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Storybook Moments Diecuts Easter Card

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Storybook Moments Diecuts Easter Card

Easter is coming so here is a card I made, the Storybook Moments Diecuts Easter Card. This is an easy card to make because it is mostly made with diecuts. The only stamping is the greeting.

The card base is Calypso Coral cardstock with a layer of Basic White cardstock. The Basic White is cut at 4 3/4″ x 3 1/2″ because I wanted a wider margin around the outside of it than usual. But I did a little artistic creativity on the Basic White for the background! At least I did it after I planned out what the card would look like.

What makes this card so easy are the diecuts! You will find them in the Storybook Moments 12″ x 12″ Specialty Designer Series Paper. This paper has the perfect name because the designs on the papers are what you would find in a children’s storybook, something on the order of Peter Rabbit stories by Beatrix Potter. The images are perfect for Easter, spring, baby cards, children’s cards and more! The whole package of Storybook Moments paper is interesting because the 12 sheets of patterned paper include 2 each of 5 double-sided designs and 2 each of 1 single-sided die-cut design. So you can use the regular designer paper or punch out the diecuts and use those. That’s what I did with this card.

On the front of this card you see perhaps a mother goose (or duck?) and her baby, a fence, and three foliage diecuts. I was using a sample in the Spring Mini Catalog on page 26 for my inspiration. Most of these diecuts are all popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals. Even though I was copying the sample in the catalog, I wanted more of a background for the little scene. I colored in the sky by just scribbling back and forth with a Light Pool Party Stampin’ Blend and Light Pecan Pie down at the bottom for the ground, with some sprigs of grass or greenery with a Dark Granny Apple Green Stampin’ Blend. Don’t try to get fancy with this coloring, I just lightly scribbled my Stampin’ Blend across the cardstock.

The greeting is in the Choose Happy Stamp Set and stamped in Calypso Coral ink. I just stamped it on a narrow scrap strip of Basic White cardstock. I cut a little banner on the one end and popped it up with Stampin’ Dimensionals. I think the little hearts are from a Paper Pumpkin Kit and were just extras on my table that I used. You could embellish with most any other gems or sequins that you have if you wanted a little sparkle or bling.

I just love playing with diecuts that come with designer paper as it provides another fun way to make cards besides stamping. Another thing is to diecut some of the images in the paper with the Storybook Garden Patch Dies or simply cut some out with. sharp scissors like our Paper Snips. If you would also like a Sticker Sheet to use on your projects, purchase the Storybook Moments Specialty Designer Series Paper & Sticker Sheet.

These papers have been out-of-stock but it looks like they should be available sometime next week! You’ll still have time to make Easter cards and scrapbook pages or other projects. Easter is April 20th.

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Storybook Moments Blue Flowers Thinking of You Card

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Storybook Moments Blue Flowers Thinking of You Card

This Storybook Moments Blue Flowers Thinking of You Card was an easy card to make with the Storybook Moments Paper again and one of the diecuts in the package. It’s different than what I thought I was going to make, but I’m happy with it!

The card base is made with Boho Blue cardstock, one of the 2023-2025 In Colors. That means this group of In Colors should be going out when the new Stampin’ Up! catalog comes out. Honestly, I won’t be sad to see this group to go. They were just too drab for me, they weren’t my favorites. If you love them and need reinkers or cardstock, you might think ahead and beat the rush when the retirement list comes out.

The blue floral paper on the front is one of the small panels that you cut apart in the Storybook Moments Specialty Designer Series Paper. Such an interesting pack of paper! Two sheets have all these small panels, as I said. Some are florals, some are frames, some are critters like my Easter Duck card HERE from the other day. Another two pages are diecuts of all kinds of things that do with the Storybook Moments Designer Paper. (This paper has sold at as I write this but is due back in stock March 10th. You can check back earlier, sometimes things come in sooner. But still time to get it before Easter!)

This floral piece is 3″ x 4″. I put a layer of Basic Beige 3 1/8″ x 4 1/8″ underneath it and then a layer of Misty Moonlight 3 3/8″ x 4 3/8″. You can vary the widths if you like. The blue flowers, one of the diecuts is centered and popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals. The greeting is one of the diecuts in the Saying Something Mix & Match Ephemera Pack. It’s so great to find a greeting that works in an ephemera pack! Easy as can be!

For some embellishments on the card I tied a piece of Garden Green thread around the flower stems. It is one of the colors in the Natural Tones Linen Thread. I think it adds just a little bit of interest. And for a little sparkle, I added three Misty Moonlight gems in the Tinsel Gems 3-Pack.

If you already have this paper or Suite, I hope you get some inspiration from this card. If you don’t own the Storybook Moments Specialty Designer Series Paper, you might consider ordering it for spring, Easter, babies, children, and just beautiful cards and scrapbook pages!

