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Planted Paradise Just For You Card

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Planted Paradise Just For You Card

I’ve had this stamp set for a while now but finally made a card with it, the Planted Paradise Just For You Card. I got this stamp set FREE when I “attended” a virtual Stampin’ Up! Event for Demonstrators called OnStage@Home. It’s been a while since that event so I’ve finally tried it! It might not have been a stamp set that I would order from the Spring Mini Catalog on page 47, but as it turned out, I really enjoyed playing with it and making this card!

This Planted Paradise stamp set would be perfect for a plant lover! It is a stamp set with SO many different leaves, foliage, and pots. It’s one of those stamp sets that you can just play with and see what you come up with!

For this card, my first card, I used a sample card in the Spring Mini as my inspiration. It doesn’t match exactly but the focal point is similar to the hanging potted plants. The card base is Garden Green cardstock. The designer paper on each side is the “backside” of one of the very scenic papers in the Meandering Meadows 6″ x 6″ Designer Series Paper. I just looked at some of the designer papers I have for one with a green background. At this point, I wasn’t even sure what card design I was going to make. I had a 2″ wide strip of this green background paper, but got the idea to put it on each side of the card so I cut it in half at 1″ x 5 1/4″ Then I adhered each strip to each side of the card front.

For the center, I used Basic White cardstock. When I was all finished with it, I noticed it was cut shorter than I intended! It was supposed to be the same length as the green strips on the sides! What to do? Maybe add a layer underneath? Well, when I placed it centered on the card, even though it was shorter than I planned, I thought it looked fine! A little different! Maybe a little modern! So I kept it that way and used it the length it was cut!

The large pot is stamped with Cajun Craze ink and cut out by hand with Paper Snips. The leaves were stamped in Garden Green ink and others in Soft Sea Foam ink. Some were stamped on Soft Sea Foam cardstock with Soft Sea Foam ink. I cut these out by hand, even some extras so I could play around with them in the pot. I wanted a variety of leaves. I popped up the pot with Stampin’ Dimensionals but I only placed them at the bottom of the pot so I had room to stick in the leaves at the top wherever I wanted them. Then I could add more Dimensionals under the top after the leaves were in place.

Before adhering the plants and pot, I stamped the chain holding the pot. I didn’t have to be really precise because I knew the plants and pot were going to cover the “chain”.

For some finishing touches, I stamped a butterfly in the stamp set in Gorgeous Grape ink and a greeting in Cajun Craze. The greeting is in the Charming Sentiments Stamp Set. Then I remembered that the stamp set had dies so I cut out the greeting with the appropriate Sentiment Silhouettes Die. I also decided to use the new little Adhesive-Backed Cork Rounds on the card front. Not sure I like them on this card but they seemed like something that would go with plants. I like sparkle better I think!

Although I wasn’t all that thrilled with this stamp set, when I looked back at this card the next day I found that I liked it a lot! I think the Gorgeous Grape butterfly really adds a pop of interest. You could even make the leafy plants look more 3D by folding them lengthwise a little bit or curling the tips a little bit or stamping the butterfly and cutting it out with the wings bent a little bit.

I’m ready to make some more cards with this Planted Paradise Stamp Set! Check it out in the January-April 2024 Mini Catalog!

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Bloom Where You’re Planted Card

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Bloom Where You're Planted Card

If you like plants, you will like creating cards with lush greenery like this Bloom Where You’re Planted Card! You don’t even have to have a green thumb! Just some dies or scissors! This is a Suite in the new Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog that just came out about two weeks ago. Almost everyone wants to have a few green plants around, but these paper ones are a lot easier to take care of!

Even Demonstrators can’t buy everything they want, so I opted, as I sometimes do, to just purchase the Bloom Where You’re Planted Designer Series Paper so I could have a little bit of fun with the plants without buying everything. I like the way this card turned out and I just used my Paper Snips scissors!

The card base is Cinnamon Cider Cardstock which goes really well with this brick wall design design in the designer paper. I decided to cut out some of the plants on one of the sheets of designer paper. One sheet has lots of images of all kinds of potted plants, some large and some smaller. Now the Perfect Plant Dies will cut out images on one or more of the designer paper sheets but not these plants, so even if you have the dies, you will still have to cut out these plants as I used on my card. You might think it is too much trouble and too tedious to cut out images from designer paper, but it really is easy enough and I would even say relaxing to do. It’s best to have some good scissors for this job like the Stampin’ Up! Paper Snips. These scissors are very sharp but you can get in and around curves and things easily. Remember to mostly hold your scissors steady and turn your paper according to how you want it cut.

The dies are really made to go with the Plentiful Plants Stamp Set. You can buy both in the Plentiful Plants Bundle and save 10%. There are also Paper Lattice Accents that will be fun to play with as you create your cards and projects. So if you want it all, just use the one order number for the Bloom Where You’re Plants Suite Collection (1556990).

After cutting out these three potted plants with my Paper Snips (even dies are not perfect always so don’t worry if your cutting is not perfect), I just adhered them to the bottom of the brick paper. The small middle plant is popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals for fun. If you don’t like the handles on the pot, just cut them off! If you don’t want the plant that tall, cut it shorter! You have more freedom with scissors!

The greeting is from the Dragonfly Garden Stamp Set. I thought it was appropriate for this card! I stamped it in Cinnamon Cider Ink and die cut it with a die in the Tasteful Labels Dies. What would we do without this die set?! I felt like the greeting didn’t need any other layers or anything behind it. I did pop it up with Stampin’ Dimensionals as well.. And except for putting a Basic White layer inside the card, stamped with a leaf from another stamp set, that’s all there is to this card!

Even if you can’t afford everything, you can pick and choose products in an entire Suite and buy what you think you can use the most. I think it’s the colors on this Bloom Where You’re Planted Card that really appeal to me and make me really like this card!

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