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Free shipping is for three days only so don’t delay!
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If you don’t have the A Little Bit Festive Specialty Designer Series Paper with which to make this easy and pretty A Little Bit Festive Christmas Tree Card, you ought to put it on your Stampin’ Up! order today, the first day of FREE SHIPPING! Today, December 9 is the first of three days to get FREE SHIPPING with a minimum order of $75. It’s a good time to stock up on any basics you need and all the things you “want” out of the Holiday Mini Catalog and from the Last Chance Products List where you might be able to get a few things at a discount!
I actually forgot I owned this A Little Bit Festive Specialty Designer Series Paper! It must have gotten lost in the shuffle even though I’d used it a little bit when I first got it. The interesting thing about this paper is that it is three sheets of double-sided designer series paper and three sheets of holiday diecuts! That makes it really fun to use! One side of the designer paper is Christmas designs and the other side has generic patterns you can use any time. And not just any diecuts, really cute ones and some that are frames for card fronts or photos. It would be great for scrapbooking, cardmaking, and other Christmas projects.
For this card (photographed on a Garden Green background), I started with a Real Red card base and a layer of Pretty in Pink cardstock to match some of the ornaments on the tree. The whole front panel of the card is in the A Little Bit of Festive package! It is so simple and pretty! I couldn’t find or think of a greeting that would fit on this card without interfering with the beautiful decorated tree until I found this very small rectangular diecut greeting in the Joyful Sayings Ephemera Pack. I placed it down at the bottom of the tree. Besides the colored ornaments on the tree, there are also gold foil accents on the tree, tiny dots plus the fancy star at the top. To this, I added five gems on the Christmas tree for a little more sparkle. These are the Pretty in Pink gems in the 2024-2026 In Color Shimmer Gems.
Don’t forget FREE SHIPPING December 9-11 this week at Stampin’ Up! with a $75 minimum order! Please be aware that depending on when your order is shipped (and there may be delays with a higher number of orders during these three days) your order may or may not reach you before Christmas. Some of you normally get your order in a couple of days and others take a week so take into account how long your order normally takes plus possible delays in getting the order shipped in the first place. Stampin’ Up! will be ready and working hard to get these orders out as fast as possible!
Also, don’t forget the new category of Last Chance Products which contains retiring Holiday Mini Catalog Products and also holds the Online Exclusive products, all of which are available while supplies last. This will also replace the Clearance Rack. This way things are in one place. Some retiring products are discounted and discounts may change during the time they are on the Last Chance list. Right now you can save 20% on the A Little Bit Festive Specialty Designer Series Paper that I featured with this card!
If you had already started an order before today, start over in your Cart. The free shipping offer is good on orders started today. For all the details, check out my blog post from the other day HERE.
I called this card the Reindeer Days Circle Window Card because the center focal point is actually an opening to the designer paper image underneath. It’s almost like a shaker card without covering the hole and filling it with shaker bits. But you could easily make it a shaker card if you wanted to!
The card base is Real Red cardstock. The designer paper is the white dotted paper in the Reindeer Days Designer Series Paper. I used one of the Deckled Circles Dies to cut a hole in the paper. To make a frame, I used the next larger size Deckled Circle die to cut out a piece of Basic White cardstock plus the same smaller circle inside that one. You want that diecut piece to fit around the diecut circle on the designer paper. These dies are not available right now, so if you don’t have those, just use some other circle dies you have, perhaps the circles in the Stylish Shapes Dies.
I looked over the patterned paper in the Reindeer Days DSP, the one with the reindeer and the reindeer snowmen, and chose an area that I wanted to appear in my diecut window on the front of the card. I cut it out and positioned it so it would fit exactly right in that window and adhered it to the card base. Then I popped up the whole front part of the card with the window with Stampin’ Dimensionals.
