Coffee anyone?

Nancy's Confession:

I have a card stash.

It consists of hand made cards with no sentiments.

They're *just in case* cards.

And that's what I'm creating today.

Gypsy Soul Laser Cuts has some fabulous new designs 

that just became available on their site. 

Today, I'm playing with the Ring Stains.

So these ring stains were put through the RING-er.

(I amuse myself)

The first layer for me when using 

Embossing Powder is almost always

VersaMark

and I use it direct to chipboard.

Next step was deciding on the color of powder.

I wanted it to look like coffee stains

so I first tried

Seth Apter's Ancient Amber embossing powder.

I love the way it looked but

when I put it up against the paper

it was a bit too brown for the paper

(although I love the color).

So another layer of VersaMark on top of the

embossed powder and I tried

another color of powder.

Still not right.

Another layer of VersaMark

and this time I tried 

Ranger's Antiquities Rust

(3 layers later)

and that had enough red in it for me.

Not that I drink reddish brown coffee

but it's always about the paper - right?

Using Stamperia paper 

and an old sticker I found in my stash

+

a couple of embellishments

and the card is ready.

So this one goes in my card stash

with a sentiment to be added later.

Thanks for visiting with me today.

Hope you enjoyed

Ring Stains by Gypsy Soul Laser Cuts.