The Holidays are coming and so is the Stampin’ Up! Online Extravaganza on Tuesday, November 24! Start making your shopping list now!
If you haven’t started already, you are probably starting to think about your holiday papercrafting plans. Maybe you are planning to make an advent calendar, create home decor, or get some scrapbook pages ready, not to mention making Christmas cards to send for the holidays.
Nearly all 2020–2021 Annual Catalogitems are eligible for the 10% discount, but there are some exclusions. Keep in mind shipping might be delayed due to increased shipping demands during the holidays.
More details and reminders as we get closer to the date! It’s NEXT WEEK!!
Did you know you can make a shopping list in the new Online Store? Sign in to your account, then click the little heart in the upper right. Then you can “Create a List” and name it whatever you want….Favorites, Holidays, Birthday. Go ahead and shop and when you see something you want, click on the product and then click on the little heart again and choose your list. Once you have all your products on your list, you can put them all in your Shopping Cart or you can share a link with someone! Handy for Christmas shopping for others! Try it! I think you will figure it out pretty easily.
Remember, circle next Tuesday, November 24 on your calendar and set a reminder on your phone calendar!
Use the So Many Snowflakes Die to make this So Many Snowflakes Die-Cut Holiday Card and let the sparkles show through the snowflake! I realized I hadn’t used my glimmer paper enough so I tried it out on this card with the see-through die-cut negative.
The card base is Balmy Blue with a layer of Whisper White. I die cut the largest snowflake from the So Many Snowflakes Dies in the Whisper White. Since I didn’t purchase the Snowflake Wishes Stamp Set (even Demonstrators can’t have everything!), I used some snowflakes in the Snowman Season Stamp Set to stamp some random snowflakes in Balmy Blue Ink on the front of the card.
For the sparkle under the die-cut, I adhered a piece of Balmy Blue Glimmer Paper. It’s always difficult to photograph sparkle and shine, but it looks very pretty under there! Then this Whisper White layer with the Balmy Blue Glimmer Paper underneath adhered to the Balmy Blue Cardstock card base.
The greeting is from the Poinsettia Petals Stamp Set. It is stamped in Balmy Blue Ink and punched with the Lovely Labels Pick A Punch. I simply cut a little strip of Balmy Blue Cardstock to layer underneath the greeting to help it stand out a little and popped it up with Stampin’ Dimensionals®. For a final touch, I added two Adhesive-Backed Snowflakes. These are so fun to play with and easy to use with the adhesive already on them!
I think this would actually be an easy Christmas card to duplicate if you wanted several to send. It involves the die-cutting and punching the greeting, but you could make a simpler greeting by cutting a rectangle or using another die rather than the punch. Do it assembly-line fashion like I described yesterday in my blog post!
When you are going to make a batch of Christmas cards, whether it’s a few or a hundred, plan to make them “assembly-line style”. I learned early on not to make one whole card, then another whole card, and then another. Instead, gather all your supplies and do each step for ALL the cards. Whether you are cutting or stamping or adding embellishments, you will do it faster if you do it over and over again. And if you are making a whole pile of cards, you almost get “muscle memory” for doing each step and that makes it even easier!
I am copying a card Snowflake Splendor Merry Christmas Card, I already made awhile back (in August!!) but liked it a lot. Since I like to make a lot of different cards from all the ideas I see in the catalogs and online, I’m making many different designs and maybe five copies of each one. The only problem is that when I go to send them, I have to choose which card to send to which person! You might choose one card design and make 50 cards the same. I’ve done that, also. Then everyone just gets the same card! And your muscle-memory gets really good at making the cards!
The first step, as you see in the top photo is to cut all your paper and score the card base as well. Cut the card base, layers, designer paper, scrap pieces….everything you need to make the card. Make little piles of the same pieces so you don’t get them mixed up.
Now amazingly, this time I remembered to use the Adhesive Sheets before cutting out the snowflakes! This makes it easier to adhere them because they will already have adhesive on all the little areas from the Adhesive Sheets. No need to add tiny drops of glue! The snowflakes are made with the So Many Snowflakes Dies.
