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Velvet Meadow Thinking of You Square Card

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Velvet Meadow Thinking of You Square Card

This Velvet Meadow Thinking of You Square Card was super quick and easy to make, except for tying the bow! I didn’t even have a design idea for a card, but I happened to grab this package of Velvet Meadow Specialty Designer Series Paper with the soft flocking on the sheet. I found this square scrap of paper which gave me the idea to make a square card for something different. The new hot-foiled greeting fit perfectly on the square card, which saved a lot of time.

The card base is Bubble Bath cardstock, which coordinates with the paper. I decided to add an extra layer of Basic White under the designer paper to help it stand out a little with the white flocking. The card base is 8 1/2″ x 4 1/4″. Score at 4 1/4″ and you have a square card. You can put the fold at the top (which I did) or on the side. The Basic White layer is 4″ x 4,” with the designer paper layer then being 3 3/4″ x 3 3/4″.

Before I adhered the layers together, I wrapped a piece of Bubble Bath 1/8″ Faux Linen Ribbon around the designer paper layer. The bow is two pieces of ribbon tied together and adhered to the center of the ribbon with a Mini Glue Dot.

For the greeting (which almost looks like professionally printed emphemera!), I used the Classic Greetings Hot Foil Dies. I hot foiled these greetings (several of them at one time) on my first session with the new Stampin’ Hot Foil System. After you do the hot foil, you can use the regular cutting dies in the set and your Stampin’ Cut & Emboss Machine to cut apart each greeting so they are ready to use. I think it would be a good idea to make several of each greeting in the set in both gold and silver and keep them in a container so you can use them quickly and easily. The greeting is popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals.

I think this card with the special Velvet Meadow paper and the gold hot-foiled greeting in such a lovely font really looks lovely, if I do say so myself!

As I am writing this post, the Velvet Meadow DSP is “currently unavailable” but will likely be back in stock the week of August 3, along with the Classic Greetings Hot Foil Dies. Fill out the notification in the Online Store by each product so you will be notified right away if you would like to purchase either or both of them. This system works well, but sometimes you have to move quickly so the product doesn’t sell out as soon as it comes back in stock! Sometimes it comes in earlier than expected, too.

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Velvet Meadow Happy Birthday Card

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Velvet Meadow Happy Birthday Card

If you want to make an extra-special card, make one like this Velvet Meadow Happy Birthday Card. This is one where you can let the designer paper do the work! This Velvet Meadow Specialty Designer Series Paper features soft, muted colors, papers that can be cut apart into panels for cards, and specialty flocking you can feel, giving your card a soft, touchable texture to elevate its style! It will be beautiful used as scrapbook pages as well.

This Velvet Meadow DSP is part of the Velvet Meadow Suite Collection. If you want to have it all, from paper to stamp set to dies to embellishments, plus velveteen paper, the Suite is easy to order with one number instead of ordering each item. Anything you make with this paper or Suite will be something special.

This card has a card base of Bubble Bath cardstock. The paper layered in the background is one of the soft, neutral patterns on the “other side” of the floral side of the paper. This one really makes the card design look so soft. The flowers at the bottom are fussy-cut from the bottom of one of those panels which you can cut from the special 12″ x 12″ sheet into three 4″ strips, then cut each top and bottom to measure 5 1/4″, which will leave a little bit of scrap from in between.

Velvet Meadow DSP Sheet

You don’t need to fussy-cut “perfectly” around the flowers, just use a small pair of scissors, turn the paper back and forth, and don’t worry about it. I popped it up on Stampin’ Dimensionals, which, I think, gives it a fancier look!

For the greeting, I stamped the birthday greeting from the Scalloped Blooms Stamp Set in Berry Burst ink, and die cut it with one of the many labels in the Sweet Words & Labels Dies. These dies are part of the Silly Old Bear Suite Collection. I really like this set of dies! They will all be very useful.

Since I popped up the flower panel at the bottom of the card, I adhered the greeting flat on the card. But first, to help it stand out a tiny bit, I used a Bubble Bath Stampin’ Blend marker to lightly draw the brush end around the diecut to give it a little border or faux layer. For an embellishment, I added three of the little Dreamy Flowers on the diecut, two in Bubble Bath and one White.

Click HERE to see a simpler card I made with this paper.

This turned out to be a very pretty card, just starting with that floral pattern cut from that one sheet. The greeting was the right size to take up some space at the top of the card, and the popped-up panel at the bottom gives an extra-special look.

Velvet Meadow Happy Birthday Card Closeup

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Velvet Meadow Easiest Ever Birthday Card

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Velvet Meadow Easiest Ever Birthday Card

If you want to make a quick and easy card, this Velvet Meadow Easiest Ever Birthday Card is the one for you! And so pretty and elegant, even if you couldn’t find an easier card to make! It’s all about the Velvet Meadow Specialty Designer Series Paper!

This paper is exceptional because it has soft flocking as part of the design on the paper. You can feel it, and it is lovely! What makes this card so easy to make is the way the design is printed on this paper, which Stampin’ Up! has been doing pretty frequently with the designer series paper. The paper is printed with a design at the top and bottom of the page so that you can cut it into 6 card fronts. Depending on what measurements you want, you can cut up this paper and have something similar and pretty on each card or project.

Velvet Meadow DSP Sheet

The card I made has a card base of Berry Burst, one of the coordinating colors with the Velvet Meadow paper. The designer paper is cut at 4″ x 5 1/4″. If you know you want to make six cards in total with this paper, just cut three strips vertically at 4″. Then trim down to 5 1/4″. You will have some plain middle pieces left but you can use the six cut pieces on card fronts.

Before adhering the designer paper to the card (just to be on the safe side!), stamp a greeting directly on to the card in the empty space. No label or anything necessary. Just stamp. I used the birthday greeting in the Scalloped Blooms Stamp Set. You’ll find it on page 46 in the new Stampin’ Up! May-August Catalog. It is part of a Suite, the Bloom Boutique Suite on page 16. You can buy it as part of a Bundle with the Scalloped Blooms Dies.

Since the card was SO easy to make, I had plenty of extra time left over from cardmaking to add just a few little embellishments, three Dreamy Flowers. You will find these in the Velvet Meadow Suite Collection. The flowers come in White, Berry Burst, and Bubble Bath. I used the Berry Burst.

That’s all there is to it when you use this particular pattern of paper that can be cut apart to make similar cards! The florals are so colorful and pretty already, but adding the flocking will make the cards extra-special!

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