Warm & Cozy Hugs.....or Mugs!

 

Hello!  I hope everyone is staying warm.  It is getting pretty cold in Colorado now.

I still had my Coffee Mug Card die from Trinity Stamps on my desk from making my Puppy Party card, so I decided to make one more for now.  I hadn't had a chance to use my Cocoa The Gnome stamp and die set yet, so I thought I would whip up a cup of hot cocoa before I put them away and make a window card.

I cut the base from a medium gray cardstock.  I wanted it to be a little sturdier, so I cut out the right side of the mug die, using a lighter color or gray.  I added just a touch of Hickory Smoke Distress Oxide around the edges to soften them.

Using the Cocoa Mug Add On Die, I cut a mug from a piece of patterned paper by Lawn Fawn called Perfectly Plaid:Winter.  The whipped cream and drip are cut from a piece of Cocoa Swirl Bazille cardstock spritzed with a little Frozen Fog Distress Mica Stain by Tim Holtz.  I like to use the different mica stains to add a little shimmer to my paper without using a glitter cardstock.  I also like that color of  Bazille cardstock because it is a really nice soft white color.

For the sentiment on the front of the card, I used the Mini Winter Sayings die set.  The inside sentiment is from the Freezin Family stamp set.  I also used the snowflakes from that set for the snowflakes on the inside of the card.  

My little friend was colored with Copic markers in the following colors:

• W00, W0, W3, W5, W6, W9
• B00, BG53
• E000, E00, E01
• R20

For the little embellishments, I used a pink and gray shimmer paper for the sprinkles on the whipped cream and the snowflakes on the mug.  The dies that I used for that were from Lawn Fawn's Magic Iris Snow Globe and Pretty Pink Posh's  Big Valentine Cupcake.  

This was a really fun card to make.  I hope this post has inspired you to make a Cocoa Mug for yourself.  

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Sandy