Although I can’t believe Saturday will be October, it’s time for this fun event with Stampin’ Up! You can still order the Handmade & Heartfelt Kit. Depending on where you live, you “might” get it by Saturday, but you can watch Saturday and make your kit when it arrives or watch the replay when your kit comes. Either way, its all fun!
Stampin’ Up! will be holding a FREE virtual event to celebrate World Card Making Day on October 4, 2025 and YOU are invited!! During this event all of us, Customers and Demonstrators will:
Celebrate the art of cardmaking.
Learn new stamping techniques.
Craft along with the presenters and create beautiful, heartfelt cards that you can send out.
Connect with fellow stampers.
Event Details
Who: Everyone, including new customers!
When: October 4, 2025, from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. (MT)
Where: Online
Price of Event: Free
Registration Dates: September 3–October 3, 2025, until 2:00 p.m. (MT)
Registration for this event is free. Everyone must register to receive a link to view the event. Also, those who register will receive a gift after the event ends. Even if you watch with some friends, be sure each friend registers so they will get the link and receive a special registration gift.
LAST DAY to register is the day before, October 3, 2025 at 2:00 PM (MT).
This World Card Making Day event will be recorded and will be available to watch immediately following the event. So watch it live and craft along, go back and rewatch certain parts, or watch the recording later if you miss the live event.
One of the best parts about this event is the opportunity to craft together! This year we’re going to create cards using the Handmade & Heartfelt Kit, an all-inclusive product that comes with everything you and your customers need to make 10 lovely, all-occasion cards.
Item: Handmade & Heartfelt Kit (166213)
Includes: A stamp set, 10 cards and envelopes, a card organizer, shaped labels, twine, glitter adhesive, embellishments, a mini ink pad
Except for cutting the paper, this Christmas Card With Gold Metallic Rub-on is probably one of the easiest cards you can make! I had ordered these Metallic Textures Rub-Ons quite awhile back, then kept forgetting to try them out. Finally I did to make this card and loved how easy they were to use and how pretty this one turned out!
I started with one of the large tags in the A Touch of Gold Tags Ephemera Pack. I am loving ALL of the ephemera packs Stampin’ Up! has now! I used the wreath Metallic Rub-on on this tag. The directions are easy. Cut out the design you want to use. Remove the backing. Place it on the cardstock where you want it with the pretty design face up. Just use your finger to rub across the design thoroughly. Carefully lift it up, making sure the metallic design transferred. Mine did perfectly!
For the greeting, I used one from the Greetings For You Ephemera Pack. I like these so much I bought an extra pack so I have plenty for Christmas cards and other projects. These are printed in gold foil and are peel-and-stick adhesive on the back. There are duplicates of each greeting. You can leave the backing on if you want to use your own adhesive or want to pop them up on Dimensionals. This one fit just right.
I originally thought I would add some Cherry Cobbler Berries to the wreath, but then I decided to leave it all just gold and white.
The card base is Basic White. I cut a layer of Basic White that I could layer the Gold Tag on. My layer is 3 1/4″ x 4 3/4″. Then I layered that on Gold Foil, a piece 3 1/2″ x 5″. Finally, I added a bow tied with the Gold Striped 3/8″ Mesh Ribbon and adhered with a couple of Mini Glue Dots.
That’s all there is to this card and I think it looks very nice with all the gold! These rub-ons are in the Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog near the bottom of page 124 so they are for any occasions and designs, not just holidays. I feel like they could be easily overlooked on that page in the catalog because of the light color and all the interesting embellishments on the next page that draws your eye! This wreath I used could just be for summer or any time. Half of the sheets in the package are silver, so you get both gold and silver in the package.
Check out the Metallic Textures Rub Ons (165270) and put a package on your next order! You’ll love them! I think Stampin’ Up! had some many years ago and we rubbed them with like a popsicle stick. These you just use your finger. So easy and fun!
It might be a little early for Christmas gift bags, but I wanted to use this pretty paper on a gift bag to show it off, so here is the Elegant Pine Snowflakes Gift Bag. If you look through the Elegant Pine Snowflakes Designer Series Paper, you will find this one paper with this huge pine snowflake centered on the paper. How can any one cut up that sheet of paper with that design?! It would be beautiful on a scrapbook page….as long as you didn’t put any photos on it! So my best solution was to center it on a large gift bag!
