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Christmas Mini Curvy Keepsake Boxes

I thought it would be fun to just make some of these Christmas Mini Curvy Keepsake Boxes to have on hand for the holidays – now that the holidays are upon us!! These are just easy boxes that you have probably seen online, nothing too creative, but cute nonetheless!

All you need to make these and other cute creations is the Mini Curvy Keepsake Box Dies. The one big die cuts out the box and then you also have little tags and other pieces you can use. Very creative people make the most creative characters and designs with these boxes!

This easy snowman is made with Whisper White Cardstock and I just drew on his face with Stampin’ Write Markers. You could alternately punch out pieces for his eyes, nose, and mouth but for me, it was easiest to draw. I used the greeting from the Itty Bitty Christmas Stamp Set. The Real Red Curly Ribbon makes a cute way to tie on the tag and add a little something to the snowman.

This little Santa box is easy to make with Real Red Cardstock and a bit of Basic Black scrap and Silver Glimmer Paper. Use a hole punch for a couple of buttons on Santa’s suit. To make the belt, just adhere a narrow strip of black cardstock. Add on a square of Silver Glimmer Paper and then adhere a smaller square of Basic Black on top of the glimmer paper to make it look like the belt going through the buckle! The greeting is tied on with a piece of Braided Linen.

This keepsake box uses a piece of the Let It Snow Specialty Designer Series Paper with a snowman from another piece of the paper that is cut out and adhered to the side of the box. If the recipient opens up the box, they will find the cute inside pattern of lots of little snowmen. The only trouble with prints and this die is you would have to make sure the patterns and designs are going in the direction that you want. The greeting is stamped from Itty Bitty Christmas and tied on with a bit of the Silver 3/8″ Metallic-Edge Ribbon.

Rudolph the Reindeer Mini Curvy Keepsake Box

This cute little reindeer can be made various ways. He is made out of Soft Suede Cardstock for his body and a lighter color for the antlers, Crumb Cake. Of course you must you Red Glimmer Paper for Rudolph’s nose. The eyes are punched out and the black pupils colored in with a black marker. The antlers are glued on by bending back the stem of the die-cut piece and just glued on the top of the box. The tag, stamped with a greeting from Itty Bitty Christmas, is tied on with the Real Red Curly Ribbon.

As you can see, you can do a lot with these dies, much more really than these samples. But once you start making things with this box die, you can almost not stop!

if you don’t own the Mini Curvy Keepsake Box Dies, you might want to check them out in the Online Store. You can put a small gift or treat inside. Their little size makes them especially cute!

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Only 4 Weeks Left of My “12 Weeks of Christmas” Holiday Emails!

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Every week for the past eight weeks I have been sending my mailing list subscribers a free holiday project that you can use to make your holiday preparations easier! This is a thank you for my mailing list subscribers that I like to do every year. Just like in my regular weekly email, I send a photo of a project, a list of supplies needed, and all the directions to make it.

These are the final four weeks! Can you believe it?! These last four weeks we will concentrate on gift wrap, tags, and bags for those Christmas gifts!

You may have missed the first weeks, but sign up today for my mailing list before 1:00 pm Central Time and you will get the remaining 4 weeks, plus you’ll be on the list for next year!

All you have to do is sign up in the red box in the upper right of my blog or in the form below.

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Monochromatic Real Red Holly Jolly Santa Christmas Card

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If you love this Santa, but don’t want to color him in, monochromatic is the way to go for this card, the Monochromatic Real Red Holly Jolly Santa Christmas Card. After making several other Christmas cards with this Santa and taking time to stamp in black and then color in all the areas with Stampin’ Blends, I would say, even though I LOVE coloring with my Stampin’ Blends, that it can take a fairly long time to color the Santa. So if you want to make a lot of cards in a hurry, just stamp Santa in Real Red Ink and call it a day!

This is a really simple card. The card base is Real Red and the designer paper layered on the base is the red stripe pattern in the Toile Tidings Designer Series Paper in the Holiday Catalog.

The Santa is from the Holly Jolly Christmas Stamp Set. He is just stamped in Real Red on Very Vanilla Cardstock. I have made several cards with this Santa and coloring him in with Stampin’ Blends and as much as I like coloring, it takes a while to do several Santas for several cards! This is super easy, just stamping him in red ink and die-cutting with a Layering Ovals Die. He is layered on a piece of Real Red Cardstock. I was going to stop there but I thought having a layer of Very Vanilla underneath made it stand out just a bit more.

The greeting is stamped in Real Red ink on Very Vanilla from the Itty Bitty Christmas Stamp Set. I keep turning to all these “Itty Bitty” stamp sets for greetings since they have so many choices and don’t take up much room on a card if you don’t have much room for a greeting! The greeting is then die-cut with a small Layering Ovals Die and layered on a scalloped oval die in the same set. You could also have the greeting be just a straight strip of paper too.

I suppose you could even add some rhinestones or sequins to this card, but I liked it just the simple, basic way it turned out. I didn’t even pop anything up on Dimensionals but you could. If you weren’t making a bunch of these cards, you could also stamp the Santa in Memento ink and color in with Stampin’ Blends or whatever color medium you liked. This is just a time-saving method that still delivers a very nice card! Here is a card I previously stamped and colored the Santa. I loved this card, too, and looked forward to making several more to send out, and I did, but it took time.

It’s not too late to get this stamp set or Bundle with the dies and whatever paper you need for Christmas cards! Just go shop at Stampin’ Up! and find what you need!

Feels Like Frost Santa’s Sleigh Card

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As I paged through the papers of the Feels Like Frost 6″ x 6″ Designer Series Paper, I saw this wintry scene jumped out at me. It looked like a scene out in the middle of nowhere and I just pictured Santa traveling all over the world, delivering gifts to children everywhere, no matter how remote, distant, or wintry! I thought the die-cut sleigh with Santa would be perfect up in the sky over this scene.

As I began working on this blog post, I found out that the Feels Like Frost DSP is sold out! At first, I thought I should scrap this post since I didn’t want to advertise something you couldn’t order if you wanted it. But then I realized that if you loved this paper when you saw it in the Holiday Catalog, you probably already ordered it and maybe would like to see another idea for using it. Obviously there is not enough time for Stampin’ Up! to order more paper for the holidays at this late date.

I wanted this card to look like very late at night, out in the distant woods, wherever it is, so I used a card base of Night of Navy Cardstock. Since this cardstock is so dark, you will have to put a layer of Whisper White or a light color inside the card so you can stamp a greeting or write a personal note. Or you can use heat embossing with white or metallic embossing powder on the dark cardstock.

The designer paper is just adhered to the Night of Navy Cardstock. Santa and his sleigh are a die-cut from the Jolly Season Dies in the Holiday Catalog. I used Basic Black Cardstock but you could also use Night of Navy I think. The dies are part of the Night Before Christmas Suite, which is one I absolutely love!

I tried various greetings and finally settled on this one from the Itty Bitty Christmas Stamp Set. I die-cut it with the Stitched Rectangle Dies and also die-cut a Silver Foil rectangle to layer under the greeting. However, in the end, I liked just the greeting by itself.

For a little bit of bling, I added some Snowflake Sequins to the background and also two on the greeting. A really handy thing to have when you are working with sequins is the Take Your Pick tool. You can use the putty end to pick up the sequins and place them and you can use the pointy end for transferring things like rhinestones and jewels from the package to the project.

Overall, this is a very simple Christmas card so if you already own the Feels Like Frost Designer Paper and the Jolly Season Dies with the sleigh. If you don’t have the paper, you could stamp your own background with a night sky and trees below. Mainly I like the story of Santa’s sleigh going everywhere all over the world!

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Brightly Gleaming Ornament Gift Bag

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This Brightly Gleaming Ornament Gift Bag is perfect for a small gift and looks prettier than anything you would buy in a store! And instead of driving to a store for a little bag, use the time and stay home and make your own! It’s much more fun! Even better, sit down and make more than one bag and you’ll have a collection ready to go!

This gift bag is much like the 2-4-6-8 bag we often make but has a wider dimension. I used the beautiful Brightly Gleaming Specialty Designer Series Paper to make the bag.

Start with a 6″ x 12″ piece of paper. Score at 4″, 5 3/4″, 9 3/4″, and 11 1/2″. Turn the paper so the short edge is at the top and score at 1 3/4″. This will make the bottom flaps of the bag. Cut those short bottom tabs up to the 1 3/4″ score line. Cut off the little 1/2″ tab on the bottom.

