Stampin' Up! Blossoming Basket Happy Inkin' Thursday Blog Hop

Hi Stampers, Today we had a sketch challenge so I decided to ink up the Blossoming Basket stamp set. I earned this set for FREE during Sale-A-Bration. I not only recieved the beautiful stamp set but the gorgeous basket weave embossing folder was included. Wow! what fun it was stamping and coloring with this beautiful set and all for FREE.

Here is the sketch:

Stampin’ Up! Blossoming Basket:

Here is the card recipe:

Card base: Crumb Cake 4-1/4 x 11, scored at 5-1/2

Mat: Melon Mambo 4 x 5-1/4

Embossed mat: Whisper White 3-7/8 x 5-1/8, embossed with the Basket Weave Dynamic Embossing Folder

Small mat: Crumb cake 3-1/2 x 3-1/4

Art Piece: Whisper White 3-3/8 x 3-1/8

adhere your embossed mat to the melon mambo mat
adhere your stacked mats to the crumb cake card front

Here are the details:

The art piece:

stamp your basket image with tuxedo black ink onto the whisper white art piece
stamp two butterflies the tag and an extra large flower into a piece of whisper white scrap paper
Color and shade the small roses with your daffodil delight water color pencil and blend with your blender pen.
Add a touch of melon mambo to the yellow flowers using the water color pencil for a touch of color
Fill in the large rose with the melon mambo water color pencil and smooth our the lines with your blender pen
Color in the leaves with your old olive stampin blends
Color and shade the extra stamped large rose with melon mambo water color pencil and blend with your blender pen and fussy cut the rose
put four loops of lined thread on top of the stamped rose image, two on the top and two on the bottom, adhere them with glue dots
attach your extra fussy cut rose on top of the stamped rose and the ends of the loops of linen thread with a dimensional

More details:

wrap some 1/4 inch organza white ribbon from the edge of the basket to the back of the crumb cake matted art piece
fussy cut your butterflies and attach one of the left of the basket to cover up the cut edge of the ribbon
attach the other butterfly onto the handle of the basket
fussy cut your tiny tag and attach it to the front of the basket, this also hides the cut ribbon on the right side of the basket
make a small bow and attach it just above the tiny tag with a glue dot
color some pearls with your daffodil delight stampin blends and add the yellow pearls here and there on the card
adhere your art piece to the front of the card with dimensional

The inside:

Here is our team:

Alright, on with the hop! Click the button below to hop over to see what the rest of the team created for you today:

And just in case you get lost along the way, here is a list of the team members involved in the hop today:

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