Stampin’ Up! Grow With Love for the Happy Inkin’ Thursday Blog Hop

Good Morning and welcome to the Happy Inkin’ Thursday Blog Hop! The Stampin’ Up! Grow with Love bundle is a fun herb and seed themed set with beautiful stamped images and fun seed envelope dies. But I just used the beautiful herb stamps and pretty sentiment 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 and I took some liberties by resizing the sketch and mounting it on a DSP background:

I adhered a panel of Timeless Plaid 6″ x 6″ designer series paper to the front of a Lost Lagoon card base with liquid glue.

I stamped the herbs from the Stampin’ Up! Grow With Love stamp set on Basic Beige. Before the final stamping, I practiced several times on printer paper to arrange the herbs and select the right color combinations until I came up with the right mix of colors and herb placement. For my final run, I stamped the mint in Grammy Apple Green in the middle of the panel. Next, I inked up the basil using Garden Green ink and applied Blackberry Bliss to the buds with sponge daubers before stamping it next to the mint. Then I stamped the rosemary using Shaded Spruce ink and finished with thyme in Lost lagoon on either side. I filled in the bottom and sides with the top of the mint stamp in full strength and stamped off Granny Apple Green. I adhered the stamped panel to a Shaded Spruce mat and adhered it to the card with liquid glue.

I stamped the sentiment from the Stampin’ Up! Grow With Love stamp set using Shaded Spruce ink on Lost Lagoon and cut it out with the small label die. I used Garden Green linen thread to make a bow and adhered it to the back with a glue dot before adhering the label to the card with dimensionals. I finished with the cute mini bee trinkets adhered with glue dots.

For the inside of the card, I kept it simple, trimming the side of a Basic White panel with DSP and adhering the panel to the inside of the card with Stampin’ Seal.

The herb stamps in the Stampin’ Up! Grow with Love stamp set are so detailed and realistic, and they look beautiful no matter what color you use. I had fun playing with all the different shades of green as I was working on my arrangement.

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
• Karen Finkle
• Akiko Sudano <– You Are Here
• Karen Ksenzakovic
• Tara Carpenter
• Terry Lynn Bright

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Thanks for stopping by and Happy Stamping!

Akiko

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Cardstock Cuts for this project:

• Lost Lagoon – 4-1/4″ x 11″ card base, scored at 5-1/2″1-1/4″ x 3″ (label)
• Shaded Spruce – 3-1/8″ x 5-1/2″ (herb mat)
• Basic Beige – 3″ x 5-1/2″ (herb panel)
• Basic White – 4″ x 5-1/4″ (inside panel)
• Timeless Plaid 6″ x 6″ DSP – 4-1/4″ x 5-1/2 (front background), 1″ x 4″ (inside trim)

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Stampin’ Up! products used in this project: