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Nests of Winter Banner Pop-Up Card

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The Winterly Tree Tops paper is so pretty and can take so much of the work out of making a card.  This card is the perfect example of that.    

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

  • Grey Granite card stock
  • White card stock
  • Nests of Winter designer series paper
  • Winterly Tree Tops stamp set
  • Grey Granite Ink
  • Paper trimmer
  • Adhesive of choice
  • Pop-Dots

With the Grey Granite card stock cut a card to 4 1/4” x 11” and fold in half to 4 ¼” x 5 ½”.  Also cut a strip of Grey Granite to 1” x 11” scored at 2 ¾”, 5 ½” and 8 ¼”.  Cut a piece of White card stock to 4” x 5 ¼” and adhere to the front of your Grey Granite card base.  Get your Nests of Winter designer series paper out and find one of the pieces that have the pussy willows with the birds on the bottom and top of the paper.  Cut a section to 4” x 4 ¼” making sure you have the birds positioned where you want them for the section of paper you are using.  Find two spots with birds that you can cut to 1 ¾” x 1 ¾” and also cut two pieces of White card stock to the same 1 ¾” x 1 ¾”.  I also cut a ½” x 1 ¾” of a bit of pussy willow for the bottom of one of the white pieces.  Cut four squares out of the Grey Granite to 2” x 2”.  Adhere your 4 pieces cut to 1 ¾” x 1 ¾” to each of the Grey Granite pieces.  On the plain white one get the  “many thanks and much love” stamp from the Winterly Tree Tops stamp set and stamp it with your Grey Granite ink.

Find a piece of designer series paper from your Nests of Winter pack that has the white birch trees with the birds.  Cut two pieces to 4” x 5 ¼” and adhere one to the inside top portion of your card and the other to the inside bottom portion.  Now take the Grey Granite strip you cut and scored and accordion fold it.  Adhere the top section centered to the top of your card with the center part of your accordion fold popping up and then adhere the bottom section to the bottom of your card.  Now adhere you 2” x 2” pieces from top down centered in each section of your grey accordion strip with one of the birds in the top section.  Your word stamped piece in the second section, the second bird one in the third section and the plain white with the strip of pussy willow to the bottom section.

And that is it, you have an adorable, easy pop-up card. 

If you are interested in seeing other card ideas, please visit my blog at www.daisychainfun.com.  Also, if you would like to purchase any Stampin’ Up products, please visit my website at https://www.stampinup.com/?demoid=2269501.All cards are handmade by and photos taken by DaisyChainFun.

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Countryside Inn Foxy Tri-Fold Card

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This elegant foxy tri-fold card made with the Countryside Inn designer series paper from Stampin’ Up is just adorable and easy to make. 

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

  • Night of Navy card stock
  • Balmy Blue card stock
  • White card stock
  • Countryside Inn designer series paper
  • Three stacked Oblong Nested dies
  • Sizzix Forest Friends (not sure on the name) dies
  • Small floral dies
  • Framed Florets stamps
  • Night of Navy ink
  • Embellishments to decorate the center of the flowers
  • Scoring board or scoring blade for paper trimmer
  • Paper trimmer
  • Adhesive of choice

With the Night of Navy card stock cut a piece to 3” x 9” and another to 3” x 4 ¼”.  Score the 3” x 9” piece at 4 ¼” and at 8 ½”.  Fold the 9” piece in half and then fold the half inch piece in the opposite direction.  Put adhesive on the ½” piece and adhere the 3” x 4 ¼” piece to make a z-fold.  Find the blue striped piece from the Countryside Inn designer series paper pack.  Cut three pieces to 2 ¾” x 4” and adhere to each panel of the z-folded card base. 

With your Night of Navy card stock die cut three of the largest panels which are about 4 ½” long.  In the Countryside Inn designer series paper pack find the paper that has the foxes on it, use the middle size die or next size down to cut three of these.  With White card stock us the next size down cut two.   Cut out one each of the fox and the racoon (which looks like a fox) with Night of Navy card stock and Balmy Blue card stock and adhere the pieces together.  For the racoon version, just take the Balmy Blue tail and cut it with a jagged edge instead of the double stripes for the racoon.  With Night of Navy, Balmy Blue and White card stock scraps cut some flowers for decoration. 

With the two white oblong octagons, Night of Navy ink and the “wishes for a beautiful birthday” and stamp that on one toward the top, then with the “for a special person on a special day” stamp that onto the other white one toward the top as well. 