For this card, I diecut all the white snowflakes out of the Whisper White layer I was going to use under the designer paper. Shhh! Don’t tell anybody! They’ll never know!
Adhere the Whisper White layer to the Highland Heather card base. And since I used the Adhesive Sheets on the back so I could diecut the snowflakes, I don’t even have to use glue, just adhere the Whisper White to the card. Do all the cards like this.
Adhere all the die-cut snowflakes to all the pieces of the watercolor pattern in the Snowflake Splendor Designer Series Paper. The Take Your Pick tool helps to separate the backing of the adhesive sheets from the snowflake.
When you have stamping to do making Christmas cards, it’s really useful to have the Stamparatus! Get the words or whatever images lined up perfectly and then stamp with the Stamparatus! If the inked image is incomplete, you can just reink the stamp and stamp again as long as you don’t move the paper!
Finish assembling your cards by adding some Holiday Rhinestone Basic Jewels. Inside the card, adhere the smaller designer paper snowflakes you already cut out and stamp the greeting using the Stamparatus on another layer of Whisper White, also from the Poinsettia Petals Stamp Set. Then you have a stack of Christmas cards all finished!! Make them assembly-line style!
Have you checked out the Quite Curvy products yet that became available November 1st for customers? This card is a sample from Stampin’ Up! and shows the curves you can get with the new dies for some fun new looks on your cards and projects!
These new products are actually an early release from the upcoming Spring Mini Catalog coming out in January. However, if you want the Christmas portions of the whole selection, those must be ordered during this early promotion. The Curvy Christmas Stamp Set and the Classic Christmas 6″ x 6″ Designer Series Paper is only available through January 4, 2021.
If you are interested in ALL the products, Stampin’ Up! has made it easy for you! Just order this number #158396 for the Quite Curvy Variety Bundle and you get it all! No need to add each individual product. However, if you want only certain products, just order them individually as you would normally do.
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If you look online you will find so many beautiful, different samples of cards and projects made with the Curvy Celebrations products! Go to the Online Store and check out these new products, and especially check if you want the Christmas products so that you get those soon to use for the holidays and so that you get them before they go away in January.
Make this Trimming the Town Wreath Christmas Card for a pretty quick and easy Christmas card. In fact, you can make it even easier than mine if you only use one die cut or no die cuts!
This is just a card with a piece of designer paper and a greeting plus a little ribbon. It’s a very simple design. The card base is Poppy Parade with a layer of designer paper from the Trimming the Town Designer Series Paper. You will find this cute wreath print on the back of the paper with all the holiday phrases. It’s often tough to know which side of the paper to use and tough to cut into it, especially when you like both sides!
Before adhering the designer paper to the card base, I adhered the strip of ribbon around the designer paper (just adhere the ends on the back, no need to go all the way around and waste a couple of inches of ribbon!). This ribbon is in the Ornate Garden Combo Pack.
The greeting is stamped in Poppy Parade Ink on Whisper White and die cut. The greeting is in the Perfectly Plaid Stamp Set. The die cut is part of the Ornate Frames Dies. To layer it on something, I cut out the narrow die with the fancy ends in the same set, but cut it in half so that I could place each piece at each end of the greeting. That die cut in Poppy Parade was adhered to the greeting and then popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals. I also added two knots of ribbon on each side.
That’s all there is to this card. You could simply cut a rectangle out of Whisper White and a larger rectangle out of Poppy Parade with your Paper Trimmer and not do the die-cutting is you were making a lot of Christmas cards like this one.
Have fun trying out new card designs with different designer papers and greetings!
If you haven’t heard already, Paper Pumpkin is our monthly One-Stop Box™ that offers a wide variety of unique papercrafting projects for subscribers of any skill level! These themed, all-inclusive craft kits encourage customers to explore their creativity, try new techniques, and discover their potential in papercrafting.
