Good Morning and welcome to the Happy Inkin’ Thursday Blog Hop! I used the pretty Stampin’ Up! Frosted Forest bundle to make a fall note card for our hop today. This was fun because the tree was colored with the masks and blending brushes and sponge daubers! 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 it’s perfect for the cool mornings we have had this week, although the leaves haven’t started turning yet.
I embossed a Crushed Curry panel with the Leaf Fall 3D embossing folder and adhered it to the front of a Crushed Curry card base with liquid glue. I used blending brushes with Balmy Blue and Garden Green ink to color a Basic White panel. I cut the panel out with the Deckled Rectangles dies and stamped the little bird from the Stampin’ Up! Frosted Forest stamp set in Pecan Pie ink in the sky. I adhered the panel to the front of the card.
I stamped the tree from the Stampin’ Up! Frosted Forest stamp set in Pecan Pie ink on Basic White. I used mask #1 to color the tree trunk and branches with Pecan Pie ink using a blending brush. I used a sponge dauber to apply a little Pebbled Path ink. I used mask #2 to color the top. I applied Crushed Curry ink to the tree with a sponge dauber. I added splotches of Garden Green ink with a blending brush and Pumpkin Pie ink with a sponge dauber. I replaced the mask with #3 and applied Copper Clay and more Garden Green ink.
I cut out the tree with the coordinating die and adhered it to the card with dimensionals. I stamped the sentiment from the Stampin’ Up! Frosted Forest stamp set using Pecan Pie ink on Basic White. I cut the sentiment out with the Autumn Leaves label die and adhered a golden leaf to the back. I adhered the label to the card with glue dots and finished with three Copper Clay dots.
For the inside of the card, I adhered a Basic White panel to the inside of the card with Stampin’ Seal. I used the Autumn Leaves die to cut leaves from Pumpkin Pie, Copper Clay, Crushed Curry and Pecan pie card stock. I adhered the leaves to the inside of the card.
I love the mottled look of the leaves on the tree, and it was fun to use blending brushed and sponge daubers! The masks are pretty easy to use with the numbering and the alignment notches. And isn’t that a great sentiment to brighten a day?
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