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Framed & Festive Painted Christmas Cards

If you are looking for some more fairly easy ideas for Christmas cards, these Framed & Festive Painted Christmas Cards might be the ones. You can make yours even easier by leaving off the diecut greenery and berries. How about just designer paper, a greeting, and some ribbon?

This is the Painted Christmas Designer Series Paper. It was around last year and was carried over this year which I was happy about! I still had some from last year so I was happy to have another chance to use it, and I did use it a lot. I think I only have a little bit of paper left! It is on the Last Chance Sale so you can grab some at a bargain price! I especially loved the two patterns of paper I used on these two cards.

Both greetings are in the Framed & Festive Stamp Set. I loved using these this season. Stampin’ Up! released this stamp set in the Fitting Florets Collection, but this stamp set will not continue on into the Spring Mini Catalog. I loved the font of the greetings and they were ones I would actually use on my Chritsmas cards, either on the card front or maybe inside the card. If you want this stamp set, be sure to get it by January 4th.

The top card has a Garden Green card base. I had to use two patterns of designer paper because I only had this one strip with the evergreens and red berries left, not enough for a full card so I used another pattern for the bottom portion. I used this Real Red Ribbon (retired) to cover up that seam of the two papers, plus for decoration.

The greeting is stamped in Real Red ink and diecut with a one in the Painted Labels Dies. It almost looks like the die is too small for this greeting but it does actually fit.

The second card has a Real Red card base and uses a full front layer of designer paper. I just added a bow to the bottom of the greeting. The greetings are popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals on both cards.

Now if you have time and energy, use whatever dies or punches you have to cut out some greenery and maybe some Red Glimmer Paper berries! I used the leafy dies in the Christmas Banner Dies and the berry die is in the Organic Beauty Dies. Just stick a few in under the greeting. On the second card, I used that really sparkly paper from the previous Sale-A-Bration! You can’t get any more sparkly than that paper!

It does take a little bit of time to die-cut that greenery and berries so if you are down to the wire (as I am!), just skip that part and make the cards without it!

Snowman Magic Christmas Card

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Back in July, I saw a card on the Stampin’ Pretty blog by Mary Fish using the Snowman Magic Bundle and I just loved it! I didn’t even own this Bundle so after a while I order just the Snowman Dies. At any moment, I was going to copy Mary’s card, but it didn’t happen until now! I guess it’s now or never now that it is just a week until Christmas.

My card isn’t “exactly” like hers because I didn’t buy the stamp set and I used a different background. But it is pretty close! I used Tahitian Tide for this card. It’s one of the “new” In Colors that came out in the Annual Catalog. Such a pretty blue to use with a snow scene!

It has turned cold here in Houston and will get even colder for Christmas so I’m hoping for snow, but I don’t think my wish will come true! It did snow many years ago here on Christmas Eve and we went out and played in the snow a bit on Christmas morning! I even made a tiny snowman that I kept in the freezer for months! It probably wasn’t much bigger than the snowman on this card!

Even without the Snowman Magic Stamp Set, I knew I could use the diecut snowman and make him look okay! I added a bit of the Light Gray Granite Stampin’ Blend on the edges of the snowman plus diecut the scarf and hat and added my own stripes and color with the Dark Real Red Stampin’ Blend. The snowman carrot nose is the smallest thing I have ever seen as a diecut! I just colored it with the Pumpkin Pie Stampin’ Blend and somehow managed to glue it down on the snowman’s face. Then I drew in the eyes and mouth with the Gray Granite marker. The arms are the next smallest things I’ve ever die cut! I had a brown scrap of cardstock handy.

The frame of snowflakes is a diecut that does all that work for you! Before adhering to the card base, I embossed a piece of vellum using the Whimsical Woodland 3D Embossing Folder. You can see the trees in the background. I also diecut the two green trees on each side of the snowman and three white snowflakes that I added.

