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Toadstool Garden Birthday

February 19, 2025 No Comments

This bright birthday card made with the Toadstool Gardens designer series paper from the 2025 Sale-a-bration paper and is so cute. This is a quick card to make as well.

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

Melon Mambo card stock
White card stock
Natural Beige card stock
Toadstool Gardens designer series paper
Cheerful Daisies stamp set and dies
Sizzix Forest Friends (not sure on the name) dies – Mushroom dies
Melon Mambo ink
Melon Mambo ribbon or something that matches the paper that you have
Paper trimmer
Adhesive of choice
Mini Pop-Dots

With your Melon Mambo card stock cut a card base to 5 ½” x 8 ½” and fold in half to 4 ¼” x 5 ½”. With your white card stock cut a piece to 4 1/8” x 5 3/8” and another to 4” x 5 ¼”. From your Toadstool Gardens designer series paper find a piece of the pink toadstool paper and the striped paper. Cut the toadstool paper to 3 ¾” x 4” and the strip paper to 2” x 4”.

Grab a scrap piece of White card stock, your Cheerful Daisies stamp set and your Melon Mambo ink. Find the “wishing you the brightest birthday” stamp and stamp it in the Melon Mambo ink. Use the label die from the Cheerful Daisies dies to cut out your greeting. Take a spare piece of Melon Mambo card stock and your mushroom dies and cut out a set of mushroom tops, and with a scrap piece of Natural Beige and cut out your toadstool stems and adhere together.

Now lets put it all together. Take your white piece of card stock cut to 4 1/8” x 5 3/8” and adhere your toadstool piece to the top and your striped piece to the bottom. Take your ribbon and rap around and adhere to the back, covering the change from one design to the other. Adhere that to the front of your Melon Mambo card base.

Add mini pop-dots to the back of the label and adhere over the ribbon to the right side. Take the other piece of White card stock you cut and adhere that to the inside of your card. Adhere the mushrooms in the lower right corner.

And that is all there is to making this cute toadstool birthday card.

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.

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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.

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Nests of Nature Chickadee Card

February 13, 2025 No Comments

I love birds, I spend a fortune feeding them all every day. When I saw this stamp set and paper I had to have it.

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

Grey Granite card stock
White card stock
Nests of Winter designer series paper
Winterly Tree Tops stamp set
Basic Black ink pad
Paper trimmer
Adhesive of choice
Pop-Dots
Twine

Cut a piece of Grey Granite card stock to 5 ½” x 8 ½” and fold in half to 4 ¼” x 5 ½” and cut another piece to 2 7/8″ x 4 1/8”. With your white card stock cut a piece to 4 1/8” x 5 3/8”, one to 4” x 5 ¼, one at 2 5/8” x 3 7/8” and another to 1 ¼” x 2 ¼”. Now take your Nests of Winter designer series paper and find the piece with the white birch design and the light grey with the white circles on it. Cut a piece of white birch paper to 4” x 5 ¼”. With the light grey with circles paper cut a piece to 2 ½” x 3 ¾”. Find the piece of Nest of Winter designer series paper that has the chickadee on it. Cut out one of the Chickadees.

Take the piece of white card stock you cut to 1 ¼” x 2 ¼” and the Winterly Tree Tops stamp sent and with the “sending thanks & much love” and the Basic Black ink stamp it centered on the piece of card stock.

Now take your Grey Granite card base and adhere the 4 1/8” x 5 3/8” piece of white card stock centered on the front. Then adhere the white birch piece to that. Take the small stamped piece of white and adhere that about 1/8” up from the bottom of the light grey with circles piece. Adhere the light grey circles piece to the white piece of card stock. Take the twine and wrap around twice and tie a bow and make sure it is located just above the stamped white piece. Now take the cut out Chickadee, apply pop-dots to the back of it and adhere that to the top portion of the light grey circles piece. Then adhere that to the piece of grey granite card stock. Adhere that whole piece onto the center of the front of your card base on the birch paper. Use the 4” x 5 ¼” piece for the inside of the card.

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 by and photos taken by DaisyChainFun.

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Delightful Wishes Angled Z-Fold Card

February 12, 2025 No Comments

This Wishing You Well angled z-fold card is fun to make and so fun and bright, it just makes you smile.

