Greetings everyone! It's me again, Jessie Scott (@chevy.scott on IG) here to share a too cute to spook Digital Stamp from Gerda Steiner Designs! Coffee Lover Ghost!
Ya'll know I love to giggle and I LOOOOOOVE digital stamps because you can make it any size and combine with whatever sentiment that SPOOKS to you ;-).
For this one, I typed "Coffee ghost t-shirt" in my search bar and then told it to show me only images. T-shirts are great for one-liner ideas for cards (shhhh my best kept card secret!). This fun sentiment "First the Coffee, then the Spooky" came up and I loved it.
The only challenge with a digital stamp is sizing it right so you don't need to print it again haha. I usually sketch out my card idea on scrap paper, decide where the image is going, then measure it.
This is for my BONUS CARD at the end of this post. I sized the image and sentiment to the Mama Elephant frames I wanted to try with some fun alternating orange scallops.
Ok so now for the fun coffee-themed background!
First I took a watercolor paper card front, then inked up Distress Ink randomly in spots with Tea Die, Walnut Stain, Spiced Marmalade, and Vintage Photo. Just random! Then I spritzed the entire paper with water (this easily blends the borders of my random colors).
After it dried, I then grabbed my reinkers for Tea Dye and the darker Ground Espresso. I put a little but of water on my glass mat, then added a couple drops of one. I took a gel jar from my stash and used it to "stamp" a round coffee stain on my card in a few places. With the leftover ink, I took a paint brush and splattered a bit on the card. I then cleaned my mat and repeated with the other color with a different larger gel pot and then splattered.
I love this grungy, i-took-this-card-to-the-coffee-shop vibe!
The only thing that's left is to color and assemble! Ghosts are gun for Halloween but also because they are simple to color ;-)
Here's a video of the rest of the process!
Ok.... BONUS CARD!
I wasn't sure what font I would like so I printed two. Haha! This one I "tossed together" using paper and I love it just as much? Don't want to get dirty? Spice it up with some fun frames and patterned paper!
Here's another assembly video:
How do you like your ghosts? Spooky blues or ghostly greys?
I really like the bear in the wreath in the Beary Merry Christmas stamp set! His smile is SO cute!! The stamp colors up so nicely too and the wreath can be highlighted with Christmas balls using any number of embellishments. The whole set is going to be fun to use.
I love this digital stamp!! It is super cute and what a blast to color! I opened the file in Illustrator sized it to my card easily and added some text. I can't wait to do more! Thank you for such a fun design.