Sale on All CTMH Products!

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CTMH Sale 30 off

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:

  • 12″ x 12″ TOP-LOAD VALUE PACK MEMORY PROTECTORS
  • 12″ x 12″ STRAP SIDE-LOAD MEMORY PROTECTORS
  • 4″ x 6″ FLIP FLAPS
  • 4″ x 4″ FLIP FLAPS
  • 3″ x 4″ FLIP FLAPS

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Holiday Paper Pumpkin Kit November 2024

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Paper Pumpkin Nov 2024 Stockings

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!

SUBSCRIBE HERE!

(This is my personal link so you don’t have to look up my name!)

Halloween Memories Spooky Ghost Card

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Halloween Memories Spooky Ghost Card

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.

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Reindeer Memories Christmas Card

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Reindeer Memories Christmas Card

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.

Forever Plaid Embossed Two-Tone Paper

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.

Reindeer Memories Scrapbooking Workshop Kit

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!

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Button Pumpkin Board

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Button Pumpkin Board

If you ever wondered what to do with any retired Stampin’ Up! buttons and others you may have, here is a fun Button Pumpkin Board you can easily make! All of us crafty people certainly have a stash of buttons somewhere, and if you don’t, you know you can buy some online or at the craft store. Years ago Stampin’ Up! sold buttons for embellishments and I had lots of them. Maybe they went along with the period of time when Stampin’ Up! sold fabric, which I also still have!

My friend’s friend sent her a picture of this idea, so my friend bought a board like this one and got out her buttons. If you want a cute decorating tip, she put her buttons by color into glass jars and then set them on a metal tiered tray! She used mostly brownish buttons for her pumpkin.

Of course when I see a cute idea like that, I have to make it too! If you saw my Facebook post the other day about the pickles, this is what I ordered from Walmart….this board! And when my order was delivered the next day, I got a heavy package on my porch. When I opened it, it was a giant gallon jar of the biggest dill pickles I have ever seen!

Walmart pickles

Luckily, I got a refund through the Chat online for the board, my friend took the pickles to the food pantry at her church, and I picked up the board at an actual store in the afternoon! I’ll never forget this funny story!!

I just dug around in the closet, where fortunately my daughter a few years ago had organized a lot of my craft stuff so I just found the boxes that she had labeled “Buttons”. As I said, I had a lot of Stampin’ Up! buttons plus a bunch of other buttons, some from the Quilt Show I used to go to every year downtown from projects I never made, and just random other buttons. A long time ago my mother-in-law had bought a tin of buttons at a garage sale she gave me for crafting. I sorted through all the buttons and set aside the containers or loose buttons I thought I might use.

You can lightly sketch a pumpkin shape on the board if you like or not draw anything. If you are sure your pumpkin outline drawing skills are not up to par you can google “pumpkin coloring pages” and print out one. Cut it out and trace around it. Easy peasy. Then just start glueing on buttons inside that shape!

My friend told me to use E3000 glue, which I did, but I hated the “fumes” and smell. She thought hot glue would not stick to the wooden board but I don’t know. The next day when I added more buttons, I used hot glue although not many were glued directly onto the board. But it seemed to work, so far!

Think in terms of layering the buttons. There’s no rhyme or reason, no way to do it wrong. If you don’t have many buttons, make a smaller version. Use any color(s) you want. After I mostly had my pumpkin “finished” I decided to stop and come back to it later. I needed to get away from it and see if I liked it as is or work on it some more.

The next day I got out more buttons and added more orange buttons and made the stem with green buttons. You can see I used all sizes of buttons. If you aren’t sure about this, lay out the larger buttons and then start filling in with medium and smaller buttons. Then glue buttons on top, overlapping, to cover up any spaces or maybe put small buttons in the center of large buttons. Just play around with it!

I would have put raffia on my pumpkin but I didn’t have any so I used some old Stampin’ Up! ribbon and frayed the ends. When I was making the stem, I didn’t have enough green buttons so I colored some plain white ones with a Stampin’ Blend marker. It dried almost instantly so easy to use. You could probably use a Stampin’ Write marker, too.

