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Traditions of Christmas Season’s Greetings Card

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Traditions of Christmas Season's Greetings Card

This kind of card is difficult to photograph with its gold foil accents, but I assure you this Traditions of Christmas Season’s Greetings Card is pretty in person! This is the particular patterned paper that “spoke” to me when I looked in the Tradtions of Christmas Specialty Designer Series Paper. That’s a good way to get your creativity going – just look at a package of designer series paper and see what strikes you! Then go from there!

I really liked the Pool Party color on some ribbon and flowers on this paper so I really wanted to have Pool Party be a part of the card. I could have put the colors in reverse or used only Pool Party as the card base, but this time I used Real Red for the card base with a layer of Pool Party ( 4″ x 5 1/4″). Then the designer paper is cut at 3 3/4″ x 5″.

With this paper, I was rather purposeful in wanting the red flowers centered and hopefully not hidden when I added a greeting. Sometimes you can trim the sides or top and bottom so that you get a certain image in the spot where you want it to show on the card.

For the greeting, I used the Traditional Labels Bundle (stamp set and dies). You can do it either way, but this time I diecut the label and then stamped the greeting in Real Red on Pool Party cardstock. To add a layer, I adhered the stamped label and greeting to a piece of Gold Foil, the simply cut around it leaving a narrow margin of gold. It was easy to cut it by hand so don’t be afraid to do it! Before adhering to the card, I added some Stampin’ Seal on the back and adhered some Gold Striped 3/8″ Ribbon to the backside where I wanted it, then used Stampin’ Dimensionals to pop up the greeting and help hold down the ribbon. I love this ribbon! However, it is unavailable right now and not due back in stock until February!!

Just so you know, the Traditions of Christmas Designer Series Paper, is currently unavailable as are the Christmas Tags & More 6″ x 6″ DSP and the Greetings For You Ephemera Pack, but all are due back in stock next week!! So check back earlier or fill in the blank to be notified with each product. Sometimes things arrive sooner and you can grab them before everybody else.

If you already have these materials or even make a card like this one last-minute, I think you will find it plenty easy to make with no fuss!

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Christmas Tags & More Presents Card

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Christmas Tags & More Presents Card

This Christmas Tags & More Presents Card was a fun card to make with the ephemera pieces in the designer paper! I think I’ve made a card like this in the past, using paper to make it look like a stack of Christmas presents. When I looked at the ephemera pieces in the Christmas Tags & More 6″ x 6″ Designer Series Paper, I saw a couple actual gifts plus a couple other pieces that could be gifts!

This card has a Garden Green base with a layer of Real Red. May as well use green and red together today for a Christmas card! To start stacking the gifts, I used the green and white plaid one first, and then the red plaid banner in the ephemera looked like it could be a gift also. I cut off the banner end and shortened the green and white gift on the top. The bottom holly piece was just another tag or some kind of piece of ephemera that was the right size to put underneath the red plaid gift. Then I also noticed the little green package with white polka dots and slipped that at the top of the stack of gifts. The green and white package already had a bow on it, so for the other two, I just added two ephemera bows also in the package.

Before adhering the stack of gifts, I figured the Basic White top layer was going to look a little plain. Another good opportunity to use the Metallic Textures Rub-Ons to add a little design for the background in gold! These things are so fun to play with! I put the cross-hatch design in diagonal corners and some dots in the other two corners. After adding those, I adhered the gifts to the card front.

For the greeting, I found this one in the Greetings For All Ephemera Pack. I had tried out some others, but this one seemed to be the right size and showed up against the background. Instead of the Metallic Textures Rub-Ons, you could emboss the white background first with something not too busy or add some sequins or gems for a little bling and sparkle.

When you have an assortment of these ephemera packs, you have an easy and fun way to make a card!

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Elegant Pine Snowflakes Card From Our House to Yours

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Elegant Pine Snowflakes Card From Our House to Yours

As many of my cards do, this Elegant Pine Snowflakes Card From Our House to Yours card came about from looking through the package of designer series paper! Quite often, your creativity kicks into gear once you start looking at your products and paper. I liked the background paper and thought maybe if I cut out a snowflake that would look good for the focal point of the card.

This card starts with a card base of Shaded Spruce cardstock with the fold at the side rather than the top of the card. Cut the cardstock at 4 1/4″ x 11″ and fold at 5 1/2″. You could also put the fold at the top of the card. Usually we have the fold along the long side of the card.

The snowflake layer of paper is in the Elegant Pine Snowflakes Designer Series Paper. I chose one of the larger snowflakes from another sheet of the same designer paper and cut it our by hand (fussy-cut) with my Paper Snips. It’s so easy to cut out things by hand if you turn and move the image you are cutting out rather than moving your scissors. It really does make it easy once you change your focus on cutting. I planned to just adhere the snowflake to the front of the card, but I thought it needed something behind it. Since there was this Basic White diecut circle from the Stylish Shapes Dies already in my package of Basic White, I tried placing that behind the snowflake and liked the look of it. I also added a piece of the Shaded Spruce & Gold Edge 7/8″ Ribbon underneath. I think just the strip of ribbon looks pretty enough. No need for a bow anywhere. The snowflake is adhered flat on the white diecut circle and then the whole thing is popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals.

The greeting is from my favorite thing, the Greetings For You Ephemera Pack. I think the small banner size fits perfectly on the card without detracting from the big snowflake. I trimmed off the right side of the banner to be straight along the edge of the designer paper. For a little sparkle, I added a small red Traditional Sparkling Sequin to the center of the snowflake and three gold sequins on the background paper. Those sequins are on the Last Chance category now and reduced 10%. I think you should get some! They are so pretty! I’m already on my second package and haven’t even made all my Christmas cards and projects yet!

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Christmas Tags & More Ornaments Card

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Christmas Tags & More Ornaments Card

This Christmas Tags & More Ornaments Card is easy to make with the versatile pack of 6″ x 6″ designer series paper called Christmas Tags & More! Besides the pretty holiday designs and tags in the paper, there are some sheets of diecut ephemera images you can use any way you like on cards or scrapbook pages and other projects for the holidays.

This card starts with a card base of Real Red cardstock, although you could use another color that matches the ornaments. There is a layer of Basic White cardstock for the background because I felt like I wanted the card to be very simple.

For the string holding the ornaments, I used a recently retired green baker’s twine. You could use whatever you have. A gold trim would be pretty, too. The ends are adhered under the sides of the white cardstock. Make it fairly tight going across but you want a little dip in the string. I chose three ornaments from the ephemera pages in the designer series paper, plus two pieces of mistletoe. To adhere the ornaments I put a Stampin’ Dimensional on the back of each one at the center to bottom and then a Mini Glue Dot to adhere to the string. The mistletoe is adhered flat on the card. Then I tied three small bows to adhere with a Mini Glue Dot to the top of each ornament.

Before I added the greeting, I had to play around with papers and layers trying to find the right thing for the bottom of the card. All of a sudden, the right combination came about! I added a strip of the red and green plaid pattern with a layer of Real Red under the greeting to highlight the gold foil wording. But I didn’t want it covering up very much of the plaid design.

The greeting is found in the Greetings For You Ephemera Pack. I have loved this pack with all kinds of gold foil greetings for the holidays that are ready to go and even are backed with adhesive. Just peel off the backing and adhere to the paper. Or if you’d rather use some other adhesive or pop up the greeting with Dimensionals, just leave on the backing paper and do it your way.

For just a tiny bit of embellishment, I added two gold Traditional Sparkling Sequins at each end of the greeting. I think they highlight the greeting a little bit and even a little on a card is nice!

Just get out all the papers and the diecut images and play around with all the possibilities!

Christmas Tags & More Plaid Christmas Card

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Christmas Tags & More Plaid Christmas Card

Here’s a fun Christmas card to make, the Christmas Tags & More Plaid Christmas Card. Between the cute designer series paper, the new dies to make the focal point, and the ephemera pieces and embellishments, this card will be easy enough for you to make and be proud of.

