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Masculine Plaid Tidings Birthday Card

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The plaid paper on this Masculine Plaid Tidings Birthday Card is coming soon in the August-December 2020 Mini Catalog on August 4th. Now when I first saw it in the holiday catalog, I wasn’t too thrilled and might have passed it up. I did notice it could be used for Christmas, fall, or Halloween and probably other things but I wasn’t that excited about it. But I did order it and when I opened the package, I just loved the paper!!

The Plaid Tidings 6″ x 6″ Designer Series Paper package has all kinds of plaids in it. There is a long list of coordinating colors! Although we might think of it as holiday paper, whether for Christmas or the oranges for Halloween, Fall, or Thanksgiving, I decided to use a sheet for a birthday card. While it could be for anyone, the plaid gives it a masculine look in this case and we’re always looking for things that work well for masculine cards for the men in our lives. The red on this paper is Cherry Cobbler and the green might be Shaded Spruce or Mossy Meadow. I wasn’t sure!

The card base is Cherry Cobbler and the red and green plaid paper is adhered to that. The greeting is from the Many Mates Stamp Set. It is stamped in black Memento Ink. It’s an outline stamp and you can leave it as is or in this case I colored in the letters. I used my Cherry Cobbler and Mossy Meadow Stampin’ Blends markers.

I stamped the greeting on Whisper White and die cut it with the Stitched Nested Labels Dies. Then I made layers with the same dies out of Cherry Cobbler and Mossy Meadow.

Due to not having the right colors of ribbon, I decided to just use some 1/4″ strips of cardstock scraps for tails hanging from the bottom of the greeting panel. I even cut the little bitty flagged ends with my Paper Snips. You could use more or less strips. I started thinking three would be good and ended up with five! After adhering the strips on the back of the layers with our new Stampin’ Seal Adhesive, I popped the whole thing up on Stampin’ Dimensionals®. Even then I wanted another little something, so I used two gold Metallic Pearls.

This is actually a pretty easy card to make! If you didn’t have the particular dies, you could use rectangles or ovals or circles or even just cut rectangle layers. Just stamp a greeting and choose your favorite plaid paper for the occasion!

You’ll find the Plaid Tidings Designer Paper in the Holiday Catalog, now known as the August-December 2020 Mini Catalog on page 57. I think you will be surprised how much you like this paper and how often you can use it for your projects, like this Masculine Plaid Tidings Birthday Card.

Banner Blooms Colored Flowers Birthday Card

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Banner Blooms Colored Flowers Birthday Card

This Banner Blooms Colored Flowers Birthday Card is another example of how I did something different than I planned to! I originally thought I would color this die-cut by sponging on some color, maybe in a very soft look. But when I went to actually color on the die-cut, I grabbed my Stampin’ Blends markers instead and went to town!

When I stamp, I am always, always, always using Grid Paper on my table. It is handy for lining things up and especially for measuring quickly and easily. When I took a decorative painting class years ago, the teacher had us put down a towel on the table and after that, I couldn’t paint unless I had a towel underneath my project! Now you can even choose from several kinds of Grid Paper from Stampin’ Up!, even colorful ones! For coloring these die-cut flowers, I needed a plain white paper underneath (and you always need a paper underneath when coloring with Stampin’ Blends because they do bleed through the paper) so I could see the die-cut well. I simply turned my Grid Paper over to the other side.

This card uses Melon Mambo Cardstock for the card base. I chose it after coloring the flowers. I used Shimmery White Cardstock, my favorite, for the die-cut and also for the card layer, because it is good to color on and it has a very subtle shimmer to it. The paper is very pretty all on its own!

I die cut the flower bouquet with the Banner Blooms Dies. This die is really different from the ones we have had. I found that it works best placing the die cutting side up with the paper on top rather than face down on the paper. I don’t know why, but it does! I also ran it through my machine three times and after that, almost all the pieces popped out on their own and the few that were left I used the Take Your Pick Die Brush Tip to roll over the die cut piece and also over the die to get out just a few pieces of paper that remain in the die.

As I said, I planned to use maybe Sponge Daubers to lightly sponge on ink colors on the flowers and leaves over the die, not really being precise, just adding color. But then I grabbed my Stampin’ Blends Markers and had fun coloring the whole thing! I didn’t try to be absolutely perfect but used mostly the brush tips of the markers to quickly color in the different areas. On the really narrow areas, I used the tip ends of the markers. I usually started with the Light color and also added the Dark for a tiny bit of shading. Since I LOVE coloring with these markers I didn’t find the coloring tedious.

To make the banners going across the bouquet, just stamp the greeting in the Hand-Drawn Blooms Stamp Set on a scrap piece of paper. Then line the die up over the stamped greeting (but you don’t need a full piece of paper or you’ll be wasting it). You will end up with the portion with the stamped banners. Then just trim these off the rest of the bouquet and adhere to the bouquet you have just colored. The greetings in the stamp set are doubled-up to fit perfectly on the banner areas. You could also cut out the banners and use stamps from other sets that would fit.

The banners are stamped in Melon Mambo ink. I popped them up on Stampin’ Dimensionals®. I added two Magenta Madness 2020-22 In Color Enamel Dots to the banners.

The whole bouquet is adhered to the card with lots of teeny tiny dots of Multipurpose Liquid Glue. I placed the bouquet on the Silicone Craft Sheet which held it steady and it didn’t matter if a little glue got on the craft sheet.

A good thing to use for delicate die-cuts like this is the Adhesive Sheets which you adhere to the paper before die-cutting and it turns the die-cut into a sticker when you remove the backing paper. I just never think ahead to use it!

Here is another card I made with the Banner Blooms Die using Rainbow Glimmer Paper, another great option if you don’t want to color in!

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Colorful Lollipop Greeting Card

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Colorful Lollipop Greeting Card

I had saved a magazine photo from YEARS ago with a card like this Colorful Lollipop Greeting Card. It has survived the purging of the file of torn out magazine pages, mostly scrapbook page ideas, several times so I finally decided to leave it out on my coffee table so maybe I would finally make it someday soon. Well, the day came and I made a card with this cute lollipop made out of circles!

There weren’t any super specific instructions on how to make this but I thought it would be easy enough to figure out. It’s a great way to use up some scraps of cardstock or even designer paper or mix the two.

You can use various sizes of circles, whatever suits your fancy and fits on your card. I used a 1″ Circle Punch (retired) but you could use something larger or larger die cuts. I just chose a bunch of colors of cardstock that looked good together.

It may seem a little difficult to get the circles placed correctly in a circle to form the lollipop. It might help you to put a pencil dot on your card where you want the center of the lollipop to be and you can kind of arrange the circles around that. When you get to the last circle in the lollipop, tuck it under the beginning circle, otherwise the two pieces on either side of that first circle will overlap it. So you want the last circle to tuck under it.

Use the Multipurpose Liquid Glue to just dab in between the circles to adhere them together into the lollipop shape. That glue gives you a little “wiggle time” to get the circles shaped the way you want them. After you get the lollipop formed, you can either glue it down directly onto the card front or pop it up with Stampin’ Dimensionals® or cut down some Foam Adhesive Strips to fit.

If you have a real lollipop stick, that would be fun to use or just cut a very thin strip of cardstock. I had a white one but of course it didn’t show up against this white cardstock so I just use a strip of Bumblebee Cardstock instead. Then I tied a bow of Bumblebee Gingham Trim and adhered it to the stick with a Mini Glue Dot.

For the greeting, I thought this one in the So Sentimental Stamp Set was perfect! I stamped it in Magenta Madness Ink and die cut with a die in the Stitched So Sweetly Dies. Then I die-cut another piece out of Magenta Madness that was smaller and I just cut it in half so I could use each end under the greeting to help it stand out from the Whisper White card layer.