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Storybook Moments Ducks Happy Easter Card

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Storybook Moments Ducks Happy Easter Card

Valentine’s Day is over so I guess we are off to Easter…and/or Spring! I didn’t necessarily plan to make an Easter card for today, but this Storybook Moments Ducks Happy Easter Card came about after cutting apart these different little panels on the two sheets of designer paper.

This card features the Storybook Moments Specialty Designer Series Paper. You will find it on page 25 in the Stampin’ Up! Spring Mini Catalog (January-April Mini). It is part of the whole Storybook Moments Suite Collection if you want it ALL! Two stamp sets, two sets of dies, two designer papers, embellishments, and ribbon! It’s an understatement to say it’s an adorable suite! The designer paper has images of cottages, neighborly critters, gardening accessories, and garden grown produce! Don’t think it is only for Easter because it will make darling cards and scrapbook pages for babies, children, springtime, and any time you want to send a special card. The designer paper package also comes with two sheets of diecut images that you can adhere to your projects, cards, and scrapbook pages.

This card starts with a base of Lost Lagoon cardstock. This color is so pretty yet I don’t use this cardstock as much as some others. Besides the diecuts in the Storybook Moments DSP, the other special thing are the two sheets of smaller panels of different images from frames to flowers, to critters and produce. Just cut them apart easily with your Paper Trimmer and then use individually. The one that stood out to me the most was this one with the mother duck and two baby ducks, I assume.

I layered the ducks (panel is 3″ x 4″) on a 3 1/4″ x 4 1/4″ piece of Lemon Lolly Cardstock and another layer of Basic Beige at 3 1/2″ x 4 1/2″. This leaves a nice margin of the Lost Lagoon cardstock to show around the edge of the duck panel picking up the colors of the sky and the duck clothing.

The greeting is in the Greetings For All Mix & Match Ephemera Pack. Just punch out the diecut greeting that you want. This greeting had a white background which I didn’t like because I didn’t have white on the card. So I watercolored the greeting! I thought the Stampin’ Blend marker would be a little too dark so I used a Water Painter and tiny amounts of Lost Lagoon ink. I really mostly picked up the ink off the edges of my ink pad and maybe a bit more by just touching the corner of the actual ink pad. It sort of turned out to be an ombre shading on the greeting! I like the size and shape of the diecut greeting and I like, with my watercoloring, how it blends in a little with the sky in the background. Try it!

That’s how easy this card was, as easy as it looks! I loved it! I thought it was a stunning panel with the ducks, so cute and colorful, yet soft and subtle. I liked how the Lemon Lolly cardstock layer lightened it all up a bit.

As I write this, this paper is “Low Inventory” so if you want it I would order it very soon! Easter, this year, is April 20, 2025 so we have time to make things, but get your supplies while you can!

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Storybook Moments Village Gate Fold Card

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Storybook Moments Village Gate Fold Card

This Storybook Moments Village Gate Fold Card is made with the pretty Storybook Moments Specialty Designer Series Paper. You will find this paper and entire Suite in the Spring Mini Catalog. I had the idea of putting the patterned paper with little cottages on it on the inside of this card. When I looked at the diecut sheets and saw these two characters, I thought they looked like the lady and lord of the manor on the inside of the card!

This is called a gate fold card because the two sides of the card fold in and meet in the middle. There is nothing complicated about it! To make this card base, cut the Old Olive cardstock at 5 1/2″ x 4 1/4″ as always. Then score at 2 1/8″ from each horizontal end so that those two ends fold and meet in the middle. The inside panel will measure 4 1/4″ x 5 1/2″. When you fold in the two side panels to the center they should meet up perfectly. If they overlap a tiny bit which prevents them from laying flat, just trim as slightly as you can with your Paper Trimmer to help them fit next to each other.

On the inside center panel, I adhered the paper on the Storybook Moments DSP that has images of lots of little cottages. It looks like a little scene when you open the card. That paper would be 4″ x 5 1/4″. On the outside folded side panels, the DSP is cut at 1 7/8″ x 5 1/4″. This designer paper is “the other side” of the paper that has all sorts of different frames and designs in rectangles that can be cut apart to use on cards or scrapbook pages. As you can imagine, it was very difficult to cut into that paper to use the other side and ruin some of the images on the “main” side. But I really liked this leafy side so I gritted my teeth and cut into the paper! Sometimes you have to do hard things! 🙂

The center panel is a piece of Old Olive cardstock cut at 3 1/2″ x 3 1/2″. You can vary the size for your card if you want it smaller or a different shape. The layer on top is Flirty Flamingo 3 1/4″ x 3 1/4″. It happens to be an embossed piece of scrap cardstock in the package, embossed with a retired folder called Scripty. I decided to use it because I liked the little bit of texture it provided in the background, even though it is retired.

The two sheep characters on the square panel are images you will find on the pages of diecuts that coordinate with this Storybook Moments Designer Paper. That is why it is called “Specialty” paper because it has these extra two sheets of all kinds of diecut images, ready to go! These two “lords of the manor” are just glued flat to the card although you could pop them up on Dimensionals. They fit just right on that square.