December’s cute and cuddly Paper Pumpkin kit—called “Beary Comforting”—is designed to uplift your loved ones as this beary tough year finally comes to a close. After a year like 2020, we all could use a big bear hug! With the help of this bear-themed kit, you can create 12 unbearably cute cards featuring warm and fuzzy friends, sweet stamps, and meaningful messages. Near or far, send your friends and family the extra comfort, love, and encouragement they need with this month’s Paper Pumpkin kit!
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Kit contains enough supplies to create 12 cards and coordinating envelopes.
If you want to make a quick and easy card, make something like this Dandy Garden Thank You Card. This designer paper is one that is coming in January 2021 in the Spring Mini Catalog that is bright and colorful and easy to use. One side of the sheets has colorful plants and dragonflies and the other side has generic patterns that are also fun to use with the nature patterns or on their own.
For something bright and different, I used Calypso Coral as the card base. It IS one of the coordinating colors for this designer paper, but it might not be your first choice seeing all the greenery in the papers. But on this paper, some of the dragonflies were Calypso Coral so I wanted to showcase that color. I think it might have been pretty, too, to use Blackberry Bliss cardstock as a layer under the designer paper.
The greeting is stamped in Calypso Coral Ink and is from the Dragonfly Garden Stamp Set. It is cut out with one of the Ornate Frames Dies. Then the greeting is layered over a piece of Calypso Coral punched with the Tailored Tag Punch. I popped that up on Stampin’ Dimensionals.
For a little bit more pizzazz, I added some Holiday Rhinestone Jewels on the card front in the yellowish color which might be named Pumpkin Pie!
That’s how easy this card is! Make a card base. Layer on a piece of designer paper. Stamp a greeting and layer it on another piece if you like. Add some jewels or sequins for a bit of bling! You could do this with any designer paper for any occasion. If you wanted to step it up, you could add a bit of ribbon or some jewels on the greeting itself.
Remember, these new products will be available in January in the January-June 2021 Mini Catalog along with two months of Sale-A-Bration! If you need an easy card, use this card design like I did on this Dandy Garden Thank You Card.
It might kill you to cut into this 12″ x 12″ paper with this snowy mountain scene, but if you do, you can make an easy Christmas card like this Trimming the Town Scene Christmas Card. The whole paper could also be used for a scrapbook page or even a framed piece that you could add some extra pieces to.
For this card, I cut out a top portion of the Trimming the Town Designer Series Paper so I could get the mountains in the scenery. I could have stopped there, really, but I also cut out a house on another piece of designer paper and popped that up on Dimensionals on the front of the card.
For a greeting, I cut out the words on another sheet of the Trimming the Town Designer Paper that has Christmas greetings of all sorts in many languages! That’s an easy way to put a greeting on your card!
For the card base, used Misty Moonlight Cardstock with a layer of Poppy Parade. Poppy Parade is the coordinating color with this Trimming The Town Designer Series Paper. I have also used Real Red, though, also. On the inside of the card I would put a layer of Whisper White on which to stamp or write my greeting since the Misty Moonlight is a dark color.
If you want to make some quick and easy Christmas or winter cards and you don’t have any other use for this large paper, you can certainly cut it up and use it for cards. Maybe add some houses or images from other pages to embellish your scene. It’s really fun to play with! Plus I added some Adhesive-backed Snowflake Sequins to the card.
Stampin’ Up! recommends ordering anything you want by Christmas by December 10th. We are already being warned on the news that shipping this holiday season may be delayed so I suggest ordering anything you want for your Christmas card assembly soon!
Here’s another card I made earlier using the Trimming The Town Designer Paper on which I made my own little scene!
If you have this designer paper, see if you can bring yourself to cut into this paper and make some cards like my Trimming the Town Scene Christmas Card.
The “12 Weeks of Christmas” is my special Thank You gift to my Stamping With Karen Mailing List subscribers. Each Wednesday for 12 weeks leading up to Christmas I send out an email with an exclusive holiday project to give you an idea complete with supply list and instructions. You can use it exactly or use it as inspiration to come up with your own creative project.
