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Mixed Media Floral Z-Fold Card

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This cheery floral z-fold card made with Mixed Media Floral designer series paper from Stampin’ Up was so easy and quick to make.     

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

  • Daffodil Delight card stock
  • White card stock
  • Mixed Media Floral designer series paper
  • Mixed Florals stamps and dies
  • Mixed Labels stamps and dies
  • Basic Black ink
  • Calypso Coral Dark Stampin’ Blends ben
  • Scissors
  • Scoring board or scoring blade for paper trimmer
  • Paper trimmer
  • Adhesive of choice

Take the Daffodil Delight card stock and cut to 5 ½” x 11” and score at 3 3/8” and 6 ¾” and fold.  With the white card stock cut two pieces 3 1/8” x 5 ¼” and one to 4” x 5 ¼”.  From the Mixed Media Floral designer series paper pack, find the piece with the mixed florals of yellow cone flowers and peach tulips.  Hand cut around the flowers with the even portion on the right side and up to the large cone flower on the right side.  Then cut another portion of the two cone flowers from the rest of the left side to use in the middle section. 

Note:   The other easier option if you don’t care about the additional flowers on the middle panel is to not cut the white cardstock, but to just cut your Mixed Media Floral designer series paper to the three sizes of the white card stock and then you don’t have to the cutting out of the flowers.  The other just ads a bit more dimension and I wanted the additional flowers in the middle section.

Take the first 3 1/8” piece of white card stock and line up the right side of the floral paper you cut out to line the right and bottom, and cut to size.  Take the second 3 1/8” piece of white card stock and cut the next section of the floral paper to match for the lower portion and use the piece of two cone flowers you cut separate to the right and line up to look like they go together.  Then take the 4” x 5 ¼” piece of white card stock and line up and cut the last section of the floral paper to match.  Adhere all pieces to the white portions and adhere to the Daffodil Delight card base. 

With the Mixed Florals stamp set, stamp two ladybugs with the Basic Black ink, color them in with the Dark Calypso Coral Stampin’ Blends pen.  Die cut out each of the ladybugs and adhere one to the white portion of the middle panel and the other to the upper right side of the back panel.  With the Mixed Labels stamp set and the Basic Black ink, stamp the small “Thank You” and cut out with the small label die and then cut out the next size up label die in Daffadil Delight and adhere together and to the upper left corner of the back panel of the card. 

That is all it takes to make this cute card. 

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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Everyday Happiness Double Concertina Interlocking Card

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I just love this card, the front is pretty as a card all on it own, but then you open it up and the real card is on the inside.  It is also made with the Everyday Happiness designer series paper from Stampin’ Up which I am infatuated with right now, it is just so beautiful.  This card is a full-size card at 5” x 7” but could be done as a 4 ¼” x 5 ½” card as well.  I made this for a good friend’s 50th so wanted the larger size. 

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

  • Everyday Happiness designer series paper
  • Wild Wheat card stock
  • White card stock
  • Wild Wheat ink
  • With You in Mind stamp set
  • Nested rectangle dies, one about 3” x 4 ¼” and the next size down
  • Banner die
  • Number dies
  • Scoring board or scoring blade for paper trimmer
  • Paper trimmer
  • Adhesive of choice
  • Scissors
  • Pop-Dots

This card is not hard to make but it has a lot of cutting for the different layers of paper.  Since this is a full-size card, it takes a bit more paper.  With White card stock, cut the following:

  • One piece to 7” x 10 ½” scored on the long edge at 5” and 10”
  • One to 7” x 10” scored on the long edge at 5”
  • One to 3 ¾” x 9 ¾” scored at 4 7/8”
  • Two pieces to 2 ½” x 3 ¾” each scored at ½” and 2”

With the Wild Wheat card stock cut two pieces to 2 ¾” x 4 1/8” and one to 3 ¼” x 4 ½”.

Grab your Everyday Happiness designer series paper.  Take a piece with the swoops of blue, gold and white.  Cut three pieces to 4 ¾” x 6 ¾”.  With the floral piece cut two pieces to 4 ¾” x 6 ¾” and one to 4 ½” x 6 ½”.  With the blue plaid paper cut two pieces to 3 ½” x 4 ¾” and two pieces to 1 ¼” x 3 ½”. 

With the White card stock pieces cut to 7” x 10 ½” and the 7” x 10 pieces, fold both pieces at the 5” score mark and with the fold pointing down fold the ½” mark down as well.  Then adhere the second piece of card stock, also with the fold pointing down to the ½” piece, forming a “W” shape. 

Take the two pieces of the swoops designer series paper that you cut to 4 ¾” x 6 ¾” and the largest of the two nested rectangle dies and cut the rectangle out of the center of both.  Adhere these to the two center pieces of your base White card stock.  Take the smaller rectangle die and place the die in the center of your swoops cut out and cut out the smaller rectangle.  Keep all of these cut out pieces to use later.  Now take the two floral pieces you cut to 4 ¾” x 6 ¾” and adhere on the front and back panel of the inside of your card. 

Let’s start making the interlocking piece.  Take the piece of white card stock cut to 3 ¾” x 9 ¾” and fold in half.  Then take the two pieces of white card stock cut to 2 ½” x 3 ¾” and fold each into a “U” shape.  Adhere one side of the “U” to the back of the 3 ¾” x 9” ¾” piece and the other to the other end, both each with the “U” facing to the center.  Take the four pieces of blue plaid you cut earlier and adhere the two small pieces to the ends and the two larger pieces to the center panels.

Take the two White card stock rectangle pieces you cut from the card center cut-outs and the two Wild Wheat pieces you cut to 2 ¾” x 4 1/8” and adhere the White to the Wild Wheat.  With a scrap piece of the blue with polka dots cut cut 5 banner pieces and use four of them to adhere to the tops of the two pieces in whatever arrangement you like.  With the While Wheat ink and the With You In Mind stamp set, stamp the “Happy Birthday” after stamping off first. 

Use a number stamp set or dies to add the age if desired to the second.  Adhere each piece to the front center panels. 

Now take that and put through the center of the card base and fold to align the center piece in the center and to the back.  Open the front panel trying to keep the rest aligned and put adhesive on the ½” strip then lay flat and fold the front of the card onto it to align.  Do the same for the back. 

Now for the front of the card, take the last swooped paper and the last floral piece and adhere together and then to the front of the card.  Then the piece of Wild Wheat and one of the cut-outs of the swooped paper.  Stamp a greeting in the center of the swooped paper.  Cut out a few of the flowers and leaves and adhere to the upper left corner and lower right corner and use the last banner you cut to put in the upper right corner.

There is your Everyday Happiness double concertina interlocking happy birthday card.

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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Thoughtful Journey Slant Front Card

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The paper in the Thoughtful Journey designer series paper pack from Stampin’ Up is so beautiful that it doesn’t need much help with decoration, it is the star of every card it is used on. 

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

  • Petunia Pop card stock
  • Fresh Freesia card stock
  • Thoughtful Journey designer series paper
  • Memorable Blooms stamp set
  • Fresh Freesia ink
  • Brushed Brass Butterfies embellishments
  • Scoring board or scoring blade for your paper trimmer
  • Paper trimmer
  • Adhesive of choice

With your Petunia Pop card stock cut a card base to 4 ¼” x 10” and score at 5 ½”.  Fold on the score mark.  With the Fresh Freesia card stock cut a piece to 4” x 4 3/8” and a second piece to 4” x 5 ¼” for the inside.  Then choose a piece of the Thoughtful Journey designer series paper that matches the card stock and cut to 3 ¾” x 4 1/8” and a piece to 1” x 3 ¾”.  I choose the one with bunches of purple flowers, but you could also use one of the two thistle papers.  Layer your Thoughful Journey piece on top of the smaller Fresh Freesia and then onto the shorter front piece of your card base, all aligned to the right end of the front and cut your slant so they will all align when you adhere them.  Once cut, you can then adhere the Fresh Freesia to the Petunia Pop card front and the Thoughtful Journey piece on to that. 

Take your inside piece of Fresh Freesia you cut earlier and adhere to the inside of your card.  Now with the “Thanks so much” stamp from the Memorable Blooms stamp set from Stampin-Up and your Fresh Freesia ink and stamp your greeting in the upper right corner centering in the space.  With your Brushed Brass Butterflies embellishments, adhere a few to the front of your card and one with your greeting.  With the 1” x 3 ¾” piece of Thoughtful Journey paper, adhere that to the left side of the inside of your card for decoration. 

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.

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Nests of Winter Banner Pop-Up Card

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The Winterly Tree Tops paper is so pretty and can take so much of the work out of making a card.  This card is the perfect example of that.    

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

  • Grey Granite card stock
  • White card stock
  • Nests of Winter designer series paper
  • Winterly Tree Tops stamp set
  • Grey Granite Ink
  • Paper trimmer
  • Adhesive of choice
  • Pop-Dots

With the Grey Granite card stock cut a card to 4 1/4” x 11” and fold in half to 4 ¼” x 5 ½”.  Also cut a strip of Grey Granite to 1” x 11” scored at 2 ¾”, 5 ½” and 8 ¼”.  Cut a piece of White card stock to 4” x 5 ¼” and adhere to the front of your Grey Granite card base.  Get your Nests of Winter designer series paper out and find one of the pieces that have the pussy willows with the birds on the bottom and top of the paper.  Cut a section to 4” x 4 ¼” making sure you have the birds positioned where you want them for the section of paper you are using.  Find two spots with birds that you can cut to 1 ¾” x 1 ¾” and also cut two pieces of White card stock to the same 1 ¾” x 1 ¾”.  I also cut a ½” x 1 ¾” of a bit of pussy willow for the bottom of one of the white pieces.  Cut four squares out of the Grey Granite to 2” x 2”.  Adhere your 4 pieces cut to 1 ¾” x 1 ¾” to each of the Grey Granite pieces.  On the plain white one get the  “many thanks and much love” stamp from the Winterly Tree Tops stamp set and stamp it with your Grey Granite ink.

Find a piece of designer series paper from your Nests of Winter pack that has the white birch trees with the birds.  Cut two pieces to 4” x 5 ¼” and adhere one to the inside top portion of your card and the other to the inside bottom portion.  Now take the Grey Granite strip you cut and scored and accordion fold it.  Adhere the top section centered to the top of your card with the center part of your accordion fold popping up and then adhere the bottom section to the bottom of your card.  Now adhere you 2” x 2” pieces from top down centered in each section of your grey accordion strip with one of the birds in the top section.  Your word stamped piece in the second section, the second bird one in the third section and the plain white with the strip of pussy willow to the bottom section.

And that is it, you have an adorable, easy pop-up card. 

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 by and photos taken by DaisyChainFun.

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Countryside Inn Foxy Tri-Fold Card

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This elegant foxy tri-fold card made with the Countryside Inn designer series paper from Stampin’ Up is just adorable and easy to make. 

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

  • Night of Navy card stock
  • Balmy Blue card stock
  • White card stock
  • Countryside Inn designer series paper
  • Three stacked Oblong Nested dies
  • Sizzix Forest Friends (not sure on the name) dies
  • Small floral dies
  • Framed Florets stamps
  • Night of Navy ink
  • Embellishments to decorate the center of the flowers
  • Scoring board or scoring blade for paper trimmer
  • Paper trimmer
  • Adhesive of choice

With the Night of Navy card stock cut a piece to 3” x 9” and another to 3” x 4 ¼”.  Score the 3” x 9” piece at 4 ¼” and at 8 ½”.  Fold the 9” piece in half and then fold the half inch piece in the opposite direction.  Put adhesive on the ½” piece and adhere the 3” x 4 ¼” piece to make a z-fold.  Find the blue striped piece from the Countryside Inn designer series paper pack.  Cut three pieces to 2 ¾” x 4” and adhere to each panel of the z-folded card base. 

With your Night of Navy card stock die cut three of the largest panels which are about 4 ½” long.  In the Countryside Inn designer series paper pack find the paper that has the foxes on it, use the middle size die or next size down to cut three of these.  With White card stock us the next size down cut two.   Cut out one each of the fox and the racoon (which looks like a fox) with Night of Navy card stock and Balmy Blue card stock and adhere the pieces together.  For the racoon version, just take the Balmy Blue tail and cut it with a jagged edge instead of the double stripes for the racoon.  With Night of Navy, Balmy Blue and White card stock scraps cut some flowers for decoration. 

With the two white oblong octagons, Night of Navy ink and the “wishes for a beautiful birthday” and stamp that on one toward the top, then with the “for a special person on a special day” stamp that onto the other white one toward the top as well. 

Now take all the oblong octagon pieces and adhere the three fox designer series paper to the three Night of Navy pieces.  Add the two white ones to two of the pieces.  Take the back one with the “for a special person on a special day” and put adhesive slightly less than half way up from the bottom and adhere to the back panel.  You want it to measure 5 ½” in total so that it is the proper size for an envelope.  Put adhesive about 1/3 of the way up for the piece that doesn’t have a white panel, line it up face down on the back one and fold the middle panel down so that they line up perfectly.  Now put adhesive on the front panel about 1/3 of the way up and with the card folded, align with the other panels so that when the card is folded it should only show the front panel. 

This now gives you the Countryside Inn Foxy tri-fold card with this beautiful fox paper in these elegant blues. 

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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Delightful Wishes Double Gate Fold Card

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Send some appreciation to someone with this bright and cheerful double gate fold card.  This Delightful Wishes set is so beautiful and you can’t beat the Floral Delight designer series paper. 

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

  • Daffodil Delight card stock
  • Lemon Lolly card stock
  • Crumb Cake card stock
  • White card stock
  • Floral Delight designer series paper
  • Delightful Wishes stamp set and dies
  • Memorable Blooms stamp set and dies
  • Limon Lolly ink
  • Daffodil Delight ink
  • Old Olive ink
  • Scoring board or scoring blade for paper trimmer
  • Paper trimmer
  • Bone folder
  • Adhesive of choice
  • Pop-Dots

With your Lemon Lolly card stock cut your card base to 5 ½” x 11” and score at 1 ¼”, 3 3/8”, 7 5/8” and 9 ¾” and fold up from the center and then out on the ends.  Take a piece of White card stock and cut that to 3 ½” x 8 ¼” and score at 1 1/8”, 2 5/8”, 5 5/8” and 7 1/8” and fold the same with coming up from the center and out on the ends.  Use a bone folder on all your fold edges to make sure they are folding flat.  Then take your Daffodil Delight and cut a piece to 4” x 5 ¼” and two strips at 1” x 5 ¼”.  With your floral delight designer series paper find the Forsythia paper and cut a piece to 3 ¾” x 5”. 

Now take your Delight Wishes stamp set and dies and the Crumb Cake card stock and cut two sticks with the stick die.  Get your Old Olive ink, White card stock and the double leave stamp and stamp and die cut out 5 of them.  Take more White card stock, your Lemon Lolly ink and the solid Forsythia back group stamp and stamp three of these.  Then change the stamp to the Forsythia detail stamp and with your Daffodil Delight ink and light up the stamp and stamp on the detail over the background stamped items that you stamped in Lemon Lolly.  Use the Forsythia die and cut out the three sets of flowers.  Arrange and adhere one set to each and two leaves to each of the sticks.  Find your White scored piece of card stock for your inside and with your Memorable Blooms stamp set stamp “I appreciate your thoughtfulness” on the inside as a greeting and then decorate with the remaining set of Forsythia flowers and one last leaf.  Take a spare piece of White card stock and your Old Olive ink and stamp “Thanks so much” from the same Memorable Blooms set and use the small label die from that set to cut it out. 

Now it is time to put all the pieces together.  Start with your Lemon Lolly card base and adhere the Daffodil Delight 4” x 5 1/4 “ piece to the center and then adhere the Forsythia designer series paper centered on the Daffodil Delight piece.  Then take the scored white piece and adhere one side centered to the top fold on each side of your Lemon Lolly card base which leave it floating up about ¾” from the back of the card.  Find your two 1” x 5 ¼” strips of Daffodil Delight and adhere that over the white and the other flaps on each side.  Then take you Forsythia sticks and adhere to each side, making sure they are not hanging over in the middle so that the card can close.  Adhere the “Thanks so much” label to the lower right flap. 

There is the Double Gate Fold card.  You may want to incorporate a ribbon in to tie at the front to help keep it closed, but I think it being open is the appeal of this card. 

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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Wildflower Birthday Level-Up Card

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This Wildflower Birthday set is such a girly and pretty set of paper, I am just obsessed.  It comes with two sheets of cut-out shapes as well, which I didn’t use for this card but have on others. 

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

  • Wildflower Birthday specialty designer series paper
  • Mixed Labels stamp set and dies
  • Pretty in Pink card stock
  • White card stock
  • Pool Party ink
  • Scoring board or scoring blade for paper trimmer
  • Paper trimmer
  • Adhesive of choice
  • Pop-Dots

With the Pretty in Pink card stock cut a card base of 4 ¼” x 11” and score to 1 ¾”, 3 1/8”, 3 ½”, 7 ½”, 7 7/8” and 9 ¼”.  The center four scores fold up and the two outside pieces fold out. 

Grab a piece of White card stock and cut a piece to 3 ¾” x 4”, one to 1 ½” x 4”, 7/8” x 5 ½” and one to 3” x 3 ¾”.  Now grab the Wildflower Birthday specialty designer series paper and cut a piece of the pink and white gingham paper to 3 ½” x 3 ¾” and two strips to 1 ¼” x 3 ¾”.  The find the paper with the cakes and cut a strip of cakes to 1” wide making sure you are lining up to center the cakes and then cut to a length of 3 ½”, but making sure you are getting your cakes close to the top as the bottom area will get covered.  Then with the Pool Party banner piece cut a strip to 5/8” x 5 ¼” which should give you three banner stripes, and then another piece for the back of the card measuring 5/8” x 3 ¾”. 

Take a scrap piece of White card stock and your Pool Party ink and stamp the “You’re Pretty Wonderful” and then use the label die to cut it out. 

Now it is time to assemble it all together.  Take your Pretty in Pink card base and your 3 ¾” x 4” White cards stock piece and the pink gingham measuring 3 ½” x 3 ¾” and adhere the gingham onto the white.  Then adhere the white to the center of the card base.  Grab the label and adhere with pop dots to the upper center of the card center.  Take your two white strips measuring 1 ½” x 4”, the two pink gingham strips and the two cake strips and adhere the cake strips to the pink gingham and the pink gingham to the white strips and then adhere each of those to the front ends.  Now take the white strip measuring 7/8” x 5 ½” and the Pool Party strip measuring 5/8” x 5 ¼” and adhere to the white strip.  Then adhere that strip to the bottom of each end of the card flaps. 

Now take the last piece of white measuring 3” x 3 ¾” and adhere in the center of the back of the card.  Then adhere the Pool Party banner strip toward the bottom of the white piece.  You can add an additional greeting here in Pool Party ink if you choose to. 

This adorable card is ready to give to a good friend or sister or whoever else would enjoy receiving this cute card. 

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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Wildflower Birthday Pull Tab Pop-Up Card

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This fun pull tab pop-up card made from Wildflower Birthday specialty designer series paper is just beautiful. 

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

  • Pretty in Pink card stock
  • White card stock
  • Wildflower Birthday specialty designer series paper
  • Flirty Flamingo ink (should be Pretty in Pink ink but I didn’t have that one)
  • Scoring board or scoring blade for paper trimmer
  • Paper trimmer
  • Bone folder
  • Adhesive of choice

Take a piece of Pretty in Pink card stock and cut a card base to 4 ¼” x 5 ½”.  With your White card stock cut a piece to 4” x 10 ½” and score at 1 ¾”, 3 ½”, 7” and 8 ¾”.  Cut another piece of White card stock to 4” x 4” and score it at ¼” and 3 ¾”.  Cut two strips with the White card stock to 1/2” x 3 ¼” scored at 1 ¼”.  From your Wildflower Birthday Specialty designer series paper find the light green with the white oval decoration paper and cut a piece to 3 3/8” x 3 7/8”

Take the 4” x 10 ½” and from the middle fold each side down and then fold the ends out.  Use a bone folder to press the folds flat.  Take the green piece of paper you cut and adhere to the front of the pop-up middle.  Grab your hexagon die and cut out a window in the center and save the cut-out piece for making the inside section. 

Grab the 4” x 4” scored piece and fold each side up from the center.  Put adhesive on the outside of one of the ¼” folded up sides and an adhere to the inside of one of the scored pop-up piece.  Put adhesive on the outside of the other ¼” flap and adhere to the inside of other pop-up side, forming the shape below.  Put adhesive on the green paper you saved from the center cut-out, fold the center down to the other center section to line up and adhere the cut-out piece to the bottom through the cut-out. 

Use the cake piece and small floral cut-out from the Wildflower Birthday specialty designer series paper and adhere the cake piece to the center of the green piece and adhere the floral piece on the lower left part of the cake.  Take the pink balloon and a medium floral piece and adhere to the top part of the card around the cut-out.  Adhere two of the cut-out cupcakes  to the right and left pull out sides of the center cut-out section. 

Take your pink ink and a “Happy Birthday” stamp of choice and fits well in the center of the cut-out window.  Close in the sides and fold the card down to you have the white window covering the cake piece.  Stamp the “Happy Birthday in the middle of your window.  Take the gold banner piece from the cut-outs and cut in half, cut down to size for each size and align on each side with the banner aligning in the middle.

Take the two ½” x 3 ¼” strips and put adhesive on the 1 ¼” section and adhere to the bottom section of the right pull-out and the same on the left.  Take two of the small pink florets and adhere to the ends of the pull-out stripes. 

On the back center section put adhesive and adhere to the center of the pink card stock base.  Decorate with a leaf and two flowers from the cut-out pieces.

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.

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Wildflower Tower Flap Card

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This fun and easy card is so cute and I enjoyed making it so much.

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

  • Basic Grey card stock
  • White card stock
  • Heart and Home designer series paper
  • Nature’s Harvest stamp set and dies
  • Tim Holtz Wildflower Dies (you could also use the dies from Nature’s Harvest dies)
  • Basic Grey ink
  • Grey twine
  • Scoring board or scoring blade for paper trimmer
  • Paper trimmer
  • Adhesive of choice
  • Pop-Dots

With your Basic Grey card stock cut a card base to 4 ¼” x 5 ½” and score in half at 2 1/8”.  Cut six (6) planks out of your Basic Grey card stock with three (3) measuring 1” x 4 ¼”, one (1) measuring 1 3/8” x 4 ¼” and two (2) to 5/8” x 4 ¼”.   With your White card stock cut two pieces to 2” x 5 3/8” for the back of your card.

Cut out six flowers\leaves for your card out of the basic grey, the have to fit two on each half without going over so you need to pick accordingly.  I chose the three daisys, one for each side and one for the back and then two different sprigs (one of one and two of the other) that were skinner to help them fit. 

With your Heart and Home designer series paper pack choose one of the pieces that has the white wood, I used the one that looked like one solid piece so I didn’t have division lines.  Cut three (3) to ¾” x 4”, one (1) to 1 ¼” x 4” and two (2) to ½” x 4”. 

Take your Nature’s Harvest stamp set and your Basic Grey ink with a scrap piece of White card stock and stamp the “Sending healing thoughts may nature’s beauty bring peace to your soul”  Use the long label die from the Nature’s Harvest dies to cut out your words. 

Now you just need to assemble it all.  With your white wood planks, adhere them to the appropriate Basic Grey planks.  Fold your scored card base in half.  Starting from the bottom of your card base adhere a 1” plank to the left half of the card base.  Adhere the next plank measuring 5/8” to the right side with a very small space left between so they don’t rub with they swing.  Then another 1” piece to the left, 1 ½” piece to the right, 5/8” piece to the left and the last 1” piece to the top. 

Fold up so you can see where the center is.  Trim the bottom one of the sprigs so it just will hang over to the top of the bottom plank and adhere to the top, third and fifth plank, and the same with one of the daisy’s making sure it isn’t overlapping the center, or it will bend.  Do the same on the right side adhere to the second, fourth and to the very top of the sixth plank.  Adhere your saying to the middle of the bottom plank.  Tye a bow with some grey twine and adhere to the second plank flower stem. 

Take the two pieces of White card stock and the leftover flower and spring for the back of the card.  Adhere one of the white pieces to one side of the back and then the other on the other side.  Adhere your sprig and flower to the left side, leaving the right side for a message and signing your card. 

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.

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Queen Bee Pop-Up Frame Card

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I just love the Queen Bee stamp set from Stampin’ Up and I just had to have it, but and this is the first time I have actually used it so was really excited to make this card.  With this pop-up frame fun fold card it was perfect and I love the way this card stands up when open and is decorated on both sides.      

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

  • More Mustard card stock
  • Cinnamon Cider card stock
  • Old Olive card stock
  • Natural Beige card stock
  • Queen Bee stamp set and dies
  • Honeycomb die (if you don’t have one you could also do something with a honeycomb embossing folder)
  • Party Dots Stampin’ Up embellishments
  • More Mustard ink
  • Cinnamon Cider ink
  • Old Olive ink
  • Light Cinnamon Cider Stampin’ Blends
  • Scoring board of paper trimmer with scoring blade
  • Paper trimmer
  • Adhesive of choice
  • Mini Pop-Dots

Take your More Mustard card stock and cut in half the long way to 4 ¼” x 11”.  Score at 1 ½” and at 5 ½” and fold both inward.  Then cut a piece of More Mustard to 4 /4” x 5” and score at ½” and 4 ½”, then fold both sides up.  Now take the Cinnamon Cider card stock and cut two pieces to 3 ¾” x 4” and cut another piece to 1 ¼” x 4”.  Take the Natural Beige card stock and cut a piece to 3 ¾” x 4”. 

Take your two pieces of Cinnamon Cider that you cut to 3 ¾” x 4” and your honeycomb die and cut out a corner of each.  Take some spare of the Natural Beige card stock and the More Mustard ink, stamp the one of large queen bee stamp and the small bees and use the dies to cut each of them out.  Also take the piece of Natural Beige card stock you cut to 3 ¾” x 4” and in the upper right corner with the piece going the long way and stamp one of the small bees.  Take a spare piece of Natural Beige card stock and stamp “happy birthday” stacked in Cinnamon Cider and then use the label die to cut that out.  Take the floral spray stamp and stamp that in Old Olive and then cut out with the die.  Now take the Cinnamon Cider Stampin’ Blends pen and color the flowers. 

Take your Old Olive card stock and cut one of the large curved leaves and six of the small leaves.  Use a spare piece of the More Mustard card stock and cut out three large flowers and three small flowers.  With your Party Dots embellishments, use three of the small yellow for centers on your small flowers and three of the large for centers of the larger flowers. 

Now you have everything you need to assembly your card.  Grab your 4 ¼” x 11” scored piece of More Mustard and let’s get it decorated.  Take one of the Cinnamon Cider pieces with the honeycomb cut-out and adhere it to the front 4” x 4 ¼” section with the honeycomb cut-out in the upper left corner.  Put a mini pop dot on the back of the small bee cut-out and adhere it in the upper right corner.  Adhere the large curved leaves in the lower right corner along with one of the smaller leaves toward the middle.  Put the “happy birthday” label over it and decorate with one large and one small flower. 

In the 1 ½” x 4 ¼” section of your card front, adhere the 1 ¼ x 4” piece centered.  Take three of the small die cut leaves and the floral spray and arrange and adhere center in this section, not going outside of the 1 ½” x 4 ¼” section. 

Now take the 4 ¼” x 5” scored piece of the More Mustard card stock and adhere the second Cinnamon Cider honeycomb piece with the scored flaps folded down with the honeycomb in the lower right corner.  Take one of the last two smaller leaves a adhere that and one small and one large flower in the upper right corner.  Then take the last leaf die cut and one large flower and adhere in the lower left corner.  Adhere the Queen Bee die cut image in the center area.  Put glue on the upper flap and stick to the bottom of the 1 ½” x 4 ¼” piece to start to for your square frame.  Then lay flat and put adhesive on the lower flap and fold the card shut to adhere in the correct place.  Now take your little bee stamped piece of Natural Beige and adhere to the inside of your card.  Adhere your last small flower in the lower left corner. 

Now you have a beautiful birthday card to send to someone you care about. 

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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