Brewed Awakenings 1

 Yesterday my new Club Scrap pizzabox arrived.

Inside was a kit called Brewed Awakenings.

This kit has not only scrappapers, but also 

projects inside with tutorals to follow online

(you get a password when you buy the kit).

These tutorials by Kay Williamson and Tricia Morris

are very instructive and even have written

instructions to go with it as well.

 Before starting to use the stamps,

they have to be prepared. 

They are unmounted and need to be cut. 

I want to share with you how I do this

before shareing all the artwork I make

out of this box.

I start with cutting the rubber and but it on a newspaper

with the backside up to smear  "Mount-It" adhesive on it.

This needs to dry. It is a kind of glue that will stay sticky

and so i can use this to stick the stamp to an acrylic blog.

  While waiting for the stamps to dry, I could not resisit

and use my old Club Scrap Mocha Java stamps and paper

to make these two cards. Unfortunately these stamps are

all sold out, but you can always try and find them on Ebay.

Now the stamps are dry. And one can stick them to a plastic

background. So this is what I do:

I make a mirrored copy of the sheet that comes with the stamps.

I glue them back to back and

I stick the sheet into a laminated pouch and laminate the

stamp sheet.

 When the sheet has been trough the machine it is

ready to stick the stamps on.

When all the stamps are on the sheet, I keep

the stamps in a file like this:

On one side you can see the stamps and on the

otherside you see the rubber. I keep one year

of Club Scrap stamps in one folder.

Now I can stamp!

For my first project I used:

the stencil from the Brewed Awakenings box

the unmounted stamps,

a sheet op paper cut 4,5 x 5,5

one of the pannels

Club Scrap hybrid inkpad earth and sandstone

brads from my stash

First I used the stencil to add the word

coffee to the pannel. I made it in two colors

with the hybrid ink pads.

Light on the top and dark on the bottom.

When it was dry I stamped the cups and colored

them with the faber castel pencils from the

Full Circle kit.

With one of the word stamps I finish the stamping.

The border of the pannel is distressed and

added some earth color with a blender tool.

This is the finished card:

Please come back again to see the other

projects I am going to make soon.

Have a creative day!