You might have collected kraft or other gift bags from certain stores that you can use for gift bags. Or you can buy a bunch of them at a craft store, small or large. This bag is 10″ wide so I just trimmed an inch off each side of the designer paper. It is 7 1/4″ from top to bottom. For a border piece on the top and bottom, I was just going to have cardstock, but then I noticed the strips I had cut off from the designer paper, turned them over, and used those. To help offset all the colors and paper designs, I cut strips of Shaded Spruce. You can make these any widths you like. I made the top designer paper strip about 1 1/4″ wide, with 1″ showing and a little bit wider at the bottom. The Shaded Spruce cardstock strips are both 1/2″ wide.
Every gift bag needs a gift tag! I found an already diecut circle of Gold Foil using the Stylish Shapes Dies in my gold foil package. For the greeting, I used “merry & bright” in the Greetings For You Ephemera Pack. These are peel-and-stick greetings in golf foil so they are very easy to use. I also fussy-cut some foliage from the designer paper to decorate the tag. I used some retired Cherry Cobbler ribbon to tie the tag to the bag.
After I took the first photo of the bag, I realized the tag didn’t show up very well plus I remembered I intended to put some red berries gems on the tag to match the berries on the paper. These Cherry Cobbler & Pearl Adhesive-Backed Berries are perfect to go with this paper. You could also add some on the designer paper on the bag.
I love to decorate gift bags like this for any occasion and we’ll certainly need a lot of them for Christmas so it’s a good idea to start making some!
The 12 Days of Crafting Advent Calendar is a brand-new calendar full of products you can craft with all year long!
Every day of this calendar contains never-before-seen dies, paper, embellishments, and even more items you won’t find in any of our catalogs or in our online store, so make sure to buy one before they’re all gone.
Watch the video below:
This Calendar does not lead to making any one particular project, but rather is a surprise assortment of different products to use any time of year for cardmaking, scrapbooking, gift-giving, journaling, whatever you like. Open one door each day or all of them at once if you can’t wait! Then use your products on whatever projects you like!
These make the perfect gifts for friends or loved ones in your life who love to craft! After all, there’s nothing better than giving the gift of crafting! There will only be a limited number of calendars in store.
PRICE: $99.00 USD #167335
Click on the link below to see a closeup of the included stamp set and find out a little bit more information in the Online Store.
I always say having a Paper Pumpkin monthly subscription from Stampin’ Up! is a gift you give yourself! When I get my kit, it already looks like a gift when I open up the box and see the supplies wrapped up in colored tissue paper! Then I open up the supply package like it’s Christmas and see what all is included! In the photo above , you can see what I discovered when I opened everything for the September 2025 Kit, Fall For Toile! You get the card bases, envelopes with decorated flaps, diecuts, stamp set, ink spot, ribbon, and adhesives! I don’t think I even needed a scissors!
This was a set of nine cards for fall, 3 each of 3 designs. All the kits are easy enough for anyone to make. You get pictorial directions plus you can watch a video, which I usually like to do regardless. The directions show you where to put the adhesive on each piece and what kind of adhesive, which, again, is included in the kit. I would say this kit was really easy to make. Just some easy stamping on the diecut pieces for two of the greetings and some acorns for another decorative piece, a little ribbon to add to three of the cards, and the rest was just adhering the diecuts to each card. These are beautiful cards to send to friends and loved ones for fall or even Thanksgiving.
The top left card was the most “difficult”. It was fun stamping leaves around the edges of the card. I always like doing that random stamping! Then I had to placed the two diecut leaf groupings together, plus the foil-accented dark leaves on the card, all popped up on Dimensionals. Then the stamped greeting and ribbon adhered to the back was adhered over the intersection of the leaves.
The top right card is the first one I made. The card base already has that pretty toile background on it (also on the backside of the card!). The greeting was already printed, I only stamped the cute pair of acorns. The tree and frame are a diecut popped up on dimensionals.
