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Floral Impressions Yellow Flowers Thank You Card

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Floral Impressions Yellow Flowers Thank You Card

Sometimes you can use one of your own older cards as inspiration for a new one, like this Floral Impressions Yellow Flowers Thank You Card! Everyday in my email I get a few photos from “Memories of this Day”. The other day, one of the “memories” was a card I made like this one and I thought I should try that idea again! After all, we often hate NOT using the other side of the paper when we are using one side! This was a way to show off both sides at once!

This is the Floral Impressions Designer Series Paper. I have a difficult time not getting it mixed up with all the other floral paper we have! This one is not in the catalog. It was released in May 2025 as one of the Online Exclusives. This month of August you can buy it on sale 15% during the In Colors Sale because some of the coordinating colors are In Colors 2025-2027!

The card base is Crushed Curry with a layer of Pecan Pie. At first I was going to adhere the designer paper rectangles directly on to the card base but I wanted to add a little brown that was in the flowers so I used Pecan Pie as a layer. The designer paper pieces are cut at 1 7/8″ x 2 1/12″. I did glue them down first on a piece of Pecan Pie cardstock cut at 3 3/4″ x 5″ which is what a second layer on the card base would be sized at. Because I glued them down on another piece of cardstock first, I was able to trim off a smidgeon from each side to make sure everything was perfectly aligned. You can vary the sizes of any of these things depending on how you want your card to look.

The greeting is stamped on Basic White in Garden Green ink and is in the Bright Borders Stamp Set. Then use the To the Point Label Punch to cut the stamped leafy image and sentiment. The stamp set is on the Last Chance list and is marked down 10%. It’s a pretty nice stamp set to have along with the punch for a lot of kinds of cards and projects. To help the greeting stand out, I punched out two pieces of Garden Green with the same punch and cut each one in half to adhere behind the top, bottom, and sides of the white piece. This is a good trick to know when you want something layered behind something for which there is not larger punch.

The greeting is popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals in approximately the center of the card. For a little something to add, I chose this Garden Green twine in the Natural Tones Linen Thread (retired). I cut two pieces the same length and tied them together into a bow to make it a little thicker. The bow is stuck on with a Mini Glue Dot.

All in all, this is an easy card to make and a great way to use your designer series paper. You can show off both sides! Make squares if you like in a smaller configuration. Anything is possible!

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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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Floral Impressions You’ve Been On My Mind Card

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Floral Impressions You've Been On My Mind Card

On Saturday I spent a lovely afternoon attending a virtual Stampin’ Up! event called Creativity Now! So nice to get to sit at home and watch people stamp from my computer! In person is better, but this is plenty fine! This Floral Impressions You’ve Been On My Mind Card is my own copy of the first card one of the Stampin’ Up! staff made at the event. Part of the purpose of the event was to showcase a new suite called Peaceful Garden coming in the September-December 2025 Mini Catalog (or Holiday Mini as I like to call it and type it!). Demonstrators had a chance to order this whole suite or any part of it, but it didn’t totally appeal to me and before I spent that much money for a suite I wasn’t sure about, I wanted to see my other choices when the new mini catalog comes out. After seeing the samples they made with the Suite I may have to rethink that! That’s how I am….sometimes I don’t care for a new product until someone makes something with it, and then I love it and want it!

Since I don’t have the new products they used to make this card at the Creativity Now event, I just made the exact same design with the Floral Impressions Designer Series Paper and other products I already have. This card has a Basic White base, the usual size 8 1/2″ x 5 1/2″, scored and folded at 4 1/4″. The strips of designer series paper is a great way to use scraps! You could vary the size, too. Make them longer or wider if you would like more color on the card. These strips are cut at 3/4″ x 3 1/2″. I used two different papers plus the other side of one of the papers. For this card, each strip has a torn edge on the end. The top strip has a torn edge on the left side. The middle strip has a torn edge on the right side, and the bottom strip has a torn edge on the left side. You can see the white core of the paper when you tear it. Online, they used a Blending Brush to lightly add some ink to each torn edge, but I skipped that step on this card.

Tearing paper used to be something we did a lot for a little pizzazz when we made a card way back when. Not that it necessarily ever went away, but I think it has made a resurgence recently! Generally, you want to tear toward yourself. That’s the point to remember.

The designer paper strips are adhered to the card using Stampin’ Dimensionals. Before adhering them, however, decide on what greeting you are going to use in between the second and third strip so you leave enough space. Just lay them out without adhering the strips, especially the bottom one, so you have room to stamp. My greeting is from the Memorable Blooms Stamp Set. You can use whatever you need to say. I used Garden Green ink.

