Merry Christmas to You!!
I hope Santa is good to you and leaves lots of goodies in your Christmas stocking!
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Here’s an idea that’s been around a long time! Buy one of those giant chocolate bars and print out this poem!
Need a gift bag? Decorate to look like a snowman! Don’t have a white bag? Make this design or similar on a piece of white cardstock and stick it on the front of a bag!
One of my favorite votives of all time! I think it was the black and white gingham paper with the greenery and red berries. Dress up any votive holder or little jar you have and decorate however you like. Put a tea light inside. Of if it is a jar, fill it with candies or little cookies for a gift!
Here’s an oldie, but wow! Still just as cute eleven years later, if I do say so! Just cover a chocolate candy bar with designer paper or in this case, cardstock, and decorate or stamp or print a holiday greeting. Who wouldn’t enjoy a cute candy bar for Christmas? It’s a good stocking stuffer!
And of course, gift card holders are always great at the last minute. Or put in cash! Or write an IOU for that gift that didn’t arrive yet! Here’s the link with directions. And there are two styles on that post!
Have a Merry Christmas Eve!!
I’m reposting this from last year, as I came across it for a Quick and Easy Gift Card Holder. I’m thinking that at this late date, a lot of us might be looking for simple gift card (or cash!) holders. Of course you can use any cardstock and designer series paper you have.
Start with a 4″ x 12″ strip of cardstock. You could make it taller if you wanted to. Score this strip of paper at 4″ and 8″, basically in thirds, since the paper is 12″ long. Then on the end section, cut from the score line down to the corner on a diagonal. This can be on either end of the card.
Put a strip of Tear & Tape Adhesive or other strong adhesive on the bottom of that section with the diagonal cut. Then fold that diagonal piece over to the inside panel next to it.
My sample is a card base of Real Red, and I used the Reindeer Days Designer Series Paper and Sticker Sheet to decorate the holder. On the front, I cut a piece of designer paper with the packages at 3 3/4″ x 3 3/4″. The tree and strip of holly leaves behind it are stickers from the Reindeer Days Sticker Sheet.
You can decorate the inside however you like or leave it plain. I put another paper behind the diagonal piece and a diagonally cut piece of designer paper on that diagonal corner. Just cut a square of 3 3/4″ x 3 3/4″ and cut diagonally from one corner to the other. Just make sure you have the pattern going the right way and that you cut to and from the correct corners. You can write a message on the inside left of the holder or add a piece of Basic White on which to write or stamp something.
Put your gift card or cash in the pocket. Decorate the front a little more with some bling, like these Iridescent Faceted Gems on the tree. If you prefer, make a belly band to go around the gift card holder to keep it closed. These are so quick and easy, I bet you can’t make just one!
I guess it’s time to be wrapping holiday gifts, if you’ve done your shopping, that is! One of my favorite things to do is create decorative gift bags for any occasion, such as this Decorative Trees Gift Bag, perfect for a Christmas gift.
You may have shopping bags like this kraft one from shopping at certain stores, usually nice gift shops. Even if they have the store name on the front, you can usually cover that up with your decorating. You can also buy a pack of gift bags in various sizes like this one, or sometimes in white or colors, at a craft store. It’s just like making a card except on a larger canvas! Creativity knows no ends!
This gift bag is actually the third version of my original idea. Actually, it’s not even close to my first idea except for involving Christmas trees, but creativity often evolves as you work on your project. I saw the Decorative Trees Stamp Set on my shelf and it is still current, on the Last Chance List discounted 50%! When I looked it up in the Stampin’ Up! Online Store, I saw a cute idea for a card which I just translated to a bag. Perhaps you have this stamp set from last year or whenever it came out.
