Coffee And Cream

Hi everyone, hope you're all having a great weekend and managing to fit some crafting in too. It's rather cold still here on the south coast but at least my washing dried today!
It's now time for another new challenge over at Fashionable Stamping Challenges and have to say that the amazing creations for the last one are going to cause the DT great problems in choosing the Top 3 so well done to everyone who took a strut down the catwalk this time.
The challenge for this fortnight is  

Coffee and Cream with a Hint of Dark Chocolate

and as I said to the other DT members, it's all about how you like your coffee so if like me you like cappuccino and are partial to the occasional caramel latte or mocha, there are quite a few coffee shades to choose from which are reflected in my creation.

Ingredients for my card:

Stamps:

  Lady and Paris Text - B Line Designs Le Brun

  Eiffel Tower - Prickley Pear

  Diamonds - Hero Arts

  Dreams Text - Debbie Moore

  French Script - Hero Arts

Cuttlebug Fleur De Lis Embossing Folder

Inks - VersaFine Vintage Sepia, Memento Rich Cocoa, Vintage Photo Distress Ink, Umber VersaColor

Coffee Marbled Card

Cream Crochet Lace, Coffee Lace

Manila Tag

Kraft Photo Corners - Paperchase
Clear Embossing Powder

The background paper is the coffee card stamped with the diamonds and the sepia ink, stamped twice before re-inking.

The Eiffel tower was stamped and embossed with clear powder and then inked round the edges and partially embossed then inked on the raised area.

The lovely lady was stamped with the sepia ink and coloured with Promarkers in coffee shades. I then cut her out and embossed her with clear powder.

I stamped the Paris text and then stamped the script over the top and cut this out. I embossed some card panels with the fleur de lis folder and inked these.

I assembled the card as you see and made the lady really stand out by adding 2 layers of stacked foam tape at the top as this gives a very 3D effect.

The Design Team have made some absolutely stunning creations to inspire you and it's well worth a look just to see how many interpretations of the theme there are. Also please remember that we're a stamping challenge so rubber and clear it is but no digis please!

Some challenges for my card:
Top Tip Tuesday - Layer It (quite a lot on mine!)
Moving Along With The Times - Vintage
Charisma Cardz - Embossing (Heat or Dry) (I have both)
Totally Papercrafts - Layer Upon Layer
Creative Inspirations - Monochromatic

Have a great Sunday.

Hugs, Fliss xx