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Patriotic Red White and Blue Thank You Card

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Patriotic Red White and Blue Thank You Card

With this being Memorial Day weekend, I thought a Patriotic Red White and Blue Thank You Card might be in order. Memorial Day is a day of remembrance for those men and women who died while serving in the United States military. It’s actually a somber holiday even though most of us enjoy the three-day weekend and maybe travel, shop, or have family gatherings. But it is important to think about why we have this special holiday.

I was reminded that poppies are flowers of remembrance on Memorial Day. I’m not sure these flowers in the Timeless Arrangements Stamp Set are poppies, but they could be! I made a card recently similar to this one with this flower randomly stamped for the background of the card front in Sweet Sorbet, a monochromatic card. I put the card in my Tuesday stamping newsletter for an easy project. (You can sign up in the red box in the sidebar.)

That card gave me the idea to make this card using red, white, and blue. The card base is Real Red, with a layer of the “backside” of one of the sheets in the Countryside Inn Designer Series Paper. I thought this dark blue striped paper was perfect for this card.

The center piece is Basic White, 4 1/4″ x 3″ layered on a piece of Real Red cardstock 4 1/2″ x 3 1/4″. I stamped the flower in Real Red ink and also Blueberry Bushel ink. Just stamp randomly with some flowers going in different directions and some running off the page. (Just have scrap paper underneath!)

The heart is one in the Heart Punch Pack, which, unfortunately, retired recently. However, it was still on my punch rack so I used it! I originally intended to use the small heart in the Radiating Stitches Dies, in the Online Exclusives, but I thought it was a little small. You likely have heart punches or dies in your “stash” so you can see what suits you if you were making this card.

The heart is popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals, and the greeting is stamped in Blueberry Bushel ink on a Basic White banner from the Stylish Shapes Dies. I put Stampin’ Seal in the middle of the banner and the Mini Dimensionals on each end of the banner and adhered it across the heart. The greeting is in the Timeless Arrangements Stamp Set.

You could make this same card design using different colors and a different greeting. It’s actually a very basic card design and easy to make. See what variations you can come up with!

Remember, the Stampin’ Up! Designer Series Paper sale begins on June 1st!

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Fresh As a Daisy Thank You Card

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Fresh As a Daisy Thank You Card

We are getting a new floor in the kitchen so many things had to be moved out of the way – like my stamping stuff off the kitchen table and my stamping stuff off the dining room table to make room for kitchen stuff off the counters. The more we thought about it, the more we saw what was or could be in the way or might fall off the wall or get dirty somehow. Hence, this very easy card only required cardstock, designer paper, and a diecut scrap for the greeting, the Fresh As a Daisy Thank You Card! I saw this card idea in the catalog, then when I wanted to look at it again, I couldn’t find it! Finally, I remembered I saw it with the Timeless Arrangements Bundle, NOT with the daisies!

The card base is the new In Color, Wild Wheat, with a layer of another In Color, Copper Clay. I really liked adding that layer because I’m not really fond (yet) of the Wild Wheat, so the Copper Clay helped break that up a little bit.

The beautiful daisy card front is a piece of the Fresh As a Daisy Designer Series Paper. You’ll find this daisy bouquet as part of one of the sheets of paper. You just cut apart each individual square or rectangle of daisy goodness and then make something out of each section. I trimmed down this daisy piece so it would fit on the layer correctly.

The diecut piece is likely from the Stylish Shapes Dies. It was mixed in with a lot of other Basic White scraps but I wanted the greeting to be small so as not to cover up much of the designer paper. The greeting is from the Timeless Arrangements Stamp Set which has all kinds of greetings to mix and match and really fun dies of leafy things you can do all sorts of creative things with.

Be sure to look all through the new catalog for ideas, even back in the dies section there are extra card samples for inspiration!

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