Welcome to Amy’s Inkin’ Krew Team Blog Hop!  This month our theme is a “Masculine” card.  My card celebrates Father’s Day and features two stamp sets – Rooted in Nature and Itty Bitty Greetings.  We have a great group of participants in our hop this month.  Please take time to stop by to visit each blog to see what the Team members are sharing with you today.

For the art piece, use a sponge dauber to ink the large oak tree stamp with Granny Apple Green ink.  Then use another sponge dauber to add a bit of Garden Green ink for added depth and dimension.  Use the brush tip of a Soft Suede Stampin’ Write marker to color the tree trunk and trace over the branches.

Then use your breath to moisten all the inked areas and stamp on a panel of Very Vanilla card stock.  Cut the image out with a Rectangle Stitched Framelits Die and use Liquid Glue to adhere to a Soft Suede card stock mat cut with a die the next size up.  Wrap the art piece with a length of Nature’s Twine in Crumb Cake, tie a knot and fray the ends.

For the decorative panel (hand stamped DSP) use Garden Green ink and a leaf stamp from the Rooted in Nature Stamp set to randomly add leaves on a panel of Crumb Cake card stock.  Follow by adding additional leaves inking with Granny Apple Green ink and stamping off once each time.  Use Liquid Glue to adhere the stamped panel to a mat of Soft Suede card stock, which is then adhered to the Very Vanilla Thick card base with Glue, as well.

Stamp the sentiment from the Itty Bitty Greetings stamp set on a panel of Very Vanilla card stock and punch out with the Classic Label Punch.  Use Stampin’ Dimensionals to adhere the art piece to the card front.  Then adhere the sentiment label with Liquid Glue and add the copper accent Leaves Trinket using a Glue Dot to secure in place.

Inside the card, stamp a couple leaves in Garden Green ink and one in Granny Apple Green ink, all images are stamped off first.

*** You can find a complete list of supplies for this project, including card stock cuts, at the very bottom of this post.

Alright, on with the hop!  Click on the Next Blog button to move forward to Connie Troyer’s project or click the Previous Blog button to move back to see the project that Shirley Gentry created.

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

1. Karen Ksenzakovic
2. Terry Lynn Bright
3. Jaimie Babarczy
4. Mary Deatherage
5. Karen Finkle
6. Akiko Sudano
7. Shirley Gentry
8. Sue Prather – You are here!
9. Connie Troyer
10. Amy Koenders

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Coming soon!  The 2019-20 Annual Catalog

I know that you’re all excited to get the new Stampin’ Up! 2019-20 Annual Catalog in your hands, so I thought that I’d share a few details:

• If you are a current customer of mine (have ordered from me within the last 12 months), I will be ordering a copy of the catalog for you and getting it to you as quickly as I can once they arrive.  I should have them mid-May and have planned an event on May 19th for local customers to stop by, see new products and pick up your catalog.
• If you do not live locally, I plan to mail the catalogs out via Priority Mail.
• Ordering opens for the Annual Catalog at 12:00 noon MT on Tuesday, June 4.
• If you are not a current customer of mine but would like a copy of the Annual Catalog, simply place an order through my online store before June 4 and you’ll automatically be added to my mailing list.
• Demonstrators can preorder from the Annual Catalog beginning on May 2!  So join my team now, get the your hands on those new catalog items a month early!
• I am also offering Product Shares – click HERE to learn more about them.

Stampin’ Up! products ordering info to create this project: