Monday, March 16, 2026

Paradise Garden Mixed Up Patterns Woven Strips Card

Greetings! 

Today's card features the Paradise Garden stamp and die bundle and Mixed Up Patterns Designer Series Papers (DSP).



Techniques include weaving paper strips and coloring embellishments with Stampin' Blends.

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Beverly's Tip of the Day

Did you know Stampin' Dimensionals are a little bit thicker than Mini Stampin' Dimensionals.  You will notice in the instructions below for adhering the flowers and leaves that I specify the full sized Stampin' Dimensionals for the flowers and the Mini Stampin' Dimensionals for the leaves.  Not only do the Mini Stampin' Dimensionals fit under the individual leaves but they also sit about a cardstock thickness lower, so they tuck under the flower edges nicely.   

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Gather Your Supplies:

  • Paradise Garden bundle (Save 10% when you purchase stamp set & die with bundle item#)
  • Daffodil Delight cardstock 
    • card base 4-1/4 x 11 scored & folded at 5-1/2    OR    5-1/2 x 8-1/2 scored & folded at 4-1/4
  • Basic White cardstock
    • 5-1/4 x 4 panel
    • 2-15/16 x 1
    • scraps for flower and leaf die cuts
  • Balmy Blue cardstock
    • 3 1-1/16
  • Mixed Up Patterns Designer Series Paper (DSP)
    • 4 x 5/8 yellow/white stripe & white flowers on blue
    • 5-1/2 x 5/8 white on yellow floral & white pattern on blue
  • Daffodil Delight Classic Stampin' Pad
  • Balmy Blue Classic Stampin' Pad
  • Lemon Lime Twist Classic Stampin' Pad
  • Daffodil Delight Stampin' Blends 
  • Moody Palette Glossy Dots
  • Stampin' Dimensionals
  • Mini Stampin' Dimensionals
  • Paper Trimmer
  • Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machine
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Here's How It's Made:

Adhere Basic White cardstock panel to folded card front.  

Weaving pieces of DSP requires a little forethought when applying the adhesive.  There is no one piece that you lay flat against the card, as each one has to be free of adhesive where another piece will slide under it.  To make placement of the strips stationary, apply adhesive on the first two-thirds to secure the strip in place.  After they are in place, then do the weaving of the strips, and carefully lift up the ends and apply adhesive to the cardstock the strips are on and press down to hold in place.  Finally, apply adhesive to the ends of the strips on top to secure them down.


Ink small flower stamp with Balmy Blue, stamp off once, stamp onto Basic White cardstock.  Repeat once.  Ink large flower stamp with Balmy Blue, stamp off once, stamp onto Basic White cardstock.  Ink 3-leaf stem with Lemon Lime Twist, stamp onto Basic White cardstock. Repeat once.  Die cut all pieces.


Ink sentiment with Daffodil Delight, stamp onto Basic White cardstock, adhere to Balmy Blue cardstock.

Adhere sentiment label to upper left of Basic White cardstock panel on card front.  Adhere the three flowers directly below the sentiment label with Stampin' Dimensionals, with the largest flower in the center.  Adhere the two leaf stems at each end of the flowers with Mini Stampin' Dimensionals, trimming off stems and tucking them under the edge of the flower.


 Color a small and large white glossy dot with Dark Daffodil Delight Stampin' Blend, adhere at upper left of sentiment label.  Embellish center of each flower with white glossy dot.
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Thank you so much for stopping by!  I hope you're inspired to gather your supplies and get creative!  

Have a beautiful day!  😊  

Beverly J 

Saturday, March 14, 2026

#DOswts452 - Blog Hop Beautiful Gallery Framed Scene Thinking of You

 


Greetings! 

Here's today's sketch:


And here's my card:


Today's card features one of the painted landscape prints from the Beautiful Gallery Designer Series Papers (DSP).  When I saw this sketch challenge, I immediately thought of these papers.  I was going to simply use a smaller part of a landscape inside a large frame as the sketch shows, however, when I remembered the frames that are included in the Gallery Blooms dies, I thought this would be a fun interpretation of the sketch. 

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Beverly's Tip of the Day

The Beautiful Gallery Suite Collection offers a wonderful assortment of products for an entire year of crafting.  With stamp sets offering sentiments for a wide variety of occasions, and beautiful floral images just waiting for a little coloring to bring them to life, the stamp sets alone are a great value.  Add in the dies which cut out the floral images and accent pieces, as well as two frames, the larger of which is used on this card, there truly is no end to the ways to create with this collection of products.  And of course, the gorgeous papers included in this suite lend themselves to infinite possibilities, for cards, scrapbook pages, or simply framed and on your wall.

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Gather Your Supplies:

  • Beautiful Motifs stamp set
  • Gallery Blooms dies
  • Cloud Cover cardstock 
    • card base 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 scored & folded at 4-1/4
    • 5-1/2 x 3-3/4 frame die cut
  • Secret Sea cardstock
    • 3-1/4 x 5/8
  • Basic White cardstock
    • 3-1/2 x 3/8
  • Beautiful Gallery Designer Series Paper (DSP)
    • 5-1/2 x 4-1/4
  • Secret Sea Classic Stampin' Pad
  • Moody Palette Glossy Dots
  • Mini stampin' dimensionals
  • Paper Trimmer
  • Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machine
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Here's How It's Made:

Adhere DSP to folded card front.  Die cut frame from Cloud Cover cardstock, adhere to DSP, centering.


