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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Candy Cane Christmas Cards Using the Stamparatus

I love Christmas, and I love making Christmas cards! My husband asked me, “Does it feel weird making Christmas cards in July?” I didn’t miss a beat. “Nope! It’s always a good time to make Christmas cards!” I’ve already made cards using the Lights Aglow Suite, so this time, I decided to play with the Sweetest Christmas Suite.

For this card, I die cut the candy canes from the Sweetest Christmas Designer Series Paper (DSP), then used three other patterns in the DSP on the card–seems like that is a LOT of different patterns, but they work so well together.

Sweetest Christmas DSP – page 9 in the July-December 2022 Mini Catalog

I also used the Scalloped Contour Dies and ribbon from the Red & Garden Green 3/8″ Ribbon Combo Pack.

The sentiment requires two stamps, so it is perfect for the Stampin’ Up! Stamparatus. This precision placement tool makes card making quick and easy when you have multiple items to stamp and the placements have to be in the correct place. Using the Christmas Banners stamp set, I put the banner on one of the Stamparatus plates, and the ‘Tis the Season sentiment stamp on the other plate. Then you just have to ink them up, swing the plate onto the paper, and apply gentle pressure.

Pro tip! Put the stamp set box underneath the plate. It’s the perfect height to give you a level surface to ink up the stamp.
Inking the sentiment stamp on plate #2.
The finished product!
All that is left is to die cut the sentiment and place it on the card using Stampin’ Dimensionals.

Using the Stamparatus is fun, efficient, and quick. It is worth its weight in gold if you are making multiple cards of the same design.

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