July PTI Blog Hop - Text Style

This month's blog hop is using text in different ways.  I came up with 2 cards this month so make sure you scroll all the way to the end to see the SMB (sock monkey bandit - lol)

I loved this idea and played around for several hours one Saturday trying to come up with a project. 

I used my Texture Plate with the font on it and ran it through my big shot (spritzing both sides of the paper to get a better impression).  Then dragged my PTI Vintage Cream ink pad lightly over it  I didn't worry if it got in the "in between" spaces - because that just makes it look old and distressed and I love old and distressed :o)

For the focal image I stamped the solid  and outline coffee cup from Warm Happiness and then masked and stamped Background Basics: Text Style.  Love how the cup just seems to float.  I distressed the edges the Vintage Touch Tea Dye Duo - just using the Chai.

On the left of the card I used a background-making technique Nichole Heady showed in this post.  I just loved the look!  I made my striped background in latte colors to go with the coffee theme.  I wanted to stitch around the layer but my thread kept tangling so I just used my sewing machine as a "power piercer" and faux stitched it with my white gel pen.

And this month I have 2 cards ... a friend and I were talking at work how I threatened my stamping group with a "sock monkey card per month" for a whole year.  I personally love the sock monkey, but I realize not everyone does.  So anyway we talked ourselves into this whole revenge of the sock monkey storyline, with the SMB (sock monkey bandit) stealing all of Lisa's couches from the On My Couch set. 

Here were the headlines on that fateful day!

The mask was paper pieced and I punch holes for the eyes using a hand held circle punch.  The newspaper story is Background Basics: Text Style masked with strips of post it notes.  The "From the Archives" was printed on transparency window sheets using Copperplate Gothic font and then embossed to set the printer ink.  I aged the paper using Tim Holtz Distress ink in Antique Linen and Tea Dye.

Here is the whole card in all its zany-tastic-ness

Thanks for stopping by.  Enjoy the rest of the hop!

{Coffee Card supplies - PTI unless noted}
Stamps: Warm Happiness, Background Basics: Text Style
Ink: Vintage Cream, Vintage Touch Tea Dye Duo - Chai,  (SU!) Chocolate Chip
Paper: (PTI) Kraft, Vanilla, Melon Berry, Dark Chocolate, (SU!)Close to Cocoa, Soft Suede
Tools: Texture Plate Kit #4, Friend definition (SU!), big shot

{Sock Monkey Bandit supplies}

Stamps: (SU!) Sock Monkey, (PTI) On My Couch, Mod Squad, Background Basics: Text Style
Ink: (PTI)Vintage Cream, Tim Holtz Distress Inks - Antique Linen &  Tea Dye , Momento Tuxedo Blank, Copics, (SU!) Basic Gray
Paper: (PTI) Kraft, True Black, White