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Christmas Tags & More Presents Card

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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Christmas Tags & More Ornaments Card

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

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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Ornament Trio Christmas Card

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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Make the Easiest Christmas Tags!

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

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

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

Christmas Tags & More Tags Paper & Back

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

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

Christmas Tags & More Papers

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

Christmas Tags & More Diecuts and Tags

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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