Quick Elegant Cards with Painterly Pears DSP

Greetings my stamping friends! I have some gorgeous quick and elegant cards to share with you today using one piece of designer series paper (“DSP”) from the new July Online Exclusive offering called Painterly Pears. This package of 12″ x 12″ DSP is part of the Suite Collection by the same name which includes a stamp set, dies, ribbon and embellishments.

I was inspired, once again, by Rachel Tessman with Stamp Your Art Out for the general design and layout, but I changed up the color of my card base and embellishments used.

For starters, again these cards use ONE sheet of the DSP with a design around the edges of the paper which is shown below:

To get the most out of this piece of DSP, you will first want to cut it down to three 4″ x 12″ pieces as shown below:

Next you will take each 4″ piece and using the end piece with the design as your starting point, cut those down to 5.25″ so that you have six pieces of 4″ x 5.25″ pieces of DSP as shown below:

I am not going to be using the three small scraps of DSP in the middle section so what you will be working with is shown below:

You will then want to select your preferred color for your cardstock base. Here I chose Darling Duckling. (Rachel used Secret Sea for her card bases.)

(Did you know that each package of DSP provides on the back white chipboard the names of the coordinating colors? This will be very helpful in deciding which color(s) you want to incorporate into your projects!)

Instead of stamping greetings on the fronts of the cards, I elected to go the same route as Rachel did to keep it “quick and easy” and used the Greetings for All Mix & Match Ephemera Pack (English). This pack offers greetings for any occasion in black and white graphics.

As a final touch, I colored all of the pink blossoms with clear Wink of Stella. You may not be able to see the shimmer in the photos but trust me it is stunning!

Below are my completed cards – collectively as a group and individually.

Here are the Stampin’ Up! products that I used in the design of these cards. You can add them to your shopping cart by clicking on the thumbnails to be redirected to the online store:

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