For the background on this bag, I stamped the greeting “O Christmas Tree” in the stamp set diagonally across the bag in Crumb Cake ink. Then I stamped three different colors of trees, just the outline, in Garden Green, Shaded Spruce, and Old Olive. I didn’t want to look for the dies, but there are some although not available at Stampin’ Up!, so I just cut them out by hand. The first two are embossed and the third on has stamping on the inside. The first one is embossed with the Dotted CIrcles Embossing Folder. The second one is embossed with the Forever Plaid folder. I added a little Pecan Pie trunk to each tree. The center tree is popped up with Stampin’ Dimensionals.
If you don’t have tree stamps or dies, just cut some out by hand! We’ve all drawn Christmas trees by hand at least when we were kids, so just channel your inner child! If nothing else, just draw a triangle!
Then the fun began! Decorative the trees and bag with embellishments! Use whatever you have! The first tree has current Traditional Sparkling Sequins in gold and Pool Party (which almost looks like silver). The middle tree has retired Cherry Cobbler and Clear Berries gems (some name like that). I colored the clear ones with a Dark Cherry Cobbler Stampin’ Blend marker to look like berries. Some are in sets of three, some single. The third tree has adhesive gold stars in a strand that a special friend brought me all the way from Japan! They fit perfectly on this tree! And because I came across them, I used the small white stars in the Shimmer Star Foam Stickers to look like little stars or even represent little snowflakes.
Even though my first idea was to use a white paint pen and form a tree shape by drawing small snowflakes on the kraft bag, I thought I should make something that other stampers could copy. But if you wanted that look, you could use white craft ink and a snowflake stamp. There’s always a work-around for ideas!
You probably have a bag of bags in your house somewhere so check it out and personalize a bag or even gift wrapping. If you run out of fancy wrapping paper, use the kraft-colored grocery paper bags or plain wrapping paper. You can always decorate these things with your stamping and scrapbooking supplies!
This kind of card is difficult to photograph with its gold foil accents, but I assure you this Traditions of Christmas Season’s Greetings Card is pretty in person! This is the particular patterned paper that “spoke” to me when I looked in the Tradtions of Christmas Specialty Designer Series Paper. That’s a good way to get your creativity going – just look at a package of designer series paper and see what strikes you! Then go from there!
I really liked the Pool Party color on some ribbon and flowers on this paper so I really wanted to have Pool Party be a part of the card. I could have put the colors in reverse or used only Pool Party as the card base, but this time I used Real Red for the card base with a layer of Pool Party ( 4″ x 5 1/4″). Then the designer paper is cut at 3 3/4″ x 5″.
With this paper, I was rather purposeful in wanting the red flowers centered and hopefully not hidden when I added a greeting. Sometimes you can trim the sides or top and bottom so that you get a certain image in the spot where you want it to show on the card.
For the greeting, I used the Traditional Labels Bundle (stamp set and dies). You can do it either way, but this time I diecut the label and then stamped the greeting in Real Red on Pool Party cardstock. To add a layer, I adhered the stamped label and greeting to a piece of Gold Foil, the simply cut around it leaving a narrow margin of gold. It was easy to cut it by hand so don’t be afraid to do it! Before adhering to the card, I added some Stampin’ Seal on the back and adhered some Gold Striped 3/8″ Ribbon to the backside where I wanted it, then used Stampin’ Dimensionals to pop up the greeting and help hold down the ribbon. I love this ribbon! However, it is unavailable right now and not due back in stock until February!!
Just so you know, the Traditions of Christmas Designer Series Paper, is currently unavailable as are the Christmas Tags & More 6″ x 6″ DSP and the Greetings For You Ephemera Pack, but all are due back in stock next week!! So check back earlier or fill in the blank to be notified with each product. Sometimes things arrive sooner and you can grab them before everybody else.
If you already have these materials or even make a card like this one last-minute, I think you will find it plenty easy to make with no fuss!
