It’s almost the end of the July – December 2022 Holiday Mini Catalog! Just about one more month to purchase from it, but select products will be on sale beginning Thursday, December 1st! That’s a good thing! (Also, a Clearance Rack Refresh beginning December 1st!)
Stock up on your favorite products before they’re gone for good! Save up to 60% on essential craft supplies.
All products are available while supplies last, and there are no purchase limits.
Stamp Sets are not guaranteed during this promotion and are while supplies last.
Time is flying by and there are only 4 weeks left of my 12 Weeks of Christmas holiday emails! Even though you have missed the first eight weeks, there are still four weeks left to showcase Tags, Bags, and Wraps! Every week for 12 weeks I have sent out a free holiday project idea that you could use to make your holidays brighter! The only people who receive these free projects are those on my Stamping With Karen Mailing List! This is my way of thanking my mailing list subscribers for following me, so if you would like to receive these special holiday emails, please sign up!
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It’s time to have some easy Christmas card ideas such as this Sweetest Christmas Candy Cane Card. It really only took a few minutes to make it and since you already have the idea now, it will take you even less time!
This card starts with a card base of Real Red, my favorite color. The designer paper is the Sweetest Christmas Designer Series Paper, in case you haven’t seen it all over the place by now! I added a layer of Basic White and had planned to put three narrow strips of designer paper across the lower middle of the layer. However, the little candy cane pattern was so cute, had to use a large piece. I cut the candy cane pattern at 2″ x 4″ and then added a 1/2″ strip of the red and white pattern across the top like a ribbon.
The easy way to get a candy cane is to cut one out of the large candy cane patterned paper. You can use one of the candy cane shapes in the Candy Cane Dies or simply take your Paper Snips and cut one out of the designer paper. It’s easy enough to fussy cut those! I popped up my candy cane with Stampin’ Dimensionals, then added a bow. This ribbon is in the Real Red & Garden Green Ribbon Combo Pack. I adhered it with a Mini Glue Dot.
While it’s not a good idea to stamp a greeting on a card when it is almost finished, I think that is what I did, with a greeting in the Sweet Candy Canes Stamp Set. Maybe I didn’t have everything glued down yet but at least I knew the space I had to stamp it. I could have stamped it on another piece of cardstock and layered it, then adhered it to the card front, but I was trying to keep this card easy and simple.
For a finishing touch, I used five Red Rhinestone Basic Jewels. They fill up the white space a little bit without adding more work to the card.
That’s all there is to this card and you would feel good sending it to people on your Christmas card list! It’s time to finish, or start, making your Christmas cards!
If you are looking for some last-minute Thanksgiving ideas, here are a few you can copy or use as inspiration! Click the title above each photo to go straight to my post with the information!
If you are looking for a fairly quick Christmas card to make but still something a little special, this Painted Christmas Z-Fold Card might be the card for you! I have always thought a Z-Fold card, while easy to make, looks a little fancy. The only difference from a regular card is that you fold the front of the card back on itself.
This Christmas card starts with a Real Red card base. After cutting the cardstock at 5 1/2″ x 8 1/2″, score it at 2 1/8″ and 4 1/4″. That gives you a score line on the front of the card. After creasing the card in half as you usually do, fold on the 2 1/8″ score line, which is the center of the card front, back toward the fold. See the photo below.
Depending on where you want to put the designer paper on this card, or stamping, choose which patterns you want to use and where you want to adhere them. On this sample, I cut a piece of the Painted Christmas Designer Series Paper for that narrow front area at 2″ x 5 3/8″. You can make it a bit narrower and shorter if you want. You could also add a piece on the inside of the front fold. I did not on this card.
Since the inside of the card is a somewhat dark color, I added a layer of Basic White. When I saw this light green pattern of designer paper, I decided to add that as another layer that would show from the front and coordinate with the design on the front. Another choice would be to just add a narrow strip of designer paper to the right side of the inside of the card on the Real Red cardstock or on the Basic White layer if that was added.
