Hug in a Mug

I have to say that I am pretty smitten with how this card tuned out. It is an anniversary that I made for my husband. He is the coffee drinker, and I’m the tea drinker so I thought I would combine them into this one card. We happen to have been in different provinces on our anniversary day so I hid this card and told him where to find in on the day.

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This is my most favourite colour, so when I was flipping through my patterned paper stash and this pattern came up I just had to use it and was so happy when I had matching cardstock. I cut the card base and the layers as shown.

I layered the patterns as shown added them to the front, back and inside of the card.

I cut the mug and the tea cup from the Tea and Coffee Pop-up from a light blue and the darker teal blue. I sponged the edges of the lighter blue and stamped the greetings from the Coffee Chats Clear Stamps. I also sponged the bottom and the right side of the teal cups. I added the stamped cups over the teal cups as shown, to look like the darker colour is a shadow. I added highlights with a white Gelly roll pen.

I added the mechanism piece as shown (Karen has a video tutorial on the product page at the link ⬆️ for the Tea and Coffee Pop-up) I added the tea cup to the front of the mechanism and the mug was attached to the back left.

I decorated with die cuts from the same Tea and Coffee set.

For the front I decorated the panel from the Postage Pop up. I decorated with pieces from the Coffee Charms and the stamp from Bouquet Sayings. The 26nis from the Mini Alphabet and Numbers I added the panel to the front of the card.