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Springtime Joy Bunny and Easter Basket

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Springtime Joy Bunny and Easter Basket

This Springtime Joy Bunny and Easter Basket Easter card came out of planning to make a monochromatic or almost monochromatic card like one I made a previous year that turned out cute! Only the background turned out to be monochromatic! But it is fun to make a stamped background! Just some good old stamping that feels good in your hand!

The card base is Crumb Cake Cardstock with a layer of Petal Pink. The top layer is Shimmery White Cardstock. I stamped the Easter basket in the Springtime Joy Stamp Set randomly on the piece of Shimmery White with Crumb Cake ink. The Shimmery White has just a very subtle shimmer to it which makes it so elegant and beautiful (but difficult to photograph!).

The bunny and the Easter basket in the Springtime Joy Stamp Set are both stamped on Shimmery White and then cut out with Paper Snips scissors by hand! Then they were adhered to a die-cut piece of Shimmery White, cut out with the Stitched Shapes Dies. These dies are on the Last-Chance List which makes me sad because they have been some of my favorite and most used dies. They are just basic shapes you can use over and over but the little stitching around the edge really adds a nice touch. Plus they can be layered on other die-cuts. In this case the Stitched Shapes circle is layered on a Layering Circles scalloped die-cut. (The Layering Ovals and Layering Squares Dies are both retiring!)

The bunny and basket are both popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals®. They are colored in with Stampin’ Blends alcohol markers. Some Stampin’ Blends colors are retiring as well! Crazy! The bow is tied with the Blushing Bride 3/8″ Metallic Ribbon.

If you really wanted to make a monochromatic Easter card, here is one I made last year all in Highland Heather Ink.

On the inside of the card, I added a Shimmery White piece of cardstock with the Easter greeting stamped in Crumb Cake from the stamp set, plus the Easter basket in the bottom corner.

Be sure to check out the list of retiring Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog products. Some are discounted but not everything. Bundles are not carried over at the Bundle price with the 10% off price, but some Bundle items are carried over to the new catalog separately. There will be new Bundles in the new catalog! A few products are not really going away, such as the Tear & Tape Adhesive, but are being “reconfigured”. The embossing powders are not going away but will be packaged in sets of three colors.

It’s time to make Easter cards so I hope this Springtime Joy Bunny and Easter Basket card will give you some inspiration.

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It’s time to be a part of the Stamping With Karen Mailing List since a lot of things will be coming up! Tomorrow, March 24 at 1 PM Mountain Time, the list from the current Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog of the retiring products will come out! Some select products will be on sale and usually, those go fast! Then in May this year, it will be the new Stampin’ Up! Catalog time, with new products, things to learn about! You’ll want to keep up with all the news surrounding these two big events!

Also, keep up with news about the new Paper Pumpkin Kit every month and what is new with Stampin’ Up! each week!

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Easter Bunny Wreath Easter Card

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Easter Bunny Wreath Easter Card

There are so many pretty cards you can make with this die-cut wreath including a card like this Easter Bunny Wreath Easter Card. You can use this wreath and the other design that comes in the set as well to make all kinds of cards for many occasions. I love adding the Easter bunny and his basket of eggs to the wreath!

The die-cut wreath is made with the Wreath Builder Dies. I die cut two wreaths, one out of Pear Pizzazz and one out of Soft Sea Foam for a lighter color. You can use just one wreath but I think two look more interesting. Just glue one on top of the other, however you would like to place it, and then adhere to the card front.

The card base is Pear Pizzazz with a layer of Shimmery White Cardstock. I thought the background needed a little something, so I embossed it with the Ornate 3D Floral Embossing Folder. I think it adds a nice background without being too much.

The Easter bunny and basket, from the Springtime Joy Stamp Set, are stamped on Shimmery White with Memento Ink and colored in with Stampin’ Blends. I then cut out each by hand. To get your scissors inside the handle of the basket, you can punch a hole or maybe a couple of holes carefully which might work better than trying to stab the point of your scissors into the cardstock! I just used Multipurpose Liquid Glue for everything, although you could pop some things up with Stampin’ Dimensionals if you wanted to.

