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Collage Botanicals Here for You Card

September 10, 2026 No Comments

I used the Collage Botanicals and also the Notes of Collage stamp sets and dies for this card. These were sets used for the Stampin’ Up Creativity Now session in 2026. They are a great combination of nature and different shapes and dots to create some great, interesting cards outside the norm.

To create this card, you just need a few things:

Tranquil Tide card stock (retired Stampin’ Up)
Crumb Cake card stock (Stampin’ Up)
Basic Beige card stock (Stampin’ Up)
Collage Botanicals stamp set and dies (2026 Creative Now Stampin’ Up)
Notes of Collage stamp set (2026 Creative Now Stampin’ Up)
Lost Lagoon Ink (Stampin’ Up)
Paper trimmer
Adhesive of choice
Pop dots

I planned on using Lost Lagoon card stock but as expected stamping on Crumb Cake changed the color of the Lost Lagoon ink so Tranquil Tide card stock was now the perfect match. Cut a card base from Tranquil Tide to 5 ½” x 8 ½” and fold in half to 4 ¼” x 5 1/2”. From Crumb Cake card stock cut two pieces to 4” x 5 ¼”.

Take one of the pieces of Crumb Cake you cut and with your long leafy stamp from Collage Botanicals stamp down the left side in Lost Lagoon ink and then repeat down the right side. Then take one of the dots stamps and stamp in the center of each right and left and then in the upper center and bottom center.

On a scrap piece of Crumb Cake stamp the large leaf sprig stamp in Lost Lagoon ink and cut out with the die and also stamp the “I’m here for you” greeting and cut out with the label die. Then take the open leaf sprig die and cut two from Basic Beige card stock. With a scrap piece of Tranquil Tide cut out one of the hash background pieces.

Adhere your crumb cake background piece to the front of your card base. Then adhere the Tranquil Tide hash piece to the center and then the two Basic Beige open leaf springs to each side of that. Take a piece of Crumb Cake twine from the Bakers Twin Essential pack to tie a bow around the bottom of the large, stamped leaf sprig and use mini pop dots to adhere the to the front of those. Take your label and use pop dots to adhere over the sprigs and below the bow on the right side of your card front.

For the inside take your second piece of crumb cake and stamp the long leafy stamp in Lost Lagoon ink along the left side and then one of the dots stamp to the left in the center. I chose not to put a greeting on the inside so that it can be more generic for the use.

A great generic card for many different occasions to let someone know you are there for them.

If you are interested in seeing other card ideas, please visit my blog at www.daisychainfun.com or follow my website.

All cards are handmade and photos taken by DaisyChainFun.

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Kindred Greetings Paper Pumpkin Sending Whole Heart Card

September 6, 2026 No Comments

What a simple and lovely card to let someone know you are thinking of them in hard times. This uses the Kindred Greetings stamps and leaves from the August Paper Pumpkin from Stampin’ Up. I also hot foiled in silver foil with the Echos of Detail dies to add the background accent.

To create this card, you just need a few things:

Lost Lagoon card stock (Stampin’ Up)
Pool Party card stock (Stampin’ Up)
White card stock
Kindred Greeting stamp (August 2026 Paper Pumpkin Stampin’ Up)
Leaf and circle label (August 2026 Paper Pumpkin Stampin’ Up)
Lost Lagoon Ink (Stampin’ Up)
Hot foiling system
Echos of Detail hot foil dies (July 2026 Online Exclusive )
Silver Foil (July 2026 Online Exclusive Stampin’ Up Stampin’ Up)
Paper trimmer
Corner Rounder (Creative Memories)
Adhesive of choice
Pop dots

Take a piece of Pool Party card stock and cut a card base to 5 ½” x 8 ½” and fold in half to 4 ¼” x 5 ½”. Cut another piece to 2 7/8” x 4 3/8”. From a piece of Lost Lagoon card stock cut two pieces to 4” x 5 ¼” and another to 2 5/8” x 4 1/8”. Then from a piece of white card stock cut a piece for the inside to 3 ¾” x 5”. Take your corner rounder and round the corners of all the pieces you just cut.

Take the piece of Lost Lagoon you cut to 2 5/8” x 4 1/8” and with your hashed foiling die from the Echos of Detail die set and foil emboss with silver foil. Adhere that to the 2 7/8” x 4 3/8” piece of Pool Party. Then adhere one of the 4” x 5 ¼” pieces of Lost Lagoon to the front of your card base and then adhere your foil piece centered on the front of that. Take one of the white circle cut outs from your Paper Pumpkin kit and with Lost Lagoon ink stamp the “sending my whole heard at a time when words fall short” greeting. Adhere your circle over your foil piece hanging off the right edge slightly and then adhere your two leaf pieces to the left side to your liking.

For the inside of your card take the last Lost Lagoon piece. Take the white piece your white piece and with the Lost Lagoon ink stamp the “I’m always here for you” greeting on the upper center of the white piece and the leaf stamp in the lower left corner slightly off the page. Adhere the white piece to the inside back panel on the Lost Lagoon piece.

A quick subtle card to let someone know you are thinking of them in hard times.

If you are interested in seeing other card ideas, please visit my blog at www.daisychainfun.com or follow my website.

All cards are handmade and photos taken by DaisyChainFun.

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Glow of Harvest Painted Pumpkins Hey Card

September 3, 2026 No Comments

I got the Glow of Harvest designer series paper and am just in love with it and the shimmery finish it has. I then had to buy the Painted Pumpkins stamps, also from Stampin’ Up, to go with it and I used both for this card. I put Wink of Stella over my finished pumpkins to make them match the paper. I am just in love with this card, but I also love anything fall.

To create this card, you just need a few things:

Cajun Craze card stock (Stampin’ Up)
Golden Glow card stock (2026 – 2028 In Color Stampin’ Up)
Crumb Cake card stock (Stampin’ Up)
White card stock
Glow of Harvest designer series paper (August 2026 Product of the Month Stampin’ Up)
Painted Pumpkins stamp set and dies (Sep-Oct 2026 Mini Catalog Stampin’ Up)
Flowering Meadow stamp set and dies (2026 Annual Catalog Stampin’ Up)
Delightful Wishes (retired Stampin’ Up)
Crumb Cake Ink (Stampin’ Up)
Stampin’ Blends (Stampin’ Up)
- Crumb Cake Light
- Golden Glow Light
- Color Lifter
Cajun Craze Stampin’ Write Marker (retired Stampin’ Up)
Wink of Stella glitter pen (Stampin’ Up)
Scoring board or scoring blade or trimmer
Paper trimmer
Adhesive of choice
Pop dots

To start this card cut a card base to 5 ½” x 7 ¼” out of Cajun Craze card stock and score at 3”. Cut a second piece to 2 ¾” x 4” and score at ½”. From some Golden Glow card stock cut a piece to 2 ¾” x 5 ¼”, one to 2 ½” x 3 ¼” and a third to 1 ¼” x 5 ¼”. Then take your Glow of Harvest designer series paper pack and find the piece with the twigs and floral sprigs. Cut a piece to 2 ½” x 5” and a second to 1” x 5”. Then from a piece of white card stock cut a piece to 2 ¾” x 5 ¼”.

Take your card base and the second Cajun Craze score piece and adhere the ½” scored section of the smaller piece to the right edge of the back panel centered. Now adhere the 1” x 5” piece of your Glow of Harvest paper to the 1 ¼” x 5 ¼” piece of Golden Glow and then adhere that along the right edge of your back panel, in about 1/8” from the right edge. Now adhere your white piece, butted up to the edge of your Golden Glow, on your back panel.

For the front left panel of your card base adhere the 2 ¾” x 5 ¼” piece of Golden Glow card stock and then the 2 ½” x 5” piece of the Glow of Harvest paper to that. Now take your final piece of Golden Glow paper and adhere it to the front of your flap.

Now take a piece of scrap white card stock and stamp the three pumpkin group in the Painted Pumpkins stamp set that has the tall skinny pumpkin in it in your Crumb Cake ink. Then also the double leaf stamp and the “Hey” greeting, all in Crumb Cake ink. Use the Painted Pumpkin dies to cut out the pumpkins and the leaves. Then with the “Hey” greeting trim down and cut into a banner. Then from the Flowering Meadows stamp set stamp two of the pine sprig. Then take the larger spring stamp and dap in Crumb Cake ink and then use your Cajun Craze Stampin’ Write marker to color over the areas that look like flowers or leaves so your stamping will be two-toned, then huff on your stamp and stamp on your white card stock, and repeat for your second sprig. Use the dies to cut all four of these out. Lastly, from the Delightful Wishes dies cut out a tree branch, trim down to the top of the first sticks for length but use both in your background on the flap.

Now take your three cut out pumpkins and let’s start the coloring. With your Golden Glow Light Stampin’ Blends pen color in each of your pumpkins, then color in a bit of the bottom and top with a second layer for effect. Now take your Color Lifter Stampin’ Blends and color some of the center of each section and give it a minute to pull out some of your color, which gives it all a great effect. Once they are to your liking color over the whole pumpkin with a Wink of Stella pen to add a similar shimmer effect as the designer series paper has.

Now adhere your twigs to the front flap on the left edge, overhanging on the left and the top. Then with pop dots adhere the tall pumpkin in about ¾” from the left and then the shortest pumpkin overlapping the tall pumpkin slightly on the right. Adhere the two leaves to the back of the smallest pumpkin with the leaves overlapping on both pumpkins. Give your “Hey” banner a wave and then adhere under the taller pumpkin angled to the upper right. Now adhere one of each of your sprigs over the twigs on the left side of your tall pumpkin toward the top of your flap and then the other two with pop dots to the lower section of your flap.

For the inside, adhere your last pumpkin in the lower left corner of your white section and then stamp the “I hope your day is fabulous” greeting in Crumb Cake ink in the upper center of the white piece.

I am just in love with this card and these pumpkins. I can’t wait to make more and to be able to give this card to a friend.

If you are interested in seeing other card ideas, please visit my blog at www.daisychainfun.com or follow my website.

All cards are handmade and photos taken by DaisyChainFun.

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Autumn Opulence Double Heart Fold Out Anniversary Card

September 1, 2026 No Comments

I needed an anniversary card for my husband and wanted it to be masculine, so I decided I wanted to use some wood grain paper for some hearts, and it evolved from there. I used paper from the Wood Grain Wonders designer series paper from Stampin’ Up, along with the Autumn Opulence designer series paper for the background with some stamps and dies from Natures Symphony.

To create this card, you just need a few things:

Early Expresso card stock (Stampin’ Up)
Basic Beige card stock (Stampin’ Up)
Wood Grain Wonders designer series paper (March 26 Online Exclusive Stampin’ Up)
Autumn Opulence designer series paper (September 26 Online Exclusive Stampin’ Up)
Natures Symphony stamp set and dies (March 26 Online Exclusive Stampin’ Up)
Timeless Love stamps (retired Stampin’ Up)
Heart dies
Crumb Cake ink (Stampin’ Up)
Cajun Craze ink (Stampin’ Up)
Cajun Craze Stampin’ Write marker (retired Stampin’ Up)
Scoring board or blade from paper trimmer
Paper trimmer
Adhesive of choice

Take a piece of Early Expresso card stock and cut a piece to 4 ¼” x 5 ½” for your card base. Then also cut two larger size hearts with heart dies, find a size that one aligns with the top of the card base and the second will align with the bottom of the card base and will slightly overlap in the middle. From a piece of Basic Beige cut two hearts the next size down and then two more this size from the Crumb Cake wood grain paper from the Wood Grain Wonder DSP paper. With the wood grain paper also cut a piece to 4 1/8” x 5 3/8”. The with the Autumn Opulence DSP paper find the Early Expresso with Mushrooms paper and cut a piece to 4” x 5 ¼”.

Take your Early Expresso card base and your two Early Expresso hearts and adhere one of the hearts in the upper right side adhering about ½” to the card, and then do the same with the second heart in the lower left corner, making sure the point meets with the bottom of your card base so that your card can stand. Use a scoring board or blade for your paper trimmer to score each heart so it folds to the front. Now adhere your 4 1/8” x 5 3/8” wood grain piece to the back panel and then the mushroom paper onto that.

