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Daisy Birthday Card

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Anyone who really knows me knows that white daisies are my favorite flower, hence why my website is www.daisychainfun.com as it had to have the word daisy and a daisy in my logo.  I did struggle with this card being way too white though, so I finally decided to use some of the antiquing spray I have in many different colors and it was exactly what this card needed. 

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

  • Lemon Lime Twist card stock (Stampin’ Up)
  • Lemon Lolly card stock (Stampin’ Up)
  • White card stock
  • Heart and Home designer series paper (Stampin’ Up)
  • Daisy stamp (Reflections)
  • Basic Gray Black ink (Stampin’ Up)
  • Stampin’ Blends
    • Lemon Lime Twist Light
    • Lemon Lolly Dark
  • Willow Walnut Ink Antiquing Solution Spray (Tsukineko)
  • Yellow ribbon
  • Paper trimmer
  • Adhesive of choice

This car is pretty straightforward, it is just a lot of layers.  With some white card stock, cut a card base of 5 ½” x 8 ½” and fold in half to 4 ¼” x 5 ½”.  Cut another piece of white to 2 ¾” x 4 5/8” and one to 5/8” x 2”.  With the Lemon Lime Twist card stock cut a piece to 4 1/8” x 5 3/8” and a second piece to 3 1/8” x 4 7/8” and a third to 7/8” x 2 1/4”.  Then cut a piece of Lemon Lolly to 4” x 5 ¼” and a second piece to 2 7/8” x 4 ¾” and a third to ¾” x 2 1/8”.  Lastly, take one of the white wood designer series papers from the Heart and Home paper pack and cut a piece to 3 7/8” x 5 1/8”. 

Take the white piece you cut to 2 ¾” x 4 5/8”, your Basic Gray ink and your daisy stamp and stamp onto the center of the white card stock piece.  Let dry for a few minutes since it isn’t StazOn ink.  Color the leaves with the Lemon Lime Twist Light Stampin’ Blends and the flower centers with the Lemon Lolly Dark.  Take your stamped piece and the white wood designer series paper and a piece of cardstock or cardboard you can spray on, and with your Willow Antiquing Spray and spray both pieces, then let dry for a few minutes.  On the small white piece you cut stamp the “Happy Birthday” greeting from the Special Someone stamp set in your Basic Grey ink. 

Now let’s get it all put together.  Take the three large pieces and start with adhering the wood designer series paper piece to the yellow and then to the green and finally to your card front.  Then with the middle size pieces wrap your daisy stamped piece with yellow ribbon and tie into a knot toward the left side.  Now adhere your stamped daisy piece to the yellow and then to the green and now to the center of your card front.  Layer up your small pieces with your Happy Birthday and adhere that over the ribbon.

For the inside take the “a very special day…” and the “for a very special someone” greeting stamps from the Special Someone stamp set and stamp in the Basic Gray ink, and then the flower stamp in the lower left corner.  

There is a birthday card for anybody who loves daisies or flowers in general. 

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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Rustic Crate True Friend Card

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I went a bit old school for today’s card with the Rustic Crate set and using an old tool that roughs up the edges and then I sponged them to antique the paper.  It was fun to go back to using some old ways of doing things. 

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

  • Natural card stock
  • A brighter color card stock for gloves
  • Tan card stock to cut the rake
  • Timeless Plaid designer series paper
  • Rustic Crate stamp set and dies (Stampin’ Up)
  • Flowering Rain Boots dies (Stampin’ Up)
  • Dragonfly Garden stamp set (Stampin’ Up)
  • Early Expresso Black ink (Stampin’ Up)
  • Cinnamon Cider ink (Stampin’ Up)
  • Cinnamon Cider twine (Stampin’ Up)
  • Stampin Blends
    • Old Olive light and dark
    • Lemon Lime Twist light and dark
  • Paper trimmer
  • Adhesive of choice

Cut your card base to 5 ½” x 8 ½” using the Natural card stock then fold in half to 4 ¼” x 5 ½”.  With your Timeless Plaid card stock find the Old Olive green plaid piece, cut a piece to 4” x 5 ¼” and then you should have a piece left that is ¾” x 4” to use for your inside.  Take the scrapping tool (if you have one) or scissors and your two pieces of plaid paper and rough the edges, then use your sponge and Cinnamon Cider ink to sponge along your roughed edges.  I also sponged the front cover edges of the card.  Adhere the 4’ x 5 ¼” piece to the front of your card and the small piece to the left side of the inside of your card. 

With some scrap Natural card stock, the plant stamp from the Rustic Crate stamp set and your Early Expresso ink and stamp two of the plants.  Use your four green Stampin’ Blend markers to color the plants in different shades, I did Lemon Lime Twist Light, Old Olive Dark, Lemon Lime Twist Dark and then the Old Olive Light from left to right.  Use the die from Rustic Crate to cut out your plants. Also cut a small tag with a die from the Natural card stock.  Take a scrap piece of Cinnamon Cider card stock and the crate die from Rustic Crate and cut your crate.  Use a brighter color card stock to cut the gloves from the Rustic Crate dies.  Take a scrap piece of tan and the rake die from the Flowering Rain Boots dies and cut out the rake.   