I adhered the vellum to the back of this frame piece and since the snowflakes aren’t adhered except to the edges, I just cut a piece of snow for the base by hand and slipped it down into the frame. The snowman and trees are adhered flat to the vellum. Just slip them in where you want them. Then adhere the whole thing with Stampin’ Dimensionals to the card base.

The greeting is stamped in Tahitian Tide ink and die cut with a narrow banner shape in the Stylish Shapes Dies. It is popped up on Dimensionals also.

This was a fun card to make, maybe a little too much for multiples, but there are many things you can do creatively with this set of dies!

Make Your Own Stamped Gift Wrap

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Cottage Wreath Stamped Gift Wrapped Package

It’s that time of year! Time for wrapping presents! But what if you run out of store-bought wrapping paper? Or do you only have Christmas wrapping paper and you need to wrap a birthday gift? Just stamp your own paper! Now, this may only work for small gifts, although if you have some of that brown paper they use inside boxes to protect something being mailed you might be able to use that for larger packages. Anyway, keep this idea in mind for someday when you might need it!

I just used a sheet of computer paper to make the beautiful Cottage Wreath gift wrap in the photo above. You could also use cardstock, but it would be heavier and possibly not as easy to wrap around something. This is actually a fun thing to do because random stamping is fun!

I just stamped one of the wreaths in the Cottage Wreaths Stamp Set randomly on the computer paper. I happened to use three different colors of green ink for fun – Granny Apple Green, Soft Succulent, and Pear Pizzazz. Then I stamped the bows on the wreaths in different colors, too – Real Red, Gorgeous Grape, Bermuda Bay, and Daffodil Delight. For the finishing touch, I stamped the “Merry Christmas” greeting in the stamp set in between some of the wreaths. I think it turned out pretty cute! You could make your own gift wrap with almost any of your stamp sets, even words, actually.

I was going to wrap an empty box just to show what my new wrapping paper looked like, but then I thought, I have a ton of family gifts to wrap, I should wrap a REAL gift! So this is a real gift going to my daughter with my homemade gift wrap. I tied on some Real Red Ribbon in a bow and now I have one gift wrapped! I could actually make a tag out of a stamped or diecut wreath that would be cute also.

Whether or not you need wrapping paper, just for fun stamp a sheet of your own gift wrap! It’s good for the soul! Make it for Christmas, a birthday, or something crazy! It’s a good way to get even more uses out of your stamps!

Warm Welcome Christmas Presents Card

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This is a fun card to make for the holidays! This Warm Welcome Stamp Set and Dies, in the Warm Welcome Bundle, make it easy to make this special card. Who wouldn’t love a stack of Christmas presents right outside your door?!

This Warm Welcome Bundle is coming in the Spring Mini Catalog BUT it was released early for a special online Stampin’ Up! event. So we’ve had a little bit of time to play with it. There are a lot of things you can do with a stamp set and dies like these!

To make this card, I started with a card base of Evening Evergreen, one of the current In Colors. The plaid paper to look kind of like the wallpaper inside this house is from the Fitting Florets Designer Series Paper. The bottom pattern of the designer paper is to look like carpeting or flooring, also in the Fitting Florets DSP.

To get the doorway scene, I die-cut the doorway out of Crumb Cake Cardstock. The die cuts out the doorway piece if you want. Then I used that same die to cut out a piece of Basic White Cardstock. I embossed this Basic White piece using the Whimsical Woodland 3D Embossing Folder. You can buy it at 60% off now on the Last Chance Sale. I love the scene that this embossing folder creates. I added a little shading with Stampin’ Blends on the door and frame. I didn’t have to but I love those Blends!

After adhering the door to the card front, I adhered that white embossed piece inside the doorway to look like the snow-covered mountains outside in the distance! The packages are stamped and diecut, then colored with a few Stampin’ Blends.

The greeting is stamped with Evening Evergreen ink on Basic White Cardstock and diecut. I used one of the Stitched Rectangles but had to use that trick to make it longer to fit the greeting. I don’t know how to explain it but you can find it online. You roll the die through only part of the way, then remove the die but position it farther down the greeting while letting the other end nest back into the part that was already die cut so it is still lined up perfectly.

