Good Morning and welcome to the Happy Inkin’ Thursday Blog Hop! One of the new floral bundles in the upcoming 2025-2025 Annual Catalog is the Stampin’ Up! Layers Of Beauty bundle. This is a set of line image photopolymer stamps and dies and it also includes a set of masks that you can use to color the flowers! I used the large bouquet to make a CAS card using gold embossed outline flowers. You can find currently available supplies I used along with card stock cuts at the bottom of my post.
We have a pretty theme challenge this week and I had to make a sneak peek of an upcoming new stamp set that will be available on May 1, 2024:
I embossed a Basic White panel with the Cross Hatch 3D embossing folder and adhered it to a Basic White mat with liquid glue. I popped it on the front of a Thick Basic White card base with dimensionals.
I stamped the large bouquet from the Stampin’ Up! Layers Of Beauty stamp set using Versamark ink on a Basic White panel. I sprinkled it with gold embossing powder and shook off the excess. I heated the powder with my heat tool until it was bright and shiny. Be careful to heat all the powder because since it’s a large image, it’s easy to miss a spot. After it cooled, I cut it out with the coordinating die. I adhered the die cut flower bouquet to the card front with dimensionals.
I stamped the sentiment from the Stampin’ Up! Layers of Beauty stamp set using Versamark ink on a Basic White strip. I sprinkled it with gold 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 long skinny Stylish Shapes banner die using the two step method. I used gold trim to make a bow and adhered it with a glue dot and popped the label on top with dimensionals.
For the inside of the card, I stamped some floral images from the Stampin’ Up! Layers Of Beauty stamp set in Versamark ink in the corners of a Basic White panel. I sprinkled them with gold embossing powder and shook off the excess. I heated the powder with my heat tool until they were bright and shiny and adhered the panel to the inside of the card with Stampin’ Seal.
Gold embossing is so elegant and easy to do, especially with a large beautiful floral image like this one from the new Stampin’ Up! Layers Of Beauty bundle. Here is a picture of the stamp set and dies that I used for today’s card (I didn’t include the masks that are also included in the bundle):
The pretty line images in the Stampin’ Up! Layers Of Beauty bundle can be colored in so many ways and there is a die that will cut out the large flower by itself. I’m glad that it also has smaller stamped images and accessory dies. It will all be available with the new Stampin’ Up! 2024-2025 Annual Catalog opens on May 1, 2024.
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