I also added a bow with the Daffodil Delight 1/4″ Ruched Ribbon and adhered it with Mini Glue Dots. There is also a die for a bow to hang on the wreath, but I preferred a real bow. For the greeting, I stamped one in the Itty Bitty Greetings Stamp Set and made a tiny tag out of it to tie on behind the bow. You can even cheat and add Glue Dots behind a little tag like this to hold it in exactly the position you want it or even behind ribbon tails or bow loops to keep them where you want them!

Here is another card I made for fall die-cutting one each of both the wreath designs on one card!

Easter is in two weeks from yesterday so it’s time to make Easter and Spring cards if you want to send them.

Shop the Last-Chance Products Sale March 24 – May 3 on select, retiring Annual Catalog products! Be ready!

(Sale probably begins at 1:00 PM Mountain Time, 2:00 PM Central Time when the Retiring List is released. Stay tuned!)

Art Gallery Floral Card For Spring

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Art Gallery Floral Card For Spring

I may have missed the first day of Spring, but this Art Gallery Floral Card For Spring is for the second day of Spring! I was pleased with how this card turned out with “just stamping”. The large flower stamps in the Art Gallery Stamp Set can be used with two-step stamping which adds extra interest, texture, and dimension with the possibility of different colors on the same flower.

For this card, I used pretty bright colors, like Melon Mambo for the card base and for the first top flower. I think with the holidays and winter, I hadn’t used Melon Mambo for a long time and it’s one of my favorites. For the other flowers, I used Daffodil Delight and Highland Heather, plus Mango Melody and Melon Mambo for the smaller flowers.

When you do two-step stamping, one way to do it is to ink up your stamp and then stamp lightly on scrap paper first, then stamp the image on your cardstock. This gives a light image, over which you can then stamp the second stamp, usually a little more detailed, which then shows up darker over the light image but doesn’t fully cover it at all. Or you can do it in reverse…..stamp the detailed image first and then the lighter image. Depending on the stamp, you might even be able to stamp full strength both times if the detail shows up well enough.

With two-step stamping, you can also use two different colors on the stamp. For example, you could stamp the lighter color in yellow and then use an orange shade for the second stamp. It might produce a colorful, shaded version of a flower like you might see in nature.

In order to stamp the large stem and leaf stamp in the set now on my card with not much space in between flowers, I stamped the large flower on scrap paper and then cut it out to use as a mask. After inking up the leaf stamp, I placed the cut out mask over the flower that would get the green ink on it if not covered. Then I stamped the stem and leaf. That way, the extension of the leaf and stem gets stamped over the mask instead of ruining your stamped flower. Then remove the mask and place it on another flower. Maybe don’t ink you the whole leaf image if that works so you don’t get ink where you don’t want it.

For the greeting, I simply stamped it right on the card. I could have made it a layer, but I ended up with that small empty space at the top of the card and it seemed perfect to just put the greeting there. This greeting is also in the Art Gallery Stamp Set as are many other choices in sentiments.

While you can use Basic White or Very Vanilla for the top card layer, for a change I used Shimmery White Cardstock. This is my favorite paper because it has a subtle shimmer. It’s just beautiful! It usually doesn’t photograph because it is so subtle, but in person, you can see it. You can stamp well on it and you can watercolor on it better than Basic White. Use Shimmery White when you just want something a little more special! It’s very nice paper!

Hopefully you are feeling spring where you live! We have certainly had some beautiful spring days to be outside in Houston lately, although it has been a little chilly in the mornings. In spite of our winter storm, our grass is turning green again (maybe a lot of weeds!) and the azaleas are blooming! The bugs are back out (yuck!), especially the mosquito hawks, that like to hang around doors and fly in the house. This is the perfect weather which we have to enjoy until the very hot, humid summer arrives.

Celebrate spring by making a few light, bright, and colorful cards after the doldrums of winter! It will lift your spirits and those to whom you send the cards!

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Rainbow Glimmer Daisies Thinking of You Card

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Rainbow Glimmer Daisies Thinking of You Card

The other day when I was playing with the beautiful, fun Rainbow Glimmer Paper to make my little leprechaun hat and shamrocks for St. Patrick’s Day, I couldn’t put it away! This Rainbow Glimmer Daisies Thinking of You Card is the result of playing some more with it!

The card base is Granny Apple Green Cardstock with a layer of Basic White. I thought I would try punching out some flowers in all the colors! I used the Medium Daisy Punch, punching out two daisies for each flower. I tried to cover all the color shades I could on the Rainbow Glimmer Paper. For the flower centers, I used my retired 1/2″ Circle Punch.

