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Square Snippets Love You Card

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Square Snippets Love You Card

It seems like I got this card idea from someone somewhere, but since I made it several weeks ago, before our Hawaii vacation, I don’t remember. This Square Snippets Love You Card, wherever I got the idea, I think turned out well. I love the paper I used!

The Square Snippets Designer Series Paper is found in the Spring Mini Catalog, at least for the next two weeks! You will find it as a Last Chance Product at a little bit of a discount. It’s very different being as all the papers are squares to be cut apart. Well, you aren’t required to cut them apart individually and certainly groups of the squares could be used really well on scrapbook pages. Just have fun with it and you’ll come up with creative cards, scrapbook pages, or other projects! The squares are 3″ and 4″ so you can choose.

I started with a Basic White cardstock card base, cut at 4″ x 8″ and scored at 4″. No reason why you couldn’t make this a regular 5 1/2″ x 4 1/4″ card as well. I covered the whole white card front with the 4″ x 4″ diagonally striped designer paper. Love the colors!

For the squares for the focal point of the card I used different papers in the Square Snippets DSP. The background layer, Fresh Freesia, is 3 1/4″ x 3 1/4″, the pink floral layer is 3″ x 3″, and the floral print layer is 2 3/4″ x 2 3/4″. I used the Stylish Shapes Dies to cut out a circle, but you could use a circle punch if you have one. This top floral layer is popped up with Stampin’ Dimensionals. You would want to arrange your stack of papers so that the one you like is showing through the open circle.

This is how I embellished the card. The flower is fussy-cut from one of the squares in the package and just adhered to the corner of the square with the circle. The greeting is stamped with Strawberry Slush ink using the Lovely Arrangements Stamp Set. The greeting is popped up with a Dimensional under the part that goes over the open circle and the right end of the greeting is adhered flat to the square. I tied a short piece of white twine around the edge of the square. Inside the circle, I added three Iridescent Pearls Basic Jewels. You could make this card to open at the side, as I did, or with a top fold.

Check out the Square Snippets Designer Series Paper while it is still available!

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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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Lovely & Beautiful Gift Bag

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Lovely & Beautiful Gift Bag

Yesterday I opened up the package of the Lovely & Beautiful Specialty Designer Series Paper, one of the new papers coming next week in the new Stampin’ Up! Spring Mini Catalog.

Lovely & Beautiful Specialty Paper

These are the first two papers I saw in the package when I pulled them out. Pretty.

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Then I turned back the top paper to see the design on the other side, and I actually exclaimed out loud, “Oh My Gosh!!” Those big flowers with gold foil outlines just took my breath away! From there I knew I was going to use this floral paper for my first card of the New Year. But I ended up making a small gift bag with it.

Before I started working, though, I paged through the designer series paper to see all of the designs. Each one was gorgeous!

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If you think these papers look nice in these photos, wait until you see them in person with the beautiful gold foil accents!

To make this little gift bag, cut the paper at 6″ x 12″. Score at 1″, 3 3/4″, 6 1/2″, and 9 1/4″. Then turn and score at 2″. Pay attention to the direction of the pattern if it is necessary for your paper. The part scored at 2″ will be the bottom of the bag and those score lines will be cut up to the horizontal score lines. See the diagram below. I drew pencil lines on the score lines.

Gift Bag Scored Diagram

Fold and crease all the score lines. That tiny little 2″ x 1″ piece will be cut out. The piece above that is where you will put adhesive to glue to the other side to assemble the box. Just crease and fold everything to see how it goes together. Adhere that side together, then do the flaps. If you want to close the top of the bag, you can punch holes for ribbon as I did, or you can just use some type of clip. Or you can leave the bag open!

I stamped a little sentiment on Basic White with Calypso Coral ink from the Lovely Arrangements Stamp Set, coming in the January Online Exclusives. It is just tied on with the ribbon with a little Stampin’ Dimensional on the back to hold it in place.

This is just a simple little project where the gorgeous paper does all the work! If you like florals at all, I would definitely get this Lovely & Beautiful Specialty Designer Series Paper.

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