This Christmas Tags & More Presents Card was a fun card to make with the ephemera pieces in the designer paper! I think I’ve made a card like this in the past, using paper to make it look like a stack of Christmas presents. When I looked at the ephemera pieces in the Christmas Tags & More 6″ x 6″ Designer Series Paper, I saw a couple actual gifts plus a couple other pieces that could be gifts!
This card has a Garden Green base with a layer of Real Red. May as well use green and red together today for a Christmas card! To start stacking the gifts, I used the green and white plaid one first, and then the red plaid banner in the ephemera looked like it could be a gift also. I cut off the banner end and shortened the green and white gift on the top. The bottom holly piece was just another tag or some kind of piece of ephemera that was the right size to put underneath the red plaid gift. Then I also noticed the little green package with white polka dots and slipped that at the top of the stack of gifts. The green and white package already had a bow on it, so for the other two, I just added two ephemera bows also in the package.
Before adhering the stack of gifts, I figured the Basic White top layer was going to look a little plain. Another good opportunity to use the Metallic Textures Rub-Ons to add a little design for the background in gold! These things are so fun to play with! I put the cross-hatch design in diagonal corners and some dots in the other two corners. After adding those, I adhered the gifts to the card front.
For the greeting, I found this one in the Greetings For All Ephemera Pack. I had tried out some others, but this one seemed to be the right size and showed up against the background. Instead of the Metallic Textures Rub-Ons, you could emboss the white background first with something not too busy or add some sequins or gems for a little bling and sparkle.
When you have an assortment of these ephemera packs, you have an easy and fun way to make a card!
As many of my cards do, this Elegant Pine Snowflakes Card From Our House to Yours card came about from looking through the package of designer series paper! Quite often, your creativity kicks into gear once you start looking at your products and paper. I liked the background paper and thought maybe if I cut out a snowflake that would look good for the focal point of the card.
This card starts with a card base of Shaded Spruce cardstock with the fold at the side rather than the top of the card. Cut the cardstock at 4 1/4″ x 11″ and fold at 5 1/2″. You could also put the fold at the top of the card. Usually we have the fold along the long side of the card.
The snowflake layer of paper is in the Elegant Pine Snowflakes Designer Series Paper. I chose one of the larger snowflakes from another sheet of the same designer paper and cut it our by hand (fussy-cut) with my Paper Snips. It’s so easy to cut out things by hand if you turn and move the image you are cutting out rather than moving your scissors. It really does make it easy once you change your focus on cutting. I planned to just adhere the snowflake to the front of the card, but I thought it needed something behind it. Since there was this Basic White diecut circle from the Stylish Shapes Dies already in my package of Basic White, I tried placing that behind the snowflake and liked the look of it. I also added a piece of the Shaded Spruce & Gold Edge 7/8″ Ribbon underneath. I think just the strip of ribbon looks pretty enough. No need for a bow anywhere. The snowflake is adhered flat on the white diecut circle and then the whole thing is popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals.
The greeting is from my favorite thing, the Greetings For You Ephemera Pack. I think the small banner size fits perfectly on the card without detracting from the big snowflake. I trimmed off the right side of the banner to be straight along the edge of the designer paper. For a little sparkle, I added a small red Traditional Sparkling Sequin to the center of the snowflake and three gold sequins on the background paper. Those sequins are on the Last Chance category now and reduced 10%. I think you should get some! They are so pretty! I’m already on my second package and haven’t even made all my Christmas cards and projects yet!
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This Traditions of Christmas Ornaments Card is made with beautiful holiday designer paper cut in circles to look like Christmas ornaments. As long as you are diecutting, go ahead and cut out various size circles out of whatever paper you are using and you will have extras to play with and make additional cards.
This card base is Pool Party with a layer of Basic White for the background. I used the beautiful Traditions of Christmas Specialty Designer Series Paper. It was easy enough to take scraps of paper and cut it into as many circles as I could fit different size dies on it. Then you have both sides of the designer paper to use as far as patterns you like so it’s easy to make some beautiful ornament shapes. I used the Stylish Shapes Dies for this. After I had a lot of circles cut out, I just played around with pattern and size to design the card.