The flower stems I just cut by hand and purposely made them a little curvy so it didn’t matter if I got them straight or not! The leaves are all die-cut with various dies. I just looked through my dies for small leaf dies. Not sure it’s a good look to have all these different looking leaves on Rainbow Glimmer daisies, but it’s a fun card so it’s okay!

On this busy card, I didn’t have much room for a greeting and probably could have left it off. I used one from the Art Gallery Stamp Set. I wanted something that wasn’t too big but big enough to show up on the busy card. I experimented with layering it on another color or even leaving the greeting un-layered, but I settled on just adding a slim piece of Mango Melody on the top and bottom of the greeting but not going all the way across. I like it. Just a little pop of color but doesn’t interfere with all the flowers.

I don’t think I have the Rainbow Glimmer Paper out of my system yet so a little more playing might be in order. Here is a card I made a while back using the Banner Blooms Die. I tried to get as many shades of the glimmer paper into the bouquet as I could. You just don’t know exactly what look you will get when you use this paper! That’s the fun of the rainbow glimmer bands on the paper!

Remember, the Stampin’ Up! retirement list will be coming out very soon, so if there is anything you think “might” be retiring from the Annual Catalog, you might want to grab it early so you don’t miss out when the list actually hits. No one but Stampin’ Up! know what is on it yet!

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A Shamrock Card For St. Patrick’s Day

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St. Patrick’s Day is coming up this week so if you want to make a card for someone, you might want to try something like this Shamrock Card For St. Patrick’s Day!

It’s fun and easy to make shamrocks with hearts! You can stamp hearts together, punch hearts, die cut hearts, cut out hearts – whatever you like! Then just put three of them together and add a stem and you have a shamrock!

Shamrocks are a symbol of Ireland and was used by St. Patrick, Ireland’s patron saint, to represent the Holy Trinity in the Christian religion. Shamrocks are clover, but they must have three leaves to be a shamrock. If there are more or less leaves, the it is a clover and not a shamrock. See, you learn something new everyday!

To make this shamrock on this card, I started with dies, but I wasn’t happy with the sizes. Then I remembered we had two heart punches in a Heart Punch Pack! One is a little larger and has a scalloped edge and the other is plain and is a bit smaller so you can layer it on the scalloped heart.

After looking over the greens, I chose Just Jade Cardstock for the green color of the card. The card base is Just Jade with a layer of Basic White. I punched three scalloped hearts from Just Jade. Just Jade is one of the current In Colors and I like it but haven’t used it much.

For the heart layer, I decided to choose the polka dot pattern paper in the True Love Designer Series Paper. After punching out with the plain heart punch, I colored the heart with both the Light and Dark Just Jade Stampin’ Blend markers. This provides a little interest against the solid heart layer underneath. You could even use the floral pattern on the reverse side for something really different! I almost did that! The shamrock stem is just cut by hand from a scrap.

Before gluing down the shamrock, I stamped a few confetti images with Just Jade Ink around on the Basic White layer. In adhering the shamrock, I glued down the two side petals with Stampin’ Seal and then popped up the top one just for fun with Stampin’ Dimensionals®. The greeting is in the Itty Bitty Greetings Stamp Set and is punched out with the retired 1″ Circle Punch that I have. I put a Dimensional under the bottom portion of the circle so that it would be even with that popped up heart shamrock petal. And for a little gold for St. Patrick’s Day, I added a few Gilded Gems.

You can use this card for inspiration or maybe this card from last year using stamped hearts. Wednesday, March 17 this week is St. Patrick’s Day if you plan to do a little celebrating!

So Cool Paper Pumpkin For April!

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Paper Pumpkin is the papercrafting kit that comes to you in the mail once a month! I like to say it’s a present you give yourself! Or you can give it as a gift!

This kit is a little extra-special! It was designed with children in mind! Something to spark their imagination and creativity and introduce them to our wonderful papercrafting hobby! But it doesn’t have to only be for kids! Once you get a glimpse of this kit, you will want it for yourself whether you have little ones around to share it with or not!