The greeting is stamped from the Layers of Beauty Stamp Set which I haven’t used for awhile and almost forgot about. You will find it in the Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog. I stamped it on a narrow strip of Basic White cardstock and flagged both ends. To help it work just a little better with the card, I sponged the edges very lightly with Old Olive ink and an old piece of sponge I had that Stampin’ Up! used to sell. You could use Sponge Daubers or one of the Blending Brushes. We used to do this all the time when I started stamping and I rarely do it nowadays, but I think it is the perfect touch sometimes.

When you adhere this center panel to the card, you will adhere it to the left front panel. Only put glue on the left side of the square so that it doesn’t also stick to the right side panel. Sometimes it’s hard to remember not to put the glue everywhere! Don’t ask me how I know!

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On the inside of the card, if the cardstock you used for the card base is rather dark, you might want to put plain cardstock on the inside of those side panels. I used Basic Beige which looks good with the cottage paper in the center. You can stamp a greeting or write a personal message on those plain inner panels. Or you could cut or diecut a plain piece for a greeting adhered to the inside center panel, even though it covers some of the cottages.

Any gate fold card similar to this one is easy to make so I hope you will try one!

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Storybook Moments Easy Card

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Storybook Moments Easy Card

Here’s another easy card, almost like the one I made in yesterday’s post! It’s the Storybook Moments Easy Card, and it is fine that it is so simple because the paper is so cute in the background! Yesterday when I made the Quick and Easy Bright Borders Card I said I used one of the generic patterns on “the other side” of the cute paper. Today I used the themed side of the paper with the cute little squirrel and flower images.

The card base is Boho Blue cardstock. It coordinates with the Storybook Moments Specialty Designer Series Paper. This paper has darling images of little animals, gardening images, and countryside cottages. Plus you get two sheets of diecuts to go with the papers. You can use them on cards, scrapbook pages, or other projects.

Today I just flipped over the paper I used yesterday so I was using all the little squirrels swinging, playing, and doing other fun things. I made the same type of greeting as I did yesterday using the Bright Borders Stamp Set and the To The Point Label Punch. I stamped the border with Boho Bue ink and punched it out. To help it stand out a little bit, I also punched a piece of Boho Blue cardstock and cut it in half horizontally. Then I adhered it with some glue to the back of the top and bottom of the label which leaves a little white space on the back, but no one will see that. You have a choice of putting those points of the border at the top or to the side. Either way works. I liked them at the top and bottom.

For a little bit of embellishment, I added two gold Low Profile Dots in the center of the flowers at the top and bottom. These dots are great because they truly are “low profile” so they won’t stick up and poke the envelope when you mail it. This package has gold and light pink dots in several different sizes. They are great to have in your stash.

Remember, if you shop with a $60 purchase in mind, you can earn a FREE product during Sale-A-Bration at Stampin’ Up! through February 28! No limit to how many products you can earn with the proper qualifying amounts!

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Quick and Easy Bright Borders Card

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Quick and Easy Bright Borders Card

This Quick and Easy Bright Borders Card is indeed quick and easy and fun to make with new products! It’s a good card design to keep on hand for when you need something “quick and easy”! And remember, quick and easy isn’t necessarily “less than” a super fancy card with all kinds of papers, textures, and embellishments, maybe a fancy fold or two. Sometimes “quick and easy” is just as elegant as anything fancy you could make.

I used the brand new Storybook Moments Specialty Designer Series Paper for the card layer. The card base is Lost Lagoon which is one of the coordinating colors of the designer paper. This paper is called “Specialty” because it contains two sheets of diecut designs. These will really be fun to play with! This paper is part of the Storybook Moments Suite Collection with lots of products included.

Although the main sides of this Storybook Moments Designer Paper have the cutest little images of bunnies, squirrels and other animals plus gardening images, for this card I chose “the other side” of the paper which can be used for almost anything. I love the colors and design.

For the greeting, I stamped one of the border images and greeting in the Bright Borders Stamp Set with Lost Lagoon ink. The new To The Point Label Punch works with this stamp set perfectly. After playing a little bit, I decided I wanted a layer under the punched greeting so I trimmed off the edge of the stamped border image so that I could punch out a piece of Lost Lagoon cardstock which would be larger than the stamped image so I would have a layer. If you don’t want to do this fussy-cutting, you can punch out the label shape and cut it in half horizontally or vertically and use that for a layer on the sides or the top and bottom.

For some embellishment, I adhered some white ribbon back and forth behind the label and popped up the whole greeting on Stampin’ Dimensionals. This ribbon is part of the Petal Pink and White Diagonal Trim Combo Pack. Additionally, I added two Lost Lagoon gems in the Tinsel Gems Three-Pack. If you will be mailing this card, you may want to adhere the greeting flat on the card so that the gems won’t interfere with mailing.

Be sure to check out the amazing number of new products that became available on January 7th at Stampin’ Up! And remember that it is also Sale-A-Bration, a promotion where you can earn free product with each $60 purchase. Have fun shopping!

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