Sentimental Christmas Holiday Card

Sentimental Christmas Holiday Card (1)

This is an easy card design to make, plus I love this Christmas paper! And with each purchase of the Sentimental Christmas Designer Series Paper, Stampin’ Up! will donate $3 to organizations dedicated to the future of children around the world. When we purchase this beautiful vintage-look paper, not only do we get to use it and enjoy it but we know we are helping others.

This festive patterned paper is filled with traditional holiday images: holly and berries, candles, snowflakes, candy canes, Christmas trees, and more! Fussy cut individual elements for quick accents. Or cut the lantern and candy cane paper into six pieces to make quick card fronts. This paper was hand-drawn in colored pencils for original designs you won’t find anywhere else.

To make this easy card, start with a Pretty Peacock Cardstock card base. I used two different patterns of the Sentimental Christmas Paper….the old-fashioned candles and the red striped paper. If I put a ribbon around the seam where the two papers meet, I always overlap the papers and add the ribbon before adhering to the card base. This new ribbon is the Cherry Cobbler & Gold 1/4″ Satin Ribbon. You can then tie a bow around the strip of ribbon or usually I tie a bow separately and then adhere it to the card with a Mini Glue Dot or two.

The greeting is in the Peaceful Season Stamp Set. There are many good holiday greetings in this stamp set. If you get the Peaceful Season Bundle, you can use those dies or you can use another die as I did, a stitched circle die in the Unbounded Love Dies.

To finish this card, just add a Basic White layer of cardstock inside the card and perhaps add a strip of designer series paper along the side or the bottom.

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New Kits in the Stampin’ Up! Kits Collection!

Christmas Ornament Kit 2024

There are two new kits in the Stampin’ Up! Kits Collection: as you can tell, we are heading toward the holidays with this one kit!

This Christmas Ornaments craft kit has everything you need to make 9 beautiful Christmas ornaments, including precut paper greenery, pinecones, bright berries, and festive details. Whether you gift it to a friend or keep it for yourself, this kit is the perfect solution for quick and easy Christmas crafting projects.

Kit includes:
* Predesigned projects
* Step-by-step instructions
* Precut pieces (No prep work! Get right to crafting)
* Makes nine 4″ & 3″ metal ring ornaments: 3 each of 3 designs
* Enough adhesive to complete projects (or use hot glue for easier assembly; hot glue not included.)
* Plastic pinecones and faux berries
* Pre-tied satin bows
* Metallic string
* A 9-7/8″ x 6-1/2″ x 2-3/4″ printed designer box for storage or crafting on the go

Featured colors: Basic Beige, brown, Cherry Cobbler, gold, Mossy Meadow, Old Olive, Pretty Peacock

Kits by Stampin’ Up! are perfect for new crafters, busy crafters, or crafters who want quick and easy projects. All-inclusive project kits have everything you need in one box! Give as a gift or try them yourself. Kits are while supplies last. Order today!

Here is what all the supplies included in the kit look like!

Christmas Ornamnet Kit 2024 Contents

Looks like fun to me! You could tie one of these little wreath ornaments on certain packages as a decoration and keepsake. Or you can give one as a small gift. Or order two kits or more and make them together with friends!

Another new kit in the Stampin’ Up! Kits Collection is the Card Keeper Kit! Have you ever wished you had a pretty box to keep some cards in that you have made? Or a pretty box in which to give some of you beautiful handmade cards as a gift? This is your answer either way!

Card Keeper Kit

Step up your handmade card collection with our Card Keeper Kit! This kit comes with everything you need to make 10 beautiful all-occasion cards. With a variety of sentiments, you can create an assortment of cards fit for birthdays, saying thanks, and more. And don’t miss the coordinating card container! This cute storage option is the perfect solution for keeping these all-occasion cards organized and ready to go. The printed sentiments are available in Dutch, English, French, and German.

Kit includes:
* Predesigned projects
* Step-by-step instructions
* Precut pieces (No prep work! Get right to crafting)
* Makes 10 cards: 5 each of 2 designs, and 1 card container (includes lid)
* Folded card size: 5-1/2″ x 4-1/4″
* Card container size: Approx. 8-1/4″ x 6-1/4″ x 6″
* 10 preprinted envelopes
* Enough adhesive to complete projects
* A 9-1/8″ x 6-3/4″ x 1-7/8″ printed designer box for storage or crafting on the go

Featured colors: Crushed Curry, Flirty Flamingo, Mossy Meadow, Night of Navy, Old Olive, Pool Party

No matter if you are a new crafter or an experienced one, these kits are easy enough for anyone to make! Just follow the directions and watch the video! You can do it!!