The So Cool Paper Pumpkin Kit is a little taste of summer fun, with enough supplies to make 12 colorful, shaped cards with coordinating envelopes. Six card bases are popsicle-shaped, the other six are semicircles: three watermelons and three rainbows. All of the cards are splashed with cheerful, vivid watercolor images. The kit also includes two full-size, matching sticker sheets, die-cut accents, fun embellishments, and more.

The kit’s exclusive So Cool Stamp Set is versatile, offering sentiments that can be used for multiple occasions such as birthdays, congrats, cheer, and more! It’s a great addition to any crafter’s collection.

Watch the video below to get a feel for the So Cool Paper Pumpkin Kit and then sign up to make sure you are on the list when April 10th rolls around so your kit will be shipped out to you!

Fine Art Floral Birthday Card

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Fine Art Floral Birthday Card

If you want to make a very quick and easy card, this Fine Art Floral Birthday Card is it! After hours of designing this card….I mean, when I pulled out the package of designer paper and saw this already cut strip of floral paper, I thought it would make a beautiful card! That’s how easy it is sometimes! Maybe sometimes you can spend hours working on one card, but it really isn’t necessary!

One of the many coordinating colors of the Fine Art Floral Designer Series Paper is Flirty Flamingo so I chose that color for the card base. I almost just glued on the designer paper, but I decided to try some strips of another color on each side. Old Olive won.

And as luck would have it, there was already a die-cut scalloped oval in the bag of cardstock so I just used that for the greeting. I stamped the birthday greeting from the Art Gallery Stamp Set on Basic White and die cut that with a plain oval in the Layering Oval Dies. I popped up the greeting with Stampin’ Dimensionals. As usual, I couldn’t resist adding a few Champagne Rhinestone Basic Jewels for some bling!

You could put an Easter greeting on this card and it would be beautiful to send, also! You just can’t go wrong with this beautiful Fine Art Floral Designer Series Paper for birthday cards or any other cards as well.

Trio of Bunnies Easter Card

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Trio of Bunnies Easter Card

Here’s a Trio of Bunnies Easter Card, three little bunnies just waiting for Easter! They are just waiting in the grass, next to some tulips, thinking about spring!

The card base is Pool Party Cardstock with a layer of Blushing Bride Cardstock. I like these two colors together for spring, for softness, and for prettiness! The top layer is Basic White Cardstock, stamped with the bunnies from the Springtime Joy Stamp Set, a couple of tulips, and a small butterfly all in Memento Black Ink.

The bunnies, tulips, and butterfly were colored in with Stampin’ Blends alcohol markers. I had colored in some grass and even some sprigs of grass, but then I got the idea to cut a piece of green designer paper of some sort for the bottom border of the card to look like grass. I looked through my designer papers and ended up choosing this pattern from the Artistry Blooms Designer Series Paper. There are several you could choose from. I also colored in the background of the sky behind the bunnies with the Light Pool Party Stampin’ Blend.

I usually like to cover a “seam” or where a piece of designer paper ends on a piece of cardstock with a piece of ribbon or another strip of paper. On this card, I used a piece of Mossy Meadow 3/16″ Braided Linen Trim across the top of the designer paper and tied two knots along the trim.

The greeting is from the Itty Bitty Greetings Stamp Set. You can find almost anything you need in all of the “Itty Bitty” stamp sets! I love them! I punched it out with the Classic Label Punch. It was a good size for this card! It is popped up with a small Foam Adhesive Strip. These are just like Stampin’ Dimensionals except they are strips. Sometimes you use them in the same way as Dimensionals and sometimes they are used for special projects like shaker cards.

For one more little touch, I added some Artistry Blooms Adhesive-Backed Sequins in the background. I could have added an Easter Basket for at least one bunny to hold, but I wasn’t thinking about that when I made the card so I think it is fine the way it is. I could have also used the “Welcome Spring” greeting in the stamp set.

You will find a lot of uses for this cute Springtime Joy Stamp Set!

PS: Today is the last day to subscribe to Paper Pumpkin to get the March 2021 Kit!

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Last Two Days! Get The March 2021 Paper Pumpkin Kit!

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You only have today and tomorrow to sign up for the Paper Pumpkin Kit for March 2021! Sign up now so you won’t miss out!

This one is really different! It’s not more florals or a holiday theme, this kit has cards with a theme of hills and mountains to celebrate life’s milestones.

