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Patriotic July 4th Red, White, and Blue Birthday Card

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Patriotic July 4th Red White and Blue Birthday Card

This Patriotic July 4th Red, White, and Blue Birthday Card is one you can make with colored cardstock strips adhered at an angle to a base piece of cardstock, then embossed. This card is embossed with the Swirls of Magic Embossing Folder, a brand-new product just released this week at Stampin’ Up! in the Online Exclusives! You will find it is part of a Halloween suite, but as you can see, the swirls, stars, and dots are great for any festive occasion, like the 4th of July!

After embossing and adhering to a Real Red card base, I added three greetings, one being from an ephemera pack. They are popped up over a twisted Real Red ribbon, at an angle to match the cardstock strips, with Stampin’ Dimensionals. If the Dimensionals are too big for the sentiment, you can use the Minis or even use the edge strip on the Dimensionals sheet as I did here. For a little embellishment, I added some small white stars – these from a Halloween embellishment pack from last year that still work, because stars are for any time! You will find a current package of stars with the soccer suite, A Wonderful Match.

What a special 4th of July we are about to celebrate in America! Just think how our Founders came up with the type of government 250 years ago that we have today, and it still works to everyone’s benefit! Everything takes effort, even being a Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator, especially if you want to have a big business with hundreds of customers and downline, but if you have a goal in mind, whatever future you are hoping and planning for, you can achieve it here in the United States. It’s been wonderful having lots of soccer fans from other countries visiting here in America for the FIFA games and reminding us what a special country we live in, just in time for our country’s birthday on July 4th! I hope you get to enjoy one of the many celebrations across the country this weekend, and especially to watch a great fireworks display and have your heart burst with excitement and pride!

HAPPY 4th of July!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMERICA!!!

Wild Bunch Happy Birthday Card

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Wild Bunch Happy Birthday Card

I just got this Wild Bunch Stamp Set a few days ago because I ordered late since we were on our cruise. Also, it seems like June just started, but it’s 3/4’s over! I can barely keep up! I saw that this Wild Bunch Stamp Set, the June Product of the Month, is sold out already. However, maybe you already have it and are looking for ideas. While the English version is sold out, the French version is still available! It doesn’t matter what language the stamp set is in for the cute animals, but of course the sentiments will be in French. But you can substitute from your other stamp sets.

To get the Product of the Month, you must spend $75 on Stampin’ Up! products and then only pay $5 for the Product of the Month. You must have your own Stampin’ Up! account.

For this first card using the Wild Bunch Stamp Set, the Wild Bunch Happy Birthday Card, I used Pecan Pie cardstock for the card base. The fold is at the top of the card, but you can put it on the side as usual. The pattern layered as the background is in the Lovely Blossoms Designer Series Paper. I wouldn’t have thought, “I think I’ll use the paper with tiny white flowers on it for my card,” but once I saw it in the package, I thought it would be cute with this little koala bear. Koalas aren’t really bears, they are marsupials.

The koala is stamped on Basic White cardstock with Memento Ink and colored in with Stampin’ Blends. You can use whatever colors you like. I’m not an expert on what colors various animals should be! He was fussy-cut after I colored him.

The background for the koala are two Scalloped Blooms Dies, one in Pecan Pie and one in a striped paper in the Lovely Blossoms Designer Paper. I put the stripes on a slight diagonal rather than trying to have them straight. The koala is popped up on the scallops along with a little gift colored in Pool Party.

The greeting is stamped in Pecan Pie ink on Basic White and then just flagged one end. The greeting is in the Wild Bunch Stamp Set.

For some final embellishments, I used a few of the Crumb Cake pearls in the Pearls of Beauty Pack.

I stamped and colored all the animals so they would be ready when I want to make another Wild Bunch card!

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Artisan Sketched Garden Black & White Birthday Card

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Artisan Sketched Garden Black & White Floral Birthday Card

Sometimes just black and white together look classic and elegant, so if you make a card like this Artisan Sketched Garden Black & White Birthday Card, you will have a beautiful card without all the color matching and coloring. This card is easy to make as is, and if you did want to add color in any of several ways, you could do that.