That’s all there is to this card! On the inside I added a Basic White layer and stamped a greeting on it. Now the card is ready to go!

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Chocolate Christmas Candy Treat Holders

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These are the cutest little candy holders that you can make for stocking stuffers or table decorations! And they are easy to make, too! Check out the Christmas candy at the grocery store and see what you can find. I bought this box with these Christmas figures probably at Costco. I knew it might come in handy for “craft supplies”!

To make these, just cut a strip of cardstock at 2 1/2″ x 8 1/2″. Depending on your candy, you might need to vary that measurement but it worked fine for my little candies! Then score at 3 3/4″ and 4 3/4″, or just score 3 3/4″ from one end, turn the paper, and score at 3 3/4″ from the other end. That leaves space inside the treat holder about one inch wide to hold the candy. Instead of these candy figures, you could use a small cello bag of assorted candies and in that instance, maybe you need to make that inside space a bit wider.

If you want to make a window on the front, (Of course you do!!) just choose a punch or die that will fit your project. For mine, I used one of the Painted Labels Dies. You could also use a punch of some kind. Just make sure that your candy will show through the hole as you like. If you want to decorate with designer paper, as I did with the Sweetest Candy Designer Series Paper, cut that to fit on the treat holder front BEFORE you cut the hole in the cardstock. If you adhere the DSP first, then you don’t have to worry about matching the two openings.

It might be helpful to adhere a window sheet on the inside to keep the candy safe inside. You may have “official” Window Sheets in your stash or you may find a piece of scrap plastic around the house. I just cut it large enough to cover that window and applied Stampin’ Seal around the edges of the opening. I think the window sheet makes it look quite professional!

Put the candy inside, and to hold it in place, use a few Glue Dots but be very careful not to get any glue in contact with the chocolate. No one wants to eat a Glue dot! I stuck about two or three on the back of the candy figures, but you could also use one on the bottom of the figure.

Once the candy is in place, hold the top together and punch two holes for the ribbon with whatever punch you have. Use your favorite ribbon to tie it closed.

For the snowman treat holder, I added some die-cut snowflakes using the Snowman Dies. Since I had a scrap of White Glimmer Paper I used that for the snowflakes. When I spotted the tree in the die set I cut one out of a scrap of green cardstock I had and adhered that on the side of the snowman. You can decorate these little things however you like! You could add a small greeting or add some jewels or sequins for some bling!

Here are some Easter treats I made almost the same way.

These little Chocolate Christmas Candy Treat Holders are quick and easy to make and will make a fun gift or treat or decoration for everyone!

Framed Florets Blue & Pink Christmas Card

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For something different, I used the Fitting Florets paper to make this Christmas card with its nontraditional colors! Some of us are still making Christmas cards and getting them ready to mail so here is another idea perhaps you can use!

This Fitting Florets Designer Series Paper is available through January 4, 2023, as part of the early release of the Framed Florets Bundle which will be in the upcoming Spring Mini Catalog in January. Some of the papers are florals and others have more generic patterns. Then some have patterns that you can use for Christmas cards without looking Christmasy!

One of the coordinating colors of this designer paper is Balmy Blue so I used that for the card base. That’s almost all you need for this card – just the card base, the designer paper layer, and the greeting! This pattern in the Fitting Florets Designer Paper looks particularly appropriate for Christmas with its foliage and pinkish berries. I chose another pattern and cut out some of the blue flowers and foliage to add to the greeting.

The greeting is stamped with the fun stamp set, also an extra product with the Framed Florets Suite, the Framed & Festive Stamp Set, available until Jan. 4th. This is a Christmas greeting set with a fun font and sayings. I stamped the greeting in Polished Pink ink on Basic White and die-cut it with one of the oval frames in the Framed Florets Dies. Next, I used the same die with Polished Pink cardstock to get the pink frame around the oval greeting.

