This month’s Flowers in Bloom theme couldn’t be more perfect for the month of May when everything starts to feel alive again! From soft petals to bold blooms, today’s projects are packed with fresh floral inspiration to help you create something beautiful. Whether you love clean and simple designs or layers of color and texture, you’re going to love hopping along with us!
Here’s my hidden flap fun fold Moonlit Flora card:
A friend asked for a wedding card in Earth tones for a beach wedding, Honestly, at first I was stumped. An Earth tone wedding card for a beach wedding with 4 days notice. Not only that, she needed two that were kind of the same but different. Enter the Moonlit Flora Suite. These colors, DSP (designer series papers), the embossing folder – all of it screams Earth tones that are gorgeous enough for a wedding card.
Of course, since this is a fun fold, I will be uploading it in the Creative Creases Challenge gallery as a design team member.
Since I’ve never used this suite of products, it’s eligible to be uploaded to the Never-Before-Used-Schtuff challenge.
I love this fun fold and have used it many, many times. Just some of the reasons I love it is that it fits inside a medium envelope, it combines layers and papers beautifully, adds texture with the embossed panel, and is just plain a show stopper. You can see some of my previous cards here, here,here, and here. Believe me, I could’ve kept adding links, but you can see how versatile and fabulous each completed card turned out. This fun fold makes perfect use of a 6″ by 6″ piece of DSP since you only lose 1/4 off the top or bottom. I just trimmed a piece of the Moonlit Flora DSP to 5-1/4 by 6 inches, then cut it in half so I had two 5-1/4 by 3 inch pieces of DSP for this card.
I used Secret Sea cardstock for the base and the new gorgeous Golden Glow for the mats and ribbon.
Here’s the template with all the measurements:
You will also need a piece of DSP trimmed to 6 by 2-1/2 inches for the envelope flap
Punch a 1-inch circle from coordinating DSP and run it through your XYRON create-a-sticker for the envelope seal
What I Did:
Unless otherwise noted, I used multipurpose liquid glue to adhere the pieces together
After trimming and scoring the Secret Sea cardstock base, I trimmed two pieces of Golden Glow cardstock to 5-3/8 inches by 3-1/8 inches and adhered one to the front flap and one to the inside flap on the right side as shown
Making sure you have the DSP pieces in the proper order (from left to right), adhere them to the Golden Glow cardstock
After dry embossing a piece of Mossy Meadow cardstock using the 3D Fern and Flora embossing folder, trim the cardstock to 3-1/8 by 5-3/8 inches
After adding white craft ink to the white craft stamp pad, lightly drag it along the embossed side of the Mossy Meadow cardstock
HINT: Go slow and have a very light hand so you can keep as much ink as possible only on the raised design
I did have to add a few layers of color, making sure that the ink dried completely between layers
Adhere the embossed cardstock to the flap of the base of the card as shown
Using Golden Glow ribbon, make a loopy loop bow (see below) and attach it to the DSP using glue dots
After wiping down a scrap piece of Mossy Meadow cardstock, stamp your sentiment using VeraMark ink
Cover the sentiment with white embossing powder and heat set it with your heat tool
Crop the sentiment using one of the Nested Essentials Dies and add dimensionals to the back of it
Adhere the sentiment to the front of the card making sure that the dimensionals straddle the bow
Finally, add three of 2026-2028 In Color white butterflies to the front sentiment
All 3 of my butterflies actually cover tiny spots of white embossing powder that I didn’t get off before I heat set the powder
With that, I’d finished this coordinated card, envelope and envelope seal set.
Loopy Loop Bow:
I was able to watch Mary Deatherage’s, from Stamps -n- Lingers, Perfectly Pears tutorial. In that video, she showed her loopy-loop bow. That’s what I used for the front of my card. I’m bow-challenged and this technique allows me to relatively easily add ribbon without adding the bulk of a tied bow. If you’ve never seen her videos, you owe it to yourself to watch them. I think she’s the Queen of the Collage. Gorgeous cards!!
Back to the Stampin’ Pretty Pals’ Blog Hop:
Thank you for stopping by and hopping with us today! We hope our Flowers in Bloom projects brought you lots of creative inspiration. Next month we’ll be sharing projects featuring the NEW In Color family, and we can’t wait to show you just how amazing these fresh new colors are.
Now it’s time to keep the inspiration going! Follow the lineup below to see even more great projects! And I hope to see you again next month.
New team members who purchase their Starter Kit from May 5–31 will be able to choose between these two offers:
Free 2026–2028 In Color Stampin’ Pads with Starter Kit
$160 USD | $215 CAD worth of products in their Starter Kit for just $99 USD | $135 CAD (that’s an extra $35 USD | $50 CAD value!)
New demonstrators who submit their Independent Demonstrator Agreement (IDA) before May 5 or after May 31 will not be eligible for these offers.
The February and April Products of the Month Are Still Available!
If you love exclusive products, you’re going to love Product of the Month, a promotion centered around a special product release every month. The Product of the Month items are specially designed to be some of the best items Stampin’ Up! has to offer that aren’t available in any of our catalogs or our Online Exclusives. Every month we’ll release a new item that is only available for purchase once per account. These items will be limited quantity and are likely to sell out quickly—once they’re sold out, they’re gone for good!
May’s Product of the Month: BERRY BOTANICAL VELLUM 12″ X 12″ (30.5 X 30.5 CM) SPECIALTY DESIGNER SERIES PAPER
Product detail
Enhance your paper crafting and card making with Berry Botanical Vellum 12″ x 12″ (30.5 x 30.5 cm) Specialty Designer Series Paper. This paper includes four sheets: two sheets of florals and two versatile designs that coordinate with the florals or stand alone. Use as backgrounds or cut out individual elements to use as accents.
The Berry Botanical Vellum 12″ x 12″ (30.5 x 30.5 cm) Designer Series Paper is the exclusive Product of the Month for May 2026! Only available until stocks run out—don’t wait to get yours!
DETAILS – May 2026 Product of the Month – 12 sheets: 3 each of 4 single-sided designs – 12″ x 12″ (30.5 x 30.5 cm) – Acid and lignin free (this product is photo-safe) – Colors: Bubble Bath, Flirty Flamingo, Fresh Freesia, Golden Glow, Hydrangea Hue, Misty Moonlight, Peaceful Pine, Soft Sea Foam, Strawberry Slush
DESIGNER SERIES PAPER – Can be used for card making, scrapbooking, and other paper crafts! – Features exclusive designs by in-house Stampin’ Up! artists. – Complements other Stampin’ Up! products and colors.
PRODUCT OF THE MONTH – Is a new exclusive product released each month! – Can be unlocked for just $5 with orders over $75 (after discounts and rewards). – Is only available while supplies last—they can sell out quickly! – Is limited to one per customer (including language versions).
The Eyelet Blooms Die for April is still available!
The Eyelet Blooms Die is the finishing touch you didn’t know you needed. Whether you’re crafting a card or creating a scrapbook page, it transforms the space with soft texture and refined detail. Its intricate pattern creates a full background that fills large areas beautifully for a polished, handcrafted look in one easy cut.
If you live in the U.S. and don’t already have a Stampin’ UP! demo from whom you order, I would be honored to work with you.
Please check out the challenge’s page for the creations by the other very talented design team members. When you’ve created your own card for our challenge, please don’t forget to upload them to our gallery. We’d love for you to play along.
Here’s my card:
Here’s the AHSC #680 sketch:
White the Perfectly Pears products are recently retired, I hope you can find some inspiration in my project.