Now take all the oblong octagon pieces and adhere the three fox designer series paper to the three Night of Navy pieces.  Add the two white ones to two of the pieces.  Take the back one with the “for a special person on a special day” and put adhesive slightly less than half way up from the bottom and adhere to the back panel.  You want it to measure 5 ½” in total so that it is the proper size for an envelope.  Put adhesive about 1/3 of the way up for the piece that doesn’t have a white panel, line it up face down on the back one and fold the middle panel down so that they line up perfectly.  Now put adhesive on the front panel about 1/3 of the way up and with the card folded, align with the other panels so that when the card is folded it should only show the front panel. 

This now gives you the Countryside Inn Foxy tri-fold card with this beautiful fox paper in these elegant blues. 

If you are interested in seeing other card ideas, please visit my blog at www.daisychainfun.com.  Also, if you would like to purchase any Stampin’ Up products, please visit my website at https://www.stampinup.com/?demoid=2269501.All cards are handmade and photos taken by DaisyChainFun.

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Delightful Wishes Double Gate Fold Card

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Send some appreciation to someone with this bright and cheerful double gate fold card.  This Delightful Wishes set is so beautiful and you can’t beat the Floral Delight designer series paper. 

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

  • Daffodil Delight card stock
  • Lemon Lolly card stock
  • Crumb Cake card stock
  • White card stock
  • Floral Delight designer series paper
  • Delightful Wishes stamp set and dies
  • Memorable Blooms stamp set and dies
  • Limon Lolly ink
  • Daffodil Delight ink
  • Old Olive ink
  • Scoring board or scoring blade for paper trimmer
  • Paper trimmer
  • Bone folder
  • Adhesive of choice
  • Pop-Dots

With your Lemon Lolly card stock cut your card base to 5 ½” x 11” and score at 1 ¼”, 3 3/8”, 7 5/8” and 9 ¾” and fold up from the center and then out on the ends.  Take a piece of White card stock and cut that to 3 ½” x 8 ¼” and score at 1 1/8”, 2 5/8”, 5 5/8” and 7 1/8” and fold the same with coming up from the center and out on the ends.  Use a bone folder on all your fold edges to make sure they are folding flat.  Then take your Daffodil Delight and cut a piece to 4” x 5 ¼” and two strips at 1” x 5 ¼”.  With your floral delight designer series paper find the Forsythia paper and cut a piece to 3 ¾” x 5”. 

Now take your Delight Wishes stamp set and dies and the Crumb Cake card stock and cut two sticks with the stick die.  Get your Old Olive ink, White card stock and the double leave stamp and stamp and die cut out 5 of them.  Take more White card stock, your Lemon Lolly ink and the solid Forsythia back group stamp and stamp three of these.  Then change the stamp to the Forsythia detail stamp and with your Daffodil Delight ink and light up the stamp and stamp on the detail over the background stamped items that you stamped in Lemon Lolly.  Use the Forsythia die and cut out the three sets of flowers.  Arrange and adhere one set to each and two leaves to each of the sticks.  Find your White scored piece of card stock for your inside and with your Memorable Blooms stamp set stamp “I appreciate your thoughtfulness” on the inside as a greeting and then decorate with the remaining set of Forsythia flowers and one last leaf.  Take a spare piece of White card stock and your Old Olive ink and stamp “Thanks so much” from the same Memorable Blooms set and use the small label die from that set to cut it out. 

Now it is time to put all the pieces together.  Start with your Lemon Lolly card base and adhere the Daffodil Delight 4” x 5 1/4 “ piece to the center and then adhere the Forsythia designer series paper centered on the Daffodil Delight piece.  Then take the scored white piece and adhere one side centered to the top fold on each side of your Lemon Lolly card base which leave it floating up about ¾” from the back of the card.  Find your two 1” x 5 ¼” strips of Daffodil Delight and adhere that over the white and the other flaps on each side.  Then take you Forsythia sticks and adhere to each side, making sure they are not hanging over in the middle so that the card can close.  Adhere the “Thanks so much” label to the lower right flap. 

There is the Double Gate Fold card.  You may want to incorporate a ribbon in to tie at the front to help keep it closed, but I think it being open is the appeal of this card. 

If you are interested in seeing other card ideas, please visit my blog at www.daisychainfun.com.  Also, if you would like to purchase any Stampin’ Up products, please visit my website at https://www.stampinup.com/?demoid=2269501.All cards are handmade and photos taken by DaisyChainFun.

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Wildflower Birthday Level-Up Card

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This Wildflower Birthday set is such a girly and pretty set of paper, I am just obsessed.  It comes with two sheets of cut-out shapes as well, which I didn’t use for this card but have on others. 

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

  • Wildflower Birthday specialty designer series paper
  • Mixed Labels stamp set and dies
  • Pretty in Pink card stock
  • White card stock
  • Pool Party ink
  • Scoring board or scoring blade for paper trimmer
  • Paper trimmer
  • Adhesive of choice
  • Pop-Dots

With the Pretty in Pink card stock cut a card base of 4 ¼” x 11” and score to 1 ¾”, 3 1/8”, 3 ½”, 7 ½”, 7 7/8” and 9 ¼”.  The center four scores fold up and the two outside pieces fold out. 

Grab a piece of White card stock and cut a piece to 3 ¾” x 4”, one to 1 ½” x 4”, 7/8” x 5 ½” and one to 3” x 3 ¾”.  Now grab the Wildflower Birthday specialty designer series paper and cut a piece of the pink and white gingham paper to 3 ½” x 3 ¾” and two strips to 1 ¼” x 3 ¾”.  The find the paper with the cakes and cut a strip of cakes to 1” wide making sure you are lining up to center the cakes and then cut to a length of 3 ½”, but making sure you are getting your cakes close to the top as the bottom area will get covered.  Then with the Pool Party banner piece cut a strip to 5/8” x 5 ¼” which should give you three banner stripes, and then another piece for the back of the card measuring 5/8” x 3 ¾”. 

Take a scrap piece of White card stock and your Pool Party ink and stamp the “You’re Pretty Wonderful” and then use the label die to cut it out. 

Now it is time to assemble it all together.  Take your Pretty in Pink card base and your 3 ¾” x 4” White cards stock piece and the pink gingham measuring 3 ½” x 3 ¾” and adhere the gingham onto the white.  Then adhere the white to the center of the card base.  Grab the label and adhere with pop dots to the upper center of the card center.  Take your two white strips measuring 1 ½” x 4”, the two pink gingham strips and the two cake strips and adhere the cake strips to the pink gingham and the pink gingham to the white strips and then adhere each of those to the front ends.  Now take the white strip measuring 7/8” x 5 ½” and the Pool Party strip measuring 5/8” x 5 ¼” and adhere to the white strip.  Then adhere that strip to the bottom of each end of the card flaps. 

Now take the last piece of white measuring 3” x 3 ¾” and adhere in the center of the back of the card.  Then adhere the Pool Party banner strip toward the bottom of the white piece.  You can add an additional greeting here in Pool Party ink if you choose to. 

This adorable card is ready to give to a good friend or sister or whoever else would enjoy receiving this cute card. 

If you are interested in seeing other card ideas, please visit my blog at www.daisychainfun.com.  Also, if you would like to purchase any Stampin’ Up products, please visit my website at https://www.stampinup.com/?demoid=2269501.All cards are handmade and photos taken by DaisyChainFun.

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Flowering Rain Boots Card

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I had to have this Flowering Rain Boots stamps and dies set when they came out as I just love goloshes, especially mine, but they are purple (though I would prefer polka dot). 

To create this card, you need a few things:

  • Sahara Sand card stock
  • Petal Pink card stock
  • Cinnamon Cider card stock
  • White card stock
  • Polka dot designer series paper in Sweet Sorbet and Petal Pink (this was a Tulip pack that came out with the Flowering Rain Boots set but don’t know the name of it)
  • Flowering Rain Boots stamp set and dies
  • Cheerful Daisies label die
  • Umbrella die if you have one (nice touch but not required)
  • Rain drops embossing folder
  • Sahara Sand ink
  • Cinnamon Cider ink
  • Sweet Sorbet ink
  • Petal Pink Light and Dark Stampin’ Blends markers
  • Paper trimmer
  • Adhesive of choice

The list of what you need looks like a lot, but it is all mainly little scraps excluding the Sahara Sand and Petal Pink card stock.  Take your Sahara Sand card stock and cut a piece to 5 ½” x 8 ½”, folding in half to 4 ¼” x 5 ½”.  Then cut another piece to 4” x 5 ¼”.  With your Petal Pink card stock, cut a piece to 4 1/8” x 5 3/8” and a second piece for the inside of your card to 4” x 5 ¼”. 

