Amy’s Inkin’ Krew December Blog Hop — “Celebrate”
Welcome! It’s that time — what time is that you ask! Time for Amy’s Inkin’ Krew Team Blog Hop. On the second Tuesday of each month, you can always find a group of talented stampers that make up a part of Amy’s Inkin’ Krew showcasing their talent by creating cards for our Blog Hop! Our theme for December is “Celebrate”. We can interpret “Celebrate” however we chose, so I am creating a birthday card. 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. Well let’s begin, I know you are wanting to see all the awesome cards.
I made a similar card to this one on October 22.
The card I am sharing today is created using the Stampin’ Up! Toile Christmas Stamp Set. I am making the card in blues as it is a birthday card. 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! Seaside Spray card stock. A panel of Stampin’ Up! Silver Foil Sheets card stock is used as the mat for the Stampin’ Up! Feels Like Frost DSP background panel.
The frames for the cardinal is cropped from a Stampin’ Up! Silver Foil Sheets using one of the Stampin’ Up! Frosted Frames Dies. I had used up my Silver Glimmer card stock so this made a good substitute. The cardinal is cropped from a panel of Stampin’ Up! Seaside Spray card stock and is stamped in Stampin’ Up! Night of Navy ink. The branch the bird is on is stamped in Tuxedo Memento Black ink and colored with Stampin’ Up! Stampin’ Blends Markers in Light and Dark Seaside Spray and Light Old Olive. I know this color is not in the challenge but hoping it will be ok as I noticed some of the DT has other colors.
The Happy Birthday is from Stampin’ Up! Itty Bitty Birthday Stamp Set and is stamped in Stampin’ Up! Night of Navy ink on a scrap from cropping the bird. It makes a great label for the greeting would you not agree?
The inside sentiment from the Stampin’ Up! Everything Is RosyStamp Set is stamped in ‘Stampin’ Up! Night Of Navy ink. An image from the Stampin’ Up! Toile Christmas Stamp Set is stamped in the lower corner of the sentiment panel.
My Stampin’ Up! Whisper White envelope flap got an image from the Stampin’ Up! Toile Christmas Stamp Set stamped in Tuxedo Memento Black ink and colored with Stampin’ Up! Stampin’ Blends Markers in Light Balmy Blue and Light Old Olive. 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 Amy Koenders’s blog or the Previous button and it will take you to Akiko Sudano’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 inspiration for this card comes from the TGIF #241 Challenge.
And… Craftyhazelnut’s Patterned Paper Challenge.
- Karen Ksenzakovic
- Jaimie Babarczy
- Karen Finkle
- Leslie Larkin
- Mary Deatherage
- Sue Prather
- Akiko Sudano
- Shirley Gentry
- Amy Koenders
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My card for the day is created using Stampin’ Up! Feels Like Frost Specialty Designer Series Paper and Stampin’ Up! Toil Christmas Stamp Set. It made a beautiful card. I am rather pleased with the color scheme. Instead of your typical red cardinal, I decided to make mine a bluebird. Do not know if the color is right for a true bluebird, but then he is my bird and that his color shades of blue from Stampin’ Up! Stampin’ Blend markers in Light and Dark Balmy Blue. It is amazing how different the color looks once a picture is taken.
I used the “Hello” stamp from the Stampin’ Up! Good Morning Magnolia Stamp Set stamping it using Versa Mark ink and then heat embossing using Stampin’ Up! Whisper White Embossing Powder and my heat tool. The silver diagonal square is cropped from a panel of Stampin’ Up! Silver Foil Sheets and embossed using the Stampin’ Up! Subtle Embossing Folder. It is adhered to a Stampin’ Up! Night of Navy card stock mat and then popped on the card front after the banner is adhered in place. 
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.
My card today is created using the Stampin’ Up! Feels Like Frost Designer Series Paper and the Stampin’ Up! Toile Tidings Designer Series Paper. As you can see from the card, it is just a matter of a few cuts and you have a card made. All the card cuts are at the bottom of this post, just in case, you would like to make cards of your own.
In finishing, I gave a Stampin’ Up! Whisper White envelope flap a panel of the Stampin’ Up! Toile Tidings Designer Series Paper along with adding a bit to the card front.
