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Happy Thursday and welcome to the Happy Inkin’ Krew Thursday Blog Hop! Today, the challenge is a sketch challenge which is always helpful to me. It gives me a starting point.

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I started with a Barely Blush card base. On a Basic White mat I used the Stampin’ Hot Foil System with the Botanical Glow Hot Foil Die and Gold Stampin’ Hot Foil to create a background of gold leaves. I used liquid glue to adhere it to the card base.

While the Stampin’ Hot Foil System was hot, I foiled all three flowers from the Delightful Daisies Hot Foil Dies with gold foil on Barely Blush cardstock and the three different leaves on Peaceful Pine cardstock.

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I used my Stampin’ Cut & Emboss Machine to die cut all of the foiled flowers and leaves. I also cut out the second largest oval and the largest label die from Sweet Words & Labels Dies. I used Metallics Wow! Gold Embossing Powder to emboss the Happy Birthday sentiment from the Balloon Festoon stamp set.

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After arranging the flowers I used liquid glue to attach them to the oval and dimensionals to add the centers and the sentiment. I finished off the front of the card by adding three Gold Adhesive Backed Dots.

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For the inside of the card, I stamped and embossed the sentiment using Versamark and Metalics Wow! Gold Embossing Powder. I stamped the flower in the bottom, left corner with Barely Blush ink. I also stamped the flower on a Post-It note and die cut it so I could use it as a mask for the leaves which I stamped with Peaceful Pine ink. For the center of the flower is used Versamark and Metalics Wow! Gold Embossing Powder.

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For the front of the card, I used the Reverse Hot Foil Die and the left over Gold Stampin’ Hot Foil from smallest flower. I foiled it to a small piece of Basic White cardstock and adhered it to the Basic White Medium Envelope with liquid glue.

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I used Gold Stampin’ Hot Foil and the Botanical Glow Hot Foil Die for the flap of the envelope. Before adding the envelope to the sandwich, I put a sheet of wax paper under the flap so it didn’t glue shut when running it through the Stampin’ Cut & Emboss Machine.

Alright, on with the hop! Click on the Next Blog button to move forward to Amy’s project.

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

1. Amy Koenders
2. Mary Deatherage
3. Karen Ksenzakovic
4. Tara Carpenter
5. Terry Lynn Bright
6. Charlene Tackvic – That’s me! 😄

Card stock cuts for this project:

• Card Base:
  • 8 1/2″ x 5 1/2″ Barely Blush cardstock
• Mats:
  • 2 – 4 1/8″ x 5 3/8″ Barely Blush cardstock
• Die Cutting:
  • Barely Blush cardstock
  • Peaceful Pine cardstock
  • Basic White cardstock

Stampin’ Up! Products:

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