February 2026 – Welcome

Lovely Blossoms You Are Lovely Card

February 27, 2026 No Comments

If you can’t tell from all my posts recently, this is one of my favorite sets from Stampin’ Up right now, the Lovely Blossoms designer series paper is so pretty and I absolutely love the floral stamps and dies in the Lovely Arragements set. Then there is the Cloud Cover card stock which is one of my two favorite colors at the moment, second after Secret Sea. Using all of these favorites to make a lovely thank you card.

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

Cloud Cover card stock (2025-2027 In Color Stampin’ Up)
Old Olive card stock (Stampin’ Up)
White card stock
Lovely Blossoms designer series paper (January 2026 Online Exclusive Stampin’ Up)
Lovely Arrangements stamp set and dies (January 2026 Online Exclusive Stampin’ Up)
Cloud Cover ink (2025-27 In Color Stampin’ Up)
Secret Sea Stampin’ Write Marker (2025-2027 In Color Stampin’ Up)
Paper trimmer
Adhesive of choice

From your Cloud Cover card stock cut a card base to 4 ¼” x 5 ½” and a second piece to 3 ¼” x 4 ¾” and score this one at ½” along the short side. From white card stock cut a piece to 4 1/8” x 5 3/8” and another to 3 1/8” x 4 1/8”. In the Lovely Blossom designer series paper find the Cloud Cover striped paper and the Cloud Cover with white flowers paper. From the Cloud Cover striped paper cut two pieces to 1” x 4” and from the floral paper cut a piece to 3” x 4”, watching the direction of both pieces.

Take your scored piece of Cloud Cover paper and adhere the ½” portion to the Cloud Cover card base, centered between each side. Then adhere your white piece measuring 4 1/8” x 5 3/8” centered on the card base for the inside of your card. Now adhere each of the Cloud Cover striped pieces to each side on the white inside piece centered with the flap closed. Adhere the other white piece you cut to the front of your flap and then the floral paper to the front of that.

Take a scrap piece of white card stock and the two flower stamps from the Lovely Arrangement stamp set. With one of the flower stamps, stamp in your Cloud Cover ink and then use your Secret Sea marker to color the center of the flower, then huff on the stamp to remoisten the Cloud Cover ink and stamp on your white card stock. Do the same with the other flower. Use the dies to cut each of these flowers out. Then take a scrap piece of Old Olive card stock and cut out one of the two leaves dies and another of the single leaf die. Stamp the “You are so lovely’ greeting on a scrap piece of white card stock in Cloud Cover ink and use the long label die to cut it out. Adhere the two flowers at the bottom portion of the front of your flap, adhere the leaves behind the flowers to your liking and then adhere the label on an angle coming out of the top of the flowers, slightly hanging over the edge of the flap.

For the inside of your card take the “Thank you” greeting and stamp in Cloud Cover ink in the upper center of the inside of your card.

What a subtle but lovely Thank You card for to let someone know you care.

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All cards are handmade and photos taken by DaisyChainFun.

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Birthday Tree Card

February 25, 2026 No Comments

This birthday tree card is a great masquiline birthday card for anyone in your life. This card is made with a three trees die from Jinshinging and Something Fancy stamps from Stampin’ Up. It used the Softly Stippled designer series paper from Stampin’ Up as well.

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

Sahara Sand card stock (Retired Stampin’ Up)
Pebbled Path ink (Retired 2023-2025 In Colors Stampin’ Up)
Softly Stippled designer series paper (Retired Stampin’ Up)
Something Fancy stamp set (Retired Stampin’ Up)
Three Trees die (Jinshining Dies)
Pebbled Path ink (Retired 2023-2025 In Colors Stampin’ Up)
Paper trimmer
Adhesive of choice

To start this card, take a piece of Sahara Sand 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 3 ½” x 4 5/8”. From the Pebbled Path card stock cut two pieces to 4” x 5 ¼” and another to 3 5/8” x 4 ¾”. From your Softly Stippled designer series paper find the Pebbled Path woven design paper and cut a piece to 3 7/8” x 5 1/8”.

Take a scrap piece of Pebbled Path card stock and cut a piece to 3 ½” x 4 ½” and use your three trees die with the top of the trees toward to top of the paper so there is a large base left at the bottom, and cut. Use the “grateful for the everyday magic of you” greeting stamp from the Something Fancy set and stamp in Pebbled Path ink at the bottom of your cut out trees.

