Stampin’ Up! Sending Smiles for the Happy Inkin’ Thursday Blog Hop

Good Morning and welcome to the Happy Inkin’ Thursday Blog Hop! The Stampin’ Up! Sending Smiles photopolymer stamp set and the coordinating Sending dies are a wonderful set for floral cards for any occasion. I used them to make a love and hugs friendship card with the Bright and Beautiful 6″ x 6″ designer series paper for today. You can find the supplies I used along with card stock cuts at the bottom of my post.

We have a color challenge this week:

I used liquid glue to adhere a panel of Bright and Beautiful designer series paper to a Blueberry Bushel mat and popped it on the front of an Azure Afternoon card base. I cut another panel of the DSP with the 5th largest Deckled Rectangles die and adhered it to another Blueberry Bushed mat.

I stamped the flowers from the Stampin’ Up! Sending Smiles stamp set in Bubble Bath ink on Basic White and stamped the centers in Lemon Lime Twist. I stamped the large stem and leaves in Pretty Peacock and cut them all out with the coordinating dies. I adhered them to the small panel with glue dots and dimensionals and popped the panel onto the card front with dimensionals. I stamped the small sentiment in Pretty Peacock ink on Lemon Lime Twist and cut it out with the short label die. I popped it on the card front with dimensionals.

I applied adhesive strips behind a strip of Blueberry Bushel and cut the detailed ‘Sending’ word out with the dies. I used another strip of Bright and Beautiful DSP to cut the background work out and adhered the word to the background. I adhered the die cut sentiment to the card with dimensionals and glue dots and finished the card with a Lemon Lime Twist bow and Bubble Bath sequins.

For the inside of the card, I stamped the flower from the Stampin’ Up! Sending Smiles stamp set in Bubble Bath and Lemon Lime Twist in corner of a Basic White panel. I covered it with a mask and stamped the stem and leaves in Pretty Peacock. I adhered the panel to a Blueberry bushel mat before adhering it to the inside of the card with Stampin’ Seal.

There are so many sentiments in the Stampin’ Up! Sending Smiles stamp set and the two label dies in the Sending dies are a perfect fit.

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
• Akiko Sudano <– You Are Here
• Karen Ksenzakovic
• Tara Carpenter
• Carol Buckalew
• Terry Lynn Bright

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Thanks for stopping by and Happy Stamping!

Akiko

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Cardstock Cuts for this project:

• Azure Afternoon – 4-1/4″ x 11″ card base scored at 5-1/2″
• Blueberry Bushel – two 4″ x 5-1/4″ panels (inside and front mats), 2-1/4″ x 3-5/8″ (small front mat), 1-1/2″ x 3-1/2″ (die cut ‘smile’ word)
• Lemon Lime Twist – 1″ x 3-1/2″ (label)
• Basic White – 3-7/8″ x 5-1/8″ (inside panel), 4-1/4″ x 5-1/2″ (floral die cuts)
• Bright and Beautiful 6″ x 6″ DSP – 3-7/8″ x 5-1/8″ (front background), 2-1/2″ x 4″ (floral background), 1-3/4″ x 3-3/4″ (die cut word background)

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Stampin’ Up! products used in this project:

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