Now take your two wood grain hearts and trim off the excess and adhere to the front of your hearts. Use a label die to cut out a label large enough for the “happy anniversary” greeting from Timeless Love and then stamp in Crumb Cake ink on your label. Now find the leafy branch stamp from Nature’s Symphony stamp set and ink with Crumb Cake ink and then use your Cajun Craze Stampin’ Write marker and color the leaves and then stamp, giving you two color stamping. Adhere the label on your front angled to your liking on the front of your lower heart and then use the die to cut out your leafy branch and adhere to the left side of your label.

For the inside of your card take the two Basic Beige hearts and trim them down to fit on the insides of the hearts and adhere to each heart. Use the “you make my heart smile” greeting from the Timeless Love stamp set and stamp in Crumb Cake ink on the upper heart. Leave the lower heart inside blank for a message.

I fell in love with how this card turned out. I like it so much I made a wedding card for a friend with the same design.

If you are interested in seeing other card ideas, please visit my blog at www.daisychainfun.com or follow my website.

All cards are handmade and photos taken by DaisyChainFun.

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Hooray for Birthdays Bouquet Paper Pumpkin Card

August 30, 2026 No Comments

This card was made with supplies from the July Paper Pumpkin Hooray for Birthdays kit from Stampin’ Up with a few additions. It is a really pretty birthday card.

To create this card, you just need a few things:

Melon Mambo card stock (Stampin’ Up)
Pink Graphed card base (July 2026 Paper Pumpkin Stampin’ Up)
White card stock
Hooray for Bithdays stamp set (July 2026 Paper Pumpkin Stampin’ Up)
Cut-outs and stickers (July 2026 Paper Pumpkin Stampin’ Up)
Basic Black Ink (Stampin’ Up)
Paper trimmer
Adhesive of choice

From a piece of Melon Mambo card stock cut a card base to 5 ½” x 8 ½” and fold in half to 4 ¼” x 5 ½”. From the July 2026 Paper Pumpkin kit take one of the pink graphed card bases and cut two pieces to 4” x 5 ¼”. From a piece of white card stock cut a piece to 3 ½” x 4 ¾” for the inside of your card.

Take your Melon Mambo card base and one of the pink graphed pieces and adhere. Then find one of the oval pieces from the Paper Pumpkin kit and adhere to the center of the pink graphed paper. From the sticker sheet, take a “happy” sticker and adhere to the right side hanging slightly off the upper right of the white oval, and the “birthday” sticker doing the same below it.

From one of the cut-out sheets take one of the large stems and adhere to the right side of your white oval. Then take two large flowers, a medium and three smaller flowers and adhere around on your stems. Add center stickers to each flower in the appropriate size.

For the inside of your card adhere the second pink graphed piece to the back panel and then the white piece to it. In Basic Black ink stamp the “hugs and wishes” greeting stamp in the upper center of your white piece. Use one of the double leaf stamps and stamp in Old Olive ink in the lower left corner of your white piece and the daisy shaped stamp in Melon Mambo ink to the top of your leaf stem.

A great floral birthday card for anyone who loves bright colors.

If you are interested in seeing other card ideas, please visit my blog at www.daisychainfun.com or follow my website.

All cards are handmade and photos taken by DaisyChainFun.

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Framed Florets Birthday Card

August 27, 2026 No Comments

I working on a card class with some of my workmates and one of them loves blue so I had to make a card with her colors and the Fitting Florets designer series paper from Stampin’ Up is perfect and so pretty. Then the Fitting Florets stamps and dies add the perfect greetings and accents.

To create this card, you just need a few things:

Night of Navy card stock (Stampin’ Up)
Balmy Blue card stock (Stampin’ Up)
White card stock
Fitting Florets designer series paper (Retired Stampin’ Up)
Framed Florets stamp set and dies (Retired Stampin’ Up)
Night of Navy ink (Stampin’ Up)
Balmy Blue Stampin’ Blends Markers light and dark (Stampin’ Up)
Paper trimmer
Adhesive of choice

With a piece of Night of Navy card stock cut a card base to 5 ½” x 8 ½” and old in half to 4 ¼” x 5 ½”. From a piece of Balmy Blue cut to 4 1/8” x 5 3/8”. Take some white card stock and cut a piece for the inside of your card to 4 1/8” x 5 3/8”. Now from the Fitting Florets designer series paper pack find the Night of Navy piece with the Balmy Blue and Evergreen flowers, cut a piece to 4” x 5 ¼”. Adhere the Balmy Blue piece to the front of your card base and then the floral piece to the front of the Balmy Blue piece.

