Make An Adorable Book Shop Card!

When my husband and I visit a new place, we love to find the downtown areas with cute shops. That’s why I fell in love with the Les Shoppes Suite found on pages 30-31! You can use the DSP to make quick cards by “fussy cutting” the shops, or you can color your own, as I have done here.

Here is what you need to make this card:

  • Flirty Flamingo Cardstock – 7″ x 5-1/2″, score at 2-3/4″ and 3-5/8″ x 3-1/8″
  • Les Shoppes DSP – Small Stores – 5-1/4″ x 2-1/2″
  • Les Shoppes DSP – Yellow & White – 5-1/4″ x 1-1/2″
  • Basic White Cardstock – 5-1/4″ x 4″ and 3-1/2″ x 3″
  • Let’s Go Shopping Bundle (stamps and dies)
  • Memento Tuxedo Black stamp pad (for all elements that are colored with Stampin’ Blends alcohol markers
  • Versafine Black stamp pad (not Stampin’ Up! but recommended for crisp stamped images)
  • Stampin’ Blends – Flirty Flamingo, Daffodil Delight, Granny Apple Green
  • Stampin’ Write Markers – Balmy Blue, Granny Apple Green, Daffodil Delight, Fresh Freesia
  • Loose Frosted Dots
  • Adhesive

Here’s another card you can make with this suite.

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Fresh As A Daisy Suite Collection – Summer Flowers

Do you want to brighten someone’s day this summer? Or maybe you need to make an apology or thank someone for making your day. This suite has you covered! Fresh As A Daisy (page 110 in the 2023-2024 Annual Catalog) has sentiments for friendship, apologizing, thankfulness, and birthday wishes. The stamps are beautiful, or you can use the dies to build your flowers. That is what I did for these cards.

Do you want to make these cards? Here are the supplies I used:

  • Crushed Curry card base – 5-1/2″ x 8-1/2″ folded at 4-1/4″ to make an A2 card
  • Brick & Mortar Embossing Folder – basic white cardstock 5-1/4″ x 4″
  • Fresh As A Daisy DSP – 4″ x 3″
  • Stylish Shapes square die (2nd largest) – Lemon Lolly cardstock
  • Cheerful Daisies bundle – cut the daisy mat and daisy in basic white cardstock
  • Crushed Curry stamp pad
  • Small Blending Brush – use this with the crushed curry stamp pad and shade the inner part of the daisy
  • Stamp the large flower center in crushed curry on the daisy mat
  • Garden Green cardstock – cut two sets of flowers using the largest die
  • Black stamp pad for the sentiment
  • Sentiment die in the Cheerful Daisies dies
  • Adhesive Backed Solid Gems

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Beauty of the Deep Card

Made with the Beauty of the Deep Bundle on page 112 of the 2023-2024 Annual Catalog

It is said that watching fish can relax you. I can say that stamping them has the same effect! This card incorporates a lot of fun techniques, like using ink and spritzers to create watercolor effects on cardstock for the die cuts, using blending brushes to create an ocean background, and using blending brushes directly on stamps to make fish in two (or more!) colors. I’ve demonstrated everything in a set of three videos that you can watch here.

SUPPLIES USED:

  • Azure Afternoon Card Base – 5-1/2″ x 8-1/2″, folded at 4-1/4″
  • Basic White Cardstock – 5-1/4″ x 4″
  • Basic White Cardstock – 5-1/8 x 3-7/8 for the brushed background
  • Basic White Cardstock – 5-1/2″ x 4-1/4″ to do the watercolor technique for the seaweed die cuts
  • Blending Brushes – I used 1 large and 2 small ones
  • Beauty of the Deep Bundle
  • Stamp pads – Azure Afternoon, Tahitian Tide, Starry Sky, Parakeet Party, Black, Pumpkin Pie, Crushed Curry, Fresh Freesia
  • Refill Inks (optional, depending on what technique you want to use to make the watercolor effects on the cardstock for the die cuts): I used Fresh Freesia to get a darker bit of color on the watercolor effects
  • Charming Sentiments Bundle

Here is the video showing how to put the final card together. It has links in the description for the other two videos.

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Celebrate With the Bright & Beautiful Suite Collection

There are so many things for you to love in this suite–Beautiful Balloons stamps and dies, festive DSP (in all the new colors!), and gold on acetate designer paper. It truly IS bright and beautiful! You can see it in the 2023-2024 Annual Catalog on pages 14-15.

This card features two of the new colors–Berry Burst and Azure Afternoon. They are so pretty together! Both of the colors are reflected in the fun confetti DSP. The card measures 5-1/2″ x 4-1/4″. Here are the supplies:

  • Beautiful Balloons Stamp Set and Dies
  • Bright & Beautiful DSP
  • Azure Afternoon Cardstock
  • Berry Burst Cardstock
  • Basic White Cardstock to stamp the balloons and sentiment
  • Berry Burst and Azure Afternoon stamp pads
  • Something Fancy dies for the sentiment and mat
  • Scalloped Contour dies

Here is the video if you would like to see how the card is made.

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