Coffee Lovers Blog Hop Day 4: Super Sponsor RG Avenue!

Hello there coffee loving crafters!  It's Day 4 of the Coffee Lovers Blog Hop and I'm hopping every day!  Today, I'm featuring Super Sponsor RG Avenue!  RG Avenue is offering a SWEET prize for some lucky hoppers and I get to share with you some yummy inspiration!  

While late night crafting with my friends at RG Avenue Convention, I played around with the yummy new RG Avenue exclusive Gel Press Petite set called "RG PLAN".  This mini Gel Press collection includes three Gel Press shapes:  a lightbulb, Arrow and coffee cup!...Yes, you read that right, a COFFEE CUP!  RG's Gel Press Petite sets (he has three! were first debuted at Creativation and were sold out to retail distributors and online.  Now, RG is offering them exclusively in the RG Avenue shop!  Check them out here:  

RG Plan: (lightbulb, arrow, coffee cup)

RG Call (three different callout bubbles)

RG Love (heart, lips, mustache)

RG is offering two winners a stamp set and Gel Press Petite of their choice!  Sooo...Good luck and hop along for a chance to win!

So while playing with the coffee cup, I inked up the cup with some Tangy Apple and Rich Cactus ink (directly onto the plate) and then splattered some Black Taffy reinker onto the plate and then applied the plate to some Powdered Sugar cardstock.  Next, I cut out the image and used a paint brush to apply some Media Mixer and some Vanilla Cream and some Black Taffy sugar drops reinker along the edges of the cup.  After that, I just flicked some Rich Cactus sugar drops reinker and some Dazzling Pat onto the cup to finish it off before overstamping the design.  

Since it was a few days before Halloween, I decided to grab the pretty and appropriate images from the new Life Celebration set called "Boho Skull".  It matched perfectly to a ceramic tumbler I have in my pottery collection from the amazing potter/artist/teacher named Tony Young (@youngy_03 on Instagram).

I stamped the skull on the cup then distressed the paper a bit with Black Taffy ink.  I then dripped a few droppers of Rich Cherry reinker down the side to create some "bloody drips".  I also added some flicks of black acrylic paint and media mixer/rich red reinker onto the cup before coloring the flowers. 

 I colored the flowers with Copic Markers and then I fussy cut them and rubbed a bit of black ink over them with a blending brush before attaching them to the cup. 

To finish off the card, I applied the sentiment and flicked some reinker on the white panel before attaching the flowers and mounting it onto Nectar Stone cardstock and then mounting it onto a powdered Sugar card base.  I also added a few blingy bits here and there and of course, had to add some ribbon! 

Thanks for hopping over!  I hope my card inspired you and got you dreaming about some yummy fun you could have with these gel plates!  See you tomorrow!!

New Release Reveal Continues: TCP Sugar Skull

Welcome back inky friends!  As promised, I'm back to share a more in-depth explanation of how I created this fun Sugar Skull card.  The new Sugar Skull Duo die from TCP is such a fun die to create with!  I diecut several pieces of cardstock to allow me the ability to mix and match elements to create a perfectly perfect and colorful sugar skull.

After diecutting several colors:  Neon Green, Magenta, Teal, Orange, yellow and Gold, I had enough elements to insert into my white skull diecut.  I mounted the white skull diecut onto a piece of pink cardstock so that I could glue the inset pieces in very easily.  

After insetting each and every little piece, I cut the pink panel around the edge to create a little border.  Next, I set that aside and started working on the base panel.  Notice I also added a little bat from the Halloween Tag Duo Die Set.  

 I stamped the sentiment from the new Faboolous set using Versafine Clair Warm Breeze ink.  Then I assembled the yellow, orange and metallic gold panel and mounted that onto a magenta card base.

To finish off the card, I fanned some lime green tissue paper and mounted it under my sugar skull-kind-of an ode to Mexican paper flowers.  After that, I added some of the extra pieces and parts from the diecutting escapade (including a piece of the gold remnants) and finished off by applying the sugar skull with some foam squares.  Fenito Bandito!  Wahoo!  

Thanks for hopping over to check out this project today!  Tomorrow I'll be back...I'm in the mooood for a fun Halloween project!  Stop back again to see a deelish project featuring some new dies and treat containers from TCP!