Today, November 1st is the day you can finally purchase this beautiful suite of new Stampin’ Up! products, the Christmastime Is Here Suite! If you are looking for something a little different for Christmas but still lovely, these roses with gold accents will be perfect for you! I can tell you the designer paper is gorgeous! No doubt you will make beautiful cards and projects with these new products.
You can purchase the WHOLE suite or if that is too much for you at one time, you can actually purchase products individually! It’s great! There is even a bracelet in the mix with a rose and a Stampin’ Up! charm.
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Watch the Stampin’ Up! video below for more information!
These products are only WHILE SUPPLIES LAST! To avoid disappointment, I would order whatever you really really want as early as you can! I have no idea how things will sell, but this Suite may be pretty popular. It is SO pretty!
In between watching several baseball games and one Texans football game, I’ve spent some time making Halloween cards with the Monster Bash paper like this Spooktacular Bash Terracotta Tile Halloween Card. The Houston Astros have made their way to the American League Championship Series as have the St. Louis Cardinals (our hometown team) so we have been watching a LOT of baseball including the division games they got these two teams here. So it was fun to have some breaks stamping and making Halloween cards!
One of the coordinating colors for the Monster Bash Designer Series Paper is Terracotta Tile, one of the current In Colors. Since I haven’t used this color very much and the matching ribbon, I chose this color for the card base. The designer paper pattern is a cute one with little haunted houses and Halloween characters! I layered it on a piece of Basic Black to help it stand out.
The ribbon is wrapped around the designer paper and adhered on the back. It is the very nice Terracotta Tile 1/2″ Scalloped Linen Ribbon. You can use it to dress up a fun card like this one or use it on a fancier card. I’ve even cut it down the middle to use just the scalloped edge to decorate a card.
The greeting is stamped with the Spooktacular Bash Stamp Set. I really like this greeting and used it on a lot of cards! It is stamped on Very Vanilla cardstock which I think goes better with this card than Whisper White. Then it is die-cut with one of the Ornate Frames Dies. I love this particular shape that goes with this greeting so well!
Then I took a long time to decide how to layer the die-cut greeting on something! I just couldn’t find the right thing. Finally, I looked at my punches and chose the Starburst Punch. The greeting seemed to fit fine over the Starburst shape with a little room left for one of the blackbirds in the Monster Bash Enamel Shapes. I think the bird gives an appropriately spooky look to the card, right?! It’s fun to stick it on, anyway! A cute embellishment for a Halloween card!
All you have to do is change the designer paper pattern and the greeting if you want for another design for a Halloween card. It is fun making cards and treats with this Halloween paper and all the spooky, whimsical characters! The backside of some of the papers will also make very nice non-Halloween cards!
Make some Halloween cards this week and give them to your family or send them to friends who enjoy Halloween!
This Monster Bash Spooktacular Haunted House Halloween Card is certainly an easy card to make! And I love the paper! I had actually overlooked this pattern in the designer papers so I wanted to use it. The designer paper seemed interesting enough that all I needed on the card was a greeting…..and just a couple of easy embellishments!
The card base is Basic Black but of course, you could use any of the several coordinating colors with the Monster Bash Designer Series Paper. I chose this pattern with the haunted houses, not quite sure what else I would do with it.
Just for a little easy embellishment, I added two dots and a bird from the Monster Bash Enamel Shapes to the greeting.
Be sure to adhere a Very Vanilla layer inside the card with a stamped greeting and maybe a little Halloween stamping or strip of designer series paper since the cardstock is black. Then you can write a Halloween note or just decorate the inside of the card a little bit.
If you are making some Halloween cards, try this design that I did with my Monster Bash Spooktacular Haunted House Halloween Card and be sure to mail them to friends and family to wish them a Happy Halloween!
These Mini Curvy Keepsake Halloween Boxes are so easy and fun to make! We’re already through the first week in October so Halloween is approaching! It’s time to make some fun treat boxes or use them just as Halloween decorations!
The main thing you need is the Mini Curvy Keepsake Box Die to make these treat boxes. There is the one main die to make these boxes and then quite a few smaller dies for miscellaneous things plus tags. Just lay the die diagonally on a 6″ x 6″ piece of cardstock and it will fit. This die scores the lines where you need to fold.
If you want to make some Halloween treat boxes like mine, do the decorating first before you assemble the box. You might partially assemble the box by creasing all the score lines and see how the box will go together and decide which side you want to be the front of your project. The first time I used this die I had trouble getting the sides to fit over the handles. I found it useful to crease those handles on the score line first, then push down on them as you fit the side slits over them.
To make the Pumpkin Mini Curvy Keepsake Box, I just drew Pumpkin Pie Stampin’ Write Marker lines on all four sides of the box. For the nose, I just snipped a piece of Basic Black cardstock. The mouth, as you can tell, I just drew on myself with a Stampin’ Write Basic Black Marker. It is not a good mouth AT ALL, but I thought I would leave it so you can see a Demonstrator doesn’t do things perfectly either!
If you have the Harvest Hellos Stamp Set, you could stamp the pumpkin face on the box instead. However, you might like adding Googly eyes to your pumpkin. I just used some retired Stampin’ Up! eyes I already had, but you can purchase the cute colored Assorted Googly Eyes in the Holiday Catalog. I also just die cut a leaf and adhered it to the top of the pumpkin box. Any kind of leaf will do and you could also add a greeting if you liked.
For the Frankenstein Mini Curvy Keepsake Box, you can draw or make the face however you like. Look through your dies and see what little pieces you could use to embellish the face. I also added googly eyes to Frankie. You can’t see it, but I cut a piece of Basic Black Cardstock to resemble his bangs, but I made it too short and you can’t really see it on the box tucked up under the top. I just added a greeting that I made into a tag and tied it on with a double piece of the Mossy Meadow Linen Thread in the Magnolia Lane Ribbon Combo Pack. The greeting is stamped from the Itty Bitty Greetings Stamp Set (a must-have, I think!).
There are SO many creatures and critters and boxes and things you can make with these Mini Curvy Keepsake Box Dies, even ideas from back in the day when we had the larger ones. Use them for treats or small gifts for Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, birthdays (like this one), Valentine’s Day…..well, all the holidays and most occasions that you can think of! But I really like these Mini Curvy Keepsake Halloween Boxes!
Today is the annual World Card Making Day 2019 which those of us in the cardmaking business like to celebrate! Take some time today to make a card, any kind you want! Then, the real trick is to mail the card next week! Lots of times we make cards for fun or because we saw a cute idea and then we don’t get around to mailing our cards to someone! Don’t let your beautiful artwork go to waste! Send those cards!
Next week Stampin’ Up! has a goal of sending 50,000 cards from Demonstrators and Customers, so if you send a card let me know and I will put it in the count with Stampin’ Up! Apparently, it will be the first annual World Card Sending Week! (Isn’t every day and every week some “holiday”?!)
If you are ever stumped for a card idea, copy yourself! That’s right! Just look back at some of the cards you have made and make another version! Change the paper, the colors, the embellishments or the greeting! Use one of your own good ideas!
Here is a card I made for my niece’s birthday. I realized I hadn’t used my Magnolia Lane Designer Paper in awhile. Instead of coming up with a new design, I just made another card like one I’d made before. I just changed the greeting and the embellishments a little bit.
This card uses Petal Pink Cardstock for the card base with a striped layer from the Magnolia Lane Designer Series Paper. I think this paper is one of the most beautiful Stampin’ Up! has ever had. Even the large flower and leaves are cut out from one of the sheets in the package! The flower is layered on a circle of Vellum Cardstock.
I just thought I would remind all of us, myself included, that it is okay to copy ourselves! Sometimes we search and search for an idea and the best one might be one right under our noses!
Take some time on World Card Making Day to make a card for someone or anyone and then send it next week during World Card SENDING Week!