I also thought it would be fun to stamp the little confetti stamp around the card in different colors to fill in all the white space. I just used some of the lollipop colors. The card base is Magenta Madness with a layer of Soft Sea Foam cardstock.

This is certainly a fun card to make and something different. It would be fun to make a few and make them into birthday cards or just “Hello” cards to send to a friend to brighten their day! Who wouldn’t be happy to receive this special Colorful Lollipop Greeting Card card?!

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Hand-Drawn Blooms Birthday Card For July 4th

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Hand-Drawn Blooms Birthday Card For July 4th

This card, Hand-Drawn Blooms Birthday Card For July 4th, could be a birthday card for someone this month or you could think of it as a birthday card for our country while we celebrate Independence Day on Saturday. Do you know someone with a July 4th birthday?

This new Hand-Drawn Blooms Stamp Set comes with an amazing large die plus a few small flowers and I had played with the die and greetings a little bit, but I hadn’t used this stamp of a lovely flower bouquet. The bouquet is actually two parts, the main bouquet and then the bottom part with a bow and the flower stems.

I stamped the two pieces of the bouquet with Memento Ink and then colored in the flowers and leaves with Stampin’ Blends. Actually I was going to use my Watercolor Pencils but I couldn’t find the set I wanted to use! But I love using the Stampin’ Blends. I primarily tried to use red and blue flowers for the 4th of July with a little yellow. I didn’t try at all to be perfect in my coloring, and you would be surprised how quickly you can actually color in most of those flowers. Since they are so small they look difficult, but since they are small you only need a dot or swipe of color to color them in! I just kind of drew over the stems with a swipe of Granny Apple Green with the small tip of the marker. Again, not perfect, but overall the whole thing looks fine!

The birthday greeting comes in the stamp set. Both lines of words are on one stamp, so just stamp it and then cut it out with the Banner Blooms Dies. Since you really only want to cut out the words, use a smaller piece of paper that fits right where the banner area is, otherwise, the die will cut all of the paper you put under it.

This card has a Real Red card base with a layer of Pacific Point blue. I just made narrow margins on this card so it is more difficult to see in the photo. The greeting is popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals. I added two red Toile Tidings Glitter Enamel Dots (retired) from the Holiday Catalog last year. I couldn’t stop myself so I added some of the smallest Gold Glitter Enamel Dots around the bouquet. Be careful, once you use one of those Gold Glitter Dots, you can’t stop!

Be sure to check out the Hand-Drawn Blooms Bundle with both the Hand-Drawn Blooms Stamp Set and the Banner Blooms Dies. Here is a card I made with the Banner Blooms Die and the new Rainbow Glimmer Paper.

Of course most of the time that you would make this card you probably wouldn’t be thinking about the 4th of July! But you can use these floral bouquet for many occasions and in many color schemes!

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Poppy Moments Altered Birthday Gift Bag

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Poppy Moments Altered Birthday Gift Bag

One of my favorite projects to make is to decorate a gift bag like this Poppy Moments Altered Birthday Gift Bag that I made for a friend’s birthday. Sometimes I use a bag I got out shopping and even if it has the store name on the side, I can cover the name with paper and decorate. It’s almost like making a card on the side of a bag! And if you don’t already have a cute shopping bag, you can buy a bunch at the craft store.

To decorate this shopping bag, I used the Poppy Moments Dies and just cut out a few flowers and leaves! I also used the Sprig Punch to punch a few leafy sprigs out of Vellum Cardstock. I made this bag pretty simple because there was no store printing that I had to cover up. After putting a gift inside the bag with tissue paper, you could also tie a ribbon around the bag handles. You could also attach a gift tag that you made. So many possibilities!

Here’s a birthday gift bag I decorated several years ago. The bag itself is pretty with a swirly leaf print on it, but I did need to cover the store name but that’s usually easy to do, sometimes on the front and back of the bag.

This gift bag turned out really pretty I think! I don’t remember if the bag was plain on the front or if it had printing on it, but it was easy to cover almost the whole front of the bag almost like if I had been making a card! You can see how you could make the same design for a card just by making it smaller!

