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Gingerbread & Peppermint Ornament Trio Card

The Gingerbread & Peppermint Designer Paper has so many fun designs besides the gingerbread images! As it turned out, I had already used this pattern of the paper on another card earlier on, but since I love red, it was a natural draw for me to use it on this Gingerbread & Peppermint Ornament Trio Card.

The card base is Real Red, one of the coordinating colors of the Gingerbread & Peppermint 6″ x 6″ Designer Series Paper. After I got the idea to use the three ornaments, die-cut from the paper with the Gingerbread Dies, I thought they needed a white background to help them stand out from the red and white paper. I happened to find this die-cut from the Scalloped Contours Dies so I just used that. Since I was using that, I tipped the side ornaments in so they would fit better on that small background piece of Basic White.

The middle red ornament is glued straight on the card front, with the side ornaments popped up with Stampin’ Dimensionals®. I also tied small white bows with the Whisper White 1/4″ Crinkled Seam Binding Ribbon to put on each ornament. And then I had to add some Rhinestone Basic Jewels to each ornament in the center!

For the greeting, I used a sentiment in the Frosted Gingerbread Stamp Set. I wanted something small and simple since the rest of the card is pretty busy. I stamped the greeting on Basic White cardstock with Real Red Ink and then die cut it with a small Stitched Rectangle Die. I didn’t even layer it on anything, I just wanted it to be simple.

This Frosted Gingerbread Bundle (stamp set and dies) will be on the Last Chance List tomorrow along with the designer paper, so check out the promotion tomorrow, December 1st in the Online Store!

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Santa Suit Christmas Gift Bag

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It soon will be time for gift bags and this Santa Suit Christmas Gift Bag is an easy one for you to make out of a plain kraft shopping bag! So fun for Christmas!

You may already have some handled shopping bags like this one in your stash of bags from certain stores or you can purchase a package of bags at the craft store. If they have the store name or design on the side, it will get covered up anyway so it is okay.

For this bag, I just measured the front side of the bag, which was 6″ x 8″, and cut a piece of Real Red Cardstock to cover the whole front for Santa’s red suit. Then I started at the bottom with the fur on the bottom of his red jacket. I just cut a 6″ wide piece of Basic White Cardstock a few inches wide and cut the curves freehand with scissors. They don’t have to be perfect and if you don’t like the look, just redo a few of the curves to even things out a little.

The Basic Black Santa belt is about 2″ wide. You can make yours narrower if you like. The trick to making a belt and belt buckle is to first cut the strip for the belt. Then cut the Gold Foil for the buckle a little wider than the belt, but just a solid square. To look like the black is going through the belt buckle, just cut a square of Basic Black to adhere to the top of the gold foil square. Just line it up even with the black strip and you’ll have a belt and buckle!

For the buttons, I looked through my dies for small circles, but I came across the button dies in the All Dressed Up Dies. They were perfect, but you could use some retired circle punches or just cut out little circles. I realized I probably should have some white fur on his jacket so I just cut a narrow piece of Basic White. Again, the fur doesn’t have to be perfect, fur isn’t perfect.

Attach a tag to the handle and you are all set with a great Santa Suit Christmas Gift Bag for a special, fun gift for someone!

Don’t Miss the Last 4 Weeks of My 12 Weeks of Christmas!

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Have you been receiving my “12 Weeks of Christmas” holiday emails every Wednesday? If you haven’t, you need to sign up for my Stamping With Karen Mailing List! These special holiday emails I send out every year are a thank you to my subscribers who get a weekly email with the latest Stampin’ Up! news and project ideas with complete instructions PLUS these special 12 Weeks of Christmas emails with one new card idea, gift idea, or gift wrap/tag idea every week.

You have already missed the first 8 weeks of the 12 Weeks of Christmas emails, but you can still get on my list and get the rest of the emails. The next one, Week 9 comes out tomorrow, November 24. You missed Weeks 1-8 but you can still get Weeks 9-12! Sign up today or before 1:00 PM CT tomorrow and get Week 9 tomorrow! These emails usually get sent out at 1:00 pm CT every Wednesday in the weeks leading up to Christmas!