Overall, this was a fun and easy project, and I’m happy with how it turned out. I hung it up on the wall behind my baker’s rack when I was putting out my Halloween decorations yesterday. I think I’ll be able to leave it out over Thanksgiving because it’s not a Halloween jack-o-lantern. Another idea if you have some picture frames, you could cover the background with cardstock, designer paper, or fabric and use that for a background for the button pumpkin. For me, it was easier to order something new than to plow through a pile of old picture frames to see what I had. You could make very small pumpkins with maybe just one color of small buttons. So many possibilities! If you make one, leave a comment or email me and let me know how it turned out!

October Paper Pumpkin Kit! Join Now!

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Holiday Greetings Paper Pumpkin Sale

Time is running out! Tomorrow, October 10th, is the last day to subscribe to Paper Pumpkin and get this October Kit, Nests of Christmas. If you are a new subscriber, use the code HOLIDAY40 and save 40% off your first month of Paper Pumpkin!

Subscribe to Paper Pumpkin for a monthly, all-inclusive crafting kit that’s a fun surprise! Each kit includes a photopolymer stamp set, Classic Stampin’ Spot, and step-by-step instructions to complete exclusive papercraft projects, including cards, tags, and gift packaging. And any kit is easy enough for anyone, beginning crafter or experienced crafter. It’s fun for everyone!

OCTOBER KIT: Nests of Christmas
Subscribe September 11–October 10
Spread Christmas cheer with this cozy, all-inclusive crafting kit!
• Makes 10 cards: 5 each of 2 designs with 10 coordinating envelopes
• Tri-fold card bases and precut grosgrain ribbon
• Precut labels with specialty green foil
• Coordinating colors: Basic Black, Coastal Cabana, Granny Apple Green, Night
of Navy, Real Red, Shaded Spruce (Classic Stampin’ Spot)

This kit coordinates with the Nests of Winter Suite Collection (item 164072)!

Sign up today or tomorrow and your kit will go out mid-month in the mail to you. It’s a gift you give yourself to find that Paper Pumpkin box in your mailbox!

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Nests of Winter Sending Thanks Card

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Nests of Winter Sending Thanks Card

I realized I hadn’t used this pretty designer paper in a while so I looked through it and picked out this pussy willow pattern. I hadn’t even used this In Color cardstock in a long time so all in all, this Nests of Winter Sending Thanks Card is what turned out.

The card base is the 2023-2025 In Color Copper Clay. The pussy willow layer is in the Nests of Winter Designer Series Paper. I bought this Suite for a virtual Stampin’ Up! event back in June. Honestly, I wasn’t too thrilled with the choice for this event, but after seeing the Demonstrators making their cards and projects with products in this Nests of Winter Suite, I was enthused to use it!

The focal point of the card, in the center, is made with a base layer of Copper Clay cardstock cut at 3 1/2″ x 3 1/2″. The layer is a bark-like pattern on the other side of the pussy willow pattern cut at 3 1/4″ x 3 1/4″. The two birds are easily cut out with the die in the Winterly Tree Tops Dies. This is such a great idea Stampin’ Up! has been doing with a lot of the designer paper. Certain images can be cut out with one of the dies in the Suite or Bundle! It’s great! I simply glued everything down flat on the card using the Multipurpose Liquid Glue and Stampin’ Seal.

The greeting is in the Winterly Tree Tops Stamp Set although it is longer than you see on this card. The stamp also includes “& much love” but I only wanted the “Sending Thanks”. I inked up the stamp, but then I wiped off the “& much love” at the bottom of the stamp using my Simply Shammy. It was then diecut with one of the Stylish Shapes Dies. The greeting is stamped in Copper Clay ink.

That’s all there is to this card! Pretty easy and you can swap out some of the different designer papers if you like.

If you’d like to see some other cards I made with the Winterly Tree Tops Stamp Set and Dies and Nests of Winter Designer Series Paper, click HERE. These are cards that I made during the Creativity Now virtual event I “attended” last summer as a preview for new products coming in the Holiday Mini Catalog. That is where you will find this Suite and products.d

Don’t forget the 3-day Stamp Sale going on at Stampin’ Up! today and tomorrow!

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3-Day Stamp Sale at Stampin’ Up! Begins Today!

