{"id":35169,"date":"2021-04-02T20:45:17","date_gmt":"2021-04-03T01:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/?p=35169"},"modified":"2025-12-06T14:00:02","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T19:00:02","slug":"coffee-cats-in-cups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/?p=35169","title":{"rendered":"Coffee Cats in Cups"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nIt’s my pleasure to host the Splitcoast Inspiration Challenge (IC800) this week & the site I chose is Design Stack & their Pinterest Boards. I found THIS<\/a><\/span> cute pic & used it for my inspiration.<\/span>
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\nFor my card, I also have a fun & useful tutorial. It’s really simple & I’m a little surprised it took me this long to figure it out. This revelation actually came about because of a little accident & I had an “aha” moment when it happened. \u00a0My tutorial involves the mirror image little cat on the far left. But the best part is, not only is he a stamped mirror image of the cat on the right, he was also die cut using the same die. So after I colored & die cut the cat on the right & the 3 in the center, I really wanted a mirror image cat. I’ve done the mirror image stamping quite a bit so that part was easy. Since these are clear stamps, I reasoned that the back of a larger clear stamp would be the best choice for my mirror image. I will mention, right off the bat, a Misti is essential to this technique. So here’s what I did: (click on any pic to enlarge)<\/em><\/span><\/span>
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\nUp to this point is the normal process for mirror image stamping. The difference is since it’s in the Misti & I didn’t clean off the ink on the original image (that was the accident part), it stamped the image on both sides of the card stock.<\/span>
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\nThis where the “aha” moment kicked in. Since it was stamped using the Misti, the stamped image is exactly in the same spot on both sides. I taped the die to the right (normal) side..the side the die actually fits.<\/span>
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\nFinished! I did 2 of these to show you the right side & the mirror side. With this little trick it’s now possible to die cut a mirror image. Yay! No fussy cutting! I will mention that I made sure to have a smooth surface (I used the metal shim under mine) for the mirror image (cutting side). Otherwise you’ll have ridges if your cutting plate is well used.<\/span>
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\nThe background was stamped w\/ the Color Fuse inks & another coffee set. Here are the Copics I used.<\/span>
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Thanks\u00a0so\u00a0much for stopping by!<\/span>
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Stamps: <\/span>Rubbernecker Stamps: Cats in Coffee Cups (retiring but still available<\/span> at a great price!), Splatter Stains, Watercolor Splatter set\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/b><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0Paper:<\/b>\u00a0Staples 110# white, chocolate brown, turquoise,X-Press It Blending Card<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ink:<\/b>\u00a0Memento tuxedo black,\u00a0Rubbernecker Stamps: Color Fuse ink<\/span>\u00a0set #3<\/span><\/span>, set #9<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Accessories:<\/b>\u00a0 Rubbernecker Stamps<\/span>: Rectangle Stitch, Cats in Coffee Cups, Deckle Frame <\/span>dies<\/span>, <\/strong>MISTI<\/a>, Copic Sketch Markers<\/a>, Crossover II<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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It’s my pleasure to host the Splitcoast Inspiration Challenge (IC800) this week & the site I chose is Design Stack & their Pinterest Boards. I found THIS cute pic & used it for my inspiration. For my card, I also have a fun & useful tutorial. It’s really simple & I’m a little surprised it took me this long to figure it out. This revelation actually came about because of a little accident & I had an “aha” moment when it happened. \u00a0My tutorial involves the mirror image little cat on the far left. But the best part is, not only is he a stamped mirror image of the cat on the right, he was also die cut using the same die. So after I colored & die cut the cat on the right & the 3 in the center, I really wanted a mirror image cat. I’ve done the mirror image stamping quite a bit so that part was easy. Since these are clear stamps, I reasoned that the back of a larger clear stamp would be the best choice for my mirror image. I will mention, right […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":35179,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[353,679,14,11],"tags":[300,206,311,468,437,631,561,680,115,144],"class_list":["post-35169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-animalspets","category-rubbernecker-stamps","category-scs-challenges","category-tutorials","tag-animals","tag-cat","tag-coffee","tag-copic","tag-friend","tag-mirror-image","tag-misti","tag-rubbernecker","tag-scs","tag-tutorial"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35169"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43367,"href":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35169\/revisions\/43367"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}