If you are cleaning up closets and cabinets during the pandemic, save those small shopping bags and do something creative with them! Decorate for birthdays or Christmas or something generic and then you will have some personalized gift bags ready to go! Or maybe you can make a bag that matches your gift.

Altering or decorating bags you have around the house is something fun you can easily do and a great way to recycle! And it just might save you a trip to the store for a gift bag!

Dinoroar Dinosaur Birthday Card

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Dinoroar Dinosaur Birthday Card

It certainly is fun to make cards with this designer paper as you can see on this Dinoroar Dinosaur Birthday Card! Perhaps you already ordered this paper from the catalog or maybe you choose it during the last part of Sale-A-Bration. If you don’t own it yet, you can purchase it as a Last-Chance product even at a discount!

The Dinoroar Designer Series Paper is a fun paper to have in your stash for children’s and baby cards…..or even for anyone else! Why not?! Some adults might enjoy getting a dinosaur card for their birthday!

This card has a card base of Pool Party and then a layer of Mango Melody underneath the designer paper. I wanted to use a pattern that had leaves and foliage to look like the dinosaur was roaming the forest! The dinosaur is even cut out from one of the patterns of designer paper!

The greeting is stamped from the Peaceful Moments Stamp Set. The greeting and the layer are cut with the Stitched Nested Label Dies. I wanted to just keep the front of the card simple since the background paper is pretty busy with rather large images and I wanted the dinosaur to stand out.

Here is another dinosaur card I made recently. Now that card you could send to almost anybody just to say “Hello” or put a smile on their face when they open the envelope!

You can still purchase the Dino Days Bundle, consisting of the Dino Days Stamp Set and the Dino Dies for 10% off. The stamp set and dies will be in the new catalog but not bundled for the 10% off price. So if you like it and want to save 10%, get it now. The little Dinoroar Enamel Shapes are on sale also right now in the Last-Chance Products at more than 50% off!

These Last-Chance retiring products are available through June 2, while supplies last, until the new Stampin’ Up! catalog comes out June 3rd! Get some bargains while you can and don’t forget to check the Clearance Rack, too!

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Dinoroar All-Occasion Dinosaur Card

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Dinoroar All-Occasion Dinosaur Card

This Dinoroar All-Occasion Dinosaur Card is a fun card to make with this dinosaur paper! Just imagine the kids who would love to get this dinosaur card from you! Maybe even some adults because it’s a fun card regardless!

I got this paper free at the end of Sale-A-Bration last month when Stampin’ Up! offered a few catalog items as rewards for spending $50. I hadn’t bought it earlier because I didn’t think I had any use for dinosaur paper, but it’s really cute and I’ll be able to make some fun cards and projects with it. It would even be good for baby cards!

The card base is Mango Melody, one of the coordinating colors for the paper. I also added a layer of Old Olive and then a pattern of the Dinoroar Designer Series Paper.

The greeting is from the Itty Bitty Birthdays Stamp Set, a great stamp set to own. While this particular greeting likely implies “birthday”, I think you could interpret is as an all-occasion type greeting. You could put it on a card just for any day or to encourage someone or for many reasons, maybe a celebration. It doesn’t have to be for a birthday.

The greeting is stamped in Old Olive Ink and die cut with a small Layering Circles die, then layered on another die-cut circle of Mango Melody. These are then layered on a scalloped circle of Old Olive in the same die set. Surprisingly, I used a piece of ribbon from the Ornate Garden Suite. It’s in the Ornate Garden Ribbon Combo Pack.

This was a very easy card to make! Just a card base, some cardstock layers and designer paper on top with a greeting and some ribbon for embellishment. I think this Dinoroar Paper will be fun to use as on this Dinoroar All-Occasion Dinosaur Card.

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Free Stamp Set in the Paper Pumpkin March 2020 Kit!

