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Painted Illusions Happy Birthday Pop-Up Blocks Card

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.

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All cards are handmade and photos taken by DaisyChainFun.

Queen Bee Pop-Up Frame Card

February 15, 2025 No Comments

I just love the Queen Bee stamp set from Stampin’ Up and I just had to have it, but and this is the first time I have actually used it so was really excited to make this card. With this pop-up frame fun fold card it was perfect and I love the way this card stands up when open and is decorated on both sides.

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

More Mustard card stock
Cinnamon Cider card stock
Old Olive card stock
Natural Beige card stock
Queen Bee stamp set and dies
Honeycomb die (if you don’t have one you could also do something with a honeycomb embossing folder)
Party Dots Stampin’ Up embellishments
More Mustard ink
Cinnamon Cider ink
Old Olive ink
Light Cinnamon Cider Stampin’ Blends
Scoring board of paper trimmer with scoring blade
Paper trimmer
Adhesive of choice
Mini Pop-Dots

Take your More Mustard card stock and cut in half the long way to 4 ¼” x 11”. Score at 1 ½” and at 5 ½” and fold both inward. Then cut a piece of More Mustard to 4 /4” x 5” and score at ½” and 4 ½”, then fold both sides up. Now take the Cinnamon Cider card stock and cut two pieces to 3 ¾” x 4” and cut another piece to 1 ¼” x 4”. Take the Natural Beige card stock and cut a piece to 3 ¾” x 4”.

Take your two pieces of Cinnamon Cider that you cut to 3 ¾” x 4” and your honeycomb die and cut out a corner of each. Take some spare of the Natural Beige card stock and the More Mustard ink, stamp the one of large queen bee stamp and the small bees and use the dies to cut each of them out. Also take the piece of Natural Beige card stock you cut to 3 ¾” x 4” and in the upper right corner with the piece going the long way and stamp one of the small bees. Take a spare piece of Natural Beige card stock and stamp “happy birthday” stacked in Cinnamon Cider and then use the label die to cut that out. Take the floral spray stamp and stamp that in Old Olive and then cut out with the die. Now take the Cinnamon Cider Stampin’ Blends pen and color the flowers.

Take your Old Olive card stock and cut one of the large curved leaves and six of the small leaves. Use a spare piece of the More Mustard card stock and cut out three large flowers and three small flowers. With your Party Dots embellishments, use three of the small yellow for centers on your small flowers and three of the large for centers of the larger flowers.

Now you have everything you need to assembly your card. Grab your 4 ¼” x 11” scored piece of More Mustard and let’s get it decorated. Take one of the Cinnamon Cider pieces with the honeycomb cut-out and adhere it to the front 4” x 4 ¼” section with the honeycomb cut-out in the upper left corner. Put a mini pop dot on the back of the small bee cut-out and adhere it in the upper right corner. Adhere the large curved leaves in the lower right corner along with one of the smaller leaves toward the middle. Put the “happy birthday” label over it and decorate with one large and one small flower.

In the 1 ½” x 4 ¼” section of your card front, adhere the 1 ¼ x 4” piece centered. Take three of the small die cut leaves and the floral spray and arrange and adhere center in this section, not going outside of the 1 ½” x 4 ¼” section.

Now take the 4 ¼” x 5” scored piece of the More Mustard card stock and adhere the second Cinnamon Cider honeycomb piece with the scored flaps folded down with the honeycomb in the lower right corner. Take one of the last two smaller leaves a adhere that and one small and one large flower in the upper right corner. Then take the last leaf die cut and one large flower and adhere in the lower left corner. Adhere the Queen Bee die cut image in the center area. Put glue on the upper flap and stick to the bottom of the 1 ½” x 4 ¼” piece to start to for your square frame. Then lay flat and put adhesive on the lower flap and fold the card shut to adhere in the correct place. Now take your little bee stamped piece of Natural Beige and adhere to the inside of your card. Adhere your last small flower in the lower left corner.

Now you have a beautiful birthday card to send to someone you care about.

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.