Now take a piece of Cinnamon Cider card stock, your Cinnamon Cider ink and the clay pot stamp from the Flowering Rain Boots set and stamp the pot.  Use the clay pot die to cut out your clay pot along with the rake. I then dabbed the hand of the rake in the Cinnamon Cider ink to give it a bit of a darker color.  Take a scrap piece of white, your Sahara Sand ink and the daisies stamp from the Flowering Rain Boots set and stamp the daisies.  Use your Petal Pink Light and Dark Stampin’ Blends marker to color in your daisies.  Then take your Petal Pink Light Stampin’ Blends marker and color a background for the seed pack, and then with your Sweet Sorbet ink stamp off first and then stamp your seed pack on your colored Petal Pink background.  “Stamp off” mean to ink your stamp as normal and then stamp it lightly onto a scrap and then stamp with it, this gives you’re a lighter color.  Take a scrap piece of Petal Pink card stock and the Sweet Sorbet ink and stamp the “rain or shine I’m here for you” and use the label die from Cheerful Daisies to cut out the greeting. 

Now take the polka dot designer series paper and your Sahara Sand ink and with the rubber boots or goloshes stamp and then use the die to cut these out.  I added an additional touch for the inside which was to die cut out an umbrella with the polka dot paper as well, but that is not part of the Flowering Rain Boots set, that is a die I have from InLoveArts, so if you don’t have an umbrella die then just skip this step. 

Let’s assemble.  Take your Saraha Sand card base and adhere the 4 1/8” x 5 3/8” piece of Petal Pink to the front of it.  Take your piece of Sahara Sand card stock and run it through an embossing machine with the raindrops embossing folder and then adhere that to the front of the petal pink piece on the front of your card.  Now adhere your pieces:  Rain boots or goloshes, the pot with the daisies overlapping on the top, the seed pack slightly over the edge of the pot and the rake over top of the seed pack.  Add your greeting label to the upper right corner. 

Now for the inside, take your remaining piece of Petal Pink we cut for the inside and if you have an umbrella adhere that in the upper right corner of the Petal Pink piece.  With your Sweet Sorbet ink and the “every storm that comes also ends” stamp from the Flowering Rain Boots set stamp your greeting.  Adhere that to the inside of your card.

You now have such a cute card to give to someone who if feeling a bit down.

If you are interested in seeing other card ideas, please visit my blog at www.daisychainfun.com.  Also, if you would like to purchase any Stampin’ Up products, please visit my website at https://www.stampinup.com/?demoid=2269501.

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Wildflower Birthday Pull Tab Pop-Up Card

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This fun pull tab pop-up card made from Wildflower Birthday specialty designer series paper is just beautiful. 

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

  • Pretty in Pink card stock
  • White card stock
  • Wildflower Birthday specialty designer series paper
  • Flirty Flamingo ink (should be Pretty in Pink ink but I didn’t have that one)
  • Scoring board or scoring blade for paper trimmer
  • Paper trimmer
  • Bone folder
  • Adhesive of choice

Take a piece of Pretty in Pink card stock and cut a card base to 4 ¼” x 5 ½”.  With your White card stock cut a piece to 4” x 10 ½” and score at 1 ¾”, 3 ½”, 7” and 8 ¾”.  Cut another piece of White card stock to 4” x 4” and score it at ¼” and 3 ¾”.  Cut two strips with the White card stock to 1/2” x 3 ¼” scored at 1 ¼”.  From your Wildflower Birthday Specialty designer series paper find the light green with the white oval decoration paper and cut a piece to 3 3/8” x 3 7/8”

Take the 4” x 10 ½” and from the middle fold each side down and then fold the ends out.  Use a bone folder to press the folds flat.  Take the green piece of paper you cut and adhere to the front of the pop-up middle.  Grab your hexagon die and cut out a window in the center and save the cut-out piece for making the inside section. 

Grab the 4” x 4” scored piece and fold each side up from the center.  Put adhesive on the outside of one of the ¼” folded up sides and an adhere to the inside of one of the scored pop-up piece.  Put adhesive on the outside of the other ¼” flap and adhere to the inside of other pop-up side, forming the shape below.  Put adhesive on the green paper you saved from the center cut-out, fold the center down to the other center section to line up and adhere the cut-out piece to the bottom through the cut-out. 

