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Florals In Bloom Birthday Gift Bag

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Florals In Bloom Birthday Gift Bag

And sometimes you forget to hit the “Publish” button after you write a blog post! It was supposed to be on my blog Friday, but I forgot to push the button! Anyway, here is this fun and easy gift bag you can make in no time!

It might be time to make a few gift bags to have on hand this time of year. You probably have graduations coming up or lots of summer birthdays, hostess gifts for parties, maybe even Father’s Day! You can make your own small gift bag in just a few minutes and decorate for the particular occasion.

This particular pattern of gift bag is made with just half a sheet of 12″ x 12″ sheet of paper, whether card stock or designer series paper. This finished gift bag is 4 1/4″ tall, 4″ wide, and 1 3/4″ deep. It is large enough for a small gift or maybe a gift card and a congratulatory card. You could put a cello bag with a few cookies or candies in there. So it is small but not tiny!

While you can cut the paper at 6″ x 12″, I made mine 7″ x 12″ so that I could fold the top edge down 1″ to show the other side of the paper for a little interest on the bag. Either way the rest of the measurements and scoring are the same.

For this bag, I used this floral pattern in the Florals In Bloom Designer Series Paper. You’ll find it in the Annual Catalog. It is part of the Florals In Bloom Suite Collection. Make sure any pattern on any paper is going in the direction you want it to go on your project when you cut your paper and when you score, depending on the project.

Start with a 6″ x 12″ piece of paper (or if you want to fold over the top make your paper 7″ x 12″). Score at 4″, 5 3/4″, 9 3/4″, and 11 1/2″. Turn the paper so the short edge is at the top and score at 1 3/4″. This will make the bottom flaps of the bag. Cut those short bottom tabs up to the 1 3/4″ score line. Cut off the little 1/2″ tab on the bottom.  Fold on all the score lines and crease well with the Bone Folder.  Adhere the tab on the end to the other side to assemble the bag.  Then adhere the flaps on the bottom. I used Multipurpose Liquid Glue for the ease of getting things lined up properly before it sticks together or you can use Tear & Tape Adhesive.

Florals In Bloom Gift Bag Scoring

Have fun decorating your bag! I folded over the top 1″ before assembling the bag. You can punch holes front and back to tie ribbon through in order to close the bag or just do it decoratively with a bow as I did. I stamped a Basic White Countryside Corners diecut (dies on the Last Chance list) with a greeting in the Poised Peony Stamp Set (retired). You can use whatever greeting you have. I layered this diecut on the next larger die in Peach Pie cardstock. The greeting is stamped in Strawberry Slush ink and the little peony is stamped in Memento ink and colored in with Peach Pie and Granny Apple Green Stampin’ Blends alcohol markers. I stuck this up underneath the folded over top edge and I think it fits just fine. It looks a little like a banner. I added a few of the new Strawberry Slush & Pretty In Pink Gems to the greeting for a little sparkle.

And that’s how easy making this basic gift bag is!

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Florals In Bloom Birthday Wishes Gift Bag

Beautiful Bokeh Butterfly Birthday Card

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Beautiful Bokeh Butterfly Birthday Card

As I was going through my designer series papers and other things in my stamping supplies, I found these butterflies and checked to see if they were still current and available. They are! I had forgotten about them! After finding them, I decided I needed to make a card with them and this Beautiful Bokeh Butterfly Birthday Card is what I came up with. It’s really a pretty simple card and I could have made it even more simple by not coloring the butterflies.

The card base I chose is Fresh Freesia cardstock with a layer of a Fresh Freesia shade of the Beautiful Bokeh 6″ x 6″ Designer Series Paper. This paper is available in the Stampin’ Up! Spring Mini Catalog until May 5th.

I chose two butterflies in the Paper Butterfly Accents to use on the card. There are different images of butterflies to choose from in the package. As I said, I could have left them white and they still would look pretty on the card. What I decided to do was color them with the Blending Brushes and ink pads. I chose Bubble Bath ink and Berry Burst ink, two colors that I thought would coordinate with the Fresh Freesia and still look “sort of” monochromatic on this card. I tried to apply the Bubble Bath ink to the center of each butterfly and Berry Burst ink around the edges of the butterflies. Make sure you know which way you want your butterflies to face before you color them. And there are many ways you can color these Paper Butterfly Accents.

