Welcome to the Happy Inkin’ Thursday Blog Hop.  Please be sure to visit everyone’s blog  to see the great projects they are sharing with you this week.  My project today features the Beautiful Autumn Stamp Set, the Wreath Builder Dies and some Plaid Tidings Designer Series Paper.  We are all working with a Theme Challenge this week – here’s my project:

Our theme is Leaves or Trees:

The Beautiful Autumn Bundle includes a stamp set with leaves, acorns and sentiments great for Fall.  They are two step stamps allowing you to stamp the outline of the image and then fill it with color.  And the bundle includes three small punches to crop two leaves and the acorn.  Check them out – lots of possibilities.

Adhere a panel of Plaid Tidings Designer Series Paper to a Crumb Cake mat before adhering the layer to the front of an Early Espresso card base with Multipurpose Liquid Glue.  Cut a wreath with a die from the Wreath Builder Dies set from Garden Green card stock.  Adhere the wreath to the card from with small dabs of Liquid Glue.

Stamp a number of outline images of leaves from the Beautiful Autumn stamp set using Early Espresso, Garden Green and Cajun Craze ink on Very Vanilla card stock.  Fill the leaves with Bumblebee, Mango Melody and Calypso Coral ink.  Use the coordinating punches from the Autumn Punch Pack to cut them out.  Use Mini Glue Dots to adhere the leaves to the card front over the wreath.

Use Early Espresso ink to stamp the sentiment from the Banner Year stamp set on a panel of Very Vanilla card stock.  Cut the sentiment out with a die from the Stitched Rectangles Dies set.  Adhere the sentiment to the card front with Stampin’ Dimensionals.  Add a bow tied from Early Espresso Faux Suede Trim using Mini Glue Dots to adhere.  Embellish with some Gold Metallic Pearls.

For the inside, use Early Espresso ink to stamp the sentiment from the Beautiful Autumn stamp set on a panel of Crumb Cake card stock.  Adhere a strip of Plaid Tidings DSP along the bottom edge of the panel and then adhere to the inside of the card base with Liquid Glue.  Add a leaf adhered with a Glue Dot to complete.

*** 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 the button below to hop over to see what Karen Finkle has created:

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

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