Stampin’ Up! Painted Lavender for the Happy Inkin’ Thursday Blog Hop

Good Morning and welcome to the Happy Inkin’ Thursday Blog Hop! The beautiful Stampin’ Up! Painted Lavender bundle and Perennial Lavender designer series paper are some of the prettiest new products in the new Mini Catalog, especially if you are a purple lover! I used these products to make a fun fold card for today – a simple Z-fold with die cut extender panel. You can find the supplies I used along with card stock cuts at the bottom of my post.

We have a color challenge this week, and I used most of the colors, but not all!

I adhered panels of Perennial Lavender designer series paper to Gorgeous Grape mats and adhered them to panels of the card base. I used the same pattern for the front and inside and a contrasting pattern for the middle section. I used the second largest rectangle to cut a Gorgeous Grape panel. It only cut three sides, so I aligned the die with the scallops to cut the fourth side and ran it through the Stampin’ Cut & Emboss machine a second time and it made a nice square! I adhered a checked panel of Perennial Lavender DSP to the front and adhered it to front of the card by applying liquid glue to the left side.

I cut the double lavender sprig from the Stampin’ Up! Painted Lavender dies from Gorgeous Grape card stock and adhered it to the card front with glue dots. I cut three lavender leaf sprig dies from Lost Lagoon and adhered them to the card with glue dots. I stamped the lavender sprig bunch from the Stampin’ Up! Painted Lavender stamp set in Highland Heather ink on Basic White. I used the little flower stamp to stamp Gorgeous Grape ink over the Highland Heather sprigs and then cut it out with the lavender sprig bunch die.

I stamped the stems from the Stampin’ Up! Painted Lavender stamp set in Shaded Spruce ink on Basic White and cut them out with the coordinating die. I adhered the stems to the sprigs and popped them on the card front with dimensionals. I made a knot in a short length of burlap ribbon and adhered it with glue dots. I finished the card front with there purple shimmer gems.

For the inside of the card, I stamped the little butterfly from the Stampin’ Up! Painted Lavender stamp set in Highland Heather ink on Basic White. I adhered the panel to the inside of the card with Stampin’ Seal, lining it up so that it would be covered by the die cut when the card is closed.

I love the Stampin’ Up! Painted Lavender bundle more and more as I play with it. The flowers are pretty when stamped in a single color, but there are so many ways to get multiple colors and it’s so fun to experiment.

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

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Cardstock Cuts for this project:

Highland Heather – 4-1/4″ x 11″ card base, scored at 2-3/4″ and 5-1/2″
Gorgeous Grape 4″ x 5-1/4″ (inside DSP mat), two 2-1/2″ x 4″ panels (front and side panel DSP mats), 3-1/2″ x 3-1/2″ (postage stamp die cut), 1″ x 4-1/4″ (lavender die cuts)
Lost Lagoon – 3-3/4″ x 4″ (lavender leaves die cuts)
Basic White – 3″ x 3″ (inside panel), 2-1/2″ x 3-1/2″ (die cut lavender and stems)
Perennial Lavender DSP – 3″ x3″ (front background), two 2-3/8″ x 3-7/8″ panels (front and side panel DSP), 3-7/8″ x 5-1/8″ (inside DSP background)