From a spare piece of white card stock use the oval with the dashed boarder die and cut out. Also with some scrap white card stock stamp two of the large single flowers and two of the small single flowers in Night of Navy ink. Also stamp one of the larger flowers in the lower corner of the inside white piece for the inside of your card. Use the Balmy Blue light to color in the small flower and the main portion of the large flower and then the dark balmy blue to color the tips and center of the large flower. Use the dies to cut out he four single flowers, not the one on the inside piece. Use the sprig leaf die to cut out a white and a Night of Navy one.

Take the inside of the oval you cut and with Night of Navy ink stamp the “Wishes for a beautiful birthday” greeting in the upper center. Stamp the “for a special person on a special day” greeting on the upper center of the white piece for the inside of your card. Adhere the piece to the inside back of your card base.

Now let’s finish the front of the card, Adhere the oval frame to the center of your card and then adhere the greeting center into the center of the oval frame. Adhere the white sprig off center to the navy spring and then adhere to the left edge of your oval frame. The arrange the two large flowers and one of the smaller at the bottom of your oval and the fourth small flower to the top of your oval.

What a pretty birthday card for anyone special to you that you want to let them know they are.

If you are interested in seeing other card ideas, please visit my blog at www.daisychainfun.com or follow my website.

All cards are handmade and photos taken by DaisyChainFun.

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Floral Pop-Up Gate Fold Card

August 25, 2026 No Comments

This pop-up gate fold card made with the Velvet Meadow designer series paper from Stampin’ Up is just adorable and such a surprise when you open the card. The addition of a bit of the Velveteen Assortment flocked pink paper adds a wonderful touch. Then I used the Flowering Meadow stamps and dies to complete it all.

To create this card, you just need a few things:

Cloud Cover card stock (2025-2027 In Color Stampin’ Up)
White card stock
Velveteen Assortment specialty paper (2026 Annual Catalog Stampin’ Up)
Velvet Meadow designer series paper (2026 Annual Catalog Stampin’ Up)
Flowering Meadow stamp set and dies (2026 Annual Catalog Stampin’ Up)
Cloud Cover Ink (2025-2027 In Color Stampin’ Up)
Cloud Cover Linen Ribbon (Stampin’ Up)
Paper trimmer
Adhesive of choice

There is a bunch of cutting to start and then it all just goes together quick. Start with a piece of Cloud Cover card stock for your card base by cutting to 5 ½” x 8 ½” and score at 2 1/8” and 6 3/8” and fold each outside piece in. Now with your paper trimmer cut 1” down from the top on your center panel, and then 1” up from the bottom. Then score each of your 1” sections of the center at 4 1/4″ from the left end. The score the middle center panel at 3 1/8” and 5 3/8” in from the left side.

Now from white card stock cut:

Four panels to 2” x 5 3/8”
Four panels to 7/8” x 2”
One to 2 1/8” x 3 3/8”
Two panels to 7/8” x 3 3/8”

Floral paper from the Velvet Meadow designer series paper:

Four panels to 1 7/8” x 5 ¼”

From the Pink flocked paper from the Velveteen Assortment Specialty designer series paper pack cut:

Four panels to ¾” x 1 7/8”

From the Cloud Cover checked designer series paper from the Velvet Meadow pack cut:

Two panels to ¾” x 3 ½”

Now it is time to assemble, starting with the four white panels measuring 2” x 5 3/8” and the four floral panel, and here one of each together. With your card base open adhere one panel to the left side and one panel to the right side. Now fold your card closed. With the Cloud Cover Linen ribbon cut two pieces about 9” long and adhere one to the back left side of one of the panels and then adhere to the front left panel, and the do the same for the right side.

Now take the four white panels measuring 7/8” x 2” and the four pink panels and adhere together and then adhere one of each to each side of your top and bottom section of the center. Now adhere the two 7/8” x 3 5/8” white panels and the two Cloud Cover checked panels together and adhere to each side of the middle center panel. Then adhere the larger white piece left to the middle center panel.

