Beverage Swap

I should have taken a picture that showed the dimension better, but I don't have the energy right now to go get set up to take another.  Today's card is for a July swap called "beverage swap".  While I don't drink alcohol, you can usually get a virgin cocktail at places like this!  

Materials used were a Mini Bricks stencil from The Crafter's Workshop, Inks from my stash, and 3 Little Book of High Street pages - along with acetate & adhesives including foam tape.

I started by stenciling a brick background - but unfortunately (or maybe fortunately?) turned the stencil 90 degrees from what I had intended.  Then I glued one little book page to a piece of card stock & cut out the center.  After tracing the resulting window onto my card front, I cut out an aperture on the card front.  Then I cut a piece of acetate slightly larger than the window & glued to the back of the little book page (that had been glued to card stock & cut).  I used foam tape to adhere this to the card front, centering it over the aperture.  Then I took parts of a second identical little book page, glued it to card stock & cut out the table, chairs, drinks on the table, and awning and added them - some with foam tape for dimension.  Finally I cut the "EVERY HOUR IS" from another little book page and added it across the corner of the window.

Inside:

Inside I first attached the cut out piece with all the drinks & bottles, centering it so that it was behind the acetate window and could be seen from the front of the card.  Above this I glued the words "Happy Hour" - cut from the same page as the words on the card front.  However, I had to go over the words with a yellow marker to change the pink to more of an orange so it coordinated with the card better! That completed my card.