For the ornament hanger at the top, I simply cut little pieces of Gold Foil to make that gold cap on top of each ornament. Then I dug around in my bins of retired ribbon and found just a short piece of this gold cord that was just enough for me to tie a gold bow on each ornament. I adhered each bow with a Mini Glue Dot.
The blank white space around the ornaments looked too bare, but at first I wasn’t sure what I would like, maybe just some sparkly gems. But then I thought of the Metallic Textures Rub-Ons which just seem like magic to me! I love cutting out pieces of the designs and just rubbing it with my finger, after removing the backing paper, to transfer to the cardstock. I thought these designs filled in the space nicely.
For the greeting, I chose the word “joy” out of the Greetings For All Ephemera Pack. I love and have used this ephemera pack a lot. It has beautiful greetings of all sizes for your holiday cards and projects as well as scrapbook pages. This gold foil “joy” seemed to fit perfectly on this ornament and it looks good in that position on the card.
Sometimes you don’t know what you are going to come up with when you start designing a card. Even when you have an idea, by the time you try out different colors, papers, and greetings you might end up with a card completely different than your original idea. Or maybe you didn’t have an idea but just working with the elements your creativity comes alive!
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This Christmas Tags & More Ornaments Card is easy to make with the versatile pack of 6″ x 6″ designer series paper called Christmas Tags & More! Besides the pretty holiday designs and tags in the paper, there are some sheets of diecut ephemera images you can use any way you like on cards or scrapbook pages and other projects for the holidays.
This card starts with a card base of Real Red cardstock, although you could use another color that matches the ornaments. There is a layer of Basic White cardstock for the background because I felt like I wanted the card to be very simple.
For the string holding the ornaments, I used a recently retired green baker’s twine. You could use whatever you have. A gold trim would be pretty, too. The ends are adhered under the sides of the white cardstock. Make it fairly tight going across but you want a little dip in the string. I chose three ornaments from the ephemera pages in the designer series paper, plus two pieces of mistletoe. To adhere the ornaments I put a Stampin’ Dimensional on the back of each one at the center to bottom and then a Mini Glue Dot to adhere to the string. The mistletoe is adhered flat on the card. Then I tied three small bows to adhere with a Mini Glue Dot to the top of each ornament.
Before I added the greeting, I had to play around with papers and layers trying to find the right thing for the bottom of the card. All of a sudden, the right combination came about! I added a strip of the red and green plaid pattern with a layer of Real Red under the greeting to highlight the gold foil wording. But I didn’t want it covering up very much of the plaid design.
The greeting is found in the Greetings For You Ephemera Pack. I have loved this pack with all kinds of gold foil greetings for the holidays that are ready to go and even are backed with adhesive. Just peel off the backing and adhere to the paper. Or if you’d rather use some other adhesive or pop up the greeting with Dimensionals, just leave on the backing paper and do it your way.
For just a tiny bit of embellishment, I added two gold Traditional Sparkling Sequins at each end of the greeting. I think they highlight the greeting a little bit and even a little on a card is nice!
Just get out all the papers and the diecut images and play around with all the possibilities!
I knew I wanted this Nutcracker Tags Kit the minute I saw it in the Stampin’ Up! Online Store! I could tell the tags would be so cute for Christmas gifts and maybe even to make into a card. Each nutcracker image is printed and diecut in bright festive colors. To embellish them, just adhere pieces of their costume with Dimensionals to the tag. Tie them onto a background striped tag and all you have to do is write your “To: From:” on the back when you add them to a gift. No stamping is required. Just add the pieces, the sentiments, and tie the tags together with the black baker’s twine. The tags and sentiments even have gold glitter to make it look extra festive and high-quality.