Three cheers for mountain air, a sky filled with sunshine, and finding joy in life’s journey! Adventure awaits inside this month’s majestic, mountain-themed kit. With enough elements and embellishments to create eight cards and coordinating envelopes, the Here’s to You Paper Pumpkin Kit is the perfect pick for celebrating life’s little moments and mountain-high milestones!

What makes March’s kit one-of-a-kind? The spectacular set of four free stencils—and a stamping sponge—that you’ll find inside! Pair this pack of stunning stencils with the kit’s contents to stamp a springtime scene, then store the set to stamp for any season in the future. Clean up your binoculars and dust off your hiking boots—the Here’s to You Paper Pumpkin Kit is ready to lead you on an excursion to explore your creativity!

ABOUT THE MARCH KIT
The Here’s to You Kit contains enough supplies to create 8 cards—4 each of 2 designs—and coordinating envelopes.

The kit’s contents include printed card bases, die-cut paper pieces, embellishments, adhesive, and more!
Card size: 4-1/4″ x 5-1/2″
Envelope size: 4-1/2″ x 5-3/4″
Coordinating colors: Bumblebee, Calypso Coral, Old Olive, Petal Pink, Pretty Peacock, Seaside Spray
Includes four free stencils and a stamping sponge!
Arrives in a cute and collectible box.

Don’t miss out on getting the four FREE stencils and stamping sponge! We always like “free”!! Plus, you deserve a package in the mail every month!

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Sand & Sea Embossed Friends Card

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Sand & Sea Embossed Friends Card

This Sand & Sea Embossed Friends Card is one I received as a thank you card from my very dear friend who introduced me to Stampin’ Up! many years ago now! I still think she makes the most beautiful cards and this is certainly one of them! I couldn’t resist posting it to show it to you!

This card is made with the Sand & Sea Suite in the January-June 2021 Mini Catalog, otherwise known as the Spring Mini. From the samples I have seen online, I would guess that this was one of the most popular suites in the Spring Mini.

I did some sleuthing and I think my friend used our retired Bashful Blue Cardstock as a layer on a Basic White card base. It fits on the full front of the card base. She embossed it with the Seashells 3D Embossing Folder. This folder is just stunning! She even said in her note she really liked the embossing folder. The embossed top layer is also shiny so I think maybe she used Frost White Shimmer Paint just sponged on the paper! That way you can have any color paper with that pearlized finish!

She used a Rectangle Stitched Die as the base for the focal point of the card. The paper is in the Suite, the Sand & Sea Designer Series Paper. This sheet has the sand image on one side and a multitude of colored seashells on the other side. The greeting is in the Friends Are Like Seashells Stamp Set. She also stamped several seashells in the stamp set and arranged them around the greeting.

For extra embellishment, she tied a piece of Linen Thread around the embossed layer under the greeting piece. And she added a few sequins from the Whale of a Time Sequins. One type of sequin in the mix looks like a tiny seashell!

If this card doesn’t make you fall in love with the Sand & Sea Suite in the Spring Mini, I don’t know what would! Almost everyone loves the ocean and seashells so you can make lots of cards with this set that everyone will enjoy and appreciate.

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Springtime Joy Lamb Easter Card

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Springtime Joy Lamb Easter Card

I am really falling in love with this spring stamp set and enjoyed this making this Springtime Joy Lamb Easter Card. Yes, Easter is right around the corner so it’s time to make cards!

Be sure to check out this Springtime Joy Stamp Set in the January-June 2021 Mini Catalog (Spring Mini)! You might miss it because it’s “just” a stamp set! No Suite, no Bundle, no dies, no embellishments, just a stamp set! Like in the olden days! You’ll find it on page 22.

I wanted to make a card with the lamb in the stamp set and this is what I came up with! The card base is Melon Mambo, a color I haven’t used in awhile somehow. It has a layer of Blushing Bride Cardstock on which I stamped tulips in the same color ink, Blushing Bride.

The lamb is stamped with Memento Ink on Basic White Cardstock. I die-cut the lamb with this die in the Stitched So Sweetly Dies. I started off just coloring the lamb image with Stampin’ Blends, using the lightest gray just around the lamb for a little definition around the flowers, around her face, and around the fluffs of wool on the body. The crown of flowers is colored with Melon Mambo and Flirty Flamingo and the leaves with Granny Apple Green. But I couldn’t stop! I added some grass under the lamb and then, of course, I had to have some sky with Pool Party! Just kind of scribble little scribbles if you are coloring in a larger area.

