This week the tutorial on the website Splitcoaststampers was for a Mitered Frame, so here is my version of how to make a mitered frame with the Beautiful Bouquet Stamp Set and the Garden Impressions Designer Series Paper.  This tutorial really caught my eye and the directions seemed easy enough for me to make! So I tried it!

Since the sample in the tutorial started with a 6″ x 6″ piece of paper, I thought I would just start with the Garden Impressions Designer Series Paper since it is already 6″ x 6″. (It’s on the DSP Sale going on now!)

1.  Score the paper at 1/2″ and 1″ on all four sides. Carefully cut off the four corners of the paper where all 4 score lines come together. This will help make the mitered corners later.

2. Fold the corners in up to the inner score line forming a triangle or diagonal on the corner.

3.  Now fold the top edge of the scored area in toward the inner score line and then fold all that into the center of the frame.  This will form the frame.  I suggest just folding all in before gluing to see if you need to do some tiny trimming on any of the score lines or fold something more precisely to get the perfect mitered corners.  When you feel happy with the folding, glue these down forming the frame. Optional:  Fold on all the score lines but instead of adhering down, leave them loose, making more of a 3D frame that is just folded in and “loose”.

Now decorate your mitered frame with whatever “scene” or greeting you would like to have. If you didn’t like the inside paper design, before you fold it all down and glued, you could cut a separate background piece of paper to adhere inside.  You could also have it just a regular square rather than on an angle as a diamond shape.

For me, I chose to stamp and die cut with the Beautiful Bouquet Stamp Set and the Bouquet Bunch Framelits Dies.  This could be adhered to another piece of cardstock to make a card or you could attach a ribbon to the back to make something to hang for yourself or the recipient. If you leave the folded edges “loose” you kind of have a shadowbox and can embellish that in a different way.  Lots of possibilities for your creative expression!

Here’s another card I made with the Beautiful Bouquet Stamp Set and Bouquet Bunch Dies so you can see another way to make and embellish a bouquet.

And don’t forget, the Garden Impressions Designer Series Paper is one of the selections on the Buy 3 Get 1 Free Designer Series Paper Sale during July 2018.  Select 3 papers on your order, then the 4th package will be free.

No one would suspect that this interesting piece is made with just one piece of designer paper. Now that you have seen how easy this idea is, try your hand at making a Mitered Frame out of some pretty designer paper or even cardstock.

I hope you like this Quick and Easy Petal Promenade Card With Vellum because I really do!  I love the look of the strong designer paper underneath a piece of Vellum Cardstock to tone it down, yet you can see the paper straight on over on each side.  Yet it is an easy card to make, really.

The Petal Promenade Designer Series Paper is so beautiful, you really need to see it in person!  It is one of the select papers on the Designer Paper Buy 3 Get 1 Free Sale going on now through July 31. You might even want to get two packages of it if you like to make a lot of beautiful cards! This paper is perfect for lots of occasions, such as weddings, engagements, anniversaries, birthdays, graduation and many more!

My card has a base of Powder Pink and then a layer of the Petal Promenade Paper.  The Vellum Cardstock is cut narrower than the designer paper so that about half an inch of designer paper on each side shows. It is somewhat difficult to adhere vellum because most glue shows through.  It is best if you can hide it, which I did in two places on this card. I tied the bow, made with the Petal Pink Metallic Ribbon in a combo and then planned where to attach it at the top of the vellum.  Then I hid a drop of Liquid Glue underneath where the bow would go to adhere the vellum to the designer paper and adhered the bow over that glue spot with a couple of Glue Dots.

Next, I made the label at the bottom of the card using the Label Me Pretty Stamp Set and the Pretty Label Punch.  It is accented with two little Artisan Pearls. After adhering this label with the greeting at the bottom of the card, I could then add some Liquid Glue underneath that label to adhere the vellum to the card front.

If you wanted to, you could punch two holes in the top through the designer paper and vellum and tie the bow through the papers to hold everything in place.

Here’s a card I made the other day with the Petal Promenade Designer Paper after I received my order!

Be sure to check out the Designer Series Paper Sale right away!

Also, don’t forget the special Paper Pumpkin offer for new subscribers, get your August Kit at 50% off!  The graphic is so pretty I am betting that the kit is too!  Don’t miss it!

You really do need to check out this beautiful Petal Promenade DSP and order yours today so you can make some pretty Petal Promenade greeting cards for your friends and loved ones!

