Arched Screen Divider Card Tutorial

“and the 2025 winner in the Top Die-Cutting Tool category is……EVERYDAY ARCHES!

Worthy of a standing ovation, the Stampin’ Up! Everyday Arches Dies (and coordinating stamp set) are truly a non-negotiable necessity in everyone’s craft room. Full stop.

With 10 nesting dies (the largest die is 5-3/16″ x 3-15/16″), you’ll marvel at the full range of crafting abilities of such a basic shape. (In case they are “currently unavailable”, fear not, they’ll be back in stock soon!). I’m here to help you see their potential, starting with the Arched Screen Divider Card:

Don’t arch an eyebrow (ha-ha)…this is just the front. When you open it up, the STAGE IS SET:

As a baby card, you could put a photo of the newborn in the center panel -OR- list their name, birthdate, birth place and vitals (handwritten, if you have lovely writing or print from your computer, if you don’t).

The back side gives more space to add photos or love notes:

What I love best is that the Beatrix Potter vibes make it a perfect decoration on a nursery shelf, or the parents could use each piece in a scrapbook!

A few close ups:

The “Know You are Loved” panel was completed after my demonstration, and it is the perfect fit.

I’ve got different versions to share with you, but first, the instructions in video:

On to the other versions, starting with a birthday card using the Full of Life Designer Series Paper and a sneak peek of the Arched Wishes stamp set, coming in March:

Because there are only 5 days left of Stampin’ Up! Sale-a-Bration, I also had to make an Arched Screen Divider card with one of our freebies:

If the Terrific Toadstool bundle is on your list, don’t put off ordering it even one more second, or you’ll miss out on the Toadstool Gardens Designer Series Paper (free choice with $60 purchase by February 28, 2025)!

Tell me what you think of this card (comment section at top of post, by title and date posted) and you may receive the toadstool version in the mail!

For the Storybook Moments Baby card, you’ll need:

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Wildly Happy to Craft!

It’s Fri-YAY because sketch challenges make me WILDLY HAPPY! It’s a creative exercise I look forward to as often as I have a moment to create. If you need to strengthen your imagination, sketch and color challenges are the best “strength training” you can do.fb_img_1560993860054

Something else that makes me WILDLY HAPPY is babies: Grandbabies, baby animals, whatever! And stamps make me giddy, of course, and the Wildly Happy stamp set is the first one that came to mind when I saw the #tgifc220 sketch.

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This was also a great excuse to use the Rectangle Stitched Framelit dies: What’s not to love about that adorable little detail? wildly happy

I added just a bit of light Flirty Flamingo Stampin’ Blend marker to the bunnies and grounded them with light Crumb Cake. If you don’t have the polka dot tulle ribbon, make sure it’s on your next order: It will be your favorite accessory for your cards, and you don’t even need much to give it a little pizzazz.

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Babies, Bows and Banners

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But seriously, right?

But when they are sleeping, babies are so adorable! While we’ve been focused on holidays, things like babies and birthdays are also happening around us, so here’s a card to celebrate the BIRTH of a BABY:

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Download the card tutorial here

This card is pink and girly, but change colors, leave off the bow and use a different sentiment from the stamp set to celebrate a bundle of boy.

Hoping a fresh card like this one will inspire you to pull out your stamps and create!

Baby Birds

Welcoming a new baby is always a joyful reason to send a card! And the best way to improve any card is to “put a bird on it”.

Flying Home Baby Card

Download the tutorial for this simply sweet card here.

The Flying Home stamp set from the new Occasions Catalog has plenty of feathered friends, but if you need MORE chirpy-chicks, you can also check out the Bird Banter set also in the Occasions catalog!

If you are at a loss for words, then the Special Celebrations has your cards covered outside AND inside with a matching sentiment:

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Wishing you many little people to welcome in 2018~ and the best kind are GRANDbabies (just saying).