I know what you're thinking! Coffee again? Yes... I just had to share another card using the Verve digi sets Irish Coffee and Lucky Day sets! There is a sale going on right now over at Verve and a couple challenges that I'm playing along with.
I had the idea right after I finished my last card using this set to create a foiled background with the four leaf clover in the Irish Coffee set. I just took the digi, pulled it into word, made it the size I wanted and then copy and pasted it, turning the clover every which way. I tried to keep them around the same distance apart, but made sure that I varied the direction the stems were going in so that it looked more random.
I printed that out using my laser printer on some white cardstock, die cut it with a Waffle Flowers Scalloped die, and then placed a piece of that beautiful Gina K Designs Gold Sequins foil over it and ran it through my Minc machine. Voila! It turned out just how I was hoping!
I had printed out both sets in pdf form the other day, so I chose this sentiment, die cut it with a circle die and then ran that through the Minc as well. That Gold Sequin foil is just sooo cool and looks different at every angle. I original had one larger green circle behind my scalloped circle here, but it covered up more of my clover than I wanted covered so I decided to leave it out... turns out I didn't need it at all!
Then I colored and cut out the clover and to go cup from the Lucky Day set, tied some ribbon around and embellished it with the cut out digis, some flowers and a few Doodlebug Sprinkles in green.
I think you're starting to understanding that I've fallen in love with my Minc and I'm finding a new love for digital stamps. I will always love my physical, touchable, smellable, real life stamps, but I LOVE all of the extra stuff I can do with the digis now since I got a laser printer and my Minc. Very excited!