This card starts with a Basic Black card base. You will need to add a Basic White layer inside the card for a stamped greeting or written personal note. The paper I used is the Artisan Sketched Garden Designer Series Paper. It has all sorts of flowers and other generic designs you can use on your projects, cards, or scrapbook pages. I chose a white floral design for the top section and a white polka dot strip for the bottom part. This is a basic design you can use for any easy card showcasing two different patterns of designer series paper. The bottom strip is about 1 1/2″ wide but you can make it any size you want. Since I didn’t have any white ribbon, I added a narrow strip of Basic White across the seam where the two DSPs overlap. I think that adds a nice finishing touch when you have two papers meeting up or overlapping a bit.

The flowers are stamped with Memento ink and fussy-cut from the Lovely Arrangements Stamp Set and fussy-cut, as we say. Just cut around the edge, not right on the outer stamped line. Cut just a smidge outside the flower border so you can still see the stamped edge. These are popped up with Stampin’ Dimensionals across that white seam.

The birthday greeting is stamped on a scrap of Basic White from the same Lovely Arrangements Stamp Set, but you could use whatever you have or whatever occasion you want the card to be for. I cut it as narrow as I could, with one flagged end so it would fit nicely at the bottom of the card.

That’s all there is to this card. You could add some black or white dots if you really wanted to but I’m not sure how well they would show up. Just keep this one simple!

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Sincerely Noted Ephemera Happy Birthday Card

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Sincerely Noted Ephemera Happy Birthday Card

Talk about a quick & easy card to make! This Sincerely Noted Ephemera Happy Birthday Card is it!! I only added one extra thing that you could eliminate if you didn’t want to do ANYTHING extra. Just make a basic card with designer paper and slap on an ephemera greeting! That’s it. Now, usually we like to add more elements and sometimes fancy things up quite a bit. But if you are a beginner or you are in a big hurry to beat the mailman, this very basic card is just fine!

Let me give you the “detailed” instructions! Make a card base with Basic White cardstock. Adhere a 4″ x 5 1/4″ piece of the Everyday Essentials Designer Series Paper. This package of paper has no particular theme, as most of our designer papers do, but instead is a variety of patterns in soft, easy-to-use colors in lots of ways. I bought it because I loved the little floral paper with pink flowers, but I also liked the stripes and the notebook paper pattern. You’ll find this paper in the new Stampin’ Up! catalog in the Mix & Match section with the ephemera. It’s a good package of paper to have for when you want something neutral or subtle.

For the greeting, no stamping! Not that we don’t love stamping, but sometimes you want something quick that will still look very nice. This greeting is from the Sincerely Noted Ephemera Pack. There are quite a few packs to choose from in the catalog plus older ones in the Last Chance category, maybe on a slight discount. They are fun to use as well as being quick and handy! For this card, I chose the “Happy Happy Happy Birthday” piece. These even have adhesive on the back if you peel off the backing, which makes them like stickers. If you have difficulty removing the backing, just use adhesive or Dimensionals.

To add a little more color to the card, I adhered the greeting onto a piece of Calypso Coral cardstock, one of the coordinating colors of the ephemera pack. Since the greeting is a hexagon shape, I cut around the edge, leaving a slight margin, to provide a colorful layer underneath. I just used a scissors; you could also use the Paper Trimmer. I think a larger scissors works better for something like this. You could also just use a square or rectangular piece of Calypso Coral as a layer if you didn’t want to cut it to match the shape.

That’s it! Card done! Just stamp or write a message inside to send!

Now if you got this far and want to embellish it a little bit, add some dots or gems or tie a little bow or knot at the bottom of the greeting with ribbon or linen thread.

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Velvet Meadow Easiest Ever Birthday Card

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Velvet Meadow Easiest Ever Birthday Card

If you want to make a quick and easy card, this Velvet Meadow Easiest Ever Birthday Card is the one for you! And so pretty and elegant, even if you couldn’t find an easier card to make! It’s all about the Velvet Meadow Specialty Designer Series Paper!

