Latte Love for As You See It Challenge #320

It's a new challenge week with As You See It Challenges and this time it's a sketch challenge designed by team member, Jan! I am currently in love with the Latte Love bundle, in fact with the whole A Little Latte suite, and I needed to make a birthday card for my hubby, who LOVES coffee, so all those happy circumstances coincided to help me create my card for Challenge #320 - Balancing Act!

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I put the amazing DSP in A Little Latte to good use in my card, even using it for the focal point mug. Let's take a closer look:

• On a Pecan Pie card base, I added a matte layer of 4" x 5 1/4" over which I placed a 3 3/4" x 5" piece of the A Little Latte DSP. Before adding it, I embossed the sentiment, from Sweetly Scripted, in white embossing powder, about 5/8" from the bottom edge.
• I cut two other pieces of different designs of the same DSP set, one measuring 1" x 3" and the orange one measuring 1" x  3 3/8". These are mounted on the card front as shown with the white one centered on and slightly higher than the orange one.
• I die cut one of the Calypso Coral mugs from the DSP sheets and then die cut the center out. I glued down the center, then mounted the mug part around it using Mini-Dimensionals. I used a sponge dauber to add some Early Espresso ink to the cut edge.
• The sentiment, from Latte Love, was stamped in Pecan Pie on Basic White cardstock and die cut using the smallest Deckled Rectangle die, and manipulating it to make a smaller label. That label is added using with dimensionals.
• Last step is adding some Adhesive backed Swirl dots.

• On the inside of the card, I used the largest Deckled Rectangle die to cut some of the DSP from A Little Latte for a backing, and one about 2 sizes smaller to cut one for the sentiment.
• I stamped the sentiment from the Stippled Roses stamp set, and a splotch from Latte Love, both in Early Espresso ink, as shown. 
• Both panels were adhered using Stampin' Seal.

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Product List

Latte Love Photopolymer Stamp Set (English) [163455]	Latte Love Bundle (English) [163461]	Sweetly Scripted Cling Stamp Set (English) [163600]	A Little Latte 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Designer Series Paper [163453]	Pecan Pie 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock [161717]
Basic White 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock [159276]	Versamark Pad [102283]	Pecan Pie Classic Stampin' Pad [161665]	Basics Embossing Powders [155554]	Embossing Additions Tool Kit [159971]
Heat Tool (Us And Canada) [129053]	Adhesive Backed Swirl Dots [163464]	Deckled Rectangles Dies [159173]	Latte Love Dies [163460]	Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machine [149653]
Mini Stampin' Dimensionals [144108]	Stampin' Dimensionals [104430]	Stampin' Seal [152813]