This simple, quick and easy card is made with Painted Illusions designer series paper from Stampin’ Up and is just so cute. It’s bright colors just make you smile. It has greetings from the Happiest of Birthdays stamp set.
To create this card, you just need a few things:
Darling Ducking card stock (2025-2027 In Color Stampin’ Up)
White card stock
Painted Illusions designer series paper (February 2026 Product of the Month Stampin’ Up)
Happiest of Birthdays stamp set (retired Stampin’ Up)
Darling Duckling ink (2025-2027 In Color Stampin’ Up)
Paper trimmer
Adhesive of choice
From a piece of Darling Duckling card stock cut the following:
5 1/5” x 8 ½” and fold in half for your card base
2 7/8” x 3 5/8” for the front label
1 5/8” x 3 3/8” for inside label
From white card stock cut the following:
4 1/8” x 5 3/8” for front
4” x 5 ¼” for inside
2 ¾” x 3 1/2” for the front label
1 ½” x 3 ¼” for the inside label
Take your Painted Illusions designer series paper pack and find the piece with the colorful waves and use a section that contains some of the Darling Ducking. Cut the piece to 4” x 5 ¼”.
Adhere the piece of white measuring 4 1/8” x 5 3/8” and then the piece of wave paper to the front of that. Take the piece of white cut to 2 ¾” x 3 ½” and stamp the “wishing you the happiest of birthdays” greeting in Darling Duckling ink. Adhere this to the piece of Darling Ducking measuring 2 7/8” x 3 5/8”. Now adhere this to the front of your card in the center.
For the inside of your card adhere the 4” x 5 ¼” to the inside back of your card. Take the white label and stamp the “it’s your day enjoy it!” in Darling Duckling ink. Adhere to the yellow label and then adhere to the inside of your card in the upper center.
What an easy, quick card for whenever you need a birthday card.
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This card design I have been looking at for a while and finally made, I am calling it a split frame card. This one is made with the Painted Illusions designer series paper from Stampin’ Up.
To create this card, you just need a few things:
Flirty Flamingo card stock (Stampin’ Up)
White card stock
Transparency clear sheet
Painted Illusions designer series paper (February 2026 Product of the Month Stampin’ Up)
Fabulous Saying stamp set (January 2025 Product of the Month Stampin’ Up)
From a piece of white card stock cut a card base to 5 ½” x 5 5/8” and score at 1 3/8”. Then cut a piece to 1 3/8” x 5 ½”, one to 1 1/8” x 3” and three to 1 3/8” x 1 3/8”. From a transparency or clear sheet cut a piece to 4 ¼” x 5 ½”. From the Painted Illusions designer series paper find the pink floral paper and then the swirl paper that has the blue floral back. From the swirl paper cut two pieces to 1 ¼” x 5 3/8” with a section of the pink included. From the pink floral piece cut a piece to 1 ¼” x 5 ½” and six pieces to 1 ¼” x 1 ¼”.
With the white card base, fold at the score mark. Take the transparency piece and adhere to the front of the 1 3/8” section, making sure you keep the adhesive away from the edge so it won’t show outside the paper boundaries, about 1/8” all the way around. Now adhere the white piece measuring 1 3/8” x 5 ½” and adhere that to the right side to the back of the transparency.
Take the white squares and three of the floral squares and adhere each floral square to the white squares. Adhere one to the top portion of the clear center strip, one to the bottom and then the third to the middle.
For the inside of the card adhere the other three floral squares to the triangles on the left side to cover the adhesive from the front. Adhere the floral strip to the left side of the card back. In Flirty Flamingo ink stamp the “happy birthday” greeting from the Fabulous Sayings stamp set to the white strip. Adhere to the center of the floral strip. Cut two of the small flower bunches from the Forever Florals dies and adhere one bunch to each end of your happy birthday greeting making sure they are on the white so the centers of the flowers are white.
The inside is as cute and the outside and this card design could be used for any occasion card.
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Welcome Spring! I was having a hard time coming up with a card today, but I am so happy with the one I finally came up with the double stack display style card and perfect for this early spring season. It uses the Flowering Rain Boots stamp set from Stampin’ Up and the Painted Illusions designer series paper.
To create this card, you just need a few things:
Darling Duckling card stock (2025-2027 In Color Stampin’ Up)
White card stock
Painted Illusions designer series paper (February 2026 Product of the Month Stampin’ Up)
Flowering Rain Boots stamp set and dies (retired Stampin’ Up)
Everything is Rosy (retired Stampin’ Up)
Darling Duckling ink (2025-2027 In Color Stampin’ Up)
From white card stock cut your card base to 4 ¼” x 5 ½” and a second to 4 ¼” x 11” and score at 2”, 3 ¾”, 7 ¼” and 9”, then fold in from the center and out on the outsides. Then cut one to 3 ½” x 3 ¾” for the front and a second to 3 3/8” x 3 ¾” for the back panel. From Darling Duckling to 3 ¾” x 4” for the front panel and another to 3 5/8” x 4” for the back panel. From Painted Illusions designer series paper find the piece gradiating from Darling Duckling. From the Darling Duckling section cut a piece to 3 ¼” 4” from the center inside panel.
Take the card base and adhere the center panel to the card base leaving 1” on each side. Adhere the designer series paper piece to the inside center. Adhere the smaller Darling Duckling piece to the right panel leaving 1/8” around the three sides. Adhere the other Darling Duckling piece to the left panel. Use some scrap Darling Duckling card stock and die cut out two of the trellis piece and trim down to 5 sections and repeat. Then adhere one of each to the white sides of the card base.
With some scrap white card stock stamp and die cut the following:
With Smoky Slate ink stamp the rain can and also a pair of the rain boots
From Darling Duckling ink stamp the daisy grouping and the tulip flowers
From Wild Wasabi ink stamp the seed pack and the tulip stems. Use the Light Darling Duckling Stampin’ Blends market to color in the daisy on the see pack.
Take the larger white panel and stamp the “live life in full bloom” greeting from the Flowering Rain Boots stamp set and stamp in the upper left corner in Wild Wasabi ink. Adhere the rain can to the lower right corner, adhere the daisy bunch to the top of the rain can with pop dots and the seed pack with pop dots in the lower left corner overlapping the bottom of the can slightly. Add one of the brass butterflies above the daisies. Adhere to the front left Darling Duckling panel.
For the right inside panel, take the other white panel and stamp the “time to celebrate all the lovely things in life starting with you” greeting from the Everything is Rosy stamp set in Wild Wasabi ink in the upper center. Add two of the brass butterflies. Adhere to the left lower Darling Duckling panel.
For the back center panel adhere the tulip steams to the top of the rain boots and adhere to the center panel over the designer series paper. Adhere the tulips to the top of the stems. Add two of the brass butterflies.
What a cheerfully Spring card.
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This floral stamp from the 2026 Virtual Card Making Retreat stamp set is just so pretty and stamps so clear. It seemed like the perfect option to go with this blue decorative paper from the Painted Illusions designer series paper from Stampin’ Up March Product of the Month. The small flowers match the flowers in the paper perfectly.
To create this card, you just need a few things:
Misty Moonlight card stock (Stampin’ Up)
White card stock
Painted Illusions designer series paper (March 2026 Product of the Month Stampin’ Up)
2026 Virtual Card Making Retreat stamp set (Stampin’ Up)
Stampin’ Blends
Light Flirty Flamingo Stampin’ Blend
Dark Daffodil Delight Stampin’ Blend
Light Granny Apple Green Stampin’ Blend
Misty Moonlight ink (Stampin’ Up)
Paper trimmer
Adhesive of choice
Pop dots
From a piece of Misty Moonlight card stock cut a card base to 5 ½” x 8 ½” and fold in half to 4 ¼” x 5 ½”. Cut another piece to 2 5/8” x 3 5/8”. With some white card stock cut two pieces to 4” x 5 ¼” and another to 2 ¾” x 3 ¾”, one to 1” x 3 5/8” and a last to ¾” x 3 5/8”. Take your Painted Illusions designer series paper pack and find the blue piece with the small flowers. Cut a piece to 3 7/8” x 5 1/8”.
Take your Misty Moonlight card base and adhere one of the white 4” x 5 ¼” pieces to the front. Then adhere the blue floral designer series paper piece. Adhere the 2 5/8” x 3 5/8” Misty Moonlight piece to the 2 ¾” x 3 ¾” piece of white and then adhere this to the center of the front of your card base.
With a scrap piece of white card stock and your Misty Moonlight ink stamp the large floral stamp from the 2026 Virtual Card Making Retreat stamp set. Ink the grouping of 2 small flowers and ink and stamp just that on your scrap white as well. Use your Light Flirty Flamingo Stampin’ Blends marker to color the small flowers. Color the flower centers in Dark Daffodil Delight Stampin’ Blends marker and the leaves in Light Granny Apple Green Stampin’ Blends marker. Use a pair of scissors to cut out the design and your three small flowers (cut to three individual flowers).