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There’s a FREE stamp set in the March Paper Pumpkin 2020 Kit to celebrate Paper Pumpkin’s 7th Birthday! And it’s the last few days to get your March Paper Pumpkin Kit! You must subscribe by Tuesday, March 10 or set up your account with your Prepaid Code with a Prepaid Subscription. Don’t miss it! And look at the cute box!!!!!

Some of the most affordable stamp sets from SU! retail for $15-$20 USD, plus shipping. With March’s Paper Pumpkin kit you get 2 stamp sets (so a $30-$40 value) plus card bases, envelopes, ink spot, embellishments, adhesives, etc. and shipping is included!

This March Kit will be notecards, 5″ x 3 1/2″. They are perfect for short notes to friends and loved ones!

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Easy Tropical Oasis Birthday Card

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Easy Tropical Oasis Birthday Card

I wanted to make a quick card and the design I used for this card, Easy Tropical Oasis Birthday Card, is almost always a very quick and easy one to use! This Tropical Oasis Designer Series Paper has such gorgeous colors and floral patterns in it. I just flipped this floral pattern over, and the pineapples were on the opposite side! I saw some tiny pineapples at the grocery store one day and thought of this whole Tropical Oasis Suite!

One of the colors that go with this paper is Real Red! My favorite color, so I could not pass it up! So Real Red it was for the card base. Without measuring, I cut out a longer rectangle than I needed because I wanted to have a little overlap of the two papers so that I could glue them together. In the end, the two pieces adhered together measured like any card layer, 5 1/4″ x 4″.

I always like to cover the seam of where two papers meet, so I used the Daffodil Delight 1/4″ Ruched Ribbon. I just took a longer strip than the card and adhered it around on the back of the card layer. After I made the greeting, I use the ribbon to tie a bow on each end of the layered background for the greeting.

The greeting is stamped from the Peaceful Moments Stamp Set. You could choose lots of other greetings or sentiments with this card design and paper. I layered it on Real Red paper punched with the. Everyday Label Punch. Then I trimmed down another punched label of Daffodil Delight and cut it in half so I could make it smaller to fit under the greeting. I didn’t do a perfect job but I was trying!

The greeting itself is tricky to explain. I tried something for the first time. I used a Stitched Rectangle Die to cut it out. As you can see, the rectangle dies are longer than I wanted my greeting to be. I cut only part of the rectangle by not putting my cutting plate over the part of the die I did not want to be cut. Then I switched the die around, still lining it up with the die-cut outline on the sides (it just sticks back on the same lines) and just put the cutting pad on the end that now needed to be cut to make the greeting shorter and only rolled over that end. That all produced the smaller rectangle greeting! I didn’t take pictures because I wasn’t even sure I was doing it right! But I did!

This card design is always great to keep in mind when you want an easy card that still looks great. No fancy folds or directions to follow. Just add some designer paper to all or part of a card base, in either direction, one side of paper or two, add a ribbon or embellishment or not, then add a greeting for whatever occasion. Here’s another card I made that is similar, using a whole layer of designer paper with a strip of a different pattern going across under the greeting. When you have designer paper as bright and pretty as this, almost any card design you use like this Tropical Oasis Birthday Card will turn out beautiful.

Lily Impressions Birthday Card

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It took me a little longer to come up with this Lily Impressions Birthday Card, I have to admit. This was my first try with all the “Lily” products in the Stampin’ Up! Sale-A-Bration Brochure and I found it a little difficult at first to use everything together. Not everything fits together perfectly, which is fine, but you just have to play with it and not expect everything to line up!

Once I really looked through the Lily Impressions Designer Series Paper, I thought it was beautiful and I couldn’t wait to make something with it. I chose the pattern that you see on the card, layered on Petal Pink (not a coordinating color but I liked it) and Blackberry Bliss for the card base. This designer paper does have a LONG list of coordinating colors!

