To the Coolest Pop in Town

This is the card I made recently for my Dad's birthday. He and my sister used to make and bottle their own soda, so I thought this was fun! I used a retired My Favorite Things set called Soda Pop. 

To create the background I started by trimming a piece of white card stock to 5 1/2" x 4 1/4". I wanted the background colors to resemble cola so I blended distress oxide inks in Ground Espresso, Rusty Hinge and Fossilized Amber. I started dark in the lower left corner and worked my way up into the lighter colors. Once my ink blending was done, I added some splatters of water to resemble carbonated bubbles. After my water splatters were dry, I die cut my panel with the largest Crimped Frame die from the Greetery. 

Using the coordinating dies, I die cut the Coke bottle from white card stock and, using Zig Clean Color markers, did my best to color it in. I also die cut the Coke bottle a second time from a piece of clear scrap acetate and put it over my colored bottle so it would look like glass.The label and bottle cap are cut from red card stock, with the label's sentiment embossed in white.  

Finally, the sentiment, also from the set, was embossed in white in the lower corner. This was super fun to make and I hope my Dad liked it!

Thanks for reading!

SUPPLIES:

Stamps: Soda Pop (My Favorite Things)

Paper: Stamper's Select White (PTI), Real Red (SU!)

Ink: Ground Espresso, Rusty Hinge, Fossilized Amber (Distress Oxide), Versa Mark,

Dies: Soda Pop Bottle die namics (MFT), Crimped Frame (The Greetery)

Other: Zig Clean Color markers, white embossing powder, clear acetate