Tamara's Paper Trail: Quick and Easy Fragrant Forest

Monday, December 18, 2023

Quick and Easy Fragrant Forest - Kylie's Trip Acheivers Blog Hop

Happy Blog Hop Day!

Each month my fiends from around the globe and I bring you project made with Stampin' Up! products. The goal is to inspire and delight you and maybe to show you a new tip/trick or showcase a certain product in a different light. I hope my project this month does that for you!

This month I chose to do a card with the Fragrant Forest stamp set. Check it out!

I just LOVE it! SO quick, easy and striking! I resisted buying this stamp until about a month ago. I thought it was too much of a "one trick pony". How much could you really DO with it? ... but I kept seeing really quick, easy, LOVELY cards made with it and I realized "I don't care if it IS a one trick pony - I like that trick!" lol ... and "add to cart" it went!

How perfect is this card for MANY occasions? Masculine cards, birthday, thinking of you, thank you, just because, SYMPATHY ... it just WORKS!

This card is best made with out now retired Stamp-a-ratus, just because it's one big stamp but you certainly can get great results by flipping the stamp over and applying the ink to the stamp, not the stamp to the ink. That way you can make sure you've got ink all over the stamp. One thing I like to do with these large stamps, is to take a sponge or sponge roller and roll/pounce over the inked stamp to ensure you don't have any lines on it from the ink pad. It gives you a better stamped image. If you would like to add different colours of green to the image you can do that too, either with our finger daubers or a sponge. Just add bits of different greens here and there. ANOTHER way to get different greens is to use a finger dauber or sponge to REMOVE some of your ink from the inked stamp. That will give you areas of lighter colour where you have removed some of the inks.

You can see I did one card in Basic White and one on Very Vanilla. I think I like the white one better. It really pops! Here are the dimensions of the layers I used:

- Basic White or Very Vanilla Card Stock Base - 8 1/2" x 11"

- Pecan Pie Card Stock Layer - 3 1/2" x 4 3/4"

- Basic White or Very Vanilla Card Stock Top Layer - 3 1/2" x 4 3/4" ... and then, once you have stamped the image, cut it down by "2 ticks" off the top edge and "2 ticks" off the side edge (1/8" in grown up math). The reason I do this is because quite often the image doesn't stamp completely on the very edges of your layer ... so I make the layer a bit bigger than I need and then trim off any dodgy sides.

- Ribbon - approx 16". I used two different ribbons, per the product list at the end of this post.

I think you should get this stamp! It is carrying over! I'm not sure if that means it will be in the next ANNUAL Catalogue or not until the next HOLIDAY Catalogue but if you get it before January 3rd you'll have it for a full year before it potential retires. I think this one is a great investment.

I showed my viewers how to put make this card during my Monday night live this week. You can watch the replay here:

If you would like to join me LIVE for my MCM (Mystery Card Monday) sessions, you can catch me on my FaceBook Page here at 7:00 pm Mountain Time every Monday ... or on my YouTube Channel here at the same time (I stream live to both). Like and Follow my FB Page and/or Subscribe to my YouTube Channel. I'd love to have you - the live community is AMAZING and so much fun!

If you live in Canada and would like to purchase any of the items I used for my cards, just click any of the pictures below and you will be taken to my online store.

Now hop along to see what my friends have to share with you! Feel free to leave a comment as you go.

Thanks for popping in, and have a stampy day!

Tamara

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