Stampin Up Perennial Lavendar & 9 Cards In 20 Minutes!

Hi stampers, I just had to sit down and use this amazing new bundle of products I have in my collection, and I decided I wanted to share how to make a group of cards in a short amount of time. I know from the past that you love ideas on making multiples of a card project simply, so that’s what we’re doing today. To make it a bit more interesting, I decided to start with simple yet beautiful card designs, and then show how to take these beginning level cards and step them up to make them more detailed. Let’s take a look at these lovely cards made with the Stampin Up Perennial Lavender product suite!

Click for details on making 9 gorgeous cards in just 20 minutes. These cards with Stampin Up Perennial Lavender are perfect for beginning through advanced stampers!

Stampin Up Perennial Lavender Product Suite

First I’ll quickly share the stamp and die sets I used for these lovely cards. I actually used two different bundles that are part of this product suite. The first bundle is called Painted Lavender and you can see it here.

I also used the Perennial Postage bundle. I love both the dies and greetings in this bundle!

The entire product suite also includes a designer paper pack, set of gems, and butterfly die cuts. You’ll see more of them below!

Now let’s take a look at these lovely card designs.

Card Design 1

For the simple card shown at the top below, I stamped flowers on the corners and added a simple greeting right on the card front itself.

To step up my first design, I created the card shown at right above. I added more detail to the stamped flowers and the greeting is on a die cut instead of the card itself.

Anytime I’m die cutting when I’m making multiples of a card project, I try to simplify the die cutting. For these cards, I used the Perennial Postage Dies and ran several of them through at the same time as you can see below. This saves a lot of time!

For my third card of this design I added one of the pre-cut Paper Butterfly Accents which I had used blending brushes to add a bit of color to. These are such as easy way to add detail to a card.

Next let’s look at my second set of designs! `

Card Design 2

On this next card design I decided to keep it extremely simple and use some Perennial Lavender designer paper. For the card shown at left below, the large piece measures 4″ x 5 1/4″ and the small piece measures 3/4″ x 5 1/4″.

For the second card shown at the bottom right, I simply added one of the Paper Butterfly Accents.

On the third card shown at the top above, I decided to substitute a more decorative card base which has gold accents. This is from the Gold Foiled Flowers Cards & Envelopes set.

What really makes this set of cards special is the combination die cut and embossing greetings that I created using the Thoughtful Moments Hybrid Embossing Folder. In today’s video I explained how I used this set to create lots of these greetings with just one crank through my Die Cutting & Embossing Machine. Aren’t they lovely? To see more uses for this hybrid embossing folder, take a look here.

Card Design 3

I went back to stamping the focal point for my third card design. For the card at the bottom right, you can see that I stamped three flower bouquets and added a greeting on the narrow strip.

To step up the design, I used one of the Perennial Postage die cuts and stamped the bouquets on it for the card shown at the top above.

For the third card, I punched two of the corners using the Very Best Trio Punch and I added a linen thread bow and some gems. Twine and gems are always a great option to add more to a card!