To create this card you just need a few things:

Daffodil Delight card stock
White card stock
Floral Delight designer series paper pack
Delightful Wishes stamp and die bundle
Lemon Lolly ink pad
Daffodil Delight ink pad
Old Olive ink pad
Pecan Pie ink pad (I didn’t have so I used Copper Clay ink pad instead)
Paper trimmer
Scissors
Adhesive of choice

With a piece of Daffodil Delight card stock, cut your card base to 5 ½” x 11”. Score at 3 3/8” and at 6 ¾”. Cut the angle staring in the upper right-hand corner and down to 3” at the left side. Fold into the z-shape on the left side of the card.

Take the Floral Delight designer series paper pack and pull out three pieces to use, I used the floral doily, gingham and flowers on stick papers. Take the flowers on stick paper and cut a piece 4” x 5 ¼” and angle from 5 ¼” on the right down to 4 3/8” on the right. Then cut a piece of the gingham to 3 1/8 x 4 ¼” and angle this from 4 ¼” on the right side down to 3 ½” on the left side and a piece of white card stock to the same dimensions but angle to the right. Now take the floral doily piece and cut it to 3 1/8” x 3 3/8” and angle from the right side down to 2 5/8” on the left.

With a piece of spare white card stock and the Delightful Wishes stamp set. Stamp the filled in floral stamp in the Lemon Lolly ink, then use the highlight floral stamp in Daffodil Delight ink and line up and stamp over the Lemon Lolly. Now use the Pecan Pie ink (or in my case the Copper Clay ink as I couldn’t find my Pecan Pie ink pad) and line up and stamp the stem. Then take the Old Olive ink with the leave stamp and line up and stamp the leaves. This gives you a beautiful floral decoration for the front of your card, you will need to cut out the floral decoration by hand.

Take a piece of Daffodil Delight card stock and white card stock and use the two wishing dies from the Delightful Wishes die set. Cut the think wishing out of the Daffodil Delight and the background wishing out of the white. Adhere together. Use the long label die from the die set and cut out a label. Use the Old Olive ink and stamp the You Well onto the label. The cut off the other end of the label by lining it up to cut it to your desired length. Adhere the wishing die cut to the front of your card down toward the bottom, the “g” will hang off a bit over the middle. Adhere the You Well center below the wishing. The adhere the floral decoration you created above and hanging over the angle. Adhere the white angled piece to the inside on
the back center angle.

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 photos taken by DaisyChainFun.

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Thoughtful Expressions Diamond Hummingbird Card

February 12, 2025 No Comments

This is such a bright card, but it just makes me happy to look at it. I just love it and I am not a big fan of bright colors.

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

Melon Mambo card stock
White card stock
Bloom Impressions Designer Series Paper from the 2025 Sale-a-bration
Jet Black Staz-On ink pad
Melon Mabo ink pad
Thoughtful Expressions stamp set and dies
Stampin’ Blends pens
- Melon Mambo Light
- Melon Mambo Dark
- Shy Shamrock Light
- Shy Shamrock Dark
- Daffodil Delight Dark
Paper trimmer
Adhesive of choice
Pop-Dots

Take the Melon Mambo card stock and cut your base card to 4 ¼” x 8 ¾” and another piece 3” x 3”. Score the 4 ¼” x 8 ¾” at 5 ½” and fold to make your card base. With the white card stock cut a piece to 4” x 5 ¼” , one to 3 1/8” x 4” and another to 2 ¾” x 2 ¾”. Now pick your floral designer series paper from the Bloom Impressions paper pack and cut one piece 3” x 3 ¾” and another to 2” x 3 ¾”.

Take the 4” x 5 ¼” piece of white cards stock and adhere the floral paper piece measuring 2” x 3 ¾” to on end of it, then adhere that to the inside of your card base. Then get the 3 1/8” x 4” piece of white card stock and adhere the 3” x 3 ¾” floral piece and then adhere that to the front short piece of your Melen Mambo card front. When closed it should look like it is all one piece.

Take your 3” x 3” Melon Mambo piece and put adhesive on one half and then adhere that lined up with the front short ends and with the edge of the right side of the card as shown below.

Then adhere the white card stock that measures 2 ¾” x 2 ¾” piece to that Melon Mambo diamond. Take the “enjoy your day” stamp and use Melon Mambo ink to stamp the greeting in the left corner. Use a small piece of the leftover floral paper and cut out one of the floral groupings, then apply pop-dots to the back and adhere to the bottom portion of the diamond.

Now take your Jet Black Staz-On ink and the hummingbird stamp from the stamp set and stamp the hummingbird onto an extra piece of white card stock. Take the Melon Mambo light Stampin’ Blends pen to color the through and belly of the hummingbird and then highlight with the dark Melen Mambo Stampin’ Blends pen. Then use the light Shy Shamrock Stampin’ Blends pen to color the upper portion of the head and lower portion of the wing and back, then use the dark Shy Shamrock Stampin’ Blends pen to color the upper portion of the wings and the tail feathers. Use the dark Daffodil Delight Stampin’ Blends pen to color the beak.