Measurements:
Trim the Secret Sea baes to 8-1/2 by 5-1/2 inches, scored at 4-1/4 inches
Trim a piece of Petal Pink cardstock to 4-1/8 by 5-3/8 inches
If you are using a directional pattern piece of DSP (designer series paper) 5-3/8 inches high, trim it to 7/8″ , 1-7/8″, and 7/8″
Trim 6 pieces of coordinating DSP to 7/8 by 1-1/4 inches for the side pieces
Trim another piece of DSP to 6 by 2-1/2 inches for the envelope flap
Punch a 1-inch circle of coordinating cardstock and run it through the XYRON create-a-sticker for the envelope seal
Trim a piece of DSP to 3/4 by 4 inches for the inside of the card
Crop a piece of Petal Pink cardstock using one of the Nested Essentials dies
Use scraps for the sentiment banner
Since I used the Perfectly Pears DSP, I used the dies to crop the pears and leaves from the DSP
Crop two sets of leafs/branches from scraps of Mossy Meadow cardstock
Trim a piece of white cardstock to 4 by 5-1/4 inches for the inside of the card
What I Did:
Unless otherwise noted, I used multipurpose liquid glue to adhere pieces together
Adhere the Petal Pink cardstock to the base of the card
Space the three strips of DSP and adhere them to the Petal Pink mat
Adhere the 6 pieces of the coordinating DSP to the outside strips of DSP
Use a length of ribbon to create a loopy loop and adhere it together and to the front of the card using glue dots
Directions for the loopy loop below
Stamp flower from the Perfectly Pears stamp set on the Petal Pink cropped piece using the same color ink
Add dimensionals to the back of the Petal Pink cardstock making sure to have them straddle the loopy loop bow and adhere to the front of the card
Adhere the leaves/branches to the piece of Petal Pink cardstock
Then adhere the pears
Stamp the sentiment using Secret Sea ink and crop using one of the Stylish Shapes dies
Add dimensionals behind the cropped sentiment and adhere
Stamp the inside sentiment using Secret Sea ink and adhere to the inside of the card
Adhere the strip of DSP to the inside bottom of the card
With that, I finished with coordinated card, envelope, and envelope seal set.
Loopy Loop Bow:
I was able to watch Mary Deatherage’s, from Stamps -n- Lingers, Perfectly Pears tutorial. In that video, she showed her loopy-loop bow. That’s what I used for the front of my card. I’m bow-challenged and this technique allows me to relatively easily add ribbon without adding the bulk of a tied bow. If you’ve never seen her videos, you owe it to yourself to watch them. I think she’s the Queen of the Collage. Gorgeous cards!!
New team members who purchase their Starter Kit from May 5–31 will be able to choose between these two offers:
Free 2026–2028 In Color Stampin’ Pads with Starter Kit
$160 USD | $215 CAD worth of products in their Starter Kit for just $99 USD | $135 CAD (that’s an extra $35 USD | $50 CAD value!)
New demonstrators who submit their Independent Demonstrator Agreement (IDA) before May 5 or after May 31 will not be eligible for these offers.
The February and April Products of the Month Are Still Available!
If you love exclusive products, you’re going to love Product of the Month, a promotion centered around a special product release every month. The Product of the Month items are specially designed to be some of the best items Stampin’ Up! has to offer that aren’t available in any of our catalogs or our Online Exclusives. Every month we’ll release a new item that is only available for purchase once per account. These items will be limited quantity and are likely to sell out quickly—once they’re sold out, they’re gone for good!
May’s Product of the Month: BERRY BOTANICAL VELLUM 12″ X 12″ (30.5 X 30.5 CM) SPECIALTY DESIGNER SERIES PAPER
Product detail
Enhance your paper crafting and card making with Berry Botanical Vellum 12″ x 12″ (30.5 x 30.5 cm) Specialty Designer Series Paper. This paper includes four sheets: two sheets of florals and two versatile designs that coordinate with the florals or stand alone. Use as backgrounds or cut out individual elements to use as accents.
The Berry Botanical Vellum 12″ x 12″ (30.5 x 30.5 cm) Designer Series Paper is the exclusive Product of the Month for May 2026! Only available until stocks run out—don’t wait to get yours!