The Stampin’ Up! Kits Collection is great for anyone to make! I had the opportunity to stamp with my great-niece and worked along with her as we made cards from three different kits and she could easily do it. In fact, after a little while she didn’t even want to follow the directions, she just wanted to make her own creation with the contents in the kit! And that’s fine! The Kit is yours! If you want to change anything or add any of your own products, like extra cardstock, just go ahead and have fun!
At this time, the Nutcracker Tags Kit is sold out. It says “Currently Unavailable” and you can add your email address for Stampin’ Up! to send you an email if and when they get more in stock. I hope they do get more in stock because I really do like this kit. You would still have time to order and make the kit if they are restocked in the next few weeks. I hope so!!
But if you did already purchase the Kit, this is your reminder to get it out and make the cute nutcrackers! Your gifts will look more luxurious and festive with these tags!
Here’s a fun Christmas card to make, the Christmas Tags & More Plaid Christmas Card. Between the cute designer series paper, the new dies to make the focal point, and the ephemera pieces and embellishments, this card will be easy enough for you to make and be proud of.
The card base is Garden Green, and I used the Christmas Tags & More 6″ x 6″ Designer Series Paper. As you can see, this pack of paper is not only about Christmas tags! You can make tags out of some of the sheets just by cutting the images apart, as I did in THIS blog post. But you can certainly use the pack of paper for lots of Christmas cards, Christmas projects, and making scrapbook pages. I love this plaid design that I used for the background.
On the front of the card, I used the Branching Out Dies which are in the Holiday Mini Catalog and part of the Branching Out Bundle. I love using these dies for their shape and for their layering sizes. The top layer is a piece of Basic White cardstock layered on top of Garden Green cardstock. The small print piece at the bottom is a piece of the Tags & More 6″ x 6″ Designer Series Paper, but only using a portion. This whole piece is popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals.
In the center is a wreath from the Time For Celebration Ephemera Pack. This wreath fit perfectly on this diecut with the greeting one of the pieces in the Greetings For You Ephemera Pack. I have used elements in this pack so much! They are pretty in gold foil and saves you the trouble of doing embossing. The red bow is from the Time For Celebration Ephemera Pack also, right by the wreath. For a little sparkle and embellishment, I used the Traditional Sparkling Sequins, which I love, love, love! I just placed three red sequins around on the wreath and one silver one on the center of the bow.
If you didn’t have the Branching Out Dies, you could layer any rectangle dies or just cut rectangle shapes of cardstock with a paper trimmer and it would all still be fine.
It appears that many or all of the products I used on this card are “currently unavailable” at this moment. This is why it is a good idea to order products you like as soon as you can when they come out. However, not all is lost! These products should be back in stock in about a week or two. You can go to the product page and fill in your email to be notified when they are back in stock. Sometimes they are even available earlier than expected so this is a good tool to use. Or just check back.
The Christmas Tags & More DSP is due back the week of Nov. 17th, as well as the Greetings For You Ephemera Pack. The Branching Out Dies are due back in stock the week of Nov. 24th as well as the Traditional Sparkling Sequins. The Time For Celebration Ephemera Pack is delayed until the week of Dec. 1st. You will still have time to order these items as they come back and still have time to make your projects. You can also use the same card design with other paper, other rectangular shapes for layers and another greeting and embellishments.
Keep checking the Stampin’ Up! Online Store and perhaps you will be the first one of these products being available again!
Do you know what today is? Today is October 25, TWO MONTHS until Christmas Day! Wow! That puts things into perspective for us crafters, right?! I wanted to post a Christmas card today to remind all of us that even though it isn’t Halloween yet, it is almost Christmastime! Here are two cards, Elegant Pine Snowflakes Scrap Cards, that you can easily make with brand new paper or the scraps that you have left after making other cards. And you can use any paper you have! In fact, you can make this same kind of card for a birthday or any occasion, just change the theme and greeting of course!