These are exclusive projects that I won’t be putting on my blog or social media. They are just for my email subscribers. I love sending out these emails and I hope they are fun for my subscribers to receive and that they make their holidays a tiny bit easier if they are looking for a card idea or some other creative idea for handmade gifts or even tags and bags for wrapping!

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Embossed and Colored Whimsical Trees Christmas Card

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This card started out being an experiment of using white trees on a white layer on a white card, but it turned into this Embossed and Colored Whimsical Trees Christmas Card. That didn’t seem to be going like I imagined so I tried another technique of embossing and coloring the trees.

This white paper I used is my favorite, Shimmery White! If you look closely, in person, you can just barely see a little shimmer on the paper. It also works pretty well for a little watercoloring, as I used on this card. But the paper is so elegant, I think! I love using it.

To make this card, I started with a Shimmery White Cardstock card base with a layer of Shimmery White. On a separate piece of Shimmery White, I stamped two of the same trees and one different using Versamark Ink with the Whimsical Trees Stamp Set. Then I embossed with white embossing powder, which comes in the Basics Embossing Powders of three colors – white, black, and clear. You also need a Heat Tool to do embossing! Just hold the Heat Tool over the powder until you see it change! You will notice and it’s just magical! But it may take a minute until the Heat Tool gets hot enough after you turn it on.

After embossing the trees I die-cut them with the Christmas Trees Dies. I also die-cut the little ribbon decoration you can add to the tree. I cut out two of those for two of the trees. If you can think of it, this would be a good time to use the Adhesive Sheets so you don’t have to use glue.

After I decided the pure white trees on a white card weren’t going to work, I decided to use my Water Painter to add green color using an ink refill in the lid of the ink pad. Use it like a paintbrush except the water is already inside! Love these! I used Pear Pizzazz on two of the trees and Just Jade on the center tree. The embossing resists the ink so it still shows through. You can take a tissue and wipe any excess off the embossing if you need to. You could use any two or three green colors that you like. We have lots of choices!

When the trees were dry, I glued the ribbon piece onto two of the trees with tiny drops of glue.

For the background of the card, I used a watercolor background of Pool Party. I tried to apply it lightly with lots of water squeezed out of the Water Painter and a little bit of ink. I didn’t bring it all the way to the bottom so it would look like snow on the bottom of the card. Then I stamped a greeting with Just Jade ink at the bottom of the card with the Whimsical Trees Stamp Set.

After coloring the background and letting it dry, I adhered the trees, two popped up with Stampin’ Dimensionals and one flat on the card. I usually like to slip one partially underneath another one.

It was absolutely necessary (to me!) to add some bling but you could totally not do this. I added a few of the greenish rhinestones in the Holiday Rhinestones. You could add them to the trees instead if you liked.

So all in all, even though I changed my original idea, I really like this card and maybe I will make extras to send. It’s time to start cranking out those Christmas cards so that you can mail them extra early this year! Have fun!

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Tidings and Trimmings Gold Star Christmas Card

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I was a little slow in discovering the Tidings and Trimmings Bundle in the Annual Catalog, but when I saw the die-cut stars I thought maybe I had to have it! I like how this Tidings and Trimmings Gold Star Christmas Card turned out even though I thought I was going to use a Christmas stocking and not the star! You never know where your card will end up!

First I got out the Tidings of Christmas 6″ x 6″ Designer Series Paper. There are a lot of pretty, traditional holiday designs in this paper. I happened to choose a scrap strip that just needed to be trimmed a little to fit on the Basic White layer. The card base is Cherry Cobbler which coordinates with the designer paper.

Before I ever got to try out a stocking on the front of the card, I decided to try a gold star. I love the designs of the large and smaller stars in the Christmas Tidings Dies. Just die cut the star using the outline around it. If you are smart, this is the perfect opportunity to use the Adhesive Sheets! I really wish I remembered to use these more often before die-cutting, particularly when it is an intricate design. Besides making it easy to adhere the image with the adhesive already on the back, but when you pull off the adhesive backing, it pulls out the stubborn little pieces that had not come out of the die-cut piece yet!