From the Flowering Meadows stamp set stamp one of the sprigs in cloud cover ink on a scrap piece of white. Also stamp the “Thanks” greeting in Cloud Cover Ink and cut out as a label and do the same with the “for showing you care” greeting.

Cut out the sprig with the appropriate die and adhere to the lower left corner of the middle center panel. Now take the “for showing you care” label you cut and adhere to a Cloud Cover scrap and cut out the label with about a 1/8” edge. Adhere this label over the sprig across the bottom of your middle center panel.

Now take the “thanks” greeting and adhere to a scrap piece of Cloud Cover card stock and trim around your label with a 1/8” boarder. Adhere your label to the lower left corner on an angle. Tie a bow to hold your card closed.

What a lovely way to say thanks to someone you care about.

If you are interested in seeing other card ideas, please visit my blog at www.daisychainfun.com or follow my website.

All cards are handmade and photos taken by DaisyChainFun.

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Violet Dreams Side Stepper Birthday Card

August 22, 2026 No Comments

I am calling this card a Side Stepper card as I cut a base for a stepper card, but it wasn’t the size I wanted and I didn’t want to throw it away, so I figured out another way to use it. This card uses the Violet Dreams designer series paper and the Framed Violets stamps and dies along with the Stitched Rectangle dies, all from Stampin’ Up.

To create this card, you just need a few things:

Secret Sea card stock (2025-2027 In Color Stampin’ Up)
White card stock
Violet Dreams designer series paper (July 2026 Online Exclusive Stampin’ Up)
Framed Violets stamp set (July 2026 Online Exclusive Stampin’ Up)
Stitched Rectangle dies (retired Stampin’ Up)
Secret Sea Ink (2025-2027 In Color Stampin’ Up)
Adhesive-baked Blooms embellishments (July 2026 Online Exclusive Stampin’ Up)
Scoring board or scoring blade for paper trimmer
Paper trimmer
Adhesive of choice

From a piece of Secret Sea card stock cut a card base to 5 ½” x 10 ¼” and score at 1 ¼”, 2 ½”, 4 ¼” and 6”. With the large section as your back, fold the next section in and then accordion fold from there to form your stepper card base. Use the 1 3/8” x 1 ¾” stitched rectangle die to cut another piece of Secret Sea card stock for your front label. From white card stock cut one of each of the following: 4 1/8” x 5 3/8”, 1 5/8” x 5 3/8”, 1 1/8” x 5 3/8” and 1 1/8” x 1 ½”. Then use the 3 1/8” x 4 ½” die to cut two pieces and then the 2” x 3 ¼” to cut another.

With the Violet Dreams designer series paper pack find the Secret Sea polka dot paper and the Secret Sea violets paper. From the polka dot paper cut a piece to 4” x 5 ¼” and another to 1 ½” x 5 ¼”. Then use the 1 ½” x 3” stitched rectangle die to cut another piece. From the violet paper cut a piece to 1” x 5 ¼” and then use the stitched rectangle die measuring 2 ¾” x 4 1/8” to cut another violets piece.

Now let put this together, starting with your card base and the large 4 1/8” x 5 3/8” piece of white card stock and adhere to the back panel and the then adhere the 4” x 5 ¼” polka dot piece to the white piece. Take the 1 5/8” x 5 3/8” white strip and adhere the 1 ½” x 5 ¼” polka dot piece to that. Adhere this to the third panel of your card base, or the front middle section. Then take the 1 1/8” x 5 3/8” white strip and adhere the 1” x 5 ¼” violet piece to it, and then adhere that to the first front panel of your card base.

Now take one of the 3 1/8” x 4 ½” white stitched rectangle pieces and adhere the 2 ¾” x 4 1/8” violet stitched rectangle piece to it. Now close the middle panel and adhere the left about 1” to the middle panel with it centered on all sides. Take the second white 3 1/8” x 4 ½” white piece and adhere to the back center of the back panel, aligned with the center panel so that it doesn’t show. Adhere your small rectangle polka dot piece to the last white rectangle piece and adhere the left side about 1/4” to the front panel, centering over your middle panel.