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Stamp Sale Oct 2024 Banner Info

Today is the day for the start of the 3-Day Stamp Sale at Stampin’ Up! Don’t miss out on this opportunity to purchase any of the stamp sets in the Annual Catalog at 15% off! Check out the stamp sets that were brand new in this catalog in May plus the “Encore” stamp sets carried over from previous catalogs. You know you want them all!

Act fast—this stamp-tacular sale only lasts for 3 days!

SALE DETAILS

  • This stamp sale only happens once a year!
  • The sale will run for three days. October 7, 8, and 9th. Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday!
  • The 15% off discount will apply to all stamp sets (photopolymer and cling) from the 2024–2025 Annual Catalog.
  • Bundles are not included in this sale.
  • Stamp sets are available while supplies last.

SHOP the big choice of stamps Stampin’ Up! offers! This is the time to get the ones you have missed out on before!

If you need any suggestions, here are some of my favorite stamp sets that I own and some that I think have been pretty popular. You can click on any image below and add it to your Cart in the Online Store. You can also shop for anything else from Stampin’ Up!

Remember, the Kits Collection is also having a sale of up to 30% off ALL the kits including the two brand-new kits! And there are still some products available on the Clearance Rack! Then, there are Online Exclusives and the new online September Scrapbooking Brochure. Not to mention the Holiday Mini Catalog! But remember, only the stamp sets in the Annual Catalog are on sale.

It’s Time to Go SHOP!

It’s a 3-Day Stamp Sale Coming Up!

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Stamp Sale Oct 2024 Banner Info

What a surprise! If you’ve been looking at some stamp sets in the Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog and thinking you’d like to order them, your chance is coming up!  From October 7–9, you can get those sets you’ve been wanting at a 15% discount. Act fast—this stamp-tacular sale only lasts for 3 days!

SALE DETAILS

  • This stamp sale only happens once a year!
  • The sale will run for three days. October 7, 8, and 9th. Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday!
  • The 15% off discount will apply to all stamp sets (photopolymer and cling) from the 2024–2025 Annual Catalog.
  • Bundles are not included in this sale.
  • Stamp sets are available while supplies last.

SHOP the big choice of stamps Stampin’ Up! offers! This is the time to get the ones you have missed out on before!

SHOP THE 3-DAY STAMP SALE! Oct. 7-9th Only!

But you can start looking around today!

Potions & Spells Hocus Pocus Halloween Card

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Potions & Spells Hocus Pocus Halloween Card

It’s October so Halloween is getting close! All the holidays are getting close! This Potions & Spells Hocus Pocus Halloween Card uses a combination of products but it was fun to make. You don’t always need the perfect idea in your head when you make a card! Just pick “something” to start with…a stamp set, a set of designer papers, a set of dies…and start playing with different ideas. You might use different colors of cardstock than you thought. You might use the other side of the designer paper you planned to use. Maybe some other image in the stamp set works better. You never know!

The main thing I started with for this card was the Halloween Spells Designer Series Paper with the potions and spells books. You can buy this paper by itself in the Online Exclusives, but I got mine in the Halloween Memories Scrapbooking Workshop Kit. I also got a sticker sheet, two-tone cardstock sheets, and more. You can make three 2-page scrapbook page spreads with this kit or use the supplies to make cards or other projects, which is what I am doing.

Once I had the idea of using a certain designer paper, I chose another one of the papers for the background and Pumpkin Pie cardstock for the card base. I also wanted to use the little Dracula guy in the Playful Ghosts Stamp Set on my card, even though he was a little small. I planned to stack the potions and spells books and maybe have the ghost standing on top. After cutting out a strip of the books, I decided to trim around the edges of the books to make them smaller. Then I decided to use a strip of the black and white strip in between the books along the edge of my card. After that, I tried placing the books on end along the bottom of the card and that was the key! I liked that look! Sometimes you just know! Then I placed the Dracula ghost, colored with Black and Highland Heather Stampin’ Blend Markers and cut out by hand, on top and added a greeting and all was well with the world!