The bottom card was the very easiest. I stamped the little birds in the corner of the cornfield and adhered it to the card base with Dimensionals. The pumpkins and fox are all diecuts and popped up also. The greeting is stamped and popped up. Nothing could be easier to make!
You, too, could get in on the fun of Paper Pumpkin Kits by subscribing before October 10th. For October you will receive a Kit to make Christmas cards that have flocked pieces to decorate the cards. For November, your Kit will make small goodie boxes perfect for the holidays to present a gift card or small gift or treat. Personally, I like the holiday kits the best, but then I love holidays of all kinds!
When you become a subscriber, besides getting the kit in the mail every month, you also have the option to purchase any past kits that are available, refills (which do not include the stamp set or ink spot, but otherwise have all the same supplies), and some add-ons like small dies that you can use to enhance your cards and projects or use any time. If you like a past kit but only see a refill, you can probably make use of that even without the stamp set and ink spot that would come in the full kit. For example, this fall kit I am showing has already been mailed out to subscribers, but once you subscribe, perhaps the “refill” kit will still be available, as it is as I write this, and you can just use some of your own stamps and ink to make the cards. Then your first kit will come in the mail, Cozy Christmas, right after October 10th.
And you can always use your supplies any way you like! Lots of alternatives are always posted online as soon as people get their kits and start creating. For example, with this month’s kit, with the card bases printed on both the front and the back, you could cut the two sides apart and make twice as many cards by adhering the printed part of the kit card to your own cardstock base. You can change it up however you like. Sometimes I make some of the cards as designed and then make my own alternatives. It just depends on what you like to do. If you are a beginner, at first you will probably just want to follow the directions for the fun of crafting. As you get more experienced, you might like to make the projects a little bit different – maybe add your own greeting instead or add your own embellishments if you have some.
To join Paper Pumpkin, just click the link below. No risk, no obligation to continue for any length of time. Stampin’ Up! guarantees every kit, so if you have a problem, just let them know. You can even skip a month if necessary or if the hint of the upcoming project doesn’t appeal to you. It used to be a total surprise what would come in the kit, but now we get somewhat of a hint, which I am happy about. Subscriber or reactivate a previous account you had, by October 10th! The 10th of the month is the date to always remember if you want to make any changes to your account as that is the date the current subscription ends and on the 11th the new kit comes out. It’s easy to go into your account and skip a month, or heaven forbid, cancel! I hope you will try out Paper Pumpkin and enjoy some pre-planned crafting with all the supplies right there in your box! And wrapped up in tissue paper like a gift!!
This Beautiful Gallery Happy Halloween Card I thought was somewhat of an original idea when I made it, but then I saw that Sara Douglass had made something very similar on Instagram on the @stampinupofficial account! I got the idea to use one of the scenes in the Beautiful Gallery 6″ x 6″ Designer Series Paper as the background for a Halloween card from seeing people buying framed paintings of scenery like in a thrift store and then painting extra things on the picture. I think I also saw something on an Instagram story from one of my favorite gift shops that reminded me of that. It all made me think of the Beautiful Gallery paper as a background for the two stamped characters in the Spooky Halloween Stamp Set .
I’ll tell you how I did mine, then tell you about Sara’s, and show you what the paper looks like on its own. My card base is made with Crumb Cake cardstock. I chose a scene in the Beautiful Gallery DSP that I thought could work with the two Halloween characters. It has a grayish/brownish sky, some green hilly land, and some white stalky flowers in the forefront. I cut this paper down to 4″ x 5 1/4″ to fit the front of the card. Before adhering it, I colored in the sky a little bit to make it look a little spookier. I used a Small Blending Brush to lightly add some Petunia Pop ink in the clouds and some Pumpkin Pie ink in the lighter horizon area just above the trees and hills.
The two characters were stamped from the Spooky Halloween Stamp Set on Basic White with Memento ink. Normally I would color them with Stampin’ Blends markers, but I felt they might be too vibrant for the Halloween scene so I used Watercolor Pencils instead. I chose a variety of colors of the pencils from my old set. You can choose from Assortment 1 HERE or Assortment 2 HERE. I used to love to color with these pencils! After coloring, if you like, you can use a Blender Pen to smooth out the lines or blend some colors. If you are using Basic White, you want to color lightly and not overdue it or the paper will pill a tiny bit, Or you can stamp on watercolor paper. You could also use Water Painters, which are now back in stock. I forgot I bought the Spooky Halloween Dies so I fussy-cut these two costumed characters. You can buy the stamp set and dies together in the Spooky Halloween Bundle and save 10%.
The two Halloween guys are popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals, some little bitty pieces, although you could adhere them flat on the card as well. The greeting is in the Spooky Halloween Stamp Set and is stamped in Petunia Pop ink on Basic White, then cut apart with Paper Snips scissors. I also used my Small Blending Brush to add a little bit Pumpkin Pie ink to make it look a little spooky. The greeting is also popped up on Dimensionals. The little stars in the sky are from a gift a special friend brought back for me from Japan as she visited all kinds of stationery stores on her trip!
This was such a fun card to make and I’m happy with the way it turned out. This is what the paper looked like before I started.
On the @StampinupOfficial Instagram account, Sara Douglass used one of the other papers, the one with the cottage. She used reinkers in Gorgeous Grape and Smoky Slate with a Water Painter to add color to the sky. She used White Craft ink to draw in two little ghosts in the foreground and one tiny one farther and added eyes to the ghosts with a Black Stampin’ Blend Marker. I love what she did with the scenic paper and the little ghosts! Go check it out.
Stamp Sale at Stampin’ Up! TODAY Thursday, September 18!!
Today, September 18, you can get all the stamps and stamp tools you’ve been wanting at an amazing 15% discount!
Details:
This stamp sale only happens once a year!
The sale will run for 24 hours … September 18, 2025, from 12:00 a.m. to 11:59 p.m. (MT)
The 15% discount will apply to all stamps and stamp tools. (except Last Chance)
Bundles are not included in this sale.
Stamp sets and tools are only available while supplies last.
See and shop all qualifying products in the online store.
Excludes Last Chance products.
“Stamp tools” include the acrylic blocks, brayer, masking paper, Stampin’ Mist, Simple Shammy, Grid Paper, Stampin’ Scrub, Pierce Mat, Standard Stamp Cases, and the Stazon Cleaner.
If you click the link above or HERE for the Online Store, these stamp tools will appear at the end of the stamp pages.
Depending on your organization style, since future stamp sets will come in an envelope like our dies, you may want to pick up some of the Stamp Cases to store your stamps or anything else. You get four cases for the sale price on Thursday. Some people are putting their dies in with the matching stamp set. With all the ephemera we have now, you might like to store each kind of ephemera in a stamp case. There are lots of ideas, so think about it.
It’s time to shop! ONE DAY ONLY! Sale ends at 11:59 PM Mountain Time!
I thought it would be fun to make a Halloween card again so I pages through the Spooky Sweet Specialty Designer Series Paper. I hadn’t used this paper with the building fronts on it, and I wondered how I would use that on a card. After seeing it in my mind as looking like a spooky high-rise apartment building, I decided on this Spooky Sweet Slimline Halloween Card. A slimline card would look like a tall building with multiple spooky windows!
The Basic Black card base is cut at 6″ x 6″ so I could score and fold it in half at 3″. That makes the card 3″ x 6″ which fits in some regular office-style envelopes I usually have on hand. You can make a slimline card taller and wider if you want.
For the designer paper layer, the Spooky Sweet Specialty Designer Series Paper, I cut it just “a smidge” smaller than the 3″ x 6″ card base. That’s technically 2 7/8″ x 5 7/8″. Or you could cover the entire front, or make the margin the normal size. For the inside of the card, I used “the other side” of this pattern with all the spooky windows which just has some light orange lines across it. Since it was fairly light, I was able to stamp “Happy Halloween” inside, from the Spooky Halloween Stamp Set. I also stamped some bats for fun!
Back to the front of the card! I stamped the word “Spooky” from the Spooky Halloween Stamp Set in Pumpkin Pie on Basic White cardstock, then just cut around each stamped word. I think the words fit better on the card this way. It’s a great technique to use when you need to save space. I popped up all the words with Mini Stampin’ Dimensionals.