The three flowers are all stamped with the Lovely Lily Pad Stamp Set. They are stamped on Petal Pink with Flirty Flamingo Ink. There is a stamp that you can use to “color in” the large flower but it doesn’t fit the shape exactly. But that’s okay! It just gives a different look! You could also stamp the flower and color it in yourself if you want it to be exact. The Lily Pad Dies don’t fit everything exactly either! AND some of the stamps are reversible so you can stamp the solid shape, clean the stamp, then turn it over on the block and stamp with the detailed image. To earn the Lily Pad Dies, you must spend $100, but just $50 for each of the stamp set and paper.

Watch the Stampin’ Up! video below to get an idea of how everything works from Shannon at the Home Office!

On this card, I popped up the large lily and glued down the smaller flowers flat. Then I die cut and added some Garden Green leaves. For a greeting, I chose “Happy Birthday” from the Peaceful Moments Stamp Set in the Occasions Mini Catalog. I stamped this in Flirty Flamingo and die cut with a shape in the Stitched So Sweetly Dies also in the Occasions Catalog. I wanted a bit of a layer but there isn’t a die for layering, so I just die cut a second one out of Flirty Flamingo Cardstock, cut it in half horizontally, and very carefully layered it under the greeting with just a tiny margin showing.

Lily Impressions Birthday Card Closeup

For the inside, since the Blackberry Bliss is so dark, you can add a Whisper White layer for stamping a greeting or writing a personal message, but I just grabbed a layer of Petal Pink and put that inside. And since I had an outline die cut leftover from my trials, I glued that to the inside corner for a little decoration.

Lily Impressions Birthday Card Inside

If you feel like working with some really artistic paper, stamps and dies, I recommend all these Lily products available during Sale-A-Bration. You will make some beautiful cards with even just the Lily Impressions Designer Series Paper! But if you get all of the products, just play and experiment and see what you come up with!

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Heart Foil Tin For a Birthday Gift

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Heart Foil Tins For a Birthday Gift

Don’t put away those Heart Foil Tins just because Valentine’s Day is over! If you have some tins left over after Valentine’s Day, you can still use them for other occasions, like this Heart Foil Tin For a Birthday Gift.

Here is one I made for part of a friend’s birthday gift. Hearts are for any time so I think you can use the Heart Doilies and designer paper for decorating!

Here is how I decorated this birthday candy tin. I punched out a heart in the From My Heart Specialty Designer Series Paper with the scalloped-edge punch in the Heart Punch Pack. Then I stamped a greeting in the center of the paper heart from the Heartfelt Stamp Set. This heart was then layered on the designer paper heart and adhered to the white side of one of the Heart Doilies. This all fits perfectly in the indented heart shape of the tin lid.

The birthday greeting is stamped from the Itty Bitty Greetings Stamp Set and layered on a piece of Flirty Flamingo Cardstock. For a final touch, I used some retired Share What You Love Artisan Pearls scattered around on the heart and Rhinestone Basic Jewels on the greeting.

So keep those Heart Foil Tins handy in your stash so you can use them whenever you need a little treat for someone or even a small little gift box!

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The Under My Umbrella Bundle Perfect For Spring!

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I don’t own this Under My Umbrella Bundle in the Occasions Mini Catalog, but of course, I wish I did! This Bundle will be perfect for spring (even if you have snow outside and can’t image spring!) with it’s flowers, rain boots, and umbrella images. Besides a “rain-themed” card you could make with an umbrella, as they show in the video you can turn the umbrella upside down and fill it with flowers for a happy card. Just think of how you could use it for wedding or baby showers, too!

And now, whether you have the Under My Umbrella Bundle or not, or want to order it, be sure to check out the Pleased As Punch Designer Series Paper, offered as one of the Coordination Products just released earlier this month! Looks very cute and has a long list of coordinating colors! While supplies last!

Pleased As Punch Designer Series Paper

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Pressed Petals Journal With Poppies

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Pressed Petals Journal With Poppies

If you want a gift for someone, you might consider ordering a Pressed Petals Journal and then personalizing it by decorating the front cover, like this Pressed Petals Journal With Poppies.

