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A few years ago when I started my retreats, I discovered the joys of cold brew. Cold brew is NOT the same as the coffee pot your parents or some poorly raised co-worker let go cold and disgusting. It's a different way of making coffee, with a different grind and cold filtered water that makes for a delightful beverage in a cold climate. It's expensive if you buy it already made though, so I was very excited to receive a really nice stainless filter made for Mason Jars for Christmas, and have been making it ever since for about 1/20th the price of the cans of it I used to buy from local coffee companies.
So I'm celebrating that with these adorable coffee drinking mice today - their drink of choice is French press coffee, obviously. I colored them with my favorite watercolor pencils - you'll see how amazing they are in the video, and actually glued the mice down onto my background before changing my mind and using the matching die to cut a shadow from grey cardstock. This little tool is the only one I trust to remove stuck down things when I need a do-over. It's magical. You'll see in the video that the little mice are totally glued onto the card. Miraculous.
The background was created with three Oxide greens, my MISTI and this pretty background stamp I bought a while ago but haven't had a chance to use until now. I splattered that with water and added gold embossing powder - I love how random that looks.
Here's the video!
Speaking of coffee, I couldn't access my cold brew while the power was out, because I couldn't open the fridge. So I was cold, in the dark and uncaffeinated!
I decided to use all those facts as the inspiration for an art journal page, with artwork from the coffee place I get my cold brew from. It's a local roaster that will roast, grind and deliver your coffee the day you order it, and it's the most delicious cold brew blend I've ever had! They have such a cute logo and package - I love the little grackle. The sentiment strips are from this fun snarky pack, (this also comes in black with white print) and the little clouds are from this one. The background was from a speed journaling session - I'll be putting up my speed journaling class soon!
I hope you have a great rest of your week!
Loveyameanitbye.
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