Stampin’ Up! Decorative Trees for the Inkin’ Krew Blog Hop

Good Morning! Welcome to the November Inkin’ Krew Team Blog Hop! The theme for this month’s hop is “Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays” and I used the pretty Stampin’ Up! Decorative Trees bundle with the Snowy Scenes designer series paper to make a Z Fold Christmas card. You can find the supplies I used along with card stock cuts at the bottom of my post.

I scored and burnished a 5-1/2″ x 8-1/4″ Poppy Parade card base at 4-1/4″ and 7″ to make a Z fold card with a skinny front section. This 1-1/4″ front section is in the middle of the card, so I had to trim 1/4″ off the normal card length, but it’s nice and symmetric! I adhered the panels of Snowy Scenes designer series paper to the different sections of the card base.

I used the third largest octagon die from the Countryside Corners die to cut a Pool Party panel and the next smallest size to cut a Basic White panel. I embossed the Basic White panel with the Snowflake Sky 3D embossing folder and adhered it to the mat. I adhered the layered octagons to the skinny front panel with liquid glue.

I used the solid tree die from the Stampin’ Up! Decorative Trees dies to cut a Garden Green panel. I applied an adhesive sheet to the back of a Basic White panel and cut it with the snowflake overlay tree die. I pulled off the adhesive backing and adhered the snowflake overlay to the Garden Green tree. I applied adhesive sheets to the back of a Poppy Parade panel and cut the garland dies. I removed the adhesive sheet backing and adhered the garlands to the tree. I cut a Daffodil Delight star and adhered it to the top of the tree and popped the tree onto the octagons with dimensionals. I finished the tree with iridescent faceted gems.

I stamped part of the sentiment from the Stampin’ Up! Decorative Trees stamp set using Poppy Parade ink on a Pool Party panel. I cut it out with the small octagon from the Countryside Corners dies and adhered it to the skinny front panel.

For the inside of the card, I stamped the sentiment from the Stampin’ Up! Decorative Trees stamp set in Poppy Parade ink on a Basic White panel. I stamped the holly leaves and berries from the Snowy Wonder stamp set in Garden Green and Poppy Parade ink in the corner and adhered the panel to the inside of the card with Stampin’ Seal, butting it up next to the DSP trim

The Stampin’ Up! Decorative Trees bundle is one of my favorite Christmas tree bundles of all time! There are so many different looks with the overlays, and even with plain cardstock, the trees are beautiful! They’re also fun to make!!

On With The Hop! Click on the Next Blog button to move forward to Ann Louise’s project or click the Previous Blog button to move back to see the project that Christie created.

If you get lost along the way, here are the participants for the hop:

1. Tara Carpenter 
2. Mary Deatherage 
3. Christie King 
4. Akiko Sudano  <– you are here
5. Ann Louise Fodgaard 
6. Shirley Gentry 
7. Karen Ksenzakovic 
8. Sue Prather 
9. Karen Finkle 
10. Carol Buckalew 
11. Amy Koenders

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Akiko

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Cardstock Cuts for this project:

• Poppy Parade – 5-1/2-1/4″ x 8-1/4″ card base, scored at 4-1/4″ and 7″, 1″ x 2-1/2″ (garland die cuts)
• Pool Party – 2-3/4″ x 4-1/4″ (octagon mat), 1″ x 3″ (label)
• Garden Green – 2-1/2″ x 3-1/2″ (die cut tree)
• Daffodil Delight – 1″ x 1″ (die cut star)
• Basic White – 2-1/2″ x 5-1/4″ (inside panel), 2-1/4″ x 3-3/4″ (embossed octagon), 2-1/2″ x 3-1/2″ (die cut tree overlay)
• Snowy Scenes DSP – two 2-1/2″ x 5-1/4″ panels (front and back of middle section), 1-1/2″ x 5-1/4″ (inside trim), 1″ x 5-1/4″ (front section background)

Stampin’ Up! products used in this project: