Miss Mad Stamper: Forever Fern

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Wednesday, June 7, 2023

Forever Fern

Forever Fern is a beautifully stamp set. This set has a number of leaves and greenery images that are realistic looking. I have enjoyed this set since it hit the Stampin' Up! catalog a couple of years ago. I will admit that I was very sad to find out it was on the retiring list this past spring. I wasn't done creating with it. I feel like there are so many things you can create with this set and the coordinating dies.

Let me share with you a few more that I did make before I knew this set was on the retiring list. Smoky Slate, Basic Gray, and Fresh Freesia is a fantastic color combination. I used all three colors to create the main panel.

Forever Fern

The Forever Fern stamp set is a Distinktive stamp set. This means that the way the rubber was etched, the image looks more realistic with more depth and dimension in a single stamp. You can see that on these images. I didn't do anything special to these images. I inked up the rubber and stamped them.

The card base here is Evening Evergreen with Soft Succulent accents and just a touch of Blackberry Bliss. I did use the coordinating dies for the Soft Succulent and Blackberry Bliss "ferns". The background is embossed with Timeworn embossing folder.

Biggest Wish

Biggest Wishes has got to be everyone's favorite greeting set! It comes with both block letter words and scripted words. They work great together.

I started with a base of Night of Navy. The designer series paper is from the hostess pack of papers called Pattern Party. I died cut two tags and stamped the greeting on one of them. I adhered the tags together and added some denim ribbon at the top. The tags were added to the front of the card with dimensionals.

Forever Fern

The Forever Fern stamp set is such a phenomenal set! The leaves are very realistic looking and can be used for masculine and feminine, birthday and sympathy, thinking of you and Christmas and so much more. Pair it up with a greeting set, change the colors you use and you have everything you need to complete a year's worth of cards!

I have a very neutral palette for these cards. The card base is Crumb Cake. The darker layers are Early Espresso. The leaves were stamped with Crumb Cake ink and the speckles with Early Espresso. The labels are from the Hippo & Friends dies. This is a fantastic set of dies, even if you don't use them with the coordinating stamp set. So many great labels in this set of dies.

Color Blocking Forever Greenery

While the paper, ribbon and oval dies are retired, these cards can still be used for some inspiration. Color blocking is a great technique to make cards fast with some pizzazz!

I used Just Jade for the card base for each of these cards. I also die cut a leaf from Just Jade for each card too. The scallop oval was die cut from Pretty Peacock.

One of the ferns from the Forever Fern stamp set. The greeting also came from the stamp set.

I added a few pearls and a knot of ribbon to the oval greeting after the greeting was adhered with dimensionals.

To get the different panels in the background, start with 4 pieces of 4" x 5-1/4" designer series paper (you can also use 4 different colors of cardstock). I then cut on the 4" side at 2-3/4". Keeping the papers together, place the 5-1/4" side at the top of your cutter and cut both pieces at the same time at 3-3/4". Repeat for the other pieces of designer series paper. Then you get to put your four puzzles together any way you want!

While you can't recreate these cards exactly as I created them unless you have all the goodies already, you can take the idea and make it your own with other designer series paper and the greeting can be any shape and still look fabulous!

The pictures below will take you to my Stampin' Up! store where you can purchase many of these supplies and so much more!

Happy Stampin'!

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Wednesday, April 28, 2021

Love It Chop It Forever Greenery

#loveitchopit was started by a demonstrator in Australia. Her motto is that you will use your designer series papers if you cut them. She recommends that you cut them to be layers on your card bases. Those measurements are 4" x 5-1/4". I cut these a bit smaller and got 24 cards from 2 full sheets of designer series paper.

The bases on these cards are Soft Sea Foam. The designer series paper was cut to 3" x 4" and the layer is Shaded Spruce cut to 3-1/8" x 4-1/8". The circle is from Stitched Shapes.

These are Just Jade card bases and Pretty Peacock layer. The oval is also from Stitched Shapes.

How about some Shaded Spruce card base and Soft Sea Foam layer with Stitched Labels for the greeting.

These are Pretty Peacock and Just Jade and I used Tasteful Label dies for the greeting.

Pear Pizzazz and Old Olive are the colors for these cards and Stitched Shapes are the dies for the greeting.

These are Garden Green and Pear Pizzazz and I used Painted Labels.

I stamped a leaf on each of the greeting tags in the lighter color of ink and the greeting in the darker ink. I added a bow of linen thread with a glue dot. The layers and the greeting are adhered with dimensionals.

These are fast, fun, easy cards to that you can create with any patterned paper. I love that I have all these cards ready to go and that they have a masculine feel to them too.

Happy Stampin'!

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Forever Fern Cling Stamp Set (English)

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