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Painterly Pears Golden Pears Thank You Card

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This lovely Painterly Pears thank you card is just so lovely with the glittery colored pears to make them shine.  It uses the Painterly Pears suite from Stampin’ Up.

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

  • Mossy Meadow card stock (Stampin’ Up)
  • Basic Beige card stock (Stampin’ Up)
  • Painterly Pears designer series paper (July 2025 Online Exclusive Stampin’ Up)
  • Perfectly Pears stamp set (July 2025 Online Exclusive Stampin’ Up)
  • Traditional Label Dies (August 2025 Online Exclusive Stampin’ Up)
  • Mossy Meadow and Gold Trim Ribbon (July 2025 Online Exclusive Stampin’ Up)
  • Mossy Meadow ink (Stampin’ Up)
  • Wink of Stella Glitter Brush (Stampin’ Up)
  • Paper trimmer
  • Adhesive of choice
  • Pop dots

With a piece of Mossy Meadow card stock cut a card base to 5 ½” x 8 ½” and fold in half to 4 ¼” x 5 ½”.  For the inside of your card cut a piece of Basic Beige card stock to 4” x 5 ¼”.  Then from your Painterly Pears designer series paper pack find the Basic Beige piece with the golden pears and cut a piece to 4” x 5 ¼” and then also fussy cut out one pear to decorate the inside of your card.  Take your piece of pear paper and color each of the pears with your Wink of Stella glitter pen to give them a nice shine. 

From the Mossy Meadow and Gold Trim ribbon cut a piece to 4” and another to 7 ½”.  Take the 4” piece and fold in half and adhere both ends about ½” apart about 1 “ up from the bottom of the paper.  Then feed the other piece through and fold in half as well have adhere to the back on the other side about ½” apart and up 1” from the bottom of your paper.  Then adhere this to the front of your card base. 

From a scrap piece of Basic Beige cut one of the oval shape smaller labels from the Traditional Label die set and then stamp a “Thank You” greeting from the Perfectly Pears stamp set.  Then cut the next size up from a scrap piece of Mossy meadow and adhere together.  Use pop dot and adhere your label over the ribbon to the right side on the front for your card. 

For the inside of your card adhere your Basic Beige piece.  From the Paper Tags stamp set find the “You are so very kind” stamp and stamp on the inside upper center in Mossy Meadow ink.  Adhere your cut out pear to the lower left corner and color your pear with some Wink of Stella for a bit of a shimmer. 

This glittery pear card is perfect to tell someone thank you for being so kind.

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 Green Themed Friend Card

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This layered card turned out so cute, I still am in love with this Painterly Pears designer series paper and the Perfectly Pears stamp and dies set from Stampin’ Up. 

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

  • Old Olive 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)
  • Traditional Label Dies (August 2025 Online Exclusive Stampin’ Up)
  • Corner rounder punch
  • Paper trimmer
  • Scissors
  • Adhesive of choice
  • Pop dots

With a piece of Old Olive card stock cut your card base to 5 ½” x 8 ½” and fold in half to 4 ¼” x 5 ½”.  Cut another piece to 2 ¼” x 4 5/8”.  From a piece of white card stock cut a piece for the inside of your card to 4” x 5 ¼”.  From the Painterly Pears designer series paper find the Old Olive Leaf piece and cut to 4” x 5 ¼”.  From the white paper with pear edges cut one of the edge pieces to 2” x 4 3/8”.  Use your corner rounder punch to round the four corners of each piece you just cut, including your card base. 

From some of the spare pear paper cut out one of the single reddish pears and one of the green double pears with a pair of scissors.  From a spare piece of white card stock stamp “A good friend is a gift” from the Perfectly Pears stamp set and stamp in Old Olive ink  Use the smaller decorative oval from Traditional Label dies to cut out the stamped white piece and the larger oval to cut out a piece of Old Olive card stock and also one of the branches with leaves dies.   

Adhere your green leaf designer series paper piece to the front of your card base.  Then adhere your white pear designer series paper piece to the Old Olive piece and adhere to the front of your card about ½” down from the top and about ¾” in from the left.  Then adhere your white oval label to the green one.  Tear up the sections of the leaves you cut and adhere around the back of your label for decoration, leaving one section to adhere to the lower right corner of your label.  Adhere your reddish pear you cut out with those last leaves in the lower right corner of the label.  Now adhere your label slightly below the middle on the right side of the front of your card. 

On the inside of your card adhere your white piece of card stock to the inside and adhere the double green pears you cut out to the lower left corner of the white piece.  Use the “So grateful” greeting from the Soft Seedlings stamp set and stamp on the upper center of the inside of your card in Old Olive ink.

I think this card is just so lovely, anyone would be so thrilled to receive it in the mail letting them know you are grateful for their friendship. 

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 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 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 Gift Box

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This is another gift box I created to fill with candy for a friend.  It was made with the Painterly Pear suite from Stampin’ Up and uses the Sizzix die called Bigz Die Box #3 and is big enough to hold a small gift for a handful of candy. 

To create the larger yellow box, you just need a few things:

  • Darling Duckling card stock (2025 – 2027 In Color Stampin’Up)
  • Mossy Meadow card stock (Stampin’ Up)
  • Night of Navy card stock (Stampin’ Up)
  • White card stock
  • Painterly Pear designer series paper (2025 Online Exclusive Stampin’ Up)
  • Perfectly Pears Stamps and Dies (2025 Online Exclusive Stampin’ Up)
  • Darling Duckling ink (2025 – 2027 In Color Stampin’ Up)
  • Night of Navy ink (Stampin’ Up)
  • Black Momento Ink (Stampin’ Up)
  • Blender Pens
    • Darling Duckling light and dark (Stampin’ Up)
    • Old Olive light and dark (Stampin’ Up)
    • Mossy Meadow light and dark (Stampin’ Up)
  • Sizzix Bigz Die Box #3
  • Bigz XL Matchbox Die (Retired Stampin’ Up)
  • Low Profile Sparkle Dots (2025 Online Exclusive Stampin’ Up)
  • Paper trimmer
  • Adhesive of choice

Take your two pieces of Darling Duckling card stock and cut to 4 pieces 5 ½” x 8 ½”.  With Sizzix Bigz Box #3 die cut two each of both box pieces. 

From the Painterly Pears designer series paper, find the Night of Navy pieces with the flowers and pear and cut a piece to 3 ¾” x 12”. 

Take one of the larger pieces and fold in at the two score marks, and one of the smaller pieces and fold the flaps in.  The two smaller pieces are the side, adhere three of the sides of each to the two pieces to form your box.  Take the designer series paper piece and put adhesive on the back.  Starting on the front of the box adhere to the center of the flap and start wrapping it around the box folding as you go.  Trim excess at the flap. 

Take a spare piece of white card stock, your Black Momento Ink and your small pear stamp outline and stamp.  Take your Darling Duckling ink and the inside small pear stamp and stamp inside.  Use your Mossey Meadow Blender Pens (light and dark) and color the leaves.  Use the Old Olive Blender Pens (light and dark) and if needed your Darling Duckling Blender Pens (Light and Dark) and shade the pears to your liking.  Use the die to cut them out. 

With the Bigz XL Matchbox Die cut one each of the three labels with a piece of Darling Duckling card stock and a piece of Night of Navy card stock.  Also cut out some of the tiny flowers with the Perfectly Pears dies.  With a spare piece of Mossy Meadow card stock cut some leaves for behind the flowers.  Take the small Darling Duckling labels you cut and stamp the “friend” greeting from the Perfectly Pears stamp set.  Adhere to one of the larger Night of Navy labels and then decorate the label with the pears, leaves and flowers and adhere to the top of your box. 

This gives you an adorable gift box to fill with a handful of candy or a small gift for a friend. 

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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Perfectly Pears Side Tower Pop-Up Card

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This cute tower pop-up card uses the Painterly Pears suite from Stampin’ Up for a great card for a good friend.    

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

  • Basic Beige card stock (Stampin’ Up)
  • Mossy Meadow card stock (Stampin’ Up)
  • Darling Duckling card stock (2025-2027 In Color Stampin’ Up)
  • Painterly Pears designer series paper (2025 Online Exclusive Stampin’ Up)
  • Darling Duckling ink (2025-2027 In Color Stampin’ Up)
  • Mossy Meadow ink (Stampin’ Up)
  • Blending Brushes (Stampin’ Up)
  • Petal Pink (Light and Dark)
  • Flirty Flamingo (Light and Dark)
  • Scoring board or paper trimmer scoring blade
  • Paper trimmer
  • Adhesive of choice
  • Pop dots

