Lots of new products released today at Stampin’ Up! for YOU! Here is the Color Coach(166481) to help you with color combinations for your cards and projects! Be sure you select the English version in the Online Store!
New Kits in the Kits Collection today! And plenty of good ones already available so look at all of them in the Stampin’ Up! Kits Collection!
The Nature’s Painting Kit contains a line art coloring book, watercolor pencils, and a water painter so you can try out your creative side in a new direction! Watercolor pencils were one of my favorite things when I started as a Demonstrator!
This Layered Landscapes Kit is an easy home decor project for you that comes with the 7 1/8″ x 7 1/8″ frames and easy pieces to layer to build the landscapes.
There are lots of newOnline Exclusives products available online only (not in a catalog) and not just for Valentine’s Day as my picture above would suggest! This is one Suite, the Marbled Elegance Suite, but there are many other new products! There is no one picture I can post that gives you all the information! Check it all out here in the New Arrivals! More information in future days! If you see something you REALLY REALLY want, I’d order it right away!
This A Sentimental Christmas Reindeer Card turned out entirely differently than I ever could have planned! Sometimes that happens! In this case, it was finding a scrap diecut piece in my cardstock package in the right color that jumped out at me as a possible card element.v
For the first thing, in looking through the Sentimental Christmas Designer Series PaperI was surprised to see Christmas paper in brown! Snowflakes on Pecan Pie! Who would have thought?! Maybe it goes along with the gingerbread trend last Christmas and this year also, but to me it doesn’t look exactly like that style. I saw that brown paper as a challenge and decided to see what I could come up with. I looked around online for ideas just for a short time but the answer I found was this Pecan Pie cardstock diecut in this arch shape in the Garden Meadow Dies in the Online Exclusives.
The card base is Pecan Pie cardstock with a layer of Basic White to make the designer paper stand out a little more. The white layer goes well to bring out the white snowflakes. The opposite side of the brown snowflake paper is this vintage looking reindeer print. I really liked how that looked with the snowflake paper, so it was diecut with a circle in the Stylish Shapes dies. I planned to layer it on a larger circle in Real Red, Shaded Spruce, or Pecan Pie. But when I found the arched diecut piece and tried the reindeer diecut circle, it fit perfectly in that space under the arch. Then there was just enough space underneath for a greeting.
The greeting is stamped in Pecan Pie ink on Basic White cardstock with a stamp in the Peaceful Season Stamp Set. This 2 1/2″ x 1″ piece fits perfectly underneath the reindeer circle.
Since the greeting sounded “incomplete” on the front of the card, I went ahead and stamped “the rest of the greeting” on the inside. I added a Basic White layer over the Pecan Pie card and stamped a second greeting in Pecan Pie ink to go with what is stamped on the front of the card. Then I also added two 1/2″ strips of designer paper along the sides.
You could also add a small red bow underneath the reindeer circle, and you could also add some gems for sparkle. I love this Sentimental Christmas Designer Series Paper in the Holiday Mini Catalog. If you didn’t notice, check out page 5 where the paper is shown to see that Stampin’ Up! is donating $3 for every package of this paper sold to worthy children’s causes. I love the vintage look of this paper.
One new product coming soon on Tuesday, November 5th at Stampin’ Up! will be this Color Coach color wheel. During a previous Stampin’ Up! event, Demonstrators who attended were given a color wheel very much like this one. It turned out to be SO popular, that Stampin’ Up! decided to make them to sell to everyone. I think this one does not include the In Colors which the original one did. Years ago we had a color wheel so it will be nice to have one again with current colors.
The other side of the wheel explains how to use the color wheel to choose colors when designing cards and projects. We have Monochromatic Colors, Complementary Colors, Triadic Colors, and Analogous Colors. Then we have Neutrals that work with almost any color combination.
I think these wheels “could” go fast so if you would like to have one, I would plan on ordering one on the first day. But I could be wrong. If you do order one, notice that the “brad” that goes in the center of the Color Coach is enclosed in the plastic bag the wheel is shipped in. You could easily miss it or at first wonder what is in the bag.
If you need help in figuring out what colors would look good together or would like some new ideas for color combinations in your projects, then this Color Coach wheel will be very helpful to you!
This Spooky Ghosts Halloween Card winds up the Halloween season here on my blog! Are you taking kids out for trick-or-treating tonight or are you staying home and handing out candy to the trick-or-treaters? I love being home and giving out candy, especially to the itty bitty trick-or-treaters. We used to have a LOT of kids come to our house after the little neighborhood carnival down the street years ago, but now we have half or less that we used to have as our neighborhood has gotten older.
This card has a Pumpkin Pie cardstock card base with a layer of the orange dotted patterned paper in the Halloween Spells Designer Series Paper. I cut a strip of the striped pattern in the package to make sort of a wall on the left side of the card. And at the bottom, I cut out some of the Potions & Spells books, also printed in the Halloween Spells DSP.
Then came my favorite part….making ghosts! I learned this from a Demonstrator group meeting I attended with my friend who would become my upline when I signed up. I thought it was so creative! Use a heart punch, heart die, or simply cut out a heart by hand. Then cut it in half! You have two ghosts! Of course, with the flat edge, you have to put them so they are peeking out from somewhere. I put some faces on mine with a Basic Black Stampin’ Write Marker. For the third ghost, I just cut off part of the bottom of the heart so it looks like just his head is poking out from behind the stack of books! The little sentiments are stickers from the Halloween Memories Scrapbooking Workshop Kit. They fit in there perfectly.
I’m sorry that Halloween will be over after today. I think the decorations I have for the house, cards, and Halloween things I can make are so much fun. The Halloween colors are great, too, to work with! But now it’s on to the next holiday!
Here are two fun and easy Halloween Triangle Treat Boxes. I have to admit, I didn’t put too much thought into them, just using up some scraps I had around, but I think they still turned out kind of cute! A couple of trick-or-treaters on Halloween night might get a kick out of them!
I always like making these triangle treat boxes for many different occasions! They are easy and can be made almost any size you need. Just decorate, put treats or a small gift inside and tie with a ribbon at the top. I have made lots of them! Here is a similar Halloween one made with a skeleton and designer series paper.
Both of these triangle treat boxes are made with Granny Apple Green cardstock. Each piece is cut at 4″ x 8″. Then it is scored at 4″ in the middle of the 8″ length. Measure the midpoint at each end, which would be at 2″. Put a light pencil mark at each end. Then score diagonally from the 2″ point to the middle of the strip at 4″ Do this four times, two sides on each end.
Here is a diagram:
This is how you score on a diagonal using the Paper Trimmer:
After you get the box all scored, crease on all the score lines and see how it will come together. Punch holes in the two flaps on each side so you can put a ribbon through after you add the treat inside. I used my old Crop-a- Dile but you can use any hole punch. Just so you can get the ribbon through.
For the box on the right, I added a piece of designer paper to the top from the Halloween Spells Designer Series Paper first. I had an extra stamped gray cat from the Potions & Spells Stamp Set which was diecut with the dies of the same name. I added some bubbles to this box also and a greeting that was already stamped from the stamp set. Sometimes it is handy having those scraps around and it’s great to use them up!
Both boxes are tied with some Pretty Peacock retired ribbon that just happened to be nearby. You could chose something that matched better than this one, but wonky is okay for Halloween!
Keep these triangle treat boxes in mind because they are fun and easy to make and don’t usually take much time. They can be dressed up for any occasion!
Every year, as a thank you to my mailing list subscribers, I send out a special newsletter every Wednesday called the 12 Weeks of Christmas, with one exclusive holiday idea per week! We have already sent out Weeks 1 – 4, but if you want to be included for the remaining 8 weeks, please sign up in the red box here on my blog!
For the first four weeks, we started with Christmas cards. Next, we will do gift ideas or home decor. For the last four weeks, we will do gift wrap, bags, and tag ideas. That covers a lot of the inspiration you will need for holiday crafting! And what’s more fun than holiday crafting?!
You don’t have to do anything if you already receive my weekly stamping newsletters on Tuesdays. But if you do not, sign up in the red box on the right side on my blog or on the pop-up for my mailing list and you will also get the special 12 Weeks of Christmas holiday emails every Wednesday. This will be a separate email from the weekly Tuesday email.
