Welcome to InKing Royalty’s April Blog Hop! During this year’s blog hops, we are enjoying a year of celebrations. This month’s projects celebrate Springtime, so I hope you are ready for gorgeous Spring colors, flowers and butterflies – and maybe some sweet baby animals. We are excited to share our creations with you today! After you read my post, I hope you’ll hop over to the next person on the list at the base of this post.

I have to say that I am enthralled with the Peaceful Poppies Suite of products. It’s spring with blue skies and children’s laughter floating in the air around here. Blue is the color I attribute to spring. And I love using Designer Series Paper (DSP) because it adds so much depth to my projects. Here I combined the ‘pigment’ colored See A Silhouette Designer Series Paper for the poppies and used minimal stamping. Here is my creation for the Inking Royalty Blog Hop – Springtime Celebration. I have 2 different versions of this card for your enjoyment.

Night of Navy sentiment strip

Basic Black sentiment strip

MEASUREMENTS (Supplies and Links are at the end)

• Sahara Sand Cardstock: 4-1/4″ x 11″ scored at 5-1/2″
• Sahara Sand Cardstock: 3-3/4″ x 5″
• Thick Whisper White Cardstock: 4″ x 5-1/4″ for message panel inside card
• Thick Whisper White Cardstock: die-cut banner and poppy outines
• Pear Pizzazz Cardstock: die-cut leaves
• Night of Navy Cardstock: die-cut poppy centers and sentiment
• See a Silhouette DSP: die-cut solid poppy and large poppy’s center

PIECES AND PARTS (use any die-cutting and embossing machine)

Put on some nice music and begin…

STAMPING:

1. Stamp leaves with Night of Navy ink using Painted Poppies stamp set and die-cut using the Painted Labels dies. If you use the single leaves there is no fussy cutting and you can die-cut 2 leaves at a time using the 2 dies in the set.. Use the multi-leaf stem and you fussy cut. Your choice!
2. Stamp sentiment on Night of Navy or Black strip of cardstock (3-3/4″ x 3/8″) with Whisper White Craft Ink and heat emboss with White embossing powder. The ‘JUST A LITTLE NOTE TO SAY hello’ can be found in the A Little Lace stamp set.
3. Add white dots on the Sahara Sand card panel. There are 2 ways of accomplishing this step 
   • Use any stamp set with a cluster of dots and stamp with Whisper White Craft Ink Pad OR
   • Flick drops of Whisper White Ink Refill using an Aqua Painter

Added white dots with gel pen

Used 3 single leaves (NO FUSSY CUTTING!)

DIE-CUTTING:

1. Whisper White:
   1. Stitched Nested Label: 3rd largest
   2. Poppy Outlines using Peaceful Moments dies
2. Sahara Sand: (White ink should be dry)
   1. Die-cut 3 times per card panel with poppy stencil die. Use a triangle pattern. Cut entire stencil once near a corner then partial on 2 other sides 
3. Night of Navy:
   1. centers for poppies using Peaceful Moments dies. I added white gel pen dots to the center of the smaller poppy.
4. Designer Series Paper: Solid poppies (large and small) using Peaceful Moments die
   1. Small stamen for large poppy from Peaceful Moments dies
5. Pear Pizzazz:
   1. Single leaves using Painted Labels dies
      

      See A Silhouette Designer Series Paper (flipside)

      

      Layout of poppy stencil & white splatters

ASSEMBLY

1. Layer the poppies. You only need a very small amount of liquid glue on a couple of the outer edges and a bit in the middle. TIP: If you are having trouble controlling the glue, squeeze some onto a scrap of paper and use a sponge tip (eye shadow sponges work very well) to apply the liquid glue. BE CAREFUL where you put that glue laden scrap of paper!
2. Add Dimensionals behind the stitched banner, large poppy and on either end of the sentiment strip.
3. Put liquid glue on the ends of the foliage and use tweezers to tuck them behind the poppies.
4. Layer as shown or until it pleases you.

   

5. Grab a Whisper White envelope and add some decorative stamping or cut some coordinating DSP for the envelope flap.
6. Don’t forget to make an inside panel for your message. Cut a 4″ x 5-1/4″ Whisper White cardstock panel, add a poppy/leaf cluster, and adhere to the inside of the card. 

Optional: Those white dots are made with a white gel pen.

BLOG HOP LINE-UP

Thank you for stopping by the Spring Celebration Inking Royalty Blog Hop!  Now spring over to the next stop on the blog hop. There’s lots of inspiration to be found in this group – and you don’t want to miss the celebration for springtime. 

Thank you for hopping along with us. If you get stuck during the Blog Hop, please use this line-up as a guide:

1. Brian King at Stamp with Brian
2. Pam Morris at Tap Tap Stamp
3. Ann Murray at Murray Stamps Ink *You are HERE
4. Sue Jackson at Just Peachy Stamping
5. Sheryl Sharp at Sharp Notes by Sheryl
6. Julie DiMatteo at The Paper Pixie
7. Peggy Noe at Pretty Paper Cards
8. Robin Myren at Songbird Designs by Robin
9. Lynn Kolcun at Avery’s Owlery
10. Shawn de Oliveira at Shawn Stamps
11. Linda Krueger at The Stamp Coach
12. Joanne Brown at Stamping with JoJo
13. Sheryl Abernathy at Elegant Sentiments
14. Jackie Beers at Blue Line Stamping
15. Jennifer Spiller at Westside Paper Creations
16. Candy Ford at Stamp Candy

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SUPPLIES (Click on any product to SHOP ONLINE 24/7)

Peaceful Poppies Suite Bundle (English) – 153938

 

Painted Poppies Bundle – 153827

 

Painted Poppies Cling Stamp Set – 151599

 

A Little Lace Cling Stamp Set – 149364

 

Poppy Moments Dies – 151594

 

Painted Labels Dies – 151605

 

Sahara Sand 8-1/2″ X 11″ Cardstock – 121043

 

See A Silhouette Designer Series Paper – 149443

 

Whisper White 8-1/2″ X 11″ Thick Cardstock – 140272

 

Pear Pizzazz 8-1/2″ X 11″ Cardstock – 131201

 

Night Of Navy 8-1/2″ X 11″ Cardstock – 100867

 

Uninked Stampin’ Craft Pad & Whisper White Refill – 147277

 

Whisper White Craft Stampin’ Ink Refill – 101780

 

Night Of Navy Classic Stampin’ Pad – 147110

 

Stampin’ Dimensionals – 104430

 

Mini Stampin’ Dimensionals – 144108

 

Multipurpose Liquid Glue – 110755

 

Aqua Painters – 103954

 

Clear Block H – 118490

 

Clear Block E – 118484

 

Whisper White Medium Envelopes – 107301

 

Paper Trimmer – 152392

 

Bone Folder – 102300

 

Cutting Blades Multipack – 152391

 

Paper Snips – 103579

 

Heat Tool (Us And Canada) – 129053

 

Embossing Buddy – 103083

 

Supply List

Click “Supply List” for a clickable and printable list of the products!

 

OTHER TOOLS USED:

Precision Tweezers

Reverse Precision Tweezers

Uni-ball Signo white gel pen