For some embellishment, I used the Metallic Mesh Ribbon. I adhered that behind the designer paper and the greeting, then tied a separate bow with two pieces of ribbon and adhered it with Glue Dots. And of course, I had to add some Iridescent Rhinestones Basic Jewels to the greeting!

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Candy Cane Christmas Gift Bag

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One of my favorite papercrafting things is decorating the front of a bag I may have picked up while shopping and turning it into a gift bag like this Candy Cane Christmas Gift Bag! It’s so easy to do and you can quickly increase your stash of gift bags that are ready for the holidays or other occasions throughout the year! Basically, it is like making a card to put on the front of the bag!

Since this bag was green, I thought I would use the Sweetest Christmas paper. I copied (pretty much) a sample in the Holiday Mini Catalog on page 11. My cute Sweetest Christmas Designer Series Paper is almost gone so my bag looks a little different than the sample in the catalog. Also, they made stamped and diecut leaves but I just stamped the holly and other leaves.

The leave, berries, and banner are from the Christmas Banners Stamp Set. The candy cane I just hand-cut from designer paper but I could have used a die in the Candy Canes Dies. I’m not sure how they made the banner on the card in the catalog, but I stamped mine with Memento Ink and then colored it with Pool Party Stampin’ Blends. Instead of the red ribbon behind the banner, I just tied a bow at the top of the tag shape that is the background for the candy cane and leaves.

Look at your stash of grocery sacks and shopping bags and see what you can find! If you don’t have one of these special bags, you can purchase them at a craft store.

Have fun decorating some Christmas gift bags!

Monochromatic Jingle Christmas Card

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You can make this simple Monochromatic Jingle Christmas Card in red and white, and if you have them, you can add a Flat Jingle Bell Trinket (no longer available). It’s so funny how you can “know” when you have your card right. I kind of tried out some different layouts with the designer paper and cardstock layers but the card was too plain. Once I added the ribbon and bow across the bottom, and especially the Jingle Bell, I knew that was IT! Just that little touch, for me, made it perfect!

The card base is Real Red and I used the ever-popular Sweetest Christmas Designer Series Paper. This paper will be retiring with the Holiday Mini Catalog on January 4th or while supplies last. It’s not discounted but it is on the Last Chance List. It’s best now that the sale started to just look in the Online Store and see what is still available rather than looking at the original list.

The diagonal stripe paper is 5 1/4″ x 4″. The “Jingle” is stamped in Real Red ink on Basic White Cardstock. The name of the stamp set is Jingle Jingle Jingle so that is easy to remember! I diecut it with one of the Stitched Rectangles Dies. At first, I was going to layer it on another rectangle in Real Red but I wasn’t happy with that. Then I decided to add the red piece with the white polka dots as a layer under the greeting. It measures 4″ x 1 1/4″. The “Jingle” rectangle is 3 1/4″ x 1 1/4″. You can vary the sizes of both.

The ribbon is the Real Red Ribbon in the Combo Pack with Garden Green. I just adhered a strip across the bottom portion of the designer paper and added a bow separately, adhered with Mini Glue Dots.

As I said, for the finishing touch I added one of the Flat Jingle Bell Trinkets that I already had. They are sold out now, unfortunately. I looked in my retired stash and found this red & white twine so I used that on the bell. Otherwise, you can just add some white twine or Linen Thread, whatever you have. If you don’t have the bell, you can stamp one in the Jingle Jingle Jingle Stamp Set.

Now that you have all the information to make this card, it would be pretty quick & easy to make! On the inside, I added a layer of Basic White stamped with a greeting from the Brightest Glow Stamp Set. And in the corner, I stamped the little bell in the Jingle Jingle Jingle Stamp Set and the little bow that goes with it.

This is the fun season of making Christmas cards so put on some Christmas music and just enjoy the process (if you are still working on Christmas cards!).

Rudolph the Reindeer Gift Bag

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I think every year I make some kind of Rudolph Gift Bag so here is one for 2022. It’s so quick and easy to make, not to mention fun to see Rudolph develop right before your eyes!