Adhere Secret Sea cardstock strip near bottom of frame, centering. (I placed it so it covers the tops of the trees and the little house). Ink "Thinking of You" with Secret Sea, stamp onto Basic White cardstock, adhere to Secret Sea cardstock with Mini Stampin' Dimensionals. 


Embellish with Cloud Cover Glossy Dots.






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You can purchase the Product of the Month item for only $5 when you spend $75  or more in a single order. Your cart total MUST be $75 or more at checkout to qualify. You cannot add the Product of the Month to your cart until you’ve reached the qualifying amount. If you use Stampin’ Rewards, coupons, or discount codes on your order and your cart amount falls below $75, you’ll need to add items in your cart to get the total at or above the qualifying amount again. If you reach the qualifying amount, add the Product of the Month to your cart, and the Product of the Month sells out before you’re able to check out, you won’t be able to complete your checkout until you remove the product from your cart.


     

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If you've ever thought it would be fun to get great products at a discount, inspire others, be part of a crafting community and more, I encourage you to check out the benefits of being a Stampin' Up Demonstrator.  Whether you want it as a hobby, a chance to have an easy store at your fingertips for you and your friends, or want to build a business, the decision is yours.  Click on the button below to find out more.



I am a member of Dawn Olchefskes' DOStampers STARS community, so when you join my team, you are also part of this fabulous community where we share inspiration, creativity, support and more! 
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Thank you so much for stopping by!  I hope you're inspired to gather your supplies and get creative!  

Have a beautiful day!  😊  
Beverly J

Thursday, March 12, 2026

Mixed Up Patterns Diagonal Strips Sweet Blooms Card

Greetings! 

Today's card features the Sweet Blooms stamp set and prints from the Mixed Up Patterns Designer Series Paper (DSP).  Take your card from meh to wow! simply by slanting the words and the strips of paper.  I didn't even add any embellishments!  Just stamps, ink and paper were used for this card and the visual texture is provided with the array of prints and patterns.

I love mixing patterns and colors so this is an easy way to show off multiple prints from a pack of DSP on one card.  I chose the colors as a nod to the message on the card.

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Beverly's Tip of the Day

When deciding where and how to position the strips for this card, I began by cutting a length of each of the three prints I had chosen.  I cut a 12" long 3/4" strip of the blue/white floral, a 12" x 5/8" strip of the blue/white pattern, and a 12" long by 1/2" strip of the green/white stripe.  Then I cut each into two 5" lengths, with a 2" length remaining.  

With these lengths, I could lay them out, decide which ones to cut down by an 1/8 or 1/4" so the strip widths were varied, and position them on the card. By cutting the lengths of DSP to the widest width I would be using for that color, I wasn't creating a lot of waste.  Before I adhered any strips down, I stamped the message onto the cardstock to make sure I had a nice solid stamped image.  I then adhered the strips.

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Gather Your Supplies:

  • Sweet Blooms stamp set
  • Balmy Blue cardstock 
    • card base 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 scored & folded at 4-1/4
  • Basic White cardstock
    • 5-1/4 x 4 panel
  • Mixed Up Patterns Designer Series Paper (DSP)
    • print 1(floral) - 12 x 3/4, 12 x 3/8
    • print 2 (white/blue pattern) 12 x 5/8
    • print 3 (white/green stripe) 12 x 1/2
  • Balmy Blue Classic Stampin' Pad
  • Paper Trimmer
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Here's How It's Made:

Ink "bloom" and "where you're planted" with Balmy Blue, stamp onto Basic White cardstock, at slight angle, making sure the two rows of text are at the same angle with an inch in between.


Position strips of DSP, parallel to angle of stamping, with strips overhanging panel on both sides.  I have included the measurements of each strip and the 2" strips worked perfectly on the top and bottom corners.



Trim off overhang of all strips.

Adhere finished panel to Balmy Blue folded card front.



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You can purchase the Product of the Month item for only $5 when you spend $75  or more in a single order. Your cart total MUST be $75 or more at checkout to qualify. You cannot add the Product of the Month to your cart until you’ve reached the qualifying amount. If you use Stampin’ Rewards, coupons, or discount codes on your order and your cart amount falls below $75, you’ll need to add items in your cart to get the total at or above the qualifying amount again. If you reach the qualifying amount, add the Product of the Month to your cart, and the Product of the Month sells out before you’re able to check out, you won’t be able to complete your checkout until you remove the product from your cart.


     

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If you've ever thought it would be fun to get great products at a discount, inspire others, be part of a crafting community and more, I encourage you to check out the benefits of being a Stampin' Up Demonstrator.  Whether you want it as a hobby, a chance to have an easy store at your fingertips for you and your friends, or want to build a business, the decision is yours.  Click on the button below to find out more.



I am a member of Dawn Olchefskes' DOStampers STARS community, so when you join my team, you are also part of this fabulous community where we share inspiration, creativity, support and more! 
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Thank you so much for stopping by!  I hope you're inspired to gather your supplies and get creative!  

Have a beautiful day!  😊  
Beverly J