Use the cake piece and small floral cut-out from the Wildflower Birthday specialty designer series paper and adhere the cake piece to the center of the green piece and adhere the floral piece on the lower left part of the cake.  Take the pink balloon and a medium floral piece and adhere to the top part of the card around the cut-out.  Adhere two of the cut-out cupcakes  to the right and left pull out sides of the center cut-out section. 

Take your pink ink and a “Happy Birthday” stamp of choice and fits well in the center of the cut-out window.  Close in the sides and fold the card down to you have the white window covering the cake piece.  Stamp the “Happy Birthday in the middle of your window.  Take the gold banner piece from the cut-outs and cut in half, cut down to size for each size and align on each side with the banner aligning in the middle.

Take the two ½” x 3 ¼” strips and put adhesive on the 1 ¼” section and adhere to the bottom section of the right pull-out and the same on the left.  Take two of the small pink florets and adhere to the ends of the pull-out stripes. 

On the back center section put adhesive and adhere to the center of the pink card stock base.  Decorate with a leaf and two flowers from the cut-out pieces.

If you are interested in seeing other card ideas, please visit my blog at www.daisychainfun.com.  Also, if you would like to purchase any Stampin’ Up products, please visit my website at https://www.stampinup.com/?demoid=2269501.

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Toadstool Garden Birthday

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This bright birthday card made with the Toadstool Gardens designer series paper from the 2025 Sale-a-bration paper and is so cute.  This is a quick card to make as well.

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

  • Melon Mambo card stock
  • White card stock
  • Natural Beige card stock
  • Toadstool Gardens designer series paper
  • Cheerful Daisies stamp set and dies
  • Sizzix Forest Friends (not sure on the name) dies – Mushroom dies
  • Melon Mambo ink
  • Melon Mambo ribbon or something that matches the paper that you have
  • Paper trimmer
  • Adhesive of choice
  • Mini Pop-Dots

With your Melon Mambo card stock cut a card base to 5 ½” x 8 ½” and fold in half to 4 ¼” x 5 ½”.  With your white card stock cut a piece to 4 1/8” x 5 3/8” and another to 4” x 5 ¼”.  From your Toadstool Gardens designer series paper find a piece of the pink toadstool paper and the striped paper.  Cut the toadstool paper to 3 ¾” x 4” and the strip paper to 2” x 4”. 

Grab a scrap piece of White card stock, your Cheerful Daisies stamp set and your Melon Mambo ink.  Find the “wishing you the brightest birthday” stamp and stamp it in the Melon Mambo ink.  Use the label die from the Cheerful Daisies dies to cut out your greeting.  Take a spare piece of Melon Mambo card stock and your mushroom dies and cut out a set of mushroom tops, and with a scrap piece of Natural Beige and cut out your toadstool stems and adhere together. 

Now lets put it all together.  Take your white piece of card stock cut to 4 1/8” x 5 3/8” and adhere your toadstool piece to the top and your striped piece to the bottom.  Take your ribbon and rap around and adhere to the back, covering the change from one design to the other.  Adhere that to the front of your Melon Mambo card base. 

Add mini pop-dots to the back of the label and adhere over the ribbon to the right side.  Take the other piece of White card stock you cut and adhere that to the inside of your card.  Adhere the mushrooms in the lower right corner. 

And that is all there is to making this cute toadstool birthday card.

If you are interested in seeing other card ideas, please visit my blog at www.daisychainfun.com.  Also, if you would like to purchase any Stampin’ Up products, please visit my website at https://www.stampinup.com/?demoid=2269501.All cards are handmade and photos taken by DaisyChainFun.

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Wildflower Tower Flap Card

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This fun and easy card is so cute and I enjoyed making it so much.

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

  • Basic Grey card stock
  • White card stock
  • Heart and Home designer series paper
  • Nature’s Harvest stamp set and dies
  • Tim Holtz Wildflower Dies (you could also use the dies from Nature’s Harvest dies)
  • Basic Grey ink
  • Grey twine
  • Scoring board or scoring blade for paper trimmer
  • Paper trimmer
  • Adhesive of choice
  • Pop-Dots

With your Basic Grey card stock cut a card base to 4 ¼” x 5 ½” and score in half at 2 1/8”.  Cut six (6) planks out of your Basic Grey card stock with three (3) measuring 1” x 4 ¼”, one (1) measuring 1 3/8” x 4 ¼” and two (2) to 5/8” x 4 ¼”.   With your White card stock cut two pieces to 2” x 5 3/8” for the back of your card.

