For 24 hours on Wednesday, September 23, 2020—from 12:00 AM to 11:50 PM (MT) online — a select number of cling and photopolymer stamp sets from the 2020–2021 Annual Catalog will be available for purchase at a 15% discount!
The Online Store will have a category entitled “Stamp Sale” that displays every stamp set on sale to ensure a quick and easy shopping experience. The sale will run for ONLY 24 hours.
The 15% discount will apply to select cling and photopolymer stamp sets only.
There you have it! Don’t buy these stamp sets until Wednesday but you will only have 24 hours! Let me know if you have questions!
As we like to say, any time is a great time to buy the Starter Kit and join Stampin’ Up!, but if there is an extra promotion, why not?! This special promotion is designed to give a new Demonstrator some extra products to help with her first event!
In addition to the regular starter kit (for $99 USD/$135 CAD, new recruits choose $125 USD/$165 CAD-worth of products) new recruit will also receive enough cardstock pieces to make 16 cards, a pack of Rhinestone Basic Jewels, the So Much Love stamp set, and the Queen Anne’s Lace stamp set—all for their first event.
8 packs of precut cardstock of the coastal cabana pack will be provided, and 8 packs of precut cardstock of the Granny Apple Green pack, for a total of 16 cards (packs include envelopes). The new recruit can choose what samples to replicate and how to distribute the packs to their customers.
Important note: Ink, adhesive, cutting tool, and clear block for stamping must be purchased separately. However, these products may be included as part of the Starter Kit product selection.
Look on the Stampin’ Up! website to read about joining to get some information about being a Demonstrator! Then if you have any questions, just contact me! I suggest thinking about if you want someone local to you to be your Upline to help you perhaps in person. Check the Demonstrator Finder and see is someone near you is interested in having a new recruit. Otherwise, it is perfectly fine to sign up under any Demonstrator you choose who can help you via all the media we have these days – phone calls, email, messaging, whatever works! Stampin’ Up! has lots of help “behind the scenes” on the Stampin’ Up! website to help new recruits get started!
It’s fun and easy to sign up! You get to choose $125 worth of whatever product you choose and pay only $99! Now with this promotion during September, you will also get the extra cardmaking products! Free shipping on Starter Kits!! As soon as you sign up, you will receive an email from Stampin’ Up! with your Demonstrator number and with that you can sign in to the website and start exploring and thinking about how you would like to run your business. There are many ways, even in these pandemic days. I’m happy to help you and direct you to extra resources depending on what you are interested in or what will help you. We all have slightly different businesses and sizes, but it’s up to you to choose what works for you!
Get started by getting some information! Let me know if I can help!
I’m not sure what to say about this Artistry Blooms Just Because Card. I have seen cards with these woven scraps of cardstock or designer paper before so I just thought maybe I would get out my Artistry Blooms Designer Paper again and cut some strips to decorate a Halloween card. And this is what I got instead! It’s not Halloween!
The card base is Thick Whisper White Cardstock. If you are making a card without layers, the Thick Whisper White is strong enough to stand on its own. Since I thought I was making a Halloween card, I cut strips or used scraps of the Artistry Blooms paper that could look like fall or Halloween. But once I got the strips woven together (which really was easy enough to do), I wasn’t sure what else to put on the card!
Finally, I decided on a bunch of leaves from the Lovely You Stamp Set. In order to incorporate most of the colors of the paper strips, I colored the leaves in different fall colors with Stampin’ Write Markers right onto the stamp. This technique makes the stamped image lighter so I colored over the stamped image a little bit with the same colored markers. The greeting is also from the same stamp set and is stamped in Pumpkin Pie.
So the lesson for today is you never know what you are going to create for sure until you sit down and do it! But enjoying the process and using the supplies is the real fun of it!
As I got ready to stamp, I decided maybe I wanted to make a Halloween card and this Ghoulish Goodies Halloween Night Card resulted! I had no idea or plan except I started out thinking I would look through my regular designer papers and see if there was something I could actually use for Halloween paper rather than “official” Halloween paper. I think sometimes we forget we can use papers that are themed in a designer paper package but really you can use that color or generic pattern for many other cards.
