Stampin’ Up! Merriest Trees for the Happy Inkin’ Thursday Blog Hop

Good Morning and welcome to the Happy Inkin’ Thursday Blog Hop! One of my favorite Christmas bundles is the Stampin’ Up! Merriest Trees bundle and I used it today with the beautiful Winter Meadow designer series paper for a Christmas card. You can find the supplies I used along with card stock cuts at the bottom of my post.

We have a Theme challenge this week and and it’s perfect because I have so many more Christmas cards to make!

I adhered a panel of Winder Meadow designer series paper to the front of a Lost Lagoon mat and wrapped it with Silver and Sheer White ribbon and made a bow. I popped the panel on the front of a Smoky Slate card base with dimensionals.

I stamped a panel of mottled Lost Lagoon Winter Meadow DSP with the sentiment from the Stampin’ Up! Merriest Trees bundle in Versamark ink. I sprinkled it with white embossing powder and shook off the excess. I heated the powder with my heat tool until it was bright and shiny and cut it out with the second largest tree die. I cut a small panel of silver foil with he two stars and adhered them together and adhered thhem to the tree top.

I cut a vellum panel with the third largest Scalloped Contours die. I embossed it with the pretty Snowflake Sky 3D embossing folder and adhered it to the card front with Stampin’ Seal. I popped the die cut Christmas Tree on top with dimensionals and decorated it with light green pearls.

For the inside of the card, I stamped the sentiment from the Stampin’ Up! Merriest Trees stamp set in Lost Lagoon ink on a Basic White panel. I stamped the snowflakes in Smoky Slate and trimmed the bottom of the panel with a strip of DSP. I adhered the panel to a to the inside of the card with Stampin’ Seal.

The Stampin’ Up! Merriest Trees bundle is so versatile in the variety of Christmas Trees you can make for your cards. And I love the soft colors of the Winter Meadow designer series paper.

On with the Hop! Click on the Next Blog button to move forward to see the beautiful project Karen Ksenzakovic has created.

If you get lost along the way, here are the participants for the hop:

• Amy Koenders
• Mary Deatherage
• Jaimie Babarczy
• Karen Finkle
• Akiko Sudano <– You Are Here
• Karen Ksenzakovic
• Tara Carpenter
• Terry Lynn Bright
• Carol Buckalew

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Akiko

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Cardstock Cuts for this project:

• Smoky Slate – 4-1/4″ x 11″ card base scored at 5-1/2″
• Lost Lagoon – 4″ x 5-1/4″ (front mat)
• Silver foil – 1″ x 2″ (die cut layered star)
• Vellum – 2-3/4″ x 4″ (embossed panel)
• Basic White – 4″ x 5-1/4″ (inside panel)
• Winter Meadow DSP – 3-7/8″ x 5-1/8″ (front background), 3″ x 3-1/4″ (Christmas Tree), 1/2″ x 4″ (inside trim)

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Stampin’ Up! products used in this project:

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