For a little bit of embellishment, I added a few of the purple stars in the new Shimmer Star Foam Stickers. These little things are so fun to use! They really are foam so they feel very funny when you slide them off the sheet! The are sparkly and fun and come in three sizes and three colors – white, purple, and black.
This Spooky Sweet Paper is called “Specialty” because also included in the package are cut-apart images and diecut images you can use for extra fun on cards, Halloween projects, and scrapbook pages! Check out all the Halloween products in the Stampin’ Up! Online Exclusives!
It seems Christmas is really coming early for us crafters! That’s the way it must be because we, of all people, can’t wait until the last minute to show people all the fun things to make for the holidays! Here is the Cozy Christmas Paper Pumpkin Kit that will come out right after October 10th!
I think Paper Pumpkin is always like a gift I get in the mail every month! The contents are even wrapped up pretty in colored tissue paper inside the box! Presentation is everything! And I especially love the kits that come out for holidays, like this Cozy Christmas Kit!
With this kit, you will create heartfelt Christmas cards with classic charm and flocked accents!
KIT DETAILS • Makes 9 cards: 3 each of 3 designs with 9 coordinating envelopes • Precut paper pieces with soft, stitched-look flocking • Shiny red sequin embellishments • Coordinating colors: Basic Beige, Cherry Cobbler, Garden Green, Pecan Pie (Classic Stampin’ Spot), Real Red
In my opinion, the Paper Pumpkin Kits have only gotten better and better over time! And the holiday and Christmas ones are my favorites!
The box is even decorated for the holidays, an extra-special treat! Do a little early Christmas SHOPPING and order one kit for yourself and get a few extras for gifts! These kits are easy enough for everyone. Besides a pamphlet with directions, you can watch a video and you will also see alternate ideas online if you want to change things up a little. No risk, no obligation to continue for any length of time. Skip a month now and then if you want to. If you do already have a subscription that you “paused” last month, make sure you reactivate your subscription so you will receive this October kit!
This Elegant Pine Snowflakes From Our House To Yours Card is an easy one to make. When you are making a lot of Christmas cards, you need to think of designs that make it easy to make multiples. Of course, you might also want to make some extra-special cards for extra-special people! That is what is so fun about cardmaking – you can make “easy” cards that don’t take a lot of time but still look lovely, or you can spend more time and use more products to make something “fancy”. It’s all fun and all creative!
This card came about just because I was cutting up some designer series paper to send as little thank you samples to send to customers who had ordered from me. Since I just got this Elegant Pine Snowflakes Designer Series Paper in my order the other day, it was one I knew they didn’t have yet. Sometimes when you are just flipping through a package of designer series paper, maybe one pattern in particular will just jump out at you and you’ll want to use it next time you make a card. As I was cutting samples of this paper, this pattern just “spoke to me” and I wanted to use it for the next card I made.
The card base is Shaded Spruce cardstock. It matches perfectly with the foliage in the designer paper. I liked the red berries in the paper, so I added the Real Red 1/2″ Shiny Ribbon. I just took enough ribbon to wrap across the front and around to the back a little bit on each side. This saves a couple inches of ribbon since you don’t wrap it completely around the card. After the ribbon was attached, I could adhere the designer paper to the card base.
For the greeting, I chose a greeting in the Greetings For You Ephemera Pack in the Holiday Mini on page 15 at the top. Stampin’ Up! has quite a few ephemera packs of all kinds and they are so handy and fun to use! These are peel-and-stick stickers of gold foil Christmas greetings, even multiples so you can make more than one card with each greeting. I’ve already ordered a second pack to have on hand. And you can use them on tags, gift bags, and other projects, not just cards. For a background, I diecut a label from the Unbounded Love Dies, now retired, but you can use something similar or simply cut a rectangle piece of cardstock. I used Shaded Spruce with a partial layer of Real Red. The way to “fake” another layer when you don’t have a larger die is to cut it out, then cut it in half, horizontally as I did here or vertically, if you want it to show on the sides. Then glue one half to the top just showing a little border and the other half to the bottom. On the back, there would be a space between the two halves. I do this a lot! The greeting is popped up with Stampin’ Dimensionals right over the ribbon.