Each Wednesday you will get a new holiday idea, not seen on my blog or social media. You will have a photo and all the instructions to make the card, gift, or wrapping.
The holidays are coming so fast! I’m happy to provide some ideas for you that will make holiday crafting fun and easy for you!
If you have a friend who might be interested in holiday craft ideas, please tell them they are welcome to sign up too!
Sign up before 1:00 PM Central Time tomorrow, October 30, to receive Week 5 of the 12 Weeks of Christmas!
Here is an assortment of Halloween Ideas From the Past! Maybe you don’t have the newest products to use or just want more fun Halloween ideas here at the last minute! Here are some of my favorites! Click the title to go to the blog post for directions and information.
Save a paper towel roll or create your own, then decorate to look like a witch’s boot! I’ve made several variations through the years! So cute! Put a bag of candy inside!
Learn to make this easy triangle treat box and you can make one for any occasion! What is easier than decorating with a black cat and harvest moon or any Halloween image, stamped, punched, or diecut!
If you need a gift bag for a Halloween treat or a bag for trick-or-treating, just take a kraft gift bag and decorate the front with designer series paper, stamping, or whatever you like. It’s like making a card on the front of the bag!
Halloween is really getting close now! Here’s a quick and easy card to make, the Halloween Memories So Spooky Sticker Card. Even if you don’t have these exact materials, you can make something similar with whatever you have!
This card is made with the Halloween Memories Scrapbooking Workshop Kit. It is great for scrapbooking and even comes with layouts and detailed instructions if you want to follow their design. But you can also use the paper and stickers for making cards, treats, and other projects. If you don’t have this kit with the sticker sheet, you can substitute other paper or stamping. The kit includes the Halloween Spells Designer Series Paper that you can order online but is not in a catalog.
This card starts with a Basic Black card base but you could use any other Halloween color. The background is a pattern in the Halloween Spells DSP that has little bubbles from the potion. The three stripes at the bottom of the card are stickers in the Workshop Kit but you could use the striped paper pattern in the Halloween Spells to put across there or just some other coordinating designer paper or stamped strip.
The So Spooky on the card is a large sticker in the kit. That sure makes it easy! Even the two black stars are stickers. If you don’t have the kit, just stamp some Halloween greeting on cardstock and adhere it, maybe add some spooky, glittery gems….which could be anything! Maybe some Googly Eyes if you have some.
This is one of those cards that I liked a lot when I finished it even though it took barely any planning or time at all! It was super simple!
Decorating these candy bars for Halloween was one of the easiest projects to do! When I came across these chocolate bars with a Harry Potter wrapper, I knew I had to get them for my niece and nephew and their families who love Harry Potter. When I went to decorate them, it was so easy with the Halloween Memories Scrapbooking Workshop Kit. In the kit, you get designer series paper, cardstock, and stickers! And obviously, you don’t have to only use it for scrapbooking, although it would sure make scrapbooking Halloween memories easy!
For these candy bars, I wrapped each one in a different Halloween color of cardstock. You could use designer series paper which is a little thinner and easier to fold around. I secured the two ends on the back to each other with Stampin’ Seal+ which is a little stronger. I happened to have some scraps of the Dotted Circles Embossing Folder so I cut those down into strips and adhered around the candy bar. On the third bar at the top I used a piece of the Halloween Spells DSP to wrap around. The rest are stickers in the kit except for a few Daffodil Delight stars I punched out with a retired small star punch. The ghost is my favorite technique of all time, cutting a heart in half and making it into a ghost!
Here is another group of decorated candy bars using cardstock and stickers in the Halloween Memories Scrapbooking Workshop Kit. I did add some eyes on the bats with a white gel pen. And on the top purple bar is the other half of the heart ghost and some punched out stars.
These were so fun and easy it was incredible! I had no plan, no design idea, just played with what I had in front of me. Using chocolate candy in your stamping projects is always one of the most fun things you can do! Even if you had little candy bars you could wrap around small pieces of paper and decorate a little bit. Designer Series Paper probably would work best.
Have fun jazzing up some of your Halloween treats!
