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Waterside Retreat Oceanside Items Card

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This birthday card is a great card for any man in your life.  It is made with the Waterside Retreat designer series paper and Relaxing Waterside stamps and dies from Stampin’ Up.  The adorable anchor trinkets that go with this set add a great addition. 

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

  • Pool Party card stock (Stampin’ Up)
  • White card stock
  • Waterside Retreat designer series paper (2026 Annual Catalog Stampin’ Up)
  • Relaxing Waterside stamp set and dies (2026 Annual Catalog Stampin’ Up)
  • Pool Party ink (Stampin’ Up)
  • Crumb Cake ink (Stampin’ Up)
  • Loose Anchor Trinkets (2026 Annual Catalog Stampin’ Up)
  • Paper trimmer
  • Adhesive of choice
  • Pop dots

From a piece of Pool Party card stock cut a card base to 5 ½” x 8 ½” and fold in half.  Take a piece of white card stock and cut a piece for the inside of your card to 4” x 5 ¼” and adhere to the inside of your card.  Then take your Waterside Retreat designer series paper and find the bool party striped piece and cut a piece to 4” x 5 ¼” for the front of your card.  Adhere this piece to the front of your card. 

Also in the Waterside Retreat designer series paper pack find the piece with the cutout, the buoys and the life jackets and paddles.  From the cutouts piece cut out the Pool Party colored shell piece.  Then on the buoys page cut out two buoys in colors of your choice to patch your papers.  And from the life jacket and paddles page cut out a life jacket that matches your paper and then cut out one of the double paddles. 

Adhere the shell cut out piece to the front center of your card.  Adhere the paddles to the right side of the shell and then the life jacket over the paddles raised with pop dots.  On the right side adhere to the buoys together with raised up with pop dots.  Then take one of the anchor trinkets and adhere in the upper left corner over the buoys. 

Take a scrap piece of white card stock and stamp the “today is your day” greeting in pool party ink, then trim down and cut the end to form a flag.  Then stamp the seagull in Crumb Cake ink and cut out with the die.  Adhere to flag label to the top of your shell cut out and then adhere the seagull on the left end. 

For the inside of your card stamp the “have a great birthday” greeting in Pool Party ink in the upper center.  Then with the Crumb Cake ink stamp the flying seagull in the upper right corner and the larger grass in the lower left corner. 

What a great birthday card for any guy in your life.

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.

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Waterside Retreat Fish Birthday Stepper Card

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The Waterside Retreat designer series paper contains some great masculine paper, including this fish and wave paper that make up this great card.  Then you add in the anchor embellishment also from Stampin’ Up and what an adorable stepper card.

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

  • Misty Moonlight card stock (Stampin’ Up)
  • White card stock
  • Waterside Retreat designer series paper (2026 Annual Catalog Stampin’ Up)
  • Relaxing Waterside stamp set and dies (2026 Annual Catalog Stampin’ Up)
  • Cloud Cover ink (2025-2027 In Color Stampin’ Up)
  • Loose Anchor Trinkets (2026 Annual Catalog Stampin’ Up)
  • Paper trimmer
  • Adhesive of choice

For this stepper card, cut a card base from Misty Moonlight card stock to 4 ¼” x 11” and score at 3 ½”, 7” and 9”.  Cut another piece to 2 ¾” x 4”.  From white card stock cut a 4” x 5 ¼” piece, one to 3 ¼ x 4” for the back of your card, one to 2 ½” x 3 ¾” and one to 1 ¾” x 4”.  Now take your Waterside Retreat designer series paper pack and find the wave paper and the fish paper.  From the wave paper cut a piece to 3 ¾” x 5” and another to ½” x 3 ¾”.  Then from the fish paper cut a piece to 2 ¼” x 3 ½”, making sure you are capturing your fish the way you want. 

Fold you card base into an “M” shape with the larger section to the back.  Take the white pieces measuring 4” x 5 ¼” and adhere the wave piece that is 3 ¾” x 5” and then adhere it to the front of the larger section of your card base leaving 1/8” on all three sides.  Now adhere the small wave piece to the small white piece and adhere that to the front of the small section. 

Now take the other piece of Misty Moonlight and adhere to white piece measure 2 ½” x 3 ¾” to it and then the fish piece to the front of the white portion.  Now adhere this over you wave paper on the small section centered among both sections.  Take the “have a great birthday” greeting stamp from the Relaxing Waterside stamp set and stamp on white card stock in Cloud Cover ink  Cut out to a rectangle and cut out a “v” section at the right end to form a flag label.  Add a wave into your flag and adhere the left and right sides at the bottom of your fish paper.  Then adhere your anchor embellishment to the left side of your label. 

For the back of your card adhere the 3 ¼” x 4” white piece to the back of your card on the Misty Moonlight section.  Use the “today is your day” stamp from the Relaxing Waterside stamp set and stamp in Cloud Cover ink in the upper center. 