As I looked through my packages of designer paper, I thought maybe the Artistry Blooms Designer Series Paper, with its interesting patterns might have something. And sure enough, there were probably a couple different ones I could have used. I chose the last one I saw in the package with this multi-shaded green paper.
I chose these two images in the Ghoulish Goodies Stamp Set to stamp on Whisper White and then die cut with a large Stitched Shapes oval die. Then I colored in the background with various colors of Stampin’ Blends markers. It almost doesn’t matter what colors, just make it look spooky! I used greens, oranges, dark blue, and yellow. The only thing was I got it kind of dark around the man so I colored over him with a Black Stampin’ Blend to make him show up a little more.
For the background I die cut a frame from Mango Melody Cardstock from the Ornate Layers Dies. I had a scrap of Black Glitter Paper so I cut that to fit inside the frame for something sparkly. I also added a layer of Gorgeous Grape under the green designer paper.
For a greeting I needed something small and noticed the small little “Eek” in the stamp set so I used that and cut with the Classic Label Punch. Then I even shortened it with my Paper Snips to fit better and added two Gold Glitter Enamel Dots.
I think it turned out pretty spooky looking just with the combination of colors! It’s not too early to start working on Halloween cards! Have fun!
I realized I hadn’t really used the Forever Fern Stamp Set very much yet, but when I opened the stamp case to start making a card, I realized I hadn’t even used these stamps yet! How did that happen?! I have used the Forever Greenery Designer Series Paper to make cards, but I hadn’t actually stamped with the stamp set! But now that I have, on this Stamping With Forever Fern card, I am in love!
I chose Just Jade, one of the new 2020-22 In Colors, for the card base since it is one of the coordinating colors with the designer paper. Not that I used the designer paper. The card front is Shimmery White Cardstock, a beautiful paper to use for a nice card.
Of course I wasn’t quite sure how this card would turn out if I just stamped the various ferns in the stamp set, but I just started stamping with various colors of green ink. There is something so relaxing and satisfying with stamping, applying that inked up stamp to the paper! It just feels good every time! I used Just Jade, Shady Spruce, Pear Pizzazz, Garden Green, and Soft Sea Foam. Just chose a group of greens! You can stamp over ones you have already stamped, it all looks good in the end!
The greeting is also in the stamp set. I stamped it on Shimmery White with Just Jade Ink and die cut it with the pretty circle die in the Tasteful Labels Dies. It actually looked good just like that if I would have put it on the card without layering it on something, but I did die cut a scalloped circle in the Layering Circles Dies and layered it on that. I adhered it flat on the card for a change. No embellishments either! I was so taken with how the stamping turned out, I didn’t even think about embellishments.
This is a Distinktive stamp set (Patent pending); it has a special texture that gives added depth and dimension in a single step, creating photo-realistic images. It’s something special that Stampin’ Up! has created in some of the stamp sets. It’s really pretty!
There are also dies you can purchase to cut out the stamped images. If you want to get the Forever Flourishing Dies along with the Forever Fern Stamp Set, you can buy the Forever Fern Bundle with both and save 10%!
I do have to play more with this stamp set and Bundle. I was really pleased with this card I made with almost only stamping! Check it out if you haven’t ordered it yet. Lots of people have!
This holiday season, share the joy of Paper Pumpkin! The Joy to the World Paper Pumpkin Kitis an exclusive holiday kit that provides a specially-designed box, enough supplies to create eight elegant cards, and an opportunity to connect with the Stampin’ Up! global community.
With October’s magical kit, not only will you get a head start on your holiday crafting—you’ll get to create Christmas cards, share project ideas, and spread holiday cheer with Stampin’ Up! customers and demonstrators around the world! After you receive your kit, you can join the Joy of Paper Pumpkin Facebook group to make the most of this month’s kit.
ABOUT THE OCTOBER KIT
Name: Joy to the World
Details
Kit contains enough supplies to create eight cards—four each of two designs—and coordinating envelopes.
Kit includes die-cut pieces in English, French, and German. This will allow you to create cards you can use to connect with other customers and demonstrators around the world—in their language! To learn more about how to do this, read the “The Joy of Paper Pumpkin” section on this page.
Card size: 4-1/4″ x 5-1/2″ (10.8 x 14 cm)
Envelope size: 4-1/2″ x 5-3/4″ (11.4 x 14.6 cm)
Coordinating Colors: Cherry Cobbler, Crumb Cake, Early Espresso, Just Jade, Soft Sea Foam
Don’t worry, we’ve put a reminder flyer with details—and a key to help you translate sentiments—in every Paper Pumpkin kit so you won’t forget to participate in this fun global sharing!
Note: Customers and demonstrators in North America will receive this kit during the October subscription period (kits will ship around 11 October). The release date for our global markets will be 3 November. Make sure you join the Facebook group and save some of your cards so you can join in on the fun global sharing when customers in other markets receive the kit!
Sounds interesting, right?! It’s early, but sign up now and you’ll be ready!
If you are interested in a variety of fun cards to make for the holidays, this Freezin’ Fun Snowflake Card might just get your creative juices flowing with ideas. There are so many possibilities with this stamp set and bundle, whether you “just stamp” or use the dies and create a whole winter scene.
I have to admit, this Freezin’ Fun Stamp Set was not one that I was interested in in the least in the Holiday Catalog. But then, recently, I saw some super-cute samples and I had to have it! The little critters are so cute and you can use one or all of them to show them having fun in the snow! Stamp them in Memento Ink and color in with Stampin’ Blends or Watercolor Pencils, perhaps.
There are also Freezin’ Friends Dies to go along with the stamp set. This makes it easy to die-cut the characters and as many trees as you want plus all the other fun things that are in the stamp set. If you want to save 10% on the stamp set and dies, buy the Freezin’ Fun Bundle.
To make this card I started with a card base of Pool Party. That color just reminded me of coolness and ice so I thought it would work for this card. For the layer, I embossed the Whisper White piece with the Winter Snow Embossing Folder to make a snowy background easily!
There is an odd long die that you can use to make a snowy hill. I die-cut two pieces, one higher than the other, for the snow for my characters to sled and ski down! You can just make these different widths and then layer then however you like. They have a pretty stitched edge, too. I popped up the back snowhill with Stampin’ Dimensionals and then adhered the front one directly on top of the back one.
The bunny and the raccoon are stamped and colored, the die-cut. I used the new Magnetic Plate with my new Stampin’ Cut & Emboss Machine and it worked perfectly. It is a self-healing mat and is actually used as a cutting plate, plus is magnetic all over! In fact, you are encouraged to place your dies around different spots on the Magnetic Plate, not just in the center, to help it wear better. I stamped and colored a bunch of large and small trees, to save a couple for another card.
This isn’t necessarily a card you want to make a bunch of because it takes a little time with the die-cutting. But you will be able to make so many fun cards and other projects with this Bundle or even just the stamp set.
Then I had to try out the new Adhesive-Backed Snowflakes! The description says they are two colors, Iridescent and Just Jade. I can certainly tell they are Iridescent. I thought maybe there were some pinks in there too! Anyway, they are pretty and I stuck a few on this card right on top of the embossed snowflakes. Also on the greeting, which is included in the Freezin’ Fun Stamp Set.
If you are ready for some wintry fun, get this Freezin’ Fun Bundle and stamp and die-cut away! It’s really a fun and cute set to have! Check it out on page 69 of the Holiday Catalog, the Stampin’ Up! August-December 2020 Mini Catalog. Then start making some cards like my Freezin’ Fun Snowflake Card!