For the greeting, I chose one from the Framed & Festive Stamp Set, a new offering in the Fitting Florets Suite. It is only available until January 4th or while supplies last. I love the font and the variety of greetings for Christmas cards and projects in this set! I stamped the greeting on Basic White with Real Red ink and diecut with one of the squares in the Stylish Shapes Dies. Then I cut out the next larger square in Real Red to be a layer for the greeting. When you adhere this to the front of the card, make sure you are only putting adhesive on half of the back so it only adheres to that folded front part of the card and not the inside too!
The “tricky” part is adding a greeting to the inside of the card. Ideally, you would like it not to show from the front of the card, so you want the greeting on the inside of the card to be completely behind the greeting on the front of the card. You could mark lightly with a pencil the area where that front greeting covers the inside so you know your boundaries. For this card, I stamped a greeting on Basic White the same size as on the front. I put adhesive on the back of that greeting and layered it face down on the back of the greeting on the front from the inside. When I had it placed properly, I folded the back of the card over so that the greeting would then adhere to the inside of the card in the correct spot. That worked pretty well, but you could use pencil marks or eyeball it!
For a finishing touch, I added some Real Red Ribbon tied around the front fold of the card. I anchored it under the bow and inside the fold with some Mini Glue Dots. You could add a Basic White panel to the back of the card if you wanted to write a note so that it wouldn’t show from the front.
This Painted Christmas Z-Fold Card is an easy one to make and the recipient will think you are a talented cardmaker! Try it today!
I don’t know what went wrong, but the post office seemed to deliver my November Paper Pumpkin Kit in a normal amount of time! Usually, it seems to sit in one place for a few days or it goes on a little trip to some other city first! But this time, I got it right away! And since Saturday was a very rainy, cold, chilly, dreary day, it was the perfect day to stay inside and work on my November Paper Pumpkin Kit, “From the North Pole”. In this kit were supplies to make three different kinds of Christmas gift tags, four of each design. I always like to start a Paper Pumpkin Kit by making what is designed so I made the three Christmas gift tags in the photo above!
This kit was extra-special because it had Mint Macaron glimmer paper! We’ve never known that to exist before! But there it was, in the Paper Pumpkin kit, sparkling away! It is very pretty.
These three tag designs were all very easy to make. Of course, visual directions are included plus a video you can watch on YouTube. I like to watch the video and see how they suggest making the project.
After I made the tags as designed, I made two things on my own, just to play. You can use the supplies any way you like! They are yours, so if you don’t need tags, just make cards. Or make the tags, but adhere them to cards. Of decorate a notebook and put the tag on the front of the notebook. Whatever you like.
I made these two alternative ideas, as they say:
I really liked how the Mint Macaron card turned out, even though it wasn’t looking too great in the beginning. I stamped the “Joy” in Cherry Cobbler and in Mint Macaron on one of the tags and added the greeting plus snowflakes and ribbon. The background of the card is stamped with the largest stamp in the set, the big round stamp with a reindeer That really made the card come alive.
The other little tag I made was almost the same, but I’d used the big snowflake on that card so I was short one. Instead, I used some Mint Macaron glimmer paper dots from the holes in the banner for one of the other tags to be an embellishment. I ran out of those so I just punched my own with a retired punch.
But in the end, I decided I really did like making those Christmas tags with my Paper Pumpkin Kit so I went back and made the rest. Of course, I was missing a few pieces since I’d made the two extra projects, but I just worked around it.
That’s the fun of Paper Pumpkin Kits that come in the mail each month! It’s so fun opening up the box to see what supplies are inside and think about what you can make with them. Paper Pumpkin projects just keep getting better and better over time!
If you would like to get your own Paper Pumpkin Kit, subscribe now so you don’t forget by December 10th!
