Welcome to InKing Royalty’s July Blog Hop!  It’s Christmas in July, and today’s Blog Hop is filled with projects inspired by … you guessed it … Christmas!  What fun!  Although Stampin’ Up!’s 2017 Holiday Catalog will be released to demonstrators this week (we can’t wait to share that with you), our Annual Catalog is filled with fun, festive and beautiful products to make Christmas special, such as the new Merry Mistletoe stamp set and the new Be Merry Designer Series Paper.  We are excited to share our creations with you today.  After you read my post, I hope you’ll hop over to the next person on the list at the base of this post.

Here’s what I made:

The Be Merry Designer Series Paper colors are Cherry Cobbler, Whisper White, and Garden Green. For today’s card, I decided to replace Garden Green with Pear Pizzazz for a softer feel. What do you think?

Here’s what I did:

Cut and scored with my Stampin’ Trimmer:

• Pear Pizzazz card stock (CS) cut to 5-1/2″ x 8-1/2″
• Whisper White CS cut to 5-3/8″ x 4-1/8″
• Be Merry Designer Series Paper (DSP) cut to 5-1/4″ x 4″
• Whisper White CS cut to 2-1/2″ x 3-3/4″
• Whisper White CS cut to 5-1/4″ x 4″, for the inside

Stamped with the Merry Mistletoe stamp set:

• deer and mistletoe in Pear Pizzazz ink onto the 2-1/2″ x 3-3/4″ Whisper White CS
• sentiment onto a scrap of Whisper White CS

Die cut using the Layering Ovals Framelits:

• sentiment
• one size larger oval from a scrap of Cherry Cobbler CS
• two sizes larger oval from a scrap of Pear Pizzazz CS

Cut using the 1/16″ Circle Punch:

• three circles from a scrap of Cherry Cobbler CS

Assembled the card:

•  5-3/8″ x 4-1/8″ Whisper White CS glued onto the front of the card base
• DSP glued onto the 5-3/8″ x 4-1/8″ Whisper White CS
• 2-1/2″ x 3-3/4″ Whisper White CS (stamped with deer and mistletoe) glued onto the DSP
• three ovals glued together, then glued onto the DSP and stamped piece
• applied three small Cherry Cobbler Enamel Dots in the corner above the deer
• glued 1/16″ circles: 2 to the sentiment, and one to the deer
• went over the mistletoe berries with a white chalk marker, to give them that “white with a green tinge” that real mistletoe berries have
• 5-1/4″ x 4″ Whisper White CS glued to the inside of the card base

Here’s the hop:

​Thank you for hopping along with us. I hope you’ll hop along to the next stop on the blog hop, Lynn Kolcun at Avery’s Owlery. There’s a lot of inspiration to be found in this group – and you don’t want to miss it!

If you get stuck during the Blog Hop, please use this line-up as a guide:

1. Brian King at Stamp with Brian
2. Julie DiMatteo at The Paper Pixie
3. Jennifer Spiller at Westside Paper Creations
4. Candy Ford at Stamp Candy <– YOU ARE HERE
5. Lynn Kolcun at Avery’s Owlery
6. Karen Browning at StampWithMeKZB
7. Jackie Beers at Blue Line Stamping
8. Lisa Pretto at Ink Big Academy Stamps
9. Shawn de Oliveira at ShawnStamps

Here are today’s colors:

You can click on each one to see all the products that come in/with that color!

Here’s what I used:

Click on the images for more details and to purchase.