Have you noticed that Stampin’ Up! has been designing papers that work with their punches and dies? The first few times I was a bit skeptical that just cutting images out of paper would allow me to create a beautiful card. It sounded something like what I did in grade school.
But no more, especially with Stampin’ Up!’s newest online-only suite: Hello, Irresistible. When I saw the samples that they showed in their introductory flyer about this suite, I knew I had to see if I could create cards that I liked just as much as theirs. Success! And I did it with die-cut images.
This card is made with several products from the new suite of products. The Hello, Irresistible Designer Series Paper is the background. The stamped splash marks and the die-cut image in the center are also from the suite. But what I’d like you to focus on for this article are those beautiful flowers. The flowers and the leaves aren’t stamped – they’re die-cut from prints in the same paper set as the background layer. The idea for this card came from a square card in one of the Stampin’ Up! product flyers.
This card is also based on a card in a Stampin’ Up! flyer. And those flowers and leaves are also die-cut from the same set of papers. No fancy stamping and embossing here. Just some quick and easy die-cutting! Let me show you how.
Let's focus on three of the prints in the Hello, Irresistible Designer Series Paper set that’s now on sale.
This first sheet has images you can cut with both floral outline dies in the Irresistible Blooms Dies. There are three of the larger flowers available to cut and four of the smaller flowers. You can take this entire 6” x 6” sheet of paper and run it through the full-size Stampin’ Cut ‘n Emboss machine. Notice how the color of this print moves from yellow to pink. There are several different colors of flowers that can be cut.
The sheet is the same print as the first, but colored mostly with a darker pink. When you cut from this paper, the flowers are going to be a bolder color than when you cut from the first sheet.
This is one of two sheets with leaves that you can cut with three of the dies in the Irresistible Blooms die set. You can actually get all three dies onto the paper at the same time for one run through the cutting machine. I didn’t try to count the number of leaf sets you can get from this. It’s a lot!
Here’s a list of all the products used to make the two cards:
- Basic White Thick Cardstock, 8-1/2” x 5-1/2”, folded at left (card base)
- Floral style leaf print paper from Hello, Irresistible set, 4-1/4” x 5-1/2”
- Basic White Cardstock, 4” x 5-1/4”, die cut with circle dies from Irresistible Blooms set
- Flower and Leaf prints from the Hello, Irresistible set, for die-cutting flowers and leaves
- Soft Succulent Ink for stamping the splashes and sentiment onto the card front
- Soft Succulent rounds from the 2021-2023 In Color Opal Rounds set
- Multipurpose Glue, or adhesive of your choice (Use some small dots of Multipurpose Glue on the back of the die-cut dots on the rings around the inside edge of the circular die-cut)
- Daffodil Delight Cardstock, 8-1/2” x 5-1/2”, folded at left (card base)
- Pink and Yellow watercolor print from Hello, Irresistible paper set, 4” x 5-1/4”
- Floral and leaf prints from the Hello, Irresistible paper set, for die-cutting flowers and leaves (the small set of leaves is on the inside of the card)
- Basic White Cardstock for die-cutting line and circle image; 4” x 5-1/4” for inside the card
- Soft Sea Foam Cardstock, large scrap for stamping and die-cutting
- Stylish Shapes Dies, for die-cutting sentiment label
- Soft Succulent Ink, for stamping sentiment
- Irresistible Blooms Bundle, for die-cutting flowers and stamped sentiment
- Soft Succulent and Pale Papaya rounds from 2021-2023 In Color Opal Rounds set
- Adhesive Sheets for use when die-cutting line and circle image
- Multipurpose Glue, or adhesive of your choice
- Stampin’ Dimensionals, for attaching sentiment label
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