Take your plants and the crate and align the first row of plants to where you want them.  If any of the roots are showing then cut them off leaving enough room to adhere to the crate.  For the second row of plants, I cut the first two together and then cut the other two individually.  Align them along the back spaced to your liking and adhere.  Adhere the crate with plants to the front of your card, slightly to the left so you have room for your tag.  Adhere the gloves and rake. 

Take your tag, Cinnamon Cider ink and the “For a True Friend” greeting from Dragonfly Garden and stamp on your tag.  Adhere your tag like it is tied to the plants.  Take some of your twine and tie a bow and adhere to the top of your tag.  For the inside of your card take the “May good things grow all year long” greeting and the Cinnamon Cider in and stamp on the inside of the card. 

That completes your Rustic Crate True Friend card.  Give it to a special friend to let them know you care. 

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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Chalked Detailed Dogwood Sympathy Card

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I love dogwood trees, and it is almost time for them to start blooming.  That has inspired me to use the Detailed Dogwood set for this card. 

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

  • Crumb Cake card stock (Stampin’ Up)
  • White card stock
  • Harvest Meadow designer series paper (Stampin’ Up)
  • Detailed Dogwood stamp set (Retired Stampin’ Up)
  • Mixed Labels stamp set (Stampin’ Up)
  • Tag die
  • Crumb Cake ink (Stampin’ Up)
  • Chalk marker (Stampin’ Up)
  • Adhesive Backed Swirl Dots (Stampin’ Up)
  • Twine
  • Paper trimmer
  • Adhesive of choice
  • Pop dots

Take your Crumb Cake card stock cut a card base to 5 ½ x 8 ½” and fold in half to 4 ¼” x 5 ½”.  Cut another piece to 3 5/8” x 4 7/8” for the inside and one more piece to 2 7/8” x 3 5/8” for the dogwood front piece.  With white card stock cut a piece to 4 1/8” x 5 3/8” for the front of your card, a piece to 3 ¾”x 5” for the inside of your card, a piece to 3” x 3 ¾” for the front dogwood and then a piece to 2 1/8” x 4 ½” for the inside.  From the Harvest Meadow designer series paper find the Crumb Cake colored piece with the branches and buds, cut a piece to 4” x 5 ¼”. 

Take the 2 7/8” x 3 5/8” piece of Crumb Cake card stock and the Crumb Cake ink and stamp the large dogwood from the Detailed Dogwood stamp set.  On the inside piece of Crumb Cake you cut to 3 5/8” x 4 7/8”” stamp the smaller dogwood to the lower left corner.  For both of your stamped dogwoods use the chalk marker to color in the flowers, it will probably take two layers to make the white really stand out.  Then on the white piece measuring 2 1/8” x 4 ½” stamp the “Just a note to let you know you’re on my mind” greeting from the Mixed Labels stamp set toward the top.  With a spare piece of white card stock, stamp the “with Sympathy” greeting, also from the Mixed Labels stamp set, and use a label die to cut it out.  If there isn’t a string hole on your label die, you will need to punch one. 

Adhere to the branches and buds piece of designer series paper and adhere to the white piece, then adhere to your card front.  Take your large colored dogwood piece and adhere to the white.  With your twine, wrap it around the large dogwood piece, string through your tag and then tie into a knot.  Use pop dots to adhere that to the front of your card.  Add a few of the crumb cake colored swirl dots. 

For the inside of your card, take the Crumb Cake piece with the smaller dogwood and adhere to the white piece, then adhere your greeting piece to the right side of the dogwood.  Adhere that to the inside of your card. 

You have now made a lovely chalked detailed dogwood card to give to someone who has lost a loved one and you would like to let know you are there for them. 

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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Pigs in a Row Timeless Plaid Card

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These adorable pigs just won my heart and I had to have this die set.  I started thinking last night that I wanted to do a card with some of the plaid paper from Stampin’ Ups Timeless Plaid designer series paper and these pigs just popped into my head and that was it, they were getting used. 

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

  • Powder Pink card stock (Retired Stampin’ Up)
  • Crumb Cake card stock (Stampin’ Up)
  • Rich Razzleberry card stock (Retired Stampin’ Up)
  • White card stock
  • Timeless Plaid designer series paper (Stampin’ Up)
  • Quite Curvy (Retired Stampin’ Up)
  • Happy Thoughts (Retired Stampin’ Up)
  • Row of Pigs Border Cutting Dies (InLoveArts)
  • Rich Razzleberry ink (Retired Stampin’ Up)
  • Tip Top Taupe Marker (Stampin’ Up)
  • Sponge
  • Paper trimmer
  • Adhesive of choice
  • Pop dots

With your Powder Pink card stock cut a card base to 5 ½” x 8 ½” and fold in half to 4 ¼” x 5 ½”.  With the Rich Razzleberry card stock cut a piece to 4” x 5 ¼”.  Then with your pink plaid paper cut a piece to 3 7/8” x 5” and a second piece to 7/8” x 3 7/8”.  Now take your white card stock and cut it to 4” x 5 ¼”. 