I’ve had this Whimsical Woodland 3D Embossing Folder for a while but have forgotten to use it! This is my first try with it. Actually, I was trying to copy a card I saw I think just yesterday, maybe the day before, but when I wanted to look at it again, of course, I couldn’t find it! Does that happen to you?! It was just this white embossed Whimsical Woodland background and a greeting on red cardstock. But I still wish I could see it again!
In the meantime, I made my own card! I used Basic White for a card base and cut the embossed piece at the regular layer size, 4″ x 5 1/4″. I could have made it as large as the card base, too.
The greeting is in theBrightest Glow Stamp Set. I stamped it with Real Red ink and then just cut it out with my Paper Trimmer. The Real Red layer behind it is a die in the Painted Labels Dies. I popped up the greeting with Stampin’ Dimensionals.
Very easy card to make and you can do different things with the same card design. Instead of a white card base, use colored cardstock. Or use the white card base but put another colored layer under the embossed layer. Just play with different designs and see what you like!
If you like this Whimsical Woodland Embossed Christmas Card, try one of your own and try varying the design and see what you come up with!
Today is the last day for the Stampin’ Up! Seasonal Sale so save some money buying all the products for making this card! Today is the last day to save buying punches, stamp sets, dies, embossing folders, and non-specialty designer series paper! These products in the Annual Catalog only are on sale for 10-20% off!
This card is made with some of the products in the Abigail Rose Suite. The card base is Petal Pink with a layer of the pink striped pattern in the Abigail Rose Designer Series Paper. I just love that striped paper! It’s so simple and plain yet so pretty and such a great background for something even greater! This Abigail Rose DSP is regularly $12.00, but it is on sale for $9.60 so you can save $2.40!
For the focal point of the card, I stamped the large flower and leaves in the Cottage Rose Stamp Set. This stamp set is regularly $25.00 but it is on sale for $21.25, saving you $3.75. The floral piece is stamped in Memento ink and then colored in with Stampin’ Blends markers in the Petal Pink Combo and Mint Macaron Combo plus a little Highland Heather for the tiny little flowers. This flower was die cut with the die in the Cottage Flowers Dies. The dies sell for $34.00 but they are on sale for $27.00, a savings of $7.00.
After looking at the dies, I cut out some more flowers using Vellum Cardstock. I stuck the flowers and leaves underneath the popped-up flower. I should have used the Adhesive Sheets to make it easy to adhere the vellum pieces to the card since they are so thin! But tiny drops of Multipurpose Liquid Glue did the trick pretty well.
The greeting on the card is in the Cottage Rose Stamp Set. I stamped it on Basic White Cardstock and then die-cut it using one of the label dies in thePainted Labels Dies. I also cut the same shape out of Petal Pink. In order to layer the pieces, I trimmed down the Basic White just a tad on the sides. I cut off the tops of both so they would line up with the edge of the designer paper at the top of the card. The Painted Labels Dies are also on sale and would save you $7.00!
So just for fun, if you purchase the two die sets to make this card, the stamp set, and the designer paper, you would save $13.15! The Cottage Rose Bundle at $53.00 for the stamp set and dies today costs $4.75 more in the Bundle than if you bought the two products separately!
Check your Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog today and see what you ‘need’ that is on sale today!
10% off all punches 15% off all stamps (Host stamp sets are not included in this sale) 20% off all dies 20% off all embossing folders 20% off all non-specialty Designer Series Paper
After working with the Real Red & White Glimmer Paper, I was only using the red and not the white. So I thought of this blue floral paper in the Fitting Florets Designer Series Paper and thought I would use the White Glimmer Paper with it! Here is that card that turned out!
The card base is Balmly Blue, one of the coordinating colors with the designer paper. I cut a strip of the blue floral pattern that is 2 1/4″ x 5 1/2″ to fit across the card. Then I added narrow strips of the white glimmer paper in the Real Red & White Glimmer Paper in the Holiday Catalog with the Sweetest Christmas Suite.
The tag is diecut with one of the Tailor Made Dies. This is a great die set with two different styles of tags and several different sizes of tags. I’ve used it a lot. Get it this week by November 18 and you can get it on sale during the Seasonal Sale at Stampin’ Up!