This is absolutely FREE and I’m excited to share these project ideas with you! This is my annual gift to my mailing list subscribers, and I love sending out these weekly emails!
The 12 Weeks of Christmas is ONLY for members of my mailing list, however, and I have already sent out five weeks. But you don’t have to miss any more weeks if you sign up for my Mailing List TODAY by 1:00 pm CT to receive Week 6! We have already done 5 weeks of Christmas card ideas and starting today it will be Gift Ideas, then on to Gift Wrap, Bags, and Tags.
Just sign up in the box below or in the box in the upper-right corner of my blog. You will get a free gift just for signing up! We’d love to have you!
Today is the 10th of the month, November, and that means it is the last day you can sign up or join Paper Pumpkin in order to get this November Kit called Jolly Gingerbread! Maybe it’s just me, but at the first glimpse of this kit I was dying to have it! I don’t want you to miss out!
Here is the link to sign up RIGHT NOW!! You can’t miss this cuteness!!
But if you want to know what you are buying….! Here is the information!
Paper Pumpkin is our monthly subscription service that offers unique papercrafting projects for crafters of any skill level! In these all-inclusive kits, subscribers receive pre-cut paper pieces, embellishments, ink, and an exclusive stamp set designed to encourage them to explore their creativity. As their subscription continues, subscribers will have a collection of cards—and other creations—for a variety of occasions, in addition to a stockpile of supplies!
Paper Pumpkin provides a fun and easy crafting opportunity for you and it’s an excellent way to introduce new crafters to their papercrafting potential. So it’s really for everyone and all supplies are included!
November’s cute, gingerbread-themed kit contains enough supplies to create one-of-a-kind Christmas crafts! Whether it’s a gift card carrier, traditional card, or tasty-looking tag, this sweet and seasonal kit is the key to heartfelt holiday gifting. With curly cutouts, sugary stickers, and delicious die-cut designs in a special-edition box, a jolly holiday will be on its way with this kit!
That’s enough to convince me! What about you? And look at what someone did with the box on the Paper Pumpkin Facebook Page, shown at the top of this post! Remember last year when someone came up with the idea of turning the Paper Pumpkin box into a haunted house? I loved that!
But even if you aren’t going to cut up the Paper Pumpkin box to make a gingerbread house, this is what you CAN make with the supplies. CAN means you can follow the design and directions or you can make something else you prefer.
You can also buy Prepaid Subscriptions to Paper Pumpkin in the Stampin’ Up! Online Store just like you would order anything. In fact, if you are trying to reach Stampin’ Rewards with your regular order, a Paper Pumpkin Prepaid subscription might help you reach it! You can buy a 1-month, 3-month, 6-month, or 12-month subscription. You can also purchase kits for gifts! If you buy a prepaid subscription, you will receive an email right away from Stampin’ Up! telling you how to set up your Paper Pumpkin account. Be sure to do this TODAY so that your account will be set up to get the November Kit. They start shipping out right after the 10th of the month!
And you can always skip a month if you want to or need to at any time, or even cancel your subscription, so there is no risk. Stampin’ Up! guarantees every kit.
Sign up now so you don’t get busy and forget and then regret you didn’t get this cute kit in a week or so and see all the cute creations subscribers are making and posting online!
The stamp set we got in our “Swag Bag” from the virtual Stampin’ Up! Convention called OnStage At Home is what I used on this card, Enjoy The Moment Seed Pod Card. It’s an odd stamp set. I think we will have to learn exactly what the images are – various seed pods and seeds. Something different to play with! It’s actually an easy stamp set to use for beginners because you can stamp the image in one color and stop. Or you can move ahead and do a little coloring on the images. Whatever you like!
The stamp set I used is called Enjoy The Moment. If you like to make nature cards and love trees and plants, you will enjoy this set. I also love the sayings in the set. You can use those with lots of other stamp sets.