The greeting fits perfectly at the base of the card. It is in the Joyful Sayings Ephemera Pack. It’s so easy to find the right greeting in the ephemera pack and just glue it on! Plus, the Reindeer Days DSP and the Ephemera Packs are discounted now on the Last Chance list. I also added some Iridescent Foil Gems to the scene with the snowman and reindeer for a little sparkle!
Be sure to check out the Last Chance Products list as the Holiday Mini will be retiring January 6th. However, the retiring products will stay on the Last Chance list while supplies last so you might still be able to buy them longer than when they were completely gone on the retirement date.
Talk about a simple card! I love this Reindeer Days Forest Christmas Card and there almost couldn’t be an easier card to make! I love the look of the reindeer just out in the forest, in the snow, surrounded by beautiful evergreen trees. There are babies and adult reindeer just out relaxing in the forest!
This paper is one of the patterns in the Reindeer Days Designer Series Paper. This fun holiday paper is on the “Last Chance Products” category in the Online Store which means it is retiring from the Holiday Mini Catalog come January 6. You can still order it and it is discounted to $10.00 instead of $12.50, while supplies last. If you haven’t gotten it yet or you want another package for your stash, hurry and order so you will receive it before Christmas.
I didn’t just cut a piece out of the paper. I found the exact scene I wanted to have on my card and planned how to cut it out. Now this will wreck your perfect 4″ strips you probably would normally cut from the paper for cardmaking, but I wanted a scene, not just any old part of the paper. Once I had it cut out, I adhered it to the card base of Pecan Pie cardstock. Early Espresso would also be a good choice. I also considered adding an extra layer of Granny Apple Green or Garden Green…or both! But I liked the paper just layered on the Pecan Pie card base.
For the greeting, I chose the “Wishing You & Yours” sentiment in the Peaceful Season Stamp Set. It was a good size for this card because I didn’t want to cover up my forest scene any more than I had to. It is stamped in Pecan Pie ink on Basic White and cut out with one of the label dies in Countryside Corners. For a layer I diecut a piece of Pecan Pie cardstock with the same size Countryside Corners die. I cut it in half horizontally and adhered it to the top and bottom of the greeting. I also cut a second piece, cut it in half vertically, and adhered it to each side of the greeting. It looks like a full layer underneath and no one will notice! I added two Swirl Dots to the sides of the greeting. I thought the brown color went well with this card.
On the inside of the card, I stamped the second half of the greeting “A Season of Wonder and Happiness” also in Pecan Pie ink on Basic White.
Several of the patterns in the Reindeer Days Designer Series Paper lend themselves to choosing a scene for your card rather than just cutting the paper into pieces randomly. Try it!
It is December, if you can believe it, and December means Christmas cards like this Take a Bow Bells Christmas Card. This is a basic card design so it would be pretty easy to duplicate if you wanted to make multiples. The only thing that would prevent that would be the ephemera piece I placed on the front of the card. You could omit any image there and only have a greeting, or you could stamp an image instead.
The card base is Real Red, one of the colors in the Take a Bow 6″ x 6″ Designer Series Paper. This paper is so great for the holidays, but there’s no reason why you couldn’t use many of the patterns for any time of year. Its 6″ x 6″ size means it’s a little easier to use that the large 12″ x 12″ sheets of paper. This paper is part of the Take a Bow Bundle if you would like the dies with which to make bows for your holiday packages or any gifts throughout the year.
For this card, I used a piece of the red, white, and green diagonally striped paper cut at 4″ x 5 1/4″ for the first layer on the card. I added a strip of the white polka dot paper to the side. It is cut at 5 1/4″ x 1 1/2″. Usually we line it up with the left edge of the designer paper, but sometimes I move it over to the right so that a little bit of the designer paper shows on the left side, too.
Before adhering the designer papers to the card, I wrapped around a piece of white ribbon in the Petal Pink & White 1/4″ Diagonal Trim Combo Pack. I tied a separate bow and adhered it with a Mini Glue Dot on the back. I usually also like to place a glue dot underneath the ribbon underneath the bow to hold everything in place.