This card is made with a Real Red card base. As you may have guessed, I used the Elegant Pine Snowflakes Designer Series Paper in the Online Exclusives since September. You could use Cherry Cobbler cardstock or one of the greens. The paper strips are cut at 1 3/4″ x 4″. I adhered mine directly on to the card base. However, sometimes it is easier to cut a piece of cardstock the same size as the three strips together and adhere the strips onto that layer, then the whole piece on to the card base. Or you can make a layer that is larger (if you cut your strips smaller) and have that layer show around the margins of the strips. Very versatile design. These strips are all touching, but you can also make them smaller and narrower and leave a space in between.
The greeting is one of the gold foil sentiments in the Greetings For You Ephemera Pack. It is layered on a Gold Foil diecut circle from the Stylish Shapes Dies. This eventually is layered on a larger Real Red diecut circle. First, however, I used the Real Red 1/2″ Shiny Ribbon back and forth behind the gold foil layer and held in place with Stampin’ Dimensionals. I often put some Stampin’ Seal on the paper to hold the ribbon in place until I get it just right and then add the Dimensionals.
For some pizzazz, I added five gold Traditional Sparkling Sequins for sparkle. With this design you can make hundreds of other kinds of cards. It’s a great way to use more than one pattern of our beautiful paper!
Here is a second card, made with the same Elegant Pine Snowflakes Designer Series Paper, but with the strips switched around and a different greeting and ribbon. This card base is our old favorite, Old Olive. The greeting is also in the Greetings For You Ephemera Pack, but the whole word punches out. It is layered on an Old Olive Stylish Shapes circle with Gold Striped 3/8″ Mesh Ribbon, which is so pretty. Just like the first card, the greeting is popped up on Dimensionals. This time I used the Real Red Traditional Sparkling Sequins for some sparkle on the card. Just add a greeting or write a message inside the card and you are set to go!
Since today is only two months until Christmas (and that’s Christmas Day when ALL the work and preparation is over with!) let’s all try to make at least three Christmas cards today, maybe more, just to get in the mood and into gear!
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This is a perfect time to make your list of products you need for holiday cards, gifts, gift bags, gift tags….or just regular stamping and scrapbooking occasions.
I made a collection of some basic supplies in the photo above that you might want to put on your list so you are prepared for anything!
Those are a FEW ideas anyway!! Just things you don’t want to find out that you ran out right in the middle of your holiday stamping! Of course many stamp sets, dies, Kits, ribbons, scrapbooking supplies, paper, cardstock, etc. etc. etc. We want it ALL! At least take advantage of FREE SHIPPING and earn at least $7.50 in Stampin’ Rewards! Make sure you have your account set up and have OPTED IN to Rewards!!
Be part of Stampin ‘ Up! history! This will be the first time Stampin’ Up! will hold an online craft class for everyone who wants to purchase the class – Demonstrators AND Customers! It’s the Traditions of Christmas Craft Class!
Tis the season to get crafty with the Traditions of Christmas Craft Class! During the class you’ll use the Traditions of Christmas Suite Collection to make four unique projects, craft along with an experienced instructor, and learn exciting tips and techniques. Even though the Suite is currently not available until November, you can still craft along with with other supplies you have in your stash. It is only the designer paper that is out of stock right now, I believe, so you could order the other products individually.
After you’ve purchased the class, Stampin’ Up! send you an email within 2–3 business days that will have everything you need to know, plus a link to the exclusive Facebook page where they will host the class. You can watch the live stream or view it later on demand—whatever works for your schedule! If you don’t have all the materials for the live class, you can watch it later and craft along then. Or watch it live and catch up with making the projects later . You will be able to watch the video replay for at least six months.
Purchase the class in the Online Store just like you would order any product. In fact, you CAN order other things and add this class to your order. You will not pay shipping on the class if you order it by itself, but you will pay sales tax. You will just get the usual email from Stampin’ Up! saying you ordered the class, but you will get class information a few days later.
