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Painterly Pears Secret Sea Friend Card

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This Secret Sea Pear paper from the Painterly Pears designer series paper from Stampin’ Up is one of my favorites right now and just makes such elegant looking cards. 

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)
  • White card stock
  • Perfectly Pears designer series paper (July 2025 Online Exclusive Stampin’ Up)
  • Perfectly Pears stamp set (2025-2027 Online Exclusive Stampin’ Up)
  • Secret Sea ink (2025-2027 In Colors Stampin’ Up)
  • Paper trimmer
  • Adhesive of choice

Take a piece of Secret Sea card stock and cut a card base of 5 ½” x 8 ½” and fold in half to form your card base of 4 ¼” x 8 ½”.  From your Darling Duckling card stock cut two pieces to 4 1/8” x 5 3/8” and another to 1 5/8” x 4”.  Then from your white card stock cut a piece to 4” x 5 ¼” for the inside of your card. 

With your Painterly Pears designer series paper find the Secret Sea pear piece and cut to 4” x 5 ¼”.  Then find the piece that has the pears around the outside with the white center and cut a piece from the left edge that has a pear or design you would like that fits to the right with white space left to the left for your greeting and cut to 1 ½” x 4”. 

Adhere one of your Darling Duckling 4 1/8” x 5 3/8” pieces to the front of your card and then adhere your Secret Sea pear paper to that.  The take the smaller piece of Darling Duckling paper and adhere across the front of your card, slightly toward the top.  Take the white pear piece and adhere to that.

Find the “A good friend is a gift” greeting from the Perfectly Pears stamp set and with your Secret Sea ink stamp on the white portion of your white pear paper.

For the inside of your card adhere your Darling Duckling piece to the inside and then your white piece onto that.  From a scrap piece of your white pear paper cut out one of the larger pears with some of the flowers around it and adhere to the lower right corner. 

This is a great card to give a friend so say 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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Painterly Pear Pink Hello Card

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This card turned out really cute with the pink Painterly Pear designer series paper from Stampin’ Up.  It is just so bright and cheery with the petal pink background and I just love the colors.

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

  • Mossy Meadow card stock (Stampin’ Up)
  • Petal Pink card stock (Stampin’ Up)
  • White card stock
  • Painterly Pears designer series paper (July 2025 Online Exclusive Stampin’ Up)
  • Perfectly Pears stamp set and dies (July 2025 Online Exclusive Stampin’ Up)
  • Paper Tags stamp set (2025 Online Exclusive Stampin’ Up)
  • Mossy Meadow ink (Stampin’ Up)
  • Old Olive ink (Stampin’ Up)
  • Darling Duckling ink (2025-2027 In Colors Stampin’ Up)
  • Soft Suede ink (retired Stampin; Up)
  • Mossy Meadow Stampin’ Blends (Stampin’ Up)
  • Petal Pink Stampin’ Blends (Stampin’ Up)
  • Low-Profile Sparkle Dots (July 2025 Online Exclusive Stampin’ Up)
  • Paper trimmer
  • Adhesive of choice
  • Pop dots

With your Mossy Meadow 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 4”.  From your Petal Pink card stock cut a piece to 2 ½” x 4” and another for the inside to 4 1/8” x 5 3/8”.  Then from the pink piece of paper from the designer series paper from the Painterly Pears designer series paper pack cut a piece to 4” x 5 ¼”.  Cut a piece of white card stock for the inside to 4” x 5 ¼”. 

With the Perfectly Pears large pear outline stamp and the Mossy Meadow ink stamp two pears on some white card stock.  Then take the large pear inside stamp and first stamp in Old Olive ink and then again in Darling Duckling ink a little off-set so it shows along the edges.  Then stamp two of the stem and leaves in Mossy Meadow.  Use the dies to cut them out.  Then with your Petal Pink Stampin’ Blends add a little pink coloring to the pears.  From a piece of Darling Duckling card stock and Darling Duckling ink stamp one of the three flowers.  Then with the Soft Suede ink and the flower centers stamp them.  Use the die to cut out the flowers and also one of the hash pieces.  With a scrap piece of white card stock and the Mossy Meadow ink stamp Hello and use the small label die to cut out. 

Now let’s build your card.  Start with your Mossy Meadow card base and adhere the Pink Pear designer series paper to the front.  Then adhere the Mossy Meadow 2 5/8” x 4” piece in the center and adhere the pink 2 ½” x 4” piece onto that.  Take the Darling Duckling hash piece and adhere down about ½” from the top.  Then adhere your pear on the right along with the stem and leaves and then adhere the second pear to the left with stem and leaves using pop dots.  Use pop dots to adhere your flowers in the lower right corner.  With pop dots adhere your hello over the Darling Duckling hash.  Then with the Low-Profile Sparkle Dots decorate around in the Mossy Meadow dots. 

For the inside of your card adhere your Petal Pink piece to the inside of your card and then the white inside piece to it.  From the Paper Tags stamp set and your Mossy Meadow ink, find the “it’s a wonderful day to celebrate you” greeting stamp and stamp on the inside upper center.

This card turned out so pretty and I love the Paper Tags stamp on the inside.  It is just a great card to say hello to a friend you haven’t talked to in a bit.

