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Delightful Floral Thank You Card

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Delightful Floral Thank You Card

This Delightful Floral Thank You Card is made with the brand-new designer paper of the same name, Delightful Floral Designer Series Paper. This paper was just released by Stampin’ Up! last week in the Online Exclusives category. You may have noticed a stamp set and dies in the Holiday Mini Catalog called the Translucent Florals Bundle. This paper looks to me like it coordinates very well with the stamps and dies, but I only have the paper.

This card is made with a card base of Bubble Bath cardstock. I intended to use two different designs of the designer paper on this card but once I laid this floral pattern on the card front, I thought it looked beautiful as is! It is way prettier in person than in this photograph.

Before adhering the paper to the card front I wrapped a piece of the Iridescent White Ribbon around the front and adhered the ends to the back of the paper. I tied a separate bow and adhered that with several Glue Dots on the back center of the bow.

For the greeting, I chose one in the Layering Leaves Stamp Set. These fonts and sentiments are so pretty and useful. There are a lot of sentiments out there, and I may even like them, but a majority of them are not things that I am going to say on a card, so I really appreciate basic greetings like the ones in this stamp set. This greeting is stamped in Bubble Bath ink (although I also tried Berry Burst). The greeting and layer underneath of Bubble Bath cardstock were both cut with dies in the Something Fancy Dies. I popped it up with Stampin’ Dimensionals to fit over the ribbon. And for my favorite finishing touch, I added three Iridescent Rhinestone Jewels for a little sparkle, along with the sparkle of the ribbon!

Every page of this Delightful Floral Designer Paper has beautiful watercolor flowers and botanicals that you can use for all kinds of occasions. It has beautiful jewel-toned colors: Berry Burst, Blackberry Bliss, Bubble Bath, Calypso Coral, Fresh Freesia, Lemon Lolly, Parakeet Party, Pool Party, and Pretty Peacock. This paper would make beautiful scrapbook pages as well. Remember, you will find it in the Online Exclusives in the Stampin’ Up! Online Store or just write the name in the search box and it will come up!

You won’t be disappointed to have this paper on hand for your cardmaking and scrapbooking!

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Hand-Penned Petals Hello Card

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Hand-Penned Petals Hello Card

I didn’t even order this Suite when Demonstrators got to preorder select new products in the Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog. The loosely drawn floral images really didn’t appeal to me. But I started seeing cards other Demonstrators were making and then I liked everything about this Suite! This Hand-Penned Petals Hello Card is my first attempt using the stamps and paper! I love it!

This is a very easy card to make! Just stamping and paper….well, and a few rhinestones! The card base is Blushing Bride, one of the coordinating colors of the Hand-Penned Designer Series Paper. All the sheets of this paper are beautiful to use for floral cards. It reminds me of old-fashioned wallpaper! But modern! Very pretty!

I just chose one of the papers to use as a layer on the front of the card. I didn’t want to cover it up very much, so I made just a small piece of Basic White on which to stamp the bouquet in the Hand-Penned Petals Stamp Set. I stamped it in Memento Ink, fully expecting to color in the bouquet with Stampin’ Blends. But then I saw there were stamps for two-step stamping to fill in the color! They aren’t a perfect fit because that’s not the look you want, but they are fairly close. I used Blushing Bride, Daffodil Delight, and Mint Macaron Ink to stamp the flowers.

The greeting is from the Inspired Thoughts Stamp Set because I needed something small to fit just below the flowers. It is stamped in Mint Macaron Ink also. The Inspired Thoughts Stamp Set “goes with” the Inspired Thoughts Bundle which has the stamp set and Inspiring Canopy Dies. I really like this greeting stamp set but I did not purchase the dies. However, now I have seen some cute cards using those tree dies so who knows if I can hold out on not buying!

In finishing off this card, I layered the stamped bouquet piece on Blushing Bride and popped it up with Stampin’ Dimensionals®. I forgot that in the Hand-Penned Suite Collection, there are the Genial Gems. These are faceted glitter gems in Pale Papaya and Mint Macaron. Instead, I used three Champagne Rhinestone Basic Jewels for the flower centers.

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Fine Art Floral Thinking of You Card

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Fine Art Floral Thinking of You Card

I’m finally getting a chance to play with some new things in the upcoming January – June 2021 Mini Catalog, coming January 5th and the result was this Fine Art Floral Thinking of You Card.

As you can imagine, this Fine Art Floral Designer Series Paper is gorgeous! When you get your catalog or look at it online next week, look at the back cover because you will see how the artists created the designs for this paper. One side of every sheet is a floral design and the other side is a more generic, plainer watercolor washed design.

