Painterly Pears Angled Gate Fold Card

This angled gate fold card evolved into a different card than it started as, but I am now happy with it.  This Painterly Pair suite is quickly becoming one of my favorites from Stampin’ Up as I just love the colors, they fall right in my wheelhouse, and the papers are so pretty.   

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

  • Petal Pink card stock (Stampin’ Up)
  • White card stock
  • Painterly Pears designer series paper (July 2025 Online Exclusive Stampin’ Up)
  • Perfectly Pears stamps and dies (Stampin’ Up)
  • Free as a Bird stamp set (Retired Stampin’ Up)
  • Ink
    • Darling Duckling ink (2025-2027 In Color Stampin’ Up)
    • Old Olve ink (Stampin’ Up)
    • Black Momento ink (Stampin’ Up)
  • Blender Pens (Stampin’ Up)
    • Petal Pink (dark)
    • Old Olive (light and dark)
    • Mossy Meadow (light)
    • Pecan Pie (Dark)
  • Scoring board or paper trimmer scoring blade
  • Paper trimmer
  • Adhesive of choice
  • Pop dots

With so me Petal Pink card stock cut the back card base to 5” x 5 ½” and score at 3/8” and 4 5/8” and fold both side up and in.  Cut two pieces to 4 ¼” x 5 ½” and score both at 2 1/8”.  Mark down 2” and cut your angle and do the opposite direction with the other piece.  From the white card stock cut two pieces to 1 7/8” x 5 ¼” and angle to match the inside angles. 

Take your Painterly Pear designer series paper and find the white sheet with the pears and pink flowers, cut a piece to 4” x 5 ¼” for the back of your card.  Find the Petal Pink piece with the small designs and cut two pieces to 1 7/8” x 5 ¼” and angle to match the front back panels.  Now get the Petal Pink piece with pears and flowers and cut that to 1 7/8” x 4 ¼” and angle to match the front two panels. 

With a scrap piece of white card stock and your black Momento ink, find the small pear outline stamp and stamp on your card stock.  Then with Darling Duckling ink stamp the inside stamp to color your pears and give them some dimension.  With your Pecan Pie Dark Blender Pen color the tree branch.  For the leaves I colored them with the Old Olive Dark Blender Pen and then outlined the lower halves of them with the Mossy Meadow Dark Blender Pen.  For the pears I blended colors from the outside lower edge in with Mossy Meadow Light, Old Olive Light and then Petal Pink Dark Blender Pens leaving the edges jagged instead of solid for more dimension. 

Take a scrap piece of Petal Pink and die cut out a label that is about 1” x 2”.  Adhere the pears to the left side.  Take a label from the Perfect Pears dies and cut, then stamp the “A Good Friend is a gift” in Old Olive ink.  Adhere that with pop dots to the right side of the label, overlapping the pears slightly. 

Now start building your card by taking the Petal Pink card base and each of the Petal Pink angled pieces and adhere one of the angled pieces to each side on the two tabs.  Cut the tabs where they hang out over the angle.  Fold each side out at the score to form your angled gate fold.  Now adhere your tag to the left front panel of your card with the other half hanging over the other panel (but not adhered to the panel). 

Now open the card and adhere each of the white pieces to each side of the white pear paper.  With the Free as a Bird stamp set and Old Olive ink, stamp the “your friendship means the world to me” greeting on the left white panel, and the “thanks for being you” greeting no the right white panel. 

This card started with a belly-band wrapped in the Mossy Meadow and Gold Trim ribbon and a label on it layered with more stuff and it was just too much on the card so I changed it over to the label.  You could still do a belly-band but I would keep it fairly plain if you do.  I am now in love with this card and I always love gate fold cards. 

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Charming Day Floral Thanks Card

This Floral Charm suite is a really pretty set and I really like that the back of each floral piece of the Floral Charm designer series paper matches the front perfectly.  The floral papers are just beautiful, including this lovely berry burst piece I used for this card. 

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

  • Berry Burst card stock (Stampin’ Up)
  • Smokey Slate card stock (Stampin’ Up)
  • Floral Charm designer series paper (Stampin’ Up)
  • Charming Day stamps (Stampin’ Up)
  • Berry Burst ink (Stampin’ Up)
  • Berry Burst ribbon (Retired Stampin’ Up)
  • Scoring board or paper trimmer scoring blade
  • Paper trimmer
  • Adhesive of choice

From your Berry Burst card stock cut a card base to 4 ¼” x 5 ½” and the fold over flap to 1 7/8” x 11” and fold in half.  From the Smokey Slate card stock cut a piece to 4 1/8” x 5 3/8”, two pieces to 1 ¾” x 4 1/8” and another piece to 1 3/8” x 3 5/8”.  Take your Floral Charm designer series paper pack find the piece with the large pink flowers and also the piece of Berry Burst.  Cut two of the floral pieces (highlighting the pink flowers) to 1 5/8” x 4”.  From the berry Burst designer series paper 1 5/8” x 4”. 

With the Smokey Slate piece you cut to 1 3/8” x 3 5/8”, Berry Burst in and the “Thanks for being you” greeting stamp from the Charming Day stamp set and stamp in the other portion.  Take the Berry Brust ribbon and wrap a piece around the Smoky Slate card stock piece about a 1/3 of the way down from the top and tie a knot and trip ends to preferred length.  Take of the of the 1 ¾” x 4 1/8” Smokey Slate pieces you cut and stamp the “you made my day” greeting toward the top. 

Now just start building your layers.  Take your Berry Burst card base and the Smokey Slate piece cut to 4 1/8” x 5 3/8” and adhere to the Berry Brust.  Then adhere each of your two floral pieces, one to each side.  On the outside of your flap layer your piece of Smokey Slate, the Berry Burst designer series paper piece and then the stamped Smokey Slate piece stamped “Thanks for being you”. 

Take your 1 7/8” x 11” piece you folded in half and adhere to the center portion of your card. 

There, you now have a pretty card to give to someone who made your day, so you can make theirs as well. 

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Painterly Pears Hello Card

I am in love with this card and how it turned out with the Painterly Pairs suite from Stampin’ Up, and I like the fold as well, it all worked perfectly.  I am pretty sure this is going to be one of my new favorites and the papers are just beautiful and in my color palette.  

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

  • Darling Duckling card stock (2025-2027 In Color Stampin’ Up)
  • White card stock
  • Painterly Pears designer series paper (July 2025 Online Exclusive Stampin’ Up)
  • Perfectly Pears stamp set and dies (July 2025 Online Exclusive Stampin’ Up)
  • Inks
    • Darling Ducking ink (2025-2027 In Color Stampin Up)
    • Old Olive ink (Stampin’ Up)
    • Pecan Pie ink (Stampin’ Up)
    • Momento Black Ink (Stampin’ Up)
  • Blender Pens (Stampin’ Up)
    • Darling Ducking (light and dark)
    • Old Olive (light and dark)
    • Mossy Meadow (light and dark)
    • Pecan Pie (light)
  • Mossy Meadow and Gold Trim ribbon (Stampin’ Up)
  • Scoring board or paper trimmer scoring blade
  • Paper trimmer
  • Adhesive of choice

From the Darling Ducking card stock cut a card base to 5 ½” x 8 ½” and score at 1 ¼” and 5 ½” and fold both ends up.  With your white card stock cut a piece for the inside to 4” x 5 ¼”.  From the Painterly Pears designer series paper, find the piece of Darling Duckling paper with the pears and the piece with the pink lined grids.  From the pears piece cut a piece to 2 ¾” x 5 ¼” and then from the grid paper cut a piece to 1” x 5 ¼”. 

Grab some spare white card stock and your black Momento ink and stamp two of the small pears and one of the group of three flowers.  For the small pears, take your Darling Duckling ink and the small pear inside stamp and stamp the inside of the pears.  Then use your Old Olive Blender Pen light and do some shading and then with the Mossy Meadow light a bit more.  For the branch color with the Pecan Pie light and for the leaves I colored them in Old Olive Light and Mossy Meadow dark.  For the flower bunch I just used the full flower and cut it apart from the others.  Then I used the center stamp with Pecan Pie ink and stamped the center.  Then I used Darling Duckling Blender pens, light for the full flower and then dark coming in a bit from the center for highlights. 

With some spare Darling Duckling card stock use the label die from the Perfect Pears die set to cut the large label.  On another spare piece find the “Hello” greeting from the Perfect Pears stamp set and stamp in Old Olive ink.  Use the small square label die to cut that out.  Now take a spare piece of Old Olive card stock and cut out the hash design die and also a stem of leaves. 

Grab your Darling Duckling card base and adhere to pears paper to the right side and the grid paper to the left side.  Take the Mossy Meadow and Gold Trim ribbon and wrap around the inside of your card and tie in a knot and position to the right side of your card. 

Now take the Darling Duckling large label you cut and let’s get that decorated.  Start by adhering the hash cutout toward the left side of the label.  Take your leaves cut-out and break it up into two pieces and then take one leaf off to use with your flower.  Adhere the leaves to the back of one of your stamped pears sets and then use pop dots to adhere you pears to the right side of your tag.  Adhere the single leaf you saved to the back of your flower and then adhere your flower to the upper right of the tag.  Then use pop dots to adhere your hello in the space left over the hash cutout.  Put adhesive to the left side of your tag and adhere to the lower front of your card with the adhesive side on the pear paper section. 

For the inside, take the piece of white card stock you cut earlier and adhere your other set of pears in the lower right corner and then adhere to the inside of your card.

That finishes off your Perfect Pears card to send out to someone just to say hello. 

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Peachy Sweet Friend Card

I like the blue added with the peaches for this paper and card from the You’re a Peach designer series paper from Stampin’ Up.  It is a pretty easy card as it is mainly cutting some paper and just stamp a few greetings.    

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

  • White card stock
  • You’re a Peach designer series paper (retired Stampin’ Up)
  • Sweet as a Peach stamp set
  • Balmy Blue or Marina Mist stamped off ink (retired Stampin’ Up)
  • Circle die
  • Artistry Bloom Adhesive-Backed Sequins
  • Scoring board or paper trimmer scoring blade
  • Paper trimmer
  • Scissors
  • Adhesive of choice

With your white cards stock cut a card base to 5 ½” x 8 ½” and score at 1 ¼” and 4 ¼” and fold both up to form your card base.  From the You’re a Peach designer series paper find the blue stripe piece and the blue with peaches piece.  From the blue with peaches piece, cut two pieces to 3” x 5 ½”.  From the blue stripes piece cut two pieces 1 ¼” x 5 ½”. 

From a spare piece of the blue with peaches paper and a pair of scissors cut two of the peaches with leaves out, or you can also choose to stamp them and die cut them out.  From a spare piece of white card stock cut a 2 5/8” circle. 

Take your white card base and your two blue stripe pieces and adhere one to the right edge of the inside of your card and the other to the 1 ¼” flap on the front of your card, which when closed forms 2 ½” of stripes on the right side of your card.  Take one of the blue with peaches pieces and adhere to the left side of the front of your card going under the blue stripe flap.  Adhere the other to the inside left of your card. 

Find your blue ink which is listed as Balmy Blue, but I didn’t have that so I used Marina Mist and stamped off to lighten it.  Take your circle and your blue ink and stamp the “Have a Peachy day” from the Sweet as a Peach stamp set to the lower right side of the circle.  Adhere your two cut out peaches to the left side of the circle around your greeting.  Then use three of the orange sequins from the Artistry Bloom Adhesive-Backed Sequins around the blank area.  Adhere to the front of your blue stripe front flap.  Use some of the blue sequins from the Artistry Bloom Adhesive-Backed Sequins randomly on the blue stripes. 

Use your “To a sweet friend” greeting stamp from Sweet as a Peach stamp set and your blue ink and stamp on the upper white portion of the inside of your card.

This gives you an adorable card to let a friend know you care. 

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Fine Art Floral Lovely Card

This beautiful card is made with the Fine Art Floral designer series paper from Stampin’ Up.  This section of the paper was just calling out to be the star of a card (though the pinks look a lot different in the photos, they matched in person).    

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

  • Petal Pink card stock
  • Poppy Parade card stock
  • Fine Art Floral designer series paper (retired Stampin’ Up)
  • Poppy Parade or Sweet Sorbet ink (retired Stampin’ Up)
  • Art Gallery stamps (retired Stampin’ Up)
  • White Crinkled Seam Binding Ribbon (retired Stampin’ Up)
  • Paper trimmer
  • Adhesive of choice

With the Petal Pink card stock cut a card base to 5 ½” x 8 ½” and fold in half to 4 ¼” x 5 ½”.  Then cut another piece to 3 7/8” x 5 1/8” for the inside and a piece to ¾” x 3 7/8” for the bottom greeting portion of the card.  From Poppy Parade cut two pieces to 4” x 5 ¼”.  From the Fine Art Floral designer series paper pack find the Petal Pink with pink flowers piece and choose one section to showcase on your card, cut to 3 7/8” x 4 ½”.

Adhere the floral piece to the top of one of the Poppy Parade Pieces.  Take your ¾” x 3 7/8” piece of Petal Pink you cut along with the “you are lovely” greeting from the Art Gallery stamp set and stamp in Poppy Parade (or in my case Sweet Sorbet).  Adhere to the bottom portion below the floral piece. 

Wrap some of the white Crinkled Seam Binding Ribbon between the two and adhere to the back of the Poppy Parade.  Adhere this to the front of your Petal Pink card  base. 

Take the Petal Pink piece you cut to the Poppy Parade piece and adhere to the inside of your card.  I decided not to stamp a greeting to the inside so it could be used for a variety of reasons. 

This card was so fast and easy, it just took a few minutes to put together and I would give it to anyone of my friends or family. 

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Fine Art Floral Bandstand Card

I finally made a bandstand style card, as it has been on my list to try but was waiting for something that seemed like it fit well.  The Fine Art Floral that had the matching Golden Garden transparent designer series paper from Stampin’ Up a few years ago seemed like the perfect fit as the Golden Garden paper lines up to match with the Fine Art Floral paper. 

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

  • Crushed Curry card stock
  • White card stock
  • Fine Art Floaral designer series paper (retired Stampin’ Up)
  • Golden Garden transparent designer series paper (retired Stampin’ Up)
  • Art Gallery stamps and dies (retired Stampin’ Up)
  • Crushed Curry ink (Stampin’ Up)
  • Scoring board or paper trimmer scoring blade
  • Paper trimmer
  • Adhesive of choice

I used Crushed Curry but it isn’t one of the colors listed, looks like it is So Saffron but I couldn’t find a piece of that.  This card is actually pretty quick to make, a bit of cutting but not really any stampings, so just cut and put together. 

With your Crushed Curry card stock cut a card base to 4 ¼” x 5 ½ and score at 1 1/8” and 3 1/8” and fold both sides to the front.  The cut another two pieces to 1 ¼” x 4 ¾” scored at ¼”, 1 3/8”, 3 3/8” and 4 ½” and fold all to the back.  With your white card stock cut a piece to 1 7/8” x 5 3/8” for the back of your card. 

From the Fine Art Floral designer series paper of and the piece that has the floral and white space in the upper left that matches up with the piece of Golden Garden transparent designer series paper.  You will want to cut the same sections of each so they line up, cut each to 3 7/8” x 5 3/8” and cut 1” off of each side of both pieces.  Then find the yellow design piece of paper and cut two pieces to 1 1/8” x 3 7/8” and then cut 1” off of each side, keeping them aligned together.

Take your three pieces of floral paper and adhere to the front three panels of your card base.  Take the two outside pieces of your Golden Garden and adhere to each side of the back of your card base, and adhere the white piece to the back.  Use a general birthday greeting stamp to the upper center of your white piece in Crushed Curry ink.  I used a stamp greeting that says “wishing you the best today and always.”

Take your two Crushed Curry stripes and adhere the yellow designer series paper pieces to the three sections of each.  Adhere the Golden Garden to the back of one of the yellow stripe center sections, leaving about 1/16” and then adhere to the other piece.  Adhere all four ¼” tabs to the front of your card base. 

With a spare piece of white card stock and Crushed Curry ink stamp the “Happy Birthday” greeting from the Art Gallery stamp set and use the long postage edge die to cut it out.  I did cut it twice, closer on one end to short it and the lined up and cut off the other end.  Adhere onto a small piece of Crushed Curry and adhere to the lower front. 

This was a quick fun card to make, not sure why I waited so long to try making one. 

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Sweet as a Peach Card

I finally am getting to use this suite, which I just love.  The You’re a Peach designer series paper is so pretty, and I just love these colors.  You will be seeing a few cards coming using this set. 

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

  • Calypso Coral card stock (Stampin’ Up)
  • White card stock
  • You’re a Peach designer series paper
  • Sweet as a Peach stamp set
  • Pale Papaya ink (Stampin’ Up)
  • Open Weave Ribbon (Pale Papaya)
  • Artistry Blooms Adhesive-Backed Sequins
  • Scoring board or paper trimmer scoring blade
  • Paper trimmer
  • Adhesive of choice

For this Sweet as a Peach card, take a piece of white card stock and cut to 5 ½” x 8 ½” and fold in half to 4 ¼” x 5 ½”.  Cut another piece to 2 1/2” x 4”.  With your Calypso Coral card stock cut a piece to 4 1/8” x 5 3/8”.  From the You’re a Peach designer series paper find the piece with a mix of peaches and flowers, cut a piece to 3 ½” x 4” with your peaches facing up along the 3 ½” length. 

Adhere your piece of Calypso Coral to the front of your white card base.  Then adhere the peach and floral designer series paper to the top portion of the front of your card. 

With your white 2 ½” x 4” piece, your Pale Papaya ink and the “You’re as” and “sweet as a peach” greetings from the Sweet as a Peach stamp set, and stamp to the right side of the white card stock.  With a spare piece of your peach and floral designer series paper, cut out one of the flowers with a bud and two leaves.  Adhere these to the left side of the white card stock.  Take a piece of the ribbon and wrap around the top of the white strip and then adhere to the lower half of the front of your card.  With the Artistry Blooms Adhesive-backed sequins and adhere one of the small orange colored sequins to the center of your cut out flower and then a three others around to your liking. 

For the inside of your card take the “Let’s celebrate you” from the Sweet as a Peach stamp set and stamp to the upper center of the inside of your card with the Pale Papaya ink.

You’re as sweet as a peach card is all set. 

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An Open Heart Thank You Card

The wren was outside my craftroom window today which seemed like a sign that I needed to make a wren card.  I used a few antiquing features on this one as I haven’t in a while and I love cards that look a little old or weathered. 

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

  • Crumb Cake card stock (Stampin’ Up)
  • White card stock
  •  Peaceful Garden designer series paper (July 2025 Online Exclusive from Stampin’ Up)
  • Pear Pizzaz ink (Retired Stampin’ Up)
  •  Crumb Cake ink (Stampin’ Up)
  • Scrapper (Retired Stampin’ Up) or Scissors
  • Sponge
  • Blending Brush – Small (Stampin’ Up)
  • Paper trimmer
  • Adhesive of choice
  • Pop dots

From 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”.  With your white card stock cut a piece to 4 1/8” x 5 3/8”, and two to 3 ½” x 4 ¾”.  In the Peaceful Garden designer series paper pack, find the only sheet that is Crumb Cake colored with the white florets, cut a piece to 4” x 5 ¼”. 

With some spare Crumb Cake cut out three floret pieces, these are teasel burrs (I don’t know where this die is from).  Take one of your 3 ½” x 4 ¾” pieces of white you cut along with the Pear Pizzaz ink and your blending brush, lightly run your blending brush through the ink and blend around on your paper.  Tear all four edges and then use your Crumb Cake ink and a piece of sponge and sponge along your torn edges and also add a bit to your Pear Pizzaz.  Then from An Open Heart stamp set take the wren bird stamp and stamp to the left side of your piece.  Take your “So much my heart would like to say . . .” stamp and stamp in Crumb Cake ink on a small spare piece of white card stock.  Again tear your edges on all four sides and sponge Crumb Cake onto the edge. 

Now with the 4 1/8” x 5 3/8” piece of white you cut, use your scrapper or one edge of a pair of scissors and scrape along the edge to roughen.  Do the same to the Crumb Cake Floret piece of designer series paper you cut.  Use your sponge and Crumb Cake ink to sponge the roughened edges. 

Adhere the Crumb Cake Floret piece to the white piece and then adhere that to the front of your Crumb Cake card base.  Adhere your wren piece toward the left side of the Crumb Cake Floret piece.  Adhere two of the Tessel Burrs you die cut to the right side of the card front.  With pop dots adhere your greeting over the stems of the Tessel Burrs and your wren piece.

For the inside of your card take the last piece of white card stock you cut  and your Crumb Cake ink and stamp the “Thank You” greeting in the upper center.  Adhere your last die cut tessel burr to the left side.  Sponge around the edges using your Crumb Cake ink.  Adhere to the back inside of your card. 

I think the Wrens outside my craftroom would love the tribute card to them. 

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Pop-up Floral Envelope Get Well Card

I have been working on this one for a bit trying to get it planned out the way I wanted it.  I have created this card to lay flat and fit into a standard 4 ½” x 5 ¾” envelop.  With measurement it isn’t as hard as it looks, just some time to die cut flowers and leaves.  This pop-up envelope full of flowers get well card is cheerful and will brighten anyone’s day.

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

  • Card stock (All Stampin’ Up colors)
    • Pool Party
    • Lemon Lolly
    • Daffodil Delight
    • Peach Pie
    • Powder Pink or Pretty in Pink
    • Old Olive
    • Mossy Meadow
  • Floral Impression designer series paper
  • Impressions Abloom dies
  • Small tag die
  • Mini Mates stamp set (retired Stampin’ Up)
  • SSC 1221 stamp set (Stampendous)
  • Pool Party ink (Stampin’ Up)
  • Scoring board or paper trimmer scoring blade
  • Paper trimmer
  • Corner Punch
  • Adhesive of choice

With your Pool Party card stock cut a piece to 5 3/4” x 8 ½” and along the 8 ½” length score at 1 ¾”, 2 ½”, 6” and 6 ¾”, then turn and score the length of the 8 ½” at 3”.  Along the 8 ½” long score mark take a pair of scissors and cut from each edge in 2 ½” leaving your center section uncut.  The cut down the 2 ¾” part to leave just the center section.  On each of your 1 ¾” sides, mark down ¾” and cut on a angle.  On your single center section, mark the top at 1 ¾” center and cut your angles to form your envelope flap.  Use a corner punch to round the top of the flap. 

Now still with your Pool Party card stock cut a piece to 2” x 3 ½”, mark your 3 ½” length at 1 ¾” and angle from each edge to form a triangle.  Cut another piece to 3” x 4” and score on the 4” side at ¼” and 3 ¾” and another piece to 2 ½” x 4” and score on the 4” side at ¼” and 3 ¾”.  Now from the Floral Impressions designer series paper find the Pool Party piece with the dotted circles and cut two pieces to 1 ½” x 3” and angle mark down ¾” and cut the angle, and then cut the opposite angle to the second piece.  Cut another piece to 2” x 3 1/4” and angle into a triangle and use the corner round to cut the top.  Cut one last piece to for the back flap to 2 ½” x 3 ¼” and angle into a triangle for the top back flap and use a corner rounder to match.  These last two cuts are different than the picture shows as I had to adjust as I went.

Adhere the top back flap designer series paper to the flap.  Fold your scores all inward.  Adhere to two angled side designer series paper pieces to each side.  Now take your 3 ½” x 4” piece and fold your scored sides down.  Adhere each side to the inside section of your card with the fold pushed all the way to the back leaving a ¼” gap between the back of the card and the section.  Then do the same with the 2 ½” x 4” piece, pushing the scored flaps to the first section leaving another ¼” gap.  Adhere the other triangle designer series paper to the Pool Party triangle and then adhere one side to the bottom of one of the angel sides and then to the other to hold your pop-up box together.  Having the open bottom allows you to be able to fold your envelope flat to put into an envelope. 

Next let’s cut some flowers.  With the Impressions Abloom dies use the daisy looking die and center cut die to cut four pink flower from your Powder Pink or Pretty in Pink card stock and four flower centers from Daffodil Delight with the smaller size center die and the decorative center die.  Cut three of the single stems from the Old Olive card stock and build your flowers, leaving one without a stem. 

Now from your Peach Pie card stock and your smaller flower die and the center impression die and cut five along with five centers from the Daffodil Delight card stock but without the center impression die, adhere centers to the flowers (set one flower aside for the back of your card).

With your Lemon Lolly card stock and the small half flower double die cut four sets (eight total) and with your Daffodil Delight cut four of the large half flower.  With Old Olive cut one single and two of the double stems.  With three of your large half flowers arrange and adhere two of the small yellow half flowers to the back to form a full two-color flower.  With the two small flowers tear a section of the one large flower to form your two small flowers.  Add the single stem to one of the large and use one large and one small on the two double stems, and then cut them apart so you can use them separately. 

From some scrap Pool Party and the dainty small 3-flower dies cut enough to fill three double stems with 3-5 flowers on each stem, to your liking.  Cut these stems into individual stems as well. 

Now with your Old Olive and your two matching leaf dies cut 5 sets to use randomly and with the Mossy Meadow and the four-leaf die cut three of those to use (set one of the individual leaves aside with your peach flower for the back of your card). 

Arrange the flowers to your liking on the three different levels leaving one pink, one peach, and three of the individual leave for the front.  Adhere these to the front once you have arranged and adhered all the others.

With your “Get Well Soon” stamp from the Mini Mates stamp set from Stampin’ Up and with the Pool Party ink stamp on a piece of Lemon Lolly and use a small tag die to cut it out. Adhere to the front of your card. 

For the back of your card cut a piece of Lemon Lolly to 2 ¾” x 3 ¼”.  Adhere the Peach Pie flower and leaf you set aside in the lower left corner.  Use your Pool Party ink and the “A bouquet . . . to celebrate you!” greeting from the SSC 1221 Stampendous stamp set and stamp in the upper center.  Adhere to the back of your card.

You have created a beautiful get well card to have for when needed. 

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Tulip Birthday Card

I went old school with this one, this is the first stamp set I ever bought from Stampin’ Up almost 20 years ago.  I decided to get it out and make a card today.  Unfortunately, it is so old that it doesn’t have a label anymore so I don’t know the name of the set, but it is beautiful just the same. 

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

  • Strawberry Slush card stock (Stampin’ Up)
  • Melon Mambo card stock (Stampin’ Up)
  • White card stock
  • Tulip stamps (Retired Stampin’ Up set but I don’t know the name)
  • Happy Birthday and Inside birthday greeting stamps (Retired Stampin’ Up but also don’t know from what set)
  • Strawberry Slush and Pretty and Pink Gems (Stampin’ Up)
  • Strawberry Slush ink (Stampin’ Up)
  • Old Olive ink (Stampin’ Up)
  • Mini Corrugated 3D Embossing Folder or an old-style corrugator
  • Paper trimmer
  • Adhesive of choice

With your Strawberry Slush card stock cut a card base to 5 ½” x 8 ½” and fold in half to 4 ¼” x 5 ½”.  From your Melon Mambo or another piece of Strawberry Slush, cut a piece to 3 ¾” x 4 ½”.  From your white card stock cut a piece to 4” x 6”, one to 3 ½” x 4 ¼” and a third piece to 4” x 5 ¼”.  Take the 4” x 6” piece and corrugate with either an embossing folder and a corrugator and then cut to 4” x 5 ¼”. 

Gather your 3 ½” x 4 ¼” piece of white card stock, your tulip stamp set and your Strawberry Slush and Old Olive inks.  Start with the outside outline tulip stamp and stamp that in Strawberry Slush three times, arranging at different levels to the left side of the card stock.  Then with the fuller tulip stamp, stamp off (stamp once on scrap paper) and then stamp to the inside of the first stamp to form your tulips.  Then with your Old Olive ink stamp three stems and leaves as you like.  Then stamp your “happy birthday” greeting to the lower right. 

Adhere your white corrugated piece to the front of your card base.  Then center the Melon Mambo (or Strawberry Slush) piece and then your stamped piece on top of the Melon Mambo.  Then take your Strawberry Slush larger size embellishments and adhere three in a row in the upper right corner of your stamped piece. 

For your inside piece, stamp another tulip in the lower right corner and your birthday greeting of choice in the upper center.  Adhere to the inside of your card. 

There is my old school tulip birthday card. 

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