This is a typical 2-4-6-8 bag (or box, however you want it to end up!) that we all know how to make. I used a piece of Early Espresso Cardstock since in previous years I usually use Soft Suede. This reindeer has darker fur! Start with a piece of cardstock cut at 6″ x 8 1/2″. Score at 2″, 4″, 6″, and 8″, then turn the paper lengthwise and score at 2″. Cut on the score lines of those small squares which will be the bottom of the bag, up to the 2″ score line. Cut off the tiny 1/2″ piece in the bottom corner. See diagram below.

Apply adhesive to that 1/2″ flap and fold over to adhere to opposite side. Fold in the bottom flaps and use adhesive to hold them closed. Pinch the sides and the top of the bag to close. Before closing the bag for good, adhere the gold foil diecut antlers to the inside of the bag . I used a leafy die in the Christmas Banners Dies. I thought this reindeer should be spiffy with golden antlers!

For the eyes, use any white paper, but since I had scraps of the Real Red & White Glimmer Paper handy, I thought Rudolph might look good with glimmery eyes! I colored in the center of the eye with a Sharpie. I used a retired 1/2″ Circle Punch to make the eyes but you could just cut them out by hand.

Rudolph’s red nose is the Red Glimmer Paper. If you don’t have red glimmer paper, color some other glimmer paper with a red marker or red ink. I used a retired 3/4″ Circle Punch for his nose.

I thought maybe Rudolph, for something different, should have some fancy eyelashes! To make them show up, I used Sahara Sand cardstock and punched half circles with the 1/2″ Circle Punch and cut the little lashes by hand. Not sure I think they look that great but maybe it’s ok! Gotta try new things!

If you want to close up the top of the box, just punch a couple of holes and thread some ribbon through to tie a bow. I used the Gold Shimmer Ribbon to match the gold antlers.

Use the gift bag for a small gift or candy or anything that will fit! Modify the measurements if you want it a little taller or shorter. It’s such an easy thing to make, but you might not know that until you make one!

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Easy Painted Christmas Card

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If you want to make a quick and easy Christmas card, it doesn’t get much easier than this Easy Painted Christmas Card. And it is almost time to really be making those quick and easy cards! We still have a little time yet, though! Not time to panic yet!

You can use ANY designer paper to make a card like this one. I chose Painted Christmas Designer Series Paper, one that was brought back from last year so you probably have it in your stash. If you don’t have it, beginning tomorrow, it will be 50% off in the Last Chance Sale!! This is the sale of select products that will be retired from the Holiday Mini so may be your “last chance” to get some of these products!

I used a Real Red card base and just used this generic red “baubles” pattern in the designer paper for the card front. I already had this Tailor Made Tag diecut in my Basic White package of cardstock so I used it and just stamped the greeting from the Brightest Glow Stamp Set in Real Red ink.

If you don’t have the tag dies, just cut a rectangle with your Paper Trimmer or maybe you have another die shape or punch you can use. Add some ribbon and/or some embellishments. I found these Festive Pearls in my drawer that I really hadn’t used. They are tiny and come in different colors…Cherry Cobbler, gold, silver, and Soft Succulent.

On the inside, add a Basic White layer with a stamped or handwritten greeting or message, and maybe add a strip of designer paper to the inside just for some extra decoration. There! You have a very simple card that looks just fine! The recipient will ooh and ahh over it and it only took you a minute to make! Be sure to pick easy designs when you are making multiples, especially a lot of multiples of Christmas cards!

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Almost Last Chance For the 12 Weeks of Christmas!

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Time is flying by and there are only 4 weeks left of my 12 Weeks of Christmas holiday emails! Even though you have missed the first eight weeks, there are still four weeks left to showcase Tags, Bags, and Wraps! Every week for 12 weeks I have sent out a free holiday project idea that you could use to make your holidays brighter! The only people who receive these free projects are those on my Stamping With Karen Mailing List! This is my way of thanking my mailing list subscribers for following me, so if you would like to receive these special holiday emails, please sign up!