DETAILS – May 2026 Product of the Month – 12 sheets: 3 each of 4 single-sided designs – 12″ x 12″ (30.5 x 30.5 cm) – Acid and lignin free (this product is photo-safe) – Colors: Bubble Bath, Flirty Flamingo, Fresh Freesia, Golden Glow, Hydrangea Hue, Misty Moonlight, Peaceful Pine, Soft Sea Foam, Strawberry Slush
DESIGNER SERIES PAPER – Can be used for card making, scrapbooking, and other paper crafts! – Features exclusive designs by in-house Stampin’ Up! artists. – Complements other Stampin’ Up! products and colors.
PRODUCT OF THE MONTH – Is a new exclusive product released each month! – Can be unlocked for just $5 with orders over $75 (after discounts and rewards). – Is only available while supplies last—they can sell out quickly! – Is limited to one per customer (including language versions).
The Eyelet Blooms Die for April is still available!
The Eyelet Blooms Die is the finishing touch you didn’t know you needed. Whether you’re crafting a card or creating a scrapbook page, it transforms the space with soft texture and refined detail. Its intricate pattern creates a full background that fills large areas beautifully for a polished, handcrafted look in one easy cut.
If you live in the U.S. and don’t already have a Stampin’ UP! demo from whom you order, I would be honored to work with you.
I’ve used the Lights of Aurora 6″ by 6″ DSP (designer series paper) and the Lights of Wonder stamp set. While the stamp set is unavailable, this stunning DSP is still available for purchase! I cut the DSP to 5-1/4 by 1/2 inch strips, then changed the order around to get a more random placement of the DSP.
Please check out the challenge’s page for the creations by the other very talented design team members. When you’ve created your own card for our challenge, please don’t forget to upload them to our gallery. We’d love for you to play along.
Here’s my card:
Here’s the challenge sketch:
Instead of using different DSP patterns, by randomly placing the strips of DSP on the card, I was able to follow more of the sketch. I also placed my ribbon horizontally instead of vertically. However, the sketch inspiration is definitely evident in my card. All is well. Life is good.
This month, we’re speaking the Language of Love! If you’re craving inspiration and a good excuse to break out your favorite craft supplies, you’re in the right place. This hop is all about sharing the love through handmade cards and paper crafts, and the Pals can’t wait to inspire you with beautiful creations made using Stampin’ Up! products.
Here are just some of the 20 Valentine’s Day cards I made for my second grade great-niece to share with her classmates. I used the same layout and supplies with different paper patterns.
I’m in the process of making her brother’s class set of Valentine’s, and you can see them here.
What I Did:
When I am mass-producing cards, I get all my trimming, stamping, and cropping done first
When I put the cards together, I added all the DSP pieces, then went back and added the cardstock, heart, arrows, and dinosaurs
I used the Stampin’ Up! notecards and trimmed them in half for the bases of the postcards
The one pack of 20 notecards gave me enough postcards for both class sets of cards for my great-nephew and his sister
After running pieces of cardstock through the Cut & Emboss Machine using the Hearts of Love 3D embossing folder, I trimmed them all to 4-7/8 by 2-3/8 inches
I used Strawberry Slush, Flirty Flamingo, and Bubble Bath cardstock for these mats, all three of which are part of the color pallet for the Made with Love DSP
For both sets of cards, I trimmed 4 12″ x 12″ inch Made with Love pieces of DSP (designer series paper) to 4-inch strips, then trimmed those down to 3 inch x 2-1/2 inch pieces of DSP
If you are using directional DSP, make sure you pay attention to the orientation of the paper
I needed something to anchor the dinosaur, so I embossed a piece of cardstock using the Hearts of Love embossing folder and trimmed strips to 3/4 by 4-3/8 inches
I stamped all the hearts and sentiments using Strawberry Slush on white cardstock
After trimming down the white sentiment cardstock to 1-3/4 by 2-1/2 inches, I outlined each using the Strawberry Slush marker (which now appears to be buried somewhere on my desk)
I used multipurpose liquid glue to adhere all the pieces together
Back to the Pals’ Blog Hop:
Keep the inspiration going! Follow the lineup below to hop from blog to blog and soak up every lovely, heart-filled idea along the way. And don’t stop there! Next month we’re celebrating all things Birthday Celebrations, and it’s going to be a party you won’t want to miss. Be sure to mark your calendar and hop along with us!
