Recently I had time to play with the “Paradise Garden” Bundle. You can find this great bundle in the OnLine Exclusives. The colors in the coordinating “Garden Party” Designer Series Paper are absolutely fabulous! This great bundle includes a hybrid embossing folder along with several coordinating die shapes. I have a few additional cards I will share in the coming weeks that feature some of the other beautiful colors in this Designer Series Paper.
For this card, I chose to work with Basic White and Shaded Spruce. I attached the embossed panel to a Basic White layer along with a coordinating DSP print. The leaf spray was stamped off with Shaded Spruce to give me a lighter version of the leaves. Next, I die cut the leaf spray and attached it to the card front with “Mini Glue Dots”.
For my greeting, I stamped the “Wishing you a lovely day” in Shaded Spruce and die cut with the hexagon shape. I trimmed down this shape along the raised border and then mounted it to the same die cut shape in Shaded Spruce. I attached the greeting to my card front with “Dimensionals”.
To complete my card, I added a double strand “White Baker’s Twine” Bow with a rolled up “Mini Glue Dot”. The last detail was to add a few “White Adhesive Backed Sequins” from my stash. Very difficult to capture in a photo, but I did add a bit of “Wink of Stella” Glitter Pen to the highlight areas on the leaves. Simple and easy, just my style!
Earlier this week, since July 4th was just around the corner, I decided to try and create a Red, White & Blue card to Celebrate America’s 250th! The Red, White & Blue part of this card was easy. However, I had to dig through my crafting stash to come up with something suitable for the “Stars & Stripes”. I managed to find an older retired die from Stampin’ Up! and this is where my crafting journey began!
My folded card base is Real Red along with Basic White and Blueberry Bushel. What’s great is that Stampin’ Up! offers several shades of Red and Blue, so you can pick your favorite color combination! My Blueberry Bushel panel was 4.25″ square and it cut it at an angle, 1.5″ in along the two opposing sides. I cut the swirls and stars die from a piece of “White Glimmer” Paper. The “Stitched Stars” Dies are retired, but I feel they really captured the celebratory feel for my card.
I managed to use all five of the “negative” star die cuts on my card. I chose to color the larger two stars with a “Blueberry Bushel Blends”. The greeting is from the “Round We Go” stamp set which I believe is retired. My only thought is that my greeting needed an exclamation point for some extra emphasis! The red stripes are just 1/4″ card stock strips. As an after thought, for the stripes, I should have used Red Glimmer Paper for a bit more sparkle! This was a fun challenge to create a Red, White & Blue card to honor our nation’s 250th Anniversary!
I have a few more cards to share using the “Phrases & Frames” Bundle and NEW “In Colors”. This card was created for my NEW Catalog Open House back in mid May. I absolutely love this color combination of Crisp Cantaloupe and Peaceful Pine, it is so beautiful! These awesome NEW “In Colors” are featured in the “Bloom Boutique” Designer Series Paper.HERE is a previous card using this great Designer Series Paper and the “Phrases & Frames” Bundle.
As I stated above, my color combo for this card is Crisp Cantaloupe, Peaceful Pine and Basic White. This card begins with simple layers and a strip of “Bloom Boutique” Designer Series Paper. Next, I used one of the die cut shapes from the “Phrases & Frames” Bundle. On this card, I did a basic single pass with the die so that the shape would not have too much detail. I ran the smaller scalloped oval shape through the “Stampin’ Cut & Emboss Machine” twice to give it extra “detail” or depth. For the second pass, I misted the card stock with water and used the NEW “Impressions Plate”.
My sentiment came from the “Scalloped Wishes” stamp set. I used a retired small oval punch so that I could layer the sentiment on to the Crisp Cantaloupe scalloped oval die cut. To complete my card added a Crisp Cantaloupe“3/8″ Border Ribbon” Bow with a “Mini Glue Dot”. The finishing touch was to add two of the NEW 2026-2028 “In Color Dots” in Crisp Cantaloupe. I absolutely love this color combination and the card itself was quick and rather simple.
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