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Sweetest Christmas Candy Cane Card

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It’s time to have some easy Christmas card ideas such as this Sweetest Christmas Candy Cane Card. It really only took a few minutes to make it and since you already have the idea now, it will take you even less time!

This card starts with a card base of Real Red, my favorite color. The designer paper is the Sweetest Christmas Designer Series Paper, in case you haven’t seen it all over the place by now! I added a layer of Basic White and had planned to put three narrow strips of designer paper across the lower middle of the layer. However, the little candy cane pattern was so cute, had to use a large piece. I cut the candy cane pattern at 2″ x 4″ and then added a 1/2″ strip of the red and white pattern across the top like a ribbon.

The easy way to get a candy cane is to cut one out of the large candy cane patterned paper. You can use one of the candy cane shapes in the Candy Cane Dies or simply take your Paper Snips and cut one out of the designer paper. It’s easy enough to fussy cut those! I popped up my candy cane with Stampin’ Dimensionals, then added a bow. This ribbon is in the Real Red & Garden Green Ribbon Combo Pack. I adhered it with a Mini Glue Dot.

While it’s not a good idea to stamp a greeting on a card when it is almost finished, I think that is what I did, with a greeting in the Sweet Candy Canes Stamp Set. Maybe I didn’t have everything glued down yet but at least I knew the space I had to stamp it. I could have stamped it on another piece of cardstock and layered it, then adhered it to the card front, but I was trying to keep this card easy and simple.

For a finishing touch, I used five Red Rhinestone Basic Jewels. They fill up the white space a little bit without adding more work to the card.

That’s all there is to this card and you would feel good sending it to people on your Christmas card list! It’s time to finish, or start, making your Christmas cards!

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Painted Christmas Z-Fold Card

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If you are looking for a fairly quick Christmas card to make but still something a little special, this Painted Christmas Z-Fold Card might be the card for you! I have always thought a Z-Fold card, while easy to make, looks a little fancy. The only difference from a regular card is that you fold the front of the card back on itself.

This Christmas card starts with a Real Red card base. After cutting the cardstock at 5 1/2″ x 8 1/2″, score it at 2 1/8″ and 4 1/4″. That gives you a score line on the front of the card. After creasing the card in half as you usually do, fold on the 2 1/8″ score line, which is the center of the card front, back toward the fold. See the photo below.

Depending on where you want to put the designer paper on this card, or stamping, choose which patterns you want to use and where you want to adhere them. On this sample, I cut a piece of the Painted Christmas Designer Series Paper for that narrow front area at 2″ x 5 3/8″. You can make it a bit narrower and shorter if you want. You could also add a piece on the inside of the front fold. I did not on this card.

Since the inside of the card is a somewhat dark color, I added a layer of Basic White. When I saw this light green pattern of designer paper, I decided to add that as another layer that would show from the front and coordinate with the design on the front. Another choice would be to just add a narrow strip of designer paper to the right side of the inside of the card on the Real Red cardstock or on the Basic White layer if that was added.

For the greeting, I chose one from the Framed & Festive Stamp Set, a new offering in the Fitting Florets Suite. It is only available until January 4th or while supplies last. I love the font and the variety of greetings for Christmas cards and projects in this set! I stamped the greeting on Basic White with Real Red ink and diecut with one of the squares in the Stylish Shapes Dies. Then I cut out the next larger square in Real Red to be a layer for the greeting. When you adhere this to the front of the card, make sure you are only putting adhesive on half of the back so it only adheres to that folded front part of the card and not the inside too!

The “tricky” part is adding a greeting to the inside of the card. Ideally, you would like it not to show from the front of the card, so you want the greeting on the inside of the card to be completely behind the greeting on the front of the card. You could mark lightly with a pencil the area where that front greeting covers the inside so you know your boundaries. For this card, I stamped a greeting on Basic White the same size as on the front. I put adhesive on the back of that greeting and layered it face down on the back of the greeting on the front from the inside. When I had it placed properly, I folded the back of the card over so that the greeting would then adhere to the inside of the card in the correct spot. That worked pretty well, but you could use pencil marks or eyeball it!

