In honor of the new Stampin’ Up! Annual 2025-2026 Catalog that went live yesterday (did you hear??!), I thought I would look through it for an idea for a card and I found it on page 45 of the catalog! This Florals In Bloom All-Occasion Card is what resulted from following the “technique” for this card described on page 45. There couldn’t be an easier idea to try and is a great way to show off both sides of our beautiful designer series paper!

If you look in the bottom section of page 45 in the Stampin’ Up! catalog, you’ll see this “technique” for showing off both sides of the designer series paper. Score and fold over one side of the designer series paper! Isn’t that the simplest technique you ever heard?! I don’t know what their measurements were but I’ll tell you what I did. I didn’t have the same greeting they used so I chose something else and added an extra piece of cardstock to show off the flowers a little better.

The card base is Strawberry Slush cardstock, which coordinates with the Florals In Bloom Designer Series Paper that I used. Not knowing what Stampin’ Up! used, I cut a piece of designer paper at 4 1/4″ x 5 1/2″. I scored at 1″ on the right side of the paper and folded that over which showed the opposite side of the bluish and peach-colored flowers on the front side of the paper. At that point, you can just center this piece on your card base. Since I had been playing with cardstock colors, I already had out Peach Pie cardstock so I cut a strip of that to put on the opposite side of the designer paper to bring out the Peach Pie flowers on the paper. This piece I cut out at 1″ x 5 1/2″ and adhered it to the left side of the designer paper. You can make that margin whatever width you want. I made it 1″ wide just because I didn’t know how much I wanted, but you can use a slimmer scrap piece of cardstock for this piece.

I didn’t do any complicated math for the measurements of this card, but you can if you want! Everything is just “eyeballed”. The strip of Peach Pie showing on the side of the designer paper is 1/4″ wide. When placing this piece of designer paper on the front of the card, there were 3/8″ margins on each side. The paper was as long as the card length so you do have to line it up carefully. If you are off by a little bit, just use the Paper Trimmer to shave off the bit of overhanging paper.

For the greeting I chose an already-stamped sentiment that I had saved from stamping and diecutting the entire stamp of greetings in the More Messages Stamp Set. You can ink up the entire stamp and get all the greetings stamped at once, then diecut with the one big die in the More Messages Die. You can buy both together in the More Messages Bundle in the May 2025 Online Exclusives. If you only want to stamp one message you can ink up the one sentiment on the stamp with a Stampin’ Write Marker or very carefully with an ink pad or Stampin’ Spot. If you stamp and diecut the entire stamp, just save the extra sentiments in a little plastic bag or in the stamp case. Makes it very handy when you want a greeting in a hurry! Mine happened to be stamped in Strawberry Slush ink so it was perfect!

For a little embellishment I cut two short pieces of the Summer Splash 3/8″ Ribbon, adhered them folded in half on the back of the greeting with Stampin’ Seal Adhesive, then popped up the whole greeting with Stampin’ Dimensionals. Then trim the ends of ribbon to even them up.

This is a very easy card and really fun to find this new way of using designer series paper to show off both sides without cutting two pieces! Be sure to check out lots of tips and tricks in the catalog as you page through, whether the hard copy or the digital version.

Here’s another card I made the other day with scraps of the Florals In Bloom Designer Series Paper that I think turned out nice!

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