To embellish the card, I tied a bow out of the ribbon and adhered it to the card with Mini Glue Dots. It is easier than trying to wrap the ribbon all around and tie a bow, but you could do that. I also added the beautiful Traditional Sparkling Sequins, the small gold ones, to the greeting and on the designer series paper. I’m telling you, these are gorgeous and I think you should order a package or two soon while they are in stock! They won’t only have to be for Christmas either. You will be able to use them on any cards and projects where you want some sparkle!
Here is another card, the first card, I made with the Elegant Pine Snowflakes Designer Series Paper. It comes in a Suite in the Online Exclusives if you would like ALL the things!
It’s been a couple of rough days so I think it’s time to get back to stamping. Stamping is good for the soul! Stamping, creating, sewing, painting, scrapbooking, cross-stitching, knitting, crocheting….whatever it is that you love to do and takes your mind off the rest of the world for a little while.
I made this Monochromatic Amber Autumn Acorn Card as an example of a card you could make if you wanted a quick and easy card and one that doesn’t require coloring! I love to do coloring with my Stampin’ Blends, but sometimes you might not want to take the time. And that’s okay! Look at the nice card you can make with no coloring! When I think of monochromatic I think of one color, but it can also be different shades or hues of that color, lighter or darker variations.
This card uses the new Amber Autumn Stamp Set. I think this is a beautiful stamp set with nice greetings. I almost wish there were more images in this same style because the artwork is so beautiful. For this card I chose the acorns and leaves image.
The card base is Early Espresso cardstock. I intended to use Pecan Pie but I saw that Early Espresso was one of the coordinating colors of the designer paper I chose. Usually I play around with a couple of colors if I’m not positive and see which one works the best. That’s how I decided to use Early Espresso. I was afraid it might be too dark for the look I wanted but I like the finished card just fine.
The layer on the card base is a brownish diagonal plaid in the Timeless Plaid 6″ x 6″ Designer Series Paper. I think this paper is great to use for fall cards. The focal point of the card is made with the new Branching Out Dies. These dies come with six nested frame dies, plus some pine branches, sprigs, even an acorn. I like the shapes of these frames and the little stitched perforations around the borders. I bought these dies for the cute frames which we always seem to need more of, especially ones we can layer in the right size, plus I can use the extra little dies as well. You can get the stamp set along with the dies in the Branching Out Bundle. After stamping the acorn and leaves on a piece of Very Vanilla cardstock with Early Espresso ink and diecuting it with one of the Branching Out Dies, I layered it on the next larger frame in Early Espresso. The whole piece is popped up on Stampin’ Up! Dimensionals.
To embellish the card I little bit, I added a bow at the top with a double piece of Linen Thread that is adhered with a couple of rolled up Mini Glue Dots. I think of Linen Thread as one of my main staples to have on hand in my stamping products because you can use it for so many projects. I also added a few of the Iridescent Foil Gems. They are very pretty with a little sparkle and completely neutral. They have been one of my favorite and most used gems since they came out.
Next I will try a card with this same stamp but not monochromatic and see how that turns out!
I got another Stampin’ Up! order late yesterday and had to try out this new Elegant Pine Snowflakes Designer Series Paper, which you will find in the newest Online Exclusives. I was totally drawn to this darker print pattern and made this Elegant Pine Snowflakes Season’s Greetings Card, partly so I could use the new In Color, Secret Sea!
This is really just a basic design for a card so you can change it up however you like. The card base is Secret Sea cardstock with a layer of Real Red cardstock, which I couldn’t resist adding for that pop of red! The Real Red layer is cut a bit larger than usual to give that very narrow border of the Secret Sea. It measures 5 3/8″ x 4 1/8″. I did cut the designer paper layer at the usual 5 1/4″ x 4″ but I decided I wanted more of the red to show than just a narrow margin so I trimmed it down just a bit. Now it is 3 3/4″ x 5″.