With your Basic Beige card stock cut your card base to 5 ½” x 7 ½” and score at 4 ¼”, 5 ¼”, 6 ¼” and 7 ¼” and fold your scored pieces in to form your tower.  Cut another piece to 3 ¼” x 4 ½” and score at 3 ¼” and 4 ¼”.  Cut a piece for the back of your card to 3” x 4 ¼”.  From Mossy Meadow card stock cut a piece to 3 ¼” x 4 ½”.  From your Painterly Pear designer series paper find the Mossy Meadow green piece and a piece to 4” x 5 ¼”, one to ¾” x 3” and three pieces to ¾” x 5 ¼”.  Then find the piece with the Basic Beige background and the yellow and orange pears.  Cut a piece of that to 3” x 3” and another for the back to 4” x 5 ¼”. 

Let’s assemble the pieces by starting with the 4” x 5 ¼” Mossy Meadow designer series paper to the back of your card base.  Then adhere each of the ¾” x 5 ¼” pieces to the back scored section of your card base.  Then put adhesive on the ¼” part and fold it in and then fold your other scored sections in half (2 x 2) and then adhere down to the back of the card base which will then fold up into your tower. 

Now take the other piece of Basic Beige and fold back the scored pieces.  Adhere the pear paper to the top of the large section and the ¾” x 3” to the side section.  Adhere the large section to the top of your box in the center of your card.  Then put adhesive on the ¼” section and stick down. 

Grab your Perfectly Pear stamp set and your Black Momento ink and stamp the outline of the pear and the an outline of the leaves (separately) on a spare piece of white card stock.  The with the Darling Duckling ink stamp the inside of the pear and with the Mossy Meadow ink stamp the inside of the leaves. 

Use the Perfectly Pear dies to cut out the pear and the leaves.  Take a spare piece of Mossy Meadow card stock and cut out a label and then some spare Darling Ducking card stock to cut out the hash.  Take the small tag die and stamp “Hello” on a piece of Basic Beige and then cut out with the die.  Adhere the hash to the label and then place.  Adhere the pear to the right side with pop dots and adhere the leaves to the pear.  Then with pop dots adhere the “Hello” to the left side crossing slightly onto your pear.  Adhere the label to the lower area of the card. 

Take your pear designer series paper and adhere to the back of your card.  Then adhere the Mossy Meadow piece.  With your Mossy Meadow ink and the “A good friend is a gift” stamp from the Perfectly Pears stamp set and stamp in the upper center of the Basic Beige card stock.  Adhere that to the Mossy Meadow piece. 

You have now made an adorable card to send to a friend 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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Painterly Pears Matchbox Candy Gift Box

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This is a cute little gift for a friend or loved one.  It was made with the Painterly Pear suite from Stampin’ Up.  It uses the Stampin’ Up Bigz XL Matchbox Die and nicely holds 4 pieces of Hershey Nuggets.   

To create the larger yellow box, you just need a few things:

  • Night of Navy card stock (Stampin’ Up)
  • Darling Duckling card stock (2025 – 2027 In Color Stampin’Up)
  • Mossy Meadow card stock (Stampin’ Up)
  • Painterly Pear designer series paper (2025 Online Exclusive Stampin’ Up)
  • Perfectly Pears Stamps and Dies (2025 Online Exclusive Stampin’ Up)
  • Mossy Meadow and Gold Trim Ribbon (2025 Online Exclusive Stampin’ Up)
  • Night of Navy ink (Stampin’ Up)
  • Bigz XL Matchbox Die (Retired Stampin’ Up)
  • Paper trimmer
  • Adhesive of choice

With your Night of Navy card stock and the Bigz XL Matchbox Die cut out your box and fold inward at the score marks to create your box.  The only piece you need adhesive for is the long straight one.  Get the more detailed on put together first which create your inside piece.  Then you can wrap it and add adhesive with the second piece for the outside.  With a piece of Darling Duckling card stock cut a piece to 2 ½” x 5 ¾”.  Then find the navy blue pear piece of paper from the Painterly Pear designer series paper pack and cut a piece to 2 ¼” x 5 ¾”.  Now wrap the outside of your box with the Darling Duckling and then the Navy pear paper. 

With the Mossy Meadow and Gold Trim ribbon, wrap the box and tie a knot.  Take one of the Navy bigger labels that you cut with the die and then also cut one of the smallest one’s from Darling Duckling.   From a scrap piece of Mossy Meadow cut out some leaves with the leaf die from the Perfectly Pears dies. 

