Here’s a nice Christmas card for a special person. You probably wouldn’t want to mass produce this one, but sometimes we need special cards for certain people. This Season of Green & Gold Bells Christmas Card would fit the bill!

This card has a Garden Green cardstock base. Everything else except the greeting comes from the Season of Green & Gold Specialty Designer Series Paper. This paper is beyond beautiful with its variety of foliage and greenery with gold foil accents and the beautiful gold foil bells. Certain images on the paper can be diecut with the Golden Greenery Dies. For this card, the foliage across the top of the card was diecut directly from the paper. The single bells can be diecut or you can just fussy-cut them with Paper Snips scissors. Sometimes that is just as quick!

After I diecut the greenery pieces I layered them across the top. The one big piece on the left is popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals and the others are adhered flat on the card. The background paper with the gold foil designs make for a neutral background for the foliage and bells.

The bells were placed along the greenery. I think I intended to pop up just the middle bells on Dimensionals, but the first bell on the left had to be popped up at the bottom because it layered on top of the already popped up evergreen greenery. I put a little Multipurpose Liquid Glue under the top of the bell and to keep it even I put a Dimensional at the bottom. The third bell is glued down flat on the card. I added bows tied with the Cherry Cobbler & Gold 1/4″ Satin Ribbon to the first and third bells since the double bells already had a green printed bow at the top. This narrow ribbon was perfect to go with the bells with its gold edge.

The greeting is from the Reindeer Fun Stamp Set. This greeting seemed to fit the space and was a nice saying. I stamped it with Versamark Ink on Very Vanilla cardstock after rubbing my little anti-static bag across the paper. Then I used Gold Embossing Powder, which you can find in the Metallics Wow Embossing Powder which also has Copper and Silver Embossing Powder. You also need the Heat Tool to melt the embossing powder. When needed, I keep a small paint brush to brush off any stray embossing granules before I use the Heat Tool. Heat embossing is probably one of the most amazing things to do with papercrafting, if you haven’t tried it yet. Then the greeting was diecut with the large banner in the Stylish Shapes Dies. This diecut was going to fit the greeting and the space on my card the best in spite of trying some other die shapes. To help it stand out, I also diecut the same banner out of Gold Foil, cut it in half horizontally, and glued the halves to the top and bottom of the greeting just to give that little bit of gold edge. Then the whole thing was adhered flat to the card. It could have been popped up also.

For a finishing touch, I added some of the Cherry Cobbler & Pearl Adhesive-Backed Berries around in the greenery. As I write this, it says “Low Inventory” so if you want to order some, you better do it very soon!

As you can see, this card takes a little more work and time, but I think the designer paper makes it easy to make an elegant card. On the inside I added a layer of Very Vanilla cardstock and since I had an extra small piece of greenery and one more cut-out bell, I adhered those to the top corner of the inside. Something on the inside of the card is always a nice surprise for the recipient!

It’s time to shop for sure for your holiday cardmaking supplies if you haven’t already. We all know how fast Christmas sneaks up on us! But have fun making some cards to send no matter how busy the season gets!

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When you get your Holiday Mini Catalog or you view it online, don’t miss the Book Treat Boxes! They will be cute to decorate for holiday treats (any holiday!) or as a small gift box! Mine is the Christmas Stocking Book Treat Box and was easy to assemble and easy to decorate!

In the package you get ten stampable boxes. The finished size is 3″ x 4″ x 1″. It is easy enough to make the little box that goes inside. It is already scored and has adhesive strips on the ends so all you have to do is fold and crease. Put the tabs inside and fold over the ends with the adhesive strips.

These Book Treat Boxes look like a little book. You can decorate them however you like. They’re a little different twist from other treat packaging we have had. We all know we need lots of small boxes during the holidays and with these, you can personalize them according to the gift or the season. The boxes are 3″ x 4″ x 1″ and come 10 in the package. They are already scored so all you have to do is fold on the scored lines. You will be able to figure out how to fold the “box” part.

These Book Treat Boxes look like a little book. You can decorate them however you like. They’re a little different twist from other treat packaging we have had. We all know we need lots of small boxes during the holidays and with these, you can personalize them according to the gift or the season. The boxes are 3″ x 4″ x 1″ and come 10 in the package. They are already scored so all you have to do is fold on the scored lines. You will be able to figure out how to fold the “box” part.

Then peel off the adhesive strips on the cover that goes around the box. Place the box against the side that folds around it and with fairly even margins around the other three sides. The cover will fold across the top of the box and then the little tab will come over from the right side.

There is already a piece of adhesive on that tab or you could add a small magnet to hold that tab closed. If I had thought of it, I could have moved the stocking over a little and used that to hold down the tab.

I left the box itself plain white, but you could decorate the 3 sides that will show from the outside.

To decorate the cover, I used a piece of red designer paper with white dots in the Take a Bow 6″ x 6″ Designer Series Paper. I measured the cover of the box and cut it close to that but a little larger, then trimmed off the excess with Paper Snips. Just cut around the rounded corners.

The stocking is in the Joyful Images Mix & Match Ephemera Pack. The stocking is one of the many diecuts in the package that you can use on cards or other projects, quick and easy! I think these Christmas images are just adorable! I popped up the stocking on Stampin’ Dimensionals and also added a little sprig diecut behind the top of the stocking. It still needed something so I chose the little “joy” diecut in the Joyful Sayings Ephemera Pack. It fit perfectly and finished off my little box nicely! I would say get your hands on these ephemera packs early because they are so cute I think they will be popular. they are just fun to use!

In the photo below you can see how the Book Treat Box looks from the side and you can see the box that you will assemble inside that cover. You might want to decorate the three sides of the box itself that will show and maybe the inside edges of the cover. Or just leave them white!

The Holiday Mini (or September – December 2024 Mini Catalog) goes live on September 4th! Get ready! How is it September already?! All of the holidays will come on fast!