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Use Let It Snow Scraps To Make Christmas Cards

Let It Snow Snowmen Christmas Card

By now you have probably used up most of your fun Let It Snow Specialty Designer Series Paper unless you are a paper hoarder! And we all want to hoard this fun paper with the glittery snowmen on it. However, if you did actually cut up the sheets with the snowmen, you know it required drastic steps, perhaps destroying parts of the snowmen design. I know you didn’t throw away a bit of the scraps, so look through them now and see what you can make! You might still be able to salvage some snowmen!

On this first card, I had a smallish piece of designer paper with the two snowpeople on it. I just added extra layers so it would make a full card. And I jazzed up the snowmen by adding some stick arms and a scarf and hat. These pieces were from the Let It Snow Embellishment Kit. Don’t forget to use the cardstock cheat trick by punching out or die-cutting some pieces from the center of the cardstock that is going to be covered up anyway. No one will ever know!

Let It Snow Snowmen Square Card

On this card, I was able to save these two snowpeople and just made a smaller card! Make a 4 1/4′ x 4 1/4″ card or 4″ x 4″ size, whatever the piece of designer paper will fit best. On this one, just a little designer paper at the top and bottom of the snowman paper was enough to set off the focal point snowmen. Once you add a greeting and embellish the card a little bit you will have a great card even with a smaller piece of designer paper than you might have used.

Remember, sometimes the opposite side of the paper can be used long after the holidays. Often, we aren’t as familiar with the other side of the paper as we are of the well-known image.

If you have really small pieces of this Let It Snow Designer Paper, remember, you can make tags for gifts! Usually we run out before all the packages are wrapped, so it’s a good idea to make extra tags! Especially if you haven’t started wrapping packages yet1

Have fun making your last minute holiday cards, tags, and treats!

Christmas Gleaming Holly Leaves Christmas Card

Christmas Gleaming Holly Leaves Christmas Card

Here is a card I mostly copied from one I found online except I think she die-cut all the holly leaves and adhered them to the card. I simply stamped them randomly on the card front and colored them in on my Christmas Gleaming Holly Leaves Christmas Card.

The card base is Garden Green although you could also use Cherry Cobbler as the sample I saw did. I used Shimmery White Cardstock, one of my favorite papers. I think you can kind of see the shimmer in the photo a little bit on the colored areas. Even in person, you can barely see it, but it is there! It’s also the next best paper on which to watercolor if you don’t have real watercolor paper.

I stamped the holly leaves and berries in Memento Ink and colored in with Stampin’ Blends. It takes a little time to color even only using green and red. I used two shades of green to give a subtle bit of variation in the leaves.

There is a stamp in the Christmas Gleaming Stamp Set that makes those little dots. I stamped some of those around in Garden Green just to fill in the space a little bit around the leaves. I didn’t want to stamp too many holly leaves because then I’d have to color them in!

The greeting from the same stamp set is stamped in Cherry Cobbler Ink and die cut with a Layering Circle Die and Scalloped Circle Die in the same set.

The ribbon is the Cherry Cobbler Diagonal Stripe Ribbon (no longer available). The greeting is then popped up over the ribbon using Stampin’ Dimensionals.

This is a relatively easy card to make except for the coloring taking a little bit of time. But coloring is relaxing and therapeutic!

Have fun finishing up your Christmas cards, if you are still working on them!

Quick and Easy Toile Tidings Christmas Cards

Quick and Easy Toile Tidings Christmas Cards

I wanted some quick and easy cards the other day (because who has any time with Christmas racing to get here?!) so I made these Quick and Easy Toile Tidings Christmas Cards. I love this toile paper, probably because I have some toile fabric covering the seats of a couple of chairs.

The card base is Garden Green. I just cut the Toile Tidings Designer Series Paper to fit and adhered some Garden Green 3/8″ Double-Stitched Ribbon around the paper first before adhering to the card. Nice if you can think of this before you adhere the designer paper! Don’t ask me how I know!

Then the card just needed a greeting so I chose this one from the So Many Stars Stamp Set. It is stamped in Garden Green Ink on Very Vanilla Cardstock, which was die cut and then layered on a piece of Garden Green. I made the circle one first but then I changed to the oval die cuts. The greeting is kind of large. The greeting seemed to beg for another little something so I added a couple of Toile Tidings Glitter Enamel Dots.

That’s all there was to it, so if you need some easy cards, just use this Toile Tidings Paper. I love all the little scenes on it! In fact, you could use this paper after Christmas, during the winter for cards or to write thank you notes after the holidays.

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Wrapped in Plaid Gatefold Christmas Card

Wrapped in Plaid Gatefold Christmas Card

This Wrapped in Plaid Gatefold Christmas Card is fairly easy to make especially if you just copy my design! Gatefold cards are easy enough and yet look impressive to the recipient, especially knowing that you made it! It is still the size of a regular card and you can decorate the card base any way you like.

The card base is 8 1/2″ x 5 1/2″ as per usual. Instead of scoring and folding in half, score from each end to fold over the center of the card. Score at 2 1/8″ from each end of the Cherry Cobbler Cardstock. Crease and fold with the two ends meeting in the center.

If you want to use designer paper as I did with the Wrapped in Plaid 6″ x 6″ Specialty Designer Series Paper, cut two pieces at 1 7/8″ x 5 1/4″. Adhere these to the two front panels.

For the inside of the card, cut a piece of Whisper White and stamp whatever greetings you like. I added a tree from the Perfectly Plaid Stamp Set. You could also stamp right on the inside of the Cherry Cobbler Cardstock, but since it is a little dark, you might prefer the Whisper White layer for your personal greeting and signature.

Wrapped in Plaid Gatefold Christmas Card Inside

For the belly band cut a strip of Shaded Spruce 11″ x 1 1/4″ or whatever width you would like. Fold around the card, crease the folds, cut off the excess length and have the overlapping ends meet at the front center of the card. You might think you would want the belly band to meet at the back, but if it meets at the front, the tree piece that you add will cover up the ends. I added a piece of Gold Shimmer Ribbon around the belly band and held in place with Mini Glue Dots.

You can add whatever you like for the center of the belly band. I used the Pine Tree Punch to punch a tree out of a piece of Whisper White and then die cut this piece with the Layering Circles Die. Behind that, I die cut a slightly smaller piece of Wrapped in Plaid DSP that I wanted to show through and adhered to the back of the punched tree. This was layered on a Cherry Cobbler die-cut circle, which is then layered on a die-cut scalloped circle of Gold Foil.

As I was looking in my drawer for embellishments, I came up this clip-on star that had been on the Clearance Rack. Perhaps you already own these clip shapes. If not, just punch out a gold star from whatever you have. And for a little extra bling, besides the gold accents in the Wrapped in Plaid DSP, I adhered a few Gold Glitter Enamel Dots. These dots, along with the Gold Shimmer Ribbon are items that are in the Christmastime Is Here Suite.

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Make Some Holiday Gift Card Holders

Toile Tidings Christmas Red Gift Card Holder

It’s time to make some gift card holders that you can use at Christmastime for those people that you plan to give a gift card to and for those for whom you buy last-minute gift cards to finish off your shopping! It’s a great way to make the gift card itself something extra-special with your cardmaking touch!

There are all sorts of gift card holders you can make. Basically, you just need a card with a little pocket inside! This one I made is pretty easy. It has a belly band to hold it closed and inside is a pocket to hold the gift card and also a place for a greeting and/or a personal message. You can put it right under the treat or mail it in an envelope.

To begin, start with a piece of cardstock 7 1/2″ x 6″. On the 7 1/2″ side, score the paper at 2 1/4″ and 5 1/4″. Turn and score the 6″ side at 1″ and 5″. Then cut away both 1″ sides down to the last score line as you see in the diagram below. You can cut those bottom tabs at an angle just to fold them in easier. That bottom portion folds up to make the pocket to hold the gift card and then the top folds down. Easy peasy!

Toile Tidings Gift Card Holder Diagram

To decorate the holder, cut the Toile Tidings Designer Paper or whatever you want to use. Cut two pieces at 3 7/8″ x 2 1/8″ and one piece at 3 7/8″ x 2 7/8″. One piece goes on the inside pocket. Adhere and then use some circle punch partially inserted into the pocket to punch out a half-circle at the top, if you wish, just to make it easier to grab the gift card. You can also cut out a plain piece of cardstock on which to stamp a greeting or write a personal message for inside the top of the gift card holder as you see in my sample.

Toile Tidings Red Christmas Gift Card Holder Folded
Toile Tidings Red Gift Card Holder Inside

To make the belly band, if you want one, cut cardtock 7″ x 1″ and designer paper 7″ x 3/4″. Stamp a greeting, punch out, and layer however you like. I used the Itty Bitty Christmas Stamp Set. It’s so handy!

And here’s an example of the same pattern using the Garden Green designer paper, perhaps better for a man than the red and a little plainer.

Toile Tidings Green Christmas Gift Card Holder

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Don’t start inputting your order until Dec. 11 or it might not take the free shipping. Just get your list ready today! You can use it on regular orders, Year-End Closeout, Clearance Rack, Paper Pumpkin Prepaid Subscriptions! What fun!

Today is the last day to sign up for Paper Pumpkin and get the December Kit!

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This will be a kit with an exclusive stamp set with many greetings and supplies to make 12 cards for the New Year!

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Free Shipping on Stampin’ Up! Orders on Wed. Dec. 11!

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Stampin’ Up! surprised us this morning with the news that they will offer FREE SHIPPING on Wednesday, December 11th! Isn’t that something we all dream about when we are placing our orders?!

This special offer is ONE DAY ONLY! The good thing is you have time to think about your order until Wednesday and then be sure to get it in!

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Only 4 Weeks Left of My “12 Weeks of Christmas” Holiday Emails!

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Every week for the past eight weeks I have been sending my mailing list subscribers a free holiday project that you can use to make your holiday preparations easier! This is a thank you for my mailing list subscribers that I like to do every year. Just like in my regular weekly email, I send a photo of a project, a list of supplies needed, and all the directions to make it.

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Monochromatic Real Red Holly Jolly Santa Christmas Card

Monochromatic Real Red Holly Jolly Santa Christmas Card

If you love this Santa, but don’t want to color him in, monochromatic is the way to go for this card, the Monochromatic Real Red Holly Jolly Santa Christmas Card. After making several other Christmas cards with this Santa and taking time to stamp in black and then color in all the areas with Stampin’ Blends, I would say, even though I LOVE coloring with my Stampin’ Blends, that it can take a fairly long time to color the Santa. So if you want to make a lot of cards in a hurry, just stamp Santa in Real Red Ink and call it a day!

This is a really simple card. The card base is Real Red and the designer paper layered on the base is the red stripe pattern in the Toile Tidings Designer Series Paper in the Holiday Catalog.

The Santa is from the Holly Jolly Christmas Stamp Set. He is just stamped in Real Red on Very Vanilla Cardstock. I have made several cards with this Santa and coloring him in with Stampin’ Blends and as much as I like coloring, it takes a while to do several Santas for several cards! This is super easy, just stamping him in red ink and die-cutting with a Layering Ovals Die. He is layered on a piece of Real Red Cardstock. I was going to stop there but I thought having a layer of Very Vanilla underneath made it stand out just a bit more.

The greeting is stamped in Real Red ink on Very Vanilla from the Itty Bitty Christmas Stamp Set. I keep turning to all these “Itty Bitty” stamp sets for greetings since they have so many choices and don’t take up much room on a card if you don’t have much room for a greeting! The greeting is then die-cut with a small Layering Ovals Die and layered on a scalloped oval die in the same set. You could also have the greeting be just a straight strip of paper too.

I suppose you could even add some rhinestones or sequins to this card, but I liked it just the simple, basic way it turned out. I didn’t even pop anything up on Dimensionals but you could. If you weren’t making a bunch of these cards, you could also stamp the Santa in Memento ink and color in with Stampin’ Blends or whatever color medium you liked. This is just a time-saving method that still delivers a very nice card! Here is a card I previously stamped and colored the Santa. I loved this card, too, and looked forward to making several more to send out, and I did, but it took time.

It’s not too late to get this stamp set or Bundle with the dies and whatever paper you need for Christmas cards! Just go shop at Stampin’ Up! and find what you need!