The greeting is stamped in Cherry Cobbler Ink at the bottom, slightly off to the right, on the front of the card. The greeting is in the Tidings and Trimmings Stamp Set. This is a great stamp set with its nice artwork and good sayings and words to put on your cards. You can purchase the Tidings and Trimmings Stamp Set and the Christmas Tidings Dies together in the Tidings and Trimmings Bundle and save 10%.

For a little extra embellishment, I tied on a piece of Cherry Cobbler & Gold 1/2″ Ribbon with just a knot. I think the gold trim on the ribbon goes with the gold star.

Once the card was all put together, I was really happy with it On the inside, I stamped another greeting and adhered a small die-cut gold star. At the Onstage Event this past weekend, Shelli and Sara reminded us not to send “naked envelopes”! If you want to make this card extra-special, stamp something on the envelope or use some of the designer paper to decorate the envelope flap! Just have fun with it!

Tidings and Trimmings Gold Star Christmas Card Inside

Don’t forget about the Seasonal Sale going on for the last day today!! Purchase cardstock at 10% off, 15% off Stampin’ Up! ink pads, and 20% off dies in the Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog! If you don’t own these Christmas Tidings Dies with beautiful star images, you can purchase them TODAY for 20% off!

Festive Foliage Merry Christmas Card

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You may think that this card, the Festive Foliage Merry Christmas Card, has lots of stamping on it, but it is really only ONE stamp! The stamp is Festive Foliage! I have to admit, it is one stamp that I really overlooked in the Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog. You’ll find it on page 90 in the lower-left corner of the page. Very easy to miss! But when a few of my customers started ordering it, I wondered what the big deal was and started looking at some samples. Of course, then I had to have it, too! All that foliage will make some very pretty Christmas cards!

The card base is Shaded Spruce cardstock with a layer of Real Red. You wouldn’t have to add the red layer, but I love red and I think it brightens up the stamping and all the green. The foliage is stamped in Memento Ink on Basic White cardstock.

It’s really handy if you have a Stamparatus (146276) with a large stamp like this one. As long as you don’t move the stamp or the paper, you can reink the stamp and stamp again if you need to. Sometimes one little area doesn’t get inked well enough or doesn’t get pressed enough to transfer the ink from the stamp to the paper. But with the Stamparatus, you can just stamp again!

For coloring the foliage I used Stampin’ Blends…almost all the greens I could find! And then I dotted and colored in all the little berries with Real Red.

The greeting is in the Perfectly Plaid Stamp Set. This is one we have had for a couple of years. It is stamped with Real Red ink and then die cut with one of the Tasteful Labels Dies. It is popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals. There was plenty of space and plenty of foliage still showing on this card to use such a large label. Then for some bling, I added two green Holiday Rhinestones and tied a bow with the Real Red 3/8″ Sheer Ribbon. It is adhered with a Glue Dot. I liked this sheer ribbon because it adds something to the card but because it is sheer, it doesn’t block the stamping underneath!

If you like coloring, you will love the Festive Foliage Stamp….and if you don’t love coloring, just stamp it in one color like green and don’t color in anything!

If you don’t own the Stamparatus, to get a good image with a background stamp like this one, I recommend laying the stamp face up, ink it up, and then lay your cardstock over the top. Put a piece of computer paper over the top or pull up your Grid paper over it, and give it a good rub with your fingers to get all the ink to transfer to the cardstock. This way you can see what you are doing and have a little more control over the pressure on the cardstock and stamp.

I can’t wait to make more cards with my new Festive Foliage Stamp because I really like how this Festive Foliage Merry Christmas Card turned out! Go check it out in the Online Store and see if you noticed it before in the catalog or missed it!

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Encircled in Beauty Christmas Card

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Don’t forget to think of the Encircled in Beauty Dies when it comes to making Christmas cards, as I used in this Encircled in Beauty Christmas Card. We also have the Encircled in Warmth Stamp Set with wonderful greetings for the holidays. There are so many pretty possibilities!

This card is relatively easy to make. The card base is Blushing Bride with a layer of Basic White Cardstock. I used the Encircled in Beauty Die to cut out the doily image but I did not use the outer die to cut out the whole image from the Basic White paper. Instead, I used the “negative” image left in the paper as the focal point, removing the center circle that was die cut. Next, I embossed the paper just for some texture with the Ornate Floral 3D Embossing Folder.

