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Waterside Retreat Fish Birthday Stepper Card

The Waterside Retreat designer series paper contains some great masculine paper, including this fish and wave paper that make up this great card. Then you add in the anchor embellishment also from Stampin’ Up and what an adorable stepper card.

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

Misty Moonlight card stock (Stampin’ Up)
White card stock
Waterside Retreat designer series paper (2026 Annual Catalog Stampin’ Up)
Relaxing Waterside stamp set and dies (2026 Annual Catalog Stampin’ Up)
Cloud Cover ink (2025-2027 In Color Stampin’ Up)
Loose Anchor Trinkets (2026 Annual Catalog Stampin’ Up)
Paper trimmer
Adhesive of choice

For this stepper card, cut a card base from Misty Moonlight card stock to 4 ¼” x 11” and score at 3 ½”, 7” and 9”. Cut another piece to 2 ¾” x 4”. From white card stock cut a 4” x 5 ¼” piece, one to 3 ¼ x 4” for the back of your card, one to 2 ½” x 3 ¾” and one to 1 ¾” x 4”. Now take your Waterside Retreat designer series paper pack and find the wave paper and the fish paper. From the wave paper cut a piece to 3 ¾” x 5” and another to ½” x 3 ¾”. Then from the fish paper cut a piece to 2 ¼” x 3 ½”, making sure you are capturing your fish the way you want.

Fold you card base into an “M” shape with the larger section to the back. Take the white pieces measuring 4” x 5 ¼” and adhere the wave piece that is 3 ¾” x 5” and then adhere it to the front of the larger section of your card base leaving 1/8” on all three sides. Now adhere the small wave piece to the small white piece and adhere that to the front of the small section.

Now take the other piece of Misty Moonlight and adhere to white piece measure 2 ½” x 3 ¾” to it and then the fish piece to the front of the white portion. Now adhere this over you wave paper on the small section centered among both sections. Take the “have a great birthday” greeting stamp from the Relaxing Waterside stamp set and stamp on white card stock in Cloud Cover ink Cut out to a rectangle and cut out a “v” section at the right end to form a flag label. Add a wave into your flag and adhere the left and right sides at the bottom of your fish paper. Then adhere your anchor embellishment to the left side of your label.

For the back of your card adhere the 3 ¼” x 4” white piece to the back of your card on the Misty Moonlight section. Use the “today is your day” stamp from the Relaxing Waterside stamp set and stamp in Cloud Cover ink in the upper center.

Great birthday card for the men in your life.

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All cards are handmade and photos taken by DaisyChainFun.

Wood Grain Wonders Scalloped Wishes Card

The cat tails in the new Scalloped Wishes stamp set is a must have for masculine or outdoor cards, not to mention the adorable little dragonfly. The new Wood Grain Wonders paper from Stampin’ Up is the perfect match to go with it. This is a quick and easy card for any occasion.

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

Basic Beige card stock (Stampin’ Up)
Wood Grain Wonders designer series paper (March 2026 Online Exclusive Stampin’ Up)
Scalloped Wishes stamp set and dies (March 2026 Online Exclusive Stampin’ Up)
Early Expresso ink (Stampin’ Up)
Mossy Meadow ink (Stampin’ Up)
Early Expresso Stampin’ Write Marker (Retired Stampin’ Up)
Bakers Twine (Stampin’ Up)
Antiquing Tools – Rough Edge Blade (Retired Stampin’ Up)
Sponge piece (Retired Stampin’ Up)
Paper trimmer
Adhesive of choice
Pop dots

From your Basic Beige card stock cut a base to 5 ½” x 8 ½” and fold in half to 4 ¼” x 5 ½”. With the Wood Grain Wonders designer series paper find one of the Early Expresso dark colored pieces and cut it to 4” x 5 ¼”.

Take your antiquing tools, take the gray one and scrape across all four edges of your wood grain piece to rough them. Then take a piece of a sponge and your Early Expresso ink and sponge ink over the edges of your wood grain piece and also the front of your card base.

From the Scalloped Wishes dies, find the smaller of the two scalloped dies and use that to cut out of the upper portion of the wood grain paper. Then with your Bakers Twine, cut four pieces to about 6” each and tie the together with a knot in the middle. Adhere your knot to the center of the lower portion of your card and divide one set of four into two that you pull up and two you pull down and adhere them on the back, repeat for the other side. Align this on the front of your card (not adhering) and use Early Expresso ink to stamp your greeting in the window so you know it lines up properly, I used the “so very happy for you” greeting from the Scalloped Wishes.

Grab a scrap piece of Basic Beige card stock and your Mossy Meadow ink and stamp the small dragonfly and cut out with the die. Then ink the cat tails in the Mossy Meadow ink and use your Early Expresso Stampin’ Write marker to color the three cat tail tops and then stamp on Basic Beige and cut out with the die. Adhere to cat tails to the left side of the scallop cut out on your wood grain paper, and the dragonfly in the upper right corner above your scallop cut out. Use pop dots to adhere this to the front of your card base.

For the inside stamp the dragonfly in Mossy Meadow ink in the upper right corner and the cat tails (repeating the coloring process) in the lower left corner.

What and easy card for any occasion for those men in your life.

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.