Fold on all the score lines and crease well with the Bone Folder. Adhere the tab on the end to the other side to assemble the bag. Then adhere the flaps on the bottom. The Tear & Tape Adhesive works great as far as strength but does not allow for any “wiggle room” like the Multipurpose Liquid Glue. So use whichever works best for you. You will be able to see how the bag goes together as you start to assemble it.

This little Brightly Gleaming gift bag doesn’t need too much in the way of decoration, but of course, I had to put a little more into it than I needed to! I punched the three ornaments with the Gleaming Ornaments Punch Pack. The copper foil ornament is embossed first with the Swirls & Curls Embossing Folder and then punched, but you could punch it out first.

I thought the ornaments needed a little bit of a background and I happened to have a scrap piece of Pretty Peacock Cardstock handy so I just used that, cutting it down as small as I could. Then I also saw a die cut Copper Foil piece and cut that in half lengthwise to be a top and bottom layer under the Pretty Peacock.

I used some copper foil branches in the Brightly Gleaming Foil Elements to look like the branches the ornaments were hanging from. I used some scrap white ribbon to “hang” the ornaments and then tied small bows.

That’s more embellishing than I needed to do on a little gift bag but it was fun! You could even put a cookie or two inside, tea bags, some jewelry, even a gift card. Make this basic gift bag with half a sheet of 12″ x 12″ paper for any occasion!

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Brightly Gleaming Stitched Star Christmas Card

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This Brightly Gleaming Stitched Star Christmas Card was very difficult to photograph without a giant glare of the Copper Foil, but I think I got it pretty well now on an angle! I’m feeling like I haven’t had enough time to play with all my Christmas stamp sets and accessories and time is getting short! Panic is setting in! And a sore throat that slowed me down this past week!

However, I did fit in some stamping time and here is one example! It seemed like a lot of samples I was seeing used the Night of Navy designer paper in the Brightly Gleaming Specialty Designer Series Paper. I thought I would change things up a bit and use the Mossy Meadow color.

The card base is Mossy Meadow and the Mossy Meadow patterned designer paper just comes down partway on the card base. Be sure to adhere some of the Very Vanilla/Copper 1/2″ Classic Weave Ribbon around the bottom of the designer paper before adhering the designer paper to the card base! And before you do any of that, if you want to emboss a greeting at the bottom of the card, do it before you have ribbon hanging in the way with the potential to ruin the card! I got lucky and could have covered it up with an embossed greeting on a different paper. But it’s better if you plan your card and space first and stamp or emboss before you get everything adhered to the cad!

The star is die cut with the largest star in the Stitched Stars Dies. I just love that we have star dies again because I think stars are SO useful in designing cards and projects. Just think about how many things you can use stars for besides Christmas! Birthdays, congratulations, babies, retirement, everything! These stars are beautiful dies and certainly not just for the holidays.

The star is cut from Copper Foil. Then that Copper Foil star is overlaid with the large star in the Brightly Gleaming Foil Elements. I used the Multipurpose Liquid Glue in teeny tiny dots on the back of the foil element to adhere to the die-cut star. I got lucky and didn’t make a mess with the glue so it worked fine. On this card, I popped up the foil star with Stampin’ Dimensionals, but you can also adhere it flat on the card.

The ribbon is really beautiful. I need to learn how to tie a bow with the words all going in the same direction if that’s possible! I passed it up on one of my first Holiday Catalog orders, but then added it later because it is something different!

For the greeting on the card front, I chose one from the Itty Bitty Christmas Stamp Set because I knew I needed something small. I stamped it with Versamark and heat embossed with Copper Stampin’ Emboss Powder and my Heat Tool. Heat embossing is magical, if you haven’t tried it yet!

For the inside of the card, I added a Very Vanilla layer of cardstock, stamped with a greeting in Mossy Meadow Ink and with a strip of the same Brightly Gleaming DSP along the inside edge of the Vanilla layer. The greeting used inside the card says “Hoping all your Christmas wishes come true.” in the So Many Stars Stamp Set. Save 10% by purchasing the So Many Stars Stamp Set and Stitched Stars Dies in a Bundle.