Take the “happy birthday to you” greeting stamp from the Framed Violets stamp set and stamp on a piece of white piece you cut to 1 1/8” x 1 ½” in Secret Sea ink. Adhere it to the Secret Sea stitched rectangle measuring 1 3/8” x 1 ¾” and then adhere that to your front polka dot panel overhanging about ¾”. Add three of the Fresh Freesia floral embellishments from the Adhesive-backed Blooms embellishments around the front polka dot panel.

For the inside use a birthday greeting stamp of your choice, I use “wishing you the best today and always” greeting stamp which is an old wood block stamp from Stampin’ Up, but I don’t know the name of the set it came from.

For starting out as a mistake I love the way this card turned out and can’t wait to give it to a friend for their birthday.

If you are interested in seeing other card ideas, please visit my blog at www.daisychainfun.com or follow my website.

All cards are handmade and photos taken by DaisyChainFun.

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Wild Bunch Koala Birthday Card

August 21, 2026 No Comments

This masculine birthday card using the Koala from the Wild Bunch stamp set from Stampin’ Up is a great card for anyone. The fern dies for the background from the Fern & Flora dies give it an added touch of nature.

To create this card, you just need a few things:

Smokey Slate card stock (Stampin’ Up)
Peaceful Pine card stock (2026-2028 In Color Stampin’ Up)
White card stock
In Color Gingham Gallery designer series paper (2026 Annual Catalog Stampin’ Up)
Wild Bunch stamp set (June Product of the Month Stampin’ Up)
Fern & Flora dies (2026 Annual Catalog Stampin’ Up)
Smokey Slate Ink (Stampin’ Up)
Smokey Slate Light and Dark Stampin’ Blends (Stampin’ Up)
Paper trimmer
Adhesive of choice
Pop dots

Cut a piece of Smokey Slate card stock to 5 ½” x 8 ½” and fold in half to 4 ¼” x 5 ½”. Cut another piece to 3 ¾” x 5” for your inside and a strip measuring 2” x 4”. Cut two pieces of Peaceful Pine card stock to 4” x 5 ¼” and a strip to 1 ¾” x 4”. From your In Color Gingham Gallery designer series paper find the Peaceful Pine paper and cut a piece to 3 ¾” x 5”.

Take the Smokey Slate strip and the Peaceful Pine strip and align one long endge and tear both together, it is a bit tough so if you can’t get them to tear together then do each individually, and then repeat with the other long edge. Adhere the Peaceful Pine strip dentered on the Smokey Slate strip. From a scrap piece of Smokey Slate card stock stamp two of the leafy pieces in Smokey Slate ink and cut out with the matching die. Then also cut one of the large leafy pieces from the Smokey Slate. From some Peaceful Pine card stock cut two of the medium leafy pieces and one of the medium fern pieces.

From some scrap white card stock stamp two of the Koala from the Wild Bunch stamp set in Smokey Slate ink. Use the Smokey Slate Dark Stampin’ Blends to color in the nose of each and the Smokey Slate Light Stampin’ Blends to color in all of the rest except for the inner part of the ears. Take the “happy birthday” greeting and stamp on a scrap piece of Smokey Slate in Smokey Slate ink, trim to a long banner and trim the right end into a banner end. Add some waves to your banner.

Take your card base and adhere one of the Peaceful Pine pieces to the front of the card and then the Peaceful Pine Gingham piece. Adhere your strip about ¾” up from the bottom. Adhere your “happy birthday” banner to the right center of your strip. Adhere your Smokey Slate large leaf cut-out to the left side and then one of each of the medium Peaceful Pine fern pieces over that and then the two stamped small fern pieces to the top of those. Then use pop dots to adhere your Koala over it all, including the left edge of the banner.

For the inside of your card adhere the Peaceful Pine piece to the back panel and then the Smokey Slate piece to that. In Smokey Slate ink stamp the “sending love” greeting and the “heart” below it in the upper center. Adhere the last fern leaf along the bottom and then adhere to second Koala over that.

A masculine card to wish someone a happy birthday.

If you are interested in seeing other card ideas, please visit my blog at www.daisychainfun.com or follow my website.

All cards are handmade and photos taken by DaisyChainFun.

