The Waterside Retreat designer series paper contains some great masculine paper, including this fish and wave paper that make up this great card. Then you add in the anchor embellishment also from Stampin’ Up and what an adorable stepper card.
To create this card, you just need a few things:
- Misty Moonlight card stock (Stampin’ Up)
- White card stock
- Waterside Retreat designer series paper (2026 Annual Catalog Stampin’ Up)
- Relaxing Waterside stamp set and dies (2026 Annual Catalog Stampin’ Up)
- Cloud Cover ink (2025-2027 In Color Stampin’ Up)
- Loose Anchor Trinkets (2026 Annual Catalog Stampin’ Up)
- Paper trimmer
- Adhesive of choice
For this stepper card, cut a card base from Misty Moonlight card stock to 4 ¼” x 11” and score at 3 ½”, 7” and 9”. Cut another piece to 2 ¾” x 4”. From white card stock cut a 4” x 5 ¼” piece, one to 3 ¼ x 4” for the back of your card, one to 2 ½” x 3 ¾” and one to 1 ¾” x 4”. Now take your Waterside Retreat designer series paper pack and find the wave paper and the fish paper. From the wave paper cut a piece to 3 ¾” x 5” and another to ½” x 3 ¾”. Then from the fish paper cut a piece to 2 ¼” x 3 ½”, making sure you are capturing your fish the way you want.
Fold you card base into an “M” shape with the larger section to the back. Take the white pieces measuring 4” x 5 ¼” and adhere the wave piece that is 3 ¾” x 5” and then adhere it to the front of the larger section of your card base leaving 1/8” on all three sides. Now adhere the small wave piece to the small white piece and adhere that to the front of the small section.
Now take the other piece of Misty Moonlight and adhere to white piece measure 2 ½” x 3 ¾” to it and then the fish piece to the front of the white portion. Now adhere this over you wave paper on the small section centered among both sections. Take the “have a great birthday” greeting stamp from the Relaxing Waterside stamp set and stamp on white card stock in Cloud Cover ink Cut out to a rectangle and cut out a “v” section at the right end to form a flag label. Add a wave into your flag and adhere the left and right sides at the bottom of your fish paper. Then adhere your anchor embellishment to the left side of your label.
For the back of your card adhere the 3 ¼” x 4” white piece to the back of your card on the Misty Moonlight section. Use the “today is your day” stamp from the Relaxing Waterside stamp set and stamp in Cloud Cover ink in the upper center.
Great birthday card for the men in your life.
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