Artful Amaryllis

The Artful Amaryllis Bundle features the amaryllis flower. It is a beautiful flower that grows from a bulb and is easily grown inside. We usually see it around Christmas, but the flower symbolizes love. Therefore, it can be used to make Christmas, Valentine’s, Anniversary, or Birthday cards.

You can find some beautiful examples on page 48 of the September – December Mini Catalog. The example below uses Artful Amaryllis to make a beautiful birthday card. 

Artful Amaryllis Birthday

How It’s Made

The card base is Real Red cut at 5 ½” x 8 ½” and scored and folded at 4 ¼”.

Next, add a layer Old Olive cut to 5” x 3 ¾”.

Cut a Basic White layer 3 ½” x 4 ¾” and die cut with the Deckled Circle Dies. After die cutting the circle, emboss with the Forever Plaid embossing folder. Before attaching this piece to the card, put a 3 ¼” square behind the circle. This card uses a piece of DSP from the Season of Green & Gold DSP.

Next, stamp the amaryllis flower on Basic White using Tuxedo Memento Black ink. Use Real Red and Old Olive to stamp the “fill in” for the flowers and leaves. Die cut using the matching die from Artful Amaryllis. Attach with Dimensionals.

Stamp the sentiment on Basic White using Real Red, die cut with the Deckled Rectangles. Cut a rectangle out of Old Olive to fit behind the sentiment and attach with Dimensionals.

Be sure to add this beautiful bundle to your next order and start creating.

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Cake Fancy Shaker Card

Cake Fancy Shaker Front

If you’ve looked closely at the 2024-2025 Annual Catalog, you’ve probably seen the shaker card on page 122. The sample uses the Clear Medium Envelopes to make a Quick & Easy shaker card front. I decided to tweak this idea a little for more dimension and we made this Cake Fancy Shaker Card in my monthly Stamp Class.

Cake Fancy Shaker Card

I know it’s hard to see in the picture, but we added three score lines with our Simply Scored Tool directly on the card front. These are just above the Designer Series Paper (DSP) for a little extra dimension.

We stamped the cake on a smaller panel and enclosed it in one of the Clear Medium envelopes, folded and taped the excess to the back of the panel (not too tightly or your shaker elements won’t move freely) and attached the shaker to our card front with Dimensionals.

Cake Fancy Shaker Inside

Cake Fancy Shaker Inside

To make the inside stamping a bit easier in class, I attached both the Birthday Wishes stamp and the ribbon with bow stamp to a single block so they could be inked and stamped at the same time without having to line them up perfectly each time.

Cake Fancy Shaker Detail

Cake Fancy Shaker Detail

We added a twine bow to the outside of the shaker panel with a couple of glue dots to finish this card.

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Quick & Easy Sweet Peas Birthday

Sweet Pea Birthday

Today’s project is a Quick & Easy card using the Sweet Peas Stamp Set. In my monthly classes, I always select one card that can be made with limited time. When you’re crunched for time and need a card, these are the ones that fill the bill! And who hasn’t been there?!

Sweet Peas Birthday

Sweet Peas Stamp Set

Isn’t this set adorable? I especially love little GrumPea! He’s so cute. Of course I used the peas with the party hat and blower for my card.

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