Bright Summer Colors...Oh Boy!

Hi - Jean Okimoto here, with a colorful summer layout for you.  Seven shades of ColorBox Pigment Inkpads were just waiting for a chance to join Nicholas and the my first (no, I didn't forget to hit the shift key!) ColorBox Jungle Mini Stamp Set jungle scene.

Clearsnap Products  - View the 2012 Catalog* here

• ColorBox Pigment Inkpads - Lime, Fresh Green, Orange, Surf, Violet, Turquoise, Brown (*Page 14)
• my first ColorBox Jungle Mini Stamp Set (*Page 34)
• Mix'd Media iNx Truffle Embossing Powder (*Page 27)

Stamp

• Hampton Art Oh Boy

Other Supplies

• Bazzill Basics Dessert Sun, Apricot and Sour Apple Cardstock
• Paper Accents Brown Bag, Muslin Aloha and Kiwi Vellum
• White Cardstock
• Basically Bare Happy Little Trees Set
• Poppystamps (a division of Memory Box) Grassland Border Die
• Memory Box Metal Adapter Die Cutting Plate
• Diecut Machine and Plates 
• Foam Dots
• Detail Clear Embossing Powder
• Heat-Tool
• Papertowels
• American Typewriter Font
• 1/8" wide Scor-Tape

Directions

• Stamp the animals with Lime, Violet, Orange and Surf and emboss them 
• Trim the cardstock into irregular shapes
• Use papertowels to ink the treetops with Fresh Green and emboss them with detail clear powder
• Use papertowels to ink the tree trunks with Brown
• Sprinkle sections of the tree trunks with Truffle Embossing Powder and emboss them
• Stamp oh BOY on Apricot Cardstock with Turquoise and emboss it with detail clear powder
• Print the text on Sour Apple Cardstock
• Diecut two sets of the Grassland Border from folded strips of vellum (fold is at the bottom edge) using the Metal Adapter Plate with the plates required for thin metal dies
• Trim a few grass blades to reveal the animals
• Assemble the layout, using foam dots for the tree trunks and stamped monkey piece

Hope you like jungle animals and bright colors!

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