Monday, April 20, 2026

Garden Poetry 3-strip Flower Card

Greetings! 

Today's card features the Garden Paradise stamp & die bundle along with the Garden Poetry Designer Series Papers (DSP).  This simple 3-strip layout creates a beautiful backdrop, whether a feature is added on top or the three strips are the main attraction along with a message.


Techniques include background stamping and die cutting.

My inspiration came from a card my dear friend Nicole sent to me recently. 

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Beverly's Tip of the Day

Using small strips of DSP or cardstock as a feature on a card is a great way to use up scraps or to make as many cards as you can with the pack of DSP.  This template is equally card friendly whether used in a portrait or landscape orientation, allowing for unlimited design options.  

Before you throw out those last pieces of a pack of DSP choose your three pieces you can cut into 3/4" or 1" strips, place them on a cardstock panel, add a message or a simple image and message, and you will find you have a card ready for your next occasion.

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Gather Your Supplies:

  • Paradise Garden bundle (Save 10% when you purchase stamp set & die with bundle item#)
  • Basic White Thick 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
    • 4 x 4 for flowers & leaves
    • 3-1/4 x 7/8
  • Garden Poetry Designer Series Paper (DSP)
    • 4 x 1 (3) three different colors of watercolor wash prints
  • Flirty Flamingo Classic Stampin' Pad
  • Coastal Cabana Classic Stampin' Pad
  • Shaded Spruce Classic Stampin' Pad
  • Stampin' Dimensionals
  • Pearlized Faceted Circles
  • Paper Trimmer
  • Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machine
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Here's How It's Made:

Ink texture stamp with Coastal Cabana, stamp off, then stamp onto Basic White panel, repeating until you have covered enough of the middle part of the panel to allow for random exposure once DSP strips are assembled.


Adhere the three DSP strips, with some overlap on adjacent strip, and at various heights. (I recommend dry fitting first, to check if you need to do any more background stamping before adhering the strips)


On Basic White cardstock, stamp large flower stamp in Flirty Flamingo, two-leaf stamp twice with Coastal Cabana and 5-leaf stamp once with Coastal Cabana.  Die cut all pieces.  Apply adhesive to back of flower and attach leaves.


Adhere flower feature to card front over DSP strips.  
Ink message with Shaded Spruce, stamp onto Basic White cardstock strip.  Adhere over lower part of flowers with Stampin' Dimensionals.


Embellish with Pearlized Faceted Circles.
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Thursday, April 16, 2026

Pop-up Petals Faux Metal Love You Card

Greetings! 

Today's card features the rose image from the Pop-up Petals stamp set on a faux metal panel.  Prints from the Mixed-up Patterns Designer Series Papers provide subtle textures to the background, and a cute little punched heart with a simple "love you" make this card perfect for a variety of occasions.  This would make a great card for upcoming Mother's Day.


Grab your embossing powder, heat tool and VersaMark pad so you too can make a beautiful faux metal panel as the wow! feature on your card.

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Beverly's Tip of the Day

To get the faux metal look requires nothing more than a VersaMark Ink Pad, embossing powder and a heat tool.  For a thick enough embossed surface to stamp an impression into requires at least 4 layers of ink & embossing powder.  

I first tried it with three layers, and the stamp barely made an impression, so I pressed the Versamark pad onto the panel, added more embossing powder, and the heat tool melted it so the faint image was smoothed over.  

The last important step is to press the stamp firmly onto the faux metal surface while it is still warm, press and hold firmly for 30 seconds or so to allow the faux metal to cool, and carefully remove the stamp.  

I was originally going to cut down the panel once I had pressed the image in, but I liked the way the edges were so I left it with the "raw" look.

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Gather Your Supplies:

  • Pop-up Petals stamp set
  • Reason to Celebrate stamp set
  • Bee Builder punch
  • Bubble Bath cardstock 
    • card base 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 scored & folded at 4-1/4
    • scrap for heart punch
  • Basic White cardstock
    • 3-1/2 x 2-1/2 panel
  • Mixed Up Patterns Designer Series Paper (DSP)
    • 5-1/2 x 2-1/4 pink on pink diamond pattern print
    • 5-1/2 x 2 dark gray on gray chevron print
    • 3-3/4 x 3 pink dots on white print
  • Versamark Ink Pad
  • White Embossing powder
  • Silver Embossing powder
  • Rhinestone Basic Jewels
  • Tear & Tape adhesive
  • Paper Trimmer
  • Heat Tool
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Here's How It's Made:

Adhere gray DSP to right side of folded card front, leaving a 1/8" strip of the card base showing on the right edge.  Adhere pink diamond print DSP to left of card front, overlapping gray DSP near center.  Adhere dotted DSP to card front, making sure to apply adhesive to all edges and a little extra in the middle to stay secure when the faux metal piece is attached.



