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Thoughtful Blooms Punched In Color Flowers Card

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Thoughtful Blooms Punched In Color Flowers Card

Here’s another springtime card for you, the Thoughtful Blooms Punched In Color Flowers Card. Almost everything on this card is free with a qualifying purchase during Sale-A-Bration. In fact, the inspiration for this card started with a sample in the Sale-A-Bration Brochure.

In case you are new and have never heard of Stampin’ Up!’s big promotion called Sale-A-Bration, this is a favorite but is going to end on March 31. With every $50 Stampin’ Up! purchase, you can choose a free item in the Sale-A-Bration Brochure. There are some higher value items, like the Small Bloom Punch that I used for this card, that are free with a $100 purchase. So with a $100 Stampin’ Up! purchase, you can choose either one $100 Sale-A-Bration item or 2 Sale-A-Bration items designated with a $50 emblem. No limit! And once you reach $150, you also get to choose Stampin’ Rewards!

This card starts with a bright yellow base, Pineapple Punch, one of the outgoing In Colors from 2018-2020. I decided to only use this group of In Colors since they will be retiring soon. On the Whisper White top layer, I have flowers of Grapefruit Grove, Blueberry Bushel, Lovely Lipstick, and a Pineapple Punch flower also.

The Thoughtful Blooms Stamp Set, free with a $50 purchase, is the stamp set I used to stamp the flower stems and leaves and greeting. The flowers were stamped with Versamark Ink and then punched out with the Small Blooms Punch. Before I stamped the stems, I cut a strip of the Lily Impressions Designer Series Paper, also free with a $50 purchase in the Sale-A-Bration Brochure! It is a green backside of one of the lily designs and looks just like someone painted it with a watercolor brush. I thought it would be an interesting representation of grass!

To finish off the flowers, which were popped up on Mini Dimensionals, I added a Holiday Rhinestone Basic Jewel on each one. You can still purchase these, which came out in the Holiday Catalog, under the Holiday Favorites Category in the Online Store.

The sentiment also comes from the Thoughtful Blooms Stamp set and has two rhinestones added also. All you have to do is change the greeting for another occasion because you can use a floral card for lots of things!

If you are interested in these In Colors, I would suggest ordering what you need, particularly ink refills NOW before the panic begins when the retirement list comes out. Sometimes the In Colors sell out quickly.

Also, don’t forget today is the last day to subscribe to Paper Pumpkin to get the March paper-crafting kit which has notecards to make and a very cute box! JOIN PAPER PUMPKIN HERE!

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Check your shopping list and see how many items you can get FREE during Sale-A-Bration to make a card like this Thoughtful Blooms Punched In Color Flowers Card!

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Thoughtful Blooms Card With Gold Accents

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Thoughtful Blooms Card With Gold Accents

This Thoughtful Blooms Card With Gold Accents took me a little longer than I expected to get it exactly right. Not that there is ever an “exactly right” in stamping and cardmaking, but I always know when I finally hit something that pleases me. Just keep going if you aren’t happy with your creation because you may just be one step away.

For this card, I had the idea of using a cluster of flowers in the bottom corner, maybe three flowers. What took some time for me was finding the right layer for the sentiment at the top. Some dies were too big, some too little, a plain rectangle too plain. I kept working and came up with the combination you see. Adding the bits of ribbon, I think, jazzed it up just enough to make me happy.

The card base is Basic Black, so plan on putting a Whisper White layer inside the card for your greeting or personal message. I added two extra flowers I already had punched out plus some stamped leaves to the inside layer down in the right-hand corner.

The designer paper layer on the front of the card is the Golden Honey Specialty Designer Series Paper. This is the paper with the bees and coordinates with the Honey Bee Bundle in the Occasions Mini Catalog. You can earn this Golden Honey DSP FREE during Sale-A-Bration with a $50 purchase of Stampin’ Up! products! Besides the bees and beehives and honeycombs on some sides of the paper, there are also plainer designs like on my card today, so even if you’re not into bees, you can still use this paper!

Since my Thoughtful Blooms Stamp Set was still out on my table, I decided to just use those flowers again. I made a card yesterday with those flowers. Today I wanted to stamp the outline image of the stamp and color them in with my Stampin’ Blends alcohol markers. I wanted some bright colors so I used Lovely Lipstick, Daffodil Delight, Calypso Coral, and Pumpkin Pie.

