Welcome to Thursday & the fabulous Happy Inkin’ Krew Blog Hop. You may have come from the creative Tara Carpenter – or simply dropped in. However you arrived, I hope you enjoy the hop today. We have a sketch challenge this week.

I’ve used a fairly new item from the ONLINE EXCLUSIVES products called Encircled in Nature bundle – some wreath making can be done in a flash with the various dies. My interpretation for the sketch is perhaps different, a bit of a stretch. But I wanted to use these trees. I love trees & I’ve stamped & die cut these using Shaded Spruce – and I’ve used a new Annual Catalog paper called Country Woods 12×12 DSP. As you can see, very masculine-like. I cut it down to 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 and adhered it to a Basic White just slightly larger, then to a Basic Gray card Base. I stamped the trees, which are in a crescent shape in Shaded Spruce ink, then die cut the trees from Shaded Spruce card stock. I should have used foam adhesive on this piece of card stock but didn’t :O( I did add teeny tiny strips of dimensionals to the back, then attached it in place. The front sentiment comes from another new ONLINE EXCLUSIVE called Happy Things bundle, and was stamped with Basic Gray ink and die cut with Happy Things Dies. I die cut a triple set of trees, cut one off and added it to one end of the sentiment banner & the other two trees to the right end, added a dimensional to the right end and attached it. The final touch are three Basic Gray pearls from the new annual catalog (Basic Gray & Smoky Slate Pearls.)

For the inside of the card, I stamped the sentiment in Basic Gray ink, then stamped the leaves in stamped off Shaded Spruce ink – both on a Basic White panel.

For the envelope… a single stamped tree on the front in Shaded Spruce ink and more of the Country Woods 12×12 DSP on the flap (available to customers May 1)

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More about shopping with me can be found below the names of those participating in the hop today. Make sure to see all the fun creations.

Amy Koenders

Mary Deatherage

Jaimie Babarczy

Karen Finkle

Akiko Sudano

Karen Ksenzakovic

Tara Carpenter

Terry Lynn Bright – you are here :O)

Carol Buckalew

Nel Thames

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Thanks for stopping by. May you have a beautiful day!