Thanksgiving is coming up so make those cards first if you are mailing a few cards to friends and family. But then it’s really time to get serious about Christmas cards!! You’ve probably paged through the Holiday Catalog a bunch of times, but maybe you need another few run-throughs before it gets too close to the holidays!

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Christmastime Is Here Z Fold Rose Birthday Card

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I think these Z-Fold cards, such as this Christmastime Is Here Z Fold Rose Birthday Card, just look impressive and yet they are perfectly easy to make! This is a birthday card, in spite of the fact that the designer paper and suite of products is called “Christmastime Is Here”. Just think of the people with December birthdays that maybe get tired of their birthdays being completely tied in with holiday designs. This paper, while recognizing the season, can be used for birthdays or other occasions. And some of the patterns have no hint of any season so you can use them at any time.

This card base is Cherry Cobber Cardstock, folded in half as usual. To make it a z-fold card, just score the front of the card in half (so half of 4 1/4″ would be 2 1/8″). Basically, you fold half of the front of the card back on itself. This makes the “z”.

For the front panel of the card, I cut a piece of the Christmastime Is Here Specialty Designer Series Paper at 5 1/4″ x 1 7/8″. The inside of the card is Whisper White 5 1/4″ x 4″ with a 3/4″ x 5 1/4″ strip of the designer paper down the side. Stamp the greeting inside the card if you are putting one inside and then adhere the layer inside the card. (If you mess up with the stamping, you haven’t ruined the card!)

For the front of the card, I die-cut a portion of the floral paper with the Layering Circles Dies which was then layered on a Cherry Cobbler die cut circle layered on a die-cut circle scalloped circle of Gold Foil to match the gold accents on the designer paper.

Christmastime Is Here Z Fold Rose Birthday Card

To finish the card, I added a few Gold Glitter Enamel Dots and that was it! As you can see in the photos and in the Online Store, this Christmastime Is Here Specialty Paper is just gorgeous with its gold foil accents on many of the sheets. I added the Gold Glitter Enamel Dots and the Gold Shimmer Ribbon to my order even though I did not purchase the stamp set and dies. The good part about this Christmastime Is Here Suite is that you can get it all or pick and choose what you like or need.

If you are still considering choices for Christmas cards and projects, I would remind you to check out this Christmastime Is Here Suite. It only came out in November, is not in the Holiday Catalog, and is available while supplies last.

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Four Easy Christmas Cards With Toile Tidings

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Surprisingly I hadn’t even played with the Toile Tidings Designer Series Paper in the Stampin’ Up! Holiday Catalog, so I thought I would make an assortment of Four Easy Christmas Cards with Toile Tidings. They are all the basic design of easy cards, put in one orientation or the other, using the Real Red side of the paper or the Garden Green side, full front layer of just one paper pattern or a split layer using two patterns of paper. A greeting is added and a bit of ribbon. That’s all!

The Toile Tidings Designer Paper coordinates with Real Red and Garden Green Cardstock along with Very Vanilla. I made two cards with the Real Red card base and two with the Garden Green. The paper with the toile scene has the same toile scene in the opposite color on the other side so that makes it easy!

On two of the cards, I used a sheet that has the houndstooth check pattern, red on one side and green on the other. I used a small strip of the check pattern underneath the toile pattern, in both orientations, portrait and landscape. This adds a little bit of interest and has a ribbon covering the junction of the two pieces.

On these cards, I used the Garden Green 3/8″ Double-Stitched Ribbon and also a retired Real Red ribbon. If you want the current ribbon, which I don’t have, you can use the Real Red 3/8″ Cotton Ribbon. You might even have something else that would work.

For the greetings, I just chose some from several stamp sets. The “Season’s Greetings” stamp is from the Still Scenes Stamp Set with the globe. I used the pretty “Merry Christmas” stamp on two of the cards. It is from the Perfectly Plaid Stamp Set. And finally, the “Wishing You Peace….” stamp is from the Merry Christmas To All Stamp Set.

You can use any punches or dies to cut out your greetings and layers for them. I’m going to add some designer paper to the inside Very Vanilla layer since the card stock is colored. I may even add some colored rhinestones or dots to some of these cards…maybe. This is a simple card design and depending on your designer paper, you can leave your card as simple or as embellished as you want to. Just have fun with it because Christmastime only comes around once a year!

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Christmastime Is Here Paper on Gold Mini Pizza Gift Box

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Projects like this one are difficult to photograph because of the glare, but you won’t find it difficult to work with when you choose some or all of the products in the Stampin’ Up! Christmastime Is Here Suite! This paper is beautiful with the roses and the gold foil accents. It is just stunning and I think you will find uses for it long after the holidays are over!

We’ve been using the Mini Pizza Boxes for a while now that Stampin’ Up! sells, but these are extra special GOLD Mini Pizza Boxes! They are hardly for pizza, though, unless you had a very, very small pizza! But the box is designed almost like a pizza box so that’s how they got their name! You could actually reverse these boxes and have the gold on the inside as an elegant surprise to the recipient and decorate the white side on the outside! You will find these Gold Mini Pizza Boxes in the Holiday Catalog on page 13.

Gold Mini Pizza Boxes are small gift boxes that are just the right size for a cookie or 3″ x 3″ note cards. Also perfect for small gifts and other treats!

8 shiny gold boxes
Folded box size: 3-1/2″ x 3-1/2″ x 1″
Food safe

There are infinite ways to decorate these gold boxes, and of course, they are perfect for the holidays when you really want something special. This box just has a layer of Cherry Cobbler designer paper from the Christmastime Is Here Specialty Designer Series Paper. Then a square portion of the rose pattern in the paper is layered on a piece of Mossy Meadow Card Stock that is popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals®. This way once the gift is placed inside, a piece of the Gold 1/4″ Shimmer Ribbon can be slipped under this popped up layer and tied on the side to hold the lid shut and add a nice embellishing touch. You could even add a little greeting on there somewhere if you wanted to.

These Gold Mini Pizza Boxes come flat so they are easy to store until you need them. At that time they are easy to fold on the score lines and assemble. Then decorate to your heart’s content!

Get a package or two of the Gold Mini Pizza Boxes to have on hand for any gift-giving occasions, especially the holidays! Use the Christmastime Is Here Specialty Designer Paper with roses to decorate the Gold Mini Pizza Box with a special gift or treat inside for one of your gift-giving occasions!

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Have Fun Making Holiday Gift Tags With Paper Pumpkin!

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This November Paper Pumpkin Kit from Stampin’ Up! makes 24 holiday-themed gift tags of 4 various sizes and designs. The coordinating colors are Early Espresso, Pool Party, Poppy Parade, and Shaded Spruce. We are all going to need gift tags when the holidays get closer and we are wrapping gifts, whether for our family, neighbors, co-workers, teachers, etc.

TODAY, Nov. 10th, is the LAST DAY to SIGN UP!

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Even if you don’t need gift tags, make them as tags and then add one to the front of a cardstock card base and make a card! Maybe you need more cards than tags! You can do this with any tag. Just use it as the focal point on your card front! Add a greeting on the tag or on the card front.

Don’t run out to the store and buy the cheap tags at the dollar stores to stick on presents! Make your own with this Paper Pumpkin Kit! Remember, presentation is everything! Making a plate of cookies or treats for a neighbor or holiday party? Place a tag on the top over the plastic wrap or lid. Hang it on a wine bottle you are taking as a hostess gift!

Everything you need for the project comes in the kit! If you are a new subscriber, you will also get a clear acrylic block on which to mount your stamps. That’s why these Paper Pumpkin Kits are so good for new stampers and crafters or those who do not have many supplies….or don’t WANT many supplies!

In each Paper Pumpkin Kit you will receive an exclusive stamp set, an ink spot (1″ x 1″) (great to use on the Stamparatus to ink up stamps!), and a package of materials to make the project! And the presentation is everything of course! You will love receiving this gift to yourself!

Treat yourself to a present in the mail once a month! And if some months you are too busy or traveling or don’t care for that upcoming kit, just skip a month! If Paper Pumpkin really is not for you, there is no obligation to continue. Simply go into your account and cancel or ask me to take care of it for you.

In fact, if you want to add a Paper Pumpkin subscription to your Stampin’ Up! order (maybe to reach Hostess Rewards??), just choose which length of time is good for you and add it to your order. Stampin’ Up! will send you an email with directions on how to set up your Paper Pumpkin account and put in the special code showing that you ordered a series of kits in the Online Store. Even if you already have a monthly subscription to Paper Pumpkin, you can purchase a Paper Pumpkin subscription in the Online Store and your account will use those first and then go back to your monthly subscription. Just ask if you have any questions.

The deadline for signing up for the November kit with materials for making holiday tags is today, November 10, 2019.

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Have Fun Making Holiday Gift Tags With Paper Pumpkin!

Paper Pumpkin Oct 2019 Christmas Card

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I hate to tell you that you can’t get this Paper Pumpkin Kit any more because it makes a beautiful Christmas card. I just made this one card exactly like the kit directions but I wanted to try out some other alternate ideas that I will find online or maybe think of myself! The Paper Pumpkin holiday season kits are always extra special!

This photo really doesn’t do this card justice. The evergreen trees you see are on the base card front. Then the snowflakes at the top of that part of the card are stamped with the Night of Navy ink from the snowflake stamp included in the Paper Pumpkin Kit.

Next, the white trees are punched out of the die-cut. They are on white glimmery paper to look like snow. This piece includes the snow base for the bottom with a tree on each side. This piece is adhered using Stampin’ Dimensionals to pop it up. This gives a 3D effect to the front of the card. It is a little tedious to stick on the little dimensionals, some cut in half for the tree branches.

The cute little redbirds are die cuts so all I had to do was punch them out and stick them on with glue dots (included in the kit) onto the tree branches! They really “pop” on this card!

For a little more bling, there are snowflake sequins included to stick on the card background with the mini glue dots. If you have the Take Your Pick Tool it would be handy for picking up the tiny snowflake sequins, but if not, use your Paper Snips.

The greeting is included in the stamp set of the kit and is stamped on the die-cut banner piece. This is popped up and layered on the woodgrain die-cut piece and that is all adhered to the bottom front of the card.

Inside I will stamp another greeting and the card will be ready to go. It also came with silver foil trimmed envelopes! That makes it all look luxurious!

In spite of the fact that no extra kits are available after the October Kits were sent out (that’s how popular it was!), it might give you a glimpse into the November Paper Pumpkin Kit. That kit “coordinates” with this October Kit. I don’t know what that means, exactly, but I’m sure it will be a good kit.

Kit details: Makes 24 holiday-themed gift tags of 4 various sizes and designs.

Coordinating colors: Early Espresso, Pool Party, Poppy Parade, and Shaded Spruce

The October and November kits coordinate; however, each kit is all-inclusive and can stand alone.

Supplies may be limited toward the end of each subscription period so don’t delay!

So if you find it enticing to get a cute winter-themed box in your mail in just over a week with a fun project inside making gift tags (if for some reason you don’t need handmade gift tags to make your gifts extra special, just put them on the front of a card instead!). Get an extra kit and have fun stamping with a friend! The deadline to sign up is November 10! Don’t delay!

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Christmastime Is Here Specialty Designer Series Paper Florals and Gold Card

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You will fall in love with the beautiful paper in the Christmastime Is Here Specialty Paper (specialty always means there are gold accents or some special texture or design to the designer paper) but until you have your own paper, you’ll have to get the idea from my Christmastime Is Here Specialty Designer Series Paper Florals and Gold Card. Even the sides of the paper that do not have the gold foil accents are still pretty, like the one I used on this card.

The base of my card is Cherry Cobbler Cardstock with a layer of the Christmastime Is Here Paper. The floral centerpiece is hand-cut from another sheet of the paper and layered on top of a piece of Gold Foil. Instead of a greeting, I wrapped around a piece of the Elegant Gold Shimmer Ribbon. To make it easier than tying a bow and hoping it doesn’t come out crooked, I just tied a separate bow and adhered it to the ribbon with a couple of Mini Glue Dots.

The cut out floral piece is popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals. For a little extra bling, I added three of the Gold Glitter Enamel Dots. I hadn’t used these yet and I couldn’t put it off any longer!

This card was difficult to photograph because of the glare of the Gold Foil and the gold foil accents on the flowers. If I want to, I can still add a greeting underneath the bow, but really, I think it looks pretty as it is.

Remember, this Christmastime Is Here Suite has the stamp set, dies, paper, ribbon, and dots and they can ALL be purchased at one time or you can get whichever pieces you want. I would just suggest not to delay because these products are only available while supplies last! And the stamp set and paper are really pretty! It will all be beautiful for holiday cards or even after-holiday notes, birthdays and other occasions.

