Stampin’ Up! Grassy Grove for the Happy Inkin’ Thursday Blog Hop

Good Morning and welcome to the Happy Inkin’ Thursday Blog Hop! The Stampin’ Up! Grassy Grove stamp set and Grove dies are a wonderful set for creating natural outdoors scenes and dioramas. I used it with the pretty new Thoughtful Journey 6″ x 6″ designer series paper to make a thank you card and it was pretty simple to do. You can find the supplies I used along with card stock cuts at the bottom of my post.

We have a theme challenge this week and the Stampin’ Up! Grassy Grove stamps set and Grove dies were perfect!

I adhered a panel of Thoughtful Journey to the front of a Pretty Peacock card base with liquid glue. I cut an old Olive panel with the large tree frame die from the Grove dies. I felt it was kind of plain, so I used a sponge dauber to add some ink. I used Mossy Meadow on the tree trunks and Pretty Peacock on the leafy canopy and ground cover. I finished with Wild Wheat around the edge of the frame.

I adhered the frame to the card front with dimensionals. I cut the doe and fawn from Pecan Pie card stock using the Grove dies and adhered them to the card with glue dots, tucking them under the frame ground cover.

I stamped the sentiment from the Stampin’ Up! Grassy Grove stamp set using Versamark ink on a Pretty Peacock panel. I sprinkled it with gold embossing powder and shook off the excess and heated it with my heat tool until it was bright and shiny. I cut it out with the label die from the Unbounded Love dies using a two step method, so it was a little shorter. I adhered it to the card with dimensionals and finished it with a small green Blooming Pearl.

I left the inside of the card blank, and simply trimmed the side of a Basic White panel with Thoughtful Journey DSP. I adhered the panel to the inside of the card with Stampin’ Seal.

The natural scenes in the Thoughtful Journey designer series paper go perfect with nature frame dies like the one in the Grove dies. And it saves time, because you don’t need to create a background scene for the frame. Just pop on some cute die cut deer!

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

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Cardstock Cuts for this project:

• Pretty Peacock – 5-1/2″ x 8-1/2″ card base, scored at 4-1/4″
• Old Olive – 3-3/4″ x 5″ (die cut tree frame)
• Pecan Pie – 1-1/2″ x 3″ (die cut deer)
• Basic White – 4″ x 5-1/4″ (inside panel)
• Thoughtful Journey 6″ x 6″ DSP – 4″ x 5-1/4″ (front background), 3/4″ x 4″ (inside trim)

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Stampin’ Up! products used in this project:

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