This paper is exceptional because it has soft flocking as part of the design on the paper. You can feel it, and it is lovely! What makes this card so easy to make is the way the design is printed on this paper, which Stampin’ Up! has been doing pretty frequently with the designer series paper. The paper is printed with a design at the top and bottom of the page so that you can cut it into 6 card fronts. Depending on what measurements you want, you can cut up this paper and have something similar and pretty on each card or project.

Velvet Meadow DSP Sheet

The card I made has a card base of Berry Burst, one of the coordinating colors with the Velvet Meadow paper. The designer paper is cut at 4″ x 5 1/4″. If you know you want to make six cards in total with this paper, just cut three strips vertically at 4″. Then trim down to 5 1/4″. You will have some plain middle pieces left but you can use the six cut pieces on card fronts.

Before adhering the designer paper to the card (just to be on the safe side!), stamp a greeting directly on to the card in the empty space. No label or anything necessary. Just stamp. I used the birthday greeting in the Scalloped Blooms Stamp Set. You’ll find it on page 46 in the new Stampin’ Up! May-August Catalog. It is part of a Suite, the Bloom Boutique Suite on page 16. You can buy it as part of a Bundle with the Scalloped Blooms Dies.

Since the card was SO easy to make, I had plenty of extra time left over from cardmaking to add just a few little embellishments, three Dreamy Flowers. You will find these in the Velvet Meadow Suite Collection. The flowers come in White, Berry Burst, and Bubble Bath. I used the Berry Burst.

That’s all there is to it when you use this particular pattern of paper that can be cut apart to make similar cards! The florals are so colorful and pretty already, but adding the flocking will make the cards extra-special!

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Artisan Sketched Garden Happy Birthday Card

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Artisan Sketched Garden Happy Birthday Card

I was excited to play with my new In Color Stampin’ Blends markers and cardstock, plus the new Artisan Sketched Garden Designer Series Paper, and I finally got the chance to make this Artisan Sketched Garden Happy Birthday Card. I have to say I love the look of this card! Sometimes you make a card, and you really like it!

The card base is Barely Blush cardstock, one of the new 2026-2028 In Colors. It is a very light pink shade, and I’ll have to see how I like the ink color, but I think the light shade goes so well for this card. I didn’t add another layer of any paper for a background, but I felt like it needed a little something in the background. I decided to do a “watermark” look by stamping a small flower with the Barely Blush ink randomly on the card front. I only did a few, and when I stamped the flowers, I wished I had stamped off first. But as the ink dried, it became a lot lighter, so it worked how I wanted it. The flower was in the Paradise Garden Stamp Set.

I did see the idea for the black and white stripes and torn edges at the bottom of the card somewhere online and liked that look. This striped paper is the Artisan Sketched Garden Designer Series Paper. I measured a piece of the striped paper at 5 1/2″ x about 1 1/2″ or 1 3/4″. Remember, the tearing technique – hold the paper and tear toward yourself so that the side you want to show the torn edge is facing you. In this case, I took the torn piece, turned it over, and used that as a layer underneath the striped piece at the top. It is just stuck down a little bit behind the stripes.

For the flower vases, I cut some apart from the Artisan Sketched Garden DSP that I liked and colored them with my new In Color Stampin’ Blends. I used the Barely Blush for the flowers on the left, Crisp Cantaloupe for the flowers on the right and Peaceful Pine for all the green foliage. For the vases, I used Hydrangea Hue for the vase color with the pink tulips, and to look like some water in the clear glass vases in the middle and left. I just barely scribbled on some color. Hydrangea Hue is really a purplish blue, but I think it did fine as water, and mainly, I only wanted to use the new In Colors. I popped up the vases with Stampin’ Dimensionals, regular size and Minis. You could also glue them down flat. Or if you thought about it ahead , (I never do!), you could adhere a piece of Adhesive Sheets on the back of the DSP before cutting out the vases and turn them into stickers so you wouldn’t have to use adhesive on the narrow little foliage and flowers.

The greeting is stamped with the Lovely Arrangements Stamp Set. I wanted something small to fit on the card without taking away from the vases. It is stamped with Memento Black ink on a piece of Barely Blush cardstock and cut like a banner only on the left side. It is glued down flat, but could be popped up. For a finishing touch, I added three of the 2026-2028 In Color Dots in Barely Blush.

