April Pal’s Blog Hop
Welcome to the Stampin’ Pretty Pals’ Blog Hop!
This month, the theme is See How My Garden Grows. We hope to inspire you with our creations today! You will find the lineup at the end of my post to help you “hop” along from Pal to Pal.
I made two beautiful Samplers this month using the squares from Stamping Joy Club 3″ square swap. The Samplers have everything that reminds me of my gardens- flowers, butterflies, birds and unfortunately bunnies. We try to keep the bunnies out since they eat everything. My husband, Steve, pointed out that my gardens don’t have turtles, but I bet some do. 🙂
You can mount your squares on the white cardboard that comes in the Designer Series Paper packs. You can also use colored cardstock or DSP. Each square is so unique and beautiful! If you don’t have a use for Samplers, you can also make the squares into beautiful cards.
Here’s my square made into a card.
Measurements & Details
- Sweetly Scripted stamp set-Online Exclusive
- Basics 3D embossing folder- Online Exclusive
- Paper Florist dies-Retiring soon 50 % off
- Melon Mambo cardstock (CS) 5-1/2″ x 8-1/2″- card base
- Azure Afternoon CS (2) 3/4″ x 3″
- Azure Afternoon CS cut with Stylish Shapes largest square
Directions to cut the Double Step card base:
With the short side of the card base at the top, line up the left edge in the Paper
Trimmer at 1” (2.5cm). Cut from 3-¼” (8cm) down to 7-½” (18.5cm)
Move paper over to 4-½” (12.4cm) and again cut from 3-¼” (8cm) down to 7-½”
(18.5cm). You now have two parallel cut lines.
Turn paper to the left with the long side at the top and the cuts toward the right side.
Score from the top down to cut line at 3-¼”, 6-½” and 7-½”. (8cm, 16cm, and 18.5cm).
Turn the paper over so you can do the same thing with the other long side at the top.
With the long side still at the top, put the left edge at 4-¼” ( 10.5cm) and score between
the cut lines from 1” down to 4-½” ( 2.5cm down to 12.4cm)
Burnish score lines with Bone Folder.
Video
Here’s a video showing how to make a different Double Step Card.
Here’s some other projects I made with the Paper Florist dies. Get them before they’re gone.
More inspiration awaits, so use the lineup below to visit the rest of the Design Team. Please mark your calendars for our next blog hop next month, when our theme will be Fun Family Occasions.
Until then, have fun in your craft space.
Stampin’ Pretty Pals Blog Hop
- Mary Fish at Stampin’ Pretty
- Deb Walker at Deb Stamps Life
- Mary Hanson at Up North Stampin’
- Windy Ellard at Windy’s Wonderful Creations
- Debbie Crowley at expressively deb…
- Beth McCullough at Stamping Mom
- Su Mohr at Aromas And Art
- Sue Jackson at Just Peachy Stamping
- Peggy Noe at Pretty Paper Cards
- Rae Burnet at Wild West Paper Arts
- Melissa Seplowitz at The Stamping Ninja
- Tricia Chuba at ButterDish Designs
- Debbie Mageed at Secrets to Stamping
- Stesha Bloodhart at Stampin’ Hoot!
- Karen Hallam at Karen’s Stamping Habit
- Pamela Sadler at Stampin Pink Rose
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Here’s one of our Samplers made by Stamping Joy Club. Everyone makes nine 3″ x 3″ square and we swap them and then have a Zoom party to put them together. You can join Stamping Joy Club and make a new Sampler with us every three months. If you don’t want a Sampler you can make cards from these swaps as well. The card below is made with my 3″ swap.
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The die I used on the card above is from the Scalloped Contours dies which is on sale and retiring on April or while supplies last. You can get it here.
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