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Beautiful Bokeh Just Because Paper Scraps Card

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Beautiful Bokeh Just Because Paper Scraps Card

I was busy making some other cards with this paper and ended up with some scraps. They all looked so pretty together in a little pile that I decided to make something with them, and that’s how this Beautiful Bokeh Just Because Paper Scraps Card was designed! It’s an easy card to make, of course. When you make a card like this take some time to just play around with the pieces until you feel like you have everything in place how you like it. You can even take a picture with your phone so you can look back at how you laid everything out if you need to move things around to glue them down.

This card begins with just a Basic White cardstock card base. For the layer, I used a piece of the Beautiful Bokeh 6″ x 6″ Designer Series Paper cut at 5″ x 3 3/4″. Then I cut some of the scraps from all different colors of the Beautiful Bokeh paper into strips that are 3/4″ x 3 1/4″ and arranged them at slightly different angles. They are all glued down flat, but you could pop some up on Dimensionals if you wanted to.

The Bokeh Effect is soft, blurry circles in the background, often seen in photography. However, it was a “thing” we all were making a few years ago using an acetate stencil to give the impression of all these soft-colored circles on a background paper. However, now we can just buy the paper with the same effect! Here is another card I made using the Beautiful Bokeh Designer Series Paper.

The greeting is stamped in Berry Burst ink on a strip of Basic White cardstock (another scrap). It is in the Blooming Phrases Stamp Set. I did pop up the strip with Stampin’ Dimensionals. And of course I added some colorful sequins for a little sparkle! Use whatever you have.

I don’t necessarily advocate saving every single piece of paper that is leftover from a project, but when you do have a little collection of scraps and feel inspired, see what beautiful project you can create with the scraps!

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To The Point Punch Spring Card

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To The Point Punch Spring Card

I had this idea for this To The Point Punch Spring Card and I’m happy with the way it turned out! I’ve made other cards like this one with punches which fill the card front like a background, so I thought I would try it out with the To The Point Punch in the Stampin’ Up! Spring Mini Catalog.

To make this card design, I used a Basic White piece of cardstock underneath the punched pieces. It is cut at 4″ x 5 1/4″ so I could have a colored card base and not white. The card base is Berry Burst cardstock.

I punched out several pieces out of the Beautiful Bokeh 6″ x 6″ Designer Series Paper. The colors are Calypso Coral, Daffodil Delight, Berry Burst, and Balmy Blue. I liked the soft colors of that paper with the subtle bokeh look. I just punched out a bunch and then played around with arranging them on the white cardstock. Just lay them out how you like them, allowing the edges of DSP to extend out over the edge of the white cardstock. After you have them glued down to the Basic White cardstock (or whatever color you are using), you can trim off the excess edges with scissors or your Paper Trimmer. If you think ahead a little bit, on the pieces that hang off you can try to avoid putting glue where you don’t need it so it doesn’t get your scissors messy with glue! Don’t ask me how I know! The picture below is not how my pieces ended up being arranged but it’s the way I did it.

To The Point Punch Spring Card Layout

When you have all the punched pieces adhered, you can glue this piece to the card base. For the greeting, I used the banner in the Mixed Labels Stamp Set. I couldn’t find the right words I wanted to stamp on the banner, but I found ones I liked in the Choose Happy Stamp Set. The banner is stamped in black Memento Ink but the words are stamped in Berry Burst ink. I popped it up with Stampin’ Dimensionals across the middle of the card.

I thought that would be it except for maybe some embellishments, but I got the idea to stamp one of the cute images in the Choose Happy Stamp Set on the punched labels. It was a risk of ruining the whole card at this point, but I took a chance and it worked! I stamped the images in the same color as the bokeh paper. The center punched piece was a challenge, but I found the little flowers in the Bright Borders Stamp Set that worked perfectly. Then to finish off the card, I added two purple sequins in the Purple Adhesive-Backed Sequins on the banner. These sequins were available during Sale-A-Bration so you may have them or just use something you have.

All in all, this card was easy to make and was a fun idea to try with the To The Point Punch.

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Beautiful Bokeh Layers of Beauty Card

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Beautiful Bokeh Layers of Beauty Card

I was in the mood for flowers when I made this Beautiful Bokeh Layers of Beauty Card, so I pulled out a stamp set and dies I had not used in a long time! I was also in the mood to use the new bokeh paper I just got recently in my order so I used that for the background.

The card base is Daffodil Delight cardstock, which, I do think looks good and at the same time maybe I wish I had used another color! The flowers in the Layers of Beauty Stamp Set were stamped in Memento ink in black and the colored in with Stampin’ Blends. It had been awhile since I had colored with these markers so it was fun to use them again.

I used a variety of Stampin’ Blends markers to color the flowers and leaves on this stamped image. You do need the largest acrylic block to stamp this large flower bouquet! The main flowers are colored with the Calypso Coral combo. I may have even highlighted the petals a little bit with some Light Daffodil Delight. The small daisy-like flowers are colored with the Fresh Freesia Combo. The leaves are various greens. I started with Soft Sea Foam, then kind of highlighted them with some Light Granny Apple Green and maybe a little Lemon Lime Twist. Use whatever colors you like. If you want to test them out, do some scribbling on a piece of Basic White cardstock. I find I don’t get as good a color on my Grid Paper or computer paper.

When the coloring was finished, I used the die in the Layers of Beauty Dies to cut out the bouquet. That was handy! These stamps and dies are found in the Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog and was a new Bundle when the catalog came out. That seems so long ago now! If you would like to save 10%, you can purchase the stamp set, dies, and decorative masks all together in the Layers of Beauty Bundle. I didn’t use the masks on this card. They are like layers of stencils to color in layers of color. Very pretty.

The background paper on the card is the new Beautiful Bokeh 6″ x 6″ Designer Series Paper in the Spring Mini catalog. I know we all went through a stage of making our own Bokeh paper with a stencil we made ourselves, but just choosing one of these pretty papers is much easier! I chose the Calypso Coral color because you can really see the bokeh design on this paper…light colored circles randomly in the background.

The flowers are glued down flat on the card with Multipurpose Liquid Glue. The greeting is stamped in Calypso Coral ink and is in the Layers of Beauty Stamp Set. It is popped up with an edge of Stampin’ Dimensionals that are remaining on the Dimensionals paper. They worked great for a strip like this! I also added some Shiny Sequins in various colors for a little sparkle on the card. These particular sequins may be retired by now as they came out in the Online Exclusives a year ago, but you can use something similar.

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