The card base is Garden Green, and I used the Christmas Tags & More 6″ x 6″ Designer Series Paper. As you can see, this pack of paper is not only about Christmas tags! You can make tags out of some of the sheets just by cutting the images apart, as I did in THIS blog post. But you can certainly use the pack of paper for lots of Christmas cards, Christmas projects, and making scrapbook pages. I love this plaid design that I used for the background.

On the front of the card, I used the Branching Out Dies which are in the Holiday Mini Catalog and part of the Branching Out Bundle. I love using these dies for their shape and for their layering sizes. The top layer is a piece of Basic White cardstock layered on top of Garden Green cardstock. The small print piece at the bottom is a piece of the Tags & More 6″ x 6″ Designer Series Paper, but only using a portion. This whole piece is popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals.

In the center is a wreath from the Time For Celebration Ephemera Pack. This wreath fit perfectly on this diecut with the greeting one of the pieces in the Greetings For You Ephemera Pack. I have used elements in this pack so much! They are pretty in gold foil and saves you the trouble of doing embossing. The red bow is from the Time For Celebration Ephemera Pack also, right by the wreath. For a little sparkle and embellishment, I used the Traditional Sparkling Sequins, which I love, love, love! I just placed three red sequins around on the wreath and one silver one on the center of the bow.

If you didn’t have the Branching Out Dies, you could layer any rectangle dies or just cut rectangle shapes of cardstock with a paper trimmer and it would all still be fine.

It appears that many or all of the products I used on this card are “currently unavailable” at this moment. This is why it is a good idea to order products you like as soon as you can when they come out. However, not all is lost! These products should be back in stock in about a week or two. You can go to the product page and fill in your email to be notified when they are back in stock. Sometimes they are even available earlier than expected so this is a good tool to use. Or just check back.

The Christmas Tags & More DSP is due back the week of Nov. 17th, as well as the Greetings For You Ephemera Pack. The Branching Out Dies are due back in stock the week of Nov. 24th as well as the Traditional Sparkling Sequins. The Time For Celebration Ephemera Pack is delayed until the week of Dec. 1st. You will still have time to order these items as they come back and still have time to make your projects. You can also use the same card design with other paper, other rectangular shapes for layers and another greeting and embellishments.

Keep checking the Stampin’ Up! Online Store and perhaps you will be the first one of these products being available again!

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Elegant Pine Snowflakes Scrap Cards

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Elegant Pine Snowflakes Scraps Cards

Do you know what today is? Today is October 25, TWO MONTHS until Christmas Day! Wow! That puts things into perspective for us crafters, right?! I wanted to post a Christmas card today to remind all of us that even though it isn’t Halloween yet, it is almost Christmastime! Here are two cards, Elegant Pine Snowflakes Scrap Cards, that you can easily make with brand new paper or the scraps that you have left after making other cards. And you can use any paper you have! In fact, you can make this same kind of card for a birthday or any occasion, just change the theme and greeting of course!

Elegant Pine Snowflakes Merry & Bright Card

This card is made with a Real Red card base. As you may have guessed, I used the Elegant Pine Snowflakes Designer Series Paper in the Online Exclusives since September. You could use Cherry Cobbler cardstock or one of the greens. The paper strips are cut at 1 3/4″ x 4″. I adhered mine directly on to the card base. However, sometimes it is easier to cut a piece of cardstock the same size as the three strips together and adhere the strips onto that layer, then the whole piece on to the card base. Or you can make a layer that is larger (if you cut your strips smaller) and have that layer show around the margins of the strips. Very versatile design. These strips are all touching, but you can also make them smaller and narrower and leave a space in between.

