Amy’s Inkin’ Krew October Blog Hop–“Giving Thanks”
Welcome! It’s that time — what time is that you ask! Time for Amy’s Inkin’ Krew Team Blog Hop. Our theme for October is “Giving Thanks”. It is on the second Tuesday of each month. You can always find a group of talented ladies that make up a part of Amy’s Inkin’ Krew. Be sure you check out each person’s blog, you will find much talent and inspiration. You may even find that you would like to CAS(E) one of the cards. Will let’s begin, I know you are wanting to see all the awesome cards.
The card I am sharing today is created using the Stampin’ Up! Colorful Seasons Stamp Set. I have had this set for a good long time and have only used it once or twice. While making this card, I realize this is a set that can be used for a variety of cards. The card base is Stampin’ Up! Pretty Peacock card stock. The Stampin’ Up! Whisper White card stock panel is embossed using the Stampin’ Up! Subtle Embossing Folder. This being a blog hop I am listing my card challenges at the bottom of this section.
Before embossing the tree from the Stampin’ Up! Nature’s Beauty Stamp Set was stamped in the center of the panel along with the greeting. Here is where I made a goof. I should have done the color wash and then stamped, but I stamped and then did the wash, so the ink on the trees and the greeting smeared and I thought I had destroyed the entire card and would have to start over as all the leaves had been popped on.
I found a remedy, don’t we always come up with something to cover a boo-boo? I did my color wash on a thick piece of card stock, dried with the heat tool, then stamped my tree. I fussy cut the piece and adhered it over the goof-up. You can barely tell it is there as most of the edges fit under the leaves. If I had not told you would have probably thought I meant to do the tree that way.
I’m ahead of the process though—I colored a panel of Whisper White thick card stock using different ink colors. You can see from the picture, where I stamped each other on my glass mat and then spritzed each color as I put the card stock over it to absorb the color. You can also tell by the color of the leaves and the envelope flap that I did not have enough on the first coloring so the second coloring is a bit different in color, even with using the same ink colors.
The leaves are popped on the Whisper White embossed panel using Stampin’ Up! Mini Stampin’ Dimensionals. The greeting is from Stampin’ Up! Itty Bitty Greetings Stamp Set.
The inside sentiment from the Stampin’ Up! Country Home Stamp Set is stamped in ‘Stampin’ Up! Pretty Peacock ink. An image from the Stampin’ Up! Nature’s Beauty Stamp Set is stamped in the lower corner of the sentiment panel.
My Stampin’ Up! Whisper White envelope flap got a panel of the watercolor panel that I created. A tree image was stamped in the right lower corner of the envelope front
Thank you for stopping by today. I hope you liked my card. You can now click on the Next button and it will take you to Akiko Sudano’s blog or the Previous button and it will take you to Jaimie Babarczy’s blog or you can click on each name listed below and you will be taken to that person’s blog. Enjoy the beautiful cards of these talented ladies. Have a blessed day.
My challenges for today are with the Inkspiration Photo Challenge. All the colors of the pebbles in the water reminds me of the many colors of leaves in the Fall.
The Library Craft Challenge. The book is The Secret Garden. The bare trees make me think of how dead everything in the garden was and how it flourished with love and care then the beauty returned, just as Autumn leaves are beautiful with their many colors in the Fall.
- Karen Ksenzakovic
- Mary Deatherage
- Jaimie Babarczy
- Shirley Gentry
- Akiko Sudano
- Sue Prather
- Julie Johnston
- Karen Finkle
- Amy Koenders
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A New Suite is Coming Soon!
It’s called the Christmas Time is Here Suite and it’s pretty amazing! just look at that DSP, isn’t it gorgeous and here’s hoping the die fits the rose on the DSP! The dies do fit the roses on one of the panels of the DSP. The dies fit perfectly. This suite was used by several demonstrators October 5 during World Card Making Day and the cards were gorgeous. You should see if you can find them on Pinterest, they are so beautiful.
We hope you’re ready to make this holiday season magical, because the Christmastime Is Here Suite is, well . . . available November 1! This exclusive, limited-time collection of festive, floral coordinating products has everything you need to share love, joy, and creativity this holiday season. As a demonstrator, I am able to pre-order on October 1 so be watching for cards made from this Suite.
While you wait impatiently and excitedly, check out this video with some info about the Suite
Stampin’ Up! Products Used in Creating This Card
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Card Cuts:
- Pretty Peacock card stock — card base — 4-1/4″ x 11″ scored and folded at 5-1/2″
- Whisper White card stock — background panel — 4-1/4″ x 5-1/2″; inside sentiment panel– 3-3/4″ x 5″; colored panels for leaves and envelope — 4-1/4″ x 5-1/2″
Well here it is Monday and we had a delightful weekend. World Card Making Day is in the history books now. We had a fantastic time with team members from Amy’s Inkin’ Krew and Mary’s Critters ‘N Krew celebrating the day. I hope you had the opportunity to see some of their presentations on card making. There was an event from 9 a.m. – 9 p.m. and it was awesome. Hopefully, another one will be planned before October 2020 when World Card Making Day occurs again.
