Seas the Day...Don't Let Go!

Hello there coffee loving friends!  I'm so excited to share my projects for the Coffee Lovers Blog Hop again this go-round!  I'll be sharing a new creation each and every day on this blog as well as my Fun Stampers Journey Blog.  As a Super Sponsor, I'll be awarding one lucky hopper a special coffee-loving prize on my FSJ page so you'll want to stop over there each and every day to see what I have to share.

Today I'm joining my fellow Joy Clair Design Team sisters in the hop.  Joy Clair is a new Super Sponsor for the Spring CLH and we're excited to share our fun projects with you.  You can visit the Joy Clair blog HERE to see all of the designer entries.  :)

I always love to look at stamp sets in a different way, especially HOW I can incorporate them into a COFFEELICIOUS design.  SOOO...This was a fun adventure for me!  I designed an exclusive Coffee Lovers Blog Hop coordinating OCTOPUS CUP image that I call "Don't Let Go!" It works perfectly with the Joy Clair's Seas the Day set.

In my creation, I am featuring the Joy Clair Seas The Day set (A FAVORITE), the Wood Background and to coffee-ize it, I drew up a fun octopus coffee cup.  This octopus is definitely not ready to let go of his cup any time soon!  Hope you enjoy!

I started out by stamping the wood background onto Kraft card base using some brown ink.  After that, I rubbed a bit of white ink along the edges to "weather" it up a bit.  I stamped the jellyfish and sentiment onto white cardstock then colored them with watercolor pencils.  I stamped the waves in the set with some aqua ink then added a bit of sparkle to it, tore the edges a bit and attached them to the card with glue.  I wanted to create a look similar to washi.  

 Don't you think the wavy stamp works well as a faux washi???

I attached some twine along the top and started coloring my hand drawn image (I digitized it so that I could print it over and over again!  After printing the images and coloring the octopus cup with watercolor markers

Thanks so much for stopping by!  I hope you enjoyed seeing my creation and hope you return again tomorrow for another fun coffee share!