Stampin’ Up! Softly Sophisticated for the Happy Inkin’ Thursday Blog Hop

Good Morning and welcome to the Happy Inkin’ Thursday Blog Hop! The Sale-A-Bration Stampin’ Up! Softly Sophisticated bundle is a wonderful bundle that you can get for free with a $100 order. It consists of a pretty floral stamp set and 3D embossing folder and I used it with the Sale-A-Bration Softly Stippled designer series paper for today’s card. You can find the supplies I used along with card stock cuts at the bottom of my post.

We have a pretty sketch challenge this week:

I embossed a panel of Calypso Coral Softly Stippled designer series paper with the pretty Stampin’ Up! Softly Sophisticated 3D embossing folder and adhered it to the left side of a floral panel of DSP. I adhered the layered DSP to a Calypso Coral mat and popped the panel on the front of a Pebbled Path card base.

I stamped the sentiment from the Stampin’ Up! Softly Sophisticated stamp set in Pebbled Path ink on a Basic White panel. I stamped the leaves in Shaded Spruce and the flowers in Calypso Coral. I cut the panel using the second largest rectangle Thoughtful Expressions dies. I separated a strand of Pebbled Path jute and tied it around the panel and made a bow. I popped the panel on the card with dimensionals.

I stamped another set of flowers from the Stampin’ Up! Softly Sophisticated stamp set in Calypso Coral ink and fussy cut the flowers. I adhered the flowers with dimensionals and finished with iridescent gems.

For the inside of the card, I stamped the leaves from the Stampin’ Up! Softly Sophisticated stamp set in Shaded Spruce ink on Basic White. I stamped the flowers in Calypso Coral and trimmed the bottom with a strip of DSP. I adhered the panel to the inside of the card with Stampin’ Seal.

The Stampin’ Up! Softly Sophisticated bundle and the Softly Stippled designer series paper are both Sale-A-Bration items that you can get for free with your qualifying order. But hurry, because there are only two weeks left. Sale-A-Bration ends on February 29.

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
• Nel Thames

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Thanks for stopping by and Happy Stamping!

Akiko

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Cardstock Cuts for this project:

• Pebbled Path – 5-1/2″ x 8-1/2″ card base, scored at 4-3/4″
• Calypso Coral – 3-7/8″ x 5-1/8″ (front mat)
• Basic White – 4″ x 5-1/4″ (inside panel), 2-1/2″ x 4″ (die cut panel), 1″ x 2″ (fussy cut flowers)
• Softly Stippled DSP – 3-3/4″ x5″ (front background), 2-1/2″ x 3-3/4″ (embossed panel), 1/2″ x 5-1/4″ (inside trim)

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Stampin’ Up! products used in this project:

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