Stampin’ Up! Flower Cart for the Happy Inkin’ Thursday Blog Hop

Good Morning and welcome to the Happy Inkin’ Thursday Blog Hop! The Stampin’ Up! Flower Cart bundle is a sweet and fun stamp and die set and I used it to make a Mother’s Day card. I paired it with the Les Shoppes designer series paper to make a Book Z-Fold fun fold card! 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 Mother’s Day definitely fits in the Spring!

I after scoring and burnishing the Flirty Flamingo card base, I adhered the left side bookend closed with liquid glue. I adhered a strip of Les Shoppes designer series paper to the bookend and another strip to the right end of the inside panel. I adhered another strip to the inside of the Z-Fold and a panel to the Misty Moonlight front panel. I adhered the Misty Moonlight panel to the front of the Z-Fold flap with liquid glue, centering it widthwise and aligning the top and bottom with the Flirty Flamingo card base.

I made a stamped flower cart using the Stampin’ Up! Flower Cart bundle. I stamped the canopy in Misty Moonlight, the cart in Crumb Cake and the wheels in Pecan Pie. I stamped these on Basic White and cut them out with the coordinating dies. I cut three flower pots using the Let’s Go Shopping flower pot die and the Les Shoppes DSP. I trimmed the bottoms so it looks like the pots are in the cart and adhered them with glue dots. Then I adhered the canopy and wheels and post to the cart with glue dots and popped the cart on the card front with dimensionals.

I stamped the sentiment from the Stampin’ Up! Flower Cart stamp set in Misty Moonlight ink on Flirty Flamingo and cut it out with the long label die from the Autumn Leaves dies. I adhered it to the card with glue dots. I cut the lamp post from Basic Gray using the Let’s Go Shopping dies and adhered it to the card with glue dots.

I cut two of the flower cans using the die from the Stampin’ Up! Flower Cart stamp set from Smoky Slate and adhered them with a glue dot. I stamped the single pot leaves using Shaded Spruce and the flowers in Flirty Flamingo. I cut them out with the coordinating die and used my dark Granny Apple Green Stampin’ Blend to fill in the center. I popped the flowers on the card with dimensionals. I finished the card front by adhering loose daisy embellishments to the pots in the flower cart with glue dots.

For the inside of the card, I stamped the sentiment from the Stampin’ Up! Flower Cart stamp set in Misty Moonlight on a Basic White panel. I stamped the single pot leaves in Shaded Spruce and the Flowers in Flirty Flamingo. I covered it with a mask and stamped the pot in Crumb Cake. I used my Granny Apple Blender pen to color in the center of the bouquet before adhering the panel to the inside of the card.

This was such a fun card to make, but getting the lines and straight drove me crazy (they are straight aren’t they?). But the Stampin’ Up! Flower Cart bundle makes such pretty scenes! And I used the stamped flower cart, but there’s also flower cart that is just die cuts – I can’t wait to make that one.

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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Cardstock Cuts for this project:

• Flirty Flamingo – 4-1/4″ x 11″ card base, scored at 2-1/8″, 4-1/4″ and 5-1/5″, 1-1/2″ x 3″ (label)
• Misty Moonlight – 4″ x 4-1/4″ (Z-fold front panel)
• Basic Gray – 1/2″ x 2-1/2″ (lamp post)
• Smoky Slate – 1″ x 1-1/2″ (flower cans)
• Basic White – 3″ x 4″ (inside panel), 4″ x 4-1/4″ (stamped die cuts)
• Les Shoppes DSP – 3-3/4″ x 4″ (flower cart background), two 1″ x 4″ panels (side panels), 1-7/8″ x 4″ (inside Z-Fold middle section)

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Stampin’ Up! products used in this project:

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