Have you tried this “slimline” type of card yet? I’ve made several recently just for something a little different. It’s actually a card idea that was around years ago and just came back! You can make them of various lengths and widths.
t seems I have made all my slimline cards using the Flowers For Every Season Designer Series Paper! I think it is because I hadn’t used it in a while and the 6″ x 6″ size was perfect to use. Because of the paper size, I decided to just make my card 6″ x 6″, folded in half so I could use a piece of designer paper 3″ x 6″.
I chose the yellowish paper with little flowers all over for this card. Before adhering the paper to the Whisper White card base, I adhered a strip of Bumblebee 1/4″ Gingham Ribbon to the paper, wrapping the ends around to the back and then adhering the designer paper to the card base. Then I made a separate bow out of the gingham ribbon and adhered it to the ribbon using Mini Glue Dots.
The greeting is stamped in Cinnamon Cider Ink with the Blossoms In Bloom Stamp Set. There are some good greetings in that stamp set. Then I die cut the greeting with a die in the Tasteful Labels Dies. It is popped up over the ribbon with Stampin’ Dimensionals®.
To decorate the greeting I had already cut out various flowers from some of the other papers, so I adhered two cut-out yellow flowers to the greeting. And since I can’t leave those In Color Enamel Dots alone, I had to add three dots to the greeting as well!
I think these slimline cards are a nice change up to send people. After being used to the size we normally send, this size will be a pleasant surprise! This size will fit in that medium size envelope we probably all have in a box from the office supply store. If you make it longer, you can use the longer style envelope that lots of our mail comes in.
Here is the first slimline card I tried with a blue pattern in the Flowers For Every Season Designer Paper. (Gee, I added some Enamel Dots on that card, too!)
You can use any designer paper you like, or simply stamp, but try one of these slimline cards just for fun like this Flowers For Every Season Thinking of You Slimline Card.
This fall paper in the Stampin’ Up! August-December Mini Catalog 2020 is some of the prettiest designer paper we have had (or do I say that about almost every paper?!) so I had to make this Gilded Autumn Pumpkins Fall Friendship Card with this pretty paper with gold embossed pumpkins.
It’s really a very simple card and I wanted to keep it that way. Sometimes we get carried away with all our pretty embellishments and die cuts, but we can make simple, easy cards too that are just as nice.
This card has a Cajun Craze card base to match the Gilded Autumn Specialty Designer Series Paper. I don’t really use Cajun Craze very often but it is lovely on this pumpkin paper! I was going to use another piece of the paper as a side strip but after placing the full layer of the pumpkin paper on the card base, I liked that look just fine and didn’t want to add anything else except a greeting.
The greeting is from So Sentimental, one of the good greetings stamp sets we have in the Annual Catalog. I stamped it in Cajun Craze ink to match on Very Vanilla Cardstock. Then I die-cut it with one of the Stitched So Sweetly Dies. Actually, the greeting looked fine on the card against that paper just as is, but I did want to add some Gold Foil to the card. I cut the same die cut out of theGold Foil and then cut it in half so I could have it extend above and below the Very Vanilla greeting. That is something you can do when you want a layer of some kind but the dies don’t fit or extend beyond the greeting. It usually works pretty well!
The inside of the card will need a layer of Very Vanilla on which to stamp a greeting or write a personal note because of the dark Cajun Craze card base.
That’s really all there is to this Gilded Autumn Pumpkins Fall Friendship Card with just adhering a designer paper layer and a greeting for a very nice card to send to someone during this fall season or even looking ahead to Thanksgiving cards you might want to send.
There’s so much to love about fall—some love the haunts of Halloween, many love the time to give thanks, and others love the changing colors and cooler temperatures.
Whatever you love most about fall, September’s kit has everything you need to celebrate the season your way! Between a multi-occasion stamp set and enough supplies to design 20 cracker box treat packages, you can create custom fall crafts to celebrate Halloween, Thanksgiving, pumpkins, and leaves.
Whether you make them all the same or mix ‘n’ match your crafts, there’s something for everyone in this kit! Remember, you can make anything you want with a Paper Pumpkin Kit and alternative ideas are always posted on the internet after people start making their kits!