And when you look at the back of the designer paper package, you will be amazed at how many coordinating colors go with this paper! I think there were twelve colors plus white. I always write all the colors with a marker on the back cardboard so I can read them easier than trying to squint and read Stampin’ Up!’s tiny print!

The card base is Flirty Flamingo. I cut a strip of the designer paper thinking I would put it on the side of the card, but as I turned over the floral side, I really liked the other side, too, and ended up with this design I adhered two strips of the “other side” to the sides of the card but leaving 1/4″ of Flirty Flamingo showing, and then adhered the floral side over the top and down the middle. That panel is 2 1/4″ wide. Not what I had planned at all, but it’s what it turned out to be!

For the greeting, I sort of copied a sample in the catalog. I die-cut only the word “just” from a die in the Floral Gallery Dies. The die says “just want to say” but I just laid the Merry Merlot Cardstock over the word “just” and die cut that. Don’t forget to save the dot over the J!

I die cut the label for the greeting from the Tasteful Labels Dies in the Annual Catalog. Then I stamped the “thinking of you” in the new Art Gallery Stamp Set on the label in Merry Merlot ink but did not ink up the “I’m”. I got lucky and did not mess it up! Then the die-cut word “just” is adhered to the label also. I popped this greeting up with Stampin’ Dimensionals. You can purchase the Art Gallery Stamp Set and the Floral Gallery Dies in the Art Gallery Bundle and save 10%.

I thought I was finished and was ready to photograph the card but I thought it still needed “something”. Of course that something was a little bling from the Champagne Rhinestone Jewels.

Once I had the design figured out, it was a pretty easy card to make. This is a beautiful suite that you will be attracted to when you see the new catalog!

The new January-June 2021 Mini Catalog starts Tuesday, January 5th….next week!! That will also be the first day of the biggest promotion of the year, Sale-A-Bration! What a week to look forward to!

Tasteful Touches Flowers Card

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Tasteful Touches Flowers Card

I had the idea for this Tasteful Touches Flowers Card but didn’t know if it would really turn out. If I even have an idea before I start making a card, it often changes as it goes. Usually I just think I’m going to use a certain stamp set or certain designer paper and go from there.

In looking at this Tasteful Touches Stamp Set I thought about stamping three (or maybe more) flowers randomly on the card front and use that flowery design stamp off to the side of the flowers. I thought it would maybe make it look a little antique.

Three flowers stamped with Memento Ink seemed to fit just fine and then I stamped the flowery grid stamp a few more times around the flowers and off the page in a few areas. I colored the first flower with Calypso Coral Stampin’ Blend markers, but then I decided to color each flower differently. The second flower is colored with Mango Melody and the third with Highland Heather. I just love coloring with my Stampin’ Blends markers! They are alcohol markers so the light and dark shades or even other colors together blend. Just color lightly with them to preserve the brush tips. Really all you need is gentle coloring and not necessarily perfect. Sometimes leaving tiny bits of white space makes it look more realistic.

I also made a “mask” by stamping a flower on a sticky note, making sure part of the flower was stamped over the adhesive on the other side to hold the mask in place when I used it. I stamped the flower and then cut it out with Paper Snips. You can even cut the tiniest bit inside the lines when you are doing masking. Then just stick the mask flower over the stamped flower and then stamp something else over it, like the leaves I did from the same Tasteful Touches Stamp Set. This protects the stamped flower but allows the leaf stamping to show outside the flower image. If you had a tiny leaf stamp that fit outside the flower, then you wouldn’t have to cover the flower. But this is a large sprig of leaves so if you just stamped it, you would be stamping over the flower and that wouldn’t look good!

After coloring the flowers and the tiny leaves with my Stampin’ Blends, I wasn’t sure about leaving the background white. It would have been fine, but my love of coloring with the Blends kept me coloring!! I used Light Pool Party to just kind of scribble in the white space, without trying to be heavy-handed or perfect. Pool Party is a good color for this because it is light enough that the omitted white spaces don’t show up strongly. You might think it would be a big job to color all that space, but since I was just kind of scribbling and not worrying about perfection it went very quickly. I even colored in between some of the tiny flowers in that grid to make it all fit in together.

I’m probably the least satisfied with the greeting. The card was really pretty enough to leave it plain without a greeting and sometimes, like on this card, it’s a little difficult to find the space for a greeting! This greeting is from the Lovely You Stamp Set, with lots of greetings and a pretty font. I punched the one end with the new Lovely Labels Pick a Punch and even made a layer with a slightly wider strip of cardstock. You can use three widths of paper in this punch – 1″, 3/4″, and 1/2″. At the last minute,

I added a small Gold Glimmer Enamel Dot to the greeting for just a little something to finish it off without taking away from the rest of the card.

