Stampin’ Up! Easter Promise for the Inkin’ Krew Blog Hop

Good Morning! Welcome to another Inkin’ Krew Monthly Blog Hop! The theme for this month’s hop is Celebrate Spring and I want to share my first Easter Card for this year.

I started by embossing a panel of Pool Party card stock with the Layered Leaves embossing folder. I adhered the panel to a Daffodil Delight card base with multipurpose liquid glue. I adhered a panel of the striped Pleased as Punch designer series paper across the embossed panel with multipurpose liquid glue.

I stamped the crocus from the Stampin’ Up! Easter Promise cling stamp set on a panel of watercolor paper with Stazon Jet Black ink. I colored the image with watercolor pencils and the smaller brush tip aqua painter. I used Gorgeous Grape for the flowers, Granny Apple Green and Garden Green for the stems and a touch of Crushed Curry for the flower center. I colored the areas with the pencils first, with more color in the areas I wanted darker, even leaving some of the lighter areas without color. Then I went over each area with the aqua painter starting in the darker area and bringing the color out to the lighter areas.

After the flowers dried, I cut them out with the Layering Ovals die. I cut out a scalloped oval in Granny Apple Green and adhered it to the back of the watercolored flowers with snail. I popped the flowers on the card front with dimensionals. I finished it off with three Gorgeous Grape gemstones and a Mint Macaron bow.

For the inside of the card, I stamped the joyful Happy Easter sentiment from the Stampin’ Up! Easter Promise stamp set with Granny Apple Green ink on a Whisper White panel. I stamped the flower in the corner with Stazon Jet Black ink and colored it with the same watercolor pencils as the front image – I just used a very light touch with the aqua painter so it didn’t get very wet. I added a strip of the striped Pleased as Punch designer series paper to the bottom and adhered the panel to the inside of the card with snail.

I just saw some of my crocuses bloom this weekend – Yay!! Spring is just around the corner! Thank you for visiting and I hope you enjoy the rest of the Hop!

Click on the Next Blog button to move forward to Leslie Larkin’s project or click the Previous Blog button to move back to see the project that Sue Prather created.

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

• Karen Finkle
• Karen Ksenzakovic
• Mary Deatherage
• Shirley Gentry
• Jaimie Babarczy
• Sue Prather
• Akiko Sudano <– you are here
• Leslie Larkin
• Amy Koenders

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Akiko

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Cardstock Cuts for this project:

• Daffodil Delight – 4-1/4″ x 11″ card base scored at 5-1/2″
• Pool Party – 4″ x 5-1/4″ (embossed panel)
• Granny Apple Green – 3-1/2″ x 4-1/2″ (scalloped oval mat)
• Watercolor Paper – 3″ x 4″ (art image)
• Whisper White – 4″ x 5-1/4″ (inside panel)
• Pleased as Punch DSP – 2″ x 4″ (front band), 1/2″ x 4″ (inside trim)

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Stampin’ Up! products used in this project:

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