Be sure to check out the Artisan Sketched Garden Designer Series Paper on page 63 of the new Stampin’ Up! Catalog. We’ve had black and white paper before, (Here’s an old example!) and I think it offers a lot of creative options, whether you color on it in any one of a million ways or if you leave it black and white. Get some and try it out!

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Notes of Spring Birthday Wishes Card

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Notes of Spring Birthday Wishes Card

This Notes of Spring Stamp Set is one of the Product of the Month choices Stampin’ Up! has released the past few months. It is still available if you would like to choose it with your $75 minimum order, although there is a new Product of the Month, a beautiful die, out for April. The Notes of Spring Stamp Set has three cute little woodland animals in it, plus some river plants and even gree/tings. Definitely a lovely stamp set to own.

The card base is Crumb Cake cardstock. The designer paper as the background layer is that Easter paper, Easter Joy Specialty Designer Series Paper. Except, Easter is over, but here is a way to use the leftover paper for other cards besides Easter! This pattern goes well with the Crumb Cake cardstock.

For the focal part of the card, I cut a piece using the Branching Out Dies. These dies are on the Last Chance list so if you want them be sure to order them soon. It’s a nice set of dies. I stamped the little deer on the lower part of the diecut label. It is two-step stamping to fill in the deer with color. The greeting is also in the stamp set Notes of Spring. In keeping with the monochromatic look of the card, I used some Linen Thread to tie a double bow and attached it to the top of the label after wrapping some thread around the piece about three times. This whole label piece is then popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals.

I’m really happy with the way this card turned out! I guess the colors and simplicity feel calming to me. In any case, it’s an idea of how to use up some of that Easter Joy Designer Series Paper in case you still have some left and don’t like to hoard it. Oh, never mind! We all like to hoard our paper! But if you do want to use it, get out those non-holiday patterns and see what you can do!

Lovely & Beautiful Floral Birthday Card

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Lovely & Beautiful Floral Birthday Card

This Lovely & Beautiful Floral Birthday Card came about because I love this designer series paper with the big, beautiful flowers, and also this pretty sheet with the little pattern of Fresh Freesia flowers on the paper. The card has a little bit of everything – designer series paper, stamping, and some fussy-cutting!

The card base is Basic White, although Thick White cardstock might be preferable. The fold is at the top of the card. If you cut a full sheet of cardstock in half vertically at 4 1/4″, then score at 5 1/2″, you can have the fold at the top or to the left side.

The two patterns of the beautiful Lovely & Beautiful Specialty Designer Series Paper you see on this card are the same sheet, just both sides. I love the little Fresh Freesia purple flowers and green leaves all forming a grid design over the paper. The other side of the paper is the green color on the sides of the card with light images of foliage. I cut this paper at 4″ x 5 1/2″. This allows a little bit of white to show on each side of the card. I cut off the designer series paper at 1/2″ off each side. That makes the center portion 3″ wide.

The banner shape in the center is a diecut from the Creative Haven Dies. Since the top was going to be covered up with flowers, I lowered it on the page and stamped “Happy Birthday” three times at the bottom of the banner with Old Olive ink. This greeting is from the Lovely Arrangements Stamp Set.

The large flowers are cut from the designer series paper by hand with Paper Snips. I actually only cut the center part of a larger flower so it would fit on my card. After I cut out one flower, I decided I might as well cut out another one! It’s not difficult to fussy-cut images from the designer paper. One flower is popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals and one adhered flat to the card. The leaves were also fussy-cut from the paper.

For an embellishment, I used three Garden Epoxy Dots in Flirty Flamingo. These are new embellishments in the March Online Exclusives. Half the package is solid color dots (Berry Burst, Blueberry Bushel, Crushed Curry, Flirty Flamingo) and half the package is clear with a tiny flower image inside each dot. They are part of the Garden Poetry Suite Collection, but of course, you can use them with many projects.