There are lots of ways that cardmaking has been made easier this season! All you need is some cardstock, designer paper, and some ephemera! Maybe some embellishments for sparkle or fun. You can’t necessarily make multiples of cards if you are using ephemera because you usually have only two or three identical pieces, but you can make an assortment of different designs of cards quickly and, especially, having fun doing it.
This card has a Garden Green cardstock base. The designer paper is Sentimental Christmas. You’ll find it on page 29 of the Holiday Mini Catalog. One special thing about this paper is that Stampin’ Up! is donating $3 for every package of Sentimental Christmas Designer Series Paper sold to benefit children’s literacy around the world. So while we stamp and create, we will also be helping children the world over!
The patterned paper I used on this card more or less has a border of candy canes, berries, and greenery as a border around the edge of the paper. It would be great for scrapbooking Christmas memories, but it can also be cut apart for cardmaking or other projects. That’s what I did to make several Christmas cards. Several of them will have the candy canes and decorations in the corner of the card, but from a piece in the center of the designer paper, you will only have the candy canes at the top or bottom of the card. You can see how the main design of the paper is at the bottom of my card.
In the center of the whole paper you can see very light snowflakes, so on my card, that provides a large open space for a large greeting on my card. I used the “Season’s Greetings” in gold foil that is in the Joyful Sayings Mix & Match Ephemera Pack in the Holiday Mini on page 15. With the elegant cursive font, these are especially beautiful. You do have to use Multipurpose Liquid Glue to adhere them as they are very narrow. It’s probably best to make a little puddle of glue on scrap paper and then use a toothpick to very carefully apply dots of glue in as many places as you can on the back of the greeting so that you use the tiniest amounts of glue possible! I decided to apply my greeting on a diagonal, but you could make it straight also.
I also applied three of the Real Red & White Adhesive-Backed Peppermints on the card. These little peppermints have been so popular it’s been hard to keep them in stock. They are due back in stock THIS WEEK so keep checking!
A red or green ribbon could be applied on the side of the card. And putting some Wink of Stella on the berries and candy canes would be nice, too, if you wanted to add some extra things to the card. If you are one of my newsletter subscribers you saw a card made with this same paper, but the design of the paper is in the corner.
It’s a good idea to find some easy cards to make to send to lots of people on your Christmas card list and then you might also like to make some that are a little more involved for some family or special people on your list!
I hate that Halloween is sneaking up so fast because there are so many fun Halloween cards and projects to make! There’s just not enough time! But this Halloween Spells Cauldron Halloween Card was fun to make with the special Halloween designer series paper and the glimmer paper, stamp set, and dies.
The card base is Basic Black cardstock but you could choose other colors as well to match the paper. For the background, I chose the spooky striped paper from the Halloween Spells Designer Series Paper.
The cauldron and its handles are cut out of Silver Foil. I even colored with one of the gray Stampin’ Blends markers for a little shading along the edges of the pot but I don’t think it was worth the effort really. There is also a cauldron you can stamp in the Potions & Spells Stamp Set and color in or stamp on colored cardstock and then diecut with the Potion & Spells Dies as I did on THIS CARD.
The little stack of books on potions and spells is stamped from the Potions & Spells Set, colored with Stampin’ Blends and die cut. You can also get books on another sheet of the Halloween Spells paper but they are larger. The black cat is stamped on gray (I can’t remember ever which gray is which!) cardstock, shaded in a tiny bit with a light gray Stampin’ Blend and diecut. If you want to get the stamps and dies together they do come in a Bundle and you’ll save 10%. (The dies are due back in stock next week so then the Bundle will be available again!)
The fun part of the card is making all the bubbles coming out of the potion in the cauldron! These are all diecut little bubbles of various sizes and I used the Festive Glimmer Paperand the Three-Color Glimmer Paper. I also used some Pumpkin Pie cardstock bubbles and a few Lemon Lime Twist cardstock bubbles. Just play and do it however you like! And then there is the diecut of the potion running over the edge of the cauldron!
The little greeting at the bottom of the cauldron is one of the words on the scrapbooking sheet of stickers in the Halloween Memories Scrapbooking Workshop Kit that you can find online. In this pack you get Two-Tone cardstock, the Halloween Spells Designer Series Paper and some other sheets for scrapbook layouts plus the sticker sheet with all kinds of fun things on it! Check it out because it might inspire you to make those Halloween scrapbook pages of your kids when they were little (or big!) or you can use the materials to make cards and other fun projects or treats!