Yes, the Petal Promenade Designer Series Paper really is that beautiful! You can make easy cards with this paper because it is so pretty that it stands on its own. You don’t need to add too much embellishment or it will be too much.  I just got this paper late Friday night (where was that UPS man??!) and couldn’t wait to open the package. As I explained in THIS POST, this paper was made from actually photographing real flowers and then turning it into designer paper by the Stampin’ Up! artists!

For this card, I started with a card base of Whisper White (and the Thick Whisper White Cardstock would be good to use if you have it).  I cut a piece of the designer paper and decided to layer it on a piece of Blushing Bride Cardstock, one of the many coordinating colors for this designer paper.  The greeting is stamped in Mossy Meadow Ink and layered on a strip of Blushing Bride Cardstock with a piece of the Petal Pink Metallic Ribbon (sold in a combo with Shaded Spruce).  So pretty and so easy!

As pretty as this photo is, nothing does it justice other than seeing the paper in person! So if you like the pictures of the paper online and in the catalog, you can be assured you will LOVE it in person!

The best part is this paper is part of the Buy 3 Get 1 Free Designer Series Paper Sale going on now during July!  Order 3 packages of paper (the same or different) and then when you enter the 4th package the price should come up $0.00!  Let me know if you have any questions!

Don’t delay!  Go ahead and order this paper so you can start making beautiful cards and projects with it.  Try this design like my Easy Petal Promenade Card For a Friend, and get started!

I finally stopped the world and played with the new Varied Vases Stamp Set and matching Vases Builder Punch and made this Flowers in Vases Card For a Friend.  So many wonderful new stamp sets, paper, punches, tools, and accessories to play with after the debut of a new Stampin’ Up! Catalog! It’s hard to get around to everything!  You can even save 10% by purchasing the stamp set and punch in a Bundle.

I started with a card base of Poppy Parade, just because, and a piece of Whisper White cardstock on which to stamp the flowers and vases. As the design developed, I layered the Whisper White piece on top of So Saffron and Basic Black.

Two of the vases are stamped and then punched out, one with Coastal Cabana ink and the other with Poppy Parade ink, and the center one is just punched out of a piece of patterned paper from the Garden Impressions 6″ x 6″  Designer Series Paper. I thought that the yellow side of the paper would go with the So Saffron although the opposite side of the paper with a flowery design was also very pretty for a vase!

Rather than just stamping the flowers randomly and hoping they were placed correctly for the vases, I first stamped the vases very lightly with Gray Granite ink, stamped off once or twice. Then I stamped the flowers in Memento Black ink. After punching out the vases, I was able to adhere those right over the lightly stamped vases and the stamping didn’t show at all! Then I colored in the flowers with various Stampin’ Blends Markers.  Love those markers!

Just to “ground” the vases, I scribbled on a little shadow with the Light Smoky Slate marker.  The greeting is found in the Varied Vases Stamp Set, and I just added a couple of gold Metallic Pearls on each end.  I like the way this card turned out with no plan in mind!  I’ve seen so many pretty cards made with this Varied Vases Stamp set and coordinating punch, so there is lots of fun stamping ahead!

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Today’s Accented Blooms Floral Hello Card For a Friend came from copying from a card in our Stampin’ Success magazine, a quarterly (used to be monthly!) magazine we Stampin’ Up! Demonstrators get with stamping ideas, business tips, and more!  One of my favorite things about being a Stampin’ Up! Demo all these years!  We all love receiving this magazine!  Actually, the article was about “CASEing”  CASE stands for “Copy And Share Everything”, so I went ahead and copied!  My card has some slight differences from the sample in the magazine.

This card uses one of the new In Colors, Lovely Lipstick.  How can you resist a color with that name?!  The card base is Lovely Lipstick and the designer paper layer is the new In Color 2018-2020 6″ x 6″ Designer Series Paper.

The main image is stamped from the Accented Blooms Stamp Set (remember to remove that piece in the center where the greeting goes before you stamp! (or you will get ink on it and stamp smudges of ink, but it will be covered with the punched greeting — don’t ask me how I know!).  It is stamped on a piece of Whisper White Cardstock using Memento Ink, colored in with Stampin’ Blends markers, and cut out by hand with Paper Snips. Now the sample in the magazine was stamped on Shimmery White and then the flowers were colored in using ink and an Aqua Painter. I forgot that, and since Whisper White isn’t great for watercoloring on because the paper can pill, I had to change tactics and chose the alcohol Stampin’ Blends markers instead.

The greeting is also stamped in the Memento Ink and cut out with the Tailored Tag Punch.  I popped it up on some Stampin’ Dimensionals.

