Stamping Inkspirations Blog Hop - Christmas in July

Hello and welcome to the July Stamping Inkspirations Blog Hop.

This month we have a colour challenge for our Christmas in July themed challenge. We had a choice of colour combinations and I settled on the one below as it suited the stamp set I have used.

A suite that will be coming out in the Mini Catalogue, that comes out later this year, is the Nests of Winter Suite Collection. I got to use this beautiful suite when I attended Creativity Now, a demonstrator only online event. I loved this fun event and the gorgeous suite. It felt like a class just for me. The delicate images and boughs are right up my alley. If you love it too then look out for it when it is released later in the year.

The card base is Basic Beige as is the embossed background layer. I used the Birchwood Embossing Folder and used some Crumb Cake ink on a Blending Brush to add some colour. I also roughed up the background layer, poking holes in it to mimic real wood. Also curling some edges of the background layer. It is a large embossing folder and you can have the grain go either way on your card stock, a great new system for using embossing folders.

The bird and boughs were stamped in Memento™ Tuxedo Black ink on Basic Beige card stock. Die cut with coordinating dies and coloured using Stampin' Blends as listed below post. I love that you can get a great depth of colour on Basic Beige

I arranged the boughs in a circle to look like a wreath. Then added the bird with some sprigs of greenery in Old Olive behind to complete the wreath.It makes quite a lovely wreath. I imagined this wreath when I decided to purchase the suite for Creativity Now. I finished the card off using a Linen Thread bow placed just below the bird. I resisted the urge to use a sentiment as it looked great without one.

Up next on this months blog hop is the wonderful Karen Henderson.

Please click on the button below to head to their blog post for more Christmas in July inspiration!

 

Angie McKenzie  ●  Aurélie Fabre

Jan Musselman   ●  Mo Rootes

   Leonie Stuart  ●  Karen Henderson  ●  Annette Ball

Judith Patterson  ●  Tricia Butts

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Product List

Linen Thread [104199] $8.75	Basic White A4 Cardstock [159228] $23.00	Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad [132708] $14.00	Basic Beige A4 Cardstock [164512] $20.25
Blending Brushes [153611] $27.00	Crumb Cake Classic Stampin' Pad [147116] $15.75	Crumb Cake Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [154882] $19.25	Peach Pie Stampin’ Blends Combo Pack [163827] $19.25
Old Olive Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [154892] $19.25	Poppy Parade Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [154958] $19.25	Stampin' Blends Color Lifter [144608] $9.75	Versamark Pad [102283] $16.75
Basics Embossing Powders [155554] $32.00	Heat Tool [129056] $56.00	Whisper White C6 Envelopes [106588] $13.00	Stampin' Dimensionals [104430] $7.50
Mini Glue Dots [103683] $12.75	Paper Snips [103579] $21.00	Stampin' Trimmer [129722] $50.00	Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machine [149653] $227.00
Cutting Plates [150815] $25.00