So there is a card that takes a little bit of time for coloring, but is also one of the best ways to relax and de-stress, I find! There are lots of creative possibilities with these two stamp sets! I hope you will be inspired to create a card or project using this Tasteful Touches Flowers Card.

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Flowers For Every Season Thinking of You Tag Card

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Flowers For Every Season Thinking of You Tag Card

Originally I intended to exactly copy a very bright and “happy” card I saw on Instagram by someone whose cards I always like, @leannecreates, but as so often happens, after I got started the design changed and I ended up with this Flowers For Every Season Thinking of You Tag Card.

The Flowers For Every Season 6″ x 6″ Designer Series Paper has so many pretty floral patterns in it, some very bright like this one I used on this card. I used Whisper White Cardstock for the card base with a layer of Daffodil Delight Cardstock for a layer under the designer paper. After I got to this point, I noticed an already punched tag in my bag of cardstock, so I decided to see if I could use that.

The tag was punched with the Scalloped Tag Topper Punch. I added a Whisper White layer stamped with a greeting from the Many Mates Stamp Set, a great set of greetings in the new Stampin’ Up! catalog. To help the tag stand out a little bit better, I used the green side of a scrap of the same floral designer paper to go underneath the tag. It helps the tag stand out against the floral background and it adds a little more interest to the whole card.

To decorate the tag I cut out some flowers from the same designer paper, the scraps from the layer on the card, using my Paper Snips. It’s pretty easy and you don’t have to be perfect in cutting out a few flowers. For a finishing touch I added a bow tied with the Magenta Madness 1/4″ In Color Ribbon. Since I was putting the bow right over the opening at the top of the tag, I stuck a Stampin’ Dimensional underneath that opening since the whole tag was popped up on Dimensionals. That gave a good sticky area on which to adhere the bow!

Flowers For Every Season Thinking of You Tag Card Closeup

On the inside of the card, I added a strip of the designer paper along the left side, it didn’t even reach the full length but added a little bit of design inside the card. I could have also stamped a flower inside.

Be sure to check out the Flowers For Every Season Designer Paper in the new catalog when you get ready to order. It’s the 6″ x 6″ size which is easy to work with. Even if you find some of the colors or patterns pretty bright, you can tone them down with the other colors that you use with those. But these are really pretty papers and flowers can be used for so many kinds of cards! Here is another card I made recently with a pattern of designer paper that I wasn’t all that thrilled with, but once I used it, especially using a smaller piece of the paper, I really loved the card!

You will be able to make tons of pretty cards similar to my Flowers For Every Season Thinking of You Tag Card with this pretty designer series paper!

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Ornate Garden Floral Stamp With Sequins

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Ornate Garden Floral Stamp With Sequins

The Ornate Garden Suite offers so many beautiful ways to make cards whether you stamp and color in the image or use the beautiful designer papers! There are two sets of die cuts you can use too, but on this card, I was going for something simpler.

A few days ago I made another card with this same floral stamp in the Ornate Style Stamp Set from the Ornate Garden Suite, but I cut it out by hand. This one is just stamped and colored in on the card front. I love coloring all the flowers with my Stampin’ Blends markers, but you can use other techniques.

The greeting on this card is from the Ornate Thanks Stamp Set. This stamp set has large greetings to pair with the smaller script greetings but you can also just use some of the script greetings alone. That’s what I did on this card.

The Whisper White cardstock front layer is adhered to an Old Olive card base with the fold at the top for something different. For a little pizzazz, I added a few sequins that kind of matched the flowers and leaves.

If you want EVERYTHING that goes together in this Ornate Garden Suite Collection, just order the whole collection with one number on your order, #154153. Or you can pick and choose exactly which products you want on this order and get more on another order! This Suite will be in the upcoming Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog so there is no rush unless you’d like to get your hands on something brand-new while you are staying home these days!

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!

Beautiful Friendship Floral Card

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Beautiful Friendship Floral Card

Here’s my first go with the Beautiful Friendship Stamp Set, this Beautiful Friendship Floral Card. It was a stamp set that I kind of missed at first, then when I noticed it, I ordered it right away.

I did the easiest thing……just stamped to play with the stamps. Remember to put a little cushion underneath these photopolymer stamps for the best image. I used the Stampin’ Pierce Mat and of course, using the Stamparatus is always a good idea so you can re-stamp if you don’t get a good impression at first.

When I went to get my paper out, I thought I would use Melon Mambo, one of my favorite colors but I haven’t used it much recently. However, when I saw Poppy Parade on top, I just chose that and grabbed some Daffodil Delight for a layer behind the Whisper White. See! You don’t always have to have everything planned out when you make a card!

