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Is It Really Time For the 12 Weeks of Christmas??!

Is it really only 12 weeks until Christmas? It comes up pretty quickly and by surprise every year! Most of us are just getting serious about Halloween coming the end of the month, but we know once the Halloween decorations go up, Christmas is not far behind!

What is the 12 Weeks of Christmas special edition email? 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! All us crafters like to see new ideas! There are always alternatives if you aren’t a stamper. You might come up with a different project using paint or whatever your hobby is.

How do you get these 12 Weeks of Christmas emails? 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, 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 7, 2026! See you then!

Are You Getting My 12 Weeks of Christmas Emails?

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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!

Click HERE to go to a sign-up box if you like!

Last-Minute Christmas Ideas

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Here are some Christmas ideas from years past in case you need some! Use whatever paper and materials you have!

Wrapped Christmas Candy Bars

Just wrap up some regular-size chocolate bars with cardstock or designer paper and decorate a little! Keep it simple!

Christmas Votive Home Decor

You most likely have a plain glass votive holder somewhere in your house. Take it out and decorate it for a Christmas home decor item or give it as a gift.

Santa Suite Christmas Gift Bag

Need a fun gift bag? Cover a plain gift bag with red cardstock and turn it into a Santa Suit!

Reindeer Candy Cane Treat

You can use the retired Tag Topper Punch if you have it to make the reindeer face, but if you don’t have it, just cut a little chin for the reindeer and it will be fine.

Santa Treats

Just follow the directions in my blog post to make one of these! They are made much like a 2-4-6-8 box. Then just wrap a belt and buckle around! Fill with candy or a small gift!

Snowman Gift Bag

This is such an easy gift bag to make and so much fun! Use what you have to make any kind of snowman you like!

Don’t Miss My 12 Weeks of Christmas!

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Have you been receiving my “12 Weeks of Christmas” holiday emails every Wednesday? If you haven’t, you need to sign up for my Stamping With Karen Mailing List! These special holiday emails I send out every year are a thank you to my subscribers who get a weekly email with the latest Stampin’ Up! news and project ideas with complete instructions PLUS these special 12 Weeks of Christmas emails with one new card idea, gift idea, or gift wrap/tag idea every week.

You have already missed the first 4 weeks of the 12 Weeks of Christmas emails, but you can still get on my list and get the rest of the emails. The next one, Week 5 comes out tomorrow, October 27. You missed Weeks 1-4 but you can still get Weeks 5-12! Sign up today and get Week 5 tomorrow! These emails usually get sent out at 1:00 pm CT every Wednesday in the weeks leading up to Christmas!

These are exclusive projects that I won’t be putting on my blog or social media. They are just for my email subscribers. I love sending out these emails and I hope they are fun for my subscribers to receive and that they make their holidays a tiny bit easier if they are looking for a card idea or some other creative idea for handmade gifts or even tags and bags for wrapping!

Please join us if you would like! Sign up today or before 1:00 PM CT on Wednesday, October 27 to begin receiving the 12 Weeks of Christmas holiday emails! (It is less than two months until Christmas! Yikes!!)

Just go to the red box here on my blog. If you are on your desktop computer, you should find it in the top right corner at the top of my blog post. If you are on your phone, you might have to scroll all the way down to find it. Or, click the link below to go to a special page with a signup box. Any way you do it, it works!

JOIN THE STAMPING WITH KAREN MAILING LIST!