I intended to wrap the new ribbon I just got that belongs in the Elegant Pine Snowflakes Suite around the left side of the designer paper and add a bow. But I was too hasty in gluing down the layers! Instead, as you can see, I just tied a bow with the new Shaded Spruce & Gold Edged 7/8″ Ribbon. It is adhered with several Mini Glue Dots. I first intended to place it on the side of the card, but when I sort of accidentally moved it into that corner I thought it looked like a bow that would be on a package so I placed it there!
The greeting is in the Traditional Labels Stamp Set. It is stamped in Real Red on one of the new Foiled Frames & LabelsEphemera Pack. You’ll find these in the Floral Impressions Suite in the Online Exclusives that came out in May. Obviously they aren’t just for Christmas but you can use them any time, even Christmas! I popped up the tag with Stampin’ Dimensionals. To embellish the tag a little bit, while I was watching TV, I cut out some pine snowflakes and pinecones. And because they are so pretty, I added some red Traditional Sparkling Sequins for some sparkle in the dark background.
While it seems crazy to be showing Christmas cards now, we know time flies and every year we wish we would have started on our cards and holiday projects earlier. Now is your chance to start thinking about what you would like to make, order your supplies, and get to work!
Stampin’ Up! will be holding a FREE virtual event to celebrate World Card Making Day on October 4, 2025 and YOU are invited!! During this event all of us, Customers and Demonstrators will:
Celebrate the art of cardmaking.
Learn new stamping techniques.
Craft along with the presenters and create beautiful, heartfelt cards that you can send out.
Connect with fellow stampers.
Event Details
Who: Everyone, including new customers!
When: October 4, 2025, from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. (MT)
Where: Online
Price of Event: Free
Registration Dates: September 3–October 3, 2025, until 2:00 p.m. (MT)
Registration for this event is free. Everyone must register to receive a link to view the event. Also, those who register will receive a gift after the event ends. Even if you watch with some friends, be sure each friend registers so they will get the link and receive a special registration gift.
LAST DAY to register is the day before, October 3, 2025 at 2:00 PM (MT).
This World Card Making Day event will be recorded and will be available to watch immediately following the event. So watch it live and craft along, go back and rewatch certain parts, or watch the recording later if you miss the live event.
One of the best parts about this event is the opportunity to craft together! This year we’re going to create cards using the Handmade & Heartfelt Kit, an all-inclusive product that comes with everything you and your customers need to make 10 lovely, all-occasion cards.
Item: Handmade & Heartfelt Kit (166213)
Includes: A stamp set, 10 cards and envelopes, a card organizer, shaped labels, twine, glitter adhesive, embellishments, a mini ink pad
You know with the September-December 2025 Mini Catalog coming out last week it is a sign we are just about on the slippery slope to the holidays – fall and winter holidays! Once we start decorating there is no end until January! So it would be a good idea for all of us to get an early start on a few holiday preparations. I have some simple Christmas tags for you to start with!
Whether you are an experienced stamper or especially if you are new to all of this, I have something super easy for you to make! And it might be something we overlook in the new Holiday Mini because it isn’t as splashy on the page as some of the big Suites are! If you look on the bottom of page 15 you will find the Christmas Tags & More 6″ x 6″ Mix & Match Specialty Designer Series Paper.
The Christmas Tags & More is an amazing package of papers! Not only are there regular 6″ x 6″ sheets of designer series paper, but you also get two sheets of diecut holiday images as well as 8 sheets of cut-apart designs with which you can make tags and cards.
In the package you get 8 copies of this sheet with cut-apart designs to make tags or perhaps Christmas cards. The green and white plaid is the backside of the tag design.
Here are the other papers in the package and the backside.
PLUS you get two sheets of diecut holiday images that you can use along with the tags or on cards and other projects, not to mention scrapbook pages! The top two pages, in the photo below, are the two sheets each of the designs and the bottom page is the cut-apart tag or “whatever” page that you want to make with the images.
All in all you get 32 sheets, 8 each of 4 double-sided designs plus 4 sheets, 2 each of 2 single-sided precut designs. The colors are Cherry Cobbler, Crumb Cake, Garden Green, Real Red, Soft Sea Foam.
