Sunshine & Tulips Card Idea + FREE TUTORIAL


Hello Reader,

Spring is blooming in today’s card project! 🌷 I’m featuring the Sunshine & Tulips Bundle and turning yesterday’s FREE card sketch into a bright, clean & simple design you can easily recreate. Even better—I’ve included a FREE tutorial so you can follow along step-by-step and make it your own!

NEW product spotlight: sunshine & tulips bundle

Today’s card creation is brought to you by the Sunshine & Tulips Bundle (item … and I’m officially obsessed! These tulips are so easy to stamp, layer and the coordinating dies make cutting a breeze. I especially love how the simple tulip shapes are perfect for clean & simple cards, but still feel finished and eye-catching.

And can we talk about that sentiment? “If friends were flowers, I’d pick you.”
It’s just the cutest little touch for spring cards, happy mail, and thoughtful handmade notes.

I cropped the Thinking of You sentiment with the Textured Notes Die, then shortened the die to fit using my favorite quick trick—shown in the WOW! Video below.

video preview

measure & cut (from bottom to top):

card base:

  • Crumb Cake Cardstock: 4 1/4 x 11, scored at 5 1/2

layers (before die-cutting):

  • Very Vanilla Cardstock: 4 1/4 x 5 1/2
  • Flirty Flamingo, Strawberry Slush Cardstock: scraps adhered to an Adhesive Sheet (tulip petals)
  • Old Olive, Mossy Meadow Cardstock: scraps adhered to an Adhesive Sheet (tulips leaves)
  • Crumb Cake Cardstock: 2 1/2 x 3/4 (sentiment)

stamp (clear blocks or stamp positioning tool):

  • Stamp the sentiment (Sunshine & Tulips Stamp Set) in Strawberry Slush Classic Ink onto the Crumb Cake sentiment layer.

crop, cut, assemble, adhere & embellish:

  • Burnish the fold of the card base with a Bone Folder.
  • Use a Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machine (Standard) to crop the Very Vanilla Cardstock with the Sunshine & Tulips background die.
  • Adhere to the card base with Stampin' Dimensionals.
  • Use a Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machine (Standard or Mini) to crop the Flirty Flamingo & Strawberry Slush Cardstock with the Tulip Petals die and the Old Olive & Mossy Meadow Cardstock with the Tulip Leaves die.
  • Remove the adhesive backing of the cropped pieces and adhere to the Very Vanilla tulip petal (from the cropped layer) and the tulip leaves (on the cropped layer).
  • Adhere the tulip petals as shown with a Stampin' Dimensionals.
  • Use a Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machine (Standard) to crop the sentiment with the Textured Notes die. Crop a 2nd time to trim to size.
  • Adhere as shown with Stampin' Dimensionals.
  • Tie a bow of Linen Thread and adhere tucked under the sentiment with a Mini Glue Dot.


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