Here’s an easy card to make, this Cheerful Daisies Friendship Card, which is perfect for sending to a friend. There is even a Best Friend Day coming up in June so plan ahead!
This card has daisies, which everyone loves, and the bright, cheerful Coastal Cabana color plus the fun polka dot designer paper. It’s a perfect card for summer and fun.
The card base is Coastal Cabana. For the designer paper, I found this pattern in theBrights 6″ x 6″ Designer Series Paper. To make this diagonal, just cut the designer paper to the normal size you would cut it for a layer, 4″ x 5 1/4″. Or if you want, cut it the full size of the card front, 4 1/4″ x 5 1/2″. Then place it diagonally on your Paper Trimmer and cut. If you don’t want your blade to bang into that tip of the paper, just place the blade somewhere else on the paper and start cutting from there to each end. Then you’ll have two diagonal pieces and you can make another card!
The three daisies are stamped in Memento Ink with the Cheerful Daisies Stamp Set. The flower centers are stamped in Daffodil Delight ink. The daisies and centers are then die-cut with the Cheerful Daisies Dies. You can purchase both the stamp set and the dies in the Cheerful Daisies Bundle and save 10%.
I popped up the center daisy with Stampin’ Dimensionals and the other two are adhered flat on the card along the edge of the designer paper. The greeting is in the Cheerful Daisies Stamp Set. It is diecut with the oval in the All That Dies.
That’s all you really need for this card unless you want to add some bling!
Stampin’ Up! has just announced a Designer Series Paper Sale
during the month of June!
You can enjoy a 15% discount on select Designer Series Papers from our new 2023–2024 Annual Catalog and Online Exclusives. Whether you’re a scrapbooker, a card maker, or simply a paper lover, this is a great time to stock up and save on gorgeous paper so you have artistic and versatile paper designs on hand for your next projects! And we all need MORE paper, right?! Especially when it is on sale!!
This is the perfect time to get those NEW papers and maybe order another package of one you’ve almost used up!
SALES PERIOD: JUNE 1-30
There is no limit to how many packages of Designer Series Paper may be purchased during this promotion.
Only select Designer Series Papers are available at a 15% discount during this promotion. Please reference the table above or the flyer above to see the papers included in the sale.
Orders must be placed—and closed—during the promotion period for the 15% discount to apply. Don’t start your order online early!
Designer Series Paper ordered as part of a Starter Kit or with Stampin’ Rewards qualify for the 15% discount.
Designer Series Papers are from the new 2023–2024 Annual Catalog (p. 129–132) and Online Exclusives.
This early announcement gives you time to make out your list, plan your projects, and check your inventory! Then on June 1st, you will be ready to go!
My Paper Pumpkin May 2023 Kit, Exploring In Color, arrived this weekend in my mailbox, and look at the cover of the box!! If this isn’t a beautiful box for this month’s Paper Pumpkin Kit, I don’t know what it would be. Wouldn’t you like to find this Paper Pumpkin Kit in your mailbox? I consider it a gift I give myself!
Open the lid and see the beautiful presentation, just like a gift, as I say!
The contents of the kit are all assembled in the package and shrink-wrapped in plastic to keep everything together!
Open it up and look at all the contents of the kit! You get just about everything you need except for scissors! Even adhesives are included, usually tiny Mini Dots and dimensional. This kit has cards, even decorated matching envelopes, plus some twine for embellishing.
Every kit has an ink spot (a mini ink pad!) and an exclusive stamp set that you can keep and use in any other projects you make. With your first Paper Pumpkin Kit, you will receive a special acrylic block to use with your stamps.
I love to take everything out and lay out all the parts and see what I got in my Paper Pumpkin Kit! This May kit came with free stickers (Lower right in photo) just to use anywhere you like. It also had a brand new In Color, Copper Clay for the ink spot.
Here are the three cards, as designed in the kit. I always make part of the kit exactly as designed and shown in the instructions, but usually I leave some in case I want to make an alternative idea. Paper Pumpkin, on the back of the instructions, always shows some ideas you can use if you have some of your own stamping supplies. Hundreds of others can be found online after people receive and make their kits.