If you aren’t sure, I would for sure suggest getting the designer paper because you will love how beautiful it is! Then if you want the stamp set or accessories after that you can make even more projects!

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Christmastime Is Here Rose Card

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If you purchase the Christmastime Is Here Suite or at least some of the products, you will see how easy it is to make pretty cards like this Christmastime Is Here Rose Card. I wanted to post this yesterday but something was wrong with my blog and I couldn’t post any photos. SO frustrating when something goes wrong with our technology, right?! Today I finally got on a Live Chat and the guy fixed it! I am so relieved!

I confess I haven’t purchased the entire suite (not yet, anyway) but that is the great thing that you can pick and choose and don’t have to buy it all to have some of what you want! I chose to get the designer paper, ribbon, and glitter dots. However, the stamp set is beautiful and the die cuts make cutting out this big rose pattern in the designer paper and the stamped image a lot easier. But even Demonstrators can’t have EVERYTHING!

The Christmastime Is Here Specialty Designer Series Paper I have to say is gorgeous! The floral prints are beautiful and CAN be cut out by hand if you don’t hate cutting with Paper Snips. You don’t have to follow every single image accurately, just cut somewhat around them leaving a slight margin. This method makes it so you don’t have to be perfect and makes it look die-cut!

The floral images have gold foil accents which you can figure out in my photo but the shine doesn’t come through. The gold foil really makes the paper look festive and rich for your cards.

This card uses a base of Cherry Cobbler, one of the coordinating colors. I love this Cherry Cobbler cross-hatched designer pattern with the gold foil for a background. I wrapped a piece of the Elegant Gold Shimmer Craft Ribbon around it. After cutting out the floral piece, I popped that up with Stampin’ Dimensionals®. I did not add a greeting since I don’t have that Christmas Rose Stamp Set although I will use another greeting later on.

You will find that the Christmas Rose Stamp Set comes with one Cling stamp (the large floral image) and then the rest are Photopolymer stamps to add depth and richness. Those stamps are the Distinktive stamps that Stampin’ Up! developed to make stamping look photorealistic. I do love the sentiments in the stamp set and the font style. If you purchase the stamp set and dies together in the Christmas Rose Bundle, you will save 10%.

If you are really interested in some or all of the products in this Suite, I would not delay in purchasing. You know how some popular items go like hotcakes at Stampin’ Up! There are many holiday stamp sets and accessories to choose from, but if this slightly different look appeals to you, go for it because it is really beautiful!

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The Christmastime Is Here Suite…Is Here! And the New Paper Trimmer!

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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.

Christmastime Is Here Suite Flyer — Click for full version.

Christmastime Is Here Suite Flyer2 — Click for full version.

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!

SHOP THE CHRISTMASTIME IS HERE SUITE IN THE ONLINE STORE HERE!

ALSO!!!

The new Paper Trimmer is also here!

You’ll find it under “Tools” in the list of categories! Check it out! It cuts great! I like mine!!

Buy the Stampin’ Up! Paper Trimmer!

Are You Getting My “12 Weeks of Christmas” Holiday Emails?

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Every week for the past four weeks I have been sending my mailing list subscribers a free holiday project that you can use to make your holiday preparations easier! This is a thank you for my mailing list subscribers that I like to do every year. Just like in my regular weekly email, I send a photo of a project, a list of supplies needed, and all the directions to make it.

In the first 4-5 weeks, I send card ideas since it’s likely that is the first thing most of us will work on at this point. Next, come a few weeks of gift ideas and finally, as we are doing Christmas shopping, some ideas for gift wrap, bags, and gift tags.

These are exclusive projects that I won’t be posting on my blog or anywhere else. You may copy directly, take inspiration from the idea and come up with your own project, or simply enjoy seeing another stamping idea! I know I am all about seeing as many ideas as possible.

However, the only way you can get these special 12 Week of Christmas emails is to be on my Stamping With Karen Mailing List! You have already missed the first 4 weeks, but you can get the rest, beginning Wednesday! All you have to do is sign up in the red box in the upper right of my blog or in the form below.

Subscribe to My Mailing List!

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