Judith Patterson

Saturday, July 13, 2024

Stampin' Up! Greetings of the Season ~ Stamping Inkspirations Blog Hop

Hello and welcome to my blog! I’m so happy to be joining the Stamping Inspirations Blog Hop today. I love being a part of these fun Blog Hops with other stampers sharing what we love and create! Links to all the other blog posts for this hop are near the end of this post - be sure to check them out! Hopefully you will be as inspired as I always am seeing what everyone else creates for this month’s challenge.

This month we had 3 photos to choose from for our color inspiration! WOW! They were all great with beautiful color combinations. So, the first bit of the challenge was deciding which color combination to create with! After thinking it about it for a bit, I decided to go with the photo and colors shown below.

These colors, from left to right, are Granny Apple Green, Garden Green, Real Red, Crumb Cake and Pecan Pie. I was excited at how effortless it was to include all of these colors in my card.

For the sentiments, which I used as the focal piece of my card, I used the new Greetings of the Season Bundle, which includes this great sentiment stamp set and tags and banners perfectly sized for the sentiments. The Iconic Imagery bundle (& coordinating Designer Series Paper) were used for the background and stamped tree image.

The tree is a two-step stamp. I used Granny Apple Green to stamp the first layer, then Garden Green for the second layer. After stamping, the coordinating punch was used to cut the trees out.

For my touch of Crumb Cake, I tied a bit of Crumb Cake Baker’s Twine to the ribbon at the top of the tag.

Both bundles, Greetings of the Season and Iconic Imagery are Online Exclusives. This means you won’t find them in any catalog, but can find them in the online store.

Thank you for visiting my blog today! Be sure to hop along to the other posts by clicking the ‘Next Blog’ box at the end of each post. (You can also click one of the names listed.)

Happy Stamping!

Angie McKenzie ● Aurélie Fabre

Jan Musselman ● Mo Rootes

Leonie Stuart ● Karen Henderson ● Annette Ball

Judith Patterson ● Tricia Butts

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Saturday, June 8, 2024

Stampin' Up! Hot Air Balloon ~ Stamping Inkspirations Blog Hop

Hello and welcome to my blog! I'm so happy to be joining the Stamping Inspirations Blog Hop today. I love being a part of these fun Blog Hops with other stampers sharing what we love and create! Links to all the other blog posts for this hop are near the end of this post - be sure to check them out! Hopefully you will be as inspired as I always am seeing what everyone else creates for this month's challenge.

This month our challenge was to create a card using the Tic-Tac-Toe board below. I chose the diagonal from top left to bottom right - Texture, Fun and Yellow.

For this card, I started with Texture, knowing I wanted something different than an embossing folder this time. I created a mask with the cloud dies from Hot Air Balloon Dies and cheap cardstock. Using a Blending Brush, I added a little bit of Balmy Blue ink to my White Cardstock. Then, I used Shimmery White Embossing Paste and my mask to make clouds all over my background.

I love that you can stamp your sentiment on this banner from Hot Air Balloon Dies then place it perfectly on your die cut balloon. The Yellow Hot Air Balloon wasn't stamped, just die cut with Lemon Lolly and Daffodil Delight Cardstocks.

For the inside of the card I stamped another big balloon with a sentiment inside. I wasn't finished having Fun with my card yet, so I added a few more die cut clouds. It's hard to see in the photo, but the clouds have a little added sparkle with the help of Wink of Stella.