For a finishing touch, I added some Real Red Ribbon tied around the front fold of the card. I anchored it under the bow and inside the fold with some Mini Glue Dots. You could add a Basic White panel to the back of the card if you wanted to write a note so that it wouldn’t show from the front.

This Painted Christmas Z-Fold Card is an easy one to make and the recipient will think you are a talented cardmaker! Try it today!

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Make Christmas Tags With Paper Pumpkin!

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I don’t know what went wrong, but the post office seemed to deliver my November Paper Pumpkin Kit in a normal amount of time! Usually, it seems to sit in one place for a few days or it goes on a little trip to some other city first! But this time, I got it right away! And since Saturday was a very rainy, cold, chilly, dreary day, it was the perfect day to stay inside and work on my November Paper Pumpkin Kit, “From the North Pole”. In this kit were supplies to make three different kinds of Christmas gift tags, four of each design. I always like to start a Paper Pumpkin Kit by making what is designed so I made the three Christmas gift tags in the photo above!

This kit was extra-special because it had Mint Macaron glimmer paper! We’ve never known that to exist before! But there it was, in the Paper Pumpkin kit, sparkling away! It is very pretty.

These three tag designs were all very easy to make. Of course, visual directions are included plus a video you can watch on YouTube. I like to watch the video and see how they suggest making the project.

After I made the tags as designed, I made two things on my own, just to play. You can use the supplies any way you like! They are yours, so if you don’t need tags, just make cards. Or make the tags, but adhere them to cards. Of decorate a notebook and put the tag on the front of the notebook. Whatever you like.

I made these two alternative ideas, as they say:

I really liked how the Mint Macaron card turned out, even though it wasn’t looking too great in the beginning. I stamped the “Joy” in Cherry Cobbler and in Mint Macaron on one of the tags and added the greeting plus snowflakes and ribbon. The background of the card is stamped with the largest stamp in the set, the big round stamp with a reindeer That really made the card come alive.

The other little tag I made was almost the same, but I’d used the big snowflake on that card so I was short one. Instead, I used some Mint Macaron glimmer paper dots from the holes in the banner for one of the other tags to be an embellishment. I ran out of those so I just punched my own with a retired punch.

But in the end, I decided I really did like making those Christmas tags with my Paper Pumpkin Kit so I went back and made the rest. Of course, I was missing a few pieces since I’d made the two extra projects, but I just worked around it.

That’s the fun of Paper Pumpkin Kits that come in the mail each month! It’s so fun opening up the box to see what supplies are inside and think about what you can make with them. Paper Pumpkin projects just keep getting better and better over time!

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Whimsical Woodland Embossed Christmas Card

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I’ve had this Whimsical Woodland 3D Embossing Folder for a while but have forgotten to use it! This is my first try with it. Actually, I was trying to copy a card I saw I think just yesterday, maybe the day before, but when I wanted to look at it again, of course, I couldn’t find it! Does that happen to you?! It was just this white embossed Whimsical Woodland background and a greeting on red cardstock. But I still wish I could see it again!

In the meantime, I made my own card! I used Basic White for a card base and cut the embossed piece at the regular layer size, 4″ x 5 1/4″. I could have made it as large as the card base, too.

The greeting is in the Brightest Glow Stamp Set. I stamped it with Real Red ink and then just cut it out with my Paper Trimmer. The Real Red layer behind it is a die in the Painted Labels Dies. I popped up the greeting with Stampin’ Dimensionals.

Very easy card to make and you can do different things with the same card design. Instead of a white card base, use colored cardstock. Or use the white card base but put another colored layer under the embossed layer. Just play with different designs and see what you like!

If you like this Whimsical Woodland Embossed Christmas Card, try one of your own and try varying the design and see what you come up with!

SHOP STAMPIN’ UP! HERE!