Press Versamark pad onto Basic White cardstock 2-3 times to cover cardstock, sprinkle with silver embossing powder, shake off excess, melt with heat tool to set.  Texture will look quite bumpy after first layer.


Ink panel again, add embossing powder, melt, let cool, ink, add powder, let cool.  Ink one more time, add embossing powder, melt, immediately press stamp onto embossed area while still warm, press and hold firmly.  Allow to cool, remove stamp.  Impression may be more pronounced in some areas depending on thickness of embossing and panel will likely be curled.   


Apply Tear & Tape adhesive to all edges, and one or two more strips in middle to back of faux metal panel.  Adhere to dotted DSP, pressing firmly to flatten.


Ink "love you" with Versamark, stamp onto Bubble Bath cardstock, sprinkle with White embossing powder, shake off excess, melt with heat tool to set, punch with large heart.  Adhere to card at left of flower.


Embellish with small rhinestone.

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Monday, April 13, 2026

Delicate Whispers Country Woods Friend Card

Greetings! 

Today's card features the Delicate Whispers stamp & die bundle and prints from the Country Woods Designer Series Papers (DSP). I had a couple scraps of the Country Woods DSP that worked beautifully with the background print I created, and instead of cutting anything down, I decided the layout worked best with a square card.  

 


Techniques include repeating a stamped image to create a background print and adding color using Sponge Daubers.

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Beverly's Tip of the Day

The small floral and dot stamp from this set worked perfectly to create a background panel.  The stamp is random enough in shape and images to repeatedly stamp, changing direction to sister up to previous stamped images, creating an allover background print.  Lightly tapping color onto flowers using a sponge dauber provides the colored dots.  

The sponge dauber was also used to fill in color on the single die cut flower.  

Sponge daubers are a great tool for grabbing color from an ink pad and stamping onto an image, for creating a background feature, or to daub lightly onto an image to fill in with a bit of color.  Saturation of ink and pressure used on dauber give you a variety of ways to add interest to your stamped creations. 

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Gather Your Supplies:

  • Delicate Whispers bundle (Save 10% when you purchase stamp set & die with bundle item#)
  • Very Vanilla cardstock 
    • card base 9-1/2 x 4-3/4, scored and folded at 4-3/4
  • Basic White cardstock
    • 4 x 3 background panel
    • 1-3/4 x 1-1/2 for die cut flower
  • Country Woods Designer Series Paper (DSP)
    • 4-1/2 x 3-1/4 dark wood print
    • 4 x 1-1/2 white w/light grays and yellows  print
  • Gray Granite Classic Stampin' Pad
  • Poppy Parade Classic Stampin' Pad
  • Timid Tiger Classic Stampin' Pad
  • Sponge Daubers
  • Very Vanilla Baker's Twine
  • Pearlized Faceted Circles
  • Stampin' Dimensionals
  • Paper Trimmer
  • Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machine
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Here's How It's Made:

Ink flower & dot stamp with Gray Granite, stamp onto Basic White cardstock, re-ink and repeat until panel is completely covered with pattern.  Ink sponge daubers with Timid Tiger and Poppy Parade, lightly press onto flowers, alternating colors.  Ink single flower w/leaves stamp with Gray Granite, stamp onto Basic White cardstock, die cut.  Daub Timid Tiger onto petals, Poppy Parade in center.


Adhere dark wood DSP panel vertically to left of folded card front, adhere stamped Basic White panel horizontally to card front, with right edge near right edge of card front.  
Ink sentiment with Gray Granite, stamp near bottom of remaining DSP print slightly right of center.  Adhere 1/2" up from bottom of Basic White panel, with left edge extending 1/4" left of left edge of Basic White panel. Wrap Baker's Twine around a few times, adhere to back of single flower die cut.  Adhere left of sentiment with Stampin' Dimensionals.


Embellish with Pearlized Faceted Circles.

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