The directions for the Peaceful Garden card said to cut two pieces of Basic White cardstock at 2″ x 3 1/2″. They diecut two sprigs of leaves to add to the card with the die set in the Peace on Earth Bundle. The stamp set in the Bundle has a lot of nice sayings perfect for cards. I just looked through my die sets and found a leafy sprig in the Citrus Blooms Dies. By the way, these dies are in the Last Chance section at a good discount! The directions said to use a Blending Brush on one of the white cardstock pieces. I used Garden Green ink, very light. Then when you diecut the sprig, it is already colored! The other sprig is just white. Adhere each sprig of foliage wherever the backs are going to touch on the popped up designer paper. For mine, I only put Multipurpose Liquid Glue on the top leaves and stems since the middle would not be touching the card.

To embellish the card, they used Linen Thread to tie a bow and adhered it to the foliage. I happened to grab some Gold Trim I had leftover from something, maybe Paper Pumpkin. I do have Linen Thread and have used it lots of times over years and years so it is a good staple you should have. I used a Mini Glue Dot to adhere the bow, but you could use a drop of the liquid glue. Coming in the Peaceful Garden Suite are some little blue flower gems, so instead, I substituted some Strawberry Slush & Pretty In Pink Gems to each side of the foliage. I used the Pretty In Pink color since it was a little lighter.

If you wanted to, you could use a colored cardstock for the card base and then a white panel on which to adhere the paper strips. Lots of possibilities with this card design. It certainly is an easy one to make!

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Floral Impressions Yellow Daisies Thank You Card

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Floral Impressions Yellow Daisies Thank You Card

The design of this card came from the layout of one I saw online, but it’s the paper and products that I used that makes it different. All I had to do was look through one of the floral papers and the exact idea came to me for this Floral Impressions Yellow Daisies Thank You Card. You will find this paper in the Online Exclusives, one of the new May 2025 additions.

The card base is Garden Green with a layer of paper with foliage designs and a few smaller flowers. This Floral Impressions Designer Series Paper has many pretty images to choose from in lots of different ways. I chose this particular pattern because I hoped that I could also use the large flowers on another one of the papers to make the focal point of the card. Do you like it or is it too busy? I think I like it.

To help the large yellow daisies stand out, I die cut one of the long shapes in the Nested Essentials Dies. It is cut out of Garden Green cardstock although I also tried other colors too. I thought maybe the generic side of the yellow flowers paper would look good but it would have gotten lost with all the background foliage and being mostly covered by the flowers.

The large yellow flowers, I presume they are daisies or something similar, are hand-cut (fussy-cut) right out of the paper using my Paper Snips. When I do this, I try to choose something near the edges of the paper because, of course, we hate to waste any bit of our beautiful designer papers! Don’t try and cut out one flower out of the entire sheet of paper. Cut roughly around what image you want to cut out, and then more precisely cut out from the small piece of paper with only that image. Move the paper instead of your scissors, as they say! If you hate cutting images out of paper, you can get the Impressions Abloom Bundle or just the Impressions Abloom Dies, also in the Online Exclusives. Or get the entire Floral Impressions Suite Collection. Then you’ll have everything!

After adhering the foliage designer paper to the card base and the Garden Green diecut to the left side of the card, I played around with placing the flowers I had cut out, some little flowers also, and a few leaves. Finally I decided on this placement, took a photo with my phone so I would remember the layout, and then glued everything to the card. Two of the yellow daisies are popped up with Stampin’ Dimensionals, the rest are glued down flat on the card.

The greeting is in the More Messages Stamp Set. Honestly, I took the lazy way out on this one! I decided on the “thanks a lot” greeting, but I didn’t want to mount the entire stamp on the largest block just to get that one phrase. So instead, I inked up the words I wanted with the full ink pad, laid the strip of Basic White cardstock over the inked words and hoped I was getting it fairly straight. I tried holding it in place while also rubbing it to get the ink transferred. I got lucky because it worked on the first try and I only had to trim the ends by hand. Using a Stampin’ Write Marker for those words would have worked also, but I just grabbed the ink pad. A Stampin’ Ink Spot would be perfect, too. But I went for the quickest way and then just wiped off the stamp, still in the case, with my purple Simply Shammy. I got ink on my fingers but it worked out!

Here is another card I made with the Floral Impressions Designer Series Paper. As you can see, I don’t mind cutting out flowers from the designer paper! At least as long as I have my trusty Paper Snips!

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Floral Impressions Flowers Card

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Floral Impressions Flowers Card

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!

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