Cut the hummingbird out with the hummingbird die, put pop-dots on the back and adhere it to the right side of the diamond on the front of your card with the upper wings and tail feathers hanging out of the diamond, but make sure it isn’t crossing over your card base.

Take another small leftover piece of white card stock and stamp the small spray flowers. Use the light Melen Mambo Stampin’ Blends to color the flowers and the light and dark Shy Shamrock Stampin’ Blends to color the leaves. Use the die and cut out the flowers and adhere that to the left inside corner of the card.

I am not usually a bright card fan, but I love this card and all the colors, it is just cheerful.

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 photos taken by DaisyChainFun.

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Floral Delight Accordion Window Flip Card

February 8, 2025 No Comments

This is a pretty straight forward easy card that is so cute. With the Floral Delight designer series paper from Stampin’ Up, it is just so cheery and bright.

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

Lemon Lolly card stock
White card stock
Floral Delight designer series paper
- Large floral piece (both sides)
- Dainty little flower piece
Spring Corners stamp set
Three rectangle nesting dies – I used the Stampin’ Up Rectangle Stitched dies
Old Olive ink
Lemon Lolly ink
Old Olive Stampin’ Write marker
Paper trimmer
Scoring board or scoring blade for your paper trimmer
Adhesive of choice
Pop-Dots

With your Lemon Lolly piece of card stock, cut a piece to 5 ½” x 8 ½” and fold in half to 5 ½ x 4 ¼”. Take the white card stock and cut to 5” x 8” and score at 2”, 4” and 6”. Fold the 2” part down, the 6” part down and the 8” part up. Take the dainty flower paper from the Floral Delight designer series paper and cut a piece to 4” x 5” and score in half at 2”. Fold that in half and adhere to the 4” and 6” center sections of your scored white card stock (see photo below).

Take your largest of the tree nested rectangular dies and center it at the front half of your Lemon Lolly base and cut the front panel. Then use the back of the large floral piece of designer series paper that is Old Olive and cut a rectangle with the middle size die. Then take some white card stock and cut the smallest size rectangle. Take the front side of the large floral designer series paper and cut out one of the flowers for the front of your card.

Now grab your Spring Corners stamp set and stamp the “you brighten my day” stamp toward the top of the white rectangle piece and adhere your cut out flower to the bottom of the white piece. Adhere the white rectangle to the Old Olive rectangle and then the Old Olive rectangle to the Lemon Lolly rectangle.

With your Spring Corners stamp set and the Old Olive ink stamp the “happy we are friends” corners stamp in the upper right corners of the back of your white card stock insert. Then take the little coneflower stamp and ink it with your Lemon Lolly ink pad and then take your Old Olive Stampin’ Write Market with the large calligraphy end and ink the stems and leaves of the stamp and also the flower centers. Huff (blow a warm breath onto the stamp to re-moisten then stamp it in the center of your “happy we are friends” on the back of your card insert.

Lets assemble the card. Take your white insert piece and the card base, and on the inside front cover of your card base put adhesive to the center edge of your cut out and across the top and bottom of your cut out halfway, but make sure that you leave a half inch without adhesive at the top and bottom. Now adhere the front 2” white section of your cardstock to the back of your cutout on the card base. Now put adhesive on the back of your back white panel, fold it all to the front of the card and then close the back of the card which will align it so it will open to the square it needs to.

All that is left to do is put adhesive on the back left side of your rectangle cutout and adhere that to the dainty floral side with the card closed so you can just put it back in the cut-out, so it is lined up properly.

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 by and photos taken by DaisyChainFun.

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Tri-Fold Valentine Card

February 5, 2025 No Comments

This beautiful tri-fold valentine card is so fun to make and give to anyone. It is very basic wit just some cutting, scoring, folding and die cutting a bunch of different hearts and the arranging them however you like.

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

Real Red card stock
Flirty Flamingo card stock
White card stock
Variety of heart dies and\or punches
Paper trimmer with a scoring blade or a score pad
Adhesive of choice
Pop-Dots

Take your Real Red card stock and cut a piece 5 ½ x 8 ¼”. Then you will need to score that at 2 1/8”, 3 1/8”, 5 1/8” and 6 1/8”. Then fold accordingly to fold your card as below.

Then take your pink Flirty Flamingo card stock and cut two pieces to 1 7/8” x 5 ¼” and one piece to 1 ¾” x 5 ¼”. Now with the white card stock cut two pieces to 1 5/8” x 5” and one piece to 1 ½” x 5”. Layer each of the two 1 5/8” white pieces onto the 1 7/8” pink pieces and then the one piece of 1 ½” while onto the 1 ¾” pink piece. The single size piece goes into your middle layer and the two pieces go on the front and back panels.

Now just die cut and\or punch a bunch of different heart shapes, sizes and decorations and arrange them how you like on each panel. Just make sure they show how you want when the panels are flat as well. I put the big red heart on the front panel and then placed the rest around that so they all showed nicely. I also put a few of the hearts on the front panel on pop-dots just to add some depth. I also found a cute little saying and put it on at tag on the front large heart.

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 made by and photos taken by DaisyChainFun.

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Wildflower Birthday Cake Cut-Out Card

February 1, 2025 No Comments

This adorable card is so easy to make and hardly even requires stamping, it is mainly using the cut-outs that come with the Wildflower Birthday Designer Series Paper pack from Stampin’ Up’s January-April 2025 Mini catalog. It comes with the normal double-sided paper and then two sheets to cut-outs as well.

To create this card you just need a few things:

White card stock
Peach Pie card stock
Wildflower Birthday Designer Series Paper pack
Peach Pie ink pad
Paper trimmer
Adhesive of choice
Pop-Dots

To start cut your Peach Pie card stock into 4 ¼” x 11” and fold in half to 4 ¼” x 5 ½”. Then cut another piece of the Peach Pie card stock to 2 ¾” x 4 ¼”. Now take your piece of white card stock and cut two pieces to 4” x 5 ¼” and another to 2 ½” x 4”. The last is to take a piece of the Peach Pie Daisy paper from your Wildflower Birthday Designer Series Paper pack and cut a piece 3 ¾” x 5”. That takes care of all the cutting.

Let’s build our layers for the front of the card. Take your card base and adhere one of the 4” x 5 ¼” pieces of white card stock to the front of the card. Then adhere your Peach Pie Daisy piece of card stock onto the white. Add the 2 ¾” x 4 ¼” piece of Peach Pie card stock and then lastly the 2 ½” x 4” white piece of card stock. From the Wildflower Birthday pack take the larger peach cake cut-out from one of your pieces, along with one of the very small flower groupings and one of the cupcakes, I used the one with the peach paper and teal frosting.

First, take the small flower cut-out and adhere it to the cake base for decoration, then take the cake cut-out and add Pop-Dots to the back of the cake and adhere it to the center of the top white piece of card stock to finish the front of your card.

Take the last piece of white card stock for the inside of your card and adhere the cupcake to the lower right corner. For the inside greeting I used the Delightful Wishes stamp and die set where I took my Peach Pie ink and stamped “wishing” onto a piece of white card stock and then took the wishing die and cut out my stamped wishing. I adhered that to the top of the white card stock inside piece. Finally, I stamped “you a happy birthday” under the wishing die cut greeting. Now adhere your white inside piece to the inside of your card.

Wasn’t that easy and quick, and it is such a cute card.

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 photos taken by DaisyChainFun.

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Legendary Ride Authentic You Card

January 26, 2025 No Comments

The Legendary Ride Authentic You birthday card is a fun card for the men in your life or for women who also enjoy motorcycles. This black and white car showcases the motorcycle.

Other items you will need are the following:

Legendary Ride stamp set
Legendary Ride die set or scissors
Basic Black card stock
Smokey Slate card stock
White card stock
Tire tread paper from the Legendary Rides paper pack
Basic Black ink pad
Metal Plate 3D embossing folder
Black or silver embellishment
Paper trimmer
Your preferred adhesive
Pop dots adhesive
A stamp block
Scissors

For the card base take a piece of basic black card stock and cut in half to 4 ¼” x 11” and then fold in half to 4 ¼” x 5 ½”. Then cut a pieces of white card stock to measure 4 1/8” x 5 3/8” for the front and a second to 4” x 5 ¼” for the inside. You will also need a piece of Smokey Slate card stock cut to 4” x 5 ¼”. Take the Tire tread paper and cut a piece to 2” x 4” and another to 1” x 4 ¼”.

Using the Metal Plate 3D embossing folder and the cut piece of Smokey Slate and emboss it. Adhere the piece of Smokey Slate to the front larger piece of White card stock. Then adhere this to the Basic Black card front. Now adhere the 2” x 4” piece of Tire Tread paper piece about a ½” or so down on the Smokey Slate embossed piece on the card front.

From the Legendary Ride stamp set, stamp the “Authentic You” stamp onto a piece of white card stock with Basic Black ink. Use the label die to cut a label. Adhere a black or silver embellishment to each side of the label for decoration. Put pop dots on the back of the label and adhere to the center of the Tire Tread paper.

Use another piece of White card stock and use your Basic Black ink pad to stamp the motorcycle from the Legendary Rides stamp set. Use the motorcycle die or scissors if you don’t have the die set to cut out the bike. Add pop dots to the back of the stamped motorcycle and adhere to the center of the bottom part of the grey on the card, about ¾” up from the bottom of the embossed Smokey Slate.

On the white card stock you cut for the inside of the card, adhere the 1” x 4 ¼” Tire Tread piece about ¼” up on the bottom. Take your Basic Black ink pad and the “Ride on it’s your birthday” stamp and stamp it toward the top of the white inside piece. Now adhere this to the inside of the card.

Enjoy this fun card.

All photos taken by DaisyChainFun.

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.

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Friendly Seagulls

January 22, 2025 No Comments

The Friendly Seagulls stamp set from the 2025 Stampin’ Up Sale-A-Bration sets is just so fun. It has three adorable seagull stamps and some cute sayings to go along with it. I used the “I love you more than french fries” but you can swap the french fries out for chips as well and then there is a chips stamp to use instead of the french fries. However, I liked the french fries because you could color it and make it stand out more, plus who doesn’t love french fries.

For the card base I used Crumb Cake cardstock to look like the color of sand. This is cut to 5 ½” x 8 ½” then folded in half to make a card measuring 4 ¼” x 5 ½”. Then I cut two pieces of white card stock to measure 4” x 5 ¼”, one for the front and one for the inside. Then you will also need a piece of Crumb Cake card stock cut to 1” x 2” and a piece of white card stock cut to ¾” x 1 ¾”, these are for the word label.

Other items you will need are the following:

Blending Brushes
Ink Pads
- Jet Black Staz-On Ink Pad or similar
- Smoky Slate Ink Pad
- Boho Blue Ink Pad
- Crumb Cake Ink Pad
Stampin’ Blends Pens
- Smoky Slate Light Stampin’ Blends Pens
- Smoky Slate Dark Stampin’ Blends Pens
- Crumb Cake Light Stampin’ Blends Pens
- Crumb Cake Dark Stampin’ Blends Pens
- Peach Pie Light Stampin’ Blends Pens
- Real Red Light Stampin’ Blends Pens
Paper Trimmer
Your preferred adhiesive
A stamp block
Scissors

Take one of the cut pieces of white card stock, your blending brushes and the Smokey Slate, Boho Blue and Crumb Cake ink pads. I started with Smoky Slate and blended it lightly for the start of the sky. Then I changed over to the Boho Blue and lightly blended over into the gray for the sky and then much darker for the water. Finally blended with the Crumb Cake to build the color for the sand. This forms your background for the front of your card.

I took a spare piece of white card stock and stamped the seagull with the french fries in his mouth with the Jet Black Staz-On ink. Then I stamped the french fries in the holder in the Jet Black Staz-On ink. Now take the second piece of card stock that you cut for the inside and stamp one of the other two seagulls in the lower right-hand corner in the Jet Black ink as well.

Gather your Stampin Blends pens. I used the light Smoky Slate to color the wings and tale of the french fry seagull and the inside seagull’s wings as well. Then the dark Smoky Slate I used to color the strips on the wings for both seagulls. Then color the feet and beak of both seagulls with the light Peach Pie. I then took the light Crumb Cake to color the french fries, the dark Crumb Cake to color the burger on the fry package and the light Real Red to color the french fry package.

Use your scissors to cut out the french fries and the seagull with the fries in his mouth. Adhere them to the sandy area of the sheet you created with your blending brushes for the front background. Then take your Crumb Cake ink and the shells stamp and stamp shells in the sand, I did one on each side of the seagull. Then take your Smoky Slate ink and the flying birds stamp and stamp that in the sky area, I also stamped those twice. Be sure to leave space for where you want to put your greeting.

Now stamp your “I love you more than French Fries” greeting in the Jet Black ink onto the white label piece you cut that is ¾” x 1 ¾”. Adhere that to the Crumb Cake piece you cut 1” x 2” and then adhere that to your card front. Adhere your card front to your card. Then adhere your inside white piece with the seagull stamped on it to the inside of your card. You are all done and I hope you love it as much I did.

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