As soon as I saw the Paper Pumpkin box and opened the kit, the cards reminded me of the national parks we have been to. Such beautiful colors and scenery are portrayed on these cards and envelopes! Right away I thought that if I was making scrapbook pages (which I always intend to do!), I could use the cards on a scrapbook page. I pulled out a 12″ x 12″ piece of Garden Green cardstock just to give you an alternative idea.
At the bottom is one of the full cards in the kit. Yes, they have scenery on the front and back! Then, for this example, I grabbed two vacation photos from quite a few years ago when we went to Yellowstone National Park and the Tetons. If I were making this a real scrapbook page, I would layer the photos on some coordinating cardstock and maybe the card also, plus add some journaling and a title. All of that would likely fill up the page, or maybe I could squeeze in one more photo. I know I bought a retired Stampin’ Up! stamp set years ago with which to make scrapbook pages for this exact trip, but as usual, “I haven’t gotten around to it yet!”
Weekends always seem like a good time to play with my newest Paper Pumpkin Kit. If you are interested in trying Paper Pumpkin, just sign up by June 10th to receive the next kit. Once you are a subscriber, you can go in the Stampin’ Up! Online Store, under Paper Pumpkin – Past Kits & Refills. If any past kits are available you can purchase them once you subscribe. Refills are kits without the ink spot and stamp set, the purpose being if you wanted to make more of the same cards, you can get the materials but you can reuse the stamp set and ink spot you already have.
The next Paper Pumpkin Kit for June 2023 is called “Welcome Inn”. Join by June 10!
To make this card, I used the Stampin’ Up! Catalog for inspiration and I found it on page 46 in the Zany Zoo Suite Collection samples. I didn’t copy it exactly, but it gave me this idea. I’d been wanting to use this pattern in the designer paper ever since I got it!
The card base is Pool Party with a layer, leaving a little wider margin around the edges than usual. The designer paper is the Zoo Crew Designer Series Paper and as you can see I used the black & white little flowers. You can leave them plain or color them in. Of course, I couldn’t resist coloring them with my Stampin’ Blends. It’s not difficult because really all you are doing is dotting the flowers, centers, and leaves with the tips of the markers! Just wait to color the flowers until you get the center piece on the card so you don’t color the center flowers that are just going to be covered up!
Since I had my Radiating Stitches Dies out on the table I decided to use one rectangle to create a frame for the knitting alpaca! I used Lost Lagoon cardstock. If you want the center cut out of the frame, you need to use the smaller die to do that. Then I added a plain Basic White piece underneath the frame.
The alpaca is stamped with the Zany Zoo Stamp Set and diecut with the Zany Zoo Dies. As I looked at the sample in the catalog, I wondered where they got that little table and flower vase. Well, those are little extras in the dies!! And when I say “little” I mean you have never seen anything as little as the flower dies! Put on your reading glasses!! It is fun, however, to have these extra little pieces in the dies to make interesting little scenes! I cut the table out of Early Espresso, the vase out of Gorgeous Grape, and the flower out of Sweet Sorbet. I even cut the flower again out of Granny Apple Green cardstock in order to get the green stem but that is completely unnecessary. Just die cut the flower, cut the flower off the stem, and draw in a tiny, barely there little stem with a marker
The alpaca is colored with one of the Naturals Stampin’ Blends, a light brown. I looked it up….alpacas can be many colors of brown, to save you the research, so you can choose any brown color you like! Or choose a whimsical color like Stampin’ Up! did! The face is colored with Crumb Cake as are her arms and legs and her hooves with Dark Pecan Pie. The chair is colored with Petal Pink and the yarn with Calypso Coral.
The alpaca is popped up with Stampin’ Dimensionals. The little table, vase, and flower are glued down onto the Basic White.
The greeting is in the Zany Zoo Stamp Set and diecut with an oval in the All That Dies set. I needed something small to fit in that space and this oval is perfect. Because the background looked too plain, I just used some of the markers I used on the card to put three little dots in each color randomly in the empty space.