With your small Darling Duckling label, Night of Navy ink and the “Hello” greeting from the Perfectly Pears stamp set stamp your label.  Adhere the label to the Night of Navy label and then to your box.  Now cut out the small flowers from the die in the Perfectly Pears die set.  Arrange the flowers in a two groups and add a few leaves in the background. 

Add four pieces of Hershey’s Nugget candy or other candy to fill the box and now it is a great gift for a friend or loved one.    

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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Painterly Pears Angled Gate Fold Card

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This angled gate fold card evolved into a different card than it started as, but I am now happy with it.  This Painterly Pair suite is quickly becoming one of my favorites from Stampin’ Up as I just love the colors, they fall right in my wheelhouse, and the papers are so pretty.   

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

  • Petal Pink card stock (Stampin’ Up)
  • White card stock
  • Painterly Pears designer series paper (July 2025 Online Exclusive Stampin’ Up)
  • Perfectly Pears stamps and dies (Stampin’ Up)
  • Free as a Bird stamp set (Retired Stampin’ Up)
  • Ink
    • Darling Duckling ink (2025-2027 In Color Stampin’ Up)
    • Old Olve ink (Stampin’ Up)
    • Black Momento ink (Stampin’ Up)
  • Blender Pens (Stampin’ Up)
    • Petal Pink (dark)
    • Old Olive (light and dark)
    • Mossy Meadow (light)
    • Pecan Pie (Dark)
  • Scoring board or paper trimmer scoring blade
  • Paper trimmer
  • Adhesive of choice
  • Pop dots

With so me Petal Pink card stock cut the back card base to 5” x 5 ½” and score at 3/8” and 4 5/8” and fold both side up and in.  Cut two pieces to 4 ¼” x 5 ½” and score both at 2 1/8”.  Mark down 2” and cut your angle and do the opposite direction with the other piece.  From the white card stock cut two pieces to 1 7/8” x 5 ¼” and angle to match the inside angles. 

Take your Painterly Pear designer series paper and find the white sheet with the pears and pink flowers, cut a piece to 4” x 5 ¼” for the back of your card.  Find the Petal Pink piece with the small designs and cut two pieces to 1 7/8” x 5 ¼” and angle to match the front back panels.  Now get the Petal Pink piece with pears and flowers and cut that to 1 7/8” x 4 ¼” and angle to match the front two panels. 

With a scrap piece of white card stock and your black Momento ink, find the small pear outline stamp and stamp on your card stock.  Then with Darling Duckling ink stamp the inside stamp to color your pears and give them some dimension.  With your Pecan Pie Dark Blender Pen color the tree branch.  For the leaves I colored them with the Old Olive Dark Blender Pen and then outlined the lower halves of them with the Mossy Meadow Dark Blender Pen.  For the pears I blended colors from the outside lower edge in with Mossy Meadow Light, Old Olive Light and then Petal Pink Dark Blender Pens leaving the edges jagged instead of solid for more dimension. 

Take a scrap piece of Petal Pink and die cut out a label that is about 1” x 2”.  Adhere the pears to the left side.  Take a label from the Perfect Pears dies and cut, then stamp the “A Good Friend is a gift” in Old Olive ink.  Adhere that with pop dots to the right side of the label, overlapping the pears slightly. 

Now start building your card by taking the Petal Pink card base and each of the Petal Pink angled pieces and adhere one of the angled pieces to each side on the two tabs.  Cut the tabs where they hang out over the angle.  Fold each side out at the score to form your angled gate fold.  Now adhere your tag to the left front panel of your card with the other half hanging over the other panel (but not adhered to the panel). 

Now open the card and adhere each of the white pieces to each side of the white pear paper.  With the Free as a Bird stamp set and Old Olive ink, stamp the “your friendship means the world to me” greeting on the left white panel, and the “thanks for being you” greeting no the right white panel. 

This card started with a belly-band wrapped in the Mossy Meadow and Gold Trim ribbon and a label on it layered with more stuff and it was just too much on the card so I changed it over to the label.  You could still do a belly-band but I would keep it fairly plain if you do.  I am now in love with this card and I always love gate fold cards. 

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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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. 

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All cards are handmade and photos taken by DaisyChainFun.

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