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Floral Essence Perennial Punch Flowers Card

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It’s time to use some retiring products on this Floral Essence Perennial Punch Flowers Card! I think no matter the cardstock, designer paper, or accessories, we always hate to see something retire! But it must be done to make room for wonderful new products we will also love!

May 4th is the launch date for the new Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog! It’s always an exciting time when a new catalog goes live! However, you won’t find this stamp set and punch in the new catalog.

This card base is Petal Pink Cardstock with a partial layer of a pattern in the In Good Taste Designer Series Paper. This is a huge package of paper with different patterns of surfaces and textures. I chose the one that looks like some kind of white fabric.

The flowers are stamped with the Floral Essence Stamp Set and then punched out with the Perennial Flower Punch. The Floral Essence Stamp Set is reduced in price and the Perennial Flower Punch is more than 50% off! They are both on the Last Chance Products List. However, the In Good Taste Designer Series Paper is carrying over to the next catalog! It’s pretty rare for designer paper to continue on to the next catalog. I stamped six flowers so I could double them up to make three full flowers. They are stamped in Petal Pink Ink to match the cardstock.

Then I used the pretty Blushing Bride 3/8″ Metallic Ribbon to cover where the designer paper ends. This ribbon is in the Spring Mini Catalog so it will be around until at least the end of June. Even though it is a different pink than the cardstock, it still looks good together. I tied the bow separately and adhered it with Glue Dots.

The greeting is from the Floral Essence Stamp Set and die-cut with one of the Stitched Rectangles Dies. It fits perfectly at the bottom of this card. To finish embellishing this card, I used Gold Glitter Enamel Dots on the flower centers.

This Floral Essence Perennial Punch Flowers Card is pretty easy to make and you can add lots of different greetings to it. Remember to purchase retiring products by May 3rd at Stampin’ Up!

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Floral Essence Flower Card

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This Floral Essence Flower Card is one that I so enjoyed making on the spur of the moment with no plan! I had paged through the Stampin’ Up! catalog to refresh my memory on what stamp sets were retiring. When I came to this one, I thought maybe I owned it but I wasn’t sure! That’s likely a sign you haven’t used a stamp set very much! When I checked my stamp sets, sure enough, it was there along with the coordinating punch!

I stamped this card with the Floral Essence Stamp Set. I think it has been around since at least a year before this current year’s catalog. I feel like I must have seen someone’s stamped card that inspired me to buy the stamp set because I’m not sure that on its own I felt that inclined to buy it

As it turned out, as soon as I got it out, even though I didn’t have any idea for making a card, I just chose the largest flower and started stamping on Basic White. I did choose Melon Mambo for the card base because I like it, so I chose Melon Mambo Ink. I could have made different colors of flowers but I stuck with the Melon Mambo. I stamped the three flowers and stamped the flower centers in Daffodil Delight.

I wasn’t quite sure what I wanted to do next and the stamp with the stem and trio of leaves didn’t fit right to look like they were attached to the flowers. So just stamped them around the blank space in Granny Apple Green Ink, not attaching them to the flowers! Have some scrap paper underneath your cardstock so that you can stamp off the edge of your cardstock as I did so that you fill up the space better but don’t get ink all over your table!

The flowers still seemed to be floating in space without leaves, so I stamped the little leaf outline stamp around the flowers in Memento Ink. To color them in, I just used a Blender Pen to pick up the Granny Apple Green Ink. I should have really used Stazon ink if I was going to use our water-based ink but I colored carefully and lightly and it worked out fine.

For the greeting, I just chose one in the stamp set and simply stamped it right in the corner of the card! If I had messed up, I could have covered it up with a die-cut greeting, but thankfully it worked out fine!

There is something I can’t describe about the feeling of only doing stamping on a card, especially in a somewhat random pattern like I did on this Floral Essence card. The block and the stamp just feel good in my hand and every time I lift up the stamp and see the image I just stamped, it is almost magical! I do love all the dies and punches and embellishments, but I think the magic is in the actual stamping! It just feels good! Do some basic stamping and see if you agree with me!

While you are shopping in the next couple of weeks in the current catalog, don’t forget to check out the Clearance Rack. As of right now, there still are quite a few products left so you just might find a bargain you can’t live without! And of course, the Last Chance Sale is going on with the retiring stamps and other products. Some of those are real bargains, too!

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Floral Essence Note Cards

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Floral Essence Note Cards

One thing you might overlook in the Stampin’ Up! catalog is the Note Cards & Envelopes on page 168 so I thought I would showcase them by making these Floral Essence Note Cards. These note cards are handy to have on hand for just doing some quick stamping and writing a short note to someone. They are a mailable size so that is not a problem!

I wanted to try out the flowers from the Floral Essence Stamp Set. I stamped the larger flower in Flirty Flamingo Ink first down in the lower right-hand corner on the bottom card and then the smaller flower in the upper left. I wanted to keep these note cards very simple. I took a chance stamping the leaves in Granny Apple Green, not sure how they would look or fit on a small card. I almost left the leaves just with the outline stamped, but then I used my Blender Pen and the lid of the ink pad to very lightly color in the leaves. The flower center is stamped with Crushed Curry. Not leaving well enough alone, I used the tip of the Blender Pen to just dot some green around the flower centers. The greeting comes in the stamp set.

For the second card, I ended up stamping the flower three times across the front of the notecard. Everything was the same as the other card except I wanted to use just a strip of designer paper on the card. The one from the Perennial Essence Designer Series Paper that looked the best was this strip of green, kind of looking like a vine, that I cut rather narrow and just glued to the bottom of the notecard. I thought I would leave the card plain and not put a greeting. This way the notecard can be used any way you like!

The Note Cards & Envelopes are rather inexpensive and come in Whisper White and Very Vanilla for you to choose which color you prefer or use the most. You could cut and make a small card around the same size out of cardstock, but these come with the envelope that is just the right size. These are very handy to have around!

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Perennial Essence Simple All-Occasion Card

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Perennial Essence Simple All-Occasion Card

This Perennial Essence Designer Series Paper will be in the new Stampin’ Up! Catalog on June 4th and it is gorgeous! The patterns are handpainted images made into this lovely paper! I don’t know if we have ever had anything quite like this designer paper before at Stampin’ Up!

This card is an easy design using just a strip of the designer paper, coordinating cardstock colors, a greeting from the Floral Essence Stamp Set and this new beautiful ribbon, 5/8″ Organdy Striped Ribbon.

The card base is Blackberry Bliss. I originally thought I was going to use Petal Pink and I had trimmed off this little strip of paper. When I changed to the Blackberry Bliss, I decided to just use that strip of pink next to the designer paper. I adhered a strip of the ribbon around the designer paper and tied on a bow. This ribbon is so pretty, but it also allows the designer paper to show through a bit.

The greeting is from the coordinating stamp set, Floral Essence. This stamp set has flowers and sentiments and also a coordinating punch, the Perennial Flower Punch. It fits one of the 3-petal stamp images so you can stamp and punch a couple and make a layered flower!

The greeting is die cut with the Stitched Shapes Dies and layered on a Layering Circles Petal Pink scalloped circle.

This is a very simple card. You could do some watermark-type stamping on the Blackberry Bliss with the flower stamps if you wanted to add more. You could add some rhinestones or little embellishments on the greeting or even a few scatted on the card base instead of the stamping. You can almost always make a card very simple or jazz it up in several ways.

Try this Perennial Essence Simple All-Occasion Card when you get the Perennial Essence Designer Series Paper or make some simple cards with whatever paper you have now.

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