Celebrating National Coffee Day with Polka Dot Orchard

Polka Dot Orchard has joined in with several other companies to hop along in honor of National Coffee Day. This fun event is being hosted by the Coffee Loving Paper Crafters Group on Facebook . Not only are we hopping along with so many lovely companies, our Design Team is also having a Hop to show off many amazing projects created from our newest releases. Polka Dot Orchard is doing a few giveaways as well. For more information on the giveaways and the full line up for both hops, head over HERE to the Polka Dot Orchard blog.

For my card, I used the Happiness In A Cup digi set from Polka Dot Orchard . I wanted to paper-piece the cup for this card and used some fun yellow polka-dotted designer paper.  When I was copying it again to make a few more, I accidentally copied it in black & white instead of color. But then I liked how the background looked, so I paper-pieced the yellow-dotted cup on top of the black and white printed image. I think it looks pretty cool.. Another happy crafting accident !! Have you ever had one of those. An " oops " moment that actually turned out to be not-so-bad after all???

• I printed the cup image on Strathmore Cold Press Watercolor Paper  and also a piece of yellow dotted designer paper .  The sentiment was printed on a pale green woodgrain scrap that I had in my snibble drawer. My mom was a seamstress and called all her bits and pieces of leftover thread, fabric, etc - "snibbles". And that is what I call my scraps of paper that I keep to use another day !!
• I cut the sentiment and cup images to fit on my dotted Kraft card base. I love Kraft cardstock, especially with Fall themed cards  .
• The cup and flowers were colored with a variety of Faber-Castell PITT Artist Pens, Tombow Dual Brush Markers and Staedtler pens.
• Autumn-colored plaid washi was placed across the top of the card base and also down the left side .
• The cup image was centered and adhered to the far right side of the base.
• The sentiment was adhered on the bottom left of the cup image. All items were adhered with my Tombow MONO Adhesive + runner .
• Clear Wink of Stella was used to highlight the center of the flowers and a yellow glitter pen was applied to some of the flower petals to add a bit of shimmer.
• Coffee with a friend IS like capturing happiness in a cup.

Polka Dot Orchard has some fabulous new releases in their Etsy Shop, so be sure to check all of them out.  We hope that you will be inspired by all of our creations today and also the projects from the other wonderful companies participating in today's Hop. It really is wonderful how our love of coffee can bring us together !! Leave me a comment and you just might win a bit of coffee-themed Happy Mail from me ..

Thank you for visiting Meticulosity !!

Stay Creative until next time !!

Debra Davison / Meticulosity