die cut the hinge and adhered two of the base pieces together. I inked up sentiments from Latte stamp set in Vintage Photo Distress Oxide ink and stamped them on the inside of the card.
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My best advice for this type of card is to get your theme planned and then stamp and/or die cut all of the elements. I decided on an Autumn themed Coffee Shop, So I chose a brick patterned paper from the Autumn Afternoon paper pad. The papers in this pad are some of my most favorite ever! I die cut the brick paper with the House Builder base and adhered it to the remaining white card stock house base. I die cut the window next (which is in the Coffee Shop add-on). While I had this set out, I die cut the door, steps, tiny flowers, wreath, leafy branches and door handle from white card stock. I colored them with Copic markers.
All of the other detail elements are die cut from either white or colored card stock and these are all from the Coffee Shop add-on. I used up a lot of my scraps this way! I used Copic markers to color the white pieces. The pumpkins are from the so cute Itty Bitty Pumpkins Honey Cuts. Using the Coffee Shop Add-on stamps, I stamped the sign, coffee cups, plants, and images in the window. Then I colored them with my markers and die cut them with the coordinating Coffee Shop Honey Cuts.
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You probably noticed the muted images in the window, right? I began with a piece of clear acetate for the window. As I was testing out my arrangement, those images made the card look way too busy. I had already adhered the coffee machine, coffee post and others to the patterned paper I chose for the back wall, so Plan B took effect! I added a piece of vellum to the acetate! Much better now! I’m a believer that you can almost always save a card! With the vellum in place I added foam tape to the back of this layer and adhered it to my prepared card base.
I arranged all of the other pieces and adhered them with either a foam square or Bee Creative Precision Tip glue. (FYI, I’ve used over ½ of my bottle of this glue and it hasn’t clogged up one single time! It’s great!)
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This was SO much fun to make! Have you tried one of the House Builder sets? I really love all of them! Thanks so very much for stopping by today!
2 responses to “Autumn Coffee Shop Card”
This is amazing!
I’m going to share in the Coffee Loving Papercrafters FB group!
Thank you so much Amy!