The flowers are stamped in Poppy Parade with Granny Apple Green leaves. Then I thought I would add some extra flowers with Highland Heather and Daffodil Delight. When I was finished, I realized probably some of those stamps were really meant to stamp the inside of the flowers, but I was finished and happy with my card so I didn’t go back! I’ll have to try to make them more authentic next time!

Since I didn’t leave myself much room for a greeting, I used one from my other new stamp set, Modern Heart. I have to play with that stamp set, too! Sometimes it is nice to “just stamp” and not die-cut or embellish or color in or whatever. Just simple! I think this Beautiful Friendship Stamp Set will produce lots of gorgeous cards and has very nice sentiments as well!

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Easy Floral Thank You Card

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Easy Floral Essence Thank You Card

This Easy Floral Thank You Card is made, I think, with one of the most beautiful papers Stampin’ Up! has ever had. The Perennial Essence Designer Series Paper has such pretty prints on every sheet. These papers were designed from handpainted impressionistic images. There will be thousands and thousands of beautiful cards and projects made with this paper!

To make this card I simply choose one of the papers and then chose Petal Pink for the card base. I considered using a purple color as another layer, but for today I liked just the pink card base.

The ribbon around the designer paper is the beautiful Petal Pink 5/8″ Organdy Striped Ribbon. This ribbon is currently on backorder but you can put it on your order anyway and they will mail it separately when it comes in. Or wait and put it on your order as soon as you see it is available. It really is so pretty you will want it in your stash! And with paper this pretty, the sheer ribbon just adds to the design, doesn’t cover up anything.

For the greeting, I got lucky and this Petal Pink circle, die cut from the Stitched Labels Dies, was already cut out and in the bag with the full sheets of cardstock so I thought I would try and use it. It was a good size for this card because I didn’t want much of the paper covered up. Then I stamped a greeting from the Free As a Bird Stamp Set. I needed one that would fit on a fairly small piece. This small circle was die cut with the second smallest circle in the Layering Circles Dies.

And since I usually can’t leave well enough alone, I added some Rhinestone Jewels to the greeting. I wanted them to be pink, though, and I knew I could color the plain rhinestones with Stampin’ Blends markers. The same pink really didn’t show up so I tried Flirty Flamingo. On the rhinestones, it give a pinkish color to them so it was perfect.

As a note, due to the new Big Shot and die situation changing, we don’t use the terms “framelits” and “thinlits” any more, which is fine with me! It is much easier to say “dies”. And since the Big Shot has retired, while we wait for a new machine, we will just refer to any “die-cutting machine” until we get our new one. Stampin’ Up! is working on it and from past experience, they will wait until they have a really good one before putting it on the market.

If you want to hoard your beautiful Perennial Essence Paper, look at THIS CARD and see how you can use just a strip of it to make a lovely card.

After you order this paper, you will be inspired to make lots of cards like my Easy Floral Thank You Card for many different occasions!

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Hello Card with Magnolia Lane

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Hello Card with Magnolia Lane

Here is a “Hello” card made with Magnolia Lane paper and a stamp! Wouldn’t someone you know love to receive this card in the mail?!

This is a sneak peek of a couple of the new products coming in the new Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog on June 4, 2019. I used the Magnolia Lane Designer Series Paper and a greeting in the Good Morning Magnolia Stamp Set.

The card base is Petal Pink Cardstock layered with a striped pattern from the Magnolia Lane DSP. I also used a little strip of the brown pattern with leaves as a little layer for interest near the top of the card under the greeting. The greeting is stamped and then die cut with one of the new Stitched Nested Labels Dies. I wrapped a piece of the Braided Linen Trim around this brown piece.

For the focal point of the card, I just cut out a flower from the designer paper and popped it up with Stampin’ Dimensionals. Paper Snips are great for this kind of cutting. We don’t always have a die for everything so you need a good pair of scissors! Before I adhered it to the card, however, I die cut a large Vellum Cardstock circle to place underneath the flower. For this, I used one of the Layering Circles Dies. I could have stopped at this point, but I added some of the Heart Epoxy Droplets to the card. You don’t have to have them, I just thought I wanted to fill up a little space with them.

You might not guess but I got inspiration for this card from the cover of the new catalog. Actually the card I was sort of copying was a smaller one, not this regular size. But I like my card just fine!

I think this Magnolia Lane Suite of products is going to go like hotcakes when the catalog goes live so I would urge you to order right away if you like the main items in this Suite. There are also dies in a Bundle with the stamp set to save 10%. All will become known on June 4th at Noon MT! Just a day over two weeks away! Get ready!

Hello Card Magnolia Lane Closeup