If this journal looks familiar, it might be because you saw something almost like it in the Occasions Mini Catalog on page 27. I intentionally copied it as closely as I could because I really liked the look of it with the poppies. I even called Stampin’ Up! to see if I could find out what colors were used on the sample, but the lady helping me wasn’t sure and the supply list for the catalog samples listed the wrong thing. As soon as I got off the phone, I figured it out for myself.

I made the poppies with the Poppy Moments Dies. They cut out one solid background flower, then the detailed outline overlay to make it look like a poppy, and then the black flower center. The mystery color I had a difficult time trying to identify was Grapefruit Grove for the overlay, one of the In Colors! The flower color underneath is Calypso Coral (if I remember correctly). Of course, you can use any color combinations you like. The smaller flower is Grapefruit Grove for the base and a bright color for the overlay (maybe Poppy Parade). I’ve already sent this as a gift! All the leaf die-cuts used about three different shades of green.

For the sentiment, I needed something rather small. I decided on the words in the Honey Bee Stamp Set. The phrase is stamped on Whisper White and die cut with one of the Ornate Frames Dies. You’ll still find these dies under Holiday Favorites.

The catalog sample of this journal uses a different ribbon on the coils, but I used the Very Vanilla 3/8″ Scalloped Lace Trim. I used two or three strands of ribbon, held them together, and tied them on to the journal binding. I tied them on like you put ribbon through a hole on a tag, whatever that is called! And of course, for a little bling, I had to add a few Peaceful Poppies Sequins.

One extra-nice thing about these Pressed Petals Journals is that the pages are decorated inside and have some prompts if you would like to use them for writing. This post shows the first journal I decorated and gave to my daughter. I used an idea for a card that I saw in the Annual Catalog to decorate the cover. You can make it as simple or fancy as you like.

Add a couple Pressed Petals Journals to your order and keep them on hand for when you need a little gift for someone.

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Happy Birthday To You Decorated Cake Card

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Happy Birthday To You Decorated Cake Card

If you are looking for a perfect birthday card, you can’t do much better than this Happy Birthday To You Decorated Cake Card. You can even earn the Happy Birthday To You Stamp Set FREE during Sale-A-Bration! Who wouldn’t like to receive a card with a beautiful birthday cake stamped on the front and decorated with flowers?! I’d like to have a real birthday cake that looks like that (with lots of icing!).

Stampin’ Up! released new Coordination Products yesterday and one of them is the set of Birthday Dies. You can stamp the cake and then die-cut it or die-cut just the flowers and pop those up on the stamped cake.

Change the look a little by die-cutting the cake stand. It doesn’t “fit” over the stamped cake pedestal so you will have to do a little adjusting or embellishing. But I think it is a very pretty die and is one we will all enjoy using.

For my card, I started with a card base of Pool Party and a layer of Whisper White. I embossed this white cardstock with the Scripty 3D Embossing Folder. I wanted just a little texture to the background layer.

I stamped the cake on another piece of Whisper White Cardstock and die cut it with the Birthday Dies, plus stamped it again on another piece of Whisper White and die cut the flowers only. As I mentioned, I wanted to use the die-cut cake stand so I just cut off the stamped cake stand to it would not show. The cake stand then fits perfectly! I die cut it out of Silver Foil Paper. The flowers were then popped up over the stamped flowers on the cake with Stampin’ Dimensionals®. Everything is colored with Stampin’ Blends markers. I also used Wink of Stella on the flowers to add some glimmer. You can see a little of the sparkle in the close-up photo below.

Happy Birthday To You Decorated Cake Card Closeup

The greeting is from another stamp set, Itty Bitty Birthday Greetings, because I needed an itty bitty greeting to fit below the cake stand! The Happy Birthday To You Stamp Set has two greetings but the size was too large for my card. It’s okay to mix and match stamp sets! Here’s another card I made with just the Happy Birthday To You Stamp Set and the greeting fit right underneath the cake on this card, so you can do it either way.

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