Adhere your cut out trees piece to the 3 ½” x 4 5/8” piece of Sahara Sand and adhere that to the 3 5/8” x 4 ¾” piece of Pebbled Path card stock. Adhere one of your 4” x 5 ¼” pieces of Pebbled Path card stock to the front of your card base, and then the woven paper to the front of that. Now adhere your three tree pieces centered on the front of the woven paper.

For the inside of your card adhere the last piece of Pebbled Path card stock. Stamp the “happy birthday” greeting in Pebbled Path ink in the upper center of the Pebbled Path piece on the inside of your card.

What an easy and masculine birthday card for anyone you care about.

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12 Days of Crafting Thinking of You Card

February 23, 2026 No Comments

All of the floral papers from the 12 Days of Crafting Advent Calendar (2025) designer series paper from Stampin’ Up is all so pretty, this one included with the blues and pinks. The different embellishments that came with it as well as so much fun and used a few different ones for this card.

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

Seaside Spray card stock (Retired Stampin’ Up)
White card stock
12 Days of Crafting Advent Calendar designer series paper (2025 Stampin’ Up)
12 Days of Crafting Advent Calendar stamp set (2025 Stampin’ Up)
Party Banner dies (2025 Stampin’ Up)
12 Days of Crafting Advent Calendar Sequin Embellishments (2025 Stampin’ Up)
12 Days of Crafting Advent Calendar Cutouts (2025 Stampin’ Up)
Seaside Spray ink (Retired Stampin’ Up)
Paper trimmer
Adhesive of choice
Mini Pop dots

From a piece of Seaside Spray card stock cut a card base to 5 ½” x 8 ½” and fold in half to 4 ¼” x 5 ½”. From the 12 Days of Crafting designer series paper pack, find the pink paper and the pink and blue floral piece. Cut the pink piece to 4 1/8” x 5 3/8” and the floral piece to 4” x 5 ¼”. Adhere the floral piece to the pink piece and then to the front of your card base. From white card stock cut a piece to 4” x 5 ¼” for the inside of the card.

From some scrap of the pink designer series paper use the Party Banner die measuring 2” wide and cut out. Adhere this to the right side of your card, lined up off the under pink boarder. From the pack of cutout find a few flowers and leaves and adhere to the left side of the pink banner using mini pop dots.

With a piece of scrap white card stock and your Seaside Spray ink stamp the Thinking of You greeting. Trim down the top and bottom and then angle the ends then adhere that to the lower right side of your banner, overlapping some of the flowers. Now use some of the sequins adhering on with glue around your card. I did two of the really small white ones on the greeting and three pink decorative ones on the pink banner and then five of the pink round ones around on the floral paper.

Adhere the white piece to the inside of your card and one more of the flower cutouts to the lower right corner. I didn’t put a greeting on the inside so that it was generic.

This is an easy and quick card that is great to let anyone know you are thinking of them.

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Dandelion Wishes Happy Birthday Card

February 22, 2026 No Comments

I have been wanting to use the Dandelion Wishes stamp set from Stampin’ Up for a while and just keep going to others and I have owned this set for years and just using it, so sad. This is a bright and cheery birthday card In Calypso Coral colors. I used white embossing powder to make the flowers stand out on the polka dot paper from the You’re a Peach designer series paper from Stampin’ Up.

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

Calypso Coral Two-Tone card stock (Stampin’ Up)
White card stock
You’re A Peach designer series paper (Retired Stampin’ Up)
Happiness Abounds stamp set (Retired Stampin’ Up)
Calypso Coral ink (Stampin’ Up)
VersaMark ink
White embossing powder
Heat gun
Paper trimmer
Adhesive of choice

From you white card stock cut a card base to 5 ½” x 8 ½” folded in half to 4 ¼” x 5 ½”. Cut a piece to 3 3/8” x 4 ½” and another for the inside to 3 ¾” x 5”. From the Two-Tone Calypso Coral card stock cut a piece to 3 1/8” x 3 ½” and another for the inside to 4” x 5 ¼”. Take the You’re A Peach designer series paper pack and find the Calypso Coral polka dot paper and cut a piece to 4” x 5 ¼”.

