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Cheerful Daisies Just For You Card

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Cheerful Daisies Just For You Card

My mind ran through several different card ideas before I spied this green daisy paper in the Fresh As a Daisy Designer Series Paper and made this Cheerful Daisies Just For You Card. There was something about the colors on this sheet of paper that really caught my eye. And that’s how coming up with a card goes! You may think you have an idea but it changes, or you don’t have any idea but you do come up with something once you see just the right thing you want to use!

From the designer paper, I chose Garden Green cardstock for the card base and Crushed Curry for a layer because of all the yellows in the daisies.

As luck would have it, I found quite a few die-cut daisies in a little pile of unused die-cut pieces on my table. Some were just die-cuts but there were some stamped and diecut daisies. That’s where I got this daisy which I thought would look good against all the daisies on the designer paper. The daisy is stamped from the Cheerful Daisies Stamp Set and with a Crushed Curry center. To stamp the center of the flower, I stamped it several times with the flower center stamp, but I stamped off each time first on scrap paper before stamping the center of the flower. You can get the stamp set and matching dies in the Cheerful Daisies Bundle and save 10%.

I thought the big diecut daisy needed something to help set it off from the busy background. I used the label die in the Cheerful Daisies Dies in Crushed Curry, then stamped a greeting in the Charming Sentiments Stamp Set off to the side of that label in Memento ink.

Before assembling the card and layers, I wrapped around a piece of the burlap ribbon in the Real Red and Burlap Combo Pack Ribbons. I also tied a knot around the ribbon.

After the ribbon was added around the designer paper layer and all the layers glued together, I adhered the greeting flat on the card and then popped up the daisy with Stampin’ Dimensionals®. I stamped some leaves in Garden Green ink and stamped off the ink on some others. Instead of die-cutting, I simply grabbed my Paper Snips and cut them out by hand, then adhered the leaves either flat or with Dimensionals.

This was an easy card to make and perfect for summertime to send to a friend! On the inside, you can add a layer of Basic White with some stamped daisies or diecuts, or even a strip of designer paper for a decoration.

Here is a very similar card that I had forgotten about, made with a different pattern of designer paper but the same ribbon and a different greeting.

Remember, with each $50 purchase (before shipping and tax) during the month of July, you will earn a $5 coupon to spend on more product in August! It’s called Bonus Days at Stampin’ Up!

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Cheerful Daisies Friendship Card

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Cheerful Daisies Friendship Card

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 the Brights 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!

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Fresh As a Daisy Thank You Card

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Fresh As a Daisy Thank You Card

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 the Fresh 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!

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Cheerful Daisies Hello Card

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Cheerful Daisies Hello Card

It’s already the second day of the new Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog! How time flies!! For this Cheerful Daisies Hello Card, I played around with the Cheerful Daisies Bundle on page 111 of the catalog. Buy the stamp set and dies together in the Bundle and save 10%.

I will say you can do lots of “playing” with this Bundle. First of all, you can stamp the daisies in all kinds of ways. You can stamp the large daisy outline in Black Memento Ink and then stamp the middle of the flower. You can leave the stamped flower as is or you can color it lightly with a Blending Brush or Sponge Dauber.

For the smaller daisies, you can stamp a solid color flower. Or you can stamp an outline daisy and then color it in with markers or whatever technique you like. You could also stamp the outline stamp and then do “two-step stamping” by stamping the solid flower inside the outline. It doesn’t have to be perfect! The two yellow daisies on my card are just stamped with the solid daisy stamp and then diecut.

There are several diecuts you can experiment with. The flowers, stems, and leaves are all separate so you can arrange the pieces however you like. There is one large die that I was a little confused about at first. It has one large flower, a small daisy, and sort of a half flower plus leaves. You can leave the trio together or you can snip the tiny connections and cut them apart. It’s very easy. Then you can leave everything all white or add some color to the parts. You can even layer some diecut pieces as I did on the large daisy on the lower right. I even diecut some green leaves so I could glue them over the white leaves of the diecut.

The greeting is from the Irresistible Blooms Stamp Set (available in the Online Exclusives category). I used a diecut to cut out the greeting. I didn’t have too much space so it is tucked a little behind the one flower.

The card base is Misty Moonlight cardstock with a layer of designer paper in the Countryside Inn Designer Series Paper. I thought the white and yellow daisies would look stunning against the dark blue.