That’s it! If you don’t want to stamp and color the alpaca, find her on one of the designer papers and cut that out instead. But coloring is easy and oh-so good for us!
On this Countryside Inn Thank You Card, I used two sides of the same paper in the Countryside Inn Designer Series Paper. I really liked this paper with the trees and then I saw the other side was cute, too, with the small little lines of flowers. There are lots of interesting designs in this package of paper once you look at them! At first, you just think it’s only about little blue and white flowers! But there is even bunny paper in there, which I used on this card.
To make this card, I just used one of the simplest designs! I cut the card layer out of the designer paper, then cut a piece 4″ x 1 3/4″ of the same paper, but turned it over and used the “other side” for the bottom portion of the card. I usually like to hide the seam where two papers meet, so I covered it with a piece of Boho Blue 3/8″ Textured Ribbon. I just tied a knot rather than a bow. I think that was just enough.
The greeting is stamped from the Something Fancy Stamp Set in Night of Navy ink. Then I diecut the greeting with the hexagon die in the Something Fancy Dies. To make the Balmy Blue layer, I just cut it by hand! Stampin’ Up! should have asked me if they should make a hexagon layer die to layer with this die! I would have said “Yes!” I popped up the greeting over the ribbon with Stampin’ Dimensionals.
The card base is Night of Navy, but I could have used one of the other coordinating blues.
Of course, for a little bling, I added some Iridescent Rhinestone Basic Jewels, both to the greeting and on a few of the flowers on the designer paper.
This is always an easy and good way to design a card! You can use any designer papers you like, colors, greetings, and embellishments.
When I started working on this Zany Zoo Foxy Birthday Card, I had no idea what I was going to make. I only thought I would use the Zoo Crew Designer Series Paper because I hadn’t used it too much yet. I looked through the papers, this little fox on a Pool Party scooter caught my eye and as I played around, this card came about!
The little fox on the designer paper was already partially colored and you can leave the characters that way or you can color in some of the uncolored parts. I used Stampin’ Blends on the scooter seat, light, tires, and the fox’s scarf.
For the balloons, I stamped the raccoon holding balloons in the Zany Zoo Stamp Set on Basic White cardstock. I die-cut the raccoon and then cut off the balloons so I could use them with the fox! I colored them in with several Stampin’ Blends colors.
The card base is Pool Party cardstock with a layer of the black and white side of the Zoo Crew Designer Paper. I diecut two circles in the Stylish Shapes Dies, one in Basic White and one for the layer in Pool Party and adhered them together. To break up the background, I added a narrow strip of another black and white pattern, to go underneath the circles.
After adhering the circles to the card front, I cut out the fox on the scooter with my Paper Snips and popped him up over the circles with Stampin’ Dimensionals, plus stuck on the balloons, too.
For the greeting, I stamped the sentiment from the Zany Zoo Stamp Set and die-cut it with the banner die in the Zany Zoo Dies. For the Pool Party layer, I held the greeting banner on the Pool Party cardstock and just cut around it by hand! It turned out fine. It would have been nice to have a layering die for that, though!
For not knowing WHAT I was going to make this time, I was quite happy with my card when I was finished! So even if you don’t have any creative ideas in the moment, just get out some designer paper you like and see what you end up with!
As I was paging through the Countryside Inn Designer Papers, I had forgotten there was this pattern with little birds, plus a cute one with little foxes! I put it together with the Circle Sayings Bundle to make this Circle Sayings Countryside Inn Hello Card.
It is not apparent from the photo, but the card front is popped up and there is a layer underneath that is the stamped greeting. Then those two parts are adhered to the card base.
The card base is Balmy Blue Cardstock. The Countryside Inn designer paper is cut at the usual 4″ x 5 1/4″. The Basic White cardstock underneath is cut at basically the same size but just a “smidge” less, maybe 1/16″ less, just enough so it won’t stick out if the papers are cut microscopically differently at the same size.