I chose a piece of the new Dandy Garden 6″ x 6″ Designer Series Paper for this card and therefore I chose the coordinating Mossy Meadow cardstock for the card base. I cut a narrow piece of Whisper White and stamped whatever this plant is and colored it in with a little bit of Stampin’ Blends! I used Crumb Cake, Mossy Meadow, and one other color I can’t remember! Just play! I also stamped some of the small seeds in the stamp set in Crumb Cake just to fill in the background a little bit.
At the bottom I stamped the greeting from the set in Mossy Meadow and tied on a piece of the new Mossy Meadow Braided Linen Trim. Pretty simple card to make, and as I said, it could be even simpler if you don’t color in the stalk.
On the inside of the card since the cardstock is so dark, I added a Whisper White layer and stamped one of the smaller images in the stamp set in the corner in Mossy Meadow.
When you get to see and order from the upcoming January – June 2021 Mini Catalog you’ll want to check out this whole Dandy Garden Suite. The catalog will be delivered in December and I will be ordering them for my regular customers. If you are looking for a Demonstrator to assist you, I would be happy to order a catalog for you if you send me your contact information.
I just googled “images of seed pods” and in clicking around (someone on Pinterest even has a full board of seed pods!) I’m going to guess the seed pod on this card is a poppy seed pod. I’m sure plant enthusiasts will know! And you’ll want to make cards from this suite for those gardening or plant friends of yours!
This Bumblebee Monochromatic Dragonfly Garden Card is one that uses some of the new spring products coming in January but that Demonstrators got to preview, purchase, and use during the Stampin’ Up! OnStage At Home “Convention” this weekend. Virtually, online, of course! But that was easier than traveling to Salt Lake City, although nothing beats an in-person Stampin’ Up! event!
I decided to make a card using the Dragon Garden Stamp Set and the Dandy Garden 6″ x 6″ Designer Series Paper and maybe even the Dragonflies Punch. These are all coming in the January – June 2021 Mini Catalog.
After choosing the piece of designer paper I liked, I used Bumblebee Cardstock for the card base. After finding that I could punch out a dragonfly right on the designer paper, I decided to use that Bumblebee-colored dragonfly and make it all a monochromatic card. I stamped the stalks of flowers in Bumblebee Ink as well as the little dragonflies and then I didn’t have to color anything! The greeting is also in the stamp set and I punched it out with the 2″ Circle Punch.
The punched dragonfly from the designer paper was popped up with Stampin’ Dimensionals® as was the greeting. I also added a bit of the Bumblebee 2020-2022 In Color Ribbon. Pretty easy card to put together!
I’m not much into bugs since I see too many live ones where I live in “the tropics”, but this designer paper is pretty cute and I think the whole Dandy Garden Suite will be a popular one. There are even tiny little Ladybug Trinkets you can purchase in the Suite!
I haven’t gotten to watch every minute of OnStage yet but I can catch up on the videos. I just LOVE to watch the stamping demonstrations by other demonstrators and get so many new ideas! Having this virtual event was the next best thing to being there!
I was really happy with the way this Pink Poinsettia Petals Happy Holidays Card turned out. The colors turned out to look pretty nice together with the Plush Poinsettia Specialty Paper in the background.
The card base is just Whisper White with a layer of the Plush Poinsettia Specialty Paper. This paper is beautiful with the flocked poinsettias on white vellum.
The poinsettia petals are all die-cut with the Poinsettia Dies. I used Petal Pink Cardstock and the die-cut leaves are Pear Pizzazz. Each poinsettia and leaf has two pieces – the outline that cuts it out and a separate inside piece that does the embossing of the veins in the leaves and petals. If you have trouble lining them up, just keep turning the inside piece until it fits in the outline die. You might even want to mark one of the lined up points with a Sharpie on both pieces. Those little green sprigs are also a die in the set. I think they add a lot.
