 Hi guys, it's Sandy Alnok, artist and paper crafter here on YouTube with a treat cup that I have made a bunch of. Now I'm going to show you a little cameo of the Trinity blending brushes as well. Trinity stamps sent me a bunch of goodies and this cup die is the one that I really wanted to use and I was really excited to make these. I have a specific project that I wanted to make them for so I'll show you the dyes, they come with lots of little decorative parts and then there's a little package that has the cups and the lids and these are mini cups, they're teeny tiny ones I'm guessing since I don't drink coffee they're for like shots of espresso or something but the package comes with 10 little bags so you can put your little things in bags and it also comes with little stoppers and these fit inside the hole in the lid and then you can decorate them as well. So I start off by cutting out a bajillion, bajillion things out of a bunch of different colors so that I can mix and match them and I also wanted to put candy corns inside of mine so I made a candy corn out of the little jar die that's in the set because a jar is supposed to be for a little shaker thing for something for coffee and I just cut off the little nubs on the side so it was a rounded triangle because they looked very candy corn shaped to me and then I colored them candy corn style with just a couple quick Copic markers. The project that this is for is for Toastmasters you might know I'm a member of Toastmasters and something we do at each one of our meetings is something called table topics in which the people that participate get to give a little impromptu two-minute speech on something and they don't know what the question is they get asked some random thing and I'm kind of known for doing weird random things sometimes when it's my turn to lead table topics so I wanted to have a little goodie to give them because I do that sometimes I bribe people to play along by having something that I've made or that I've baked or I buy some little little tchotchke thing and if they participate they get a thing so that's what I thought I'd make some of these cute little cups and then they would potentially get a cup full of candy. So I'm assembling all these you can put the eyeballs back in and I started gluing the eyeballs back in with the connect glue and I was using the little teeny tiny nib on the quick stick pick-em-up stick thing yeah whatever that thing is called that's my connect glue in my right hand and I have these little tweezers in my left hand because all these little parts are very very tiny so you'll have to kind of figure out a system for sorting them out if you do a whole bunch at once like I do this was a little bit much but there you go so there's one of the little faces and you can arrange them all different ways I just layered them up and then there's this coffee stamp set and I'll link that and all the other supplies of course in the doobly-doo but this one has tons of words that you can use for coffee type sentiments so I had to look for something non-coffee related so that I could stamp them on a little tag die that comes with this die set and I decided on have a hug because my little smiley faces were hugging the candy corns so I figured they could have a hug and hug the candy corns now I am guessing since the people in my club tend to be a little more on the not candy eating type of people they're a little healthier than me so they could give this to someone else who wants to have a hug so I thought that would be something they could re-gift if they didn't actually want to eat the candy itself so I got all of those stamped out all this took me a long time to put together so set yourself aside some time I want to show you real quickly the brushes from trinity there are these that are a little older they've had these for a little bit and they have a stand on the bottom of them and they have little caps that put a lid on them which is great but the new ones are white bristles oh my gosh and they have the stand on the bottom so you can stand them up because I don't really have places that I can put them but I have a little shelf where I can stand them all vertically which is going to be perfect and I love the fact that they have the little caps on them so I don't lay them down on something and make a mess on a project just because I forgot that there was ink on them so there's my little shelf next to Bob Ross where my brushes stand and I thought I'd show you the brushes with the this little set of stencils and it's a two step stencil and in order to put them on one of these I'm not going to use it for my project but I wanted to show you how the brushes work and a stencil pair like this one because it has two parts to it and you basically would stamp each half of the coffee bean in a different ink so I decided that I would do a light color on top of a yellow background and if I were doing coffee themed ones this would be really perfect for that and then just smushing the ink through the stencil using the brush and I like the fact also that these brushes have a little bit of a pointed end on them the pairing of them you kind of need to turn them to make sure that they line up the way that you want so you get it face up the right direction and since I have all that lovely washi tape marking things down I can actually just pull up the the old stencil the first stencil and plop the other one in its place right there in the washi tape and then the two of them should knock on wood and you know we're going to hope that that works should line up just perfectly with the color that was already there so I'm going to go through and first do the same color as I had done before I want this to be really subtle and so I'm doing the same color and of course this would just be uniform colored beans little coffee beans so I took a little bit of red and very very lightly I just added a coat of red across all of it so that one half of each of the beans would have a slightly different darker color to it and there we can see that it actually worked so these sets of stencils this is my first pair of stencils that I've ever seen I've seen like pictures of them online but I haven't actually had any to use since I don't use stencils very often and it was kind of fun to play with and see how that works so now it is assembly time since I've got everything die cut my little faces are all assembled and I just put a little bit of double stick tape this is the be creative tape put a little bit on one side and then whatever side is going to be in front there's a side that's notched and a side that's not you can decide which one that is you want the whole end of it to have adhesive all the way out to the very edge so it sticks down firmly and I've lined them up with the seam in the cup because a cup of course has a seam where it's assembled and then I decided to put my little face on the opposite side so I didn't have the seam showing I used some dimensional adhesive to add my little face on there and then more of the double stick tape to put the have a hug tag on it you could also put all that right over top of the seam if your stuff is tall enough that it covers all of that but my seam is around the back and then when you've got the lids on you can actually decorate all of those little stoppers to put inside and I've glued two little leaves on there because there's little there's all kinds of little doodads in the die set that you can do fun things with now here's where the crazy fun came in I found a bag of googly eyes I haven't used googly eyes in years but they seemed to work on this really well so I yeah glued my little googly's on there aren't they cute and then of course I had to put all of the candy corns in and all of the little stoppers in the edges and there was a little bit of candy corn left so I get to have a few snacks fortunately I don't like candy corn all that much so a few candy corns is all I needed so it was great to be able to put them all in these be able to give away so that here's the little guys in the bags and what I've done for my questions is put them in circles on the bottom so in a couple weeks when I'm ready to do this table topics and lead it I will be all ready to go with some crazy questions for people to share about so how fun is that cute little favors you can put all different kinds of stuff in here and you can also do the faces different ways you can just put flowers on the outside lots of different things that you can do with these cute little cups thank you so much for watching make sure you hit that like button subscribe if you haven't yet there's always more stuff over on the blog if you want still pictures to pin etc and I'll see you guys next time bye bye