Birthday card for my bestie, who is a coffee (read: Starbucks) fanatic. >.< The flower used for the outside of the card is a cut-out, using the same technique as cut-out snowflakes (Google is really useful here), except I rounded the outside edges instead of making it pointy. To fill up the empty space, I glued rows of fuchsia sequins extending from the tip of each petal - one of my new favourite ways of jazzing up cards.
The 'be fabulous' sentiment is a rub-on that I bought a few years ago in a specialist crafts shop in Singapore (on sale!!). I put it on white cardstock, and completed the sentiment with 'and drink coffee', which was handwritten on a thin strip of kraft paper with black Aqualip pen.
The little coffee cup (ADORABLEEEE) was hand-drawn and cut out of white cardstock, outlined in black Aqualip and coloured in with red Gelly Roll pen. Loose glitter was then glued onto the heart.
The big paper cup inside was again, cut out of white cardstock, the cover from shimmery red paper, while the cardboard holder is an actual Starbucks cup holder I'd saved and decorated with flower punch-outs. I added a little pocket made from patterned tissue paper and cut a mug-shaped card slipped inside with my message.