The banner is Lovely Lipstick Cardstock.  I probably should have cut it a little longer, but it is fine as is.  I stamped using Versamark Ink with the top portion of the floral stamp just to get a watermarked look of flowers in the background on the banner.  This technique is good when you want just a little bit of interest, but nothing to take away from the rest of the card.

The cut out floral piece is popped up with Stampin’ Dimensionals also, but you could glue it down flat.  The sample used one of the Tinted Faceted Buttons, but since I don’t own those yet I had to forego the cute button.  They also tied a bow with the Whisper White Solid Baker’s Twine, which I do have, but didn’t use.  There are all kinds of ways you can embellish your cards!

I’m happy with the way this card turned out!  The Lovely Lipstick is so bright, and the pretty flowers make it a happy card to send to a friend to say “Hello”. Try your hand at making a bright and happy card to send to someone today!

You can make an easy fancy card with this new laser cut specialty paper. You barely have to do any work to make this beautiful card!  All you have to do is purchase the Delightfully Detailed Laser-Cut Specialty Paper.  This paper is White on one side and Vanilla on the other side so you have a choice!  This paper s 12″ x 12″ and comes in eight sheets, four each of two designs. It can all be cut apart to use as you wish as accents on cards and projects.  The paper is delicate and each sheet is separated by a piece of tissue paper so that it doesn’t all get tangled up!

On this card, the card base is the new In Color Grapefruit Grove.  I think it photographed a little darker than it really is.   I just chose one of the sheets of the laser-cut paper and placed it over the top part of my card.  Be sure to turn the paper to another area, another side if you don’t like what you see if you are doing your card this way!  I chose to leave the border edge on my card since it would appear natural on the bottom portion on this card, but the one that would have been on the left side has been cut off.

Once I knew which section of the paper I wanted to use, I lined it up over my card using my Grid Paper to help. I cut the laser-cut paper just a bit larger in case I messed up on sizing. I just eyeballed it and cut with scissors to remove that piece.

Next, I placed that cut out piece over the top section of my card, lining up the bottom line according to my Grid Paper, held it tightly, and trimmed off the little bit of excess from the edges of the card.

When you are ready for gluing, there are a couple things you can do.  You can put tiny dots of the Multipurpose Liquid Glue or the Fine Tip Glue Pen on whichever portions of the paper that are large enough for a tiny drop of glue!  Or you can sponge some Liquid Glue onto the back of the laser-cut paper on the Silicone Craft Sheet, wax paper, or scrap paper.  The most important thing is to hold the paper down tightly so that it won’t pick up glue in the “holes” that got sponged.  You don’t want the laser-cut paper to move while you are sponging it.  Pick it up equally carefully and then adhere to the card base.

For the greeting, I chose one from the Love What You Do Photopolymer Stamp Set. It is stamped in Grapefruit Grove Ink and die cut with the Big Shot and the Layering Ovals Framelits Dies. To help it stand out, I also die cut a piece of Grapefruit Grove Cardstock with a scalloped edge in the same set of oval dies.

That’s all there is to it!  This Delightfully Detailed Laser-Cut Specialty Paper is really beautiful and easy to use!  Try some!

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Now that summer is upon us, it’s time to enjoy flowers everywhere, like this Abstract Impressions Floral Stamped Card. This card is much like the Garden Impressions 6″ x 6″ Designer Series Paper except the flowers are stamped!

Sometimes I find I am only stamping a little bit on my projects and using the Big Shot and die cuts more, but it feels SO good to just stamp with a variety of stamps all over a piece of paper!  It’s much like adult coloring that is the craze these days!  But just get a stamp in your hand and go to town and you will enjoy it just as much!

The card base is Melon Mambo and is stamped with the Abstract Impressions Stamp Set.  This stamp set has 2- and 3-step stamping which means you can choose different colors or you can stamp “off” on scrap paper to lighten the ink and then stamp over it with full-strength ink. With this stamp set, you don’t even have to match up the images perfectly (in fact, I think the stamps are not even made to do that).  You can choose whichever flowers you like and stamp them however you like in whatever colors you like.

To make it a little fancier, I stamped on Shimmery White Cardstock, which I LOVE.  There is just the slightest glimmer to it.  Then, for fun, I colored some of the flowers with the Clear Wink of Stella to give them some extra shimmery pizzazz!  You can see it better in this close-up photo.

Underneath the greeting, I have a piece of Vellum Cardstock. I also added some Share What You Love Artisan Pearls to a few of the flowers.

Easy card with some basic stamping!  As you can see on THIS CARD, they are almost the same except today I did the stamping myself instead of using paper.

Today get out a stamp set, ink, and paper and stamp to your heart’s content!

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