I layered this die-cut and embossed piece of Basic White on the Blushing Bride while I decided how to finish off the card. I decided to use the greeting in the Encircled in Warmth Stamp Set. It is stamped in Blushing Bride ink and die cut with one of the Stitched Rectangle Dies.

While looking at the beautiful Whimsy & Wonder Designer Series Paper I thought of cutting out one of the ornaments on the paper with Paper Snips and using it in the center of the doily image. I used a piece of the silver metallic thread from the Flowers For Every Season Ribbon Combo Pack. You could use any other kind of twine or ribbon. I wanted something very thin.

I popped up the Basic White die cut piece with Stampin’ Dimensionals® and also the ornament to look like it was hanging inside the empty circle. Then the greeting was adhered flat on the card front with Stampin’ Seal.

You will find the Encircled in Beauty Dies in the Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog and you will find the Encircled in Warmth Stamp Set in the Holiday Mini Catalog. I think it might be easy to forget about these stamps and dies but they will make beautiful and unique cards, for Christmas and other occasions using the Encircled in Friendship Stamp Set also.

It’s time to plan your Christmas cards and gather your supplies to get a start on your holiday preparations! If you already own these Encircled in Beauty Dies, be sure to pull them out and use this Encircled in Beauty Christmas Card for some inspiration.

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Don’t Miss the November Gifts Galore Paper Pumpkin Kit!

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We all love to see piles of presents on Christmas morning. Make that your reality with the Gifts Galore Paper Pumpkin Kit! With classic Christmas sentiments, bright and festive colors, a sweet snowman, a tree with all the trimmings, or a playful pile of presents, you’ll have everything you need to make eye-catching treat packages that are sure to spread Christmas cheer. Each Gifts Galore box contains enough supplies to create nine treat packages—three each of three designs—and nine food-safe bags that are adorably styled for easy Christmas gifting. There’s plenty of joy to share with Gifts Galore!

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Kit contains enough supplies to create nine treat packages—three each of three designs—and nine food-safe bags.
This all-inclusive kit includes printed die cuts, die-cut boxes, cellophane treat bags, adhesive, and more!
Includes an exclusive stamp set and a Classic Stampin’ Spot
Coordinating colors: Evening Evergreen, Flirty Flamingo, Old Olive, Pool Party, Poppy Parade

Every kit is guaranteed by Stampin’ Up! No risk, no obligation. Easy to try out!

Deadline Wednesday, November 10, 2021

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Little Delights Christmas Bulb Christmas Card

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The longer I have the Little Delights Stamp Set, the more possibilities I see with it, like this Little Delights Christmas Bulb Christmas Card. All I needed was the little Christmas bulb stamp and the greeting! The only problem is that you can’t stop stamping the cute little bulbs!

The card base is Real Red with a layer of Basic White Cardstock. I just randomly stamped the Christmas bulbs in different colors. I used Real Red, Daffodil Delight, Just Jade, Pacific Point, Pumpkin Pie, and Highland Heather ink colors. After figuring out the greeting and the space it would take up, I added more bulbs so every color would have a good representation!

The die-cut greeting layer is Real Red cut from the Scalloped Contours Dies. I stamped the greeting from the Little Delights Stamp Set on Basic White and cut it to fit on the Real Red layer with my Paper Trimmer.

For some embellishment, I tied a little red bow from the Real Red 3/8″ Double-Stitched Satin Ribbon and adhered it to the corner of the greeting. I just love the font of that “Merry Christmas” sentiment! I also adhered some little Holiday Rhinestone Basic Jewels on the greeting as well!

If you wanted to jazz up the card even more, you could add Wink of Stella for a little glimmer of the Christmas bulbs! Or you could stamp fewer bulbs and connect them with a drawn line to look like a string of lights. Just play and see what you come up with!

The Little Delights Stamp Set is a cute one with several holiday images and greetings for cards and projects! These images and words are great for all kinds of stamping projects throughout the year!

Little Delights Christmas Bulb Christmas Card

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Don’t Miss My 12 Weeks of Christmas!