Card Keeper Kit Contents

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Christmas Stocking Book Treat Box

Christmas Stocking Book Treat Box

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.

Book Treat Box Folding

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.

Book Treat Box Assembly

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!

Christmas Stocking Book Treat Box Side View

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!

Last Days For the Designer Series Paper Sale!

It’s the Last Days for the Designer Series Paper Sale at Stampin’ Up! One of the (many) best things about Stampin’ Up! products is their designer series paper! So when you can get select papers from the Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog at a 15% discount, it’s time to stock up on your favorites or try out some new papers that you have been wanting to purchase.

Some papers are 12″ x 12″ and some are 6″ x 6″. There’s a very nice variety to choose from! In fact, it isn’t easy to choose, unless you want them ALL! Stampin’ Up! papers coordinate nicely with our colors, one of Stampin’ Up!’s strengths. I always suggest writing the list of coordinating colors of the paper on the back cardboard in the package. They are printed there in teeny tiny print (unless you are 20 years of age and can still see everything perfectly!), so I take a Sharpie and write them on the side in bigger lettering that I can read! It’s very handy!

As I write this, the Country Woods Designer Series Paper is unavailable. It will be back in stock soon but it will be after the sale, as far as I know now. The Thoughtful Journey 6″ x 6″ DSP is “Low Inventory” so if you want that, be sure to order soon!

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Unbounded Beauty Just For You Card

Unbounded Beauty Just For You Card

This Unbounded Beauty Just For You Card uses the beautiful Unbounded Beauty Designer Series Paper on the Stampin’ Up! Designer Series Paper Sale. This paper and select others in the Annual Catalog are discounted by 15% but only for a few more days! This sale ends on Saturday, August 31! This is one of those designer papers that whether you think it looks good or not in the photos is actually prettier in person, in my opinion.

This card begins with a Pretty in Pink card base. Pretty in Pink is one of the new In Colors although you may remember it from years ago if you have been around Stampin’ Up! for awhile. So you may have this cardstock and ink pad in your stash already. The layer in the background is one of the watercolor wash backgrounds.

I had cut out by hand (fussy cutting) one of the floral prints in the Unbounded Beauty Paper. To help it stand out against the background, I die cut three circles with the Stylish Shapes Dies. These are Basic White, Summer Splash, and Berry Burst cardstock. You can make them all the same size or different sizes. Just overlap them a little bit. The flowers are popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals. Before adhering the Basic White circle, it was stamped with Summer Splash ink with a greeting in the Unbounded Love Stamp Set.

To embellish the card, I used several In Color Shimmer Gems and a little bow made with the Pretty in Pink 3/8″ Bordered Ribbon.

Once you have this card design, it is pretty easy to copy and make. You could use the design with other images like this one in designer series papers.

Here’s another card, a fancy fold, using several patterns of the Unbounded Beauty Designer Series Paper.

Remember to check out the Designer Series Paper Sale and get your order in before Saturday!

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Frames & Flowers Diagonal Wreath Thanks Card

Frames & Flowers Diagonal Wreath Thanks Card

This Frames & Flowers Diagonal Wreath Thanks Card was fun to make, using the Frames & Flowers Specialty Designer Series Paper. This is a special designer series paper because it is both designer paper AND die cuts! Lots of diecuts!! There are all kinds of foliage and floral diecuts, even wreaths of different shapes and sizes. That’s why this package is so much fun!

This card has a base of Lost Lagoon, one of the coordinating colors of the Frames & Flowers Designer Paper. Then there is a layer of designer paper on the card base plus a narrower layer of another piece of the designer paper. The floral layer is 3 1/2″ x 4 3/4″. In the assortment of ephemera in the designer paper, I chose this square diecut wreath. However, I turned it on the diagonal and layered it on a piece of Lost Lagoon. I cut it at 2 3/4″ x 2 3/4″. First I cut it too large and it barely fit on the card, plus it was covering too much of the foliage design underneath. I think the Lost Lagoon helps the wreath stand out a bit from the background. Plus, it is popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals.

