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Last Day! Kits Sale at Stampin’ Up!

LAST DAY for the Kits Collection Sale of all Kits are Stampin’ Up! This sale even includes the three newest sets just released last week! Save 10-30% on any of the Kits! I ordered the Nutcracker Tags Kit! I always like to make any tags kit Stampin’ Up! releases because I always need more tags for packages and they can also be used as the main image on a card!

Watch these videos showing the the newest Kits in the Kits Collection.

Remembering Christmas Kit

Calm and Bright Kit

Nutcracker Tags Kit

Today is the LAST DAY of this 3-Day Sale so hurry and get your favorite kit or a few for gifts before any more Kits sell out!

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Day 2! Stampin’ Up! Kits Collection Sale!

Kit Collection Sale Oct 2025 Info Frame

Choose from all kinds of Kits in the Stampin’ Up! Kits Collection for a savings of 10-30% off! This sale even includes the newest Kits, just released October 1st! These kits come with all the supplies you need and are easy enough for anyone to make! Directions are included and you can even watch a video if you like (and I always watch the video regardless!). These Kits make birthday cards, home decor, all-occasion cards, small scrapbook-type albums, plus Kits for the fall and Christmas holidays!

Here is the Christmas Ornaments Kit in the Kits Collection that came out last year! I bought this kit and made these ornaments. I used them for an extra decoration on gift bags and packages which the recipient could then save and use on their Christmas tree or as a little decoration in the home or on future packages. A glue gun was helpful with this kit. It was fun to make and very nice! On some of the ornaments, I added some extra touches or just changed up the design a bit. You can do that with any of the kits if you like!

Christmas Ornaments Kit Stampin' Up! Kits Collection

Here is my blog post talking about making this Christmas Ornaments Kit! Put this Kit on your order if it is still available! Gold Hoops and little pinecones all included!

Sale Details:

  • All kits in the Kits Collection are 10–30% off.
  • Sale runs October 6th – 8th only.
  • Available while supplies last.
  • Sale excludes Paper Pumpkin, Scrapbooking Workshop Kits, and Starter Kits.

Choose your favorite Kits and maybe get some as gifts!
Shop early for the best selection!

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It’s Time For the 12 Weeks of Christmas 2025!

12 Weeks of Christmas 2025 Sq Info

Who knew it was already time for me to begin sending my special 12 Weeks of Christmas emails to my newsletter subscribers?! I’m thinking about Halloween decorations but it really is only 12 weeks until Christmas! This is a special thank you gift I send to my email subscribers every year with exclusive ideas I won’t be posting anywhere else. First we start with holiday cards, then gift ideas, and finally gift bag and tag ideas for wrapping those gifts! The weeks fly by for sure!

Every Wednesday I will send out a 12 Weeks of Christmas email at 1:00 PM. Hopefully, it will be an inspiration (and reminder!) for creating your own projects for the holidays and getting a head start!

I have fun sending these emails and I think my customers enjoy receiving them and getting extra ideas that they can use for their holiday crafting. Tell your friends to sign up, too, if they like papercrafting! They might not even need to be stampers! There are always work-arounds.

How do you get them? You have to be on my Mailing List! Just sign up in the red box on the right if you are on my website. If you are on your phone, you may have to scroll all the way down to find it. Or just click HERE to go to the page to sign up. It’s free, of course, and you can unsubscribe at any time if it’s not for you. If you are already getting my Tuesday emails, then you don’t have to do anything! You are IN!

These projects will not be anywhere else…not on my blog, or Facebook page, or Instagram. They are my gift to my mailing list subscribers as a thank you for following me and stamping along with me! We’d love to have you join us if you would like! The first email goes out Wednesday, October 8, 2025! See you then!

Three New Stampin’ Up! Christmas Kits Today!

I was so excited when I checked the Stampin’ Up! website this morning and saw that Stampin’ Up! had not two, but THREE, new Kits in the KIts Collection and they are all Christmas! One is a tag kit, one is a small journal/scrapbook for the holidays, and one a beautiful card kit! I can’t wait to look these over in more detail, but I think for sure I’ll be ordering the Nutcracker Tags kit! I love those because you can use them for tags or make cards with them. Check out these Kits!! And easy enough for anyone to make!

Nutcracker Tags Kit

The Nutcracker Tags Kit

Make your gifts stand out under the tree with the Nutcracker Tags Kit. Featuring festive nutcrackers and glittery sentiments, this kit makes it easy to create handmade tags bursting with festive spirit. It’s a fun and merry way to add extra magic to every gift. Now let’s get cracking!

DETAILS (#166226)
– Makes 12 tags: 3 each of 4 designs
– Colors: Basic Black, Darling Duckling, Garden Green, gold, Pecan Pie, Poppy Parade, Shy Shamrock

166226

Remembering Christmas Kit

Turn your festive moments into a cherished keepsake with the Remembering Christmas Kit! With plenty of space for photos and journaling, you can easily create a festive album filled with your favorite Christmas highlights. Combine die-cut letters, holiday-patterned paper, and fun ephemera like bows, stars, and stockings to craft a merry album full of Christmas cheer. Display it proudly each season and relive those joyful memories year after year!

DETAILS (#166230)
– Colors: Coastal Cabana, Crushed Curry, Early Espresso, Granny Apple Green, Pecan Pie, Pretty in Pink, Pretty Peacock, Pumpkin Pie, Real Red, Shaded Spruce

Calm & Bright Kit

Calm & Bright Kit

Celebrate the warmth of home and the quiet magic of Christmas with the Calm & Bright Kit. A clean and simple design style paired with a soft color palette sets the tone for creating serene, sophisticated cards. Neutral bases and intricate die-cuts—tiny houses, holly leaves, and banners—layer beautifully to form peaceful focal points, while stamped sentiments like From Our House to Yours and All is Calm, All is Bright add a heartfelt and timeless touch.

DETAILS (#166461)
– Makes 9 cards: 3 each of 3 designs
– Folded card size: 4-1/4″ x 5-1/2″ (10.8 x 14 cm)
– Colors: Basic Beige, Gray Granite, Lost Lagoon, Pecan Pie, Pool Party, Pretty in Pink, white

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Christmas Card With Gold Metallic Rub-on

Except for cutting the paper, this Christmas Card With Gold Metallic Rub-on is probably one of the easiest cards you can make! I had ordered these Metallic Textures Rub-Ons quite awhile back, then kept forgetting to try them out. Finally I did to make this card and loved how easy they were to use and how pretty this one turned out!

I started with one of the large tags in the A Touch of Gold Tags Ephemera Pack. I am loving ALL of the ephemera packs Stampin’ Up! has now! I used the wreath Metallic Rub-on on this tag. The directions are easy. Cut out the design you want to use. Remove the backing. Place it on the cardstock where you want it with the pretty design face up. Just use your finger to rub across the design thoroughly. Carefully lift it up, making sure the metallic design transferred. Mine did perfectly!

Metallic Rub-on Application

Christmas Card with Metallic Rub-on Tag

Christmas Card with Metallic Rub-on Tag

For the greeting, I used one from the Greetings For You Ephemera Pack. I like these so much I bought an extra pack so I have plenty for Christmas cards and other projects. These are printed in gold foil and are peel-and-stick adhesive on the back. There are duplicates of each greeting. You can leave the backing on if you want to use your own adhesive or want to pop them up on Dimensionals. This one fit just right.

Christmas Card with Metallic Rub-on Tag

I originally thought I would add some Cherry Cobbler Berries to the wreath, but then I decided to leave it all just gold and white.

The card base is Basic White. I cut a layer of Basic White that I could layer the Gold Tag on. My layer is 3 1/4″ x 4 3/4″. Then I layered that on Gold Foil, a piece 3 1/2″ x 5″. Finally, I added a bow tied with the Gold Striped 3/8″ Mesh Ribbon and adhered with a couple of Mini Glue Dots.

