With Love and Appreciation- A Floral Card Featuring Pink & Main

Hello, crafty friends!

I’m back with another card project that radiates gratitude and elegance! Today’s card is all about showing appreciation through a bold floral arrangement, a rich color palette, and a touch of texture and shine — perfect for any special someone in your life.

The Details: For this design, I used the beautiful Jar of Peonies Foilables from Pink & Main, showcasing a lovely bouquet in a mason jar. I simply ran the panel through my minc machine with the Flowers Pink Cheerfoil and used the coordinating dies to die-cut it for a crisp finish. The background steals the show with a deep magenta-to-pink gradient featuring a confetti-style pattern that adds tons of dimension and sparkle. I used the negative leftover from the cheerfoil and adhered it to a card panel to reduce on waste. To frame everything, I used a stitched rectangle die to create a clean white border — grounding the design while making that background pop even more!

Sentiment Love: The sentiment “With Love and Appreciation” is from the My Hero Stamp Set. I heat embossed in white onto black cardstock for a striking contrast. I love how it draws the eye and perfectly ties the card’s message together.

Finishing Touches: The card base is a rich plum purple that complements the background beautifully, giving the entire design a cohesive and polished feel. Thanks for stopping by today — I hope this card inspires you to create something heartfelt for someone you appreciate. Don’t forget to check out the beautiful stamps and dies from Pink & Main — they’re perfect for every occasion! With love and happy crafting, Theary Tran

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Instagram Cloudy Coral Designs	YouTube Cloudy Coral Designs	Jars of Peonies Shop at: P&M	Flowers Pink Cheerfoil Shop at: P&M
Jars of Peonies Dies Shop at: P&M	My Hero Sentiments Shop at: P&M

🌸 Sweet and Simple Mother's Day Card – Featuring Pink & Main

 

Hi crafty friends!

I’m excited to share this sweet, whimsical Mother’s Day card I created for Pink & Main. It’s got just the right mix of softness, texture, and cuteness—perfect for letting Mom know how much she's loved! Card Details: The base of the card starts with a beautiful embossed floral background that may seem like I ink-blended in soft shades of pink, but it's actually a sheet from the Pink & Main Gradients & Dots Paper Pad. The dimension from the embossing adds a subtle but elegant touch, and I finished the flowers with sparkling yellow gems for extra shine. I love how they catch the light! To create a clean break between the background and the sentiment, I added a narrow metallic gold strip—just a little luxe touch that makes everything pop! On the right side, I stamped the cheerful greeting "Happy Mom’s Day" in bold black ink. It balances beautifully with the adorable little bear sitting underneath.

Focal Point: Can we talk about this sweet little bear? She’s all dressed up for the occasion with a crown of pink blossoms and rosy cheeks—ready to bring joy! I colored her with alcohol markers and used foam adhesive to give her some dimension. The little buzzing bees are the perfect finishing touch, don’t you think? Technique Tips: Embossed Backgrounds: Run your cardstock through an embossing folder.

Balance Your Layout: If you’re splitting your card into two sections like I did, a skinny border (like my gold strip) helps ground the layout and add interest.

Cluster Details: Add embellishments like gems in a semi-random pattern to enhance your background without overwhelming it.

I hope this gives you some inspiration for your Mother’s Day makes! Don’t forget to spoil the moms in your life—they deserve all the crafty love. Happy creating, Theary Tran

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Instagram @cloudycoraldesigns	YouTube @cloudycoraldesigns	Critters and Flowers Shop at: P&M	More Spotlight Sentiments Shop at: P&M
Pocket Full of Posies Embossing Folder Shop at: P&M	All About the Yellow Gems Shop at: P&M

Easy Circle Card Technique featuring Pink & Main

 Hello friends! I am super excited to share my first card project as a Pink & Main design team member. If you are like me and get confused by all the technicalities of special fold/design cards, you can use the super easy Circle Flip Card Dies to create a circle card base. Then, add whatever you like to personalize it. 

The first step is to cut your cardstock base to 4.25 inches by 11 inches. Then, score that piece down the middle at 5.50 inches. 

Using one of the dies from the set, you’re going to butt the corners of your card base to it. (This is the die below. 

Then, run this part through your die-cutting machine. (This die will cut the circle flip and create a score line, which will help make the interactive movement of the flip card.) You will need to enforce the score line with a bone folder.

Then, you can use the extra dies in the set to personalize your card, or you can use whatever you like from your stash. (However, I do recommend using the panel dies from the set to help create interest in your design.) I used it to cut from cream-colored cardstock and embossed it using a Pink & Main Branches Embossing Folder.

