Stampin” Up! Celebrate Spring for Amy’s Inkin’ Krew Blog Hop Group

We have a fun challenge today for our blog hop group… Celebrate Spring! What does that mean to you? For me it means early bulbs are popping through the remaining grass & leaves – we have sweet, sweet snowdrops coming up! What else does it mean – new birth? Baby Chicks? Baby rabbits? And searching through the woods for morel mushrooms – I did this with my Mom. They were oh so good. Spring is – it’s coming just around the corner.

Stampin' Up! Amy'sa Inkin' Krew Blog Hop

This Designer Series Paper, Cute As A Bug, is just so sweet – bugs & mushrooms and perfect for spring. I couldn’t resist working with it. So I trimmed it into these rectangles and it makes a nice scene. I used the coordinating stamp & die set (the Sweet Bugs Bundle) to die cut the flowers and the small mushroom group. just above the sentiment.

The card base is Soft Sea Foam and I layered another panel of the same color to the card front after embossing it with the Birchwood 3D embossing folder (OOPS! This item is retired!). The layers under the DSP are both Two-Tone: Soft Sea Foam & Old Olive. The ink used for the sentiment is Old Olive ink. The flowers & the mushroom were added with dimensionals. And the sweet ladybug is from the Ladybug Garden Epoxy Shapes.

The card base is 4 1/4 x 11 scored at 5 1/2.
The embossed layer is 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 added directly to the card front.
Cut the DSP 2 3/4 x 4, then trim to 1 3/4 x 1 1/2, leaving a strip 1 3/4 x 2 1/2; 1 x 2 1/2, leaving a strip 1 x 1 1/2.
Add these to a layer 3 x 4 1/4 as shown, keeping the images intact, and another 3 1/8 x 4 3/8. Put dimensionals on the back and add to card front
Add die cuts & sentiment – all from Cute As A Bug bundle

For the inside… I stamped the word ‘friend’ from the Sweet As A Bug stamp set, taping off the Hello and inking with Old Olive ink. Across the bottom are these adorable flowers, also stamped in Old Olive ink, repeatedly across. I used Daffodil Delight Marker to create the center color then used Wink of Stella to pull that color into the flower petals. This Basic White panel was added to the inside of the card and voila! Ready to send to someone to cheer them.

Want to make this card? Check the information below to order & to learn more. And now… on with the hop!