The greeting is in the Poised Peony Stamp Set and is stamped in Fresh Freesia ink on Basic White. It was diecut with one of the circle dies in the Stylish Shapes Dies. These are simply some of the most useful dies, in my opinion. I often look at other dies and I often come back to these for something basic and the right size. Thankfully, they are carrying over into the new catalog.

Even with the colored butterflies and the greeting, the card still needed something (before I added the bling!). I added a piece of white ribbon looped behind the greeting. This ribbon is part of the Petal Pink and White 1/4″ Diagonal Trim Combo Pack. I have used this combo pack a lot. The ribbons are a good size for lots of projects. The greeting is popped up with Stampin’ Dimensionals. It would be nice to pop up the butterflies but it would be difficult to not see the Dimensional behind the butterfly unless you can hide it behind a greeting or something. You could also not put glue on the butterfly wings and then lift up the wings a little bit to give them some movement.

For some sparkle, I added several Purple Adhesive-Backed Sequins that were available as a free product during Sale-A-Bration in January and February. Even though the name of the sequins is “Purple”, these sequins are three different shades plus white. And as it turns out, the colors of the sequins are the same colors that I used on my card…Fresh Freesia, Bubble Bath, and Berry Burst! If I’d seen that at the beginning of making my card I wouldn’t have had to think about colors!

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Poised Peony Hello Card

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Poised Peony Hello Card

I got some new products the other day (although I placed an order before I knew about free shipping last Tuesday!) so I’ve been trying to organize my new things and take out some of my old things and also do some cardmaking! This Poised Peony Hello Card was a pretty easy one to make with one different little design element.

The Poised Peony Stamp Set is a new stamp set in the Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog. It’s a standalone stamp set…no dies, no punches….on page 28. And right across on the next page, page 29, is this Frames & Flowers Specialty Designer Series Paper. Pictured are lots of samples using this paper and the stamp set showing cute gift wrap ideas and gift tags.

You will want this package of Frames & Flowers paper because it’s different! It has three sheets of double-sided designer paper in generic patterns on one side and beautiful greenery and floral patterns on the other. Then there are three sheets with diecut of all kinds! You can punch out florals, greenery, wreaths, frames, and more on these sheets. They are thin so they are easy to push out. You will probably want to detach all the pieces and put them in an extra plastic stamp case or plastic envelope or something you have to just keep them ready to use.

Frames & Flowers Specialty Designer Paper Floral

Frames & Flowers Specialty Designer Paper Pattern

Frames & Flowers Specialty Designer Paper Pattern

To make this Poised Peony Hello Card, I started with a card base of Lost Lagoon Cardstock with a layer of Petal Pink. For something a little different, instead of just adding a layer of design paper, I chose one of the Frames & Flourishes floral paper and cut it into three strips. Each paper strip is cut at 1 1/4″ x 5″. You can vary this measurement depending on how you make your card.

The focal point of the card is a stamped large peony on Basic White. The peony is stamped in Memento ink and colored in with Stampin’ Blends alcohol markers in Petal Pink and Granny Apple Green. Then that piece was diecut with one of the Radiating Stitches Dies. (Maybe those dies are sold out now from the Online Exclusives, as I write this!) Use some other rectangular shape for this piece, such as the Deckled Rectangle Dies or just cut out a rectagle with the Paper Trimmer. I added a narrow layer of Petal Pink and popped up this center piece. If you don’t like to do the coloring, just stamp the whole flower in one color and don’t do any coloring. The greeting that I stamped in Petal Pink ink in the corner is in the Poised Peony Stamp Set.

For an embellishment, I just tied a little knot in some Petal Pink ribbon I had that retired from the last catalog, but if you don’t have that you could use the new Petal Pink & White 1/4″ Diagonal Trim Combo Pack in the new catalog. I also added three little Petal Pink dots in the Rainbow Adhesive-Backed Dots. These are really nice embellishments so you might want to put these on your next order!

There are smaller peonies in this stamp set also so you can choose which one suits your project the best!

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