I used the 2 3/8″ Circle Punch to make the circle on the designer paper. Then I placed it on the Basic White and very lightly marked a few spots on the white cardstock with a pencil to show where the opening was. I took off the designer paper and stamped the flowers and greeting in the Circle Sayings Stamp Set on the Basic White inside the marked circle.
I had planned to just adhere the designer paper and the Basic White cardstock together and then adhere that piece to the card base. But I didn’t think the design stood out enough, so I decided to pop up the designer paper over the Basic White. I was concerned the designer paper wasn’t strong enough so I cut a piece of Misty Moonlight to adhere underneath the designer paper to give it some strength, but that meant I had to punch out a circle in the exact same place so the greeting would show through the hole. I used a bunch of Stampin’ Dimensionals to pop up that piece.
If I would have thought ahead, I could have tied a ribbon around the left side of the card through the punched hole, but when I thought of it, there were too many Dimensionals in the way! For a little embellishment, I used three of the Adhesive-Backed Solid Gems in Boho Blue in the greeting circle.
So that’s an easy idea for you to try! It’s something a little different! Try this Circle Sayings Countryside Inn Hello Card for yourself!
Sometimes you just want to make a quick and easy card like this Quick and Easy Fresh As a Daisy Card and with this new designer paper, you can surely do that!
I wanted to use this bold daisy pattern in the Fresh As a Daisy Designer Series Paper in the new Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog. I liked these large, bright white daisies with their golden centers on this paper.
You can choose from many coordinating colors with this paper. I played around with several and decided on Daffodil Delight, which isn’t a coordinating color but I liked the bright yellow for a Monday morning! I could have chosen Crushed Curry or Lemon Lolly to go with the flower centers, or Cajun Craze to match the background of the paper, or any of the greenish blues to match the leaves. Or you could Basic White for a card base! Or you could choose Basic White and then another cardstock color for a layer and then make the designer paper a little smaller to layer on the color cardstock. Or a colored cardstock for the base and white to set off the designer paper! Whatever you are in the mood for when you are creating is fine!
I originally intended to make this a two-tone card using the daisy paper on top and a piece of one of the colors on “the other side” of the daisy paper. But once I had this 5 1/4″ x 4″ paper cut I liked it so much I didn’t want to cover up or lose any of the white daisies.
Before adhering the designer paper to the card, I adhered a piece of the Burlap Ribbon in the Real Red and Burlap Ribbon Combo Pack. I put it on the side, where I haven’t put a ribbon in a long time, so as not to cover up too many daisies. Then I just tied on a short ribbon in a knot.
The greeting is stamped from the Cheerful Daisies Stamp Set in TuxedoBlack Memento Ink on Basic White. I tried it on the Daffodil Delight also and decided to use the White but layer it on Daffodil Delight. The label die in the Cheerful Daisies Dies is one of those perfect dies to use over and over again! It’s simple yet has that little stitched look and curved corners. But there is not a layering size die to match so what do you do? I cut out another label in Daffodil Delight, then cut it in half across the middle. Then I could layer those two half pieces under the top half and bottom half of the greeting. If you do it just a tiny bit, it really lines up with the curved corners even though it doesn’t extend out to the sides. No one will notice! It looks fine!
That’s all there is to this card! You could add some jewels or sequins if you wanted to. Or you can leave it as the Quick and Easy Fresh As a Daisy Card!
It’s Mother’s Day weekend so sit back, relax, and enjoy these Stampin’ Up! videos talking about some of the products in the newStampin’ Up! Annual Catalog!
Be sure to watch George’s video below about the Stargazing Suite all the way to the very, very end! Looks like fun for kids to play with!
Wait until you see how the artist made the flowers on this designer paper! And all about the punches!
If you know Spanish, you’ll really enjoy this video and if you don’t know Spanish, you’ll really enjoy this video seeing this Suite!
And if your family doesn’t show you quite enough appreciation on Mother’s Day (or even if they do), just go to the Stampin’ Up! Online Store and order what you want!
This Timeless Arrangements Kindness Card is the result of my “playing” with my new Timeless Arrangements Bundle. I’ve used some of the stamp set greetings on other cards, but I hadn’t tried out all the die cuts for the flowers and foliage.