Of course, you get Stampin’ Rewards of 10% to use on a future order. And you can USE rewards you’ve already earned to purchase this class!
DETAILS
– Access to 1 digital video class
– Makes 4 projects (3 cards and 1 decor piece) using the Traditions of Christmas Suite Collection (sold separately)
– Livestream: October 23 at 2:00 p.m. (MT)
– Purchase by October 20, 2025, and access the Facebook page as soon as possible to guarantee access to the livestream
– Purchase after October 23, 2025, for on-demand access to the livestreamed class
– The class will be presented in English. Videos with English, French, German, and Dutch captioning will be available through the Facebook page one week after the live stream. Class attendees will have access to a supply list and project instructions available in English, French, German, and Dutch.
REMEMBER: Stampin’ Up! will send you an email with everything you need to know about the class. Keep an eye out for this email—it may take 2–3 business days to receive, so please be patient. Make sure you’ve opted in for Stampin’ Up! emails so you don’t miss it! If, after this time, you have not received an email, please contact Stampin’ Up! 1-800-STAMP-UP.
You will still be able to purchase the class AFTER the live class so all is not lost! If you do want to watch it live, please purchase the class very soon so you can get signed up in the Facebook group to watch it and have all the information ahead of time.
This Ornament Trio Christmas Card is another idea for a Christmas card! Keep it simple and use a few embellishments plus the greeting. Since this one uses designer series paper, you would only be able to make a certain number of this particular card, with as many sheets of this pattern of paper that are in the packages. This card was made with one square sheet with the ornaments printed on about 2/3’s of the paper and a polka dot border to one side in Crumb Cake. But it can also give you an idea for a Christmas card cutting out or stamping some ornament shapes out of the supplies you have, adhering them to a card with a background layer, and embellishing them.
This card starts with a card base of Real Red cardstock and has a layer of Gold Foil to match the bit of gold foil on the card front, the little ornament caps below the ribbon. The Gold Foil also makes the card look a little richer and special. These ornaments came from the Christmas Tags & More 6″ x 6″ Specialty Designer Series Paper. This paper is called “Specialty” because it comes with diecuts as well as paper. Some of the paper is practically ready-made gift tags if you just cut them apart!
The patterned paper with the three ornaments on it is what I used on this simple card. I trimmed it down to 3 3/4″ x 5″, trying to keep the ornaments centered. To jazz them up a bit, I cut out three gold foil caps to cover the ones printed on the paper and make the ornaments look more authentic. I didn’t have to think very much about what greeting should go on the card. I found one that fit just right in the Greetings For You Ephemera Pack. I could have peeled off the backing of the “Merry Christmas” greeting I chose in the package to use as a sticker, but instead, I just added some Mini Dimensionals to pop up the greeting for a little interest. These greetings are SO handy and so pretty, especially with the gold foil. Be sure you put at least one, maybe two packages, on your order.
If you prefer, there are diecut ornament images in the package and you could make a similar style card using those instead of the patterned paper. There are SO many possibilities for holiday cards and projects in this one 6″ x 6″ pack of designer series paper, which is more than just normal designer series paper.
To embellish the ornaments, beside adding the gold foil ornament topper, I added some retired Cherry Cobbler and Gold Ribbon, which I still had in my basket and was the only narrow red choice I had. I thought the wider ribbon in Real Red that I have would be too large for these ornaments. Use what you have. You could use a narrow gold ribbon, bakers twine, whatever you have! I also added some Traditional Sparkling Sequins in gold near the bottom portion of the card.
Besides ordering the very fine Greetings For You Ephemera Pack (or two!), I would suggest you get one or two of the beautiful Traditional Sparkling Sequins which can be used beyond Christmas. They are such pretty, sparkling embellishments and are flat on the card, a great advantage for mailing.
October is speeding by so start thinking about Christmas and holiday cards, invitations, gifts, favors, and giftwrap ideas!
