Peppermint Hot Chocolate

Who doesn't like Peppermint Hot Chocolate on Christmas morning? It's the Warm Wishes of the Holidays in a cup of wonderful.

Challenges

52 Christmas Card Throwdown: Sketch
Addicted to Stamps and More: CAS
Creative Craft Cottage: Christmas
Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps Saturday challenge: Kraft paper
Fab 'n' Funky: Get Krafty
Penny's Paper-crafty: Anything Goes
Pearly Sparkles: Anything Goes

Crafting in a hotel room with limited supplies brought in luggage + a few bought here

Supplies

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Putting It Together

I'm on vacation visiting family and making cards, in the hotel room, when we're not visiting. I only have the supplies I brought with me plus a few things I bought at Joanns after we arrived in our last familial destination.

I decided to make a card with the 52 Christmas Card Throwdown Sketch for this week (just hours before the challenge was to close, of course *laugh*).

I cut a 2 inch strip of kraft cardstock and stamped three images of the cup with whipped cream.

I coloured the whipped cream with white and red watercolour pencil without using water to spread the colour, just the pencil directly.

I thought the cups were a bit plain so I stamped a silver snowflake on each. 

I trimmed each cup to its own panel and dry fit them with the patterned paper and sentiment.

I used the Misti to stamp the sentiment first in black and then in gold. The gold is slightly translucent. Stamping it with black first makes it more legible. 

I ran the edge of the patterned paper over the gold ink pad to add a very thin gold trim. This subtle touch finishes the card nicely.

I attached the patterned paper directly to the card base but wanted to pop up the cup panels. Since they're so small, I cut each strip of foam mounting tape into 3 strips. This also extends my supply of the tape.

I lined up the cups to affix them to the card.

For the inside the card, I cut a 1 inch strip of the pattered paper and edged it with the gold to echo the front of the card. I also stamped a warming sentiment and added a candy cane.