There is a punch for these Thoughtful Blooms flowers that you can earn during Sale-A-Bration with a $100 purchase called the Small Bloom Punch. I wish there had been a little leaf punch, too, but there isn’t so I just cut out some leaves and the sprig of leaves by hand. A little tedious and I left some white margin so I didn’t have to be perfect, but since they are small it took a few minutes! But I like the look of having them! I just played around with grouping the flowers down in the lower-left corner, gluing two of them flat on the card and the rest are popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals. These are the first six flowers I used in this grouping. When I was all finished with the card, I added the Gold Glitter Dots to the flower centers, which I loved, and also added one more flower at the “top” of the grouping and at the bottom left. This, to me, was the finishing touch!

The greeting is from the Thoughtful Blooms Stamp Set. It is die-cut with a die in the Painted Poppies Bundle. I tried to find a Gold Foil layer that I was happy with. Finally, one in the Stitched Rectangle Dies seemed to fit about right! I also punched a hole in each side and threaded some Daffodil Delight 1/4″ Ruched Ribbon through.

If you like this Thoughtful Blooms Card With Gold Accents, add the Golden Honey Paper and Thoughtful Blooms Stamp Set to your Stampin’ Up! order(s) during Sale-A-Bration in the Stampin’ Up! Online Store!

Thoughtful Blooms Floral Card

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Thoughtful Blooms Floral Card

It’s even cold in Houston today and you may have snow where you live so here is a Thoughtful Blooms Floral Card to brighten our day! This is a stamp set you can earn FREE during Sale-A-Bration through March 31 with a $50 purchase of Stampin’ Up! products.

I was inspired by a card sample I saw in the Sale-A-Bration Brochure on page 12 for this stamp set, although mine turned out to be a fairly different design. It was fun to do some actual STAMPING on this card like in the “olden days” when we didn’t have so many die cuts and great designer paper.

This card has a base of Mossy Meadow, one of the coordinating colors in the Peaceful Poppies Designer Series Paper. Although the sample in the SAB Brochure has blues and greens, I thought brighter colors were going to be what I was going to use. That led to looking at the coordinating colors of the poppy paper. Here is a card I made using the bright poppies in this designer paper that made me think of using bright colors of the stamped flowers on this card. I used the green striped designer paper as a layer on the card and I wanted a wider margin on it under the Whisper White layer.

I stamped the Whisper White layer, starting with Calypso Coral ink for the main flowers and Old Olive for the flower stems stamp surrounding the Calypso Coral flower. This stamp set, Thoughtful Blooms, is one you can earn free with a $50 purchase, as I mentioned before. AND with a $100 purchase, you can earn the coordinating Small Bloom Punch free also! I didn’t use this punch on this card but I could have! Next time!

The tiny flowers on the card are stamped with Daffodil Delight ink and the extra little dots, another stamp in the set, are stamped in Granny Apple Green for just a little texture on the card in the blank spaces. The flower centers in the large flowers are stamped in Memento Black ink.

The “Thank You” stamp is included in the Thoughtful Blooms Stamp Set and is stamped on Whisper White in Memento Ink. I die cut that with the smallest die in the Stitched So Sweetly Dies and then that was layered on a Calypso Coral die cut rectangle in the same set.

I thought the stamped layer needed a little boost in color so I found that the backside of one of the floral sheets in the Peaceful Poppies DSP in Calypso Coral would be perfect. You could also use cardstock for this as you can barely tell this is designer paper. I don’t usually like to use paper at an angle, but today I thought it suited this card. I think the Whisper White layer is fairly straight but the designer paper is on an angle. For one more pop of color, I used the Daffodil Delight 1/4″ Ruched Ribbon underneath the greeting with a little knot off to the side.

For the inside of the card, I will add a layer of Whisper White for another greeting or personal message, probably with some little flower stamped in the corner.

Be sure to take advantage of Sale-A-Bration because we are already halfway through this promotion! Can you believe it?! Time flies when you are having fun stamping! Remember that one of the stamp sets you can earn FREE with a $50 purchase is this Thoughtful Blooms Stamp Set with which you can make this easy Thoughtful Blooms Floral Card.