It looks all Christmasy because of the Stampin’ Up! Cherry Cobbler and Stampin’ Up! Shaded Spruce but it is a birthday card. I started with a Stampin’ Up! Shaded Spruce card stock as the card base and then embossed an additional panel using the Stampin’ Up! Subtle Embossing Folder instead of just embossing the card front.
I stamped the image in Tuxedo Memento Black ink and then colored using Stampin’ Up! Stampin’ Blends in colors Light Crumb Cake, Light Cherry Cobbler and Light Shaded Spruce, Light Balmy Blue, Light Old Olive, and Light Mossy Meadow. I used a fine tip black marker to make the dots on the art piece.
The art piece is cropped using dies from Stampin’ Up! Two different sizes were used. I made a frame of Cherry Cobbler card stock to go around the art piece. A strip of Stampin’ Up! Wrapped in Plaid is adhered across the center of the card and the art piece is popped over it. A few sprigs of pine are cropped with one of the dies from the Stampin’ Up! In The Woods Dies. Three pearls are scattered over the front of the card.
The inside sentiment is from the Stampin’ Up! Itty Bitty Birthday Stamp Set and the greeting on the card front is from the Stampin’ Up! Good Morning Magnolia Stamp Set.
My Stampin’ Up! Whisper White envelope flap got a panel of the Wrapped in Plaid DSP adhered, cause Mary Deatherage has taught us no “Neked” envelopes.
I have used Stampin’ Up! Blueberry Bushel card stock as the card base. I wanted to emboss the front of the card with the Stampin’ Up! Pinewood Planks Embossing Folder so I cut a panel of the Stampin’ Up! Blueberry Bushel card stock the size of the card front and embossed it. This makes it so much easier and neater to emboss in this fashion. This panel is not adhered to the card front until the entire card front is finished, again doing this way makes it easier for me.
I winged it and cut the panel of Stampin’ Up! Pressed Petals DSP this design by cutting a portion of the panel out using the Stampin’ Up! Paper Trimmer and scissors. This is no particular design for any reason other than I liked it cut that way to reveal the embossed panel underneath. The scalloped trim is created from a one-inch strip from another panel of the Pressed Petals DSP and an old pair of scalloped edge craft scissors that are probably from the 80’s or maybe 1990. They are clunky and have big blue and yellow plastic handles — must have been for a child.
I stamped 4 daisies using the Stampin’ Up! Daisy Lane Stamp Set and Stampin’ Up! Daffodil Delight ink. I stacked these together to create my daisy. I stamped the leaf 3 times on a scrap of Stampin’ Up! Mossy Meadow card stock using Stampin’ Up! Mossy Meadow ink, I then fussy cut and stack these together also adhering them using Multipurpose Liquid Glue. A small bow was created using Stampin’ Up! Whisper White Baker’s Twine.
The greeting is from the Stampin’ Up! A Little Lace. I stamped it in Stampin’ Up! Blueberry Bushel ink and then cut the greeting apart to use the portion I wanted. The greeting is popped on the card front using Stampin’ Up! Mini Stampin’ Dimensionals that was cut in two pieces to fit the tiny words. I left the inside panel blank so a note can be written. The jewels are from the Stampin’ Up! Nobel Peacock Rhinestones.
In finishing, I gave a Stampin’ Up! Whisper White envelope flap a panel of the Stampin’ Up! Pressed Petals Designer Series Paper.
I stamped the image of the horse from the Stampin’ Up! Let It Ride Stamp Set in Stampin’ Up! Early Espresso ink on a panel of Stampin’ Up! Crumb Cake card stock. The trees are stamped on a square of Crumb Cake card stock using Stampin’ Up! Shaded Spruce ink.
The inside sentiment from the Stampin’ Up! Let It Ride Stamp Set is stamped in Shaded Spruce on a panel of Crumb Cake card stock. The three trees are stamped in Shaded Spruce also at the top and bottom of the Crumb Cake panel.
The inside sentiment from the Stampin’ Up! Itty Bitty Christmas Stamp Set is stamped in Night of Navy in on a panel of Very Vanilla card stock. Ornaments were fussy cut from the Stampin’ Up! Brightly Gleaming DSP then adhered on the edge of the panel.
In finishing, I gave a Stampin’ Up! Very Vanilla envelope flap a panel of the Stampin’ Up! Brightly Gleaming Specialty Designer Series Paper.
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