Blog Hop Touches of Ink June 2021

 

Hello, friends! Welcome to the June Touches of Ink Blog Hop, hosted by Simone Kleine. Perhaps you have just come from Liane Gorny's blog.

This month, we are featuring the Expressions in Ink Suite. I think this is probably my favourite suite in our new Annual Catalogue. The Designer Series Paper (DSP) in this suite is absolutely stunning, and shows gorgeous alcohol ink photos, many accented with streaks of gold. In fact, it is so beautiful that a piece of it glued on a card base with a sentiment would make a lovely card! The Artistically Inked stamp set is Distinktive, which means that it creates different opacities in a single stamped image.

The base of my card is a 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" piece of Shaded Spruce cardstock, scored at 4-1/4". I adhered a 5-5/16" x 4-1/16" piece of Magenta Madness cardstock to the base, then added a 5-1/8" x 3-7/8" layer of DSP.

The rose images are stamped on Magenta Madness with Magenta Madness ink and then cut with our Artistic Dies; the leaves and small flowers are stamped on Basic White with Shaded Spruce and Magenta Madness, and then die cut, as well. I used two of the gold foil pieces from the Expressions in Ink Ephemera pack, then arranged the flowers, leaves, and foil pieces--popping up the large rose and two of the small flowers with Dimensionals.

The sentiment was stamped in Versamark, embossed with gold embossing powder, and then set with a heat tool. Three small Champagne Rhinestone Basic Jewels were added to the centres of the small flower.

Here is a photo of the Expressions in Ink Specialty DSP--it is even more beautiful when you see it in person!!

Be sure to check out all of the wonderful projects in the blog hop! Your next stop is Lu Fischer's blog: Stempeljagd. The rest of the blog hop list is below:

• Simone Kleine - derdiedasKleine bastelt

• Iris Philipps - Der Papierhimmel

• Melanie Fischer - MeeFischs Bastelecke

• Anne Ronsky - ASH Inky Spot (United Kingdom)

• Angela Köber - Stempelfamilie

• Stefanie Lange - Enserponystempelt

• Lisa Mattes - StempelMOMent

• Katja Martins - Stempelpfau

• Liane Gorny - Jungle Cards 

• Kim Kroeker - Stampin’ with Kim Arlene (Canada) You are here!

• Lu Fischer -  Stempeljagd

• Petra Wittig - Cum Gaudium

• Petra Masukowitz - PetMa Kreativ

• Daniela Klotzsch-Fiehn - Kreativierend

• Natalie Arnold - Crafty Hunnypots (United Kingdom)

• Gabi Appelt - Bastelbande

Thanks very much for visiting my blog! I'd love it if you would leave a comment below, if you have a moment.

❤️ Kim

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Product List

Artistically Inked Bundle (English) [155456]	Expressions In Ink Ephemera Pack [155465]	Expressions In Ink 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Specialty Designer Series Paper [155464]	Shaded Spruce 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [146981]	Magenta Madness 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [153080]
Versamark Pad [102283]	Shaded Spruce Classic Stampin' Pad [147088]	Magenta Madness Classic Stampin' Pad [153117]	Metallics Embossing Powders [155555]	Champagne Rhinestone Basic Jewels [151193]

Thank you very much for leaving a comment!!

Blog Hop Touches of Ink April 2021

Hello! I am so excited that I have been invited to participate in the Simone Klein's Touches of Ink Blog Hop, which is based in Germany!! This is the second month that this international blog has been active, and I feel privileged to be part of a group of such talented designers!! You have probably just come from Christiane Knapp's blog here: StempelPalast

Our blog this month features the Ice Cream Corner Suite. This is a fun one, and now that we in the Northern Hemisphere are finally getting some warmer weather, it's a perfect bundle to choose. As my grandson says, "Gramma, it's a great day for ice cream!!" 🍦😊

So, although my card doesn't really show any ice cream, I am using the Sweet Ice Cream stamp set, as well as our Ice Cream Corner Designer Series Paper (DSP). I love the colours in the paper I used! To start, I cut a 9" x 4-1/4" piece of Bermuda Bay cardstock, and scored it at 5-1/2". I cut two pieces of Pool Party cardstock (3-1/4" x 4" and 1-3/4" x 4"), and embossed them with our Tasteful Textile embossing folder. The smaller piece was adhered to the right hand side of the inside card, and the larger one to the left side of the card front, making sure that the borders around both pieces were even. I cut two pieces of DSP, one 3" x 3-3/4", and 1-1/2" x 3-3/4". These were centred over the Pool Party pieces, and glued with Seal.

The Basic White label was cut with the largest oval from our Stitched Shapes Dies (sadly, this is retiring!), and then stamped in Bermuda Bay with the sentiment from our Sweet Ice Cream stamp set. I stamped the small circles with Old Olive (stamped off--second generation stamping) and Pool Party (full strength). This was then glued to a Bermuda Bay scalloped oval cut with the largest Layering Ovals Dies (this set is also retiring 😢). I cut another piece of Bermuda Bay cardstock 5" x 1", and embossed it with our Tasteful Textile embossing folder. Then I cut the ends with our Lovely Labels Pick a Punch. I centred this on the card and glued it to only the left side of the card.

I added the sentiment label to the banner with Dimensionals (being careful to just have it on the banner). I used 17" of our Sheer Pool Party 3/8" Ribbon, and tied it vertically around the card and into a bow. To finish the outside of the card I added three Basic Rhinestone Jewels.

I cut a 3-1/4" x 4" Basic White piece for the inside of the card, and then stamped a few circles in Pool Party and stamped-off Old Olive in the top left and bottom right corners for the inside of the card.

Thank you so much for visiting my blog! I hope you'll take a moment to leave a comment. Then be sure to visit all the other hops on the blog to see some lovely creations!! 

Your next stop is Tanja Frühling's blog: Stempel Frühling

❤️ Kim

Simone Kleine - derdiedasKleine bastelt
Stefanie Lange - enserponystempelt.de

Natalie Arnold (UK) - CraftyHunnypots
Nina Unbehau - Ninas kreative Welt
Anne Ronsky (UK) - Ash Inky Spot

Lisa Mattes - StempelMOMent

Liane Gorny - Jungle Cards
Iris Philipps - Der Papierhimmel 

Katja Martins - Stempelpfau 

Anja Ehmann - Bastelanja   

Angela Köber - Stempelfamilie

Lu Fischer  - Stempeljagd

Melanie Fischer - Meefischs-Bastelecke 

Daniela Klotzsch-Fiehn - Kreativierend

Petra Wittig - Cum Gaudium

Christiane Knapp - StempelPalast

Kim Kroeker (CA) -  Stampin' with Kim Arlene 

Tanja Frühling - Stempel Frühling

Lori Willcox (CA) - Creative Stamping with Lori

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Product List

Sweet Ice Cream Photopolymer Stamp Set [154456]	Ice Cream Corner Designer Series Paper [154567]	Bermuda Bay 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [131197]	Basic White 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock [159276]	Tasteful Textile 3 D Embossing Folder [152718]
Bermuda Bay Classic Stampin' Pad [147096]	Old Olive Classic Stampin' Pad [147090]	Stampin' Dimensionals [104430]	Pool Party 3/8" (1 Cm) Sheer Ribbon [152462]	Rhinestone Basic Jewels [144220]

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