Good Morning and welcome to the Happy Inkin’ Thursday Blog Hop! I used the sweet Stampin’ Up! Sweetest Star bundle with the pretty Take A Bow 6″ x 6″ designer series paper to make a Christmas card. 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 and I took liberty by replacing the large square with a star:
I adhered a panel of Take A Bow 6″ x 6″ designer series paper to a the front of a Real Red card base with liquid glue. I adhered another panel to a Garden Green mat and wrapped it with red and white baker’s twine, making a bow on one side. I popped the panel on the card front with dimensionals.
I stamped Mrs. Santa Clause from the Stampin’ Up! Sweetest Star bundle using Memento Tuxedo Black ink on Basic White and colored her with Stampin’ Blends. I used light Pecan Pie, light Petal Pink, Real Red and dark Granny Apple Green. I punched her out with the Stampin’ Up! Sweetest Star punch. I stamped the sentiment using Memento Tuxedo Black ink on Basic White and cut it out with a square from the Stylish Shapes dies. I popped the star and sentiment on the card with dimensionals.
I stamped three gingerbread men from the More Than Autumn bundle using Versamark ink on Pecan Pie card stock. I sprinkled them with white embossing powder and shook off the excess. I heated them with my heat tool until they was bright and shiny and cut them out with the coordinating die. I adhered two gingerbread men to the card front with glue dots and finished with peppermints.
For the inside of the card, I stamped the sentiment from the Stampin’ Up! Sweetest Star stamp set using Real Red ink on a Basic White panel. I adhered the last gingerbread man next to the sentiment and trimmed the bottom with DSP. I adhered the panel to the inside of the card with Stampin’ Seal.
I love the Stampin’ Up! Sweetest Star bundle with it’s sweet images and fun sentiments! And I love the pudgy star punch – I think it’s perfect for punching stars for Holiday decorations. And I love how perfect the little gingerbread men from the More than Autumn bundle are for Mrs. Santa Clause with her pretty apron. I can smell the cookies baking already!
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