On the white strip you cut to ¾” x 3 5/8” stamp the Happy Birthday greeting in Misty Moonlight ink. On the white strip measuring 1” x 3 5/8” stamp the stripes strip in Misty Moonlight almost to the bottom, leaving about 1/16” of white at the bottom. Adhere the Happy Birthday strip to the top of the stripes strip. Adhere this toward the front of your card base at the bottom of the rectangle. Then use pop dots to adhere the floral piece. Use the three small pink flowers you cut out to adhere around the edge of your Happy Birthday.
For the inside of your card adhere the last white pieces to the inside of your card base. At the bottom of the white pieces stamp the stripes at the bottom in Misty Moonlight. Then stamp the “Love you” and “friend” stamps together for form “Love you friend” greeting stamped toward the top of the inside of your card.
What a pretty, cheerful, birthday card for any friend.
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I have looked at making this pop-up style card for a while and this paper from the Painted Illusions designer series paper from Stampin’ Up seemed perfect for it. I am not usually a fan of bright papers so breaking it up into small pieces with a calming background warmed it all up. I love how it turned out and while there was a bit more cutting that usual, especially since I did two layers, it really went together fairly fast.
To create this card, you just need a few things:
Lost Lagoon card stock (Stampin’ Up)
White card stock
Painted Illusions designer series paper (March 2026 Product of the Month Stampin’ Up)
2026 Virtual Card Making Retreat stamp set (Stampin’ Up)
Lost Lagoon ink (Stampin’ Up)
Paper trimmer
Adhesive of choice
From a piece of Lost Lagoon card stock cut these pieces:
A card base to 4 ¼” x 8 ½” and score at 1 ½” and 3”. Fold the middle small panel in and the outside small panel out to form a “z” fold.
3 ¼” x 4 ½” and score at 1 ¼”, 3”, and 4 ¼” and fold all inwards
2 ¼” x 3 ¾” and score at 1”, 2 ½” and 3 ½” and fold all inwards
1 ¼” x 3” and score at ¾”, 2” and 2 ¾” and fold all inwards
From white card stock cut the following:
Two pieces to 4 1/8” x 5 3/8” for the back of the card base and back panel
Two to 1 3/8” x 4 1/8”
1 5/8” x 3 1/8”
1 3/8” x 2 1/8”
1 1/8” x 1 1/8”
From the Painted Illusions designer series paper find the Lost Lagoon decorative piece and also the Lost Lagoon and Granny Apple Green “swooshy” piece. From the Lost Lagoon decorative piece cut a piece to 4” x 5 ¼”. From the swooshy piece cut the following:
Three pieces to 1 ¼” x 4”
1 ½” x 3”
1 ¼” x 2
1” x 1”
For one of the 1 ¼” x 4” and each of the other three, if you need a pattern to align, as I did, then cut them all from the same piece in order and then an even about off the top and bottom of the last three pieces.
Adhere the large white piece to the back panel of your card base and then the Lost Lagoon decorative piece to the top of that. Adhere your first 1 ¼” x 4” “swooshy” piece that starts your patterns that align to one of the white pieces measuring 1 3/8” x 4 1/8”, and then adhere that to the top of your front panel. Use one of the other two “ swooshy” pieces to adhere to one of the white pieces and adhere to the front of the middle panel.
Now time to create your steps. Adhere each of your smaller “swooshy” pieces to their appropriate white pieces and then adhere each to the second section of each of the appropriate steps. Take your largest step and adhere adhesive to the first panel, adhere in the center of the middle card base panel, then put adhesive on the ¼” section of the block, fold the third and fourth panel up and then fold your card down to find the appropriate spot, repeat for the next two sections.
With the large floral stamp with the three flowers and your Lost Lagoon ink, stamp them on a scrap piece of white. Color the leaves with the Light Garden Green Stampin’ Blends pen. Fussy cut out the three flowers and the colored leaves. Then stamp the “happy birthday” greeting and cut out a rectangle around it. Adhere the large flower to the bottom of the first panel with a single leaf and the triple leaves and then adhere the Happy Birthday greeting, angled up above the second and third pop-up blocks. Adhere the middle flower and one of the two leaves to the upper portion of the second panel and the small flower and two leaves to the fourth pane.
For the back of the card adhere the large piece of white to the back and then the last “swooshy” piece to the left side of the right. Stamp a birthday greeting in Lost Lagoon ink centered in the upper portion of the rest of the white. I used a stamp that says “wishing you a day of little treasures and simple pleasures, happy birthday” which is a single stamp I have had for a long time but don’t know who made it.
This card turned out so cute, and it is so out of my normal range, so I was so excited about 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.