This Lovely & Beautiful Designer Series Paper is currently unavailable but is expected back in stock the week of April 6. Hopefully, you already have it, and if you don’t, I’d suggest ordering it because it is truly “Lovely & Beautiful”! Fill out your email in the Online Store to be notified when it comes in so you don’t miss out. Sometimes things come back in stock earlier than expected.

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Splash of Sparkles Z-Fold Birthday Card

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Splash of Sparkles Z-Fold Birthday Card

This Splash of Sparkles Z-Fold Birthday Card is made with some of the happiest paper we have ever had! Wait until you see it in person! That’s how I felt the first time I made a card with this paper – it made me feel happy! The colors, the foil accents, the splashes of colors in all different designs – it’s just wonderful paper to have fun with! You will want to put the Splash of Sparkles Designer Series Paper on your next order!

I made a Z-Fold card because it shows off more of the beautiful paper in the Splash of Sparkles pack. A Z-Fold card is easy to make. It just requires one extra fold. Make the usual card base of 5 1/2″ x 4 1/4″ for the front. Then fold the front of the card in half, back toward the fold which is at 2 1/8″. Score first to make it easier to fold. This card base is made with Timid Tiger cardstock, one of the newest In Colors.

To decorate the card I cut a strip of the orange, pink, and gold striped pattern at 1 7/8″ x 5 1/4″. For the inside of the card I used the pattern with the big watercolor circles, choosing the portion that had the orangish and pinkish colored circles so it would coordinate with the paper on the front.

For the front of the card, I diecut a piece of Timid Tiger with one of the Branching Out Dies and the next smaller one in Bubble Bath pink. For the inside of the card, I diecut another piece of Bubble Bath in the same smaller size so that it would fit behind that layered panel on the front of the card.

The flower, leaves, and sentiment are stamped with the Lovely Arrangements Stamp Set. The flower is stamped in Memento ink and colored in with the Timid Tiger Combo of Stampin’ Blends. The leaves are stamped with Granny Apple Green ink on Basic White. I cut both out by hand. The greeting is stamped in Memento Ink, also on Basic White. For space reasons, I cut the words apart and carefully cut around each one.

To assemble the card, layer the Bubble Bath cardstock diecut panel on the Timid Tiger panel. When you have the card folded into the Z-shape, adhere the designer paper on the narrow front panel and the other pattern inside the card. See where the center of that panel is so that it can be lined up right on the Z-fold. Only put glue or adhesive on the one side so that the other side will not be stuck to the inside of the card! I had a scrap of the striped paper, so I adhered that as a background for the words to the front panel. The flower is popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals and the leaves are glued flat to the card.

If you want to stamp a greeting or images on the inside panel, do so before you adhere it inside the card, just in case. I stamped Happy Birthday and a couple of the other flower in the stamp set. Line it up inside the card with the front panel, put adhesive on the back of it, and then fold the back side of the card over to adhere the greeting panel to the inside of the card so that it lines up with the front panel and will not be sticking out when the card is closed. You will understand when you do it!

Splash of Sparkles Z-Fold Birthday Card Open

Here are the two sides of the Splash of Sparkles Designer Series Papers:

Spash of Sparkles Designer Series Paper

Aren’t those such bright and fun colors? And even better in person!

Splash of Sparkles Paper Foil Accents

And one side has gold and iridescent foil for some real pizzazz! Think about birthday cards, any happy occasion, maybe even party invitations!

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Celebratory Sips Birthday Drinks Card

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Celebratory Sips Birthday Drinks

Maybe you have seen this paper and Suite Collection around on the internet from the May Online Exclusives at Stampin’ Up! I didn’t order it right away, but later on I couldn’t resist. However, this is the first time I have really gotten it out to make a card and I’m happy with the way this Celebratory Sips Birthday Drinks Card turned out! It was fun to make. As I am writing this, the Celebratory Sips Suite Collection is not available because the two embossing folders in the suite are not available. But you can order everything else, just separately.

You might think that all the papers have to do with fancy drinks, but that’s not the case! The Celebratory Sips Designer Series Paper also has flowers, citrus images, watercolor designs, plus summer-inspired drinks. As hot as the weather is across the country you might like to cool off by designing some cards or scrapbook pages with these summer drinks! I’m really happy with the variety of designs on these papers, plus some whimsical designs on “the other side” of the papers.