The greeting is one of the gold foil sentiments in the Greetings For You Ephemera Pack. It is layered on a Gold Foil diecut circle from the Stylish Shapes Dies. This eventually is layered on a larger Real Red diecut circle. First, however, I used the Real Red 1/2″ Shiny Ribbon back and forth behind the gold foil layer and held in place with Stampin’ Dimensionals. I often put some Stampin’ Seal on the paper to hold the ribbon in place until I get it just right and then add the Dimensionals.

For some pizzazz, I added five gold Traditional Sparkling Sequins for sparkle. With this design you can make hundreds of other kinds of cards. It’s a great way to use more than one pattern of our beautiful paper!

Elegant Pine Snowflakes Joy Card

Here is a second card, made with the same Elegant Pine Snowflakes Designer Series Paper, but with the strips switched around and a different greeting and ribbon. This card base is our old favorite, Old Olive. The greeting is also in the Greetings For You Ephemera Pack, but the whole word punches out. It is layered on an Old Olive Stylish Shapes circle with Gold Striped 3/8″ Mesh Ribbon, which is so pretty. Just like the first card, the greeting is popped up on Dimensionals. This time I used the Real Red Traditional Sparkling Sequins for some sparkle on the card. Just add a greeting or write a message inside the card and you are set to go!

Since today is only two months until Christmas (and that’s Christmas Day when ALL the work and preparation is over with!) let’s all try to make at least three Christmas cards today, maybe more, just to get in the mood and into gear!

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Ornament Trio Christmas Card

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Ornament Trio Christmas Card

This Ornament Trio Christmas Card is another idea for a Christmas card! Keep it simple and use a few embellishments plus the greeting. Since this one uses designer series paper, you would only be able to make a certain number of this particular card, with as many sheets of this pattern of paper that are in the packages. This card was made with one square sheet with the ornaments printed on about 2/3’s of the paper and a polka dot border to one side in Crumb Cake. But it can also give you an idea for a Christmas card cutting out or stamping some ornament shapes out of the supplies you have, adhering them to a card with a background layer, and embellishing them.

This card starts with a card base of Real Red cardstock and has a layer of Gold Foil to match the bit of gold foil on the card front, the little ornament caps below the ribbon. The Gold Foil also makes the card look a little richer and special. These ornaments came from the Christmas Tags & More 6″ x 6″ Specialty Designer Series Paper. This paper is called “Specialty” because it comes with diecuts as well as paper. Some of the paper is practically ready-made gift tags if you just cut them apart!

The patterned paper with the three ornaments on it is what I used on this simple card. I trimmed it down to 3 3/4″ x 5″, trying to keep the ornaments centered. To jazz them up a bit, I cut out three gold foil caps to cover the ones printed on the paper and make the ornaments look more authentic. I didn’t have to think very much about what greeting should go on the card. I found one that fit just right in the Greetings For You Ephemera Pack. I could have peeled off the backing of the “Merry Christmas” greeting I chose in the package to use as a sticker, but instead, I just added some Mini Dimensionals to pop up the greeting for a little interest. These greetings are SO handy and so pretty, especially with the gold foil. Be sure you put at least one, maybe two packages, on your order.

If you prefer, there are diecut ornament images in the package and you could make a similar style card using those instead of the patterned paper. There are SO many possibilities for holiday cards and projects in this one 6″ x 6″ pack of designer series paper, which is more than just normal designer series paper.

To embellish the ornaments, beside adding the gold foil ornament topper, I added some retired Cherry Cobbler and Gold Ribbon, which I still had in my basket and was the only narrow red choice I had. I thought the wider ribbon in Real Red that I have would be too large for these ornaments. Use what you have. You could use a narrow gold ribbon, bakers twine, whatever you have! I also added some Traditional Sparkling Sequins in gold near the bottom portion of the card.

Besides ordering the very fine Greetings For You Ephemera Pack (or two!), I would suggest you get one or two of the beautiful Traditional Sparkling Sequins which can be used beyond Christmas. They are such pretty, sparkling embellishments and are flat on the card, a great advantage for mailing.

October is speeding by so start thinking about Christmas and holiday cards, invitations, gifts, favors, and giftwrap ideas!

