For You

Azure Afternoon blue pairs nicely with the pretty Balmy Blue piece from the Lighter Than Air Designer Series Paper pack and sets a nice background for the vibrant images from the Planted Paradise Reversibles™ stamp set to really pop off the this #simplestamping card.

Calling all plant lovers: the Planted Paradise Stamp Set is for YOU! These organic shapes and relaxed details are sure to take your love for plants to the next level. Perfect for birthdays, wedding showers, and other festivities, you can stamp the vases in a row for a cool indoor potted plant paradise. Or drape the leaves over the vases and turn the vases into hanging baskets. You can even mix and match the side of the stamp you use for some extra foliage! The relaxed, natural designs of this stamp set will help you create cards, banners, gift tags, and other paper crafts that vibe with any space!

Measurements

Full list of supplies needed, listed below. A die cutting machine is needed for this card.

Basic White Thick Cardstock: 5 ½” h x 8 ½” w scored and folded at 4 ¼”

Basic White Cardstock:

  • 5 ¼” h x 4” w (for inside)
  • 4 ¼” h x 3” w for Deckled Rectangles Die
  • Scrap for sentiment tag
  • Scrap for pot, stems, and leaves.

Lighter Than Air Designer Series Paper (DSP): 5 ¼” h x 4” w

Let’s Create

  1. Affix all stamps to Acrylic Blocks.
  2. Fold the Card Base in half using a Bone Folder to sharpen the crease.
  3. Attach the DSP to the Card Base with Stampin’ Seal. 
  4. On Basic White scrap stamp
    1. the leaves and stems in Lemon Lolly, Granny Apple Green, and Pretty Peacock ink. Stamp off for a lighter look.
    2. The pot in Azure Afternoon.
    3. The sentiment in Balmy Blue ink
  5. Fussy cut the pot, stems, and leaves.
  6. Die cut the
    1. Deckled Rectangle
    2. the sentiment with the tag from the Countryside Corners Dies
  7. On the Deckled Rectangle stamp the ring, chain, and rope in Pecan Pie ink.
  8. Arrange the pot, stems, and leaves on the Deckled Rectangle. Attached the stems and leaves with Mini Glue Dots and the pot with Stampin’ Dimensionals. 
  9. Attach the sentiment with a Mini Glue Dot.
  10. Tie a junk bow with Stitched Lemon Lolly Ribbon, Balmy Blue and Basic White Baker’s Twine. Attach with a Mini Glue Dot.
  11. Sprinkle on some Rainbow Adhesive-Backed Dots
  12. Stamp and decorate the remaining 5 ¼” x 4” Basic White cardstock and attach to the  inside with Stampin’ Seal.
  13. Decorate your envelope.
  14. So cheery!! Now put it in the mail and make someone’s day!
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Birthday Wishes

The Stampin’ Up! creative team is SO talented! Check out the stunning color combination used in the Perennial Lavender paper on this fun card eaturing the new Planted Paradise Stamp Set. This is a Reversibles™ set, giving you not only detailed stamps, but also stamps to fill in or to use to create shadows.

Calling all plant lovers: the Planted Paradise Stamp Set is for YOU! These organic shapes and relaxed details are sure to take your love for plants to the next level. Perfect for birthdays, wedding showers, and other festivities, you can stamp the vases in a row for a cool indoor potted plant paradise. Or drape the leaves over the vases and turn the vases into hanging baskets. You can even mix and match the side of the stamp you use for some extra foliage! The relaxed, natural designs of this stamp set will help you create cards, banners, gift tags, and other paper crafts that vibe with any space!

Measurements

Full list of supplies needed, listed below. A die cutting machine is needed for this card.