Here are the Celebratory Sips papers up close:

Celebratory Sips DSP Other Side

Celebratory Sips DSP Other Side

The card starts with Berry Burst cardstock for the card base. There are so many colors you can choose from that coordinate with these papers! I hardly ever use Berry Burst but I liked it with the background paper I used. As you can see, that paper is one of the generic designs on “the other side”. I fussy-cut three drinks from one of the designer paper sheets. If you get the Cheers & Sips Bundle you can stamp and diecut some drink images and maybe some from the designer paper, but I only have the paper. To make the drinks stand out a little better against the rather dark background, I die cut a Basic White circle from the Spotlight On Nature Dies. How often do I use these particular dies? A whole bunch! They are a good set to have in your collection!

Then it was just a matter of placing the drinks. I popped up the pink drink with the cherry and umbrella on the left, but the lemonade drink, shall we say, is adhered flat to the card. The green drink in the center ( I don’t think it is a Margarita!) is popped up right in between on Stampin’ Dimensionals just on the right side because the left side is flat on the pink drink.

The greeting is in the Charming Day Stamp Set. It just happened to be nearby and I thought the “Happy Birthday” font was perfect to use on this card. I stamped it with Berry Burst ink and then cut around the shape instead of taking up too much space on the card. I saw a tip about drawing around the stamp itself lightly with pencil, stamping within that line, and then you can cut out the greeting following the line. If it is too difficult to get your stamp placed right, just eyeball it. There is no right or wrong way to cut around the words. The greeting is popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals.

Since I wanted it to be a fun birthday card, I aded several Shiny Sequins that I had in my stash. You can use whatever gems or sequins you have to add a little sparkle!

Remember, you will find the Celebratory Sips Suite products in the Online Exclusives category or just search for the name.

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Floral Impressions Yellow Daisies Birthday Card

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Floral Impressions Yellow Daisies Birthday Card

This Floral Impressions Yellow Daisies Birthday Card is an easy one to make when your kitchen is torn up waiting for new flooring, your stamping supplies are scattered around different places in the house, and you can’t find your Paper Trimmer anywhere! (Oh! It’s under a pile on the fireplace! Who would have thought?!)

The card base is Garden Green cardstock with a layer of the generic design on the back of the daisy paper. This is the Floral Impressions Designer Series Paper in the Stampin’ Up! Online Exclusives. This is a great package of paper with pretty florals and foliage plus the pretty colors on the “other side” of the papers. This paper is part of the Floral Impressions Suite Collection if you want it all with one number on your order! Don’t forget it is FREE SHIPPING at Stampin’ Up! with a $75 order today and tomorrow!

The daisy paper is 3″ x 4″ and the only reason it is that size is because it was a piece already cut to that size and fit this card perfectly! I layered it on another piece of Garden Green cardstock 3 1/4″ x 4 1/4″. The greeting is in the Saying Something Ephemera Pack in the Annual Catalog. I layered it on a strip of Garden Green. Just add a little bow out of twine, like this Garden Green color, or Linen Thread would be perfect as well. The greeting is popped up on Dimensionals.

That’s all there is to this card. Add a Basic White layer inside so you can stamp or write a personal message because of the dark cardstock. Add a few gems if you like some sparkle, too!

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Painterly Pears Unbounded Love Birthday Card

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Painterly Pears Unbounded Love Birthday Card

I needed to make a simple card because we are in the midst of getting a new kitchen floor so everything is out of place, including my stamping stuff since I do that at our kitchen table! This Painterly Pears Unbounded Love Birthday Card came together very easily even though I didn’t really have a plan. Very often just looking at a pack of designer series paper stimulates some creativity!

For this card, I simply looked at the Painterly Pears Designer Series Paper and this pattern with the Petal Pink background happened to be in the front of the package. It looked beautiful to me! And I found a Petal Pink card base, already cut, scored and folded! I can’t find where I put my Paper Trimmer but I always have my old guillotine one from years ago handy so I cut use that to trim down the designer paper for the card front.

