June Demonstrator Training Blog Hop ~ Busy with the Cricky

June Demonstrator Training Blog Hop

Hello Stampin' Friends. Today I am participating in Kyllie & Bruno Bertucci's Monthly Demonstrator Training Program Blog Hop. If you joined me through the hop, you are currently visiting Susan Edwards in Aiken, South Caroline, USA. Welcome.

I am sharing a card I made with the Stampin' Up! Elegantly Said Bundle. The bundle contains beautiful stamps and a fun shaped tag punch. There is also Designer Series Paper that coordinates with the set, but today I made my own patterned "paper" by using the stamp and ink on plain cardstock.

I began with a rectangle of white cardstock and using Pale Papaya ink along with the floral stamp in the set, I stamped my floral background. I then took a Stampin' Up! blending brush and bushed in additional Pale Papaya ink onto the white cardstock, creating the light papaya background. Next, I used Versa-mark embossing ink and stamped the beautiful lace swirl image from the Elegantly Said stamp set. I added Stampin' Up! white embossing powder and heat embossed the lace images.

I used the same floral stamp and stamped onto Pale Papaya cardstock, then punched out the tag. I stamped my Thanks sentiment onto the tag.

I stamped the flower again onto vellum and heat embossed the flowers in white. I attached this to the tag and layered this on top of ribbon and a vellum doily and vellum rectangle. Before assembling the card, I used the edge die from the Hand Penned die set and scalloped the edges of the cardstock.

I assembled the card using stampin' dimensionals to raise the top layer and finished it with gorgeous gems and a bow ribbon.