I love the look of the Paper Pumpkin box for this month and can’t wait to get it and see what is inside!!
Thursday, September 10th is the last day to sign up to get this September Kit!
Sometimes you just need to stamp and do some coloring! I needed some relaxation and stamping images randomly on a card and then coloring them with markers was just the perfect thing! I think we all need a hobby of some kind to turn to for a little stress relief and enjoyment! Stamping certainly is mine!
These pumpkins are images in the Gather Together Stamp Set which was in the Stampin’ Up! Holiday Catalog last year. You can click on that link to view the PDF of the catalog from last year and get more ideas for samples for that stamp set and dies, but of course most things in that catalog have retired. It was a favorite and I was happy to see it return this year!
There is also a set of dies that go with the Gather Together set, the Gathered Leaves Dies. You can purchase the stamps and dies in the Gather Together Bundle and save 10%! The leaves are also very pretty in this stamp set.
To make this card, stamped the pumpkins randomly on a piece of Whisper White Cardstock. I used Memento Ink since I was going to color in with our alcohol markers, Stampin’ Blends. Mainly I used the Light and Dark Pumpkin Pie with a touch of Light Daffodil or Light Granny Apple Green. I also had out Cajun Craze and used that on a few for a slightly darker shade. The stems are all Light and Dark Granny Apple Green.
After I had the pumpkins stamped and colored it, I was tempted to stamp in the empty spaces with that dotted image in the stamp set. I wasn’t sure I should and perhaps ruin my card after all that coloring. But I was daring and I did it! I chose Granny Apple Green Ink and stamped off on my Grid Paper first to make it a little lighter. Since it is a photopolymer stamp and I could see through it, I could see if the stamp was going to fit in a space so I wasn’t stamping on the pumpkins. I think it added a little something to the card!
I have to admit I was a little sloppy in my coloring on a couple of the pumpkins. I used the Color Lifter but in my opinion it doesn’t always work as well as I would like. Maybe it depends on the color. And it wasn’t that bad, but I was able to cover it with my greeting! Remember, there almost always is a way to fix a mistake…..in fact, there are no mistakes in stamping!
I stamped the greeting in the stamp set in Pumpkin Pie ink and die-cut it with theStitched So Sweetly Dies. There isn’t something that layers perfectly underneath it, so I chose the flagged banner die in the Tasteful Labels Die Set. It barely stuck out on the sides of the greeting, so I cut it in half and was going to make each end longer sticking out from the sides. It was a little tricky to fit on the card the way I wanted it, so I got the idea to put the two pieces off on the left side almost like two tail ends of ribbon. That’s something different and it made the greeting stand out a little. The greeting is popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals.
That’s really all these is to the card. The stamped layer was adhered to a card base of Pumpkin Pie. I tried an extra layer either in Granny Apple Green or Basic Black but I like it fine just on the Pumpkin Pie card base.
Here’s another card with stamped pumpkins from the Gather Together Stamp Set that I cut out and arranged in a group on a card.
Sometimes it is good to get back to some basic stamping and whatever coloring technique you like for a simpler card. Pick this stamp set or another one you like and stamp the image randomly for the background of the card. If you don’t want to color in, just stamp in a color. See what you can make using my Gather Together Fall Pumpkin Card as inspiration!
I got this Don’t Stop Believin’ Santa Christmas Card idea from myself, from Pinterest! I happened to see my Christmas Pinterest board and spotted a card I made last year with the Holly Jolly Christmas Stamp Set and thought I could do the same thing with a current stamp this year!
I planned to call this a monochromatic card, but since there is green in the plaid paper, maybe it’s technically not monochromatic! The card does have a “red” theme, though.
I wanted a layer underneath the Santa in Real Red but the Rectangle Stitched Dies don’t fit the Stitched So Sweetly rectangles exactly. I wasn’t quite sure what I was doing, but I shortened the Stitched Rectangle so it would fit the Santa better. You can find the best technique for doing this, but I took a guess and it worked. I die-cut the rectangle part way, then moved the die up so it would be shorter, keeping the die fit into the part that was already cut. You can feel it, if it is still in its die-cut design.
