Good Morning and welcome to the Happy Inkin’ Thursday Blog Hop! The Stampin’ Up! Simply Zinnia bundle is one of the Online Exclusives and it’s such a beautiful set. I’ve used it with the Flowering Zinnias designer series paper for a very colorful Mother’s Day card that is full of flowers. You can find the supplies I used along with card stock cuts at the bottom of my post.
We have a fun sketch challenge this week:
I adhered a panel of Flowering Zinnias designer series paper to the front of a Flirty Flamingo card base with liquid glue. I cut two banners from Petal Pink Glimmer paper using the Nested Essentials dies and adhered them to the card with glue dots.
I used the largest circle die from the Everyday Details dies to cut a Highland Heather panel. I stamped tree single flowers from the Stampin’ Up! Simply Zinnia stamp set using Memento Tuxedo Black ink on Basic White. I colored the flowers with Stampin’ Blends – using Petal Pink, Flirty Flamingo and Melon Mambo for the petals and Peach Pie and Lemon Lolly for the centers. I cut them out with the coordinating die and adhered the Petal Pink and Flirty Flamingo flowers to the die cut circle with glue dots and the Melon Mambo flower with dimensionals.
I stamped four leaf clusters from the Stampin’ Up! Simply Zinnia stamp set using Memento Tuxedo Black ink on Basic White and colored two with Lemon Lime Twist and two with Mossy Meadow Stampin’ Blends. I cut them out with the coordinating die and adhered them to the Highland Heather circle with glue dots, tucking them under the flowers. I stamped the sentiment from the Flower Cart stamp set using Melon Mambo ink on Petal Pink card stock and cut it out with the long label die from the Autumn Leaves dies. I adhered it to the circle with glue dots and dimensionals. I adhered the Highland Heather circle to the card with dimensionals and added bling with adhesive sequins.
For the inside of the card, I stamped the flower from the Stampin’ Up! Simply Zinnia stamp set in Melon Mambo ink on a Basic White panel. I stamped the sentiment from the Flower Cart stamp set in Mossy Meadow ink and trimmed the bottom with DSP. I adhered the panel to the inside of the card with Stampin’ Seal.
Those stamped flowers in the Stampin’ Up! Simply Zinnia bundle are just gorgeous colored with Stampin’ Blends. And Happy Mother’s Day – Do something special for yourself!
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
- Terry Lynn Bright
- Carol Buckalew