Coffee-Themed swap: 1 handmade card or 2 ATCs

For this swap, you will create 1 hand-made card with matching envelope measuring no less than 5 x 4 for one swap partner.

You may use any of the following techniques (or combination thereof) in the creation of your card:

• stamping
• drawing/sketching
• collage

Your card must have at least 2 layers - meaning a card base, artwork and a sentiment. You may use a pre-exiting base/envelope, or make each part from scratch.

Embellishments such as rhinestones, ribbons, brads, eyelets, fabric flowers, dimensionals etc are highly encourage but not required.

NO STICKER SLAPPING!

The card MUST have an obvious coffee theme and include coffee- themed stamped images (at least 10 medium-sized ones of at least 3";). If you don't own any coffee-themed stamps, you may use online resources (such as digital downloads) and print images - so long as they are high quality/resolution. If you own only small stamps that fit the description, you can use either a combination of stamped images and printed images, or you can send 20+ small stamped images.

You may use brown or black ink. If you have Staz-on, please use that so that your partner can choose to color in the images if they like. If you don't mind receiving stamped images in other colors you can post a comment in the section below.

Please don't send your partner blurry or smudged images - they are allowed to rate you down for that (unless these are just extras included on top of higher/better quality images).

You may also include additional items for mail art or other craft projects, such as leaflets and flyers from your local coffee shop or clean coffee bags. I'm sure your swap partner would appreciate any extras but this is entirely at the sender's discretion.

You should have some kind of coffee themed decoration on the outside of the envelope - this can include stickers, sketching, magazine images, washi tape etc but this is not the main part of the swap and you are not required to go "above and beyond" on this part (just don't send a plain boring envelope :).

Swap is sender's choice but please check your partner's profile for dislikes.

If you are not "into" cards, you may create 2 ATCs instead of a card.

Feel free to contact me with any questions, concerns or suggestions!

(Swap picture is from rubberstampdiva.blogspot.com)