The greeting is in the Potions & Spells Stamp Set. I thought it was perfect for this card. I already had this diecut banner in my package of Basic White cardstock, so I stamped on it for the greeting. This die is in the Nested Essentials Dies. I also stamped some little starry stamps in the same stamp set in Highland Heather ink on the banner and tied a little bow with double strands of Linen Thread. It is adhered in the top corner of the banner with a Mini Glue Dot. For some sparkle, to enhance the potions & spells theme, I added some Shiny Sequins in two different colors.

Here’s another card I made with the Playful Ghosts Stamp Set.

Time to make those Halloween cards to send!

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Register For the FREE World Card Making Day Event at Stampin’ Up!

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World Card Making Day Banner 2024

REGISTER HERE FOR WORLD CARD MAKING DAY!

You are invited to a FREE virtual cardmaking event at Stampin’ Up! for World Card Making Day on Saturday, October 5th! I know you will enjoy watching this creative event on your phone or computer and stamping along with the Stampin’ Up! people! You do not have to stamp along, you can watch and enjoy or make the projects later. The event will be recorded if you can’t watch it live. I love events like this!

Stampin’ Up! will show you how to create five simple cards and some additional fun projects. Crafters of all skill levels are invited and welcome to join. And the event and registration are FREE! This event is for everyone, not just Demonstrators!

LAST DAY TO REGISTER: Friday, October 4, 2024, at 2:00 p.m. (MT)

If you aren’t sure if you are interested or not sure you can make the live event, I encourage you to sign up anyway because you can always watch it later or decide on Saturday whether or not you want to watch. Whether you stamp along or watch, it will be fun either way! I always love seeing new ideas!

  • You must register for this event in order to receive a link to view it. Also, those who register will receive a gift after the event ends.
  • Stampin’ Up! will record the stream of this event. Anyone who has the event link will be able to watch the recorded event starting October 8.

During this event, you’re invited to craft along with us as we show you how to create five simple cards. If you’d like to make these projects later, these are the supplies you will need. Maybe you already have them or you can substitute with what you do have.

We’ll also use these supplies to show you how to make a few additional projects. Although we won’t make these additional projects together during the event, you can create them later and keep the fun going after World Card Making Day ends. If you want to make these cards after the event, order/gather these items in addition to the items listed previously:

REGISTER HERE FOR THE FREE WORLD CARD MAKING DAY VIRTUAL EVENT!

Stampin’ Up! Kits Collection Sale Starts Today!

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Kits Collection Sale Sq Ad Oct 2024 Info

Save up to 30% off on all your favorite kits in the Stampin’ Up! Kits Collection October 1–31! Our kits come with everything you need to create a unique paper craft. We have crafting options for card kits, treat packaging, home decor, and so much more!

Start shopping today, as kits are only available while supplies last.

PLUS A COUPLE OF NEW KITS TODAY!!

Details:

  • Kits can be added to a Starter Kit at their discounted rate.
  • ALL kits from our collection qualify for the discount.
  • All order types qualify for this sale. There is no limit on how many kits you can order, as long as product is available.
  • Orders must be opened and placed during the promotion dates. Orders opened before October 1 will not qualify for the sale.
  • Kits on sale will NOT qualify for the Stampin’ Rewards 50% off.

SHOP THE KITS COLLECTION!

The 12 Weeks of Christmas 2024 Is Almost Here!

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12 Weeks of Christmas 2024 Sign Up

I don’t believe it, but it is time for the 12 Weeks of Christmas 2024 holiday emails! What is that? Every year, as a thank you to my mailing list subscribers, I send out a special newsletter every Wednesday with one exclusive holiday idea per week!

We start with Christmas cards for the first four weeks. Next, we do gift ideas or home decor. We do gift wrap, bags, and tags ideas for the last four weeks. That covers a lot of the inspiration you will need for holiday crafting! And what’s more fun than holiday crafting?!

If you already receive my weekly stamping newsletters on Tuesdays, you don’t have to do anything. But if you do not, then sign up in the red box on the right here 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.

What is amazing is that the holidays get here really soon as we go through these 12 weeks of emails! Right now we can’t believe it, don’t want to believe it, but it’s true! Time to decorate and craft for fall and Halloween, then Thanksgiving, and then Christmas. It all happens 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!

It all starts this Wednesday, October 2nd at 1:00 PM Central Time so sign up before then!

SIGN UP HERE FOR THE STAMPING WITH KAREN MAILING LIST!