The florals on my card are cut out of a light blue card stock and vellum. I adhered the floral die cuts to both sides of the flip circle to help create a cohesive look when the card was flipped open. I added embellishments to the centers of the flowers using the Pink Sticky Gems from Pink & Main. 

I adhered the Pink & Main Watercolor panel, which I cut using a basic stitched rectangle die, to one side of the card. I added another die-cut circle to create an area to write a little note.

I used the sentiments from the Pink & Main Thank You Sentiments stamp set which I heat embossed with gold embossing powder.

I hope I inspire you to start getting crafty! 

Until next time! 

Love, Theary

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Instagram Visit Me Cloudy Coral Designs	YouTube Visit Me Cloudy Coral Designs	Circle Flip Card Die Shop at: P&M	Thank You Sentiments Shop at: P&M
Watercolor Spring Paper Pakk Shop at: P&M	Branches Embossing Folder Shop at: P&M	Pink Sicky Gems Shop at: P&M

Mysterious Mushroom Featuring Memory Box

 Hello there! It's Theary here on the blog again. Today, I am sharing a card using the Mysterious Mushroom dies from Memory Box. 

This card came together fairly quickly. I die-cut the Mysterious Mushrooms from a sheet of pattern paper from the gorgeous Nutmeg Plaid Paper Pad and woodgrain cardstock. I adhered the pieces together with liquid adhesive.

I used dark green cardstock from Taylored Expressions for the background panel and created a score line down every quarter inch with my scoreboard and bone folder. I later went in with brown ink and blended around the edges.

I trimmed a beautiful sheet of paper from the Nutmeg Plaid Paper Pad about 2 inches by 5.50 inches and tore the edges off the two longer sides. I like how the pattern papers have a white core, which provides a nice contrast of colors.

I popped the pattern paper against the green scored panel with foam tape and adhered to the mushrooms.

I added a strip of foil sentiment tab to the card panel and a few embellishments.

And that is it! I hope you found some inspiration and get crafty in your craft space. Until next time!

I hope you have a wonderful day!

 

Want to find the products I used? I have listed them below. (Compensated affiliate links used at no cost to you. Thank you for your support!) Click on the icons below each product picture to go to a favorite store.

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MB Thank You Foil Tab st005 Shop at: SSS	TE Brussel Sprouts Cardstosck Shop at: SSS	TE Chocolate Truffle Ink Pad Shop at: SSS	Scor-Buddy Score Board Shop at: SSS

Haunting Ghost featuring Memory Box

 Hello everyone! It’s Theary here back on the blog. I can’t believe that it’s almost Halloween! I felt that this year had flown by so fast.

For the card today I am sharing a spooky cute card design using 94692 Haunting Ghosts.

The Fall Cornucopia release has a lot of yummy new cardstock. I couldn’t resist not using the array of colors on my card design. For the haunting ghosts, I died-cut each one out of the cardstocks in the colors SH44008 Deep Turquoise, SH44019 Golden Wheat, SH44017 Orange Peel, SH44016 Raspberry Sorbet, and SH44013 Lavender Bloom. I added cute little googly eyes to each one.

The background was created using EF1033 Spiral Delight 3D Embossing Folder. I used white cardstock and ran that through my cutting machine.

The sentiment CL5284D Magical Halloween Clear Stamp and Dies was stamped onto white cardstock using clear embossing ink. I later heat-set a coat of clear embossing powder over the inked sentiment and used the coordinating dies to cut that out.

I adhered the spiral-embossed cardstock over a black matted cardstock. I then randomly adhered the haunting ghosts onto the card panel. I then popped on the sentiment using foam squares to the bottom left-hand corner.

And finally, I adhered to a top folding card base.

That completes the card! I hope you enjoyed the tutorial and got crafty! Until next time!

 

Want to find the products I used? I have listed them below. (Compensated affiliate links used at no cost to you. Thank you for your support!) Click on the icons below each product picture to go to a favorite store.

Memory Box Be Merry Clear Stamps Shop at: SSS	Memory Box Haunting Ghosts Dies 94692 Shop at: SSS	Memory Box Spiral Delight 3D Embossing Folder Shop at: SSS	Memory Box Deep Turquoise 8.5x11 Paper Pack sh44008 Shop at: SSS
Memory Box Golden Wheat 8.5x11 Paper Pack sh44019 Shop at: SSS	Memory Box Orange Peel 8.5x11 Paper Pack sh44017 Shop at: SSS	Memory Box Raspberry Sorbet 8.5x11 Paper Pack sh44016 Shop at: SSS	Memory Box Lavender Bloom 8.5x11 Paper Pack sh44013 Shop at: SSS

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