Next, I stamped the word “believe” in Real Red ink from the Itty Bitty Christmas Stamp Set. That word is die-cut with a small Stitched Shapes circle die. Then this was layered on a scalloped circle die in the Layering Circles Dies in Real Red.
There is a tiny star above the “i” and I thought it would be cute to put a smallRhinestone above it, almost like the twinkle in Santa’s eye. Actually, I’m not sure I like the rhinestone there, maybe some rhinestones scattered around the Santa would have been better. What do you think?
I popped up the Santa image and layers on Stampin’ Dimensionals and also the greeting. I had to put the Dimensional under the greeting off to the one side so it would line up with the popped up Santa image. Otherwise, one side of the greeting would be above the Santa. I did add a Mini Glue Dot to the side of the greeting that would overlap the Santa image to hold it in place there.
If you are looking to make a “happy card”, look no further than this Flowers For Every Season Thank You Slimline Card! Some days you just need something “happy” and the flowers and colors in this pretty paper will improve anyone’s mood or day!
This is what is called a slimline card since it is long and narrow. You can make these cards longer and a little less narrow and they will still fit in a business-size envelope. Since this paper is 6″ x 6″, I thought 6″ wide would be plenty slim-enough. Half a sheet of the designer paper would fit on the card front. This card will fit in that smaller regular size envelope that people use, not our good Stampin’ Up! envelopes.
For this card, I just made a card base of Whisper White at 6″ x 6″ folded in half to 6″ x 3″. I chose two patterns of the Flowers For Every Season Designer Series Paper for this card. There isn’t any margin, the designer paper is the full size of the card base. Actually the flowers and the polka dots are the same sheet of paper, opposite sides. I just cut each piece wide enough to overlap on the front of the card and adhered a ribbon across the seam of the two papers. It’s a very easy card to make.
The ribbon is the pretty Magenta Madness In Color Ribbon. I adhered it around the designer paper layer and then adhered the designer paper to the card base. I also tied a knot on each side of the greeting.
The greeting is in the Blossoms In Bloom Stamp Set. I wanted it to fit on this particular circle die cut so I stamped the words individually one above the other. Make sure the stamp is completely clean so you don’t get a bit of ink where you don’t want it. It is stamped in Just Jade Ink to match the polka dot paper, then die-cut with that pretty circle in the Tasteful Labels Dies. As extra little accents on the greeting, I cut out by hand a few flowers from the designer paper and adhered them to the greeting die cut. The greeting is popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals®
If you would like to try something a little bit different but easy, try one of these narrow, slimline cards. Here is another one I made recently that I really liked making.
While we are all getting excited and beginning to get wrapped up in making holiday cards and projects out of the new August-December 2020 Mini Catalog, let’s not forget the pretty things in the Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog. There is still time for colorful flowers like on this lovely designer paper and we could all use some bright and happy colors and cards in our lives right now so try something like this Flowers For Every Season Thank You Slimline Card.
You will absolutely love this fall designer paper in the Stampin’ Up! holiday catalog that I used on this Gilded Autumn Season of Thanks Fall Card. I had to resist the urge to try to decorate it any further. Sometimes you just have to tell yourself to stop! The card already has a lot going on just in the papers so no need for more bling!
The card base is Mint Macaron which matches the Mint Macaron diagonally striped pattern of the Gilded Autumn Specialty Designer Series Paper. This paper has gold and copper foil accents so it is very pretty but very difficult to photograph for a blog! All the shiny-ness of the foil makes for a lot of glare for a photograph, but in person is very pretty!
It looks like I covered the entire front of the card with the Mint Macaron striped paper, but in reality I just cut two 1″ strips and adhered them to each side of the card. The center panel with the leaf designs in gold and copper accents is cut at 3″ wide so that I could add Copper Foil strips along each side. The foil is cut at about 1/2″ x 5 1/2″. I luckily already had a strip of the foil that I only needed to cut the two lengths of. I lined everything up on my Grid Paper and adhered each copper foil strip to the side of the leaf paper, then adhered that directly to the card.