I stamped the Basic White tag with a greeting in the Framed Florets Stamp Set with Balmy Blue Ink. The greeting is actually longer than just “Thank You” but I wanted a smaller greeting to fit on the tag. It would have been difficult to mask off the extra words, so I just inked up the whole stamp, then used a Blender Pen to wipe the ink off the excess words. It worked pretty well. The words came out just a tiny bit light, so I used a Balmy Blue Stampin’ Write Marker, the fine tip end, to just draw over the words very lightly and carefully. Then I stamped on some of the edges with a little leafy stamp. I also cut out a flower and leaf from the designer paper to tack onto the lower corner of the tag.
The tag is popped up with Stampin’ Dimensionals as is the cut-out flower. Before adhering the tag to the card, I added some White 3/8″ Glittered Organdy Ribbon. I thought the glitter in the ribbon would go with the White Glimmer Paper.
Before assembling the card, I thought of stamping some of the flowers and leaves in the stamp set with Versamark ink on the top and bottom that wouldn’t be covered by the designer paper. I like the look of that!
The Fitting Florets Designer Paper is available now through January 4th or while supplies last. The Framed Florets Stamp Set and Dies will be sold in the January Spring Mini Catalog so you’ll be able to get those products for a long time! But don’t miss out on this beautiful Fitting Florets Designer Series Paper!
What a fun day for shopping at Stampin’ Up! And it’s not the only day! This sale lasts from November 15 through Friday, November 18! Browse through the Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog (Holiday Mini not included) and choose which stamps, punches, dies, embossing folders, and non-specialty designer series paper you want to purchase AT A DISCOUNT!
Select products from the 2022–2023 Annual Catalog will be on sale with the following discounts:
10% off all punches 15% off all stamps (Host stamp sets are not included in this sale) 20% off all dies 20% off all embossing folders 20% off all non-specialty Designer Series Paper
During this sale, buy products separately, NOT the BUNDLE. Do the math! The two sale products will be a better price than the 10% off the Bundle.
Get ready to shop the Stampin’ Up! seasonal sale beginning tomorrow! The sale only covers products in the Stampin’ Up! ANNUAL Catalog! It’s time to refresh our memories of what is in the Annual Catalog after we have devoted a lot of attention to the Holiday Mini Catalog!
No products in the Holiday Mini are included in this sale!
It begins tomorrow, November 15, and goes through Friday, November 18!
Select products from the 2022–2023 Annual Catalog will be on sale with the following discounts:
10% off all punches
15% off all stamps (Host stamp sets are not included in this sale)
20% off all dies
20% off all embossing folders
20% off all non-specialty Designer Series Paper
During this sale, buy products separately, NOT the BUNDLE. Do the math! The two sale products will be a better price than the 10% off the Bundle.
For example:
If you would like to purchase the Happier Than Happy Bundle of stamp set and dies. The 10% off price is $48.50. If you purchase separately on the sale, the Happier Than Happy Stamp Set would be $20.40 and the Happy Forest Dies would be $24.00 for a total of $44.40 instead of the Bundle price of $48.50.
CLICK HERE to view the list of all products on sale if you would like to double-check.
With the season of giving upon us, this is a great opportunity to buy gifts for your fellow crafting enthusiasts or to stock up on supplies for all your upcoming handmade projects. This is also a great time for new stampers and crafters to build up their supplies and save some money! Remember, this sale is for four days only! Don’t miss out!
If you are interested in joining Stampin’ Up!, when you choose these sale products for your Starter Kit, you will save money and get a little more perhaps in your Kit! JOIN HERE!
Once again, in the Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog:
10% off all punches
15% off all stamps (Host stamp sets are not included in this sale)
It seems like Saturday afternoons are good times to work on a Paper Pumpkin Kit! These Christmas cards were made with the October 2022 Paper Pumpkin Kit! Very cute! I only made two of each of the designs and then I like to go back and see if I want to make some alternative ideas with the supplies in the kit.