I knew I wanted to try out this Bundle but I really didn’t know what card I wanted to make. Not even the colors! So I stamped the flowers and leaves that were in the stamp set in Memento ink and colored them in with various Stampin’ Blends Markers. I stamped and colored quite a few not knowing how many I would use. After die-cutting those, I also diecut the leafy dies in various greens and even Crushed Curry for something different.
These leafy dies are interesting because several have a bar connecting a couple stems which I assume is meant to allow you to cut out several stems in one fell swoop and have them lined up at various angles and not a million little die cut pieces. Some of the ones I diecut I left as is and some I cut apart to place them exactly where I wanted them.
This card has a Berry Burst cardstock base with a layer of Bubble Bath cardstock. Before adhering the Bubble Bath layer I randomly stamped the little circles stamp with Bubble Bath ink just for a little texture in the background.
I used a Deckled Rectangle die for the centerpiece for the greeting and to use to attach all the foliage and flowers. I stamped the greeting in the Timeless Arrangements Stamp Set first in Berry Burst Ink. Then I just adhered the leafy pieces to the back and even sides of the greeting. You can play with the placement of the pieces first to see what you like, or just go for it and build it as you go! When I was finished with the piece, I popped it up on Stampin’ Dimensionals. It turned out I really liked that Berry Burst flower I had stamped placed right on the Deckled Rectangle greeting.
For a little sparkle, I added some Pastel Adhesive-Backed Sequins to the card. I put three gold sequins on the greeting itself and then three pink sequins on the card front.
You could use this card for Mother’s Day on Sunday or lots of other occasions. You can use less leafy pieces or even more if you really want to do it up really fancy!
This is the kind of stamp set and dies that you really need to take some time to place with, get acquainted with all the pieces and see how they work together or even separately!
Tomorrow, Wednesday, May 10th, is the last day to join Paper Pumpkin and get the May 2023 Paper Pumpkin Kit. And this kit has something extra you can take advantage of if you like….an Add-On!
The Add-On is available RIGHT NOW in the Stampin’ Up! Online Store and will continue to be available after tomorrow, while supplies last, under the list of Products – Kits-Paper Pumpkin – and then Refills, Past Kits & More. It’s the “Exploring In Color Paper Pumpkin Cards & Envelopes”. You do have to be a Paper Pumpkin subscriber to purchase this Add-On, however!
These cards & envelopes use the new In Colors that were just introduced in the new Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog recently! In the actual Paper Pumpkin Kit you will receive an ink spot with the Copper Clay ink.
About the Add-On:
Exploring In Color Cards & Envelopes
Available starting: May 2, while supplies last
Price: $10.00 USD
This add-on includes
18 cards, 6 each of 3 designs
18 coordinating envelopes
Finished card size: 4-1/4″ x 5-1/2″ (10.8 x 14 cm)
I think these cards look beautiful! They would be very handy for those days when maybe you need to write a quick note or get a card in the mail right away and you don’t have time to make a card. But to purchase them, you must first be a Paper Pumpkin subscriber.
After subscribing to Paper Pumpkin, you can add the “Add-on” to your Stampin’ Up! order if you want to purchase some other products!
You can sign up and if you get busy one month, just go into your account and suspend it for that month, then go back in to change it back when you are ready for the next kit. Or if you find Paper Pumpkin is not for you, all you have to do is go into your account before the 10th of the month and cancel your subscription. No risk, no obligation, no phone call to make, no hassle.
If you love the Exploring In Color Paper Pumpkin Cards & Envelopes, get subscribed to Paper Pumpkin TODAY (or for sure tomorrow!!). Here is the information about the Kit. I say it’s a gift you give yourself every month to find a treat in your mailbox, a craft project ready to go as soon as you open the box. And it’s a treat just to open the box!
Here is the May 2023 Paper Pumpkin Kit! I love the box!
Say hello to mountain landscapes and the new In Colors! This month’s kit features nine outdoors-themed cards in our new 2023–2025 In Colors plus exclusive FREE stickers.