It’s time to make those Halloween greetings, treats, party favors, scrapbook pages ready for photos, whatever you like!
Stampin’ Up! is having a sale on all CTMH products!
The sale starts today Wednesday, October 16, and all CTMH products will be 30% off!
You can purchase scrapbooking albums, page protectors, 12″ x 12″ Two-Tone Cardstock, a Tape Runner, some stamps, some scrapbooking kits, and more! Check it out!
Of course, you don’t need to be a scrapbooker to take advantage of this sale! Anyone can use the paper, the stamps, the adhesive, and maybe gift someone with an album and some page protectors. Get them interested in making their own album of their choosing!
These products are only available while supplies last, so don’t wait!
*This sale does not include the September Scrapbooking Brochure and any future scrapbooking brochures. It also excludes any Stampin’ Up! scrapbooking products outside of the CTMH product category in the online store.
Important Information CTMH products are available only while supplies last. However, we will continue to carry some similar products rebranded as Stampin’ Up! items in the future. These products include:
I always look forward to the Paper Pumpkin Kits for the holidays! They are often the best and so much fun to make! The next Paper Pumpkin Kit for November 2024 is called “Filled With Joy” and comes in a box with a special holiday design! I love a decorative box! Even the Paper Pumpkin boxes are useful to save for your crafting supplies or when you need a small box for a gift.
KIT DETAILS:
NOVEMBER Kit: Filled with Joy Subscribe October 11–November 10 Celebrate Christmas with adorable stockings and gift tags! • Makes 8 projects: 8 stockings with 8 gift tags • Precut paper pieces • Safety pins and specialty gold foil • Coordinating colors: Flirty Flamingo, Pool Party, Poppy Parade (Classic Stampin’ Spot), Shaded Spruce, Very Vanilla
Paper Pumpkin is a crafting kit that comes to you in the mail each month! I say it’s a gift you give yourself! The best part is that everything is included in the kit that you need so all you have to do is open the box and start working on your project. Directions are included and there is a video you can watch, too.
These kits are easy enough for anyone, even new crafters, or experienced crafters might want to add their own creative twist to some of the projects. You can always find alternative ideas for the kit online that others have come up with. No risk and no obligation to continue for any certain length of time. Skip a month now and then if you need to or cancel if Paper Pumpkin is not for you. Just try it! And this holiday kit is a great one to start with!
For a fun Halloween card, try this Halloween Memories Spooky Ghost Card! I love how this card turned out! Just get out some supplies and play until everything falls into place!
This card is made mostly with the new Halloween Memories Scrapbooking Workshop Kit. (That’s a mouthful, but it’s quite the package!) You will find this package, and others, online only in the September Scrapbooking Brochure. This scrapbooking kit is designed to make three 2-page scrapbook page spreads, which is great! There are very good instructions on how to make the samples they provided if you like…or do your own thing. However, if you aren’t doing scrapbooking, you can use the products to make cards and any other projects. And since I love Halloween, I had to have this kit!
This kit comes with the new Two-Tone cardstock Stampin’ Up! is going to eventually carry in all our SU colors. Two-Tone means the two sides of the paper have slightly different shades. Think of it like Stampin’ Blends Dark and Light Markers….very close, but slightly different. This cardstock also has a white core which you can try out in different ways. In the kit also is the very cute Halloween Spells Designer Series Paper and a wonderful sticker sheet with fun images and words you can use for your projects! If you don’t want the two-tone paper and extra scrapbooking supplies, you can purchase just the Halloween Spells Designer Series Paper & Sticker Sheet.
To make this card, I also used the Playful Ghosts Stamp Set to make my ghost in the pumpkin. He is stamped in Memento Ink on Basic White cardstock and fussy-cut with Paper Snips. Fussy cut just means to cut out by hand. It’s not that difficult really! Before or after cutting his out, you can color in with Stampin’ Blends Markers or Watercolor Pencils or whatever you like. I adhered him to a piece of the designer paper. My piece is 1 5/8″ x 3″. The layer underneath the orange DSP is Granny Apple Green Festive Glimmer Paper. It is cut at 1 7/8″ x 3 1/4″. You can vary those measurements.