Feels Like Frost Santa’s Sleigh Card

Feels Like Frost Santa's Sleigh Card

As I paged through the papers of the Feels Like Frost 6″ x 6″ Designer Series Paper, I saw this wintry scene jumped out at me. It looked like a scene out in the middle of nowhere and I just pictured Santa traveling all over the world, delivering gifts to children everywhere, no matter how remote, distant, or wintry! I thought the die-cut sleigh with Santa would be perfect up in the sky over this scene.

As I began working on this blog post, I found out that the Feels Like Frost DSP is sold out! At first, I thought I should scrap this post since I didn’t want to advertise something you couldn’t order if you wanted it. But then I realized that if you loved this paper when you saw it in the Holiday Catalog, you probably already ordered it and maybe would like to see another idea for using it. Obviously there is not enough time for Stampin’ Up! to order more paper for the holidays at this late date.

I wanted this card to look like very late at night, out in the distant woods, wherever it is, so I used a card base of Night of Navy Cardstock. Since this cardstock is so dark, you will have to put a layer of Whisper White or a light color inside the card so you can stamp a greeting or write a personal note. Or you can use heat embossing with white or metallic embossing powder on the dark cardstock.

The designer paper is just adhered to the Night of Navy Cardstock. Santa and his sleigh are a die-cut from the Jolly Season Dies in the Holiday Catalog. I used Basic Black Cardstock but you could also use Night of Navy I think. The dies are part of the Night Before Christmas Suite, which is one I absolutely love!

I tried various greetings and finally settled on this one from the Itty Bitty Christmas Stamp Set. I die-cut it with the Stitched Rectangle Dies and also die-cut a Silver Foil rectangle to layer under the greeting. However, in the end, I liked just the greeting by itself.

For a little bit of bling, I added some Snowflake Sequins to the background and also two on the greeting. A really handy thing to have when you are working with sequins is the Take Your Pick tool. You can use the putty end to pick up the sequins and place them and you can use the pointy end for transferring things like rhinestones and jewels from the package to the project.

Overall, this is a very simple Christmas card so if you already own the Feels Like Frost Designer Paper and the Jolly Season Dies with the sleigh. If you don’t have the paper, you could stamp your own background with a night sky and trees below. Mainly I like the story of Santa’s sleigh going everywhere all over the world!

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Last Day to Stock Up on Discounted Cardstock, Ink & Bundles!

Today, Friday, November 22, is the last day of the Stampin’ Up! Online Extravaganza. Be sure to get into the Online Store and order what you need while you save 15% off Regals and Neutrals Cardstock and Ink Pads plus an additional 5% off select Bundles (15% off total).

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(Some products on the original list are no longer available or may be backordered.)

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These products pictured were still available in the Stampin’ Up! Online Store this morning. Things can change at any moment so hurry and get what you want! Cardstock and ink pads are rarely on sale so take advantage of this discount on things you need!

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Stock Up on Stampin’ Up! Regals, Neutrals & In Colors!

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The 3-Day Stampin’ Up! Online Extravaganza begins today, Nov. 20 and runs through Friday, Nov. 22.

15% off Ink pads and Cardstock in:

  • Neutrals Collection (Annual Catalog p. 162)
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  • 2019–2021 In Colors (except Purple Posy Ink) (Annual Catalog p. 164)

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Bird Ballad Just A Note Card
Bird Ballad card using designer paper with Stitched Nested Label Dies in the Free As a Bird Bundle.
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The Pressed Petals Journal embellished using the Bloom & Grow Bundle.
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Here’s the Bloom & Grow Stamp Set stamped on the Stitched Nested Labels Die.

These are just a few cards I’ve made using some of the products you can get in the select Bundles with an added 5% discount plus the normal 10% discount you normally get with a Bundle.

Even if you don’t think you need cardstock, trust me, it might be worth checking through your Neutrals and Regals cardstock and see if some colors are getting low. And don’t forget the two families of In Colors! I’m ordering a couple of assorted packages of the newest In Colors to stock up on all the colors!

Check your ink pads, too. Maybe you want to purchase more of the new style ink pads! Now is the time because seldom are ink pads offered at a discount.

Read my post from yesterday if you need more details!

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Stampin’ Up! Online Extravaganza 2019 Starts Tomorrow!