The greeting is stamped in Real Red ink on Basic White cardstock using one of the greetings in the Peaceful Season Stamp Set. I found a die in the Unbounded Love Dies that I thought worked perfectly to fit the greeting plus add something special to the card. It is popped up with Stampin’ Dimensionals. The ephemera piece of bells and ribbon is found in the Joyful Images Ephemera Pack in the Holiday Mini Catalog. It was just laying there on my table begging to be used on a card. It is also popped up with Stampin’ Dimensionals.
If you start looking for Christmas card ideas that aren’t fussy, you can try out something like this card! It looks festive, it’s easy to make, and if you like, you can jazz it up even more for something fancier.
Special Note:Check back tomorrow, December 3, for three new designer papers….well, they are popular papers we had previously but have been re-colored!! If you didn’t own them then, they will be new to you! Also, we will all see the Last Chance List for both catalogs and I’ll explain the new category. Check back tomorrow for sure!!
The card base is Real Red cardstock. The diagonally striped paper as a layer on the card is in the Snowy Scenes 12″ x 12″ Designer Series Paper. This paper has such cute images of snowglobes, penguins, snowmen, villages, and more! Have you noticed how much “pink” is out there this season in Christmas decorations? Some of these papers use that pastel peach and mint color scheme that seems to be in style these days. Even if you are a traditionalist with red and green, you will find plenty of those colors mixed in with some of the pastel colors.
The round piece you see on the card front with the penguin and evergreen trees is diecut from one of the snowglobes on the designer paper. I used the Stylish Shapes Dies to cut the stitched circle shape. It fit just about perfectly in that snowglobe image. The big tree on the card front is a sticker from the Snowy Scenes Sticker Sheet in the special online version of the Snowy Scenes DSP. All you have to do is peel it off the main sheet and adhere it where you want because it already has adhesive on the back. I added a gold foil star to the top from the Joyful Images Ephemera in the Holiday Mini Catalog. The snowflake over the penguin is also a sticker from that sheet! It’s really fun to just use a sticker!
The greeting is stamped in Real Red ink on Basic White. It’s in the Reindeer Fun Stamp Set. I cut apart the two words after stamping so they would fit better on the card in the space I had. For a little bling, I added some white sequins from the Sequins Trio package.
That’s how easy this card is! Just because the cute penguin is in a snowglobe doesn’t mean you have to have a snowglobe on your card! Use things in different ways!
Have fun making some Christmas cards over the Thanksgiving holiday if you have time!
This Snowy Scenes Snowman Happy Christmas Card is an easy one to make just with designer paper and a couple of other things. You could make a few multiples of this card but since it uses the snowglobe design on the designer paper you would be limited to how many you could make. But you still could use the design and substitute some other designer paper or stamped image for the focal point.
I used the village pattern of designer paper for the background The snowman is one of the snowglobes on the designer paper that I cut out and layered on a piece of Garden Green cardstock, cut out with the Deckled Rectangle Dies. I wanted the card to look like the snowman is part of the village.
The greeting at the bottom of the snowglobe is one of the ephemera pieces in the Joyful Sayings Ephemera Pack. (Be sure you order English, not French!). I popped it up with Stampin’ Dimensionals. The snowflake sticker in the top corner of the snowglobe is on the Sticker Sheet. I tied a separate bow with the Silver & White 1/2″ Sheer Ribbon and adhered it with a Mini Glue Dot. If you wanted to, you could add some sequins or tiny snowflakes or other sparkly bling around the snowman for some sparkle.
It’s hard to believe it is getting really close to Christmas now with Thanksgiving being a little later this year! Time to work on those card, but enjoy it while you are working!
Here’s a nice Christmas card for a special person. You probably wouldn’t want to mass produce this one, but sometimes we need special cards for certain people. This Season of Green & Gold Bells Christmas Card would fit the bill!
This card has a Garden Green cardstock base. Everything else except the greeting comes from the Season of Green & Gold Specialty Designer Series Paper. This paper is beyond beautiful with its variety of foliage and greenery with gold foil accents and the beautiful gold foil bells. Certain images on the paper can be diecut with the Golden Greenery Dies. For this card, the foliage across the top of the card was diecut directly from the paper. The single bells can be diecut or you can just fussy-cut them with Paper Snips scissors. Sometimes that is just as quick!
After I diecut the greenery pieces I layered them across the top. The one big piece on the left is popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals and the others are adhered flat on the card. The background paper with the gold foil designs make for a neutral background for the foliage and bells.
The bells were placed along the greenery. I think I intended to pop up just the middle bells on Dimensionals, but the first bell on the left had to be popped up at the bottom because it layered on top of the already popped up evergreen greenery. I put a little Multipurpose Liquid Glue under the top of the bell and to keep it even I put a Dimensional at the bottom. The third bell is glued down flat on the card. I added bows tied with the Cherry Cobbler & Gold 1/4″ Satin Ribbon to the first and third bells since the double bells already had a green printed bow at the top. This narrow ribbon was perfect to go with the bells with its gold edge.
The greeting is from the Reindeer Fun Stamp Set. This greeting seemed to fit the space and was a nice saying. I stamped it with Versamark Ink on Very Vanilla cardstock after rubbing my little anti-static bag across the paper. Then I used Gold Embossing Powder, which you can find in the Metallics Wow Embossing Powder which also has Copper and Silver Embossing Powder. You also need the Heat Tool to melt the embossing powder. When needed, I keep a small paint brush to brush off any stray embossing granules before I use the Heat Tool. Heat embossing is probably one of the most amazing things to do with papercrafting, if you haven’t tried it yet. Then the greeting was diecut with the large banner in the Stylish Shapes Dies. This diecut was going to fit the greeting and the space on my card the best in spite of trying some other die shapes. To help it stand out, I also diecut the same banner out of Gold Foil, cut it in half horizontally, and glued the halves to the top and bottom of the greeting just to give that little bit of gold edge. Then the whole thing was adhered flat to the card. It could have been popped up also.
For a finishing touch, I added some of the Cherry Cobbler & Pearl Adhesive-Backed Berries around in the greenery. As I write this, it says “Low Inventory” so if you want to order some, you better do it very soon!
As you can see, this card takes a little more work and time, but I think the designer paper makes it easy to make an elegant card. On the inside I added a layer of Very Vanilla cardstock and since I had an extra small piece of greenery and one more cut-out bell, I adhered those to the top corner of the inside. Something on the inside of the card is always a nice surprise for the recipient!
It’s time to shop for sure for your holiday cardmaking supplies if you haven’t already. We all know how fast Christmas sneaks up on us! But have fun making some cards to send no matter how busy the season gets!
Here is the Paper Pumpkin Kit for November 2024, “Filled With Joy.” It comes in a box with a special holiday design—I love a decorative box! Even the Paper Pumpkin boxes are useful for storing crafting supplies or when you need a small box for a gift.
KIT DETAILS:
NOVEMBER Kit: Filled with Joy Subscribe October 11–November 10 Celebrate Christmas with adorable stockings and gift tags! • Makes 8 projects: 8 stockings with 8 gift tags • Precut paper pieces • Safety pins and specialty gold foil • Coordinating colors: Flirty Flamingo, Pool Party, Poppy Parade (Classic Stampin’ Spot), Shaded Spruce, Very Vanilla
If you want more than 8 stockings for favors or gifts, just go to your Paper Pumpkin account and order 2 kits or however much you need.
Make this Reindeer Days Flying Reindeer Christmas Card easily for the holidays. This patterned paper looks so fun with all the little reindeer but I wasn’t quite sure what to make with it at first. Deciding to showcase one reindeer up close as the focal point of the card seemed to work well with the paper! It is so much fun to play and see what you come up with.
This card has a Real Red card base. The reindeer paper is in the Reindeer Days Designer Series Paper. I am loving this paper for Christmas cards and projects. From another sheet, I cut out this one larger reindeer with my Paper Snips scissors. The background color of the designer paper is Pool Party, but using Pool Party cardstock was too much of a contrast so I added some light Pool Party color to the diecut Basic White circle. I used a small Blending Brush and lightly added some Pool Party ink to the circle. Then it was layered on a Real Red diecut circle. These are in the Stylish Shapes Dies. The circles are popped up with lots of Stampin’ Dimensionals which also help hold down the ribbon. The reindeer is just adhered flat on the circle with Multipurpose Liquid Glue.
To add a little embellishment, I added some Real Red & Gold 3/8″ Dotted Ribbon to the back of the circles. We had this ribbon last year but it is a carry-over and still available in the Online Store. Around the reindeer I added some White Loose Snowflakes (mine are retired but look the same). Just put the tiniest dot of glue you can manage or use a toothpick to pick up glue from a puddle on some scrap paper. I used my Take Your Pick Tool to pick up the tiny snowflakes and glue them onto the card.
The greeting is a sticker in the Reindeer Days Designer Series Paper & Stickers package. You can buy the designer paper separately, but if you would like the extra stickers get Item #166612. The stickers are fun and easy to use if you have one that works with your project.
Have fun with the Reindeer Days Designer Series Paper and get it while it is available!
This A Sentimental Christmas Reindeer Card turned out entirely differently than I ever could have planned! Sometimes that happens! In this case, it was finding a scrap diecut piece in my cardstock package in the right color that jumped out at me as a possible card element.v
For the first thing, in looking through the Sentimental Christmas Designer Series PaperI was surprised to see Christmas paper in brown! Snowflakes on Pecan Pie! Who would have thought?! Maybe it goes along with the gingerbread trend last Christmas and this year also, but to me it doesn’t look exactly like that style. I saw that brown paper as a challenge and decided to see what I could come up with. I looked around online for ideas just for a short time but the answer I found was this Pecan Pie cardstock diecut in this arch shape in the Garden Meadow Dies in the Online Exclusives.
The card base is Pecan Pie cardstock with a layer of Basic White to make the designer paper stand out a little more. The white layer goes well to bring out the white snowflakes. The opposite side of the brown snowflake paper is this vintage looking reindeer print. I really liked how that looked with the snowflake paper, so it was diecut with a circle in the Stylish Shapes dies. I planned to layer it on a larger circle in Real Red, Shaded Spruce, or Pecan Pie. But when I found the arched diecut piece and tried the reindeer diecut circle, it fit perfectly in that space under the arch. Then there was just enough space underneath for a greeting.
The greeting is stamped in Pecan Pie ink on Basic White cardstock with a stamp in the Peaceful Season Stamp Set. This 2 1/2″ x 1″ piece fits perfectly underneath the reindeer circle.
Since the greeting sounded “incomplete” on the front of the card, I went ahead and stamped “the rest of the greeting” on the inside. I added a Basic White layer over the Pecan Pie card and stamped a second greeting in Pecan Pie ink to go with what is stamped on the front of the card. Then I also added two 1/2″ strips of designer paper along the sides.
You could also add a small red bow underneath the reindeer circle, and you could also add some gems for sparkle. I love this Sentimental Christmas Designer Series Paper in the Holiday Mini Catalog. If you didn’t notice, check out page 5 where the paper is shown to see that Stampin’ Up! is donating $3 for every package of this paper sold to worthy children’s causes. I love the vintage look of this paper.
Every year, as a thank you to my mailing list subscribers, I send out a special newsletter every Wednesday called the 12 Weeks of Christmas, with one exclusive holiday idea per week! We have already sent out Weeks 1 – 4, but if you want to be included for the remaining 8 weeks, please sign up in the red box here on my blog!
For the first four weeks, we started with Christmas cards. Next, we will do gift ideas or home decor. For the last four weeks, we will do gift wrap, bags, and tag ideas. That covers a lot of the inspiration you will need for holiday crafting! And what’s more fun than holiday crafting?!
You don’t have to do anything if you already receive my weekly stamping newsletters on Tuesdays. But if you do not, sign up in the red box on the right side on my blog or on the pop-up for my mailing list and you will also get the special 12 Weeks of Christmas holiday emails every Wednesday. This will be a separate email from the weekly Tuesday email.
Each Wednesday you will get a new holiday idea, not seen on my blog or social media. You will have a photo and all the instructions to make the card, gift, or wrapping.
The holidays are coming so fast! I’m happy to provide some ideas for you that will make holiday crafting fun and easy for you!
If you have a friend who might be interested in holiday craft ideas, please tell them they are welcome to sign up too!
Sign up before 1:00 PM Central Time tomorrow, October 30, to receive Week 5 of the 12 Weeks of Christmas!
There are lots of ways that cardmaking has been made easier this season! All you need is some cardstock, designer paper, and some ephemera! Maybe some embellishments for sparkle or fun. You can’t necessarily make multiples of cards if you are using ephemera because you usually have only two or three identical pieces, but you can make an assortment of different designs of cards quickly and, especially, having fun doing it.
This card has a Garden Green cardstock base. The designer paper is Sentimental Christmas. You’ll find it on page 29 of the Holiday Mini Catalog. One special thing about this paper is that Stampin’ Up! is donating $3 for every package of Sentimental Christmas Designer Series Paper sold to benefit children’s literacy around the world. So while we stamp and create, we will also be helping children the world over!
The patterned paper I used on this card more or less has a border of candy canes, berries, and greenery as a border around the edge of the paper. It would be great for scrapbooking Christmas memories, but it can also be cut apart for cardmaking or other projects. That’s what I did to make several Christmas cards. Several of them will have the candy canes and decorations in the corner of the card, but from a piece in the center of the designer paper, you will only have the candy canes at the top or bottom of the card. You can see how the main design of the paper is at the bottom of my card.
In the center of the whole paper you can see very light snowflakes, so on my card, that provides a large open space for a large greeting on my card. I used the “Season’s Greetings” in gold foil that is in the Joyful Sayings Mix & Match Ephemera Pack in the Holiday Mini on page 15. With the elegant cursive font, these are especially beautiful. You do have to use Multipurpose Liquid Glue to adhere them as they are very narrow. It’s probably best to make a little puddle of glue on scrap paper and then use a toothpick to very carefully apply dots of glue in as many places as you can on the back of the greeting so that you use the tiniest amounts of glue possible! I decided to apply my greeting on a diagonal, but you could make it straight also.
I also applied three of the Real Red & White Adhesive-Backed Peppermints on the card. These little peppermints have been so popular it’s been hard to keep them in stock. They are due back in stock THIS WEEK so keep checking!
A red or green ribbon could be applied on the side of the card. And putting some Wink of Stella on the berries and candy canes would be nice, too, if you wanted to add some extra things to the card. If you are one of my newsletter subscribers you saw a card made with this same paper, but the design of the paper is in the corner.
It’s a good idea to find some easy cards to make to send to lots of people on your Christmas card list and then you might also like to make some that are a little more involved for some family or special people on your list!
I always look forward to the Paper Pumpkin Kits for the holidays! They are often the best and so much fun to make! The next Paper Pumpkin Kit for November 2024 is called “Filled With Joy” and comes in a box with a special holiday design! I love a decorative box! Even the Paper Pumpkin boxes are useful to save for your crafting supplies or when you need a small box for a gift.
KIT DETAILS:
NOVEMBER Kit: Filled with Joy Subscribe October 11–November 10 Celebrate Christmas with adorable stockings and gift tags! • Makes 8 projects: 8 stockings with 8 gift tags • Precut paper pieces • Safety pins and specialty gold foil • Coordinating colors: Flirty Flamingo, Pool Party, Poppy Parade (Classic Stampin’ Spot), Shaded Spruce, Very Vanilla
Paper Pumpkin is a crafting kit that comes to you in the mail each month! I say it’s a gift you give yourself! The best part is that everything is included in the kit that you need so all you have to do is open the box and start working on your project. Directions are included and there is a video you can watch, too.
