Stampin’ Up! Trusty Tools for the Happy Inkin’ Thursday Blog Hop

Good Morning and welcome to the Happy Inkin’ Thursday Blog Hop! Mother’s Day is just around the corner, but it’s not too early to start thinking about Father’s Day. So I pulled out the Stampin’ Up! Trusty Tools stamp set and dies to make a Father’s Day card. 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 embossed a panel of Boho Blue with the Timber 3D embossing folder and adhered it to a Copper Clay mat with liquid glue. I adhered the layered panel to the front of a Night of Navy card base with dimensionals. This one’s a little different because it’s a landscape card with a side fold rather than on the top!

I used the peg board die from the Stampin’ Up! Trusty Tools dies to cut a Copper Clay panel and adhered it to a Smoky Slate mat using tiny dots of liquid glue. I adhered it to the card front with liquid glue. I stamped the hammer, wrench and paintbrush using Memento Tuxedo Black ink on Basic White. I stamped the paint on the bottom of the brush in Real Red ink.

I colored the tools with light Mossy Meadow, light Smoky Slate and light Crumb Cake Stampin’ Blends. I cut the tools out with the coordinating dies from the Stampin’ Up! Trusty Tools dies and adhered them to the card with dimensionals. I stamped the sentiment using Mossy Meadow ink on Smoky Slate and adhered it to the card with glue dots and dimensionals.

For the inside of the card, I stamped the sentiments from the Stampin’ Up! Trusty Tools stamp set in Mossy Meadow and Copper Clay inks on a Basic White panel. I stamped the screws and bolts using Smoky Slate ink and adhered the panel to the inside of the card with Stampin’ Seal.

I’m so glad the Stampin’ Up! Trusty Tools stamp set and dies carried over to the new Annual Catalog. They’re perfect for making masculine cards and I love how you can make the tools with both stamped and die cut images. And the sentiments are great too!

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:

• Night of Navy – 4-1/4″ x 11″ card base, scored at 5-1/2″
• Copper Clay – 4″ x 5-1/4″ (front mat), 2-1/4″ x 3″ (die cut peg board)
• Boho Blue – 3-7/8″ x 5-1/8″ (embossed background)
• Smoky Slate – 2-3/8″ x 3-1/8″ ( peg board mat), 1/2″ x 3″ (label)
• Basic White – 4″ x 5-1/4″ (inside panel), 3-1/2″ x 4″ (die cut tools)

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Stampin’ Up! products used in this project:

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