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Check your cardstock and ink inventory today so you can be ready to shop the Stampin’ Up! Online Extravaganza beginning tomorrow, Wednesday, Nov. 20 through Friday, Nov. 22. Plus, there are 8 bundles on the sale!
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Get ready for three days of savings with the Stampin’ Up! Online Extravaganza! For three days only, you can get these deals:

15% off Ink pads and Cardstock in:

  • Neutrals Collection (Annual Catalog p. 162)
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  • 2018–2020 In Colors (Annual Catalog p. 164)
  • 2019–2021 In Colors (except Purple Posy) (Annual Catalog p. 164)

Take Additional 5% off the original 10% discount:

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  • Neutrals Classic Stampin’ Pads Assortment (Annual Catalog p. 162)
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  • 2018–2020 In Colors Classic Stampin’ Pads Assortment (Annual Catalog p. 164)

These are the Bundles with the extra 5% discount:

 

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  • In the event that we run out of any item offered, promotional pricing will be honored on items backordered, up to the point it reaches the backorder limit. If you try to order an item that is not available, you will receive a notification informing you it is currently unavailable. Once an item reaches the backorder limit and is not orderable, it will no longer be available during the promotion and will not be available to order until additional inventory arrives in your market.

If you are looking for even more bargains, check out the Clearance Rack also!

While stocking up on some cardstock, remember the new Paper Trimmer (152392) is now available! You might like to add it to your order and make cutting paper for holiday cards and projects easier than ever.

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Brightly Gleaming Stitched Star Christmas Card

Brightly Gleaming Stitched Star Christmas Card

This Brightly Gleaming Stitched Star Christmas Card was very difficult to photograph without a giant glare of the Copper Foil, but I think I got it pretty well now on an angle! I’m feeling like I haven’t had enough time to play with all my Christmas stamp sets and accessories and time is getting short! Panic is setting in! And a sore throat that slowed me down this past week!

However, I did fit in some stamping time and here is one example! It seemed like a lot of samples I was seeing used the Night of Navy designer paper in the Brightly Gleaming Specialty Designer Series Paper. I thought I would change things up a bit and use the Mossy Meadow color.

The card base is Mossy Meadow and the Mossy Meadow patterned designer paper just comes down partway on the card base. Be sure to adhere some of the Very Vanilla/Copper 1/2″ Classic Weave Ribbon around the bottom of the designer paper before adhering the designer paper to the card base! And before you do any of that, if you want to emboss a greeting at the bottom of the card, do it before you have ribbon hanging in the way with the potential to ruin the card! I got lucky and could have covered it up with an embossed greeting on a different paper. But it’s better if you plan your card and space first and stamp or emboss before you get everything adhered to the cad!

The star is die cut with the largest star in the Stitched Stars Dies. I just love that we have star dies again because I think stars are SO useful in designing cards and projects. Just think about how many things you can use stars for besides Christmas! Birthdays, congratulations, babies, retirement, everything! These stars are beautiful dies and certainly not just for the holidays.

The star is cut from Copper Foil. Then that Copper Foil star is overlaid with the large star in the Brightly Gleaming Foil Elements. I used the Multipurpose Liquid Glue in teeny tiny dots on the back of the foil element to adhere to the die-cut star. I got lucky and didn’t make a mess with the glue so it worked fine. On this card, I popped up the foil star with Stampin’ Dimensionals, but you can also adhere it flat on the card.

The ribbon is really beautiful. I need to learn how to tie a bow with the words all going in the same direction if that’s possible! I passed it up on one of my first Holiday Catalog orders, but then added it later because it is something different!

For the greeting on the card front, I chose one from the Itty Bitty Christmas Stamp Set because I knew I needed something small. I stamped it with Versamark and heat embossed with Copper Stampin’ Emboss Powder and my Heat Tool. Heat embossing is magical, if you haven’t tried it yet!

For the inside of the card, I added a Very Vanilla layer of cardstock, stamped with a greeting in Mossy Meadow Ink and with a strip of the same Brightly Gleaming DSP along the inside edge of the Vanilla layer. The greeting used inside the card says “Hoping all your Christmas wishes come true.” in the So Many Stars Stamp Set. Save 10% by purchasing the So Many Stars Stamp Set and Stitched Stars Dies in a Bundle.