This kit includes:
All the supplies you need to create 9 cards, 3 each of 3 designs, plus 9 coordinating envelopes.
A 7-piece all-occasion stamp set that celebrates good friends and great adventures!
1 Copper Clay (new In Color!) Classic Stampin’ Spot.
Twine and die-cut accents
FREE stickers to put on your projects or anything you want—water bottles, laptops, coolers, and more!
Finished card size: 4-1/4″ x 5-1/2″ (10.8 x 14 cm).
Now you have all the information! Click on my personalized link below (you won’t even have to put in my name!) and sign up for Paper Pumpkin! Give it a try, at least, with this beautiful kit and get one of the new In Colors in the Ink Spot! With your first kit you will also get a special acrylic block on which to mount the stamps that come in your kit.
When I first saw this particular paper in the Countryside Inn Designer Series Paper with the little bunnies, I immediately thought it would make a cute baby card! I’m not saying this card, the Countryside Inn Little Bunny Card, is necessarily a baby card, but I think it could be. I think the greeting “could” be for a baby card because when do you “Enjoy All the Little Moments” more than when you have a baby and watch that baby grow up?
I don’t usually do it this way, but for this card, I used Basic White cardstock for the card base, but instead of leaving a margin showing, I completely covered the front of the card with designer paper. I began with the paper that had the little bunnies on it. I ended up cutting the bunny DSP at 5 1/2″ x 3 1/4″ because I wanted to save as many bunnies as I could. I wanted the bunnies to be the focal point of the card so I wanted as much of the full bunnies to show. At first, I cut the paper at 3 1/2″ wide, but obviously, that didn’t leave much room on the top and bottom of the card. So I trimmed off the tiniest bit off the top and bottom so the tiniest bit of the bunnies’ feet were cut off on the bottom and the tiniest bit of one ear on the top. If you want to do it differently, you can vary your measurements.
Next, I chose Misty Moonlight cardstock for the narrow strip at the top and bottom of the bunny pattern. It just helps set off the bunny paper. It is one of the coordinating colors with this Countryside Inn Designer Paper. The other colors that would work are Boho Blue and Night of Navy. I didn’t care for Balmy Blue for this card, but it is listed as one of the coordinating colors. These two strips are cut at 5 1/2″ x 3/4″ and I used my Grid Paper to try to line up the paper as well as I could with 1/4″ showing at the top and bottom of the bunny paper. You could make it narrower. Honestly, I can’t stamp without my Grid Paper! Once you get used to it, you can’t do without it. There are two other choices for Grid Paper in the Online Store but I love the original with the measurements printed along the bottom and up the side. I have some other “prettier” grid paper but I write in my own measurements because that’s partly why I am using Grid Paper!!
If you flip the bunny paper over to the other side, the pattern I used at the top and bottom of the card is what is on the other side. I decided to just go with that pattern since it obviously went with the bunny paper if it was printed on the opposite side. You can cut strips of this DSP to 5 1/2″ x 1″ (or less) so that a little shows above and below the main panel.
To assemble, I first adhered the striped pattern to the top and bottom of the Basic White card base. I adhered the Misty Moonlight cardstock to the top and bottom of the bunny paper, then adhered that panel to the card base. I used the Multipurpose Liquid Glue on this card to give me that “wiggle room” to get the edges all lined up. With a card like this, sometimes one or more of the papers hang over the edge of the card base, but just use Paper Snips or a paper cutter to slice off that tiny bit along the edge.
For the greeting, I used this one in the Easter Bunny Stamp Set. This could be a baby card even without a specific baby greeting. So don’t worry if you don’t have the exactly greeting you want, there is always something else you can use if you look through your stamp sets! I stamped the greeting in Misty Moonlight ink and die-cut it with a die in the Timeless Arrangements Dies. There are other die choices you could make depending on your greeting. I wanted something small to not hide the bunnies! I also cut out an extra little bunny by hand that I popped up on some trimmed Stampin’ Dimensionals and adhered him right over one of the printed bunnies next to the greeting as well as a flower from another sheet of the paper.
