Meandering Meadows – Let’s Craft Together Blog Hop

Published on November 4, 2023October 30, 2023 by Michele Jutrisa

Our theme this month for the Let’s Craft Together Blog Hop is a ‘Sketch Challenge’ by Annette and I am using the Meandering Meadows Suite Collection by Stampin’ Up!®. This stunning suite will be available from the 7th November and will be in the Online Exclusives.

How to make this card…

Cutting Measurements

	Colour	Imperial/Letter	Metric/A4
Card Base	Gorgeous Grape	4 ¼ x 11”, score @ 5 ½”	10.5 x 29.9cm, score @ 14.9cm
Card Mat	Gorgeous Grape	4 x 5 ¼”	10 x 14.4cm
Card Front	Fresh Freesia DSP Vellum	3 ¼ x 3 ¼” 1¾ x 4½” 3 x 3”	8.5 x 8.5cm 4.5 x 12cm 8 x 8cm
Card Insert	Basic White	4 x 5 ¼”	10 x 14.4cm
Card Insert Strip	DSP	½ x 5 ¼”	1 x 14.4cm
Stamping & Die cutting	Basic White	4¼ x 3”	10.5 x 7.5cm

Cut all cardstock as listed above
Stamping & Die cutting
- From the Basic White cardstock Die Cut the Gate
- Stamp the Boots and flower image using Basic Gray Stampin’ Pad
- Vellum – Die cut 6.5cm (2½”) circle from the Stylish Shapes Dies
- Using White Embossing Powder and VersaMark Ink stamp the sentimment to the vellum circle and heat set with heat gun.
Colouring
- Boots – coloured using Smoky Slate, Highland Heather & Wild Wheat
- Flowers – Highland Heather, Balmy Blue
- Leaves/Grass -Pool Party, Last Lagoon, Granny Apple Green
- Die Cut boots and flowers

Fresh Freesia Square, Emboss with the ‘Hash’ embossing folder from the Basic 3 D Embossing Folder (a collection of 3 folders found in the Online Exclusives)
Vellum Circle
- Attach gate to the vellum circle below the sentiment, using small amounts of multi purpose glue doted onto half the gate.
Card Front
- Attach card mat to card base
- Adhere Fresh Freesia square and DSP to the card mat using Multi purpose glue.
- Attach the velum to the card front hiding the adhesive behind the gate and sentiment. Also add glue to the other half of gate hanging off the vellum.
- Add dimensionals to the back of flowers and attach to card front
- Add dimensionals and glue to boots and attach to card front.
- Add Bird and Dragonfly elements to card front.
Card Insert
- Attach DSP strip to right hand side of Basic White card insert
- Adhere the insert inside the card.

Let’s Craft Together Blog Hop

Welcome to Let’s Craft Together Blog Hop. We are a group of Australian Stampin’ Up!® Demonstrators that are coming together to share our creative ideas with you. We are happy that you can join us and hope that we can Inspire you to make creations of your own. Each month we will be showing different ideas based around products, themes and challenges.

This month Annette has given us this Sketch Challenge to play with

Thank you for stopping by and reading my Blog. I hope you have enjoyed my projects & that you’re inspired to get crafty!

You may be starting here or have come from someone else’s blog – either way there is a list below to help you move around all the different blogs and get many amazing ideas.