Thanksgiving is coming up so make those cards first if you are mailing a few cards to friends and family. But then it’s really time to get serious about Christmas cards!! You’ve probably paged through the Holiday Catalog a bunch of times, but maybe you need another few run-throughs before it gets too close to the holidays!

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Christmastime Is Here Z Fold Rose Birthday Card

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I think these Z-Fold cards, such as this Christmastime Is Here Z Fold Rose Birthday Card, just look impressive and yet they are perfectly easy to make! This is a birthday card, in spite of the fact that the designer paper and suite of products is called “Christmastime Is Here”. Just think of the people with December birthdays that maybe get tired of their birthdays being completely tied in with holiday designs. This paper, while recognizing the season, can be used for birthdays or other occasions. And some of the patterns have no hint of any season so you can use them at any time.

This card base is Cherry Cobber Cardstock, folded in half as usual. To make it a z-fold card, just score the front of the card in half (so half of 4 1/4″ would be 2 1/8″). Basically, you fold half of the front of the card back on itself. This makes the “z”.

For the front panel of the card, I cut a piece of the Christmastime Is Here Specialty Designer Series Paper at 5 1/4″ x 1 7/8″. The inside of the card is Whisper White 5 1/4″ x 4″ with a 3/4″ x 5 1/4″ strip of the designer paper down the side. Stamp the greeting inside the card if you are putting one inside and then adhere the layer inside the card. (If you mess up with the stamping, you haven’t ruined the card!)

For the front of the card, I die-cut a portion of the floral paper with the Layering Circles Dies which was then layered on a Cherry Cobbler die cut circle layered on a die-cut circle scalloped circle of Gold Foil to match the gold accents on the designer paper.

Christmastime Is Here Z Fold Rose Birthday Card

To finish the card, I added a few Gold Glitter Enamel Dots and that was it! As you can see in the photos and in the Online Store, this Christmastime Is Here Specialty Paper is just gorgeous with its gold foil accents on many of the sheets. I added the Gold Glitter Enamel Dots and the Gold Shimmer Ribbon to my order even though I did not purchase the stamp set and dies. The good part about this Christmastime Is Here Suite is that you can get it all or pick and choose what you like or need.

If you are still considering choices for Christmas cards and projects, I would remind you to check out this Christmastime Is Here Suite. It only came out in November, is not in the Holiday Catalog, and is available while supplies last.

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Four Easy Christmas Cards With Toile Tidings

Four Easy Christmas Cards With Toile Tidings

Surprisingly I hadn’t even played with the Toile Tidings Designer Series Paper in the Stampin’ Up! Holiday Catalog, so I thought I would make an assortment of Four Easy Christmas Cards with Toile Tidings. They are all the basic design of easy cards, put in one orientation or the other, using the Real Red side of the paper or the Garden Green side, full front layer of just one paper pattern or a split layer using two patterns of paper. A greeting is added and a bit of ribbon. That’s all!

The Toile Tidings Designer Paper coordinates with Real Red and Garden Green Cardstock along with Very Vanilla. I made two cards with the Real Red card base and two with the Garden Green. The paper with the toile scene has the same toile scene in the opposite color on the other side so that makes it easy!

On two of the cards, I used a sheet that has the houndstooth check pattern, red on one side and green on the other. I used a small strip of the check pattern underneath the toile pattern, in both orientations, portrait and landscape. This adds a little bit of interest and has a ribbon covering the junction of the two pieces.

On these cards, I used the Garden Green 3/8″ Double-Stitched Ribbon and also a retired Real Red ribbon. If you want the current ribbon, which I don’t have, you can use the Real Red 3/8″ Cotton Ribbon. You might even have something else that would work.

For the greetings, I just chose some from several stamp sets. The “Season’s Greetings” stamp is from the Still Scenes Stamp Set with the globe. I used the pretty “Merry Christmas” stamp on two of the cards. It is from the Perfectly Plaid Stamp Set. And finally, the “Wishing You Peace….” stamp is from the Merry Christmas To All Stamp Set.

You can use any punches or dies to cut out your greetings and layers for them. I’m going to add some designer paper to the inside Very Vanilla layer since the card stock is colored. I may even add some colored rhinestones or dots to some of these cards…maybe. This is a simple card design and depending on your designer paper, you can leave your card as simple or as embellished as you want to. Just have fun with it because Christmastime only comes around once a year!

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