Stampin Up Beautiful Gallery Suite & 10 Simple Card Ideas

Welcome crafters! Are you ready to see the Stampin Up Beautiful Gallery product suite along with 10 awesome tips for making quick and simple cards? Today’s cards are absolutely lovely and they were so very simple to create. Let’s take a look.

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Stampin Up beautiful gallery product tutorial

Listen here to see 10 tips for simple cards. Stick around until the end for a life message about thinking simple instead of complicated!

Stampin Up Beautiful Gallery Suite

This is the lovely new product suite that I used to create today’s cards. If you’re tired of having a lot of supplies in your collection that don’t coordinate, you might want to look at product suites. They make it simple to create coordinating cards. This suite includes two separate stamp and die sets, plus a designer paper pack, an embossing folder, and embellishments.

Let’s take a look at some ways to use it!

10 Tips for easy cards.

Let’s get started with these tips, along with a great card sample that fits with each one.

1. Keep your card designs simple

It’s so easy for us to get caught up thinking things have to be complicated, layered, full of techniques and more. Simple is beautiful too!

2. Use pretty papers

They’re designed to do a lot of of the work for you! Papers that have scenes on them are especially helpful for simple and pretty cards.

3. Keep a tag box on hand

I’ve shared several times how I like to keep a sentiment tag box on hand to have greeting tags prepped and ready. All of the greetings used on today’s cards came from my tag box, so I didn’t have to spend any time preparing them.

4. Use texture stamps

Texture stamps can be used on almost any paper and card designs. They don’t take away from the focal point, but they add a nice touch to make a card look complete with little effort. You will see I used texture stamps on several of today’s cards, including the one below.

5. No bows!

I love to use ribbon on my card projects, but bows can be time-consuming and frustrating to make unless you’re great at tying them. Take a look at some of the super simple ways I’ve used ribbon on today’s projects. Get more ideas for using ribbon without tying a bow here.

6. No coloring

Often when we stamp with line image stamps, we think we need to color them in, but we don’t! I love keeping images super simple like this one.

7. Need to color? Keep it simple

If you really want to do some coloring, there are lots of ways to do it very simply. In today’s video, I shared how to use a portion of a texture stamp to add color to these flowers very quickly.

8. Die cut once

If you want to use dies on your projects, I encourage you to lay them all on the platform and cut them at once. You don’t have to know exactly what you’re going to use them for, but as you start creating, you can see where they fit into your projects.

9. Stamped backgrounds

I love to make simple stamped backgrounds just like this one. They come together quickly and require very little thinking!

10. Simple backgrounds

A nice beautiful background goes a long way, such as this one that I created with the Beautiful Motifs die set. I love that it leaves the cuts attached to the surrounding paper for a lovely background piece.