Cards, Papercrafting

Mixed Floral Tulips Card

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I wanted to use the oval die with dots from the Impressions Abloom dies to create a window for the tulips from the Mixed Florals stamps so created this card to send to a friend, so here is the results.   

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

  • Petal Pink card stock (Stampin’ Up)
  • Granny Apple Green card stock (Stampin’ Up)
  • White card stock
  • Mixed Media Florals designer series paper (Stampin’ Up)
  • Mixed Florals Stamps and Dies (Stampin’ Up)
  • Mixed Labels Stamps and Dies (Stampin’ Up)
  • Impressions Abloom Oval Die (Stampin’ Up)
  • Black StazOn ink
  • Stampin’ Blends Markers (Stampin’ Up)
    • Petal Pink Light and Dark
    • Calypso Coral Light
    • Granny Apple Green Dark
  • Scoring board or paper trimmer scoring blade
  • Paper trimmer
  • Adhesive of choice
  • Pop dots

Take a piece of Petal Pink card stock and cut it to 4 ¼” x 11”, scored at 5 ½” and folded in half.  Cut another piece to 3 ½” x 4 ¾”.  With your white card stock cut a piece for the inside of your card measuring 4” x 5 ¼”.  Find the green leafy piece of card stock that has the mini pink flowers and cut a piece to 4” x 5 ¼”. 

With the oval dotted die from the Impressions Abloom dies and the Petal Pink piece you cut to 3 ½” x 4 ¾” and cut the oval out of the center. 

Take a spare piece of white card stock, your Black StazOn in and the large tulips stamp from the Mixed Florals set and stamp.  With your Stampin’ Blends use the light Petal Pink to color the tulips and then the dark to highlight.  Use the Granny Apple Green to color the stems and leaves and the Calypso Coral to color the small flowers.  Use the die to cut out the colored image.  Take your piece of Granny Apple green paper and cut out two of the large leaves background with the die from the Mixed Florals dies. 

Find your designer series paper piece you cut and adhere it to the front of your Petal Pink card base.  Take the frame you cut the oval from and insert the dotted oval you cut into the center as you are going to use both pieces.  Arrange the tulips in your oval window where you like it making sure it all fits within the card size and adhere the bottom of the tulips to the back of your oval.  Then arrange and adhere the two grass cut-outs behind the tulips to your liking, again making sure it all fits within your card size, and adhere those to the back of the oval piece as well.  Now adhere your oval piece to the front of your card. 

With a spare piece of white card stock stamp the “For a great friend” greeting and cut out with the medium label die in the Mixed Labels dies.  Adhere to the lower left of your card front with pop dots to set it up a bit to stand out. 

For the inside take the white card stock piece you cut and stamp the “Just a not to let you know you’re on my mind” greeting from the Mixed Labels stamp set with the Black StazOn ink toward the top and then the dainty flower stamp in the lower left corner.  Use your Calypso Coral Light Stampin’ Blends to color in the flowers and your Granny Apple Green Dark Stampin’s Blends to outline the stems.  Adhere to the inside of your card.

You now have a cheerful, lovely card to send to a friend to let them know your are thinking of them. 

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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Mixed Floral Z-Fold Pop-Up Card

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This is a z-fold card, but with a pop-up twist, so there is a middle layer that pops up when you start to open the card.  I love the colors, I saw someone else use them for a card so I decided to use the colors to make this style card. 

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

  • Pretty in Pink card stock (Stampin’ Up)
  • White card stock
  • Mixed Floral designer series paper (Stampin’ Up)
  • Jet Black Staz-On ink
  • Stampin’ Blends (Stampin’ Up)
    • Pretty in Pink Light
    • Pretty in Pink Dark
    • Mint Macaroon Dark
    • Lemon Lolly Light
    • Lemon Lolly Dark
  • Scoring board or paper trimmer scoring blade
  • Paper trimmer
  • Adhesive of choice

With the Pretty in Pink card stock cut a card base to 5 ½” x 8 ½” then score at 2 1/8 and 4 ¼” and fold the card in half and the fold the front quarter forward to form your z-fold.  Cut another piece with the Pretty in Pink to 2 ¾” x 4 ¼”.  With your white card stock cut a piece to 2” x 4 1/8”, one to 4 3/8” x 4 5/8” and a third piece to 2 5/8” x 4 1/8” and lastly one to 2 ½” x 3” scored at ½”, 1 ¼” and 2”.   With the black floral designer series paper from the Mixed Floral designer series paper pack.  Cut a piece to 4 x 5 ¼” and a second to 1 7/8” x 4”.

Take the coneflower stamp from the Mixed Florals set and the Jet Black Staz-On ink and stamp on to a spare piece of white card stock.  Color the leaves with the Mint Macaroon dark Stampin’ Blends, the dainty flowers and large flower centers with the Lemon Lolly light and dark Stampin’ Blends and the large flowers with the light and dark Pretty in Pink Stampin Blends.  With the white piece measuring 2 5/8” x 4 1/8” and stamps from the Mixed Labels stamp set stamp the dainty flower stamp once or twice in the lower left corner and the “I’m so glad we’re friends” greeting in the upper left corner. 

Now let’s assemble the card.  Adhere the white piece of card stock measuring 4 1/8” x 5 3/8” to the back of the card, and the black floral piece measuring 4” x 5 ¼” to the white card stock piece. 

With the 2 ½” x 3” scored piece, fold into a square.  Put adhesive on the top of the right side of ½” part.  Fold in half with the glue half down, line up with the middle fold so it will lay flat with card closed.  The put adhesive on the upper ½” section and fold card onto it again making sure it all lays flat.  Take the Pretty in Pink piece and adhere your stamped white piece to it.  Put adhesive on the top of your box piece and adhere this greeting piece to it centered. 

Take the last white piece and adhere the black floral piece to that and adhere to the front of the card.  Glue your large colored flowers to the front with it partially hanging of toward the center and making sure your greeting is covered. 

That gives you the pop-up z-fold card in these lovely pops of pink with the black background. 

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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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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