Yesterday was a very wet day in Houston – actually, the third wet day in a row in Houston, which you probably heard about on the news. On Tuesday there was a tropical depression in the Gulf of Mexico which got named Imelda pretty quickly, which I did not take as a good sign that they named a storm! That means it reached certain criteria and that usually isn’t good!
We knew we would get rain, but we needed rain, so at least for the first day it would be good. It all would depend on where you lived and where this storm went how much rain anyone would get. Unfortunately, even the first day coastal towns and towns east of Houston got a lot of rain and flooding. The second day Houston thought the storm had moved on and we dodged a bullet….but then we got big storms late in the day from the heat. Then yesterday, or even the night before for lots of people, the city of Houston itself got plenty of rain, flooding highways and roads and houses. You saw all the pictures on TV. It’s a terrible situation but one we have seen often in all the years we have lived here. We’ve just been lucky, so far, that we haven’t been stranded somewhere on the road or had water get in the house. When Houston gets too much rain, this happens, and often it is difficult to predict or these storms have a mind of their own, no matter how hard the weather people work to get it right.
So for today, let’s just relax and watch some Stampin’ Up! videos for Holiday Catalog products!
You saw the fall birthday box I made for my husband for his birthday instead of a card yesterday in THIS POST. There are SO MANY ideas for these Mini Curvy Treat Dies Boxes, you won’t believe the cute ideas creative people come up with! I made one Halloween pumpkin one with my daughter but have to make some more here at home.
A great addition to our stamping supplies, I think, are these So Many Stars stamps and dies in the Holiday Catalog. You can purchase the So Many Stars Bundle and save 10%, which includes the So Many Stars Stamp Set and the Stitched Stars Dies. Stars are not at all just for Christmas! You can use them for any celebratory occasion like birthdays, graduations, and many more. The stars I have had in the past I have used a lot.
Be sure to notice the Mercury Glass Designer Acetate in the Holiday Catalog on page 33 at the bottom. You could easily overlook it. See in this video how they die cut the acetate and then layer it on a white background. I think this Mercury Glass is very interesting to use for lots of projects! Certainly something very different that we haven’t had before!
Enjoy your day and set aside some Holiday Catalog reading and browsing time for your pleasure and inspiration!
Sometimes I just get out some paper and stamps and have no idea where the stamping will lead and what will turn out, but today this Gather Together Pumpkin Card is what came out of some stamping, coloring, and paper cutting!
Who doesn’t love pumpkins, especially as fall is approaching?! Nothing says fall, and eventually Halloween, like pumpkins! These pumpkin stamps are in the Gather Together Stamp Set in the Holiday Catalog. I decided to stamp the pumpkins with Sahara Sand Ink so there wouldn’t be the bold, black lines of Memento Ink that I would normally use. I did go ahead and used Stampin’ Blends to color in the pumpkins and it seemed to work okay. I started with the Pumpkin Pie Light and Dark colors but added a bit of Light Cajun Craze for some contrast. The stems I first colored with a bit of Soft Suede Blends, but I also tried to add just a bit of Old Olive green and a bit of the Light on the pumpkins. Some pumpkins are popped up with Stampin’ Dimensionals.®
There is a set of dies that go with this stamp set, Gathered Leaves Dies. I haven’t purchased these yet, but they would be great for making the embossed leaves. I wish I would have ordered them! Since I don’t have the dies, I just hand cut the pumpkins with my Paper Snips. You can, however, save 10% if you purchase the Gather Together Stamp Set and the Gathered Leaves Dies in a Bundle, the Gather Together Bundle.
The card base is Early Espresso Card Stock with a layer of the wood grain pattern in the Come To Gather Designer Series Paper. For the banner with the greeting, I die cut a piece of Sahara Sand Cardstock with the Stitched Nested Labels Dies and just cut off the top to line up with the top of the card. The Sahara Sand is layered on a die-cut of Early Espresso. The greeting is just cut to fit on the banner. By the way, the banner was first stamped with the wheat-looking stamp for a little something in the background.
Once I got the banner made with the greeting and then added the Garden Green 3/8″ Double-Stitched Ribbon tied in a bow, that’s when I was satisfied with what I was creating! Sometimes it just takes playing around and then having that “moment” when you know you have something you like. You will find this pretty ribbon in the Toile Tidings Suite, but there is no reason why you can’t use it for fall and Halloween.
There is so much to like about the Come To Gather Suite. You can make cards for fall, Thanksgiving, and even maybe Halloween! Such pretty colors in the designer paper and even some wooden elements, the Tags & Feathers Elements, that you can use for stamping or embellishing. Think of many creative projects you can use with these products as well, some pretty home decor and other things. Fall is such a great time of year! I will be glad when it feels like fall in Houston, Texas!
It’s the Monster Bash Spooktacular Bash Halloween Card for ghouls and goblins! Halloween is so much fun for making cards, treats, and other projects! I especially love the fun, whimsical Halloween things and this card has them! What a cute sentiment to send someone with these two ghouls on this card!
This card starts with a card base of Basic Black Cardstock with a layer of a generic design on the backside of a Halloween paper for the card layer. This paper is the Monster Bash Designer Series Paper which is full of fun Halloween characters and themes. You can cut out many of the images and use them on your projects rather than just using the full paper. For this card, I chose two of the “ghouls” and then layered them on the Ornate Frames Dies.
Although these Ornate Frames Dies are in the Holiday Catalog, in the Halloween suite, these are great frames to use on many types of cards, not just Halloween! I hope Stampin’ Up! will keep them around past the Holiday Catalog! You can layer them under many things.
The sentiment is stamped with the Spooktacular Bash Stamp Set. Talk about a cute Halloween stamp set with these fun monsters and cute greetings to use on your Halloween cards and projects! You can actually purchase the Spooktacular Bash Stamp Set and the Ornate Frames Dies in a Bundle together and save 10%!
And for a little extra pizzazz, get the Monster Bash Enamel Shapesand use them on your projects! These are adhesive-backed enamel tombstones, skulls, crows, and dots. On this card, I used two of the dots on the greeting piece. Just imagine the fun things you can do with the other shapes!
Here is how I usedthe designer paper for just a decorative strip on the side of a different card and then the Ornate Frames and monster from the DSP. If you like Halloween, you will have all kinds of fun with this Monster Bash Suite in the Stampin’ Up! Holiday Catalog!
I named this card Night Before Christmas At the Christmas Tree Lot because that is what it looks like to me! Well, I guess it’s not just what it looks like to me, I think that’s what it is! I first thought it looked like all the trees were die-cut, so that’s how I got the idea for this card, but then I realized it’s just how good the paper is designed that they look that way! However, I did sacrifice some other paper to punch out a couple of trees to give it a 3D effect!
This card is made with the Night Before Christmas 6″ x 6″ Designer Series Paper. I just fell in love with this whole package of paper when I first saw it in the Holiday Catalog for its vintage look! The card base is Night of Navy, one of the coordinating colors with a layer of Crushed Curry. I thought it brought out the strings of lights over the Christmas trees. For the 3D trees, I was going to cut some out by hand but I decided to use the Pine Tree Punch, just to punch out some greenery from the larger trees in the paper. I popped those up on Stampin’ Dimensionals®.
I couldn’t find a good place for a stamped greeting, so I thought of using the die cut one from the Jolly Season Dies, part of the Holly Jolly Christmas Bundle. I used Real Red Cardstock and just adhered it with tiny drops of Multipurpose Liquid Glue. Of course, I had to have a little more bling, so I adhered some Toile Tidings Glitter Enamel Dots to the fronts of two of the trees like little red ornaments!
If you like this paper, you will also probably like the card I made in THIS POST using a different pattern of paper and the Santa in the Holly Jolly Christmas Stamp Set. All of these holiday products you will find in the Night Before Christmas Suite in the Holiday Catalog!
You might not believe how easy this Perennial Essence Birthday Gift Box or Bag is to make, and just think what a great impression your gift to someone would make when presented like this! You can leave it open as it is filling it with “shred” or tissue paper to hide the gift inside, or close the top with ribbon or a decorative binder clip or many other ways.
This Perennial Essence Designer Series Paper is so beautiful. You could even frame a sheet of it to look like art! This paper features handpainted impressionistic images in rich colors! You just can’t go wrong on any project using this paper! And guess what?! It’s going to be part of the Stampin’ Up! Designer Series Paper Sale beginning Wednesday, September 4, 2019!
While we are waiting for the sale day to arrive, here are directions on how to make this easy little birthday gift bag!
Start with a 6″ x 12″ piece of designer paper. Score at 4″, 5 3/4″, 9 3/4″, and 11 1/2″. Then turn the paper long ways and score at 1 3/4″.
Before you do anything, pay attention to any pattern in the paper. That 1 3/4″ area is going to be the bottom flaps of the bag or box, so picture how the paper will look when it is completely made. Even some of this paper you might decide has a bit of a pattern that you want to pay attention to. Cut those flaps up to the 1 3/4″ score line. Crease all the scored lines and fold so you can see how the bag will go together. Cut off that smallest end piece on the bottom that would be 1 3/4″ x 1/2″.
When you fold on all the scored lines, you will be able to assemble the box (or bag). Start with putting a strong adhesive on that narrow flap you see on the far right. Use something like Tear & Tape or Multipurpose Liquid Glue. Think about which side you want for the front of the box depending on where you see the good side of that flap and then try to fold and adhere the flaps on the bottom so that the folded edge is facing the front, if possible. These small details help to make your project finished off perfectly!
I chose to just leave my box open at the top. I tied a bow but just adhered it to the top of the bag with Mini Glue Dots. You could punch holes in the top of the bag and tied the ribbon through. Or you can punch holes in both sides of the bag and close it with ribbon that way. The ribbon I used is the gorgeous Petal Pink 5/8″ Organdy Striped Ribbon.
To decorate the front of the bag/box I die cut a piece of Petal Pink Cardstock from the Petal Labels Dies and then cut an oval for the stamped greeting with the oval that comes in the set. The Happy Birthday greeting is from the Beautiful Bouquet Stamp Set. And I couldn’t leave well enough alone! I had to add a little bling with the Petal Pink Rhinestone Gems.
Here is a similar project I made back in May. Check out THIS POST. You can see how fun and easy this project is!
Start looking over the select designer series papers that will be on sale Sept. 4th, which will be the same day as the Holiday Catalog goes live. None of the Holiday papers are part of the sale, though! Choose 3 papers, then the 4th one you add to your order will be FREE!
I hope you will try this project I made today with the Perennial Essence Designer Paper and see how easy it truly is!
We often say, “Stamping is therapy” and it certainly is, like with this Path of Petals Thank You Card and many other cards! Sometimes you just need to stop and sit down and stamp.
It’s been such a busy week and everywhere I went traffic, traffic, traffic! I think everybody is in town with all the schools back in session so no one is on vacation anymore. Everybody is home and going to work and on the roads! Not to mention construction everywhere which causes backups and slowdowns! I think I need to allow an hour to get anywhere I go just to keep the drive less stressful! I don’t know when it’s been quite like this in all the years I have lived here.
So what is the best thing to do to alleviate a little stress?? Stamp, of course! This card uses the Pressed Petals Specialty Designer Series Paper and stamping with the Path of Petals Stamp Set. Although I have used the Pressed Petals DSP on lots of cards, I had difficulty stamping the flowers and leaves with this stamp set so this is the first time I actually used the flowers and stems! Here is a card I made with a piece of the Pressed Petals Designer Paper. I love these dark-colored flowers so much!
The card base is Mossy Meadow, one of the coordinating colors of the Pressed Petals Designer Paper. I started with the design with the leaves and ferns (I guess!), although originally I had the top and bottom designs reversed. This is actually the same paper, the leaves on one side and the cloth-looking design on the other.
The die-cut piece going across the front of the card is from the Flourish Dies using Merry Merlot Cardstock. I like to have something, usually ribbon, where I have two different patterns of paper coming together. It just finishes off that edge nicely. But this time I thought of using some kind of border die or something and finally, I found this one. It is a little bit fancy but doesn’t overwhelm the card. The secret is that the piece is not long enough to reach all the way across the card. But since part of the die-cut was going underneath the stamped piece, I was able to cut it, leaving a space underneath the stamping making the ends reach to each side of the card, and no one will be the wiser!
Maybe you won’t have trouble stamping the flowers, but just in case, this is what I found out. I think it was easier to stamp the flower stems and leaves first. I stamped these in Pear Pizzazz Ink. Next, I stamped the flowers in Merry Merlot Ink. I think you will have to move the stamp around until you feel like the flower blossoms are fitting with the stems. Past stamps we have had had a notch on each of the stamps that were to be stamped in the same direction so you could tell how to line them up. These stamps do not, so you just have to line them up as best you can. I could not get the other leafy stamp to line up correctly, so I just stopped with what I had as you see on the card.
For a little pizzazz on the stamping, I used the Clear Wink of Stella Glitter Brush to brush on a little Merry Merlot ink from the ink pad onto each flower, trying to keep it fairly light, which also added a bit of glimmer. Then I did the same with the leaves with the Pear Pizzazz ink. As much trouble as these stamps were to line up, I really liked the stamped image after adding a little bit of color and the glimmer from the Wink of Stella brush!
The greeting is from the same stamp set. It is stamped on Very Vanilla Cardstock in Merry Merlot Ink and then punched out with the Classic Label Punch. However, I snipped off the pointy ends of the punched piece to just make it plain. I could have layered it on a piece of Merry Merlot but I liked it just adhered to the card by itself.
So there you have it! A little stress relief from the demands of the week and a simple card design that you could vary in many different ways!
This Snowman Season Punched Snowman Square Christmas Card was made out of a 4″ x 4″ Whisper White card base that I already had. Sometimes it is fun to make a different size card and that’s how this card came about! The main thing was trying out the new Snowman Builder Punch in the Holiday Catalog along with the Snowman Season Stamp Set.
For the background layer on this card, I chose this pattern with trees in the Let It Snow Specialty Designer Series Paper. Some of the colors in this designer paper are Coastal Cabana and Real Red. Real Red has always been one of my favorite colors, probably THE favorite color, but after the recent color rearrangement with Real Red moving to the Regals family instead of Brights, it seemed that it didn’t get much use. So I am very happy to be using Real Red again when using this Let It Snow Paper!
The cute snowman is stamped on Whisper White from the Snowman Season Stamp Set and then punched out with the Snowman Builder Punch. You can use the Whisper White punched out arms and color them brown or black with a marker or you can use scrap cardstock in whatever color you like. I used Early Espresso. The hat was stamped and then punched out. I colored in the hatband, holly leaves, and berries with a marker. I also colored in the snowman nose with Pumpkin Pie. I glued on the hat and arms.
The snowman is adhered to a die-cut circle of Coastal Cabana with Stampin’ Dimensionals® which was first stamped with the snowflakes in the Snowman Season Stamp Set. I inked up the snowflakes, then stamped off once before stamping on the Coastal Cabana so they would be a light background. The Coastal Cabana circle was layered on a Whisper White scalloped circle. All circles are die-cut with the Layering Circles Dies.
There wasn’t much room for a greeting so I did it a little differently by placing it kind of in the corner, layered a little bit over the focal point with the snowman. I think it works okay!
Then for a little fun, I got into the Let It Snow Embellishment Kit, which I discussed in my blog post yesterday. It’s a really cute kit in an adorable box you can reuse that comes with lots of pieces you can use to dress up your snowmen! You’ll find it on page 19 in the Holiday Catalog. I took out five of the teeny tiny snowballs and adhered them to the card with teeny tiny drops of Multipurpose Liquid Glue. So far they are still stuck on! The Take Your Pick Tool is pretty handy to use with these tiny things! the snowman is having fun juggling some snowballs!
Even though this card is sized at 4″ x 4″, I will still mail it in a regular size envelope. Square envelopes cost extra postage and I don’t know if you would find the correct size envelope anyway. It will be fine in one of our beautiful Whisper White Medium Envelopes. These are the best envelopes! You can actually identify a Stampin’ Up! envelope in a batch of mail by feel if someone sends you a card in a Stampin’ Up! envelope!
There are lots of things to make with the Let It Snow Suite, Snowman Season Stamp Set, and Let It Snow Specialty DSP! It’s time to start thinking about Christmas cards like making something like this Snowman Season Punched Snowman Square Christmas Card.
This Coffin Treat Box with the Monster Mash Suite is sure to be a hit if you choose these boxes for Halloween treats! I think they are going to be a hit product in the Stampin’ Up! Holiday Catalog! I’ve already seen Demonstrators use all the Coffin Treat Boxes to make a wreath! How do these people think of these things??!
The Coffin Treat Boxes come 12 boxes and 12 lids in a package and are food safe so you can feel comfortable putting candy or a treat inside. They come flat, but already die cut and scored so all you have to do is add adhesive and assemble. Then the fun begins!
Once you fold and crease the score lines, you will easily see how the box will go together. This is how I added Tear & Tape Adhesive to the flaps, some pretty small!
Once the box is assembled, you can go crazy decorating it for Halloween! There are so many ideas with the Monster Mash Suite products! I think the Monster Mash Designer Series Paper and the Ornate Frames Dies are a must! The Ornate Frames Dies can be used for lots of occasions, not just Halloween.
To decorate my Coffin Treat Box, I stamped the mummy from the Spooktacular Bash Stamp Set on Whisper White and used some Stampin’ Blends just for a little color. The mummy is then layered on one of the Ornate Frames in Gorgeous Grape Cardstock. I LOVE this die! It is popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals.
The little Halloween greeting is stamped in Memento Black Ink on Granny Apple Green Cardstock and then die cut with another one of the Ornate Frames Dies. It is just glued on to the coffin treat box lid. To finish it off, I tied a piece of Basic Black 3/8″ Scalloped Edge Ribbon around the coffin by sliding it under the popped up mummy piece.
It was so fun to make a decorate this Coffin Treat Box with Monster Mash products so I know you will also want these Coffin Treat Boxes to make your own creations for Halloween treats!
A Monster Bash Halloween Card for my first Halloween card of the holiday crafting season! The Monster Bash Suite in the upcoming Holiday Catalog from Stampin’ Up! will get your creative juices flowing if you are into Halloween! And I am!!
It doesn’t take long to come up with a multitude of ideas for cards and projects using the Monster Bash Designer Series Paper. There are so many things you can do with this paper! Use a piece of the paper as-is for a layer on a card or cut out some of the images and use those on cards and projects. Of course with Halloween, we always think about treat boxes and you can have lots of fun making those for kids or parties with products in this suite!
To make this card I started with a card base of Basic Black with a layer of Crushed Curry. I thought it looked too plain so I used the Subtle Embossing Folder to just give the Crushed Curry Cardstock a little texture. Then there is the strip of Monster Bash Designer Series Paper.
Here is the secret of the bit of ribbon along the edge of the designer paper! It is the Terracotta Tile 1/2″ Scalloped Linen Ribbon, but I cut it in half lengthwise so I could use just that one side of the scallop for a bit of color along the designer paper!
The greeting is stamped from the Spooktacular Bash Stamp Set in Memento Ink and die cut with a shape from the Ornate Frames Dies. I also die cut one of the frames in Basic Black to frame the greeting. These dies are great because they are not just for Halloween! Even if you aren’t a fan of Halloween, these frames would be fun to have for die-cutting on non-Halloween projects!
For a little extra, I stamped the jars in the Spooktacular Bash Stamp Set and colored them with Stampin’ Blends. Then I just cut them out with Paper Snips and adhered them to the bottom of the card.