It might seem like a lot of steps to this card, but it isn’t really. It took me a little while to design it and do the “math” to get everything the size I wanted, but you can just copy and not figure anything out!
If you like blue, you will really enjoy this Countryside Inn Designer Series Paper in the new Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog! Maybe even if blue isn’t your favorite color, you will come to appreciate the different colors of blue and the cute patterns in all the papers in this pack! Go check it out in the Online Store HERE.
Today is the coronation of King Charles III of England, quite the occasion for a card, don’t you think? If I wanted to celebrate the coronation with a card, I would maybe make this King Charles Coronation Card with some purple and gold for royalty and a little bit of glimmer! Did you get up extra early to watch this historical event live?! Charles became King the moment his mother, Queen Elizabeth, died, but today is the official ceremony and festivities.
To make this card, I pulled out some retired sparkly and shiny paper because, after all, it’s for a King! The card base is Gorgeous Grape cardstock because purple is for royalty. Of course, there has to be a layer of gold foil. Next, I pulled out some Dazzling Diamonds Designer Paper to be the card front. What is more elegant than that?!
To decorate the card, I got the idea to use some purple sparkly paper for a fancy border. The paper is the retired Ombre Specialty Paper. There are several colors, but I used the darker purple color. I used the Elegant Border Dies to cut out the fancy border. I was starting out trying to make a vertical card, but once I changed it to horizontal and thought of using the Elegant Border Dies, it all fell into place! I suggest placing these dies with the cutting edge up and paper on top, opposite of how you might normally place a die and paper. I think some intricate pieces cut better that way.
For the greeting, I diecut a piece of Gold Foil and a smaller Basic White piece to layer. I used the Something Fancy Dies, which were the perfect size that I was looking for. For the actual greeting, I only looked at my current stamp sets and I found this sentiment in the Sentimental Park Stamp Set. Actually, there are lots of sentiments and partial sentiments that can be combined to form exactly what you want to say! I stamped the two different lines to form this greeting on the Basic White cardstock using Gorgeous Grape ink.
For some extra embellishment, besides all the sparkle and glimmer on the papers and gold foil, I added a bow made with the gold ribbon in the Gold & Silver 1/8″ Trim Combo Pack. And a few gold Festive Pearls completed the card.
Do you think King Charles III would be thrilled to receive this King Charles Coronation Card to celebrate this big occasion in his life?! What occasion could be bigger than becoming King?!
We are getting a new floor in the kitchen so many things had to be moved out of the way – like my stamping stuff off the kitchen table and my stamping stuff off the dining room table to make room for kitchen stuff off the counters. The more we thought about it, the more we saw what was or could be in the way or might fall off the wall or get dirty somehow. Hence, this very easy card only required cardstock, designer paper, and a diecut scrap for the greeting, the Fresh As a Daisy Thank You Card! I saw this card idea in the catalog, then when I wanted to look at it again, I couldn’t find it! Finally, I remembered I saw it with the Timeless Arrangements Bundle, NOT with the daisies!
The card base is the new In Color, Wild Wheat, with a layer of another In Color, Copper Clay. I really liked adding that layer because I’m not really fond (yet) of the Wild Wheat, so the Copper Clay helped break that up a little bit.
The beautiful daisy card front is a piece of theFresh As a Daisy Designer Series Paper. You’ll find this daisy bouquet as part of one of the sheets of paper. You just cut apart each individual square or rectangle of daisy goodness and then make something out of each section. I trimmed down this daisy piece so it would fit on the layer correctly.
The diecut piece is likely from the Stylish Shapes Dies. It was mixed in with a lot of other Basic White scraps but I wanted the greeting to be small so as not to cover up much of the designer paper. The greeting is from the Timeless Arrangements Stamp Set which has all kinds of greetings to mix and match and really fun dies of leafy things you can do all sorts of creative things with.
Be sure to look all through the new catalog for ideas, even back in the dies section there are extra card samples for inspiration!