Grab some spare scraps of your Powder Pink card stock and cut 5 pigs, one with all four and then cut an extra with the one you like the most.  Then with the Crumb Cake card stock and cut the wooden pen and then with a small piece cut out a corner with some of the grass cut to 7/8” x 1 ¾” with the grass extending past the 7/8”.  Take your Tip Top Taupe market and color the grass areas on the wooden pen. 

Now take a piece of spare white card stock and the “Hooray for you!” greeting stamp from the Quite Curvy stamp set.  With the curvy die, make sure the curvy greeting is lined up in the same shape as the curved die so that it will line up when you cut it.  Stamp it with the Rich Razzleberry ink.  Take the die and line it up to cut the bottom of “Hooray for You” and cut which will leave the dots border.  Do the same at the top which will cut it straight. 

Take your piece of Rich Razzleberry and the large plaid and adhere the plaid to the Rich Razzleberry and then adhere that to the front of your card.  Then adhere the wooden pen to the bottom of the front plaid piece.  Align four of your pigs along the top of the wooden pen and then adhere each of them.  Now adhere your Hooray for You greeting to the center of your plaid. 

For the inside of your card, adhere the small piece of plaid to the left side of the white inside piece.  If you haven’t already, color the grass hanging out on the small wooden pen you cut and then adhere to the lower left corner over part of the plaid.  Adhere your last pig to the to of the wooden pen. 

There is your adorable Pigs in a Row Timeless Plaid card to give a cute congratulations to anyone.

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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Mixed Floral Z-Fold Pop-Up Card

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This is a z-fold card, but with a pop-up twist, so there is a middle layer that pops up when you start to open the card.  I love the colors, I saw someone else use them for a card so I decided to use the colors to make this style card. 

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

  • Pretty in Pink card stock (Stampin’ Up)
  • White card stock
  • Mixed Floral designer series paper (Stampin’ Up)
  • Jet Black Staz-On ink
  • Stampin’ Blends (Stampin’ Up)
    • Pretty in Pink Light
    • Pretty in Pink Dark
    • Mint Macaroon Dark
    • Lemon Lolly Light
    • Lemon Lolly Dark
  • Scoring board or paper trimmer scoring blade
  • Paper trimmer
  • Adhesive of choice

With the Pretty in Pink card stock cut a card base to 5 ½” x 8 ½” then score at 2 1/8 and 4 ¼” and fold the card in half and the fold the front quarter forward to form your z-fold.  Cut another piece with the Pretty in Pink to 2 ¾” x 4 ¼”.  With your white card stock cut a piece to 2” x 4 1/8”, one to 4 3/8” x 4 5/8” and a third piece to 2 5/8” x 4 1/8” and lastly one to 2 ½” x 3” scored at ½”, 1 ¼” and 2”.   With the black floral designer series paper from the Mixed Floral designer series paper pack.  Cut a piece to 4 x 5 ¼” and a second to 1 7/8” x 4”.

Take the coneflower stamp from the Mixed Florals set and the Jet Black Staz-On ink and stamp on to a spare piece of white card stock.  Color the leaves with the Mint Macaroon dark Stampin’ Blends, the dainty flowers and large flower centers with the Lemon Lolly light and dark Stampin’ Blends and the large flowers with the light and dark Pretty in Pink Stampin Blends.  With the white piece measuring 2 5/8” x 4 1/8” and stamps from the Mixed Labels stamp set stamp the dainty flower stamp once or twice in the lower left corner and the “I’m so glad we’re friends” greeting in the upper left corner. 

Now let’s assemble the card.  Adhere the white piece of card stock measuring 4 1/8” x 5 3/8” to the back of the card, and the black floral piece measuring 4” x 5 ¼” to the white card stock piece. 

With the 2 ½” x 3” scored piece, fold into a square.  Put adhesive on the top of the right side of ½” part.  Fold in half with the glue half down, line up with the middle fold so it will lay flat with card closed.  The put adhesive on the upper ½” section and fold card onto it again making sure it all lays flat.  Take the Pretty in Pink piece and adhere your stamped white piece to it.  Put adhesive on the top of your box piece and adhere this greeting piece to it centered. 

Take the last white piece and adhere the black floral piece to that and adhere to the front of the card.  Glue your large colored flowers to the front with it partially hanging of toward the center and making sure your greeting is covered. 

That gives you the pop-up z-fold card in these lovely pops of pink with the black background. 

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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