The greeting is from the Gather Together Stamp Set on page 47 in the holiday catalog. This was a favorite from last year and was carried over this year! It is stamped on Very Vanilla Cardstock in Mint Macaron Ink and then die-cut with an oval Stitched Shapes Die. This was then layered on a scalloped Layering Ovals Die cut out of Copper Foil.
For the inside of the card, I stamped a greeting from the same stamp set in Mint Macaron ink on a piece of Very Vanilla. I happened to have a tiny scrap of the same leaf design paper I have on the front of the card and the opposite side has these colored stripes. So I used that to adhere to the bottom of the card for a little interest when someone opens the card.
All in all, a pretty easy card to make. The paper makes it look very fancy and special! You could make it even easier with just one of the papers as a layer on the front of the card plus the greeting. Here’s another card I made recently with the Gilded Autumn paper. These cards will be so nice to have for Thanksgiving or any time in the fall season.
Try this Gilded Autumn Season of Thanks Fall Card or even change up the designer papers and make something with a different look.
Even though we always want new things, I was happy to see a few things I already purchased last year show up in the new Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog. Two things I used on this Pine Tree Punch Christmas Card were thePerfectly Plaid Stamp Setfor the greeting and the Pine Tree Punch for the Christmas trees.
I got the idea for this card by looking back at last year’s Holiday Catalog at a sample of a tag. I changed it a little bit plus made it into a card. Of course, I could have stamped the trees from the Perfectly Plaid Stamp Set and punched them out as they did on the sample from last year’s catalog, but instead, I wanted to use our new Plaid Tidings 6″ x 6″ Designer Series Paper for the trees. One punch and done!
The card base is Real Red with a layer of Shimmery White Cardstock. I love the Shimmery White Cardstock for its very subtle shimmer. It is basically white but just a tiny shade off-white. I embossed this layer with the new Winter Snow Embossing Folder.
The circle behind the trees is actually two die cuts in Real Red. The outer one is the largest Layering Circle Die with a scalloped edge and then a Stitched Shapes Die circle on top of that.
The greeting is stamped in Real Red Ink from the same Perfectly Plaid Stamp Set on Shimmery White. I got the idea to punch just the ends out of this narrow strip using the Everyday Label Punch.
Be sure you stick in the label from the top of the punch, not from the side like usual or you will punch both ends, unless that would happen to fit perfectly, but usually when you do a trick like this you have to punch one end at a time.
I tried various ways of layering some color underneath the greeting, even thinking about leaving the greeting without a layer, but finally, I came up with red just under the top and bottom of the greeting. Then I added a Red Rhinestone on each end. If you don’t have the Red Rhinestones, just color one of your clear rhinestones with a Stampin’ Blend marker! You can have rhinestones in any color!
I also added some Snowflake Sequins on the layer behind the trees and also on two of the trees. The gold embossed tree didn’t seem to need anything else! Mixed in with the sequins are other sequins that are not snowflakes so I used a few of those on the trees almost like ornaments. Put just the teeny tiniest dab of Multipurpose Liquid Glue where you want the sequin and place the sequin with the Take Your Pick tool. If you don’t already own this tool, you should put it on your next order! It is handy for picking up sequins with the sticky end and the pointy end or spatula end are great for picking rhinestones and other things up off their sheet getting underneath the adhesive. You will use it a lot!
Once you make one of this Christmas card, you could easily do an assembly-line process of making more. Get all the pieces punched or embossed or stamped and then just assemble. Don’t make one whole card at a time, except for maybe the first one for a sample. Cut all the strips for the greeting, emboss all the card layers, punch all the trees of one color, punch all the trees of the other color, etc. etc. In some ways, you almost get muscle-memory while you are working doing the same thing over and over and it makes assembly go faster! And it’s fun to make multiple cards without having to thing of designing each one! Try it with this Pine Tree Punch Christmas Card.