Christmas Tags & More Ornament Sheet

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

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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!

Christmas Card With Gold Metallic Rub-on

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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 From Our House To Yours Card

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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)

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Elegant Pine Snowflakes Season’s Greetings Card

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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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Traditions of Christmas Bouquet Card

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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!

A Little Bit Festive Christmas Stockings Card

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A Little Bit Festive Christmas Stockings Card

This A Little Bit Festive Christmas Stockings Card is another fun and easy Christmas card to make! All you need is the A Little Bit Festive Specialty Designer Series Paper plus one greeting. As I’ve said in other blog posts, the A Little Bit Festive paper is special because it consists of 3 double-sided sheets of designer series paper and 3 sheets of Christmas die cuts! What more can you ask for?! Everything is matched and ready for you to use right there in one package!

This card base is Garden Green although you could choose Real Red instead. It would also be pretty. The layer on the front is Basic White cardstock that measures 5 1/4″ x 3″. Underneath the top and bottom of the Basic White layer are strips of the designer paper with the green triangle trees. You could make a whole layer of it which ouls mostly get covered up by the white piece, so I just used two strips adhered underneath the white layer. You can cut them at 5 1/4″ x 1″ and that should give you enough for the margin to show top and bottom. It just adds an interesting border.

I chose the row of Christmas stockings die cut which includes the branch of greenery that they are hanging from. I added some little star diecuts to fill up some space. The greeting is in the Joyful Sayings Ephemera. I adhered everything flat to the card front but you could pop up some or all of it with Stampin’ Dimensionals. I also added some red dots for berries on the bough of greenery in the Cherry Cobbler & Pearl Adhesive-Backed Berries. I think those little red dots add a lot to the card above the stockings.

That’s all there is for that card! Using the ephemera packs in the Holiday Mini Catalog and the diecut in the A Little Bit Festive Specialty Designer Series Paper have been so fun to use and so quick and easy! Make sure you have used yours! And if you don’t need more cards, make tags for packages!

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A Little Bit Festive Cocoa & Gingerbread Card

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A Little Bit Festive Cocoa & Gingerbread Card

When you don’t have your own original idea, you can copy a card from the Stampin’ Up! catalog as I did with this A Little Bit Festive Cocoa & Gingerbread Card. You will find the sample that I copied on page 18 in the Holiday Mini Catalog. I changed mine just a tiny bit, but it was fun to make!

This Christmas card uses the A Little Bit Festive Specialty Designer Series Paper. This paper comes with three regular double-sided sheets of designer paper and three sheets of Christmas die cuts that you can use for cards or holiday projects. It’s really fun to work with, just playing with all the pieces!

This card has a card base of Real Red and a layer of the red and white striped designer paper in this package. After playing with the die cut pieces to get the design set, I cut a piece of Basic White cardstock at 3 1/4″ x 3 1/2″ layered on a piece of Real Red cardstock at 3 1/2″ x 3 3/4″. I arranged the die cut pieces like on the sample in the catalog. The cup of hot chocolate is adhered flat to the card, the gingerbread tree and gingerbread man are popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals, and the gingerbread present is glued flat on the card. I chose “Happy Holidays” for the greeting in the Joyful Sayings Ephemera Pack.

For a little embellishment, this was the perfect card on which to use the Real Red & White Adhesive-Backed Peppermints. Unfortunately, these cute embellishments have been very difficult to keep in stock and are backordered even now. Hopefully, you already snagged some earlier. These do look cute with two next to the cocoa cup and one looking like it is floating in the whipped cream topping!

My card looks almost exactly like the sample card in the catalog, but if you look closely, you will see mine is the full size card and the sample looks to be square. My red and white stripes are running horizontally rather than vertically. And as I said, I used a different greeting and the peppermint embellishments. This is what usually happens when you plan to copy a card Almost always you will find your own little twist you want to put on the card and that helps get your creativity flowing!

A Little Bit Festive Christmas Tree Card

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A Little Bit Festive Christmas Tree Card

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.

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