These kits are easy enough for anyone, even new crafters, or experienced crafters might want to add their own creative twist to some of the projects. You can always find alternative ideas for the kit online that others have come up with. No risk and no obligation to continue for any certain length of time. Skip a month now and then if you need to or cancel if Paper Pumpkin is not for you. Just try it! And this holiday kit is a great one to start with!
This Reindeer Memories Christmas Card is a pretty easy one to make with some new products! And what’s more fun than new Stampin’ Up! products?! You can probably make an even simpler version of this card if you want to.
The card base is Garden Green, but you could have another green, white, or even Real Red. The layer is something new. Two new things, actually. I used the Forever Plaid 3D Embossing Folder on a piece of the new Real Red Two-Tone Cardstock. It is called Two-Tone because one side is the regular Real Red color and the other side is a slightly different shade of Real Red. It’s sort of like the Stampin’ Blends markers that come in Light and Dark. Also, this paper has a white core. Because of that, you can do certain things with this paper and the white core that you can’t do with our regular cardstock that is solid all the way through. Stampin’ Up! I believe has had some of this paper in the past but they are re-introducing it now since the closing of Close To My Heart. Stampin’ Up! is incorporating some of their great scrapbooking products.
With the Forever Plaid 3D Embossing Folder in the Holiday Mini Catalog in the Reindeer Days Suite Collection, you can use this and other folders with the two-tone cardstock and get a little bit of the white core breaking through. Or take a sanding tool of some kind and do very light sanding on the paper and let the white core show through. You can see in this photo a little bit of that. It just gives a little bit of a rustic look to the paper, a little bit of different texture. Before I adhered the embossed plaid layer, I wrapped around a white piece of the Petal Pink & White Combo Diagonal Trim Pack ribbon and added a separately tied bow later to the card front.
To make this card, I also used the Reindeer Memories Scrapbooking Workshop Kit. This is one of the new products or combinations of new products that coordinate with the products we already have in the Holiday Mini Catalog. You’ll find these things online in the September Scrapbooking Brochure. This kit includes supplies to create three predesigned, two-page scrapbook spreads. For example, this Workshop Kit contains the Reindeer Memories Designer Series Paper, two-tone cardstock sheets in several colors, and a couple of sticker sheets. You can also buy packs of this two-tone paper separately or just try some out in any of these scrapbooking kits. Stampin’ Up! plans to carry all our colors in this paper in the future.
To decorate the front of this card, I used a diecut circle with the pretty border in the Spotlight on Nature Dies. To this I applied a sticker of the reindeer and Christmas tree. The diecut circle is popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals. I also colored in the plain white star on top of the tree with the Dark Daffodil Delight Stampin’ Blend Marker.
The greeting is stamped in Real Red ink and cut out with this rectangular shape in the Something Fancy Dies. I didn’t want it to become any larger with a larger layer underneath the greeting, so I cut out a piece of Garden Green in the same size, cut it in half horizontally and adhered one piece just barely peeking out from the top and one from the bottom to give a little colored contrast.
As you can see, I adhered a separate bow with Mini Glue Dots on top of the ribbon strip, plus I added some Iridescent Gems on the diecut circle piece. Of course, with stickers, you can’t make multiples of cards since you don’t have multiples of the stickers, but you can use this “scrapbooking kit” to make cards, tags, or other projects. You can even make a sort of collage for the holiday and frame it. Lots of creative possibilities! These Kits also include 12″ x 12″ scrapbooking pages that are not the designer paper that make good base layouts for your scrapbook page plus very detailed instructions if you wanted to create the ideas they provide.
Hopefully, this blog post and the products I mentioned give you some inspiration for projects you can create for the holidays!
