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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.

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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Peaceful Garden Hydrangea Big Hug Card

October 28, 2025 No Comments

This lovely Hydrangea paper from the Peaceful Garden designer series paper from Stampin’ Up is just enchanting. The colors are so pretty with the blues, just infatuated!

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

Secret Sea card stock (2025-2027 In Color Stampin’ Up)
White card stock
Peaceful Garden designer series paper (September 2025 Online Exclusive Stampin’ Up)
Peace on Earth stamp set (September 2025 Online Exclusive Stampin’ Up)
Secret Sea ink (2025-2027 In Color Stampin’ Up)
Paper trimmer
Adhesive of choice
Pop dots

With your Secret Sea card stock cut a card base of 5 ½” x 8 ½” and fold in half to 4 ¼” x 5 ½”. The cut a piece to 3” x 4 ¼” and another piece to 2” x 2”. From your white card stock cut a piece to 4” x 5 ¼” for the inside of your card and another to 1 ¾” x 1 ¾”. Take your Peaceful Garden designer series paper and find the hydrangea paper and the Cloud Cover hashed paper. With the Hydrangea paper, cut a piece to 2” x 4”. From the Cloud Cover hashed paper cut a piece to 4” x 5 ¼”.

Take the Cloud Cover hashed piece and adhere it to the front of your card. With the Hydrangea paper you cut, adhere that to the Secret Sea piece cut to 3” x 4 ¼” and adhere to at to the upper left side of your card front, leaving about ¼” of your Cloud Cover hashed paper on each side of your corner.

Adhere your white square piece to the Secret Sea square. From the Peace on Earth stamp set find the “Big hugs for a good friend” stamp and stamp in the center of your white square in Secret Sea ink. Adhere to the lower right corner on the front of your card with pop dots.

With the inside of the card, adhere the white piece of card stock. From the Peace on Earth stamp set find the “all the best in your new adventure” stamp and stamp with your Secret Sea ink.

I just want to be able to send this card to someone as I just love it.

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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Painterly Pears Green Themed Friend Card

October 26, 2025 No Comments

This layered card turned out so cute, I still am in love with this Painterly Pears designer series paper and the Perfectly Pears stamp and dies set from Stampin’ Up.

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

Old Olive card stock (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)
Traditional Label Dies (August 2025 Online Exclusive Stampin’ Up)
Corner rounder punch
Paper trimmer
Scissors
Adhesive of choice
Pop dots

With a piece of Old Olive card stock cut your card base to 5 ½” x 8 ½” and fold in half to 4 ¼” x 5 ½”. Cut another piece to 2 ¼” x 4 5/8”. From a piece of white card stock cut a piece for the inside of your card to 4” x 5 ¼”. From the Painterly Pears designer series paper find the Old Olive Leaf piece and cut to 4” x 5 ¼”. From the white paper with pear edges cut one of the edge pieces to 2” x 4 3/8”. Use your corner rounder punch to round the four corners of each piece you just cut, including your card base.

From some of the spare pear paper cut out one of the single reddish pears and one of the green double pears with a pair of scissors. From a spare piece of white card stock stamp “A good friend is a gift” from the Perfectly Pears stamp set and stamp in Old Olive ink Use the smaller decorative oval from Traditional Label dies to cut out the stamped white piece and the larger oval to cut out a piece of Old Olive card stock and also one of the branches with leaves dies.

Adhere your green leaf designer series paper piece to the front of your card base. Then adhere your white pear designer series paper piece to the Old Olive piece and adhere to the front of your card about ½” down from the top and about ¾” in from the left. Then adhere your white oval label to the green one. Tear up the sections of the leaves you cut and adhere around the back of your label for decoration, leaving one section to adhere to the lower right corner of your label. Adhere your reddish pear you cut out with those last leaves in the lower right corner of the label. Now adhere your label slightly below the middle on the right side of the front of your card.

On the inside of your card adhere your white piece of card stock to the inside and adhere the double green pears you cut out to the lower left corner of the white piece. Use the “So grateful” greeting from the Soft Seedlings stamp set and stamp on the upper center of the inside of your card in Old Olive ink.

I think this card is just so lovely, anyone would be so thrilled to receive it in the mail letting them know you are grateful for their friendship.

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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Peaceful Garden Sending Love Card

October 16, 2025 No Comments

This simple card made from Peaceful Garden designer series paper from Stampin’ Up makes a great card to let a friend know you are thinking of them.

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

Basic Beige card stock (Stampin’ Up)
White card stock
Peaceful Garden designer series paper (Stampin’ Up July Online Exclusive)
Peace on Earth stamp set and dies (Stampin’ Up July Online Exclusive)
Nature sprig dies (I think they were Stampin’ Up but not for sure)
Secret Sea ink (Stampin’ Up)
Cream colored Bakers Twine (Stampin’ Up)
Small hole punch
Paper trimmer
Adhesive of choice
Pop dots

From your white card stock cut a card base to 5 ½” x 8 ½”, and fold in half. Cut another piece to 3 ¾” x 5”. With your Basic Beige card stock cut two pieces to 4” x 5 ¼”. Find the Secret Sea piece with the nature sprigs on it in the Peaceful Garden designer series paper pack. Cut a piece to 3 ¾” x 5 ½”.

With a spare piece of white card stock cut a nature sprig and also the small label die from the Peace on Earth dies. With the Basic Beige cut two smaller nature sprig and a large label with the die from the Peach on Earth set.

With the “Sending” and “Love” stamps from the Peace on Earth stamp set and your Secret Sea ink, stamp on the white label slightly to the right. Adhere to the Basic Beige label. With your small hole punch (about 1/8”) punch two holes one each end of your label. Cut four pieces of the cream Bakers Twine about 6” long each. Feed two pieces of twine through a whole on one end and then through a whole on the other with both ends coming up through the label, and repeat with the other two pieces of twine. Adhere your label with pop dots to the front of your designer series paper, slightly to the right. Adhere your sprigs with the white one to the front and the two Basic Beige one’s to the back and adhere to the left side of your label. Take your white card stock base and adhere one of the Basic Beige pieces and then the designer series paper to that.

For the inside of the card, take your white card stock piece, your Secret Sea ink and the greeting stamp “Big hugs for a good friend” and stamp in the upper center. Adhere that to the piece of Basic Beige and then to the inside of your card.

There is a great card to send to any friend who needs a bit of cheering up.

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.

All cards are handmade and photos taken by DaisyChainFun.

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Painterly Pears Secret Sea Friend Card

October 14, 2025 No Comments

This Secret Sea Pear paper from the Painterly Pears designer series paper from Stampin’ Up is one of my favorites right now and just makes such elegant looking cards.

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

Secret Sea card stock (2025-2027 In Colors Stampin’ Up)
Darling Duckling card stock (2025-2027 In Colors Stampin’ Up)
White card stock
Perfectly Pears designer series paper (July 2025 Online Exclusive Stampin’ Up)
Perfectly Pears stamp set (2025-2027 Online Exclusive Stampin’ Up)
Secret Sea ink (2025-2027 In Colors Stampin’ Up)
Paper trimmer
Adhesive of choice

Take a piece of Secret Sea card stock and cut a card base of 5 ½” x 8 ½” and fold in half to form your card base of 4 ¼” x 8 ½”. From your Darling Duckling card stock cut two pieces to 4 1/8” x 5 3/8” and another to 1 5/8” x 4”. Then from your white card stock cut a piece to 4” x 5 ¼” for the inside of your card.

With your Painterly Pears designer series paper find the Secret Sea pear piece and cut to 4” x 5 ¼”. Then find the piece that has the pears around the outside with the white center and cut a piece from the left edge that has a pear or design you would like that fits to the right with white space left to the left for your greeting and cut to 1 ½” x 4”.

Adhere one of your Darling Duckling 4 1/8” x 5 3/8” pieces to the front of your card and then adhere your Secret Sea pear paper to that. The take the smaller piece of Darling Duckling paper and adhere across the front of your card, slightly toward the top. Take the white pear piece and adhere to that.

Find the “A good friend is a gift” greeting from the Perfectly Pears stamp set and with your Secret Sea ink stamp on the white portion of your white pear paper.

For the inside of your card adhere your Darling Duckling piece to the inside and then your white piece onto that. From a scrap piece of your white pear paper cut out one of the larger pears with some of the flowers around it and adhere to the lower right corner.

This is a great card to give a friend so say you care.

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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Painterly Pears Double Z-Fold Card

September 6, 2025 No Comments

I am in love with this card, the colors go together so well (even though they are University of Michigan colors, Michigan State fan here 😊). All of the paper in this Painterly Pears designer series paper pack from Stampin’ Up is just so elegant. And it is a different take on a Z-Fold card which is one of my favorites.

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

Secret Sea card stock (2025-2027 In Colors Stampin’ Up)
Darling Duckling card stock (2025-2027 In Colors Stampin’ Up)
Painterly Pears designer series paper (2025 Online Exclusive Stampin’ Up)
Perfectly Pears stamp and dies set (Stampin’ Up)
Low-Profile Sparkle Dots
Secret Sea ink (2025-2027 In Colors Stampin’ Up)
Paper trimmer
Adhesive of choice

From a piece of Secret Sea card stock cut your card base to 5 ½” x 8 ¼” and score at 2 ¾” and 5 ½” and fold into a “Z” shape. With your Darling Duckling card stock cut a piece to 2 ¾” x 8 ¼” and score at 2 ¾” and at 5 ½” and fold into the same “Z” fold.

In your Painterly Pears designer series paper pack find the Secret Sea color pear paper, the Darling Duckling pear paper and the Darling Duckling checker paper. From the Secret Sea pear paper cut three pieces to 2 ½” x 5 ¼” and adhere to each of your three Secret Sea card base pieces. Then cut two of the Darling Ducking pear pieces to 2 ½” x 2 ½” and adhere to the first and second panels of the Darling Duckling “Z” fold. From the Darling Duckling checker designer series paper cut a piece to 2 ½” x 2 ½” and adhere that to the third panel of the Darling Duckling card stock.

To adhere your “Z” folds together, center the Darling Duckling “Z-fold” paper into the Blue “Z-Fold” and then measure to make your yellow hang out about half way and making your card measure 4” or so across and then adhere down, making sure you are only putting adhesive on the part that hits the blue “Z”.

Cut a piece of 2” x 2” Darling Duckling card stock and with your “A good friend is a gift” greeting stamp from the Perfectly Pears stamp set and Secret Sea ink stamp and then adhere to the back panel of your Darling Duckling “Z-fold”. On a small scrap piece of Darling Duckling and your Secret Sea ink stamp the “Friend” greeting and use the small label die from Perfectly Pear dies to cut it out, or cut out by hand. Adhere the Friend label on a angle in the lower right corner of your front Darling Duckling panel and then add three small Low-Profile Sparkle Dots that come in the Perfectly Pears suite around on that front panel.

This is such an elegant card for any friend to show you care!

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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Sweeter With You Strawberry Hello Card

July 20, 2025 No Comments

I am loving this July 2025 Sweeter With You Paper Pumpkin kit from Stampin’ Up. This kit is all based around strawberries for the season and has a bunch of adorable punch-outs to build cards with included instructions or to make up your own. I am really having fun making cards and tags with it.

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

July 2025 Sweeter With You Paper Pumpkin Kit (Stampin’ Up)
Poppy Parade or Sweet Sorbet card stock (Stampin’ Up)
White card stock
Poppy Parade or Sweet Sorbet ink (Stampin’ Up)
Scoring Board or blade for trimmer
Paper trimmer
Adhesive of choice (Some included in kit)
Pop dots (Included in kit)

With your Poppy Parade (or Sweet Sorbet) card stock cut a card base to 5 ½” x 8 ½”, scored at 4 ¼” and 6 3/8” and fold into a Z. From the kit find the pink card stock with the red dots and cut two pieces to 2” x 5 3/8” each. Adhere one to the small front of your Z. Adhere the other to the right side of the back of your card lining them up.

From the cut-outs in the Sweeter With You kit, find one of the rectangle scallop pieces, one of the pre-cut shapes to stamp “Hello, Friend” greeting, three of the white blossoms, one of the small strawberries and one of the stems with strawberries. Adhere the left half of the stem with strawberries to the front of your card, leaving the right half hanging off over the back pink with dots paper. Add the three flowers around on the stem piece for decoration.

Take the “Hello, Friend” greeting stamp from the Sweeter With You stamp set and your Poppy Parade or Sweet Sorbet ink and stamp on the cut-out shape for it. Acdhere the left side Hello portion with pop dots below the stem with strawberries on the front of your card.

Take your scallop cut-out and your “Life is Sweeter with you” greeting stamp from the same Sweeter With You stamp set and stamp in the Poppy Parade or Sweet Sorbet ink. Adhere the small strawberry to the lower left of it and adhere under the front with the right scallop showing through the stem to see when folded.

What a lovely way to tell a friend you care.

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.