Buttercup Bunch Hugs Card

Your Paper Insider (YPI) Box #14 starts shipping today, and I'm sharing a card I made using only papers from that box: Coldpress Watercolor Card Front, Magenta Thai Unryu, Smooth White Cardstock, Beeswax Color ColorWheel Spellbinders, and Gama Natural Clear. YPI offers a quarterly subscription box as well as a variety of other paper for sale on their website, and if you'd like to check out their lovely selection, I'd appreciate it so much if you used my affiliate link at no additional cost to you: Your Paper Insider. 

To create my card, I started with one of the Coldpress watercolor card fronts included in Box 14. There are 10 A2 size watercolor card fronts in this box. I stenciled Altenew's Stencil Art: Ditsy Flowers 7-layer stencil onto the watercolor cardstock using the following Altenew inks and ink families: Sun-Kissed Delights, Cherry Blossom, Coral Berry, Just Green, and Sea Shore. Then I set the panel aside to work on die cutting some of the dies from Altenew's Craft-A-Flower: Buttercup Bunch set. I used Your Paper Insider's Beeswax Color cardstock for the flowers and added a bit of Amber Blaze ink to some of the petals. Then I die cut the stem, leaves, and flower center from more of the watercolor paper from YPI and ink blended them with Altenew's Just Green ink to coordinate with the green in the stenciled background.

Next, I die cut and embossed a frame from Altenew's Craft-Your-Life: Frozen Moments project kit (the kit will be available on the website in February, but subscribers receive their project kits a month before their release on the website) using YPI's Magenta Thai Unryu paper adhered to YPI's Smooth White Cardstock. I find I get better results with die cutting the Unryu papers if I first adhere them to white cardstock for stability. They are beautiful on their own as a background, but for intricate die cuts, they are so thin that they sometimes break when releasing from the die. I die cut the same oval frame die from YPI's Gama Natural Clear vellum and saved the inside oval to put behind my Buttercups. I positioned my frame and vellum onto the stenciled panel and added my Buttercups using Altenew's Instant Dimension Foam Tape and then adhered everything down to the panel being careful to only add liquid glue to the parts of the vellum covered by the flower. I trimmed off the overhanging part of the frame and vellum and then die cut 5 layers of the word "hugs" from Altenew's Watercolor Roses Add-On Die set. I stacked them together using Art Glitter liquid glue and then glued them to the vellum beside the Buttercups. 

I then added the stenciled layer to a layer of Beeswax Color cardstock and then adhered that to a top-folding A2 card base I had created using YPI's Smooth White cardstock. To finish the card, I added some of Altenew's Colorful Wonders Enamel Dots to the teal flower centers and around the "hugs" sentiment. This card is going out to my dear cousin and her family as they just lost their dog recently. I'm hoping this cheerful card will lift her spirits and remind her of how loved she is.

If you're interested in shopping at Altenew, I'd be so grateful if you used my affiliate link here: Carrie's Altenew Link. Altenew carries many versatile Craft-Your-Life project kits, stencil sets, and floral die set like the ones I used for this card. 

Your Paper Insider Box 14 contents:

Challenges I'm entering: 

Art Impressions Blog: Pocket Full of Sunshine (use yellow, pockets, and/or sunshine) (1/2; ends 1/29/26)

Beautiful Blossoms Challenge: ATG with flowers as the focus (1/6; ends 2/12/26)

Triple B: ATG with blooms/birds/and/or butterflies (2/3; ends at the end of the month)

Crazy is our fame - STENCILS are our game!: ATG with stencils with the option of anything with 4 legs (3/3; ends at the end of the month)

Double Trouble Paper Crafting: Thing 3: at least 3 colors (pink, yellow, teal, and green), at least 2 shapes (oval and rectangle), and at least one sentiment (4/4; ends 1/18/26)

Classic Design Challenge Blog: ATG  with option: Make it Merry (unlimited entries; ends 1/12/26)

613 Avenue Create: ATG with option of Cheers to the New Year (4/8; ends at the end of the month)

A Place To Start: ATG with option of rainbow (4/8; ends at the end of the month)

Daisy Chain Challenges: Use dies (unlimited entries; ends at the end of the month)

A Perfect Time To Craft Open Challenge: ATG (unlimited entries; ends at the end of the month)

Mix It Up Challenge Blog: ATG with option to add ribbon (4/5; ends 2/15/26)

Word Art Wednesday: ATG (1/5 for the week; 2/10 for the challenge; ends 1/22/26)

Allsorts challenge blog: Winter animals or ATG (5/5; ends 1/15/26)

The Paper Funday Challenges: ATG with an optional twist of a sketch (1/6; ends at the end of the month)

simonsaysstampblog.com/wednesdaychallenge/: Emboss (1/5; ends 1/22/26)

The Paper Shelter: ATG with optional twist of wintry moodboard (1/2; ends 1/27/26)

The Creative Crafters: ATG (1/3; ends 2/12/26)

Crafter's Cafe: One for the Boys or ATG (1/8; ends 2/12/16)

C.R.A.F.T. Challenge: ATG (1/2; ends 1/21/26)

Craft Rocket Challenges: Something New (my card is full of new products: CYL: Frozen Moments kit, CAF: Buttercup Bunch die set, papers from the new Box 14 from Your Paper Insider) (unlimited entries; ends at the end of the month)

Ellibelle's Corner: Ellibelle's Garden Party: Anything in or from a garden (1/5; ends 2/9/26)

 I'd like to leave a blessing for all the lovely visitors to my blog: 

The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make His face shine on you and be gracious to you;

The Lord turn His face toward you and give you peace.

--Numbers 6: 22-26