Cut out six flowers\leaves for your card out of the basic grey, the have to fit two on each half without going over so you need to pick accordingly.  I chose the three daisys, one for each side and one for the back and then two different sprigs (one of one and two of the other) that were skinner to help them fit. 

With your Heart and Home designer series paper pack choose one of the pieces that has the white wood, I used the one that looked like one solid piece so I didn’t have division lines.  Cut three (3) to ¾” x 4”, one (1) to 1 ¼” x 4” and two (2) to ½” x 4”. 

Take your Nature’s Harvest stamp set and your Basic Grey ink with a scrap piece of White card stock and stamp the “Sending healing thoughts may nature’s beauty bring peace to your soul”  Use the long label die from the Nature’s Harvest dies to cut out your words. 

Now you just need to assemble it all.  With your white wood planks, adhere them to the appropriate Basic Grey planks.  Fold your scored card base in half.  Starting from the bottom of your card base adhere a 1” plank to the left half of the card base.  Adhere the next plank measuring 5/8” to the right side with a very small space left between so they don’t rub with they swing.  Then another 1” piece to the left, 1 ½” piece to the right, 5/8” piece to the left and the last 1” piece to the top. 

Fold up so you can see where the center is.  Trim the bottom one of the sprigs so it just will hang over to the top of the bottom plank and adhere to the top, third and fifth plank, and the same with one of the daisy’s making sure it isn’t overlapping the center, or it will bend.  Do the same on the right side adhere to the second, fourth and to the very top of the sixth plank.  Adhere your saying to the middle of the bottom plank.  Tye a bow with some grey twine and adhere to the second plank flower stem. 

Take the two pieces of White card stock and the leftover flower and spring for the back of the card.  Adhere one of the white pieces to one side of the back and then the other on the other side.  Adhere your sprig and flower to the left side, leaving the right side for a message and signing your card. 

If you are interested in seeing other card ideas, please visit my blog at www.daisychainfun.com.  Also, if you would like to purchase any Stampin’ Up products, please visit my website at https://www.stampinup.com/?demoid=2269501.

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Queen Bee Pop-Up Frame Card

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I just love the Queen Bee stamp set from Stampin’ Up and I just had to have it, but and this is the first time I have actually used it so was really excited to make this card.  With this pop-up frame fun fold card it was perfect and I love the way this card stands up when open and is decorated on both sides.      

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

  • More Mustard card stock
  • Cinnamon Cider card stock
  • Old Olive card stock
  • Natural Beige card stock
  • Queen Bee stamp set and dies
  • Honeycomb die (if you don’t have one you could also do something with a honeycomb embossing folder)
  • Party Dots Stampin’ Up embellishments
  • More Mustard ink
  • Cinnamon Cider ink
  • Old Olive ink
  • Light Cinnamon Cider Stampin’ Blends
  • Scoring board of paper trimmer with scoring blade
  • Paper trimmer
  • Adhesive of choice
  • Mini Pop-Dots

Take your More Mustard card stock and cut in half the long way to 4 ¼” x 11”.  Score at 1 ½” and at 5 ½” and fold both inward.  Then cut a piece of More Mustard to 4 /4” x 5” and score at ½” and 4 ½”, then fold both sides up.  Now take the Cinnamon Cider card stock and cut two pieces to 3 ¾” x 4” and cut another piece to 1 ¼” x 4”.  Take the Natural Beige card stock and cut a piece to 3 ¾” x 4”. 

Take your two pieces of Cinnamon Cider that you cut to 3 ¾” x 4” and your honeycomb die and cut out a corner of each.  Take some spare of the Natural Beige card stock and the More Mustard ink, stamp the one of large queen bee stamp and the small bees and use the dies to cut each of them out.  Also take the piece of Natural Beige card stock you cut to 3 ¾” x 4” and in the upper right corner with the piece going the long way and stamp one of the small bees.  Take a spare piece of Natural Beige card stock and stamp “happy birthday” stacked in Cinnamon Cider and then use the label die to cut that out.  Take the floral spray stamp and stamp that in Old Olive and then cut out with the die.  Now take the Cinnamon Cider Stampin’ Blends pen and color the flowers. 