The card base is Pumpkin Pie, but you could choose another color. I adhered a layer of the green designer paper with all the little bubbles on it and then put a strip of the Potions & Spells books along the left side. You can cut a stack of books leaving off the starry black space in between depending on how wide you want the strip to be. Mine is just a tad under 2 1/4″ and 5 1/4″ long.
After you have the stack of books adhered to the card, you can adhere the ghost piece. I also added two black stars on the sticker sheet in the Halloween Memories Scrapbooking Kit right by the ghost. The greeting is a sticker from the sheet. There are a whole bunch of small words on the sticker sheet so I just chose this one and stuck it on for a greeting. The ghost and pumpkin are cute on their own, but I like the added sparkle of the glimmer paper as a border.
This Reindeer Memories Christmas Card is a pretty easy one to make with some new products! And what’s more fun than new Stampin’ Up! products?! You can probably make an even simpler version of this card if you want to.
The card base is Garden Green, but you could have another green, white, or even Real Red. The layer is something new. Two new things, actually. I used the Forever Plaid 3D Embossing Folder on a piece of the new Real Red Two-Tone Cardstock. It is called Two-Tone because one side is the regular Real Red color and the other side is a slightly different shade of Real Red. It’s sort of like the Stampin’ Blends markers that come in Light and Dark. Also, this paper has a white core. Because of that, you can do certain things with this paper and the white core that you can’t do with our regular cardstock that is solid all the way through. Stampin’ Up! I believe has had some of this paper in the past but they are re-introducing it now since the closing of Close To My Heart. Stampin’ Up! is incorporating some of their great scrapbooking products.
With the Forever Plaid 3D Embossing Folder in the Holiday Mini Catalog in the Reindeer Days Suite Collection, you can use this and other folders with the two-tone cardstock and get a little bit of the white core breaking through. Or take a sanding tool of some kind and do very light sanding on the paper and let the white core show through. You can see in this photo a little bit of that. It just gives a little bit of a rustic look to the paper, a little bit of different texture. Before I adhered the embossed plaid layer, I wrapped around a white piece of the Petal Pink & White Combo Diagonal Trim Pack ribbon and added a separately tied bow later to the card front.
To make this card, I also used the Reindeer Memories Scrapbooking Workshop Kit. This is one of the new products or combinations of new products that coordinate with the products we already have in the Holiday Mini Catalog. You’ll find these things online in the September Scrapbooking Brochure. This kit includes supplies to create three predesigned, two-page scrapbook spreads. For example, this Workshop Kit contains the Reindeer Memories Designer Series Paper, two-tone cardstock sheets in several colors, and a couple of sticker sheets. You can also buy packs of this two-tone paper separately or just try some out in any of these scrapbooking kits. Stampin’ Up! plans to carry all our colors in this paper in the future.
To decorate the front of this card, I used a diecut circle with the pretty border in the Spotlight on Nature Dies. To this I applied a sticker of the reindeer and Christmas tree. The diecut circle is popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals. I also colored in the plain white star on top of the tree with the Dark Daffodil Delight Stampin’ Blend Marker.
The greeting is stamped in Real Red ink and cut out with this rectangular shape in the Something Fancy Dies. I didn’t want it to become any larger with a larger layer underneath the greeting, so I cut out a piece of Garden Green in the same size, cut it in half horizontally and adhered one piece just barely peeking out from the top and one from the bottom to give a little colored contrast.
As you can see, I adhered a separate bow with Mini Glue Dots on top of the ribbon strip, plus I added some Iridescent Gems on the diecut circle piece. Of course, with stickers, you can’t make multiples of cards since you don’t have multiples of the stickers, but you can use this “scrapbooking kit” to make cards, tags, or other projects. You can even make a sort of collage for the holiday and frame it. Lots of creative possibilities! These Kits also include 12″ x 12″ scrapbooking pages that are not the designer paper that make good base layouts for your scrapbook page plus very detailed instructions if you wanted to create the ideas they provide.
Hopefully, this blog post and the products I mentioned give you some inspiration for projects you can create for the holidays!