The greeting is made with the Unbounded Love Bundle. I used two of the dies in the Unbounded Love Dies, one to diecut the Basic White larger oval scalloped shape and a smaller one for the Petal Pink thin oval. I found that the small Petal Pink diecut fit right over the pierced inside border of the scalloped diecut. Before adhering the Petal pink piece, I stamped a greeting from the Unbounded Love Stamp Set in Mossy Meadow ink. It just barely fit! I also added a little trim to the bottom of the greeting. It is the Petal Pink 5/16″ Braided Trim. I just cut two small pieces because the braided trim is thick so I didn’t want to fold over one bigger piece in half and make too large a fold under the greeting. Then I popped up the whole greeting with Stampin’ Dimensionals.

For a little embellishment, I used the new Low Profile Sparkle Dots to put a little sparkle on this card. These Dots are in the beautiful Painterly Pears Suite Collection but you can purchase them separately, of course.

You’ll find the Painterly Pears Suite and individual products in the latest Online Exclusives in the Online Store! It really is a beautiful set that I’m sure you will enjoy!

Wildflower Birthday Hidden Tag Card

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Wildflower Birthday Pull Out Tag Card

Last Saturday Stampin’ Up!® held a virtual event, Creativity Now, for Demonstrators to “attend”. I made this card, Wildflower Birthday Hidden Tag Card, in the same design as one of the cards but with paper I already had. They used a specific upcoming Suite, Peaceful Garden, to do their projects. This Suite will be one in the new September-December 2025 Mini Catalog (Holiday Mini). We could preorder that Suite or any of the products in the Suite to stamp along during Creativity Now, but I decided to wait and see what would be in the Mini Catalog. I did find I was more drawn to the Suite seeing it being used in making cards and one little box, and it’s not just for Christmas cards at all, but you could use it for holiday cards.

I mostly copied the Creativity Now design of this card that they made, but I used the Wildflower Birthday Specialty Designer Series Paper. I changed up the design a little bit from how Stampin’ Up! made their card but it is basically the same and easy to make.

The card base is Pool Party cardstock but other colors could have been used also. Stampin’ Up! just used the square of designer paper and the greeting block underneath on the card base, but I adhered them to a layer of Pretty In Pink cardstock first before adhering to the card. The Wildflower Birthday Designer Paper is cut at 3″ x 3″ and the Basic White block is 3″ x 1 1/4″. On this block, I stamped a sentiment in the Simply Said Stamp Set in Pretty In Pink ink. I measured the size of both of these blocks of paper together which was 4 1/2″ x 3″ and then cut the Pretty In Pink cardstock at 4 5/8″ x 3 1/8″ so there would be just a little margin around the edge. Before adhering to the card, I added a piece of Pretty In Pink Ribbon and bow around the seam of the DSP and the greeting.

Now I should have popped up that panel described above of the designer paper and greeting with Stampin’ Dimensionals to make it easier to slide the tag in and out from underneath, but I didn’t think of it in the moment! However, I did remember not to put glue on the right side where the tag would slide in and out, so it still works. Just not as easily. For the tag, I used one on the sheet of tags included in the Wildflower Birthday Specialty DSP and trimmed it down to fit better. I stamped the “Happy Birthday” greeting in Pretty In Pink ink from the same Simply Said Stamp Set on the tag. I decided to adhere it to a piece of Basic white cardstock to make it a little sturdier and then just trimmed off the excess white cardstock around the shape of the tag. To make sure the recipient would notice this tag should be pulled out, I added one of the diecut flowers across the gold top that is included in the DSP plus added a bit of Pretty In Pink Ribbon to the end of the tag. You could also write a message on the back of the tag if you wanted to.

To the side of this front panel with the Designer paper and the greeting is a strip of the designer paper. At the Creativity Now event, they used a small embossed piece and a piece of glimmer paper on that side. I decided to just use one strip of the coordinating designer paper instead. It is cut at 3/4″ x 4 5/8″. I think the gold scallops on the paper add a nice accent to that side of the card.