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 Many Thanks Card

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The Painterly Pears designer series paper from Stampin’ Up is one of my favorites or recent.  This paper makes a card so easy and quick it is a great go to if you need a card fast. 

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

  • Darling Duckling card stock (2025-2027 In Colors Stampin’ Up)
  • White card stock
  • Painterly Pears designer series paper (July 2025 Online Exclusive Stampin’ Up)
  • Gathering Moments stamp set (September 2025 Online Exclusive Stampin’ Up)
  • Mossy Meadow Ink (Stampin’ Up)
  • Low-Profile Sparkle Dots (July 2025 Online Exclusive Stampin’ Up)
  • Paper trimmer
  • Adhesive of choice

With your Darling Duckling card stock cut a card base to 5 ½” x 8 ½” and fold in half to 4 ¼” x 5 ½”.  From your white card stock cut a piece for the inside of your card to 4” x 5 ¼”.  From the Painterly Pears designer series paper pack find the piece with the pears decorating around the edges and cut the lower right corner out to 4” x 5 ¼”. 

Take your Gathering Moments stamp set and your Mossy Meadow ink and stamp the “Many Thanks” in the upper left on the white portion of your designer series paper.  Adhere to the front of your card. 

With the Low-Profile Sparkle Dots, adhere three of the Darling Duckling colored dots around your greeting in the white space.

For the inside of your card take your white card stock piece and your “Expressing heartfelt gratitude” stamp from the Gathering Moments stamp sent and stamp in the upper center in Mossy Meadow ink.  Find the piece of designer series paper that has the yellow florets and cut one out and adhere to the lower left.

This gives you a bright and cheery thank you card for anyone you need to say a bit of thanks to. 

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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Painterly Pears Hello Card

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I am in love with this card and how it turned out with the Painterly Pairs suite from Stampin’ Up, and I like the fold as well, it all worked perfectly.  I am pretty sure this is going to be one of my new favorites and the papers are just beautiful and in my color palette.  

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

  • Darling Duckling card stock (2025-2027 In Color Stampin’ Up)
  • White card stock
  • Painterly Pears designer series paper (July 2025 Online Exclusive Stampin’ Up)
  • Perfectly Pears stamp set and dies (July 2025 Online Exclusive Stampin’ Up)
  • Inks
    • Darling Ducking ink (2025-2027 In Color Stampin Up)
    • Old Olive ink (Stampin’ Up)
    • Pecan Pie ink (Stampin’ Up)
    • Momento Black Ink (Stampin’ Up)
  • Blender Pens (Stampin’ Up)
    • Darling Ducking (light and dark)
    • Old Olive (light and dark)
    • Mossy Meadow (light and dark)
    • Pecan Pie (light)
  • Mossy Meadow and Gold Trim ribbon (Stampin’ Up)
  • Scoring board or paper trimmer scoring blade
  • Paper trimmer
  • Adhesive of choice

From the Darling Ducking card stock cut a card base to 5 ½” x 8 ½” and score at 1 ¼” and 5 ½” and fold both ends up.  With your white card stock cut a piece for the inside to 4” x 5 ¼”.  From the Painterly Pears designer series paper, find the piece of Darling Duckling paper with the pears and the piece with the pink lined grids.  From the pears piece cut a piece to 2 ¾” x 5 ¼” and then from the grid paper cut a piece to 1” x 5 ¼”. 

Grab some spare white card stock and your black Momento ink and stamp two of the small pears and one of the group of three flowers.  For the small pears, take your Darling Duckling ink and the small pear inside stamp and stamp the inside of the pears.  Then use your Old Olive Blender Pen light and do some shading and then with the Mossy Meadow light a bit more.  For the branch color with the Pecan Pie light and for the leaves I colored them in Old Olive Light and Mossy Meadow dark.  For the flower bunch I just used the full flower and cut it apart from the others.  Then I used the center stamp with Pecan Pie ink and stamped the center.  Then I used Darling Duckling Blender pens, light for the full flower and then dark coming in a bit from the center for highlights. 

With some spare Darling Duckling card stock use the label die from the Perfect Pears die set to cut the large label.  On another spare piece find the “Hello” greeting from the Perfect Pears stamp set and stamp in Old Olive ink.  Use the small square label die to cut that out.  Now take a spare piece of Old Olive card stock and cut out the hash design die and also a stem of leaves. 

Grab your Darling Duckling card base and adhere to pears paper to the right side and the grid paper to the left side.  Take the Mossy Meadow and Gold Trim ribbon and wrap around the inside of your card and tie in a knot and position to the right side of your card. 

Now take the Darling Duckling large label you cut and let’s get that decorated.  Start by adhering the hash cutout toward the left side of the label.  Take your leaves cut-out and break it up into two pieces and then take one leaf off to use with your flower.  Adhere the leaves to the back of one of your stamped pears sets and then use pop dots to adhere you pears to the right side of your tag.  Adhere the single leaf you saved to the back of your flower and then adhere your flower to the upper right of the tag.  Then use pop dots to adhere your hello in the space left over the hash cutout.  Put adhesive to the left side of your tag and adhere to the lower front of your card with the adhesive side on the pear paper section. 

For the inside, take the piece of white card stock you cut earlier and adhere your other set of pears in the lower right corner and then adhere to the inside of your card.

That finishes off your Perfect Pears card to send out to someone just to say hello. 

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.

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