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Pansy Petals Floral Hello Card

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Pansy Petals Floral Hello Card

I think this Pansy Petals Floral Hello Card would count as a bright and happy card to send to someone! As I looked through the designer paper, trying to come up with an idea for a card, I couldn’t pass up this design with all the little pansies on it.

For the card base, I ultimately chose Calypso Coral Cardstock, after considering Bumblebee. For a layer, I added the “backside” of one of the pansy designs for the dotted design and then the tiny pansy floral cut even smaller than usual to show off the dotted designer paper. After a little consideration, I added a thin layer of Bumblebee under the pansies. This designer paper is called “Pansy Petals Designer Series Paper” and is in the new Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog on page 132.

The greeting is in the Pansy Patch Stamp Set. I love a generic greeting like this one to put on a card to use for almost any reason or just to send a note. I cut it out with a die in the Ornate Layers set. I almost missed it because it’s a stitched rectangle, plain, but in the midst of all the fancy, “ornate” dies. Then it is layered across a Calypso Coral die in the ever-useful Tasteful Labels Dies. I popped that up on Stampin’ Dimensionals and then added some die-cut pansies from one of the designer papers that has a matching die. You could easily cut these pansies out by hand because they are small. I put a Dimensional under one side of them so they would be even with the greeting and a bit of adhesive on the other side that would be adhering to the greeting.

For a finishing touch, besides the cutout pansies, I added a Silver Epoxy Essential Embellishment to each end of the greeting. There are also clear ones in the same package so they are very useful for just a little touch of something when you need it!

So here is an easy card, just some layers of cardstock and designer paper, plus a greeting and some embellishments. The Pansy Petals Suite Collection has been a popular one if you want ALL the things with one ordering number or you can purchase items individually like normal. Here is a similar card I made with the same small pansies paper and also gingham for a background. You will make lots of pretty cards and projects with this collection!

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Die-Cut Pansies For May Day

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Die-Cut Pansies For May Day

It’s May 1st and this Die-Cut Pansies For May Day Card is perfect to celebrate the day! If I went outside and walked up and down the street, I would see loads of pansies planted in neighbors’ landscaping. They won’t last in the hot weather, but so far the weather is tolerable for them. Just today I had a memory of being a little girl in Sunday School and planting or just bringing home a pansy planted in a milk carton to my mother for Mother’s Day.

As I discovered the other day, I need to play with the new Pansy Patch Stamp Set and the Pansy Dies in the new Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog coming out on Tuesday, May 4th a little more to learn how to effectively make a pretty pansy. I’m sure it is not difficult, but I was a little unsure. Maybe I need to take photos of some of our neighbor’s pansies so I know exactly how the petals are placed!

For this card, I wanted to just experiment with the Pansy Dies and not worry about making an amazing card. I just wanted to make pansies. I decided to just die-cut a bunch of pieces and then see how they all fit together. I planned with two different shades of similar colors for each pansy, like Petal Pink and Polished Pink, Pale Papaya and Mango Melody and even just Basic White and Highland Heather for the contrasting parts of the flowers. The leaves are Soft Succulent for the solid leaf (really very pretty on it’s own because the die embosses it) and Evening Evergreen for the outline piece.

After cutting out an assortment of pieces for the pansies, I just glued, with tiny dots of Multipurpose Liquid Glue, the outline edge to the corresponding color. Each pansy flower has three pieces (at least mine do!). The top part has kind of the three areas and then the two bottom pieces are each like one petal with an outline piece along the bottom edge. I glued those two pieces together, then added the top piece. I think you want them close enough so the outlines kind of line up. There also is a die that cuts out three flower centers at once, so I used Daffodil Delight cardstock for the centers.

The leaves, of course, are simple. Just glue on the outline color…..or don’t. You could easily leave the leaves plain.

To make the card I used a base of Pale Papaya Cardstock and die cut a Basic White scalloped rectangle with the new Scalloped Contours Dies. I am really liking these dies! They go with the Color & Contour Stamp Set and you can buy the stamps and dies together in the Color & Contour Bundle and save 10%.

Then I just placed the pansies and leaves on the rectangle to see how they would fit. Since the pansies (at least mine) turned out a little large, they took up most of the room on the rectangle. There was just enough space at the bottom to stamp a greeting from the Pansy Patch Stamp Set in Pale Papaya Ink. I probably should have used a darker color as this one doesn’t show up that well with the pansies grabbing all the attention!

My advice when you get the Pansy Patch Bundle is just to get out your Stampin’ Cut & Emboss Machine and cardstock and cut out all the pieces and just play. Don’t worry about making anything, except flowers. Just play! And soon we will all be learning good tips and tricks of the best way to use this stamp set and dies I’m sure!

HAPPY MAY DAY With the DIE-CUT PANSIES!

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Trio of Pansy Patch Pansies Hello Card

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Trio of Pansy Patch Pansies Hello Card

It’s a rainy day here in Houston (finally!) but this Trio of Pansy Patch Pansies Hello Card brightens up the day for sure! I will say, this whole Pansy Patch Bundle has a lot to offer and for me, a little bit of a learning curve. As I learn more tips about using the stamps and dies I will be passing them on to you. My first large stamped pansy turned out to not be so much of a pansy! I think I stamped one of the layers upside down….what should have been at the top was at the bottom! My pansy was twice as big as it was supposed to be! But these smaller ones are easier!

The card base is one of the new In Colors, Soft Succulent. It matches the gingham designer paper, which is one of the patterns in the Pansy Petals Designer Series Paper, the opposite side of the floral side. I really like these gingham patterns!

These small pansies are really just two-step stamping. There is a solid color stamp and an outline stamp. You can practice and decide on both the small and large pansy stamps which way is easier for you to stamp….to stamp the solid and then add the outline over it or vice versa. The three colors I used were Melon Mambo, Highland Heather, and Daffodil Delight. But when I stamped the solid image, I stamped off first to make it a little lighter, then stamped the outline image full-strength. The leaves are stamped with Pear Pizzazz and Garden Green. I also stamped some stems but didn’t end up using them.

After stamping the pansies, leaves, and stems I used the Pansy Dies to cut them out. I actually lost my stem die for a couple of minutes until I discovered it had slipped down between the roller and the machine platform, but fortunately I was able to pull it out and it hadn’t gotten bent or damaged! So if you can’t find a die and you think you heard a “jingle” sound as you die cut something else, be sure to check your machine before you go to much further!

This Bundle is great because you can stamp the individual pieces of the flowers and die cut those, then assemble into a flower, or you can do what I did and stamp the whole thing then use the outline die to cut out the whole stamped flower. Lots of options with this stamp set and dies! Not to mention the infinite number of color combinations you can make with your pansies.

To assemble my cards, I glued the yellow pansy directly onto the Basic White layer and popped up the other two flowers with Stampin’ Dimensionals. The leaves are glued right onto the Basic White. Since I had a lot of white space around the flowers, even after stamping the greeting from the Pansy Patch Stamp Set in Soft Succulent, I added some of the In Color Jewels, coming in the new catalog. I can’t stay out of that package making cards! I used the smallest jewels but there is an assortment of sizes in all the In Colors in the package.

I know a lot of people are looking forward to getting the Pansy Petals Suite when the new catalog goes live on May 4th! If you like pansies, or just any flowers, you will find a lot of creative opportunities with the Pansy Patch Stamp Set and Pansy Petals Designer Paper. The dies even cut out some of the designer paper images! I’d highly recommend getting all the In Color Open Weave Ribbons, too. They are beautiful!

Enjoy your New Stampin’ Up! Catalog Shopping List Weekend getting ready for Tuesday!