Snowy Scenes Snowy Trees Holiday Card

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Snowy Scenes Snowy Trees Holiday Card

This Snowy Scenes Snowy Trees Holiday Card is made with several different elements and it all turned out to be a quick and easy card! I got my order from the online September Scrapbooking Brochure that Stampin’ Up! recently put out with new products that coordinate with the Stampin’ Up! Holiday Mini Catalog.

This is a digital-only scrapbooking brochure, full of scrapbooking essentials and exciting new products. With Workshop Kits and some new product releases like Two-Tone Cardstock and another white cardstock choice, this will add variety and inspiration to your holiday crafts this year! Even if you are not doing scrapbooking or memory-keeping, you can use these products to make cards and other projects, as I did with this holiday card above!

The card base is Pool Party cardstock which coordinates with the Snowy Scenes Designer Series Paper. You can order this cute paper by itself in the Holiday Mini or you can order it with a sticker sheet in this online brochure. That’s what I did. The sticker sheet only comes with the designer paper package, not separately. You can also purchase a whole Suite of products in the Holiday Mini.

On the Pool Party card base, I added a snowflake layer of the Snowy Scenes DSP. The snow globe is cut out with Paper Snips from another sheet of the designer paper. I popped up the snow globe with a lot of Stampin’ Dimensionals. Then I looked at the Sticker Sheet and saw some snowflakes, so I punched out two of those and added them as embellishments to the snowglobe, putting a Dimensional under the part that hung off the snowglobe since the snowglobe was popped up. The stickers really are stickers with adhesive on the back! For a greeting, I chose this banner shape in the Joyful Sayings Ephemera Pack in the Holiday Mini Catalog. I thought the color, shape, and size was perfect to add to this snowglobe!

For a finishing touch, I added several white sequins from the Adhesive-Backed Sequins Trio. You’ll find these in the Annual Catalog! There are other embellishments you could use or a touch of ribbon or a little Wink of Stella on the trees or snowflakes.

You will find a lot of other wonderful products in this September Scrapbooking Brochure so be sure to check it out! And don’t forget the Clearance Rack, but hurry!

Spotlight On Nature Fall Card

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Spotlight on Nature Fall Card

I’m trying to make it fall weather here in Houston with this Spotlight On Nature Fall Card! I think it might be working because while the temperatures might not go down very much, the air should be drier, which means everything in this very humid climate! So I’m doing what I can with fall colors on this card!

This Spotlight On Nature Stamp Set is a very nice one. The set has very pretty basic elements of nature – flowers, leaves, and a butterfly. You can use each one separately or a couple of them together as I did on this card. There are no dies that match up with the stamp images, but instead, there are sets of circular dies, sizes that layer together. Use these dies not just with the Spotlight On Nature Stamp Set but independently as layers for other stamps, for frames, or for tags. These are the Spotlight On Nature Dies.

This card has a Pumpkin Pie cardstock base to coordinate with the colorful layer of the Full of Life 6″ x 6″ Designer Series Paper. As bold and colorful as a lot of the patterns of paper are in this package, this pattern with various shades of orange and green can be used on this card as fall colors without looking too strong. There were other good choices I could have used with this paper.

The flowers were stamped with Memento Ink on Basic White cardstock, then diecut with one of the Spotlight On Nature Dies. These dies are especially pretty to use because they each have an interesting detail around the border of the die. This floral diecut was then layered on a larger diecut of Granny Apple Green cardstock.

The flowers and leaves are colored in with Stampin’ Blends markers. I used a little bit of Daffodil Delight yellow on the flowers first and then the Pumpkin Pie shades. The leaves are colored with Granny Apple Green shades plus a tiny bit of Daffodil Delight. The greeting is in the Spotlight Of Nature Stamp Set and is stamped on Basic White with Memento Ink, then diecut with an interesting die in the Unbounded Love Dies.

There are several options for embellishing this card, but I chose to keep it simple and just added three Iridescent Foil Gems around the flowers. You could add some ribbon to the flowers or a tiny bow on the greeting if you wanted to do something different.

This stamp set could be used for multiple seasons or occasion. Sometimes it is nice to have a simple stamp set in your collection for quick, easy but elegant cards.

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