Great birthday card for the men in your life.

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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Waterside Retreat Happy Fathers Day Card

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This was an easy card with the Waterside Retreat designer series paper from Stampin’ Up and the sheet of cut-outs.  This used the center cut-out cut down slightly with a few additions.  What a beautiful Father’s Day card, my dad will love it. 

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

  • Peaceful Pine card stock (2026-2028 In Color Stampin’ Up)
  • White card stock
  • Waterside Retreat designer series paper (2026 Annual Catalog Stampin’ Up)
  • Relaxing Waterside stamp set and dies (2026 Annual Catalog Stampin’ Up)
  • Peaceful Pine or Soft Succulent (retired) ink (Stampin’ Up)
  • Pecan Pie or Baked Brown Sugar (retired) ink ( Stampin’ Up)
  • Paper trimmer)
  • Adhesive of choice
  • Pop dots

From a piece of Peaceful Pine card stock cut a card base to 5 ½” x 8 ½” and fold in half to 4 ¼” x 5 1/2”.  With some white card stock cut a piece to 4” x 5 ¼” and adhere to the inside back of your card base.  Take your Waterside Retreat designer series paper pack and find the sheet that has all the cut-outs and cut out the center one, then cut it down slightly to measure 4” x 5 ¼”.  Adhere to the front of your card 

Now from the Waterside Retreat designer series paper find the paper that has the life jackets and oars and cut out one single oar and one of the smaller life jackets, I did the green one but the pink striped one would look nice as well.  Use pop dots to adhere the oar to the lower portion of your card on the dock so it looks like you are getting ready to go out in the boat (it looked best with the handle off the paper so I trimmed it off), then adhere the life jacket over that with pop dots, making sure you place your pop-dots so you don’t hit the oar. 

Take a scrap piece of white card stock and your Pecan Pie ink (I used Baked Brown Sugar as I don’t have Pecan Pie) and the wood grain looking stamp from Nature’s Symphany stamp set, stamp off and then stamp onto your white card stock.  Then take the “Dad” and “today is your day” greeting stamps from Relaxing Retreat and stack together on a block, then stamp over the wood grain.  Cut out into a rectangle shape as desired.  Stamp the flying seagull from Relaxing Retreat and stamp on a scrap piece of white card stock in Peaceful Pine (or Soft Succulent because I couldn’t get the Peaceful Fine ink yet) ink and use the die to cut it out.  Adhere the seagull to the upper right corner of your label.  Then adhere your label with pop dots to the upper right corner of your card front. 

For the inside use the wood grain stamp again with your Pecan Pie ink and stamp off and then stamp in the upper center of your white inside piece.  Then with Pecan Pie ink stamp the “Happy Father’s Day” greeting over the wood grain.  Use Peaceful Pine ink and larger grass stamp and stamp in the lower left corner.

What a beautiful card for any occasion, but this one was made specifically for my dad on Father’s Day, hope he doesn’t look at my site before Father’s Day.

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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Waterside Retreat Relaxing by the Water Card

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This card relaxes me just by looking at it and hopefully it gets warm enough soon to be able to enjoy this in real life.  This card is made from the Waterside Retreat designer series paper and the Relaxing Waterside stamps and dies from Stampin’ Up. 

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

  • Misty Moonlight card stock (Stampin’ Up)
  • White card stock
  • Waterside Retreat designer series paper (2026 Annual Catalog Stampin’ Up)
  • Relaxing Waterfront stamp set and dies (2026 Annual Catalog Stampin’ Up)
  • Crumb Cake ink (Stampin’ Up)
  • Old Olive ink (Stampin’ Up)
  • Paper trimmer
  • Adhesive of choice
  • Pop dots

From Misty Moonlight card stock cut a card base to 5 ½” x 8 ½” and fold in half to 4 ¼” x 5 ½”.  From white card stock cut two pieces to 4” x 5 ¼”.  From the Waterside Retreat designer series paper pack find the piece with the different landscapes and cut out the beach scene and trim it to 3 7/8” x 5 1/8”. 

Take the beach scene and Old Olive ink with the “Relax” stamp from the Relaxing Waterside stamp set and stamp in the upper right corner over the clouds.  From a scrap piece of white card stock and Crumb Cake ink and stamp the Adirondak chair and use the die to cut out.  With Old Olive ink stamp the book and coffee cup and cut out with dies.  Adhere the Adirondak chair with pop dots to the lower left corner of your beach scene and then adhere the coffee cut to the left-side arm and the book to the right-side arm. 

For the inside of your card adhere the second white piece to the back panel of the inside of the card.  Use Old Olive ink and stamp the smaller grass in the lower left corner and the “today is your day” greeting in the upper center.

I am going to use this to give to a friend for her beach house bachelorette party weekend. 

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.

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