It won’t be long now! Just a couple weeks until you can begin ordering from the Holiday Catalog on September 4th! I am warning you now, your Wish List will be a difficult one because you will want almost everything in the catalog! And you know how seeing samples goes…..once you see something cute, then you will want to make that and will have to order that product(s)! You won’t be able to help yourself!
If you like Halloween, you may want to start with the Halloween stamping products like the Monster Bash Suite so you can make a fun card like my Monster Bash Halloween Card!
I thought if I made this Gather Together Pumpkin Card For Fall it would cool me off from the very hot summer temperatures in Houston, Texas. It did bring a rainstorm which knocked a few degrees off the temperature! I love these new colors for fall, something modern and different!
This card uses the very pretty Come To Gather Designer Series Paper. I can’t wait to use all of the other designs in the package, especially the bright, modern plaid. For this card, I began with a card base of Pretty Peacock Cardstock and a layer of Pear Pizzazz. Then I chose the designer paper with the whitish pumpkins. On the opposite side was the Pretty Peacock gingham check design which I also liked so I cut a strip, turned it over and used it at the bottom of the card. To cover up the seam from the two papers, I just placed some 3/16″ Braided Linen Trim around the card.
I didn’t purchase the Gathered Leaves Dies in the Suite (because even Demonstrators can’t buy everything!) so I just stamped the pumpkins on Whisper White Cardstock with Pear Pizzazz Ink. Some I stamped with full ink and some I stamped off first and then stamped for a lighter shade with less ink. After stamping the pumpkins, I just cut them out with my Paper Snips, which as easy enough.
To make the pumpkins stand out on the card, I wanted some kind of background. I decided to try this piece die cut from the Stitched Nested Labels Dies in Pretty Peacock. To add a little interest I stamped in Pretty Peacock ink the wheat image from the Gather Together Stamp Set. Then I added two small copper brads from the Metallic Brads. It seems like years ago brads were a really big deal for embellishments, but I don’t think they are used or talked about as much these days. But I thought they seemed like the perfect little bling to add on this card! I poked a hole first with the sharp pointy end of the Take Your Pick Tool with the paper on the Stampin’ Pierce Mat, then inserted the brad into each hole. You can flatten the brads well by pushing down on the top of the brad with something heavier, like an acrylic block or the wide part of your scissors or whatever is handy.
This label piece is placed a little lower on the card because I didn’t want to cover up all the pumpkins printed on the designer paper! Then the cut out pumpkins are placed a little lower on the label so as not to cover up the stamping on the label! This whole piece is then popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals.
The next dilemma was how to add a greeting without covering up too much of the card! I used the greeting from the Gather Together Stamp Set, stamped in Pretty Peacock and die cut with a Layering Oval Die. I ended up, as you can see, adding it right to the top of the die-cut label, overlapping a bit. It is a little different, but I think it turned out okay. In order to make it even with the Pretty Peacock label, I put dimensionals just under the top part of the greeting so it would be the same height as the label.
It was fun making a fall card even though I didn’t get to put on a sweater! It is still plenty hot, but at least this card gives the promise of fall! I just love the thought of fall colors and pumpkins and everything that goes with that theme! When you receive your Stampin’ Up! Holiday Catalog and begin to place your order(s)….and believe me, there will be orderS, plural!…..you will want to choose some of the fall-themed stamp sets and papers for a change of seasons or Thanksgiving or use some of the generic colors just for a switch in colors for your cards and projects.
Pumpkins, these days, seem to come in all colors and textures so you can be very creative! Here is a post from last year with traditional orange pumpkins but with a bright green polka dot background, but you could use the same design to make a card with these new 2019 colors! I saw some beautiful fabric pumpkins on Instagram the other day, some even embroidered, all different kinds of fabrics, not just orange. Yet they all look appropriate for fall and into Thanksgiving. So don’t be afraid to try some non-traditional colors in your pumpkins and fall cards like this Gather Together Pumpkin Card For Fall.
