All Squared Away & Floral Squares Make Lovely Cards

Before we go into the details of today’s project, I want to remind you that Stampin’ Up! is offering FREE SHIPPING TODAY, Thursday April 21! For 24 hours you get free shipping on orders of $75 before tax. Not sure what to buy? We all have wish lists. Look through your wishlist. Shop for products on the retiring list that are still on your wish list or just stock up on basic cardmaking supplies like cardstock, ink, clear blocks, adhesive, coloring tools. The prices on these products will have a small increase in the upcoming catalog so why not save now?

Today, I want to show you a couple of more cards with the All Squared Away bundle used in a different way. When you get a stamp, try to play around with it and see how you can use it in out of the box ways. When you do this, you will get more out of your stamps.

In case you’ve missed the other posts highlighting this bundle, click here and here.

First Card Details

The flower on my first card looks like I did some paper piecing, but I didn’t.

To make my patterned flower, I used the images from two of the squares from the stamp set. I began by die cutting 3 floral squares out of white cardstock. On the first square, I stamped the flower with the small circles image using Balmy Blue ink. On the 2nd white die cut, I stamped the leaves with Granny Apple Green with the wavy lines image.
With my scissors, I snipped the flower and the leaves and glued it onto the 3rd white floral square which got mounted onto a 1-7/8″ Balmy Blue square.
To finish off the flower, I added a small gem in the middle.
Card base is Balmy Blue 5-1/2″ x 8-1/2″
Balmy Blue cardstock was die cut with the curved Basic Borders dies. The circles image was stamped with Balmy Blue. I stamped it 3 times as you can tell from the lines. Next time, I’ll make sure the overlapping is not as noticeable.
A 1″x 5-1/4″ Balmy Blue strip was embossed with the Checks & Dots embossing folder.
Sentiment was stamped with Memento Black ink.

Second Card Details

My second card is a 4-1/4″ x 4-1/4″ card.

All 4 images were stamped on 2″ Melon Mambo cardstock with the same color ink.
I adhered the top left and bottom right squares with dimensionals to the So Saffron card base. The other two squares were adhered directly to the card base.
Sentiments were stamped with Melon Mamb ink onto So Saffron tags. They were adhered onto the squares with dimensionals.
Using the Dark So Saffron stampin’ blends, I colored the white crinkled ribbon to match my card base. Changing the color of a ribbon or rhinestone jewels is easy with stampin’ blends.
A small piece of linen thread was tied to the ribbon.

What’s your opinion on the All Squared Away bundle?

Thanks for stopping by . . . till next time . . . happy shopping!

Card Supplies

Below are the Stampin’ Up! supplies used for today’s project. If you would like to purchase any of the supplies, click on the Add All to Cart button below it will take you to my online store. From there, you can see your cart and remove or add any products you like.

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