Kylie’s International Top Ten July Winners Blog Hop

Kylie Bertucci’s International Highlights : July Top Ten Winners Blog Hop

Theme: Gratitude Inspired by Thailand

Welcome to the Top Ten Winners Blog Hop! You may remember my post from a few weeks ago asking for you to vote? Didn’t see it? You can by clicking here: A Fabulous Flamingo Thank You Card Well, thanks to all you wonderful people that took the time to vote, it did the trick!  I landed as #7 in the Top Ten and have the honor of hopping along with Kylie Bertucci, Australia’s #1 Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator, and the other wonderfully talented winners!

Prior to participating in Kylie’s International Highlights with the Gratitude Inspired by Thailand Theme, I never really paid attention to Thailand’s beauty.  After seeing several posts and pictures from the Top Stampin’ Up! Demonstrators that attended the Incentive Trip to Thailand, I had no idea what I was missing.  The scenery is stunning! I wanted to create something that mimicked what you might see when visiting this beautiful land! Since I am a sucker for sunsets, I wanted to incorporate one into my card.  While I created my card from memory of what I viewed previously, I grabbed a photo that I found while writing this post so that you can see what I mean! BEAUTIFUL!

I have to admit, since I have lived my entire life in Four Season Wisconsin, I never paid much attention to Palm Trees and I did not know that the Palm Leaves were called Fronds!  Thanks to Kylie’s International Highlights, I now know and will use the proper verbiage in this post :).

Card Details:

• Card Base is Whisper White Thick Cardstock cut to 4.25 in x 11 in and scored / folded at 5.5 in.
• Shimmery White Cardstock was cut to 4.125 in x 5.375 in.
• I applied color to the Shimmery White Cardstock with an Aqua Painter and these Classic Ink Colors:
  • Sky and Water: Island Indigo
  • Sunset: Tangerine Tango and Crushed Curry
  • Sand: Sahara Sand
• I stamped the Palm Fronds (Fabulous Flamingo Stamp Set) in Lemon-Lime Twist onto Shimmery White Cardstock.  I then added some Old Olive with an Aqua Painter for depth. The Palm Fronds were snipped out with a Paper Snips and adhered with Mini Stampin’ Dimensionals.
• The touch of grass was stamped in Old Olive.  I only inked up part of the stamp before applying to the cardstock.
• The sentiments (also from Fabulous Flamingo) were stamped in Island Indigo and Soft Suede.
• The adirondack chair is from the Seasonal Layers Thinlits and was quickly cropped out by zipping it through the BigShot with Whisper White Cardstock.

I love to hear your thoughts, questions and comments!  Please feel free to ask away and I am more than happy to respond!

Now make sure you visit with the rest of the Top Ten Winners participating in today’s Blog Hop.  Don’t forget to leave them some love!