That’s all there is to this card and I think it looks very nice with all the gold! These rub-ons are in the Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog near the bottom of page 124 so they are for any occasions and designs, not just holidays. I feel like they could be easily overlooked on that page in the catalog because of the light color and all the interesting embellishments on the next page that draws your eye! This wreath I used could just be for summer or any time. Half of the sheets in the package are silver, so you get both gold and silver in the package.

Check out the Metallic Textures Rub Ons (165270) and put a package on your next order! You’ll love them! I think Stampin’ Up! had some many years ago and we rubbed them with like a popsicle stick. These you just use your finger. So easy and fun!

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Elegant Pine Snowflakes Gift Bag

Elegant Pine Snowflakes Gift Bag

It might be a little early for Christmas gift bags, but I wanted to use this pretty paper on a gift bag to show it off, so here is the Elegant Pine Snowflakes Gift Bag. If you look through the Elegant Pine Snowflakes Designer Series Paper, you will find this one paper with this huge pine snowflake centered on the paper. How can any one cut up that sheet of paper with that design?! It would be beautiful on a scrapbook page….as long as you didn’t put any photos on it! So my best solution was to center it on a large gift bag!

You might have collected kraft or other gift bags from certain stores that you can use for gift bags. Or you can buy a bunch of them at a craft store, small or large. This bag is 10″ wide so I just trimmed an inch off each side of the designer paper. It is 7 1/4″ from top to bottom. For a border piece on the top and bottom, I was just going to have cardstock, but then I noticed the strips I had cut off from the designer paper, turned them over, and used those. To help offset all the colors and paper designs, I cut strips of Shaded Spruce. You can make these any widths you like. I made the top designer paper strip about 1 1/4″ wide, with 1″ showing and a little bit wider at the bottom. The Shaded Spruce cardstock strips are both 1/2″ wide.

Every gift bag needs a gift tag! I found an already diecut circle of Gold Foil using the Stylish Shapes Dies in my gold foil package. For the greeting, I used “merry & bright” in the Greetings For You Ephemera Pack. These are peel-and-stick greetings in golf foil so they are very easy to use. I also fussy-cut some foliage from the designer paper to decorate the tag. I used some retired Cherry Cobbler ribbon to tie the tag to the bag.

After I took the first photo of the bag, I realized the tag didn’t show up very well plus I remembered I intended to put some red berries gems on the tag to match the berries on the paper. These Cherry Cobbler & Pearl Adhesive-Backed Berries are perfect to go with this paper. You could also add some on the designer paper on the bag.

Elegant Pine Snowflakes Gift Bag Tag closeup

I love to decorate gift bags like this for any occasion and we’ll certainly need a lot of them for Christmas so it’s a good idea to start making some!

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The 12 Days Of Crafting Advent Calendar Is HERE!

SU Advent Calendar Banner Info

The 12 Days of Crafting Advent Calendar is a brand-new calendar full of products you can craft with all year long! 

Every day of this calendar contains never-before-seen dies, paper, embellishments, and even more items you won’t find in any of our catalogs or in our online store, so make sure to buy one before they’re all gone.

Watch the video below:

This Calendar does not lead to making any one particular project, but rather is a surprise assortment of different products to use any time of year for cardmaking, scrapbooking, gift-giving, journaling, whatever you like. Open one door each day or all of them at once if you can’t wait! Then use your products on whatever projects you like!

These make the perfect gifts for friends or loved ones in your life who love to craft! After all, there’s nothing better than giving the gift of crafting! There will only be a limited number of calendars in store.

PRICE:  $99.00 USD #167335

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Cozy Christmas Paper Pumpkin Kit for October

Paper Pumpkin Oct 2025 Cozy Christmas

It seems Christmas is really coming early for us crafters! That’s the way it must be because we, of all people, can’t wait until the last minute to show people all the fun things to make for the holidays! Here is the Cozy Christmas Paper Pumpkin Kit that will come out right after October 10th!

I think Paper Pumpkin is always like a gift I get in the mail every month! The contents are even wrapped up pretty in colored tissue paper inside the box! Presentation is everything! And I especially love the kits that come out for holidays, like this Cozy Christmas Kit!

With this kit, you will create heartfelt Christmas cards with classic charm and flocked accents!