Crumb Cake Cardstock: 5 ½” h x 8 ½” w scored and folded at 4 ¼”

Gorgeous Grape Cardstock: scrap for die cut mat 4 ¼” h x 2 ¾” w

Basic White Cardstock:

  • 5 ¼” x 4” (for inside)
  • 3 ¾” h x 2 ¼” w scrap for die cut
  • Scraps for sentiment die cut, plants, and pot

Perennial Lavender Designer Series Paper (DSP): 

  • 5 1/4:” h x 4” w (gingham pattern)
  • 2 ½” h x 4” w (flower pattern)


Let’s Create

  1. Affix all stamps to Acrylic Blocks.
  2. Fold the Card Base in half using a Bone Folder to sharpen the crease.
  3. Attach the 2 ½” h x 4” w (flower pattern) to the 5 1/4:” h x 4” w (gingham pattern) with Stampin’ Seal.
  4. Wrap Pretty Peacock and Gold ribbon around the bottom of the flower pattern paper and secure in the back with Tear N’ Tape. 
  5. Attach the DSP layers to the Card Base with Stampin’ Dimensionals. 
  6. On scrap Basic White cardstock, stamp:
    1. The pot in Gorgeous Grape ink
    2. Three thin leaves in Pretty Peacock ink
    3. Two bulb stems in Crumb Cake.
    4. The sentiment in Highland Heather ink. 
  7. Fussy cut the pot, leaves and stems and die cut the sentiment with the tag from the Sending Dies.
  8. Die cut the Gorgeous Grape and Basic White panels from Countryside Corners Dies.
  9. Create the potted arrangement:
    1. On the Basic White die cut, arrange the pot, leaves, and stems. 
    2. Use a pencil to make a faint mark on the Basic White panel at the top of the pot. 
    3. Remove the pot, leaves, and stems.
    4. Stamp off Pretty Peacock ink and stamp the three leaves on the panel.
    5. Stamp two Crumb Cake bulb stems.
    6. Use Mini Glue dots to attach the die cut leaves and stems.
    7. Use Stampin’ Dimensionals to attach the pot.
  10. Use Stampin’ Seal to attach the Basic White die cut panel to the Gorgeous Grape panel, then attach to the front with Stampin’ Dimensionals.
  11. Use Stampin’ Dimensionals to attach the sentiment.
  12. Sprinkle on some Purple Fine Shimmer Gems.
  13. Stamp and decorate the remaining 5 ¼” x 4” Basic White cardstock and attach to the  inside with Stampin’ Seal.
  14. Decorate your envelope.
  15. Stunning! Who will you send this birthday wish to?
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Technique Tuesday: Coloring Vellum

Did you know you can color vellum? You can! What a great way to customize your favorite stamp sets. Take a look at our tips and then try this technique yourself.

We started by stamping our image in VersaMark ink on Vellum paper and heat embossing it with white Stampin’ Emboss Powder. We then turned the paper over to color on the back of the Vellum with the dark shade of Stampin’ Blends—we used Daffodil Delight for the sun, Petal Pink for the sky, and Fresh Freesia, Orchid Oasis, and Starry Sky for the hills. We loved how this coloring gave the paper a stained-glass look.

We didn’t want the adhesive to show through the Vellum when we adhered it to the card base, so we put some Mini Glue Dots under the space where we knew we would put our sentiment banner. Then we rolled up a few more glue dots and placed them around the top arch under the embossed parts so they wouldn’t be visible. Finally, we fussy cut the leaves, heat embossed our sentiment, and finished the card off with a few Heart Pearls.

If you’re looking for a way to shake things up, try your hand at copying and sharing everything!

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You’re As Sweet As Honey

Check out the yellow plaid paper with those happy little bees! This whole card reminds me of a certain mouse that lives in Orlando. LOL. I could see this design with the Hello Lady Bug, Little Monkey, Little Dreamers, or the Rhino Ready stamp sets.

Create adorable crafts for all your occasions centered around love with the Bee Mine Suite Collection! This suite is filled with bright colors and unique patterns you can mix and match. The darling bee images were hand designed with symmetrical shapes for versatility and have a coordinating punch. Add special details to your crafts with the included embellishments and ribbon. Whether you are making a card or looking for customized treat packaging, this suite has everything you need for bee-utiful paper crafts! Also available in French.

Measurements

Full list of supplies needed, listed below. A die cutting machine is needed for this card.

Basic White

  • 5 ½” x 8 ½”  scored and folded on the long-side at 4 ¼” 
  • 3 ¾” x 1 ⅞”
  • 3 ¾” x ⅝”
  • 2 ¾” x 5” (for stamping & punching bees and wings)

Daffodil Delight

  • 5 ⅜” x 4 ⅛”

Basic Black

  • 5 ⅛” x 3 ⅞”
  • 3 ¾” x 2” 

Bee Mine Designer Series Paper

  • 5” x 3 ¾” – Yellow plaid print

Let’s Create

  1. Affix all stamps to Acrylic Blocks.  
  2. Fold the Card Base in half using a Bone Folder to sharpen the crease.
  3. On the 3 ¾” x 1 ⅞” Basic White Cardstock, stamp flower stems (use both stem stamps, alternating) using Lemon Lime Twist ink pad.
  4. On the taller stems, stamp the 4 petal flower using Sweet Sorbet ink pad.  One the shorter stems, stam the 4 petal flower using Daffodil Delight ink pad.
  5. On the 3 ¾” x ⅝” Basic White cardstock, stamp the sentiment using Black Memento ink pad. Trim each of the ends at an angle.
  6. On 5” x 2 ¾” Basic White cardstock, stamp 2 Bees using Black Memento and Daffodil Delight ink pads.  I found that stamping the black strips first made it easier to line up the Daffodil Delight Body.  Stamp the face in Black Memento ink. Be sure to make the bees facing opposite directions.  When stamping the face, one of the bees will be facing the other way.  Using a Sweet Sorbet light Stampin’ Blend, put small dots for the cheeks on the bee.  Stamp 2 sets of wings using Daffodil Delight.  The outline of the wings is straight ink, the inside part is using the same color stamped off once,  Again, stamping the darker first makes it easier to line up the Daffodil Delight inside of wings (heart).  Punch out all of the bee pieces using the Bee Builder Punch. 
  7. Assembling the Card: Adhere the wings to the top of each bee. 
  8. Adhere the stamped Basic White panel to the Basic Black cardstock that measures 3 ¾” x 2”
  9. Adhere the Daffodil Delight Designer Series Paper to the 5 ⅛” x 3 ⅞” Basic Black cardstock.
  10. Adhere these layers to the Daffodil Delight Panel.
  11. Using Stampin’ Dimensionals, adhere the sentiment to the lower edge of the Designer Series Paper. Just above the sentiment, adhere the stamped Basic White layers.
  12. Position the bees where they fit the best – do not tape down quite yet – This will give you an idea where to stamp the antennae for each bee using Black Memento ink.
  13. Adhere the bees to the card, the lower bee is taped flat, the bee towards the top right is adhered using Stampin’ Dimensionals.
  14. Place a Petal Pink adhesive-backed flower from the Adhesive-Backed “Hearts & Flowers” in the center of each of the Sweet Sorbet flowers.  Position a couple of Petal Pink hearts among the flowers. 
  15. Be sure to decorate the inside of the card and the envelope before sending it off to a sweet friend.
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Bee My Valentine Bundle (English)
$38.50
Basic White 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock
$10.50
Daffodil Delight 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock
$10.00
Basic Black 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock
$10.00
Bee Mine 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Designer Series Paper
$12.50
Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad
$6.50
Daffodil Delight Classic Stampin' Pad
$9.00
Sweet Sorbet Classic Stampin' Pad
$9.00
Sweet Sorbet Stampin' Blends Combo Pack
$10.00
Adhesive Backed Hearts & Flowers
$8.00
Stampin' Dimensionals
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