Daisies are flowers that everyone loves. They are simple and familiar, so you will get lots of creativity out of this Cheerful Daisies Bundle in the new Stampin’ Up! Catalog!

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Daisy Notecard

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Daisy Notecard

I needed multiples of a card, so I decided on this Daisy Notecard, to show off the new Fresh As a Daisy Suite! It’s coming on May 2nd, in the new Stampin’ Up! Catalog! Yes, next week is May and yes, next week is finally time for the new catalog, a day we stampers live for!

You can purchase official Note Cards & Envelopes which are great to have on hand, but this time I didn’t need envelopes so I just made my own note cards with Basic White cardstock. I just cut a piece of cardstock at 5″ x 7″, then scored at 3 1/2″ so that when folded the note card would be 3 1/2″ x 5″.

I wanted to use the new Fresh As a Daisy Suite so I played around with all the pieces until I came up with a design I liked and could somewhat easily make. It’s like when you design Christmas cards and want to make multiples of the same card. If you make it too fancy, it will take forever to make multiples. This one had stamping and die-cutting so it took a little time but I just relaxed and enjoyed myself!

The Fresh As a Daisy Designer Series Paper has many color combinations in the patterns to choose from. All the new In Colors are represented! It’s a long list of coordinating colors for this designer paper. I chose this pattern with greens in the background to be the layer on my note card. I cut it at 3″ x 4 1/2″. The cute label is in the Cheerful Daisies Dies. I like the shape and the stitched edge. I stamped the greeting in the Cheerful Daisies Stamp Set in Shady Spruce ink.

The daisy is stamped in Memento Ink and the center is stamped in Crushed Curry. There is a stamp to use for the flower center, but I discovered that if I stamped it twice, partially overlapping, it covered up the empty center space a little better and I liked the darker color. The daisy was die-cut. Some of the dies fit the daisies printed on the designer paper. You can even layer die-cut daisies for a little more texture. When you get the Cheerful Daisies Bundle (save 10%!) just play with it for a while and see how all the pieces work! The daisy is popped up with Stampin’ Dimensionals. The Suite also has the Adhesive-Backed Solid Gems in Copper Clay, Boho Blue, and Lemon Lolly.

I think the Fresh As a Daisy Suite will be a popular one because who doesn’t like daisies?

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Daisy Lane Floral Friend Card

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Daisy Lane Floral Friend Card

This new Daisy Lane Stamp Set is easy and fun to use to make a card, like this Daisy Lane Floral Friend Card. I kept forgetting to order this new stamp set and smaller Medium Daisy Punch. As you can imagine it pairs with the Daisy Punch we have already had that has been quite popular.

Since this was my first card with this stamp set and punch, I wasn’t too sure what I was going to make. I chose Melon Mambo for the card base since I thought about it but didn’t choose it the other day for a card! For a layer I used Blushing Bride. The top layer is Whisper White.

First I stamped the flower stems with Granny Apple Green Ink. I just stamped them and thought what else I would do. Then I stamped six daisies with Blushing Bride Ink and punched them out so I could have a double layer of daisies to make a fuller flower. It seemed like those three daisies were going to look fine on the card. Two of them I glued together in the center with my Multipurpose Liquid Glue and the center one I popped up the top daisy on a Mini Stampin’ Dimensional. All three daisies are glued to the card with the Multipurpose Liquid Glue.

Now the question was where to put the greeting! I wanted to use one in the Daisy Lane Stamp Set so I just cut a strip of Granny Apple Green Cardstock to match the ink and just stamped the word “Friend” on it and adhered to the bottom of the Whisper White. This covered up my uneven placement of the stems and provided a place for the greeting! At this point, I thought the card looked fine and I stopped! Sometimes you have to know when to stop!

For the inside of the card, I cut a layer of Whisper White and stamped a Blushing Bride daisy in the corner since the Melon Mambo would be a little dark to write on.

 You can purchase the stamp set or punch separately or you can save 10% by buying them in the Daisy Lane Bundle. And if you really like daisies, you will also want the Daisy Delight Stamp Set and Daisy Punch that we have had in a catalog before.  This Daisy Lane Floral Friend Card is an easy one to make with just stamping and some daisy punching!