This lamb piece is layered on a scalloped rectangle of Melon Mambo, also die-cut from the Stitched So Sweetly Dies. I popped this up with Stampin’ Dimensionals.

The greeting is also in the Springtime Joy Stamp Set. It is stamped in Blushing Bride Ink and die-cut with a banner in the Tasteful Labels Dies. It is popped up on Dimensionals, too.

For the inside of the card, I adhered a layer of Basic White since the Melon Mambo is a little dark. It is stamped with the Easter greeting in the stamp set and a little tulip in the lower right corner.

For another idea, here is a card I made with the cute bunny in the Springtime Joy Stamp Set. Oddly enough, I also stamped the tulips in the background on that card, too! I was almost copying myself and didn’t know it!

If you plan to make spring and Easter cards, consider the Springtime Joy Stamp Set and make a card like my Springtime Joy Lamb Easter Card.

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Get the Butterfly Bouquet For Butterfly Lovers!

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Today is the first day for butterfly lovers to get the Butterfly Bouquet! It’s a sure sign of spring after a hard winter for many, don’t you think?!

Bring in the beauty of nature with the artistic designs of the Butterfly Brilliance Bundle and coordinating designer series paper, along with textured specialty paper that will put a pop of brilliance on every project.

This is an early release of a new product in the upcoming Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog! Here are the details:

  • The Butterfly Brilliance Stamp Set and Brilliant Wings Dies are available NOW, either separately or in the Butterfly Brilliance Bundle. These will be in the new catalog, too.
  • The two papers, the Butterfly Bijou 6″ x 6″ Designer Series Paper and the Natural Touch Specialty Paper are ONLY available now during this promotion until May 3. While supplies last. (That means this paper is not going to be in the new catalog, I imagine, so get it now while you can.) The Natural Touch Paper actually has some texture to it and is something different.

Get the Flyer PDF Here!

The stamp set is ONE BIG STAMP! It’s even slightly bigger than a regular card size so if you would like to make a larger card, this is a good stamp for that! Use your Stamparatus to get a good image for sure!

One of the dies cuts out all the butterflies on one of the sheets of butterflies on the designer paper! If you order the stamp set and dies, be sure to get the designer paper so you can do this!

Lots of possibilities with this fantastic collection! If you want everything, just order the Butterfly Brilliance Collection and get it all with one number!

Shop For Butterflies at Stampin’ Up! Today!

Hydrangea Hill Z-Fold Thank You Card

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Hydrangea Hill Z-Fold Thank You Card

You can’t really get enough of this gorgeous designer paper that I used on this Hydrangea Hill Z-Fold Thank You Card. I decided to make a Z-fold card because that makes the card a little extra-special anyway, plus I could show off two patterns of the paper on the front of the card.

As you have seen on several of my other z-fold cards, it really just means the card front is folded back on itself in half. So after you make the card base, just score the card front at 2 1/8″ (half of 4 1/4″) and then fold that edge back to the card fold. Here is a card and photos where you can see exactly how the z-fold looks.

On the folded back part of the card, I chose the very full hydrangea print pattern in the Hydrangea Hill Designer Series Paper. I cut it so there would be a very narrow margin around the edge so the paper is cut at 2″ x 5 3/8″. The inside striped piece is cut at 5 3/8″ x 4 1/8″.

The greeting is stamped with the word “Thanks” from the Good Morning Magnolia Stamp Set. I used Highland Heather Ink to match the Highland Heather Cardstock. This greeting was die cut with a rectangle die from the Rectangle Stitched Dies and adhered to an Ornate Frames Diecut.

When you adhere the greeting on to the front of a z-fold card be careful that you only put adhesive on that area that will adhere to the folded front of the card. Otherwise, it may stick to the other side of the card as well! You can kind of eyeball it or maybe you would want to make a pencil mark to indicate exactly where you want the glue to go (and not go!). If you are putting a smaller greeting inside the card, make sure the front section covers the inside greeting. That can be a little tricky but it is something to think about as you assemble your card.

You will find the Hydrangea Hill Designer Series Paper in the January-June 2021 Mini Catalog. If you like hydrangeas, you must have this paper! They are beautiful flowers and so is this paper on this Hydrangea Hill Z-Fold Thank You Card.