Running on Coffee | Coffee Lovers Blog Hop | Graciellie Designs + Therm O Web

I'm back with another project for the Coffee Lovers Blog Hop. This is number 5 for me. Link up a coffee, tea, cocoa or hot apple cider project for a chance to win!

This project features:

Graciellie Design

Therm O Web

Let's chat about the process for this super easy card. First up, digital designs. Graciellie Design has a shop filled with digital designs. She also has 'physical stamps' with Unity Stamp Co. If you're not familiar with digital designs, all you need is a printer. Gracie has a ton of tutorials over on her blog HERE.

Digital Stamps

I use a laser printer
upload the digital images to microsoft word or something like google docs.

When you have them uploaded, just click on the image and grab a corner to customize your image size.

Print them out, I use 80 lb paper which is great for copic coloring too.
To make things easy, use dies to cut out your images. I used a large nesting tag die to cut today's image out.

Do you see the sentiment? I should have taken a close up of that because I used Therm O Web's Deco Foil in Gold.

Deco Foil

I used a very utilitarian laminator. It looks like it should be in the main office at my old elementary school...LOL.
After printing the sentiment to the desired size I used a die to cut it out. I cut a small size of gold deco foil to cover the sentiment and laid it pretty side up.
I nestled it between a folded piece of copy paper and fed it through our laminator.

Why Deco Foil rather than heat embossing? It gives it a different look and a gorgeous sheen.