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Velvet Meadow Triple Pop-Up Card

August 19, 2026 No Comments

I have been seeing this triple pop-up card for a while, so I finally to the time to figure out measurements and get one made up. I used the Velvet Meadow designer series paper to make this card along with the Flowering Meadow stamps and dies from Stampin’ Up. It takes a bit of cutting but was fun to put together once I got everything cut.

To create this card, you just need a few things:

Cloud Cover card stock (2025-2027 In Color Stampin’ Up)
Peaceful Pine card stock (2026-2028 In Color Stampin’ Up)
White card stock
Velvet Meadow designer series paper (2026 Annual Catalog Stampin’ Up)
Flowering Meadow stamp set and dies (2026 Annual Catalog Stampin’ Up)
Moody Palette Glossy Dots (January 2026 Online Exclusive Stampin’ Up)
Cloud Cover Ink (2025-2027 In Color Stampin’ Up)
Paper trimmer
Adhesive of choice
Pop dots

Cut the following:

Cloud Cover card stock:

4 ¼” x 5 ½” card base
4 ¼” x 6 ½” scored at ¼”, 1 ¼”, 2 ¼”, 4 ¼”, 5 ¼” and 6 ¼” for your center panel. From the center panel fold each side back, then the next panels forward and the ¼” panels back.
Cut two pieces to 3 ¾” x 4 ¼” for each side panel. Score at ¼” x 1”, 1 ¾” and 3 ½”. From the large panel fold each side back, and then on the 3 panel side fold the next panel forward and the ¼” panel back.

White card stock:

4 1/8” x 5 3/8” for back panel
1 7/8” x 4 1/8” for front center panel
Four pieces to 7/8” x 4 1/8” for the side panels of the center panel
Two pieces to 1 5/8” x 4 1/8” for each side panel front
Four pieces to 5/8” x 4 1/8” for each of the side panels folds
1 7/8” x 4 1/8” for the center back panel
Two pieces to 15/8” x 4 1/8 for the side back panels

Cloud Cover Flocked Floral DSP:

1 ¾” x 4” for the front center panel
1 ¾” x 4” for the center back panel
Two pieces to 1 ½” x 4” for the center back panel
½” x 4” for the back of the card

Cloud Cover checked DSP:

Four pieces ¾” x 4” for the center side panels
Two pieces to 1 ½” x 4” for the side front panels

Cloud Cover Dainty Floral DSP:

Four pieces to ½” x 4” for the side folds of the side panels

Take your 4 ¼” x 5 ½” Cloud Cover card base and adhere the 4” x 5 ¼” white piece. Then take the ½” x 4” floral flocked piece and adhere to the left side of the white piece in about 1/8”. Find the “so may reasons to celebrate” greeting from the flowering meadow stamp set and stamp in the center of the white piece in Cloud Cover ink. From a scrap piece of cloud cover cut two flowers from the Flowering Meadow dies and two stems from Peaceful Pink card stock. Cut the second stem off of both and adhere the flower to each stem and use one of the larger white dots from the Moody Palatte Glossy Dots as the flower center of each. Adhere one of the flowers to the right side of your floral strip toward the bottom.

Take the two side panels and adhere the two side panels on each and the large main panels. Take one of the side panels and put adhesive on the ¼” part to the end with the side panels and adhere to one of the ends of the card base. Then put adhesive on the other ¼” piece, fold up and then put down on your card base to adhere while folded up. Repeat for the other side panel on the other side of the card base.

Now take the center panel and adhere the four side panels and the center panel to the front. The put adhesive on both of the ¼” panels, fold up and adhere to the center section of your card base between the side panels. Now take your floral back panel pieces and each to their white pieces. Put adhesive on the back of each and slide inside each panel and adhere to cover your ¼” adhere pieces.

Take the other flower you cut and put together and adhere to the lower left of the front center panel. On a scrap piece of white card stock stamp the “cheering you on” greeting in Cloud Cover ink. Trim down to about 1/8” all the way around your greeting. Adhere over the lower part of your stem, centered on the front center panel on a slight angle.

This card is fairly thick, especially using this flocked paper but it is so pretty so I am happy to use a bit more postage as I know just who I am sending it to.

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All cards are handmade and photos taken by DaisyChainFun.