This Floral Impressions Flowers Card is somewhat inspired by a card on the cover of the front of the new Stampin’ Up!® 2025-2026 Annual Catalog, although I thought I saw one like it on the inside of the catalog as well. The floral card on the front of the catalog is made with products in the Annual Catalog whereas my card is made with paper in the May Online Exclusives!
My card is made with flowers I cut out, by hand, from the Floral Impressions Designer Series Paper. This paper and other products come in the Floral Impressions Suite Collection in the Online Exclusives, as I said. I ordered a couple of other products in the Suite but not everything. I got the Foiled Frames & Labels Ephemera Pack and of course, the Strawberry Slush & Pretty In Pink Gems.
I get the Floral Impressions Paper in the Online Exclusives mixed up with the Florals In Bloom Designer Series Paper in the Annual Catalog on page 117. They look very similar to me and when I got my second pre-order, I thought I had ordered a duplicate of the first paper I got! I’ll get it straight eventually, but right now I have to look at each one to get it right!
My card uses Basic White cardstock for the card base with a layer of Strawberry Slush cardstock. As I paged through the papers, I was struck by the “other side” of the floral paper with this Darling Duckling yellow grid pattern, so I had to use that. I cut a strip 1 1/4″ x 5 1/4″ with the yellow side up across the card. I only put glue across the middle in case I wanted to stick any flowers underneath the strip.
The flowers are all cut out with Paper Snips scissors from the designer series paper. Some of you may hate to do that, but I find it rather relaxing. These were a little more challenging that I usually like to do but I like the look. In fact, I cut out some extras so I am saving those for another card. I just played around with them until I liked the placement then either glued them down flat or popped a few up with Stampin Dimensionals.
The tricky part was where to put the greeting since I didn’t really leave space. I used the Blooming Phrases Stamp Set in the May Online Exclusives. The cute part of this stamp set is the long tail from the cursive writing of each word, but due to space, I had to cut mine shorter. In the end, I popped it up over a few of the flowers. As you might expect, to embellish the card even more, I used the 2025-2027 In Color Flat Pearls in Darling Duckling on the background and two Strawberry Slush pearls on the greeting. These are nice because they don’t stick up very much for mailing.
Tomorrow is Mother’s Day so I think, just in case, you should treat yourself today to a Stampin’ Up! order just in case “some people” do not show you enough appreciationg! LOL! It happens!