Stampin’ Up! Gathering Moments Many Thanks for the Happy Inkin’ Thursday Blog Hop

Good Morning and welcome to the Happy Inkin’ Thursday Blog Hop! Fall is here and I used the beautiful Stampin’ Up! Gathering Moments bundle along with the Gather Together specialty designer series paper to make a Thanksgiving 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:

Adhere a strip of Basic Beige Gather Together specialty designer series paper to the dark side of a two-tone Early Espresso mat and adhere it to a Cajun Craze panel of the DSP. Adhere it to another dark Early Espresso mat before adhering it to the front of a Cajun Craze card base. The two-tone card stock is a little thinner than regular card stock so you get the pretty effects of the layered card front without extra bulk, making it great for mailing.

Stamp the leaf and berry clusters from the Stampin’ Up! Gathering Moments stamp set using Early Espresso, Cajun Craze and Basic Beige inks and cut them out with the coordinating dies. I stamped and cut two of each. I also used the Early Espresso watercolor pencil to draw the veins on the Basic Beige leaves to get more contrast. Adhere the leaves and berries together with liquid glue making little clusters and use glue dots to adhere the clusters to the card.

Stamp the sentiment from the Stampin’ Up! Gathering Moments stamp set on Basic Beige using Early Espresso ink and cut it out with the pretty Traditional Labels die. Adhere the label to the card with dimensionals and finish with a loopy Early Espresso linen thread bow and Cajun Craze dots.

For the inside, I kept it simple by adhering a strip of DSP to the side of a Basic White panel and adhered it to an Early Espresso two-tone mat before adhering it to the inside of the card.

The Stampin’ Up! Gathering Moments bundle is a wonderful leaf set that is great for making Fall cards. And of course I love the Gather Together specialty DSP!

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

If you get lost along the way, here are the participants for the hop:

• Amy Koenders
• Mary Deatherage
• Karen Ksenzakovic
• Akiko Sudano <– You Are Here
• Tara Carpenter
• Terry Lynn Bright
• Nicole Bloxom

Thanks for stopping by and Happy Stamping!

Akiko

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Cardstock Cuts for this project:

• Cajun Craze – 5-1/2″ x 8-1/2″ card base, scored at 4-1/4″
• Early Espresso two-tone – two 5-1/8″ x 3-7/8″ (front background and inside mats), 1-5/8″ x 5 (DSP stripe mat)
• Basic Beige – 2″ x 3″ (label)
• Basic White – 3-3/4″ x 5″ (inside panel), 4-1/4″ x 5-1/2″ (die cut leaves)
• Gather Together specialty DSP – 3-3/4″ x 5″ (front background), 1″ x 3-3/4″ (inside trim), 1-1/2″ x 5″ (front stripe)

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Stampin’ Up! products used in this project: