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Artisan Sketched Garden Floral Birthday Card

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Artisan Sketched Garden Floral Birthday Card

This Artisan Sketched Garden Floral Birthday Card is one I put a birthday greeting on, but could be made for many other occasions. I was inspired to make this card by one I saw on a Stampin’ Up! post SOMEWHERE! It doesn’t look like I “saved” it anywhere. I probably thought I was positive I could easily find it again, but I could not! Have you ever done that?! Liked a card, wanted to copy it, and then couldn’t find it anywhere! What intrigued me about that card was the colored striped piece placed somewhere on the card, I don’t remember where. Rather than keep feeling frustrated, I went ahead and made my own card with the Artisan Sketched Garden Designer Series Paper. This is the pack of all black & white paper, floral images of all kinds, as well as more generic patterns.

I wouldn’t have thought of coloring in between the lines of the black and white striped paper in the package! That’s what I love about stamping and seeing everyone’s ideas. There is always something new and something I never thought of. I cut a piece of the stripes at 5 1/4″ x 1 1/2″ and colored in with all the new 2026-2028 In Color Stampin’ Blends alcohol markers. If you click on that link and sort for “Newest” the new In Colors will come up. But you could use any colors you like.

The card base is Hydrangea Hue. The background layer of paper, I thought, was plain enough but cute to go with the flower. I don’t know if those tiny images are foliage or flowers, but it makes a cute design. The flower is printed on one of the designer papers. They are all pretty close together, so it’s not easy to cut one out with the Paper Trimmer, so I just roughly cut around it, near the bottom of the sheet, to get it separated from the paper. I colored the flower with Barely Blush using the Stampin’ Blend Combo. This is a VERY light pink, so I put on a couple layers of light and dark Barely Blush. The little seed pod is colored in Golden Glow, and the leaves are Peaceful Pine green. After coloring the flower, I fussy cut it with my Paper Snips. If you need new scissors, new ones are coming soon!

I adhered the flower to a panel of Barely Blush cardstock cut at 3 3/4″ x 1 3/4″. It looked fine just that way, but I decided to add a layer of Hydrangea Hue cardstock to go with the card base. It is 4″ x 2″. This whole panel is popped up with Stampin’ Dimensionals.

You might think Stampin’ Up! Demonstrators are very skilled and creative at all times, but that is not true! I was trying to get some glue out of this nearly empty small bottle I use for intricate areas I need to glue, but it was clogged. Next, I turned to my close-to-empty bottle of Multipurpose Liquid Glue (what I put in the little white bottle), but it was clogged up too. After trying to unclog the tip, I wisely thought to see if any would come out on a piece of scrap paper. Well, it certainly did come out in a big blob of glue! So I used the green bottle to pick up little bits of glue from that puddle and dab it on to the fussy-cut flower very carefully. There are other ways I could have done it, but this worked ok.

Glue Blob

The best idea would be been to stick that roughly cut out flower from the designer paper on to an Adhesive Sheet, then I could have had the flower be like a sticker with no need for glue! But I didn’t and usually don’t think that far ahead with Adhesive Sheets!

To finish off this card, I added as small a bow as I could make with the Barely Blush Ribbon using Mini Glue Dots on the back. I realized I didn’t have a greeting, so I stamped “Happy Birthday” with Hydrangea Hue ink using the Lovely Arrangements Stamp Set. Since the flower was popped up I needed to pop up just the right side of the greeting so the left side could lie flat on the flower panel. I also added three Barely Blush 2026-2028 In Color Dots to the card.

It looks to me like a lovely, simple card, maybe with the In Colors being very soft and calming. Don’t forget to try different things with our designer papers!

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Delicate Dreams Scrap Friend Card

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Delicate Dreams Scrap Friend Card

I’m calling this Delicate Dreams Scrap Friend Card a scrap card because you can make it using the scraps you have been hoarding from designer series paper or even cardstock. How can these little pieces of paper end up making a beautiful and interesting card? It’s a fun card to make because you won’t exactly know what it will look like until it is almost all finished!

This card has a card base of Hydrangea Hue, one of the newest In Colors. There are other colors of cardstock I could have used. Secret Sea might have been nice but I need to order more! To make this scrap card, start with a piece of Basic White cardstock (or any color). This is what all your scraps will adhere to in making the front of the card. Pull out all the little scraps in one or more pack of designer series paper and see what you have. I cut mine 1/2″ wide, but you can do another measurement if you like. I used the beautiful Delicate Dreams Specialty Designer Series Paper with its bronze foil accents.

First, I adhered the white strip at an angle across the Basic White piece. Maybe you want to stamp a greeting on it first before glueing to your card, just in case! I got lucky and stamped it after completing the card. Adhere vertical strips coming off that white strip, above and below, to serve as the guide for the other strips. You can lay out your strips first and see how they look next to each other or see if you want to move any around. Or just take a chance and glue them down randomly. Even if the strips are too long, that’s okay for now.

Scrap Card Beginning

Just keep going until you fill in all the space, even any tiny spaces. It will look like a mess on the front.

Scrap Card Front

When you turn the piece over, you will see the strips extending beyond the Basic White cardstock. You can trim off the excess paper strips using a large scissors or your Paper Trimmer. Keep in mind you might have glue on those extended pieces so your scissors or Trimmer may be some glue. Therefore, I would recommend scissors since you can clean those off easier.

Scrap Card Back

As you are assembling the card, you can cut a few strips that are really long to use in smaller areas when you get near the end of making the card. Once you turn over the trimmed piece of Basic White, you will have a neat piece to add to the front of the card! Adhere to the card base.

Stamp the greeting, if you haven’t already. I used Hydrangea Hue ink and a greeting from the Lovely Arrangements Stamp Set. For some embellishment and to take up empty space on the long white strip, I added three Hydrangea Hue In Color Dots or any other embellishments you have. These dots are out of stock right now as I write this, but you can fill out the notification form with your email to be notified when they are back in stock.

Try this technique with any paper that you have. Orient the strips in different ways. Just play around with it!

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Delicate Dreams Angled Sending Smiles Card

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Delicate Dreams Angled Sending Smiles Card

I made this card, Delicate Dreams Angled Sending Smiles Card, a while back and I don’t think I ever posted it. But I think this Delicate Dreams Specialty Designer Series Paper is just beautiful! I saw a sample of a card like this with the angled bottom and thought “Oh, this will be easy to make!” but it didn’t go the way I thought it would. However, I made an easier version that I think will work for you.

The card base is the new Hydrangea Hue In Color. I think this paper was the one that gave away the new In Color before we knew what they were all going to be. I added a background layer of designer paper to the card base, this one with a Secret Sea background with bronze floral images.

For the focal point of the card, I cut a piece of the blueish floral patterned paper at 3 1/2″ x 4 1/2″. I used the Paper Trimmer to cut a portion off the bottom of that floral paper. You can really cut it at any measurement you want. In my mind, all I had to do was turn the paper I cut off over to the other side and adhere it right underneath the top angled piece. But that didn’t work out. I don’t know why I had such a difficult time with the geometry of this card, but I couldn’t get it to work how I wanted it to, so I came up with another way.

Instead of trying to cut the paper at the correct angle, I just cut the floral paper how I wanted it and then placed a regular size piece of the opposite side of that paper underneath the angle. The textured-look paper is cut at 3 1/2″ x 1 1/2″ and is just adhered underneath the angled floral paper.

Delicate Dreams Angled Card Pieces

Here is what the two papers look like together on the backside. One is just a rectangle and the top part is the angled piece.

Delicate Dreams Angled Card Assembly

The greeting, in the Lovely Arrangements Stamp Set, is stamped with Secret Sea ink on a narrow scrap of Basic White cardstock with the ends angled to go along the seam underneath where the two papers meet up or overlap. You don’t have to try to cut the correct angle; just let the ends of the greeting extend beyond the card, then trim them off.

That’s all there is to this card. The beautiful paper does most of the work for you! You’ll find this paper and the entire Delicate Dreams Suite Collection in the Online Exclusives.

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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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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.

Lovely & Beautiful Gift Bag side

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