Of course, it is past time to join Paper Pumpkin and have this kit mailed to you, but most of the time, it is possible for you to be a subscriber and then go back in the Online Store and purchase a Past Kit or Refill. The Refill has all the supplies you need except for the stamp set and ink spot, because if you already got the full kit you would have those already and would only need the consumables. Sometimes if the Past Kit isn’t available, the Refill will do and you can use your own stamp sets and ink pad with the kit contents.
The best way not to ever miss out on these super cute kits is to Join Paper Pumpkin and a kit will automatically come in your mailbox about mid-month (unless you live at my house, then it seems that the post office likes to send it to farther away cities first!) (but that’s not Stampin’ Up!’s fault!). You can skip a month if you need to or don’t care for the upcoming kit. And Stampin’ Up! guarantees all Paper Pumpkin Kits.
The November Kit has already been mailed out. If there are extras, they will be in the Online Store a little later, but you must be a Paper Pumpkin subscriber first to order the Past Kits & Refills.
The December Kit is up now! Subscribe by December 10th! You’ll make little boxes that will hold gift cards, and they have designs that you can use all year long. Or use them for other small gifts or treats. You will probably even receive the kit before Christmas if you wanted to make a few for holiday gifts.
Join Paper Pumpkin today so you don’t miss out on any of the fun!
It’s time to get that Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog out and start flipping through the pages because Stampin’ Up! is having a Seasonal Sale of select Annual Catalog products from November 15-18, 2022. We get so involved with the Mini Catalogs that we sometimes forget about the great products in the Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog! This is an excellent time to look back at the Annual Catalog and get some bargains!
Select products will be on sale with the following discounts:
10% off all punches
15% off all stamps (Host stamp sets are not included in this sale)
20% off all dies
20% off all embossing folders
20% off all non-specialty Designer Series Paper
To inspire you, I decided to make a card from the Annual Catalog, which I copied from the sample on page 108. It just caught my eye! The Hues of Happiness Suite was a really popular one when the catalog first came out. If you didn’t get some of the products then, you can get them at a discount next week!
My card has a card base of Basic White Cardstock with a layer of “the other side” of the Hues of Happiness Designer Series Paper. It’s kind of the yellowish/pinkish piece of designer paper, but really almost any of the colors would be fine.
The next layer is a little smaller than normal in order to see the paper behind it. It’s the paper with the tiny flowers printed on it. It measures 3 1/2″ x 4 1/2″.
The Melon Mambo piece is 3″ x 4 1/4″. The short right side is cut at 3″ diagonally over to the bottom corner of the cardstock. Just eyeball it! I stamped the birthday greeting in the Happiness Abounds Stamp Set with Versamark ink, then embossed it with White Embossing Powder and the Heat Tool.
The flowers could have been stamped, but you can just diecut flowers using the Blossoming Happiness Dies from the designer paper! I think the catalog sample stamped and diecut one of the flowers, but I just used all from the designer paper. Even the leaves are diecut. The purple and yellow flowers are popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals.
To embellish the card, there is a white twine bow tied with two strands plus a few 2021-2023 In Color Opal Rounds. It’s always fun to add a few jewels of some kind to a card!
Take some time to look through the Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog and see if there are stamps, punches, embossing folders, dies, or designer paper you want to put on your Shopping List!
This Lights Aglow Colored Strips Christmas Card came about after seeing a pretty similar card in the Stampin’ Up! Holiday Mini Catalog on page 32. It’s a great way to use up designer paper scraps by using various designer paper strips for the background of the card. It shows off lots of the pretty paper and provides a nice card front. And no waste if you have saved a bunch of scraps!