KIT DETAILS
• Makes 9 cards: 3 each of 3 designs with 9 coordinating envelopes
• Precut paper pieces with soft, stitched-look flocking
• Shiny red sequin embellishments
• Coordinating colors: Basic Beige, Cherry Cobbler, Garden Green, Pecan Pie
(Classic Stampin’ Spot), Real Red

In my opinion, the Paper Pumpkin Kits have only gotten better and better over time! And the holiday and Christmas ones are my favorites!

The box is even decorated for the holidays, an extra-special treat! Do a little early Christmas SHOPPING and order one kit for yourself and get a few extras for gifts! These kits are easy enough for everyone. Besides a pamphlet with directions, you can watch a video and you will also see alternate ideas online if you want to change things up a little. No risk, no obligation to continue for any length of time. Skip a month now and then if you want to. If you do already have a subscription that you “paused” last month, make sure you reactivate your subscription so you will receive this October kit!

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Elegant Pine Snowflakes From Our House To Yours Card

Elegant Pine Snowflakes From Our House To Yours Card

This Elegant Pine Snowflakes From Our House To Yours Card is an easy one to make. When you are making a lot of Christmas cards, you need to think of designs that make it easy to make multiples. Of course, you might also want to make some extra-special cards for extra-special people! That is what is so fun about cardmaking – you can make “easy” cards that don’t take a lot of time but still look lovely, or you can spend more time and use more products to make something “fancy”. It’s all fun and all creative!

This card came about just because I was cutting up some designer series paper to send as little thank you samples to send to customers who had ordered from me. Since I just got this Elegant Pine Snowflakes Designer Series Paper in my order the other day, it was one I knew they didn’t have yet. Sometimes when you are just flipping through a package of designer series paper, maybe one pattern in particular will just jump out at you and you’ll want to use it next time you make a card. As I was cutting samples of this paper, this pattern just “spoke to me” and I wanted to use it for the next card I made.

The card base is Shaded Spruce cardstock. It matches perfectly with the foliage in the designer paper. I liked the red berries in the paper, so I added the Real Red 1/2″ Shiny Ribbon. I just took enough ribbon to wrap across the front and around to the back a little bit on each side. This saves a couple inches of ribbon since you don’t wrap it completely around the card. After the ribbon was attached, I could adhere the designer paper to the card base.

For the greeting, I chose a greeting in the Greetings For You Ephemera Pack in the Holiday Mini on page 15 at the top. Stampin’ Up! has quite a few ephemera packs of all kinds and they are so handy and fun to use! These are peel-and-stick stickers of gold foil Christmas greetings, even multiples so you can make more than one card with each greeting. I’ve already ordered a second pack to have on hand. And you can use them on tags, gift bags, and other projects, not just cards. For a background, I diecut a label from the Unbounded Love Dies, now retired, but you can use something similar or simply cut a rectangle piece of cardstock. I used Shaded Spruce with a partial layer of Real Red. The way to “fake” another layer when you don’t have a larger die is to cut it out, then cut it in half, horizontally as I did here or vertically, if you want it to show on the sides. Then glue one half to the top just showing a little border and the other half to the bottom. On the back, there would be a space between the two halves. I do this a lot! The greeting is popped up with Stampin’ Dimensionals right over the ribbon.

To embellish the card, I tied a bow out of the ribbon and adhered it to the card with Mini Glue Dots. It is easier than trying to wrap the ribbon all around and tie a bow, but you could do that. I also added the beautiful Traditional Sparkling Sequins, the small gold ones, to the greeting and on the designer series paper. I’m telling you, these are gorgeous and I think you should order a package or two soon while they are in stock! They won’t only have to be for Christmas either. You will be able to use them on any cards and projects where you want some sparkle!

Here is another card, the first card, I made with the Elegant Pine Snowflakes Designer Series Paper. It comes in a Suite in the Online Exclusives if you would like ALL the things!

