Stampin’ Up! Hills of Tuscany for the Happy Inkin’ Thursday Blog Hop

Good Morning and welcome to the Happy Inkin’ Thursday Blog Hop! I used the pretty Stampin’ Up! Hills of Tuscany stamp set to make a Thank You card for today. This is a sweet landscape set with different stamps that you can use to create a stamped scene. These are fun to do. You can find the supplies I used along with card stock cuts at the bottom of my post.

We have a sketch challenge this week, so I made a little picture of the Tuscan countryside!

And I used colors from the Sunday Stamps Challenge SSC327 Feeling Earthy:

I adhered a panel of Poetic Expressions designer series paper to a Cajun Craze mat with liquid glue and adhered the layered panel to the front of a Pecan Pie card base with dimensionals.

I started the little scene by stamping the house from the Stampin’ Up! Hills of Tuscany stamp set in stamped off Wild Wheat ink on Basic White. I stamped the roof in Cajun Craze, the sun in Crushed Curry and the sky in Balmy Blue. Next I stamped the ground in Old Olive using the two hillside stamps, overlapping as I filled in the ground. I love the different shading these stamps create! I stamped the trees in Mossy Meadow on either side of the house. There’s a couple of bush stamps and I stamped these in Garden Green over some of the overlapped ground stamped areas and they did a nice job of smoothing out the edges. I finished by stamping some flower fields in Poppy Parade.

I used the second largest square from the Stylish Shapes dies to cut it out and adhered it to a Pecan Pie mat. I wrapped it with linen thread and adhered it to the card front with dimensionals. I stamped the sentiment from the Stampin’ Up! Hills of Tuscany stamp set in Pecan Pie ink on Basic White. I fussy cut the sentiment with my paper snips and adhered it with glue dots and dimensionals. I finished with rustic metallic dots.

For the inside of the card, I stamped a little scene in the lower corner of a Basic White panel using Mossy Meadow for the trees, Old Olive and Garden Green for the ground and Poppy Parade for the flowers. I adhered the panel to the inside of the card with Stampin’ Seal.

The Stampin’ Up! Hills of Tuscany stamp set is fun to play with and it has nice sentiments. These stamps are fun to play with, creating different countryside scenes.

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
• Nel Thames

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Akiko

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Cardstock Cuts for this project:

• Real Red – 5-1/2″ x 8-1/2″ card base scored at 4-1/4″, 2″ x 3″ (die cut hearts)
• Basic White – 3-3/4″ x 5″ (inside panel), 3″ x4-1/4″ (die cut frame), 2″ x 3″ (die cut hearts)
• Most Adored specialty DSP – 3″ x4-1/4″ (front background and inside mat), 7/8″ x 3-7/8″ (hinge)

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Stampin’ Up! products used in this project:

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