Lily Pad
by Tricia Barber

03/26/2025

Hello there! I have a bright and cheery spring card for you today using the Nordic Sitting Frog and Nordic Heart Pattern rings. I used the Nordic Heart Pattern Rings die to create the pond for my cute little frog. Of course this cute frog came dressed in her best! The Nordic Sitting Frog comes with some cute clothes! :-)

Such a cute die, I love that the frog can be dressed up or down. I added a daisy from the Hello Spring Craft die. I used the Lagoon, Greenery, Blush and Sunrise 6x6 paper packs to die cut all my pieces for today. This is heavy duty cardstock and die cuts beautifully with the Poppystamps dies. I used the layering die from the Nordic Floral Burst Background to ground the lily pond. I layered this onto some bright yellow patterned paper from the Memory Box Glimmering Gladiola 6x6 paper pack.

I finished off the card by adding the Hello Spring sentiment and some crystal Fairy Jewels. I hope this card brought you a little sunshine today! Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies

2705 Nordic Sitting Frog

2688 Nordic Heart Pattern Rings

2727 Nordic Floral Burst Background

SP1010 Lagoon 6x6 pack

sp1011 Leafy 6x6 pack

sp1012 Blush 6x6 pack

sp1013 Sunrise 6x6 pack

Jwl004 Autumn Fairy Jewels

2730 Hello Spring

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Nordic Butterfly
by Allison Frazier

02/25/2025

Hello, Poppystamps friends! I am excited to be back on the blog today sharing this beautiful card featuring the Nordic Floral Butterfly. Although the name says Nordic, I think this card feels like springtime. I don't care what season it is - I love all the Nordic products!

And speaking of Nordic, I started this card with the Nordic Floral Plate. I cut a panel of white cardstock with it and popped out all of the cutout pieces. I then glued the white panel onto a piece of light pink glitter cardstock. I took some of the white cutout pieces and glued them back into the center of the openings. I love how versatile this die is!

Next, I started cutting the pieces for my butterfly. I cut the largest pieces from the new Golden Wheat paper from Memory Box. I love this color of yellow. I then cut the other two layers from two shades of pink cardstock. I glued the pieces together only in the center. I love the dimension this gives, where each layer is lifted. I did add small pieces of paper to the back of the yellow layer and the innermost pink layer, right behind where those flower cutouts are. This allowed me to then glue the little flower details into those areas. I glued the bottom of the butterfly to the card base, and then I popped the top of the butterfly up on foam squares. I cut the body of the butterfly from black glossy cardstock.

For the sentiment, I chose the Freestyle Hello die. This comes with a shadow layer, which I did not use for this card. I cut the word from black glossy card stock, which is my go-to for word dies. I layered it onto another layer that I had cut from white cardstock, and then I glued it to my panel.

That is it for my card today. I hope it brings a smile to your face. Thanks so much for joining us today.

Supplies

2611 Nordic Floral Butterfly

2583 Nordic Floral Plate

2455 Freestyle Hello

gp1001 Delicate Pastel Glitter Pad

sh44004 Black Glossy Paper

sh44019 Golden Wheat Paper Pack

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Fall Terrarium
by Birgit Norton

10/25/2024

Hello Poppystamps friends! Are you enjoying all the beautiful colors of fall yet? Here on the east coast, the leaves are brilliant shades of orange, yellow and red and many leaves have already fallen from the trees, leaving bare silhouettes of trees preparing for their winter slumber. I created this card using the newest release from Poppystamps.

The darling Cottage Terrarium dies practically jumped right into my hands when they arrived, beckoning to be used. I started with an A2 sized card base and attached a strip of the adorable mushroom printed paper from the Nutmeg Forest printed paper pack onto the right side of the card.

Next, I cut the house, mushroom and greenery out of white cardstock and colored them using Copic markers. The jar was cut from the Greenery Solid Core Cardstock and a scrap of grey cardstock for the lid. I also cut the jar layer out of vellum and adhered the vellum over the top of the green to soften the color. I then adhered the mushroom, house and greenery using liquid glue.

The Happy Fall Moonlight Script sentiment was cut from black and vellum and adhered slightly over the base of the jar.

To finish the card off, I added some Fairy Jewels in autumnal colors.

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Hello
by Lisa Elton

09/18/2024

Hello and welcome! I'm popping in today to remind you that you still have time to play along in our September challenge. We're looking for all things clean and simple. Let me show you how I put together my inspiration card.

The lovely Nordic Fancy Background, from our latest release, was my starting point. It was cut from white cardstock with the shadow background cut from vellum. This created that perfect "lots of white space" commonly used in CAS cards.

A few simple elements were cut to add a pop of color. The pretty little Nordic Plumed bird (that I happen to LOVE... just look at her little tail feathers!) along with a trio of Nordic Flower Heads.

Since the bird had shimmery gold accents, I used more gold for the sentiment and brought in more vellum for it's shadow background.

And there you have it, friends. Clean, layered and ever so simple! We do hope you'll join us this month!

Supplies

2628 Nordic Fancy Background

2603 Nordic Flower Heads

2632 Nordic Plumed Bird

2509 Hello Moonlight Script

FP1003 Rainbow Reflections Mirror Pad 6x6 pack

FP1002 Vintage Pastel Mirror Pad 6x6 pack

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Challenge Reminder - Anything Goes
by Allison Frazier

08/14/2024

Hello Poppystamps friends! I just wanted to remind you that there is still time to play along with this month's challenge. On the first of every month we announce the challenge, and you get most of the month to join us! Just link up your design with an on line gallery like Flickr, Splitcoaststampers or Instagram. We select one card that we like best as the monthly winner and then randomly select one entry as the winner of a $20 gift card to the store.

For this month's challenge, our theme is "Anything Goes." It can't get any easier than that, right? My card is a simple bucket of sunshine.

I started with one of the buckets from the Corner Shoppe Wooden Cart. I cut it from white card stock and blended it with a combination of gray and brown inks. I cut a bunch of flowers and greenery from the Flower and Leaf Sprinkles set and ink blended those with yellow, orange, and pink inks. I also cut and ink blended some small butterflies from the Bunches o' Butterflies set.

I created the white panel from the Double Scalloped Stitched Frames. I stamped the sentiment from the Colorful Life stamp set onto the panel and glued it to a Kraft card base. I then adhered all of my elements to the panel, mixing the butterflies with the flowers.

We can't wait to see what you make for the challenge! You can always find the current monthly challenge by clicking on the Challenge badge in the top right hand column of the blog. Have a great day!

Supplies

2619 Corner Shoppe Wooden Cart

2622 Flower and Leaf Sprinkles

2602 Bunches o’ Butterflies

2474 Double Scalloped Stitched Frames

cl509 Colorful Life clear stamp set

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Hot Foiling Galore and Christmas in July!
by Sphoorti

07/02/2024

Hello Poppy Peeps!

It's Sphoorti again, and today I have four cards to show you, each created using hot foiling techniques. These were made almost two years ago—time flies! I completely forgot to write a blog post about them. While some of the products I used have been retired, there are still some adorable ones available. Grab 'em before they disappear!

Also, there are some Poppystamps products that look/feel similar to some of those retired products, so I'll provide links to those in case you'd like to get them. Scroll down to the supplies section at the bottom for the full list.

Backgrounds:

Let's start with the backgrounds. For my first and favorite card, I hot foiled some white card stock using the Leaf and Tendril Hot Foil Plate using some Opal foil. This stuff is magic! For the other three - did you know you can hot foil with your existing dies? I used the 2489 Snowflake Background craft die to foil ink blended cardstock. The result was this thin but beautiful outline of the snowflakes.

Card Components:

I did a ton of diecutting for these cards, and I even have leftovers to create more! Essentially, I used dies to cut out envelopes, pine needles, poinsettias, and holly leaves. The envelopes were cut from vellum, while the other components were cut from white cardstock and colored using distress inks, or from glitter and foil pads (listed in the supplies section). Then came the fun part—at least for me—assembly! It was incredibly enjoyable arranging the needles, leaves, and flowers as if they were emerging from the envelopes.

Sentiments:

I also did plenty of diecutting for the sentiments. I used sentiment dies like Hello and Joy, although they are no longer available. You can find similar options linked in the supplies list below. Essentially, I cut multiple versions of each sentiment from plain white cardstock and layered them to achieve a chipboard-like effect. I finished off the sentiments with a layer of glitter or foil. For the shadows on the Joy cards, I used vellum.

Embellishments:

Can we ever call a card complete without some embellishments? I went wild with all the goodies I had on my desk at the time—Jewels, Drops, Pearls, Crystals... you name it! It was like a bling buffet for my cards, and it was the holidays, so why not make every card feel like a celebration, right?

What do you think? Which of these did you like the most? Please do let me know in the comments below, we all love hearing from you! Stay tuned for the upcoming Holiday release - you're going to love it!

Love,

Sphoorti