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Have you been receiving my “12 Weeks of Christmas” holiday emails every Wednesday? If you haven’t, you need to sign up for my Stamping With Karen Mailing List! These special holiday emails I send out every year are a thank you to my subscribers who get a weekly email with the latest Stampin’ Up! news and project ideas with complete instructions PLUS these special 12 Weeks of Christmas emails with one new card idea, gift idea, or gift wrap/tag idea every week.

You have already missed the first 4 weeks of the 12 Weeks of Christmas emails, but you can still get on my list and get the rest of the emails. The next one, Week 5 comes out tomorrow, October 27. You missed Weeks 1-4 but you can still get Weeks 5-12! Sign up today and get Week 5 tomorrow! These emails usually get sent out at 1:00 pm CT every Wednesday in the weeks leading up to Christmas!

Please join us if you would like! Sign up today or before 1:00 PM CT on Wednesday, October 27 to begin receiving the 12 Weeks of Christmas holiday emails! (It is less than two months until Christmas! Yikes!!)

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Love, Santa Tag Kit Christmas Card

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The other day I had so much fun making all the tags in the Love, Santa Kit to be ready for holiday gift-wrapping! But if you didn’t need all the tags, you could use some (or all!) to make Christmas cards to send like this Love, Santa Tag Kit Christmas Card.

To make this card, I use clipped off the hole at the top of the tree that would hold the string to tie on a tag. You could also leave the hole and string attached and adhere it rather loosely to the card so that maybe the recipient would remove the tag and use it themselves or hang it on their Christmas tree. When I was growing up we used to get a Christmas card from someone who was quite wealthy and the fancy card could be used as an ornament on the tree! I’ll always remember that!

To make this card, I relied on the coordinating colors listed in the Love, Santa Tag Kit so I chose Just Jade for the card base and a layer of Poppy Parade. That layer I embossed using the Tasteful Texture 3D Embossing Folder. You wouldn’t have to do it but it adds a little “something”. Just because I wanted to, I added a tree trunk from Cinnamon Cider Cardstock to the base of the tree. Then I adhered the tree to the front of the card with Stampin’ Dimensionals®. If you thought, or you wanted, the recipient to remove the tree from the card and use it as a tag or ornament, I would just adhere it with maybe two Dimensionals, maybe even the Mini Dimensionals or cut the Dimensionals down to a smaller size, top and bottom, and tell them how to carefully remove the tag.

The tree tag already had some jewels adhered to it that came with the kit, but I also added some to the Poppy Parade layer of the card. I couldn’t resist! It’s for Christmas anyway and that calls for sparkle and glimmer wherever possible!

On the inside, adhere a layer of Basic White with a stamped message and maybe some other stamped image or strip of designer paper to decorate and sign your name or write your own personal message.

This Love, Santa Tag Kit is a fun one to work with because the tags are such “happy” and colorful images. Even though it is for making tags for gifts, as you can see, you can use some or all of them for card fronts and make some quick cards to send! Or use them on the extra Love, Santa Treat Bags! Even if you don’t want or can’t get the kit, you might be interested in these cute treat bags with images printed in white that coordinate with the tags and are food safe. If you are someone who makes special treats for the holidays to give to neighbors and friends, these bags would be perfect! Even if you have a regular gift, wrap tissue paper around it and put it in the cello bag and tie on a tag! I know a gift shop that gift wraps items like this.

It’s time to be shopping for supplies you need for Christmas cards, projects, and gifts! We should all be trying to get an early start on all our holiday tasks to keep ourselves from getting rushed at the last minute! If you already have the Love, Santa Tag Kit be sure to put it together and enjoy yourself!

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Easy To Make Love, Santa Tag Kit

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I got my new Love, Santa Tag Kit the other day and got busy making all the tags yesterday afternoon! It only took about an hour to make them all and that was while simultaneously watching the Astros – Red Sox playoff game! (The Astros won 9 – 1 !!!!!) You can see the contents in the photo above….. an exclusive stamp set, a stamping block, ink spot, tags and pieces to stamp, adhesives, and even some gems! Plus the string to tie on to packages! It’s really a cute kit!

Each tag has a stamped greeting layered with other pieces for interest. There are even extra blank pieces to stamp in case you mess up! Just adhere the stamped greeting to each tag. The directions show you which kind of adhesive to put on the back of each piece.

And when you get all twelve tags finished, three each of four designs, just tie on the string to be ready to go on packages! Or purchase the coordinating treat bags and use the tags on special treats or gifts you are giving.

The Love, Santa Treat Bags are beautiful, food-safe cellophane bags that are perfect to fill with scrumptious treats and goodies. The white-printed designs are festive like frosted windowpanes and directly coordinate with the Love, Santa Tags! You get 12 treat bags, 3 each of 4 designs.

4″ x 9-1/2″ (10.2 x 24.1 cm)
*Food safe

Available while supplies last

And when the tags were all put together, I got out the gems in the kit. At first, I thought they only went on the “Joy” tag, but then I saw they actually went on all the tags! And I just used up ALL the gems, putting them on all the tags! But you could use only the 2-3 on each tag and save the extras for other projects, but I just wanted to use them all! Why not?!

You can even watch a video of putting the kit together with Sara Douglass!

If you are interested in this Love, Santa Tag Kit, or any of the other kits in the Stampin’ Up! Kit Collection just click HERE for the selection. These kits are great for beginners or even experienced stampers and crafters! Feel a sense of satisfaction, getting a dozen cute tags finished and ready for holiday gifts!

Whimsy & Wonder Ornament Christmas Card

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This is another card that completely changed from the idea I had in my head and it all came about because I turned the “pretty” side over! I realized I hadn’t used the very pretty ornament print paper in the Whimsy & Wonder Specialty Designer Series Paper so I was going to make a card using that paper. But when I turned the paper over to cut out just a section that I needed for the card, this dark blue print side just jumped out at me and this Whimsy & Wonder Ornament Christmas Card was born! I pictured using a snowflake and one blue ornament plus a greeting somehow, but I couldn’t resist all the other ornaments either!

Just because I’m a Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator, don’t think that card ideas come to me magically. The placement of everything on this card just was not working out, so I finally had to give up, step back, and walk away for a few minutes. I googled this paper and although I wasn’t copying anything, I saw something that sparked the idea to put the snowflake and greeting in the lower right corner instead of the upper left. That seemed to make all the difference and I was able to complete the card design!

The card base is Basic White although you could use Misty Moonlight as the base with a thin margin of Basic White under the Misty Moonlight Designer Paper to help it stand out. I cut out several ornaments from the other side of the paper with my Paper Snips while I watched TV. If you wanted to make it easier, you could just cut out the outline of the ornament and not the ornament hanger portion because if you add a bow later, you can cover up that you cut that part off!

The snowflake is in the Wonderful Snowflakes package. These are quite pretty, plain white on one side and iridescent foil on the other side. I adhered the snowflake with the tinest drops of glue, but you do have some space in the center of the snowflake. Then if you are pasting anything over the snowflake, maybe that will help hold it down also.

The greeting is in the Whimsical Trees Stamp Set. I thought maybe the simple word would go well with the snowflake. I stamped it in Moonlight Mist Ink and die cut it with the small circle in the Tasteful Labels Dies. I played with different dies and cardstock colors on which to layer it and finally settled on this Blushing Bride pink. I used a small die in the Encircled in Beauty Dies. The snowflake is adhered flat to the card and the greeting is popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals.

The ornaments are all cut out from the opposite side of this paper. I just adhered them with Stampin’ Dimensionals and adhered a little bow on each one with a Mini Glue Dot. The ribbon is the White 1/4″ Crinkled Seam Binding Ribbon. I think a silver trim would also work well. Then for some bling I added some Silver Epoxy Essentials. I think they match well with the paper and look!

After a slow start on this card, I’m really happy with how it turned out. Be sure you check the “other side” of our beautiful designer papers because you just might find something special. And remember, a lot of the “other sides” can be used throughout the year, not just during the season the paper was designed for. This Whimsy & Wonder Ornament Christmas Card even uses both sides of the same paper by cutting out the pretty ornaments! Try it!

Don’t Miss Out! The October Paper Pumpkin Kit!

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Some of my favorite Paper Pumpkin Kits are the holiday ones! I already love this box and can’t wait to see what the card designs are!