The Petal Pink strip along the side was just in my bag of cardstock! It is from the Peony Dies. I think it is accidentally perfect! It adds a little something along the side of the card without taking away from the poinsettia and doesn’t take up any extra space like a ribbon with a bow would.
The greeting is in the Poinsettia Petals Stamp Set as well as a very nice “Merry Christmas” greeting. I stamped it in Petal Pink Ink on Whisper White and die cut with the Layering Ovals die along with a Petal Pink scalloped oval die for the layer. I think it is small enough to not take away from the poinsettia and fits just fine in the space.
For the poinsettia center, I just added some Gold Glitter Enamel Dots. I adhered three of the smallest ones and one the next size up and that looked perfect. As I was cleaning up, I had a Dot stuck on my finger from the package so I stuck that on the flower center too! I thought about using the Gilded Gems but for this card, I liked the Gold Glitter Dots better and they are better for mailing.
This card is a little fussier to make so I don’t know that I would want to make many multiples of it with all the die-cutting, yet now that I have the card design maybe it wouldn’t be too bad – or too bad for you to copy. Click HERE to see another poinsettia Christmas card I made, this time with the traditional red poinsettia.
This Poinsettia Place Suite of products is all so beautiful it’s worth a little extra effort so try your hand at a card something like this Pink Poinsettia Petals Happy Holidays Card.
You can’t help but be happy when you stamp with the Freezin’ Fun Stamp Set like on this Freezin’ Fun Penguin Merry Christmas Card! It is the cutest stamp set and so much fun to stamp with. Whether you use one or more of the whimsical characters and accessory stamps in the set, you can’t make anything except a “happy” card, as my friend would say.
The card base is Balmy Blue with a layer of the Snowflake Splendor Designer Series Paper. Sometimes it’s not what you plan to use, it’s what piece of paper you spy when you get out your package of designer paper. In this case, I saw this piece with the various purples and wanted to use it on my card. To help the designer paper stand out a bit, I put a layer of Whisper White behind it.
I found the scalloped circle die cut piece already in my package of Balmy Blue so I tried to just use that. I stamped the little penguin on Whisper White and die cut with the Layering Circles Die. Since the penguin looks like he is jumping (or there is a snowboard in the stamp set you can use with him) I decided to stamp a pile of snowballs he is jumping over! Then I also stamped and die cut with the Freezin’ Fun Stamp Set and the Freezin’ Friends Dies. If you want both, get the Freezin’ Fun Bundle and save 10%.
The images are all colored in with Stampin’ Blends alcohol markers, but you can use ink, Watercolor Pencils, or whatever you like. On the die cut circle with the penguin I also stamped some snowflakes in Balmy Blue, stamped off once.
After adhering the scalloped circle with the stamped image to the card front, I adhered one small tree flat on the Whisper White circle but popped up the other two trees with Stampin’ Dimensionals®. I meant to put the image pretty far into the lower right corner of the card, but leave room for aa tree or two, so I think I could have moved it over to the right a little bit more.
You could make this same card design with any of the characters in the Freezin’ Fun Stamp Set. If you like fun and whimsical Christmas cards, then this is the set for you!
Not only is today Election Day but you can purchase an early-release group of products called Curvy Celebrations! Celebrate with curvy stamps, dies, and more! Designed for a variety of special occasions, so you can get a lot of use out of it.
This set will be in the upcoming January-June 2021 Mini Catalog but you can purchase it now! If you purchase the entire group, the Quite Curvy Variety Bundle (158396), you will save 10%! The Christmas items in this Bundle are only available until January 4, 2021. The rest will be in the Mini Catalog in January. The last “safe” day to order before Christmas is December 10th, according to Stampin’ Up! but I’d order as soon as possible. Click on the images below.
The best value is the Quite Curvy Variety Bundle. You get these items:
If you click on the three horizontal bars on the top left of the Home Page of the Store and click on the “What’s New” category, you will see the Quite Curvy Variety Bundle listed. Or use the link above to directly to my page.
Have fun looking over this new group of products designed to give you additional options for your holiday projects and cards!
