Welcome to the July 2020 Inking Royalty Blog Hop! This month’s theme is Christmas in July! This is the perfect time to start planning your holiday cards and invitations, especially since so many folks are staying home and have more time. My card for today can be used for Christmas or really any winter occasion. I used the Peace & Joy Bundle (Peace & Joy stamp set and Joy Dies,) Trimming the Town Designer Series Paper, and Snowflake Sequins from the upcoming August – December 2020 Mini Catalog, which goes live August 4. If you’d like to order from the new Mini Catalog now instead of having to wait, click here to join.

After reading my post today, I hope you’ll hop around to all the stops. There’s so much talent in this group and you don’t want to miss any of it! 

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Here are the Sneak Peek products I used:

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Here’s what I made:

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Here’s what I did:

Cut and scored with my paper trimmer:

• Misty Moonlight card stock (CS) cut to 5-1/2″ x 8-1/2″, then scored in half at 4-1/4″
• Whisper White CS layer cut to 5-3/8″ x 4-1/8″
• Trimming the Town Designer Series Paper (DSP) layer cut to 5-1/4″ x 4″ (stripes)
• Whisper White CS layer cut to 4-1/8″ x 2-7/8″
• DSP layer cut to 4″ x 2-3/4″ (snow)
• Whisper White CS cut to 5-1/4″ x 4″ for the inside of the card base

Stamped with the Peace & Joy stamp set:

• HAPPY and AND in Misty Moonlight ink onto a scrap of Whisper White Thick CS
• BRIGHT in Misty Moonlight ink, stamped off three times, onto the 5-1/4″ x 4″ Whisper White CS (I wanted it to be very light, like a watermark, so I could write over it.)

Cut using the Joy Dies:

• BRIGHT using all three dies, the middle one from a scrap of Misty Moonlight CS, and the other two from a scrap of Whisper White Thick CS

Cut using Paper Snips:

• HAPPY and AND

Assembled the card:

• burnished the fold in the card base with a Bone Folder
• the 3 BRIGHT die cuts glued together
• BRIGHT die cut stack, HAPPY, and AND adhered onto the smaller DSP layer using Stampin’ Dimensionals
• smaller DSP layer glued onto the smaller Whisper White CS layer
• smaller Whisper White CS layer glued onto the larger DSP layer
• larger DSP layer glued onto the larger Whisper White CS layer
• larger Whisper White CS layer glued onto the front of the card base
• 3 Snowflake Sequins glued onto the larger DSP layer
• 5-1/4″ x 4″ Whisper White CS glued onto the inside of the card base

What I would do differently:

I’m not yet used to having the new adhesives, so I forget to use them. For today’s card, I would have put the card stock for the top two BRIGHT die cuts on an Adhesive Sheet before die cutting. Then I could have just peeled off the backing to adhere the pieces, instead of gluing them. I would have put the card stock for the bottom (largest) BRIGHT die cut on a Foam Adhesive Sheet before die cutting. I also would have put the stamped sentiments on a Foam Adhesive Sheet before cutting them with Paper Snips. 

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Here’s the July 2020 Inking Royalty Blog Hop:

Thank you for hopping along with us. Please hop to the next stop, Linda Krueger at The Stamp Coach. If you get stuck during the Blog Hop, please use this line-up as a guide:

1. Brian King at Stamp with Brian
2. Ann Murray at Murray Stamps Ink
3. Janneke Dijkstra-de Jong at Happy Stampin
4. Candy Ford at Stamp Candy <—————YOU ARE HERE!
5. Linda Krueger at The Stamp Coach
6. Shawn de Oliveira at Shawn Stamps
7. Pam Morris at Tap Tap Stamp
8. Julie DiMatteo at The Paper Pixie
9. Joanne Brown at Stamping with JoJo
10. Lynn Kolcun at Avery’s Owlery
11. Jennifer Spiller at Westside Paper Creations
12. Jackie Beers at Blue Line Stamping
13. Sheryl Sharp at Sharp Notes by Sheryl
14. Sue Jackson at Just Peachy Stamping

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Here are today’s colors:

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Here’s what I used:

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These products will be available to purchase 4 August 2020:

• Peace & Joy Bundle (155167) $45.00
• Peace & Joy stamp set (153430) $18.00
• Joy Dies (153530) $32.00
• Trimming the Town Designer Series Paper (153491) $11.50
• Snowflake Sequins (150443) $6.00

Peace & Joy Bundle – 155167

Price: $45.00

Peace & Joy Photopolymer Stamp Set – 153430

Price: $18.00

Joy Dies – 153530

Price: $32.00

Trimming The Town Designer Series Paper – 153491

Price: $11.50

Misty Moonlight 8-1/2″ X 11″ Cardstock – 153081

Price: $8.75

Whisper White 8-1/2″ X 11″ Thick Cardstock – 140272

Price: $8.25

Whisper White 8-1/2″ X 11″ Cardstock – 100730

Price: $9.75

Misty Moonlight Classic Stampin’ Pad – 153118

Price: $7.50

Snowflake Sequins – 150443

Price: $6.00

Stampin’ Dimensionals – 104430

Price: $4.00

Multipurpose Liquid Glue – 110755

Price: $4.00

Adhesive Sheets – 152334

Price: $10.00

Foam Adhesive Sheets – 152815

Price: $8.00

Bone Folder – 102300

Price: $7.00

Paper Snips – 103579

Price: $10.00

Paper Trimmer – 152392

Price: $25.00

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