Welcome to the weekly Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge! Challenge #654 is for Team B, which is my team. I love getting kickstarted with a sketch, then just letting the card come together. Sometimes, I know exactly what I want to do. Other times, like for this week’s challenge, the card evolves. Everyone on Team A and Team B would all love for you to play along with the sketches and then post your creations to the challenge gallery. Don’t forget to come back tomorrow to see the creations of the design team. We hope our projects inspire you to play along with us.
Here’s my slimline grateful heart card:
Here’s the sketch for #654:
Measurements & More:
The Early Espresso base measures 8-1/2 by 7 inches, scored at 3-1/2 inches
The Gathering Together Specialty DSP (designer series paper) measures 8-1/4 by 3-1/4 inches
I used the retired Autumn Leaves stamp and die sets to stamp and crop all the leaves and branches. I used Cajun Craze, Darling Duckling, and Timid Tiger inks on Basic Beige cardstock. The branches also come from that die set and I cropped them from Early Espresso cardstock. I also trimmed a piece of Early Espresso DSP to go behind the sentiment label.
To coordinate with the gold in the Gathering Together plaid Specialty DSP, I cropped three leaves from the Seasons of Elegance DSP.
The ribbon under the sentiment label is actually white diagonal ribbon that I colored with the dark Timid Tiger blend.
The bottom layer of leaves and branches were adhered using multipurpose liquid glue.
I used dimensionals to adhere the top layer of leaves and the sentiment panel to the front of the card.
Thank you for stopping by today!
Have a Peachy Day!
Sue
Happy Fall Y’all!
It doesn’t get much more southern than to say y’all. I still remember the look of astonishment on the faces of my many relatives on Long Island, where I was born and raised, the first time I’d said it in front of them. Of course, I’d lived here three or four years by then. Can you imagine saying y’all with a Long Island accent? Yes, it was that interesting, to say the least.
Stampin’ Up! has a fabulous suite for all your Happy Fall projects and cards. While the whole suite is a must-have, the DSP is stunning! I miss real falls, even raking leaves!
Here’s a close-up of the DSP:
I’ll be posting a slimline card using the plaid DSP pattern on the top row tomorrow. Make sure you come back to see the beautiful gold foil, Basic Beige, and Crushed Curry plaid. Such pretty paper!
If you have any questions, or need a bit of a creative mojo boost, you can reach me at my [email protected].
If you live in the U.S. and don’t already have a Stampin’ UP! demo from whom you order, I would be honored to work with you.
Once again, I am honored to be a guest designer for the October Creative Creases Challenge #108. As always, the theme for the challenge is Anything Goes with a Fun Fold, and if you’ve been following my blog you already know I love finding new fun folds! Here’s the link to the Creative Creases Challenge #108!
I have another latch fold card for you, but this time it’s for a birthday! You can see some of my other latch fold cards here, here, here, and here.
Here’s my birthday wishes latch fold card:
One of the things I absolutely love about this card is that it is so easy to change up the front of the card, as you can tell by my other posts.
Here’s the basic template that I use and revise as needed:
Putting the Card Together:
I stamped the pears on Darling Duckling cardstock using the same ink instead of adding another layer of paper
One of the great things about this DSP is that the Painterly Pears dies will crop the large and small pears, trios of leaves, and the trio of Petal Pink flowers
I didn’t need to color anything by using the DSP and dies
The only place I used dimensionals was for the latch, as shown in the last picture
The dimensionals need to be on the right side of the latch holder
I used the banner dies from the Fright Night dies and love the way this turned out
This card is bulky and will need extra postage
I’m off to work on another latch fold card, but this one is for my niece’s wedding
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Welcome to Just Peachy Stamping by Sue Jackson: an independent Stampin' Up demonstrator.
Through Stampin' Up!, I happily share my love of papercrafting through sales, classes, small stamping group meet-ups and workshops. I think that being a teacher in my "real life", I have a unique approach to sharing my fantastic hobby. I look forward to connecting with you!
