Good Morning and welcome to the Happy Inkin’ Thursday Blog Hop! I used the awesome Stampin’ Up! Decorative Trees bundle with the pretty Winter Meadow designer series paper to make a simple fun fold Christmas card in Pretty Peacock and gold. 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:
I embossed a panel of Winter Meadow designer series paper with the Snowflake Sky 3D embossing folder and adhered it to a flat pretty Peacock card base. I scored and burnished the the mini pretty peacock card base and adhered it on top with liquid glue.
I cut the plain tree from the Stampin’ Up! Decorative Trees dies from Lost Lagoon and Brushed Metallic specialty paperand adhered them together. The Brushed Metallic paper is shiny and thin, so it needs extra support with dimensionals. I applied an adhesive sheet to the back of a Textured Gold Foil panel and used the curved tree branch die to cut it out. I removed the adhesive sheet backing and adhered it to the tree. I adhered a Pretty Peacock and gold bow to the card with a glue dot and adhered the layered tree on top with dimensionals.
I stamped the sentiment from the Stampin’ Up! Decorative Trees stamp set in Versamark ink on a Basic White panel. I sprinkled it with gold embossing powder and shook off the excess. I heated the sentiment with my heat tool until it was bright and shiny and cut it out with the long label die from the Autumn Trees dies. I adhered the label to the mini card with glue dots and finished the card with gold adhesive snowflakes, including adhering a snowflake to the tree top.
For the inside of the mini card, I stamped the sentiment from the Stampin’ Up! Decorative Trees stamp set using Pretty Peacock ink ink on a Basic White panel. I trimmed the bottom with DSP and adhered the panel to the inside of the mini card with Stampin’ Seal.
The beautiful overlay dies in the Stampin’ Up! Decorative Trees bundle are gorgeous with foil or glimmer paper and I love a Christmas card with lots of sparkle and shine. I think the Brushed Metallic paper is technically the retired Soft Succulent color, but it looks fantastic with Pretty Peacock and Lost Lagoon. Now which overlay should I use on my next card?
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