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Holiday Mini Catalog Cover SeptDec 2025

September-December 2025 Mini Catalog (Holiday Mini Catalog)

Online Exclusives

Elegant Pine Snowflakes Season’s Greetings Card

Elegant Pine Snowflakes Season's Greetings Card

I got another Stampin’ Up! order late yesterday and had to try out this new Elegant Pine Snowflakes Designer Series Paper, which you will find in the newest Online Exclusives. I was totally drawn to this darker print pattern and made this Elegant Pine Snowflakes Season’s Greetings Card, partly so I could use the new In Color, Secret Sea!

This is really just a basic design for a card so you can change it up however you like. The card base is Secret Sea cardstock with a layer of Real Red cardstock, which I couldn’t resist adding for that pop of red! The Real Red layer is cut a bit larger than usual to give that very narrow border of the Secret Sea. It measures 5 3/8″ x 4 1/8″. I did cut the designer paper layer at the usual 5 1/4″ x 4″ but I decided I wanted more of the red to show than just a narrow margin so I trimmed it down just a bit. Now it is 3 3/4″ x 5″.

I intended to wrap the new ribbon I just got that belongs in the Elegant Pine Snowflakes Suite around the left side of the designer paper and add a bow. But I was too hasty in gluing down the layers! Instead, as you can see, I just tied a bow with the new Shaded Spruce & Gold Edged 7/8″ Ribbon. It is adhered with several Mini Glue Dots. I first intended to place it on the side of the card, but when I sort of accidentally moved it into that corner I thought it looked like a bow that would be on a package so I placed it there!

The greeting is in the Traditional Labels Stamp Set. It is stamped in Real Red on one of the new Foiled Frames & Labels Ephemera Pack. You’ll find these in the Floral Impressions Suite in the Online Exclusives that came out in May. Obviously they aren’t just for Christmas but you can use them any time, even Christmas! I popped up the tag with Stampin’ Dimensionals. To embellish the tag a little bit, while I was watching TV, I cut out some pine snowflakes and pinecones. And because they are so pretty, I added some red Traditional Sparkling Sequins for some sparkle in the dark background.

While it seems crazy to be showing Christmas cards now, we know time flies and every year we wish we would have started on our cards and holiday projects earlier. Now is your chance to start thinking about what you would like to make, order your supplies, and get to work!

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Make the Easiest Christmas Tags!

Christmas Tags & More 5 Tags

You know with the September-December 2025 Mini Catalog coming out last week it is a sign we are just about on the slippery slope to the holidays – fall and winter holidays! Once we start decorating there is no end until January! So it would be a good idea for all of us to get an early start on a few holiday preparations. I have some simple Christmas tags for you to start with!

Whether you are an experienced stamper or especially if you are new to all of this, I have something super easy for you to make! And it might be something we overlook in the new Holiday Mini because it isn’t as splashy on the page as some of the big Suites are! If you look on the bottom of page 15 you will find the Christmas Tags & More 6″ x 6″ Mix & Match Specialty Designer Series Paper.

The Christmas Tags & More is an amazing package of papers! Not only are there regular 6″ x 6″ sheets of designer series paper, but you also get two sheets of diecut holiday images as well as 8 sheets of cut-apart designs with which you can make tags and cards.

Christmas Tags & More Tags Paper & Back

In the package you get 8 copies of this sheet with cut-apart designs to make tags or perhaps Christmas cards. The green and white plaid is the backside of the tag design.

Here are the other papers in the package and the backside.

Christmas Tags & More Papers

Christmas Tags & More Papers2

PLUS you get two sheets of diecut holiday images that you can use along with the tags or on cards and other projects, not to mention scrapbook pages! The top two pages, in the photo below, are the two sheets each of the designs and the bottom page is the cut-apart tag or “whatever” page that you want to make with the images.

Christmas Tags & More Diecuts and Tags

All in all you get 32 sheets, 8 each of 4 double-sided designs plus 4 sheets, 2 each of 2 single-sided precut designs. The colors are Cherry Cobbler, Crumb Cake, Garden Green, Real Red, Soft Sea Foam.

To make the easiest ever Christmas tags as I made in the top photo, start by cutting apart the six images of “tags” on one sheet.