To make the easiest ever Christmas tags as I made in the top photo, start by cutting apart the six images of “tags” on one sheet.
-The tag with three stockings is only that – the tag with a “To” and “From” handwritten in the corners. I punched a hole in the top corner and put a red ribbon through it. The backside is already the green and white background. Done!
-The next tag with the Christmas tree is almost as simple. On the back, I punched and adhered a Basic White circle on which to write “To” and “From” and I embellished the tree with a few gold Traditional Sparkling Sequins. Just punch a hole and add some red and white baker’s twine.
-The tag with the candy canes has an extra layer of Real Red, cut the same size as the tag. I stamped the “To” and “From” on it from the Traditional Labels Stamp Set and ran the Real Red 1/2″ Shiny Ribbon through both tags.
-The tag with the red cardinal is the single sheet tag with no image on either side, just the plaid design on the back and the Real Red and Crumb Cake diagonal design on the front. With no planning whatsoever, I folded up the botton of the tag which shows off the plaid and makes a little smaller tag with the cute bird popped up on the front. On the back, I cut out a small square of Basic White cardstock on which to write the “To” and “From”. I tied a piece of baker’s twine through the hole in the top.
-And the last easy tag, a little more stepped up with the three ornaments, adds a stamped “Merry” on the front from the same stamp set and cut out by hand along the curve, then popped up on Dimensionals. I put a secone layer undeneath, the holly image, and actually adhered the two together on an angle to see both. You could use this as a tag or even make it the focal point of a card or adhere as an embellishment to a scrapbook page.
Just think how many tags you could make out of these eight sheets of the tag images! As I said, they aren’t exclusively for tags. They can be used on cards or scrapbook pages or decorations on gift bags, and more! Once you start paying with this Christmas Tags & More 6″ x 6″ Specialty Designer Series Paper, I bet you can’t make just one! You’ll find this in the new Mini Catalog!
This Floral Charm Blessed Fall Card shows that you can mix and match different papers and stamps and still make a pretty card! What I ended up with isn’t what I started out to make, but I like how it turned out! I thought I was going to make just a pretty floral card with the Floral Charm Designer Series Paper and maybe a diecut flower or two, but when I pulled out this paper, everything changed!
This pretty paper just looked like fall to me! It has various greens, browns, and oranges in it so it is perfect! The card base is Timid Tiger, one of the 2025-2027 In Colors. The designer paper was cut at 5 1/2″ to fit the full length of the card front and 4 1/2″ wide. To show off the other side of paper, I folded back 1/2″ on the right side to reveal the orange floral “other side”. Because some measurement was a little bit off, I centered the paper with the folded right side on the card front with a little margin of Timid Tiger visible on each side.
I thought the pumpkin image in the Amber Autumn Stamp Set would go perfectly with this designer paper. I stamped the pumpkins with Memento ink on Basic White cardstock. The image is colored in with various Stampin’ Blends markers. I used Timid Tiger, Pumpkin Pie, Daffodil Delight, Darling Duckling, Old Olive, Pecan Pie and a little Cloud Cover for the shadow. I diecut this with the second largest square in the Stylish Shapes Dies, then cut a larger square out of Pretty Peacock cardstock to match some of the foliage colors in the paper. These two pieces are popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals.
The greeting is also in the Amber Autumn Stamp Set and is stamped in Timid Tiger ink on Basic White cardstock. I used a banner die in the Stylish Shapes Dies. The greeting just barely fit inside the die, but I didn’t want anything too large so this worked out fine. The greeting is also popped up. You could adhere the stamped image and greeting flat on the card as well if you preferred. I really wanted to use the new Cajun Craze & Gold Dots which you can find in the Gathering Together Suite Collection. I managed to fit three of the smallest ones around the pumpkins. These dots are a great color for fall with a little gold dust, it looks like, inside them!
Remember to check out ALL the new products Stampin’ Up! released on Sept. 3rd! New Mini Catalog, new Online Exclusives, and two new Kits in the Kits Collection! Not to mention, only a few more days to sign up for the Paper Pumpkin subscription and get a kit to make some fall cards with all the supplies included in the box that shows up in your mailbox like a gift to you!
