Thoughtful Expressions

Inked Botanicals Sectional Birthday Card

This card started out being completely different that where it ended up, I had seen a reverse step card and was trying to make it but didn’t like the way it laid so I took it back apart and used everything but the card base. So now we have what I am calling this card the Inked Botanicals Sectional Card. This paper is just so beautiful, I actually didn’t even know I had it but found it in a stack I hadn’t touched in a while so had to use it.

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

Watermelon Wonder card stock (Retired Stampin’ Up)
Verry Vanilla card stock (Stampin’ Up)
Inked Botanicals designer series paper (Stampin’ Up)
With you In Mind stamp set
Thoughtful Expressions stamp set
Watermelon Wonder ink (Stampin’ Up)
Very Vanilla twine (Stampin’ Up)
Paper trimmer
Scissors
Adhesive of choice

Cut a card base from the Watermelon Wonder card stock to 4 ¼” x 11”, folded in half to 4 ¼” x 5 ½”. With your Very Vanilla card stock cut an inside piece to 4” x 5 ¼” and another piece to 1” x 4” and another to 1 ½” x 3 ¼”. Take you Inked Botanicals paper and find the dainty floral multicolor piece and the multicolor flowers with stems. With the dainty floral piece cut a two piece to 1 ¾” x 4”. With the flowers with stems piece cut a piece to 2 5/8” x 4”.

With your With You In Mind stamp set and your Watermelon Wonder ink stamp the “Happy Birthday” greeting onto the 1 ½” x 3 ¼” Very Vanilla piece. From the Thoughtful Expressions stamp set use the “enjoy your day” greeting and stamp onto the 1” x 4” piece lightly to the right. Take a spare piece of the large floral paper and hand cut out two of the flowers. Adhere one to the left side of the “enjoy your day” greeting.

Now take your card base and adhere the “enjoy your day piece to the bottom. Then adhere the dainty floral paper to the top of the card, and then the “Happy Birthday” piece to the center of the dainty floral paper. Now take your larger floral paper and adhere in the middle of the others. Take your vanilla twine and wrap around your card twice and tie into a bow. Align this toward the top of your large floral paper.

For the inside, adhere your Very Vanilla piece to the inside of your card. Then adhere the dainty floral piece toward the bottom, leaving a little bit of the Very Vanilla at the bottom. Take the other flower you cut out and adhere that to the left with most of the stem on the dainty floral paper but the flower on your Very Vanilla.

That is all there is to this Inked Botanicals sectional 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.

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.

All photos taken by DaisyChainFun.