This card starts with a Cherry Cobbler Cardstock card base. I had a lot of scrap strips from the Lights Aglow 6″ x 6″ Specialty Designer Series Paper. In whatever way I had cut up the paper, I had a lot of 4″ x 3/4″ strips. I began laying out the strips on the card base, just eyeballing it. Then I got the idea that with the paper having gold foil accents, it might look nice if there was gold foil in between the strips. Finally, I decided to cut a piece of Gold Foil for the background of the strips. Fortunately, six strips fit just right on that layer of Gold Foil! If you want to do all the math and figure out the space measurements and all that, go right ahead, but you are very likely to just lay out the strips and have them spaced apart pretty evenly! My Stampin’ Up! Grid Paper was a little bit of help but mostly I just eyeballed it.
I die-cut a Christmas tree out of one of the green Lights Aglow papers using the Twinkling Lights Dies. I also cut out a tree in Gold Foil just with the outline die to adhere behind the tree die so the gold would show through the little holes in the Christmas tree! The tree was then adhered to the card front. You can pop it up if you like, I just glued mine flat. You could instead pop up the background with the strips of paper. If you are going to mail the card, though, you don’t want it
For the greeting, I stamped the banner in Cherry Cobbler ink in the Christmas Banners Stamp Set and cut it out with the Christmas Banner Dies. You can get both in the Christmas Banners Bundle and save 10%. Since I wanted the greeting to be gold to match the card, I stamped the greeting with Versamark Ink and embossed it with Gold Powder using the Heat Tool. The greeting is in the Christmas Banners Stamp Set. I popped up the banner using Stampin’ Dimensionals.
To finish off the Christmas tree, I die-cut the little “star” at the top of the tree with one of the dies out of Gold Foil. I also placed a few Red Rhinestone Basic Jewels on the tree for just a little more sparkle!
I don’t think you would want to mass-produce this card to send, but if you have some scraps, it is easy enough to make one or a few more cards with this design!
Surprise! On November 9th ad 10th, all current Paper Pumpkin subscribers can save up to 50% on Paper Pumpkin past kits, refills, and add-ons! Past kits, refills, and add-ons make perfect gifts for this upcoming holiday season. Items are available while supplies last. If you missed a kit or you want more pieces from one kit you already got, this is the time to check out this sale! TODAY & TOMORROW!
If you are not a Paper Pumpkin subscriber yet, you can fix that right now and then go shop the sale!
Considering how well received my Paper Pumpkin Spooky Treats boxes were, I’d suggest getting that kit and saving it for next year. You can always use more treat boxes for Halloween!
The refills and kits don’t contain the stamping block but you can use the acrylic blocks you have. The refills also don’t contain the stamp set and ink spot, but in most cases, you can use something else you have. The full Kit has everything!
If you subscribe to Paper Pumpkin by Nov. 10th, you will receive the holiday kit “From the North Pole”. It is a tag-making kit with exclusive Mint Macaron glitter paper, but you can use the materials to make cards if you like or use them any way you like!
Remember, you must be a subscriber to take advantage of this Paper Pumpkin special sale today and tomorrow!
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Here is the November Paper Pumpkin Kit which will be shipped out before mid-November! It’s the gift you give yourself!
This November, Paper Pumpkin delivers this and more with its one-of-a-kind, holiday-themed crafting experience. This festive kit includes 12 fun, sparkly gift tags and (as always!) an exclusive stamp set—plus everything you need for a successful holiday crafting experience.
This month’s kit contains enough elements to create 12 tags—4 each of 3 designs. This all-inclusive kit includes printed die-cut paper pieces, twine, adhesive, and more!
Includes a Cherry Cobbler Classic Stampin’ Spot!
You’ll love decorating your gift tags with snowflake and banner die-cut pieces on our Mint Macaron glitter specialty paper (a Paper Pumpkin exclusive).
Create festive gift tags for all your packaging needs this holiday season with classic Christmas colors and designs.
If you need unique Christmas packaging to round out your gifting, we’ve got you covered with our exclusive North Pole Sacks add-on in the Online Store under Paper Pumpkin Past Kits, for subscribers only. Available now.