Take your Old Olive card stock and cut one of the large curved leaves and six of the small leaves.  Use a spare piece of the More Mustard card stock and cut out three large flowers and three small flowers.  With your Party Dots embellishments, use three of the small yellow for centers on your small flowers and three of the large for centers of the larger flowers. 

Now you have everything you need to assembly your card.  Grab your 4 ¼” x 11” scored piece of More Mustard and let’s get it decorated.  Take one of the Cinnamon Cider pieces with the honeycomb cut-out and adhere it to the front 4” x 4 ¼” section with the honeycomb cut-out in the upper left corner.  Put a mini pop dot on the back of the small bee cut-out and adhere it in the upper right corner.  Adhere the large curved leaves in the lower right corner along with one of the smaller leaves toward the middle.  Put the “happy birthday” label over it and decorate with one large and one small flower. 

In the 1 ½” x 4 ¼” section of your card front, adhere the 1 ¼ x 4” piece centered.  Take three of the small die cut leaves and the floral spray and arrange and adhere center in this section, not going outside of the 1 ½” x 4 ¼” section. 

Now take the 4 ¼” x 5” scored piece of the More Mustard card stock and adhere the second Cinnamon Cider honeycomb piece with the scored flaps folded down with the honeycomb in the lower right corner.  Take one of the last two smaller leaves a adhere that and one small and one large flower in the upper right corner.  Then take the last leaf die cut and one large flower and adhere in the lower left corner.  Adhere the Queen Bee die cut image in the center area.  Put glue on the upper flap and stick to the bottom of the 1 ½” x 4 ¼” piece to start to for your square frame.  Then lay flat and put adhesive on the lower flap and fold the card shut to adhere in the correct place.  Now take your little bee stamped piece of Natural Beige and adhere to the inside of your card.  Adhere your last small flower in the lower left corner. 

Now you have a beautiful birthday card to send to someone you care about. 

If you are interested in seeing other card ideas, please visit my blog at www.daisychainfun.com.  Also, if you would like to purchase any Stampin’ Up products, please visit my website at https://www.stampinup.com/?demoid=2269501.

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Nests of Nature Chickadee Card

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I love birds, I spend a fortune feeding them all every day.  When I saw this stamp set and paper I had to have it.    

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

  • Grey Granite card stock
  • White card stock
  • Nests of Winter designer series paper
  • Winterly Tree Tops stamp set
  • Basic Black ink pad
  • Paper trimmer
  • Adhesive of choice
  • Pop-Dots
  • Twine

Cut a piece of Grey Granite card stock to 5 ½” x 8 ½” and fold in half to 4 ¼” x 5 ½” and cut another piece to 2 7/8″ x 4 1/8”.  With your white card stock cut a piece to 4 1/8” x 5 3/8”, one to 4” x 5 ¼, one at 2 5/8” x 3 7/8” and another to 1 ¼” x 2 ¼”.  Now take your Nests of Winter designer series paper and find the piece with the white birch design and the light grey with the white circles on it.  Cut a piece of white birch paper to 4” x 5 ¼”.  With the light grey with circles paper cut a piece to 2 ½” x 3 ¾”.   Find the piece of Nest of Winter designer series paper that has the chickadee on it.  Cut out one of the Chickadees. 

Take the piece of white card stock you cut to 1 ¼” x 2 ¼” and the Winterly Tree Tops stamp sent and with the “sending thanks & much love” and the Basic Black ink stamp it centered on the piece of card stock. 

Now take your Grey Granite card base and adhere the 4 1/8” x 5 3/8” piece of white card stock centered on the front.  Then adhere the white birch piece to that.  Take the small stamped piece of white and adhere that about 1/8” up from the bottom of the light grey with circles piece.  Adhere the light grey circles piece to the white piece of card stock.  Take the twine and wrap around twice and tie a bow and make sure it is located just above the stamped white piece.  Now take the cut out Chickadee, apply pop-dots to the back of it and adhere that to the top portion of the light grey circles piece.  Then adhere that to the piece of grey granite card stock.  Adhere that whole piece onto the center of the front of your card base on the birch paper.   Use the 4” x 5 ¼” piece for the inside of the card. 

If you are interested in seeing other card ideas, please visit my blog at www.daisychainfun.com.  Also, if you would like to purchase any Stampin’ Up products, please visit my website at https://www.stampinup.com/?demoid=2269501.

All cards are handmade by and photos taken by DaisyChainFun.

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