-The tag with three stockings is only that – the tag with a “To” and “From” handwritten in the corners. I punched a hole in the top corner and put a red ribbon through it. The backside is already the green and white background. Done!

-The next tag with the Christmas tree is almost as simple. On the back, I punched and adhered a Basic White circle on which to write “To” and “From” and I embellished the tree with a few gold Traditional Sparkling Sequins. Just punch a hole and add some red and white baker’s twine.

-The tag with the candy canes has an extra layer of Real Red, cut the same size as the tag. I stamped the “To” and “From” on it from the Traditional Labels Stamp Set and ran the Real Red 1/2″ Shiny Ribbon through both tags.

-The tag with the red cardinal is the single sheet tag with no image on either side, just the plaid design on the back and the Real Red and Crumb Cake diagonal design on the front. With no planning whatsoever, I folded up the botton of the tag which shows off the plaid and makes a little smaller tag with the cute bird popped up on the front. On the back, I cut out a small square of Basic White cardstock on which to write the “To” and “From”. I tied a piece of baker’s twine through the hole in the top.

-And the last easy tag, a little more stepped up with the three ornaments, adds a stamped “Merry” on the front from the same stamp set and cut out by hand along the curve, then popped up on Dimensionals. I put a secone layer undeneath, the holly image, and actually adhered the two together on an angle to see both. You could use this as a tag or even make it the focal point of a card or adhere as an embellishment to a scrapbook page.

Just think how many tags you could make out of these eight sheets of the tag images! As I said, they aren’t exclusively for tags. They can be used on cards or scrapbook pages or decorations on gift bags, and more! Once you start paying with this Christmas Tags & More 6″ x 6″ Specialty Designer Series Paper, I bet you can’t make just one! You’ll find this in the new Mini Catalog!

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Christmas Tags & More 5 Tags

Traditions of Christmas Bouquet Card

Traditions of Christmas Bouquet Card

Can you believe four months from today is Christmas? I thought it only appropriate that I make my first Christmas card of the season, Traditions of Christmas Bouquet Card, for my blog post today! My box of Holiday Mini Catalog preorder goodies arrived just the other day so it was time to make a Christmas card. The Holiday Mini Catalog goes live on Wednesday, September 3, 2025 so you only have about another week to wait!

When you get to see the September – December 2025 Mini Catalog online or in person, if you like traditional Christmas colors and designs, you will probably gravitate toward the Traditions of Christmas Suite Collection! I can’t link to it yet, but it is beautiful! It is a very large Suite, so you can buy it ALL with just one number on your order, or you can pick and choose which products you want and still make beautiful cards even if you don’t have everything!

This card, of course, doesn’t do the whole Suite justice, but it does give you an idea of how pretty the designer series paper will be! I got the idea for this card from the Mini Catalog on page 24 but changed it up a little bit. The paper I used is the Traditions of Christmas Specialty Designer Series Paper. It is called “Specialty” because it has gold foil accents. The paper is made up of poinsettias and other Christmas flowers plus generic patterns on “the other sides” of the pretty floral papers. And one surprising, but fun color, in the package is the new In Color, Secret Sea! You wouldn’t think that deep blue color would be for Christmas cards in these traditional red and green colors, but it really is stunning.

The card base is Real Red with a layer of this Olive Green striped and dotted paper. The “other side” has the pretty flowers that I used for the focal point of the card. The bouquet may be able to be cut with a die in the Christmas Greenery Dies in the Suite or you can stamp a bouquet just like this one and color and cut out. My bouquet is fussy-cut so I’m not positive if the die fits it, but I think it might. The Basic White background is cut at 3″ x 4″ with a Real Red layer of 3 1/4″ x 4 1/4″. There are many bouquets on that designer paper page with flowers of varying colors. The bouquet is popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals on this card, then a greeting is placed across the stems

The greeting in the catalog sample is stamped and gold embossed, but for my card I chose a greeting in the Greetings For You Ephemera Pack. It is on page 15 up at the top of the Mini Catalog. The greetings are all in gold foil and are diecut and adhesive-backed! Just peel off the release paper on the back and stick the greeting to your card or project. I adhered mine to a strip of Old Olive cardstock to help it stand out and flagged the ends. You may barely notice a strip of Gold Foil 4″ x 3/4″ going across the card under the popped up center piece but lined up underneath the greeting. The gold foil is glued flat on the card. The greeting is glued flat where it intersects the bouquet, but it’s probably a good idea to add a Dimensional on each end of the greeting to make it sturdier going across the popped up bouquet.