When you picture a peaceful Christmas, what comes to mind? Do you see snow outside your window, softly swirling through the sky? A tree trimmed with tinsel, a fire crackling nearby? Maybe you’re dreaming of decorating a holly jolly gingerbread house. Can you catch a whiff of Christmas cookies wafting through the air?

Whatever it is you think about when Christmas comes to town, picture a peaceful Christmas with the Peaceful Christmas Paper Pumpkin Kit! This glimmering and gleaming kit is your creative kickstart to Christmas cardmaking. With sprinkles of snow, shimmering silver skies, and heartwarming holiday wishes, you’ll have enough elements and embellishments to create 10 Christmas cards and coordinating envelopes.

Speaking of coordination, make even more Christmas magic with Peaceful Place products! Our stunning Peaceful Place Suite Collection (item 156277) pairs perfectly with the kit’s components. Brew a cup of cocoa, snuggle up with a soft blanket, and prepare for a cozy craft night in!

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The kit contains enough elements to create 10 Christmas cards—5 each of 2 designs—and coordinating envelopes. This all-inclusive kit includes printed card bases, die-cut paper pieces, embellishments, adhesive, and more!

October’s kit arrives in a cute collectible box covered with enchanting evergreen trees. Use this special, limited-edition box to store your holiday handicrafts, or transform it into a well-wrapped package for a present!

The kit’s contents pair perfectly with the Peaceful Place Suite Collection (item 156277). To continue your Christmas crafting, combine the kit’s components with the suite’s patterned paper, shimmery sequins, and more!
Card size: 4-1/4″ x 5-1/2″ (10.8 x 14 cm)
Envelope size: 4-1/2″ x 5-3/4″ (11.4 x 14.6 cm)
Coordinating colors: Basic Gray, Real Red, Shaded Spruce, silver foil

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New Kit Today! Love, Santa Tag Kit!

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Today there is a new kit in the Kits Collection at Stampin’ Up!, the “Love, Santa” Tag Kit! ( I just love making Stampin’ Up! Christmas tag kits and have even purchased extras on the Clearance Rack! (Be sure to check the Clearance Rack TODAY for new items added!!) You probably saw this kit in the Holiday Mini Catalog but it was not available until today!

LOVE, SANTA TAG KIT (158375)
$19.00 USD | $26.00 CAD

Stampin’ Up! says:

“Santa’s back in a fun and easy tag kit to spruce up your Christmas gifting! The Love, Santa Tag Kit has everything you need to create 12 whimsically designed tags. That means you’ll find printed die-cut tags and labels, sequin embellishments, pink and white baker’s twine, an exclusive stamp set, a Night of Navy Classic Stampin’ Spot, and more in this all-inclusive kit! You can sleigh ride right in without the prep work.

And to make Christmas gifting even easier, the Love, Santa Treat Bags (158381) (available for purchase separately) are food-safe cellophane bags that coordinate with the Love, Santa tags! The treat bags come in a pack of 12—3 each of 4 festive designs. That’s right—figuring out how to dress up your gifts this year is no longer a “Claus” for concern! But don’t relax too soon as these products are based on availability!”

Here is the stamp set that comes in the kit!

DETAILS
Kit contains enough supplies to create 12 tags—3 each of 4 designs.
Includes printed die-cut tags, decorative die cuts, adhesive, embellishments, and pink baker’s twine.
Features an exclusive stamp set and a Night of Navy Classic Stampin’ Spot.
Finished tag size: approximately 2-1/2″ x 4-3/4″ (6.4 x 12.1 cm)
Coordinating colors: Bumblebee, Just Jade, Night of Navy, Polished Pink, Poppy Parade

Add these printed cello bags to your order with the kit and you will be set for packaging treats or gifts and decorating with your cute new tags!

LOVE, SANTA TREAT BAGS (158381)
$7.00 USD | $9.50 CAD

12 treat bags
3 each of 4 designs
4″ x 9-1/2″ (10.2 x 24.1 cm)
Food safe

Watch Sara’s video about assembling this fun tag kit! Anyone can do it whether beginners or experienced crafters!

Order your kit today and get a head start on holiday tags! You know there is always going to be that last-minute moment when you realize you have run out of tags for gifts or when you need a quick gift right away! Just add one of these already made tags! Get some friends together who each order a kit and assemble them together for a Girls’ Night Out!

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