Doing amazing things deserves an amazing card. Today I am participating in a Canada inks up blog hop. It’s an inaugural event, and I am happy to participate.  If all goes well, perhaps we will do another one. The card featured in this blog hop uses the Hydrangea Haven Suite. This suite is very pretty and it reminds me of a garden.  This type of garden will have to do as there are no green thumbs on my hand.  

There is a full tutorial than you can copy and paste and possibly download if I can get the pdf to load up and then download 

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Use The Stamparatus to Make 2- Step Stamping Easy

• The stamp is a photopolymer, so that means it is a clear stamp and makes 2-step stamping easier to accomplish.  In case you don’t know or perhaps have never heard of a photopolymer stamp, you probably know clear stamps.   Because the stamps are clear and because 2-step stamping requires one image to get stamped over another.  Not, to say that you cannot do this technique with the rubber stamps. 
• Use the stamps with the Stamparatus, Stampin’ Up!’s positioning tool.  What you do is: place the stamp on your cardstock and close the lid of the Stamparatus and then open the lid.  The stamp is now ready to be used, so ink it up with your choice of colour and then lower the lid again.  Lift the lid and Voila!! You have an image exactly where you intended.  Now, layer the matching stamp that will give you more definition on the previous image.  Try and get it aligned as close as possible.  Lower the lid, open it up and ink up the stamp.  Lower it and stamp.  Now you have a dimensional image.  

The tutorial for the fancy fold card can be found HERE

Now, while you are here, hop along to the next Blog Post.