For some embellishment and sparkle, I added three of the gold Traditional Sparkling Sequins. You will want these for sure for your holiday projects. They look like gems but are nearly flat so will be good for mailing. They come in three different sizes in Real Red, Old Olive, Pool Party, and gold.

This beautiful Traditions Of Christmas Specialty Designer Series Paper will be wonderful for scrapbook pages and other projects, even giftwrap, not just for cards! Although you don’t have your new holiday products today, just for fun, to celebrate 4 months until Christmas, get out some paper from your stash and make a Christmas card! And mark your calendar for September 3 when there will be the new September-December Mini Catalog (Holiday Mini!), new Kits in the Kits Collection, and new Online Exclusives!

This beautiful Traditions Of Christmas Specialty Designer Series Paper will be wonderful for scrapbook pages and other projects, even giftwrap, not just for cards! Although you don’t have your new holiday products today, just for fun, to celebrate 4 months until Christmas, get out some paper from your stash and make a Christmas card! And mark your calendar for September 3 when there will be the new September-December Mini Catalog (Holiday Mini!), new Kits in the Kits Collection, and new Online Exclusives!

Christmas Kits For A Spring Day

Paper Pumpkin Filled With Joy Kit 2024

What did I do on a beautiful second day of spring yesterday?! Of course, I worked on a Christmas Paper Pumpkin Kit from 2024! It’s the Filled With Joy November 2024 Paper Pumpkin Kit that I did not get around to making before the holidays! I just had some free time and I thought of two kits that I had wanted to work on and they were just taking up space in my head. I simply said I’m stopping the world and doing these kits! So now instead of being behind for Christmas 2024, I’m AHEAD for Christmas 2025!

This Filled With Joy Kit was pretty quick and easy to make. I just had to stamp the tags, turn down the collar of the stocking, and pin on the tag! The kit came with the cute little pins! A stamp set is included with every Paper Pumpkin Kit so I used that to stamp the tags and the ornaments. Then I just had to adhere the gold ornament top on the ornament and add Stampin’ Dimensionals to the back to adhere to the tags. I’ll save them for next year and either use them for little gifts or make them decorations for a Christmas meal.

Christmas Ornament Wreath Kit 2024

I also had this Christmas Ornament wreath kit from the Kits Collection sitting on my desk since Christmas! I DID make these cute little wreaths on the gold rings and even put some as tags on gift bags. But then I saw another Demonstrator, Linda Heller, jazz them up a bit with some gold paint on the leaves and white paint for snow on the pinecones. I wanted to do that on the rest of them so I finally got that done yesterday and put the box in the closet with the Christmas gift wrap and things.

I had to do a little digging to see if I had some acrylic gold paint and I did in all my craft stuff. At least my paints are somewhat organized by color. I just put some gold paint on a brush and lightly streaked it on the leaves on the wreath. It really did add a little to the leaves to make them look a little less like paper. Then I switched to white paint and just dabbed on some “snow” on the little plastic pinecones. I found some glitter in my craft stuff and shook a little bit of that over the white paint. These were just little, easy embellishments I did to these wreaths and I thought they added a lot! I also added some of the Drusy Embellishments for a little sparkle on all of the wreaths. It was something relaxing to do on a spring afternoon! (Although my rockhounding family members would tell you it should be spelled Druzy!) I added those after I took the photo though!

Whenever you get around to making your Paper Pumpkin Kits or the kits you purchased in the Stampin’ Up! Kits Collection, it doesn’t matter! No matter when you make them it will be a relaxing, enjoyable experience! I think they are especially good to make on a weekend or on a rainy day!

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