Gallery Blooms Shaker Birthday Card

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Today I'm sharing one of the cards from my May in-person class. I've used the Stampin' Up! Gallery Blooms Bundle to create an elegant card that would be suitable for mutliple occasions, but I chose a birthday greeting this time.

The Gallery Blooms Bundle is new in the 2025-2026 Annual Catalogue and is part of the Beautiful Gallery Suite Collection. There are 2 bundles, an embossing folder, patterned paper and embellishments for a fabulous coordinating collection of products. As the title implies, this collection is reminiscent of an art gallery with landscapes, oil paintings, Victorian-style motifs and frames. It would lend itself very well to vintage style cards and scrapbook pages.

My card has a simple layout with the smaller of the two frames from the Gallery Blooms Dies as the focus in Gorgeous Grape and lots of white space. The beautiful floral image was coloured with Stampin' Blends Alcohol Markers and there is a coordinating die to crop the image. I love how the die cuts out the small white spaces around the stems so you can see the background. This extra level of detail is something I hope we will see a lot more in the future.

The card has been stepped up by turning the frame into a shaker element with the lovely (and sadly, retired) Loose Silver Sequins for some pretty sparkle. The birthday greeting is from the (retired) Express Yourself stamp set, stamped in Gorgeous Grape ink and cropped with the banner from the Stylish Shapes Dies. I tucked it under the stem of the floral image so it extends a little over the frame. The bow in the White 1/4" Ribbon on the stem of the flower is the finishing touch. This ribbon is soft with a lovely texture and ties really well.

For the inside, there is a Highland Heather mat for the writing panel. In the bottom corner I have added the white Queen Anne's Lace die cut from the Beautiful Motifs Dies behind the smaller floral image coloured with Stampin' Blends.

In this photo, you can see more of the detail from the pretty design in the background from the Pressed Flowers Embossing Folder, which is also new in the 2025-2026 Annual Catalogue.

 

Project Details
Stamps	Gallery Blooms, Express Yourself (retired)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Gorgeous Grape, Highland Heather, Window Sheet
Ink	Early Espresso, Gorgeous Grape
Accessories	White 1/4" Ribbon, Loose Silver Sequins (retired)
Tools	Stylish Shapes Dies, Gallery Blooms Dies, Beautiful Motifs Dies, Pressed Flowers Embossing Folder,  Stampin' Cut & Emboss, Foam Adhesive Strips, Stampin' Blends (Highland Heather, Granny Apple Green)

 

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CASE-ing the Catty - Floral Impressions Slimline

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Welcome to CASE-ing the Catty for this week. 

If you've come from visiting Andrea, then welcome!  If you're visiting me, I appreciate you stopping by today! You can continue your journey to see the other inspiring creations from the CTC Crew by clicking on the button at the bottom of the post.

This week we are CASE-ing any project from the 2025- 2025 Annual Catalogue. This is always fun, but there are so many amazing projects to choose from.  If you do not already have a Demonstrator (in Australia) and would like your own complimentary hard copy of the catalogue, then fill in your details on the Request Catalogues page (click on the link) on my blog. 

I chose the project in the photo above from page 41 of the Annual Catalogue. I like slimline cards for something a little different and this layout is a great way to display pretty paper.

I've stayed close to the layout this week, but I've added in a mat for the beautiful Floral Impressions paper that I used for the strips. In fact, I used the sheet that has the flowers in vertical columns, so I cut a 3" strip across the design and then cut the flowers into strips, making little adjustments to get the section of the design I wanted. I added the strips to the Basic White mat and then adhered the panel to the Cloud Cover slimline card base.

I stamped the greeting from the Mixed Labels stamp set in Misty Moonlight ink and cropped it with the largest of the banner dies in the Stylish Shapes Dies. I wanted the embellishment to pop, but not compete with the floral background, so I cropped the pierced circle from Cloud Cover card stock and added the Queen Anne's Lace die cut cropped from Basic White. The die is from the Beautiful Motifs Dies, which has 3 large background foliage designs and some Victorian style motifs. I have layered up 3 of the die cut Queen Anne's Lace pieces to create a lovely dimensional effect. Both the greeting and embellishment were popped up at different heights. I finished with 3 tiny flowers cropped from Strawberry Slush card stock using a die from the Impressions Abloom Dies and I added a tiny rhinestone to the centres.

I hope you will try this layout with your left over strips of patterned paper.

 

Project Details
Stamps	Mixed Labels
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Cloud Cover, Strawberry Slush, Floral Impessions DSP
Ink	Misty Moonlight
Accessories	1mm Rhinestones (not SU)
Tools	Stylish Shapes Dies, Beautiful Motifs Dies, Impressions Abloom Dies, Stampin' Cut & Emboss, Dimensionals

 

We would love to see your CASE from the 2025-2026 Annual Catalogue this week. Click on this link or the image below to go there. The first time you will need to click on the 'Join Group' button at the top. Once you have been added to the group, you can go ahead and post your creation and you do not need to have a blog. 

You can head over to Peta & Marvi to see her lovely project and follow the hop to see the inspiration from the rest of the CTC Crew.

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