Wildflower Birthday Hidden Tag Card

This is a fun card design and you can make it with whatever paper and greetings you have for many occasions while you wait for the Peaceful Garden Suite Collection to come out in the next Mini Catalog in September! Maybe you will want that Suite or part of it. I always find it just as fun to watch others stamp and make pretty things as making them myself so I enjoyed Creativity Now even though I wasn’t stamping along with the new sneak peek Suite!

Remember, we are entering the LAST DAYS of the SUITE BOGO 50% OFF SALE so make your list and put in your order if you want to take advantage! Click on that link and scroll down to list the list of the many Suites we have that you can choose from. Read my blog post from yesterday to get more information.

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Wildflower Birthday Tag Card

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Wildflower Birthday Tag Card

I wish I could express to you how easy this card was to make! I had no plans in mind except to use the Wildflower Birthday Specialty Designer Series Paper and out came this Wildflower Birthday Tag Card. I had forgotten about the two sheets of paper in the package that are full of individual tags and images that you can cut apart and use on your cards and projects. You also get two sheets of diecuts which are so fun to use! This designer paper is so pretty for a birthday but lots of other occasions as well. It is definitely not all birthday.

This card has a base of Basic White cardstock and a layer of Peach Pie cardstock. The green dotted designer paper is “the other side” of one of the themed papers in the Wildflower Birthday package. It’s so soft and pretty.

The tag is cut out of the sheet of tags and images I mentioned that also come in this Specialty paper. There are flowers, cakes, and balloons plus others. Just cut them apart and use them on your project. I chose this floral bouquet with a Peach Pie top of the tag. That’s why I added a thin layer of Peach Pie underneath the designer paper. That’s the only thing that took me any time – deciding on just the designer paper on the card base and on which color? White or Peach Pie? I just left a narrow margin of the Peach Pie peeking out under the Soft Sea Foam designer paper pattern and I liked the white card base. However, using Peach Pie for the card base was pretty too!

The tag is popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals with a Peach Pie 3/8″ Bordered Ribbon bow adhered to the top. I don’t usually like things placed on an angle, but I liked it on this card! The greeting practically fell out of the package of words in the Saying Something Ephemera Pack so I figured it was the greeting to use! I also added a few Strawberry Slush & Pretty In Pink Gems in the clear color. Even though the name mentions two colors, there is actually three colors in the package!

If you don’t already own the Wildflower Birthday Specialty Designer Series Paper I’d recommend putting it on your shopping list because you can make lots of cards or scrapbook pages with it!

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Wildflower Birthday Cupcake Birthday Card

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Wildflower Birthday Cupcake Birthday Card

Make this Wildflower Birthday Cupcake Birthday Card easily with the Wildflower Birthday Specialty Designer Series Paper in the Stampin’ Up! Spring Mini Catalog. It’s not “just” for birthdays (as you can see with the floral paper in the background) but you will have some fun options for making birthday cards or birthday scrapbook pages.

This card is made with a card base of Blueberry Bushel Cardstock. It coordinates with some of the flowers in the background paper. The pretty floral paper in the background has gold foil accents which makes almost anything look fancier!

The extra special feature of the Wildflower Birthday Designer Paper is that it comes with two sheets of diecut images. These are great to use on cards and scrapbook pages and make designing the project quick and easy, not to mention fun! For this card, I used three cupcake diecuts on these sheets on the front of the card. They are popped up on three layers of paper underneath to help them stand out. The green paper with white dots underneath the cupcakes is cut at 4″ x 1 1/2″ and is in the Wildflower Birthday DSP. The layer underneath that paper is Blueberry Bushel cardstock cut at 4 1/4″ x 1 3/4″. The layer underneath that is Gold Foil to match the gold foil accents and is cut at 4 1/2″ x 2″.

The greeting is stamped on a scrap strip of Basic White cardstock and layered on Gold Foil with the ends flagged like banners. I just cut these by hand. Just for a little extra embellishment on this card, I added some Shiny Sequins (retired) from the Flowering Zinnias Suite on the top of the cupcakes using the different colors. You can use anything sparkly that you have!

Since the card base is a dark color, add a Basic White layer inside the card on which to stamp or write a personal message. Make it extra nice with either a strip of the designer paper along the bottom and/or a diecut or two!

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