Grab the 3 1/8” x 3 ½” piece of Calypso Coral Two-Tone card stock, and with your VersaMark ink stamp the large dandelion from the Dandelion Wishes stamp set. Cover with white embossing folder and tap off all the excess powder and the use the heat gun to heat your powder covered flower until it melts. Be careful not to overheat as this paper is lighter than regular card stock and will start to burn.

Adhere you embossed flower piece to the white card stock cut to 3 3/8” x 4 ½” piece. Find the “Happy Birthday” greeting stamp in the Happiness Abounds stamp set and stamp that on the remaining white portion at the bottom of the flowers in Calypso Coral ink. Now adhere the polka dot paper to the front of your white card base and then adhere your floral piece to the front of that, centering on all sides.

For the inside of your card adhere to the piece of Calypso Coral and then the white piece to the top of that. From the Happiness Abounds stamp set find the “Wishing you all the happiness you can imagine” greeting and stamp toward the upper center in Calypso Coral Ink

What a cute birthday card for anyone.

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Framed Florets Stepper Card

February 19, 2026 No Comments

I was working on cleaning up my craft room and found a few cards that were cut but never put together. This stepper card base was one of them, so I made this card which I am loving with this Fitting Florets designer series paper from Stampin’ Up. I used the Framed Florets stamps with it.

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)
Moody Palate Glossy Dots (January 2026 Online Exclusive Stampin’ Up)
Paper trimmer
Scoring board or scoring blade for trimmer
Adhesive of choice

From a piece of Night of Navy card stock cut a piece to 5 ½” x 8 ½” and score at 3 ¼”, 6 ½” and 7 ½” and fold the 3 ¼” to the 3 ¼” and then the 2” end up and then the last 1” down for form your step. Cut another piece to 3” x 8 ½” and score at 4 ¼” and old in half. Now take your Balmy Blue card stock and cut a piece to 3 1/8” x 5 3/8”, one to 2 7/8” x 4 1/8” and a third piece to 7/8” x 5 3/8”. From your white card stock cut a piece to 2 ¾” x 4” and one to 2 7/8” x 5”. With the Fitting Florets designer series paper find the Night of Navy piece with the Balmy Blue Flowers and cut a piece to 3” x 5 3/8”, one to 1 5/8” x 2 5/8” and a third piece to ¾” x 5 3/8”.

Take your large piece of Balmy Blue and adhere to the front of your back step and then the larger floral piece to that. Adhere the strip of Balmy Blue to the front of your small step and then the floral strip to that. Now take your 3” folded piece of Night of Navy and adhere to the front of your small step, centered, and then adhere to the back of your large step. Adhere the medium piece of Balmy Blue to the front of that.

Take the small piece of white and adhere the small floral piece to the bottom portion of the white leaving a small edge around three sides. Then stamp the “Wishes for a Beautiful Birthday” greeting from the Framed Florets stamp set in Night of Navy ink in the top portion. Adhere this to the front of your Balmy Blue. Add a few Moody Palate Glossy Dots around the white for decoration.

Take your floral die from the Framed Florets and cut out two of the flowers from the designer series paper, or stamp two in Balmy Blue ink and cut them out. Adhere to the lower left corner of your piece of white for the inside of your card. Take the “For a special person on a special day” stamp and stamp in Night of Navy ink. Adhere your white piece to the last piece of Balmy Blue and adhere that to the inside of your card.

What a lovely birthday card for anyone special in your life.

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Awash In Beauty Birthday Card

February 16, 2026 No Comments

This is a quick and simple card but so pretty. The floral paper from Awash In Beauty designer series paper from Stampin’ Up is just stunning and needed to get used. I made a birthday card with the paper angled for a bit of character.

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

Rose Red card stock (Retired Stampin’ Up)
White card stock
Awash in Beauty designer series paper (Retired Stampin’ Up)
Happy Thoughts stamp set (Retired Stampin’ Up)
Rose Red ink (Retired Stampin’ Up)
Ribbon Seam Binding Rose Red (Retired Stampin’ Up)
Paper trimmer
Adhesive of choice

From you Rose Red card stock cut a card base to 5 ½” x 8 ½” and fold in half to 4 ¼” x 5 ½”. From white card stock cut a piece to 2” x 4” and another for the inside of your card to 4” x 5 ¼”. Find the large floral design paper in the Awash In Beauty designer series paper pack and cut a piece to 4” x 4 ¼”.

Take your 2” x 4” white card stock piece and adhere to the upper top portion of your card front. Take the “Happy Birthday” greeting stamp and stamp in Rose Red ink in the upper right corner of your white piece. Now with your floral piece, hold on your card and determine the angle you would like along the white piece so your greeting shows nicely and cut your angle.

Take a piece of the Rose Red Seam Binding ribbon and wrap around your angle on the floral piece and adhere at the back. Adhere to the front of your card base. Take a smaller piece of the Rose Red Seam Binding ribbon and tie in a knot around your ribbon and trim the end.

For the inside of your card use the “Today is great because it is all about you – the great person you are, the great things that you do” greeting stamp and with Rose Red ink stamp on the upper part of the white piece for your inside. Be cautious as to where you are stamping as it is a tight fit. Adhere to the inside of your card.

A beautiful birthday card for someone special in your life.

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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Lovely Blossoms You Are So Lovely Reverse Buckle Card

February 13, 2026 No Comments

I guess you can call this design the reverse buckle card, as I saw a buckle card and came up with this design from seeing that. This beautiful Lovely Blossoms designer series paper and Lovely Arrangement stamps and dies help to make this lovely card.

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

Petal Pink card stock (Stampin’ Up)
White card stock
Lovely Blossoms designer series paper (January 2025 Online Exclusive Stamin’ Up)
Lovely Arrangements stamp set and dies (January 2025 Online Exlcusive Stampin’ Up)
Secret Sea ink (2025-2027 In Color stamping’ Up)
Paper trimmer
Scoring board or blade for trimmer
Adhesive of choice
Mini Pop dots

From white card stock cut a card base to 4 ¼” x 11” and score at 5 ½” and another piece cut to 2 ¼” x 7”, scored at 3 ½” and fold both in half. From the Lovely Blossoms designer series paper find the Secret Sea paper with the diamonds, the Petal Pink piece with the florets and the Petal Pink with the large flowers. From the Secret Sea diamonds paper cut a piece to 4” x 5 ¼”, and the same with the Petal Pink florets piece. From the large floral piece cut a piece to 2” x 3 ¼”.

Take a piece of Petal Pink card stock and the Lovely Arrangement dies and cut out one of the dots background pieces, and then cut it a second time cutting off one row, leaving three rows. Then with Secret Sea ink, stamp the “Hello Friend” greeting on the Petal Pink card stock and use the larger oval shaped die to cut it out.

On a piece of white card stock stamp the “You are so lovely” greeting in Secret Sea ink and use the smaller rectangle die. Then with the full flower stamp, ink the flower in Cloud Cover ink and then use the Secret Sea Stampin’ Write marker to color the center and huff on the stamp to warm up the ink and stamp. Clean between stamps. Stamp two of the full flowers and two of the half flowers. Then stamp two of the leaf stamp in Secret Sea ink. Use the flower and leaf dies to cut each of them out.

Now time to assemble. Take your card base measuring 4 ¼” x 11” folded in half and adhere the Secret Sea diamonds piece to the front. Then adhere the Petal Pink circles piece you cut to the right side of the card front leaving about 1/8” of the Secret Sea diamonds paper to the right. Use the oval label die to cut out your hole about 1/8” to the left side of the Petal Pink circles piece, cutting through to the inside. Take your flowers and leaves and curl the edges to add dimension. Then adhere one of the full flowers to the lower section of the Petal Pink circles piece and the half flower to the upper section. Take one of the leaves pieces and cut the three leaves into separate leaves and adhere behind your flowers to your licking. The use mini pop dots cut in half to adhere the “You are so lovely” greeting label to the bottom of your cut out.

For the inside of your card start by adhering the Petal Pink floret paper to the inside back of your card. Then take the smaller white folded piece and adhere to the center of your card back facing the back of your card so that it will slide through the slot. Adhere your large floral paper to the front of it. Adhere the “Hello Friend” Petal Pink label to the inside of the small white portion. Now adhere to two flowers and leaves in the lower left corner of the inside of your card, overlapping onto the white piece as well.

What a pretty card to give to a friend, I can’t wait to send it out.

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Floral Z-Fold Lace Cards

February 11, 2026 No Comments

These cards are a Z-Fold style card, but the design makes a full-front card. These cards were made with some floral paper that I don’t know what they are from and then use a border lace punch from Stampin’ Up to decorate the front edge.

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

Blue Rose Card

Marina Mist card stock (Retired Stampin’ Up)
Very Vanilla card stock (Retired Stampin’ Up)
Floral designer series paper (Unknown)
Gallery Blooms stamp set and dies (Stampin’ Up)
Words of Beauty stamps and dies (November 2025 Online Exclusive Stampin’ Up)
Marina Mist ink (Retired Stampin’ Up)
Paper trimmer
Adhesive of choice

Rust Butterfly Card

Ridinghood Red card stock (Retired Stampin’ Up)
White card stock
Floral designer series paper (Unknown)
Sentimental Park stamp set (Retired Stampin’ Up)
Double Layer Butterfly die (Spellbinders ?)
Ridinghood Red ink (Retired Stampin’ Up)
Paper trimmer
Adhesive of choice

To make a similar card, since I don’t know where the floral paper came from, cut a card base to 5 ½” x 8 ½” and score at 1 ½” x 4 ¼”. Fold in half and then fold the small portion toward you. From your neutral color (white or vanilla) cut a piece for the inside of your card to 4” x 5 ¼”, a piece for the front to 2 ¾” x 5 ¼” and for the middle inside panel cut a piece to 2 ½” x 5 ¼”. For the lace piece cut a piece to 2” x 5 ½” and then use the lace punch (or a decorative border die if you have one) to cut the border edge. Adhere this to the back of the front flap, you may need to trim off a bit to have it line up where you would like for it to show well.

From your floral paper cut a piece for the front to 2 5/8” x 5”, a piece for your inside panel to 2 1/8” x 5” and a piece for the middle panel to 1 1/8” x 5”. Take your neutral piece measuring 2 ¾” x 5 ¼” piece and the 2 5/8” x 5” floral piece and adhere the floral piece to it and then adhere the left side of the neutral piece to the front flap. Use the 2 1/8” x 5” floral piece to the 4” x 5 ¼” piece (to either side, use your preference as I did one of each) and then adhere this to the back panel of the inside of your card. Then adhere the last floral piece to the neutral piece and adhere that to the middle panel on the inside.

Use a decorative stamp and\or die to decorate the front and use a greeting stamp and label to go with it on the front. Stamp a greeting on the inside back panel of the card if you wish.

This gives you a really nice card design to use for any type of card you prefer.

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Lovely Blossoms Muted Birthday Card

February 9, 2026 No Comments

I am infatuated with this Lovely Blossoms designer series paper and Lovely Arrangement stamp set and dies from Stampin’ Up. This card is a muted version with a hint of Cloud Cover blue birthday card with the pretty stamped and die cut flowers.

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

Cloud Cover card stock (2025-2027 In Color Stampin’ Up)
Crumb Cake card stock (Stampin’ Up)
White card stock
Lovely Blossoms designer series paper (January 2026 Online Exclusive Stampin’ Up)
Lovely Arrangements stamp set and dies (January 2026 Online Exclusive Stampin’ Up)
Crumb Cake ink (Stampin’ Up)
Chocolate Chip Stampin’ Write Marker (Retired Stampin’ Up)
Old Olive Light Stampin’ Blends (Stampin’ Up)
Moody Palette Glossy Dots (January 2026 Online Exclusive Stampin’ Up)

From Cloud Cover card stock cut a card base to 5 ½” x 8 ½” and folded in half to 4 ¼” x 5 ½” and cut another piece to 2 ¾” x 4 1/8”. With the Crumb Cake card stock cut two pieces to 4 1/8” x 5 3/8” and another piece to 2 5/8” x 4 1/8”. Grab your Lovely Blossoms designer series paper and find the Crumb Cake piece with the small white flowers and cut a piece to 4” x 5 ¼”.

Take the piece of Crumb Cake you cut to 2 5/8” x 4 1/8” and the die that cuts out the small florets and cut at one end and then you will have to cut another to finish the other end. Now adhere this to the Cloud Cover background measuring 2 ¾” x 4 1/8”. From a scrap piece of white card stock stamp one of each of the large flowers in Crumb Cake ink and then coloring the centers with your Chocolate Chip Stampin’ Write Marker and huff (blow warm air to remoisten ink) before stamping. Also stamp two leaves in Crumb Cake ink and color them in with your Old Olive Light Stampin’ Blends, trying not to get too close to the stamped image as it will fade because of the ink used. Cut all out with the appropriate dies. Stamp the “Happy Birthday” greeting on to a small piece of white card stock in Crumb Cake ink and cut out a rectangle. Adhere to a piece of Cloud Cover and hand cut a boarder.

Adhere one of your pieces of 4 1/8” x 5 3/8” Crumb Cake card stock to the front of your Cloud Cover card base, then adhere to floral paper to the front of that. Now adhere your strip you cut with the florets with the Cloud Cover background about ¾” in from the left side of your card. Adhere your flowers in the lower left corner of your floret cut piece and add the leaves where you would like. Then adhere your “Happy Birthday” greeting coming out of the flowers. Add some of the Moody Palette Glossy Dot Cloud Cover embellishments around on your floret cut piece.

For the inside adhere your piece of Crumb Cake card stock and then the piece of white card stock. Stamp a birthday greeting in Crumb Cake ink, I am using an old Stampin’ Up greeting (don’t know what the name of the set was) that says “wishing you the best today and always!”.

A pretty card in light colors for those who aren’t in to really bright colors and it is a lovely birthday card as well.

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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Nobel Deer In The Pines Birthday Card

February 7, 2026 No Comments

This masculine birthday card made with Nobel Deer and In The Pines stamp sets from Stampin’ Up turned out so nice that I wish I had thought of this design a few weeks ago before my husband’s birthday so I could have used it.

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

Crumb Cake card stock (Stampin’ Up)
Mossy Meadow card stock (Stampin’ Up)
Earthen Elegance designer series paper (Retired Stampin’ Up)
Nobel Deer stamp set (Retired Stampin’ Up)
In the Pines stamp set (Retired Stampin’ Up)
Spring Corners stamp set (Retired Stampin’ Up)
Stitched Hexagon dies – use the one that measures about 2” x 3 ¾” (Retired Stampin’ Up)
Early Expresso ink (Stampin’ Up)
Mossy Meadow ink (Stampin’ Up)
Paper trimmer
Adhesive of choice
Pop dots

From a piece of Crumb Cake card stock cut a card base to 5 ½” x 8 ½” and fold in half to 4 ¼” x 5 ½” and another piece to 3 7/8” x 5 1/8” for the inside. From Mossy Meadow cut two pieces to 4” x 5 ¼”. From the Earthen Elegance (or some speckled tan paper) find the speckled gradient to Pretty Peacock and cut a piece in the tan part to 3 7/8” x 5 1/8”.

Adhere the speckled paper to one of the Mossy Meadow pieces. Use the stitched hexagon die to cut out a hole in the center. Take the cut-out piece and stamp the three deer stamp from the Nobel Deer stamp set in Early Expresso ink. Take a scrap piece of the speckled paper and stamp the “happy birthday” stamp from the Spring Corners stamp set in the Mossy Meadow ink and trim to a small rectangle. Adhere to a piece of Mossy Meadow card stock and cut out as a background.

With some scrap Crumb Cake card stock and the 4 small tree stamp with the trunk and stamp in Early Expresso and also one of the small single trees stamp twice. Then use the fill in stamps with Mossy Meadow ink and stamp the fill-ins. Use the dies to cut them out. On the one with the 4 trees trim off the tree to the left and adhere that flat overhanging your inside border slightly and almost up to the center point. Then use pop dots to adhere the other three over it about ½” up from the bottom of your card. Then adhere the two single trees to the left side with the outside one up a bit higher and the inside one popped up with pop dots. Adhere your “happy birthday” greeting between the trees. Adhere to the front of your card with pop dots. Then adhere your deer cut-out inside flat so that your outer edge is popped up around it.

For the inside adhere to piece of Mossy Meadow card stock and then the Crumb Cake on top of that. Using your Early Expresso ink stamp the four small tree group with the trunks in the lower right corner. Then use your Mossy Meadow ink to stamp the fill in green. Then with your Mossy Meadow ink and the “wishing you an amazing day” corner greeting and stamp in the upper left corner.

I love how this masculine birthday card turned out and can’t wait to give it to someone soon.

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.