Stampin’ Up! Gathering Moments for the Happy Inkin’ Thursday Blog Hop

Good Morning and welcome to the Happy Inkin’ Thursday Blog Hop! The Stampin’ Up! Gathering Moments bundle is a new Online Exclusives bundle with pretty Fall leaves and sentiments. I’ve mixed the new with the old by using it with the pretty Thoughtful Journey 6″ x 6″ designer series paper for a ‘Gather’ card that would be great for Thanksgiving. 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 colors in the Thoughtful Journey 6″ x 6″ DSP are great for Fall:

Adhere a panel of Thoughtful Journey 6″ x 6″ designer series paper to a Mossy Meadow mat with liquid glue. Cut the large oak leaf from the Stampin’ Up! Gathering Moments die from a mottled yellow panel (I think this is actually the retired Wild Wheat colored panel, but it looks good with the current yellows too). Just use the outline die. Here’s the fun part (be brave) – crumple the die cut leaf in a ball. This gives it dimensional texture to add to the DSP color texture. Use a sponge dauber to distress the outside of the leaf with Pecan Pie ink.

Adhere the crumpled leaf to the DSP panel with liquid glue. Wrap Old Olive linen thread around the panel three times and make a loopy bow. Adhere the panel to the front of a Pretty Peacock card base with dimensionals.

Stamp the sentiment from the Stampin’ Up! Gathering Moments stamp set on a mottled panel of Thoughtful Journey 6″ x 6″ DSP using Versamark ink. Sprinkle with white embossing powder and heat set. Punch it out with the Labeled with Love punch and punch out a backing from Mossy Meadow. Adhere the label to the backing with liquid glue and pop it on the card with dimensionals. Finish with Daffodil Delight dots.

For the inside, stamp the large leaf from the Stampin’ Up! Gathering Moments stamp set in the corner of the last Basic White panel using Crushed Curry ink. Trim the bottom with DSP and adhere the panel to the inside of the card with Stampin’ Seal.

The large leaves from the Stampin’ Up! Gathering Moments bundle are really impressive and fun to use. The crumpled, mottled die cut leaf reminds me of dried up leaves that have fallen and are ready to be raked up. I can hear the leaves crunch already!

On with the Hop! Click on the Next Blog button to move forward to see the beautiful project Tara Carpenter has created.

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

• Amy Koenders
• Mary Deatherage
• Karen Ksenzakovic
• Akiko Sudano <– You Are Here
• Tara Carpenter
• Terry Lynn Bright
• Nicole Bloxom

Thanks for stopping by and Happy Stamping!

Akiko

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Cardstock Cuts for this project:

• Pretty Peacock – 4-1/4″ x 11″ card base, scored at 5-1/2″
• Mossy Meadow – 3-3/4″ x 4-3/4″ (DSP mat), 1-3/4″ x 3″ (label backing)
• Basic White – 4″ x 5-1/4″ (inside panel)
• Thoughtful Journey 6″ x 6″ DSP – 3-1/2″ x 4-1/2″ (front background), 4″ x 5″ (die cut leaf), 1-3/4″ x 3″ (label), 1/2″ x 4″ (inside trim)

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Stampin’ Up! products used in this project: