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Brushed with Beauty Dogwood Thank You Card

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I like this fun fold card using paper from Brushed with Beauty and the Detailed Dogwood and Something Fancy stamp sets all from Stampin’ Up.  The fold is a regular card fold with a reverse Z-fold piece on the inside. 

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

  • Early Expresso card stock (Stampin’ Up)
  • Very Vanilla card stock (Stampin’ Up)
  • Brushed With Beauty designer series paper (November 2025 Online Exclusive Stampin’ Up)
  • Detailed Dogwood stamp set (Retired Stampin’ Up)
  • Something Fancy stamp set (Retired Stampin’ Up)
  • Sticted Circle and Scalloped Stiched Circle dies (Unknown)
  • Early Expresso ink (Stampin’ Up)
  • Paper trimmer
  • Adhesive of choice

From a piece of Early Expresso card stock cut a card base to 5 ½” x 8 ½” and fold in half to 4 ¼” x 5 ½”.  Then use Very Vanilla card stock to cut a piece to 5 3/8” x 8 ¼” and fold in half and then fold one section in half again (forming a “Z” fold that will go the opposite direction for this card.  From the Brushed with Beauty designer series paper find the brown dogwood paper and also the tan with vanilla ovals paper.  Cut the dogwood paper to 4 1/8” x 5 3/8” and from the tan with vanilla ovals piece cut two pieces to 1 7/8” x 5 ¼”. 

Adhere the dogwood paper to the front of the Early Expresso card base.  Then take the Very Vanilla piece and adhere the large back section to with the inside back of your card with the folded section on the right side.  Adhere the two tan oval paper to each of the folded vanilla sections. 

With a stitched circle die measuring about 2 3/8” wide and use it to cut a circle out of the front of your card centered on 3 sides in the upper portion of your card.  The cut another out of Very Vanilla card stock.  Then use a stictched circle die measuring about 2 7/8” and cut out a circle from Early Expresso.  Use a scalloped stitched circle die measuring about 3 ¼” and cut out of Early Expresso and then use the 2 7/8” stitched circle die and cut out the middle.  Adhere the decorative one to the front of your card around the circle cut out of your card. 

Take your Very Vanilla circle and stamp in Early Expresso ink the “May the good you do come back to you” greeting to the left side of the circle.  The stamp the smaller dogwood from Detailed Dogwood in Early Expresso to the left side of the circle using the section that fit nicely with the greeting.  I stamped the top flower at the bottom to fill in a bit more.  Close your card and through the circle place adhesive on the right side of the circle and then open the card and align the stamped Vanilla circle through the window and then close onto the adhesive. 

For the Very Vanilla inside of your card, stamp the “thank you” greeting in Early Expresso in the upper center.  Stamp the smaller dogwood in the lower right corner. 

I love the style of this card, and dogwoods are a favorite as well.  A lovely thank you card to give to anyone. 

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 Diagonal Crossover Card

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This diagonal crossover card design is a stunning fold that I have seen a few others make.  I used the Lovely Blossoms designer series paper from Stampin’ Up for mine as I wanted to use stripes on the bottom flap and I love this paper right now.  The I used an old favorite, Season of Chic stamps for the perfect birthday greeting to show through. 

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

  • Cloud Cover card stock (2025-2027 In Colors Stampin’ Up)
  • Old Olive card stock (Stampin’ Up)
  • White card stock
  • Lovely Blossoms designer series paper (January 2025 Online Exclusive Stampin’ Up)
  • Lovely Arrangements stamp set and dies (January 2025 Online Exclusive Stampin’ Up)
  • Season of Chic stamps (Retired Stampin’ Up)
  • Cloud Cover ink (2025-2027 In Colors Stampin’ Up)
  • Secret Sea Stampin’ Blends Marker (2025-2027 In Colors Stampin’ Up)
  • Paper trimmer
  • Scoring Board or scoring blade for your trimmer
  • Adhesive of choice

This card looks a bit complicated but it really wasn’t too bad, it is just paying attention to make sure you get your angles going the correct directions.  To start, take a piece of 8 ½” x 11” Cloud Cover card stock and score in half both directions creating four blocks.  Holding your paper vertical, cut out the upper left corner completely.  For the upper right corner, cut your angle from corner to corner, cutting from the upper left corner to the lower right corner, creating your flap the folds down.  For the lower left corner, cut your angle from the lower left corner to the upper right corner, forming your under flap. 

From white card stock cut a piece to 4” x 5 ¼” and cut from the upper left corner to the lower right corner, this gives you the layers for your flaps.  Cut a piece for the inside of your card to 4 1/16” x 5 5/16”.  From the Lovely Blossoms designer series paper find the Cloud Cover stripes paper and the Cloud Cover floral paper, cut a piece of each to 3 ¾” x 5”.  The cut the stripes piece from the upper left to the lower right corner and use the bottom piece for your under flap.  The cut the floral piece from the lower left to the upper right (this paper is directional) and use the upper corner for your upper flap. 

Now take the large flower stamp from the Lovely Arrangements stamp set and tap in your Cloud Cover ink and then use your Secret Sea Stampin’ Write Marker to color the center of the flower.  Then huff on your stamp (blow warm breathe to remoisten your ink) and stamp on a piece of white card stock.  Use the die to cut out the flower and also the two leaf dies to cut out leaves from Old Olive card stock. 

Let’s get your card adhered together, start with adhering your two white diagonal pieces to your flaps, and then the stripes paper to the lower flap onto the white and the floral piece to the white on the upper flap.  Then adhere your full piece of white card stock to the inside of your card.  Adhere your flower to your upper flap overhanging where your diagonals cross over the white and the adhere your leaves as well. 

For the inside piece showing where your diagonals cross, stamp the “wishing you the best birthdays ever” greeting form the Season of Chic stamp set in Cloud Cover ink. 

What a beautiful birthday card for anyone.  I love this design.

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

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Birthday Wishes Bi-Fold Daisy Card

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This daisy birthday card is made with the 12 Days of Crafting Advent Calendar designer series paper, stamps and dies from Stampin’ Up.  It is a adorable bi-fold birthday card.

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

  • Misty Moonlight card stock (Stampin’ Up)
  • White card stock
  • 12 Days of Crafting Advent Calendar (Day 2) designer series paper (2025 Stampin’ Up)
  • 12 Days of Crafting Advent Calendar stamp set and dies (2025 Stampin’ Up)
  • Adhesive Backed Solid Gems (Retired Stampin’ Up)
  • Misty Moonlight ink (Stampin’ Up)
  • Paper trimmer
  • Scoring board or scoring blade for paper trimmer
  • Adhesive of choice
  • Pop dots

From a piece of Misty Moonlight card stock cut a card base to 5 ½” x 7 ½”, scored at 3 ¼” and fold.  Cut another piece to 3 ½” x 3 ¾” and score at ½” and fold.  Cut a piece from white card stock to 4” x 5 1/4“ for the inside and another to 3” x 3 ¼”.  With your 12 Days of Crafting Advent Calendar designer series paper find the blue and white daisy paper and cut a piece to 3” x 5 ¼”.

Adhere the daisy paper to the front fold of your card base.  Now take the smaller piece of Misty Moonlight and put adhesive on the ½” portion and adhere centered to the back portion of your card base so that it will fold over the front of your card.  Adhere the piece of white card stock to the front of the smaller flap. 

With a scrap piece of white card stock take your daisy stamp from the 12 Days of Crafting Advent Calendar stamps and stamp one in Misty Moonlight ink, then stamp a second before re-inking and then stamp another at full ink.  Using your Daffodil Delight ink, stamp centers in your three daisies with the center stamp.  Then stamp three of the leaves in Wild Wasabi ink.  Use dies to cut out the flowers and leaves. 

Use the “Birthday wishes” greeting to stamp on the upper center of the smaller front flap.  Then adhere your three flowers and leaves in the lower portion leaving white space to the right-side center.  Adhere three gems in the white space for decoration. 

For the inside adhere the larger white piece you cut on the back flap, overlapping your added flap.  Stamp a birthday greeting, I used “Wishing you the best today and always!” greeting in Misty Moonlight ink.  Use the daisy stamp again to stamp a full inked daisy and then a stamped-off daisy in Misty Moonlight ink and then stamp the centers in Daffodil Delight.

What a lovely daisy card to give to a girl friend for her birthday.

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

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True Blue Floral Hinge Sympathy Card

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I finally made a hinge style card, I have had a sample in my craft room as an example for a while and saw it the other day and decided to make one.  This is made with the True Blue Floral designer series paper from Stampin’ Up and using the Peace on Earth and Petals of Beauty stamps and dies. 

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

  • Night of Navy card stock (Stampin’ Up)
  • White card stock
  • True Blue Floral designer series paper (December 2025 Product of the Month Stampin’ Up)
  • Peace on Earth stamps and dies (Stampin’ Up)
  • Petals of Beauty dies (Stampin’ Up)
  • Night of Navy ink (Stampin’ Up)
  • Paper trimmer
  • Scoring board or blade from trimmer
  • Adhesive of choice
  • Pop dots

From your Night of Navy card stock cut a card base to 4 ¼” x 11” and score at 2 1/8”, 4 ¼” and 5 ½”.  Fold the card in half and then fold the middle score up and the last score down.  Then cut another piece to 4 ¼” x 4 ¼”.  With some white card stock cut two pieces to 4 1/8” x 4 1/8” and another to 1 1/8” x 4 1/8”.  From the True Blue Floral designer series paper pack, find the large Balmy Blue floral piece and the Balmy Blue piece with the white and navy leaves.  Cut the large floral piece to 4” x 4” and then cut two pieces of the leaf paper to 1” x 4”. 

From a scrap piece of the large floral paper cut out one of the larger flowers and three of the smaller flowers and the one set of leaves.  Then from white card stock use the large open leaf die from the Petals of Beauty dies and cut out one of the leaves.  The use a smaller die (I used an old Stampin’ Up dies, not sure the name of the set) to cut out three from Night of Navy. 

Then with the two label dies from the Peace on Earth die set, cut the smaller one from white card stock and the larger one from Night of Navy card stock.  On the white label you just cut, stamp the “with deepest sympathy” greeting  to the right side in Night of Navy ink.

Now let’s start of assemble it all.  Take your card base and adhere the 1 ½” section to the back of your card base.  Then adhere the white piece measuring 1 1/8” x 4 1/8” to the front of your adhered section to the left, and then the 1” x 4” piece of leaf paper to the white.  Then take the Night of Navy piece measuring 4 ¼” x 4 ¼” and adhere the white piece measuring 4 1/8” x 4 1/8” to that and then the large floral 4” x 4” piece to that.  Now adhere the right side of that to the right side of your card front, creating your card front and forming the “hinge” as shown below. 

To decorate your card front start with cutting your white leaf in half and adhering the top half in the upper left corner of the 4 ¼” square part of your card front.  Add on two of the Night of Navy pieces and then the Balmy Blue leaves you cut out.  Now adhere your white label to the Night of Navy label and adhere that over your decorative leaves with pop dots.  Now adhere three of your cut out flowers and the third Night of Navy leaf piece to the left side of your label. 

For the inside adhere the 4 1/8” x 4 1/8” of white to the inside of your card and then the Balmy Blue leaf piece to the right side of that, leaving a small white boarder on three sides.  Adhere the fourth flower your cut out to the lower left corner.  Stamp the “heartfelt prayers” greeting in Night of Navy ink in the upper center of the white portion of the inside of your card. 

You have made a lovely card to share your sympathy with someone who has had a loss. 

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

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Lovely Blossoms Floral Double Z-Fold Card

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I am infatuated with this card made with the Lovely Blossoms designer series paper and the Lovely Arrangements stamps and dies.  This is one of those card where I came up with what I wanted to do in my head and it actually turned out just like I pictured it, which doesn’t usually happen. 

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

  • Cloud Cover card stock (2025-2027 Incolor Stampin’ Up)
  • Old Olive card stock (Stampin’ Up)
  • White card stock
  • Lovely Blossoms designer series paper (Stampin’ Up)
  • Lovely Arrangements stamp set and dies (Stampin’ Up)
  • Cloud Cover ink (2025-2027 Incolor Stampin’ Up)
  • Secret Sea Stampin’ Write Marker (2025-2027 Incolor Stampin’ Up)
  • Paper trimmer
  • Scoring Board or scoring blade from trimmer
  • Adhesive of choice

From a piece of Cloud Cover card stock cut a card base to 7” x 8 ½” and score at 2 1/8” and 4 ¼” and fold into your “Z” shape.  Cut 1 ½” off the top to make your card base measure 5 ½” x 8 ½” and then you have a matching strip for you double “Z”.  With your white card stock cut a piece to 4 1/8” x 5 3/8” and two pieces to 2” x 5 3/8”

Take the Lovely Blossoms designer series paper pack and pull out a piece of the Cloud Cover striped paper and a piece of the Cloud Clover with white flowers.  From the striped paper cut a piece to 4” x 5 ¼”.  Take the floral piece and cut two pieces to 1 7/8” x 5 ¼”.  Adhere each of these pieces to the white pieces.  Adhere the stripes paper on the white to the back of your card base.  Take one for floral pieces on white and adhere to the front half fold and the other to the inside center section.  Then take the 1 ½” long “Z” fold and adhere the long end to the front of your card and the short end to the back of your card to form your Double “Z” fold. 

Grab a piece of white card stock along with your Cloud Cover ink, Secret Sea Stampin’ Write marker and your Lovely Arrangements stamps and dies.  With the full flower stamp, tap your stamp onto your Cloud Cover ink and then take the marker and color the center and stamp on your white card stock.  Clean your stamp and repeat 3 more times.  Then do the same 4 times with the half flower.  Use your dies to cut these all out.  Then with some Old Olive card stock and the single and double leaf dies, cut two of each. 

Also stamp the “Thank You” and then the “So very much” underneath it, both in Cloud Cover Ink and use a label die to cut it out. 

To start building your flowers across your strip, adhere your label hanging above the strip, then adhere two full flowers and one half and a double leaf and two single leaves. 

Then adhere one full and one half to each of the small sections and divide your double leave into two singles and use one on each part.  The thing you may want to pay a little attention to, which I didn’t, is the flowers showing when the card it closed, but I don’t think it is a big deal, just mentioning if it will bother you. 

For the inside I used a label I had laying around as it was the perfect size, but I would say you can just cut a piece to 1 7/8” x 3” and adhere to the upper left side.  Then I adhere the last half flower to the bottom which looks like it is in the background of all the flowers on the strip and decorates your label.  This card turned out exactly as I picture I my head when I planned it, which is not usually the case. 

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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Framed Florets Bi-Fold Card

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This bi-fold card made with Fitting Florets designer series paper from Stampin’ Up turned out really cute.  I actually had two pre-cut and scored stepper card cut but didn’t want to make two so I used it to make this bi-fold card.  It used the Framed Florets stamps and dies as well. 

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)
  • Pre-cut label (unknown Stampin’ Up)
  • Night of Navy ink (Stampin’ Up)
  • Strawberry Slush and Pretty in Pink Gems
  • Paper trimmer
  • Adhesive of choice
  • Pop dots

From a piece of Night of Navy card stock, cut a card base to 5 ½ x 6 ½ and fold in half to 3 ¼” x 5 ½”.  Cut another piece to 3” x 6 ½” and fold in half to 3” x 3 ¼”.  From the Balmy Blue card stock cut a piece to 2 7/8” x 3 1/8” and another to 3 1/8” x 5 1/8”.  With a piece of white card stock cut a piece for the inside to 2 7/8” x 3 1/8”. 

Grab your Fitting Florets designer series paper pack and find the piece of Night of Navy with the Balmy Blue sprigs and pink berries.  Cut a piece to 2 ¾” x 3” and two pieces to 3” x 5 ¼” (there is a bit of a direction to this paper so you may want to pay attention).  Also find the piece that has the large floral groups on it and find the pink set and cut out with the die. 

Take the card base measuring 3 ¼” x 5 ½” and adhere one of the larger pieces of Balmy Blue to the front and then one of the larger pieces of the designer series paper.  Do the same for the inside back.  Then take your Night of Navy piece that you folded to 3” x 3 ¼” and adhere the Balmy Blue to the front and then the designer series paper piece, and adhere the white piece to the back of the inside. 

Take your small folded piece and put glue on 2” of the back and adhere to the inside of your larger piece in the center leaving 1” hanging off and 1” from the inside edge, making your card measure 4 ¼” x 5 ½”. 

Now take the pre-cut label (or any other label that works) and stamp the “Celebrate!” greeting angled on your label in Night of Navy ink and adhere with pop dots toward the upper left corner of your small front section.  Adhere the flower you die cut with po dots to the lower right corner, over the lower part of your label.  Add a few of the Strawberry Slush and Pretty In Pink Gems to decorate. 

For the inside stamp the “Wishes for a beautiful birthday” greeting in Night of Navy ink. 

There is an adorable birthday card for anyone in your life.

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

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Magical Meadows Winter Wishes Card

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I love how this card turned out, the Blueberry Bushel paper is usually a bit bright for me, but I love it with this paper and stamps.  The Winter Meadows designer series paper is one of my favorite holiday papers from Stampin’ Up.  The Magical Meadows stamps and dies are also just such great sets.

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

  • Blueberry Bushel card stock (Stampin’ Up)
  • White card stock
  • Winter Meadows designer series paper (Stampin’ Up)
  • Magical Meadows stamp set and dies (Stampin’ Up)
  • Rectangle label die (unknown)
  • Blueberry Bushel ink (Stampin’ Up)
  • Scoring board to scoring blade for paper trimmer
  • Adhesive-backed Pearls, the packages say Red and Green Adhesive-Backed Pearls but they are silver and gold, and I have more than one pack and they all say that (retired Stampin’ Up)
  • Paper trimmer
  • Adhesive of choice
  • Pop dots

From the Blueberry Bushel card stock cut a card base to 4 ¼” x 8 ¼”, and score at 2 ¾” and fold the short side to the front.  Then cut another piece to 2 ½” x 7”, then score at 3 ½” and fold in half.  From white card stock cut a piece to 2 ¼” x 3 ¼” for the inside of your card.  Take your Winter Meadows designer series paper and find the blue tree paper and also the Blueberry Bushel speckled paper.  From the tree paper cut a piece to 4” x 5 ¼” and another to 2 ½” x 4”.  From the Blueberry Bushel speckled paper cut a piece to 2 ¼” x 3 ¼”. 

Take your card base and your two tree pieces and adhere the smaller tree piece to the front panel and the larger tree panel to the inside.  Now take the smaller piece of Blueberry Bushel card stock and with the fold facing to the left adhere the back to the center of the large tree paper and then fold over the front of the smaller panel.  Adhere the white piece to the inside of the small, folded piece and adhere the Blueberry Bushel speckled paper to the front of the small, folded piece. 

Use a rectangle label die measuring about 2” x 3 1/8” to cut out your label from white card stock. Use the trees stamp from the Magical Meadow stamp set and stamp in the lower left corner of your label in Blueberry Bushel ink.  The stamp the “Winter Wishes” with Blueberry Bushel ink in the upper right corner of your label.  Adhere your label to the front of the small folded piece with pop dots.  Put a few random silver Adhesive-Backed Pearls around on the label. 

For the inside of your card use a scrap piece of Blueberry Bushel card stock and the two sizes of tree dies in the Magical Meadows dies and cut out one of each size.  Adhere these to the lower left corner on the white card stock on the inside of your card.  Then in Blueberry Bushel ink stamp the “may this season of sparkle bring joy and delight” greeting stamp in the upper center of the white inside.

Here is a really pretty holiday card to welcome the holidays to anyone!

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

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Gathering Together Thinking of You Leaf Stepper Card

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Fall is on its way so it is time for some fall cards.  This leaf stepper card fit right in using the Grateful Together designer series paper from Stampin’ Up and the Vintage Leaves stamps and dies. 

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

  • Basic Beige card stock (Stampin’ Up)
  • Cinnamon Cider card stock (retired Stampin’ Up)
  • Hello Honey card stock (retired Stampin’ Up)
  • Wild Wasabi card stock (retired Stampin’ Up)
  • Grateful Together designer series paper (September 2025 Online Exclusive Stampin’ Up)
  • Vintage Leave stamp set and dies (retired Stampin’ Up)
  • Soft Seedlings stamp set (retired Stampin’ Up)
  • Traditional Label Dies (Stampin’ Up)
  • Cajan Craze ink (Stampin’ Up)
  • Scoring board or trimmer scoring blade
  • Paper trimmer
  • Adhesive of choice
  • Pop dots

For the card base use your Basic Beige card stock and cut to 5 ½” x 11” and score at 2” x 4” x 7 ½” and fold all up.  Cut another piece to 3” x 5”.  From the Grateful Together designer series paper pack and find the Cajan Craze piece with the small leaf background and cut a piece to 1 ¾” x 5 ¼” and cut two pieces to 3 ¼” x 5 ¼”.  Adhere the small piece to the small front section of the card base, one of the larger pieces to the front of the back section and the other to the inside of your card.  Adhere your 3” x 5” Basic Beige piece to the inside on the Cajan Craze leaf piece. 

With the Vintage Leaves stamp set stamp three of the oak leaves on the Cinnamon Cider paper and cut out with the die.  From the Hello Hone stamp two of the maple leaves and cut out with the die and then two of the medium leaves and cut out with the dies..  Then with the Wild Wasabi stamp three of the smaller beech leaves and cut out with the die.  From a scrap piece of Basic Beige cut out a label with one of the Traditional Label Dies. 

Grab your Cajan Craze ink and the “Thinking of You” greeting from Soft Seedlings stamp set and stamp on your label.  Use the “so grateful” stamp and stamp on the inside Basic Beige piece you put on the inside of your card. 

Take one of your large maple leaves and adhere to the left side of the front step and one of the small green leaves to the right.  Use pop dots to adhere your label over the top of the leaves.  For the back portion of the card, adhere two of the Cinnamon Cider oak leaves to the back, making sure they don’t exceed the 4 ¼” height to fit into an envelope.  Then adhere the rest of the leaves around to your liking. 

Happy fall which you can say to anyone with this card. 

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

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Painterly Pears Double Z-Fold Card

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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. 

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Tent Fold Stepper Peaceful Garden Card

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I have seen a few of these online as ideas, but this one came from my Stampin’ Up upline in one of her Thursday night Facebook lives at My Stamping Style.  It was a really cute design that I hadn’t seen before, but I have now saw a few times since.  It folds into a normal 4 ¼” x 5 ½” card but forms a stand for a 4” x 4 ¼” card with a front step.    I used the Peaceful Gardens to make this charming card. 

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

  • Secret Sea card stock (Stampin’ Up)
  • Cloud Cover card stock (Stampin’ Up)
  • White card stock
  • Peaceful Garden designer series paper (Stampin’ Up)
  • Secret Sea ink (Stampin’ Up)
  • Hues of Blue flower embellishments (Stampin’ Up)
  • Scoring board or paper trimmer scoring blade
  • Paper trimmer
  • Adhesive of choice

With your Secret Sea card stock a piece to 4 ¼” x 11” and score at 4”, 8”, 9” and 10”.  From the 4” end, fold the 4” to the 8” score, fold the 9” score up and then the 10” score down.  With your Cloud Cover card stock, cut two pieces to 3 7/8” x 4 1/8” and a piece to 7/8” x 3 7/8”.  From the Peaceful Garden designers series paper, find the white hydrangea paper and cut a piece to 3 ¾” x 4”.  Then find the Cloud Cover paper and cut a piece to ¾” x 3 ¾”. 

Adhere one of the pieces of Cloud Cover to the front of the 4” x 4 ¼” fold up piece and then adhere the white hydrangea designer series paper.  Adhere the 7/8” x 4 1/8” piece of Coud Cover to the front of the step and then the Cloud Cover designer series paper piece to the front of that. 

Take a spare piece of Cloud Cover card stock and the small label from the Peace on Earth dies and cut a label, and then with the larger label die cut one from Secret Sea, adhere together.  From white card stock die cut the dove with wings up.  With the Peace on Earth stamp set and your Secret Sea ink stamp the “Sending” and “Heartfelt Prayers” together on your label.  Adhere the dove to the upper left of your label and add one large and two small flower embellishments from the Hues of Blue flower embellishments.  Adhere the label to the front of you step about ½’ up from the bottom of your step. 

With the second piece of Cloud Cover you cut, your Secret Sea ink and the “with deepest sympathy” greeting from the Peace on Earth stamp set.  Adhere to the inside of your card. 

That makes your Peaceful Garden Tent Fold Stepper card. 

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All cards are handmade and photos taken by DaisyChainFun.

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