Showing posts with label Beautiful Motifs Bundle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Beautiful Motifs Bundle. Show all posts

Monday, April 27, 2026

BEAUTIFUL GALLERY - PRETTY AS A PICTURE

Happy Monday Stamping Friends!  This week I will be saying goodby to the Beautiful Gallery Suite of Products.

It's always a little sad to see some products leave, but we need to make room for more new and exciting products that will soon arrive.

For this card I die cut a two-piece frame from one of the beautiful designs in the Beautiful Gallery Designer Series Paper (DSP) using a Gallery Blooms die.  I layered the larger outer frame directly to the card front and then popped up the smaller inner frame with dimensionals.


The Gallery Blooms Dies includes many different small floral die cuts.  I cut several of each from Basic White Cardstock and then colored them with Stampin' Blends--no stamping, just coloring the white die cuts with Blends.


Once I had them die cut and colored I arranged them inside the frame.  The colors I used were Mossy Meadow for all the stems and greenery, Calypso Coral and Petal Pink for the flowers.  When it was complete, it reminded me of a window box filled with pretty flowers!

The background behind the "window" is another design from Beautiful Gallery DSP.


For the inside of the card I used the same two DSP designs.  The message layer was die cut with a Beautiful Motifs Die.  I love these dies.  Some do not cut out the complete image.  Rather they just cut portions of the image to create texture.  It provides a very interesting and unexpected effect.

Use this link to download a PDF Tutorial with all the dimensions and step-by-step assembly instructions.

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Friday, July 11, 2025

MOTIF PANELS

How much variety can you achieve with a Greeting Bundle?  That was the challenge I gave myself this week.  I am always drawn to sentiment stamp sets, and when I purchased this bundle that was my main attraction - the greetings.  The beautiful and unique dies were just a bonus for me.  

But today I decided to highlight one of the "non-sentiment" stamps.


I knew this particular stamp would be a great stamp to use to create vintage backgrounds or "grungy" cards, but I wanted to try to feature it as a bright and pretty focal point.


For bright and cheery colors, where better to head than to the 2024 - 2026 In-Colors.  This card uses all 5 of the pretty In-Colors.  One of the things I love most about using In-Colors is that I know the colors all work well together.  Thus, I don't have to stress about color coordination.


The card base is covered with a Pretty in Pink Designer Series Paper (DSP) from the Unbounded Beauty DSP Collection.  The 3 background "focal points" are stamped in Petunia Pop, Peach Pie, and Summer Splash.  And for the 5th In-Color, the fern behind the greeting, was die cut with a Beautiful Motifs Die from Shy Shamrock cardstock.

The sentiment was die cut with a die from Unbounded Love Dies.  To make the card truly elegant, it was wrapped with Striped Iridescent Ribbon and a few Iridescent Faceted Gems were added to the scalloped oval sentiment.


To coordinate with the card front, Pretty in Pink was used to step-up the inside of the card.  The congratulations sentiment was found in the Sunrise Sailing stamp set.

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Wednesday, July 9, 2025

THANKS FOR EVERYTHING

As I share ideas using the Beautiful Motifs Bundle this week, I have challenged myself to try to show how much variety can be achieved with this bundle.  Since this stamp set is mainly a Greeting Stamp set, this has been a good challenge for me as it has forced me to work a bit outside of my comfort zone.


The purpose of today's card is to show the possibilities with the amazing dies that come with this bundle.

Three of the five dies create partial cuts rather than the traditional full die cuts.


I chose a design from the Beautiful Gallery Designer Series Paper (DSP) that would show off two of the "filagree" dies.  I wanted a subtle pattern on the DSP so the cuts and texture created with these unique dies would be highlighted.


Partial sections of the filigrees are cut through while other sections remain connected.  After cutting, I gently lifted the cut sections to maximize the texture.

While these two dies could certainly be used alone, I thought they worked very well together.  I placed one above the greeting and one below to subtly draw attention to the sentiment.

The Calypso Coral for the card base and Basic Beige for the sentiment was chosen based on the DSP.  But then I felt I needed a pop of color, however, being the color-challenged person that I am, I was stumped.  My first thought was a shade of green, but I wasn't sold on any of the shades I tried.   So, I consulted my Color Coach. One of the suggestions was Mossy Meadow, but since I had just used that on Monday's card, I really wanted something else.  Another suggestion was Night of Navy, a color I never would have come up with on my own.  I laid a piece of Night of Navy next to the card, and voila!  That was it!

I embellished the sentiment with the little piece of shimmery Calypso Coral Ribbon and Adhesive Backed Pearls -- both of which are now retired.  I'm a huge proponent to use what you have.  You bought it because you liked it, right?  So use it!


For the inside of card I added a layer of Night of Navy and then used a scrap strip of the DSP from the card front to add a bit more interest.  But honestly, I think the Night of Navy "made" this card -- both on the inside and out!


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Monday, July 7, 2025

BEAUTIFUL GALLERY

The Beautiful Motifs Bundle, which is part of the Beautiful Gallery Suite, is my featured bundle this week.  Here is my first card for the week.  It is super simple!


Since the Beautiful Motifs Stamp set is mainly comprised of sentiments, I had to lean on the rest of the Suite a bit to create my card.

The focal point of this card is from the Beautiful Gallery 6" x 6" Designer Series Paper (DSP).


I added a Mossy Meadow stem die cut to the scene which was created with one of the Beautiful Motifs dies.  Choose one of the scenes in the Beautiful Gallery DSP, add a die cut stem and you have a quick and simple card.

The Basic Beige background was embossed with the Damask Designed Embossing Folder which is also part of the suite.


The sentiment from, Beautiful Motifs, was stamped on Basic Beige and die cut with a Perennial Postage die.  Before adding the sentiment to the card front some Mossy Meadow Linen Thread was wrapped in circles and adhered to the back of the sentiment. 

If you are a lover of Linen Thread, like most of us are, this Natural Tones Linen Thead pack is on the Last Chance list.  And even better, it is 30% off!  Be sure to check it out in the product list below.


I think I am in a rut when comes to decorating the inside of my cards!  So, rather than one decorative DSP strip, I added two!  WOW!  What a change right?  LOL

I definitely need to add "create some decorative ideas for the inside of card" on my to do list!

Use this link to download a FREE TUTORIAL with all the dimensions and step-by-step directions.  You could probably figure this one out by just the photos, but I hope you find the directions useful.  

I do my best to make easy-to-follow tutorials for all my cards, but if you have suggestions as to how they can be improved, please leave me a comment.

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