Even using the ephemera (die cuts), you can still decorate the card further. I stamped a greeting in the Simply Said Stamp Set in Lost Lagoon ink, right in the center of that wreath. I also added two orange flowers to the bottom of the wreath. There are some little orange flowers printed on the wreath diecut, but there are also separate flower die cuts that you can use. I popped up one flower on Mini Stampin’ Dimensionals. I added some Lost Lagoon gems in the Tinsel Gems Three Pack with Lost Lagoon, Fresh Freesia, and Misty Moonlight for a little more bling.

That’s just how easy this card is to make….and many other cards that you can make! Just make a card base with your choice of color, then add some background designer paper, and finally use the die cuts and a greeting to design your card. Add a little embellishment if you like. It’s really fun to play with with not very much work!

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Take a Bow Easy Christmas Card

Take a Bow Easy Christmas Card

This Take a Bow Easy Christmas Card is indeed a pretty quick and easy Christmas card to make! It actually turned out different than the simple idea I had in my head. Once I turned the paper over to the other side, this design hit me! Sometimes you don’t know exactly what you will end up with when you start a creative project!

This is a package of 6″ x 6″ designer series paper called Take a Bow. It is coming in the Holiday Mini Catalog from Stampin’ Up! September 4th so mark your calendars! It is part of an interesting Bundle of this paper and some dies. The dies will cut this paper or any other into pieces to make a bow. These bows you can make are the same style you would pay money for in a store for a gift! So I don’t know if the name of this Bundle and paper is “Take a Bow” (like making a bow to decorate a package!) or “Take a Bow” (as we might often say to congratulate someone on a job well done when you mean for them to bend at the waist and ‘take a bow’!). Either way, the dies will give you a way to make your own bows for all kinds of gift wrapping!

The Take a Bow Designer Series Paper features festive designs of candy cane stripes, holly, plaids, polka dots, and stars in red and green. Perfect for Christmas cards, scrapbooks, Christmas ornaments, bows, gift packaging, and more! Some of the generic designs you will be able to use long past the holidays. You get 48 sheets, 12 each of 4 designs in colors of Garden Green, Granny Apple Green, and Real Red.

Take a Bow Designer Series Paper
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Take a Bow Designer Series Paper other side
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The base of this card is Real Red. I was planning to put the criss-cross pattern as the full card front, but when I turned it over, I thought how about using the green print side and just add a strip of the criss-cross pattern down the side? The green layer is 5 1/4″ x 4″ and the strip is 5 1/4″ x 1 1/2″.

The greeting is stamped from the Decorative Trees Stamp Set in Garden Green ink on Basic White. I used the Something Fancy Dies to cut out the greeting and the Real Red layer underneath. I was dying to try out the little peppermint embellishments, Real Red & White Adhesive-Backed Peppermints. You may want to purchase a couple of packs of these! I put three at the bottom of the greeting.

For a finishing touch, I thought of using an image in one of the new Ephemera Packs in the Holiday Mini Catalog. I found this poinsettia diecut in the Joyful Images Mix & Match Ephemera Pack on page 15. I just glued it down flat although you could also pop it up as well as the greeting.

When you go to make a card, look through all the patterns in a package of designer series paper and see what strikes you at that moment. I used both sides of one piece of paper for this card because they went together so well! Remember not every card has to be fancy so do not feel intimidated! Some of the simplest cards are the most elegant.

Remember to use your Bonus Coupon Codes from July to save money on your August purchase. Only about ten more days to use them!

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Is Scrapbooking Making a Comeback?

Scrapbooking

Not that it had ever gone away, but Stampin’ Up! for a lot of years did not have many scrapbooking-specific supplies as in the “olden days” when I first became a Demonstrator. Recently, with the closing of the Close To My Heart company, Stampin’ Up! has invited our Close To My Heart friends to join our community. Currently, CTMH™ products have only been available to former Makers, VIP customers, and customers who had an online account with Close To My Heart, but now Stampin’ Up! is ready to lift the limitations so everyone can enjoy these products!

Beginning tomorrow, August 20th, all demonstrators and customers based in the United States, Canada (excluding Quebec), and the South Pacific can purchase products from Close To My Heart! These will be found in the CTMH™ Products category in the Stampin’ Up! Online Store.

Stampin’ Up! says, “While we’re limited to offering CTMH products to markets in which Close To My Heart was already doing business (the United States, Canada, and the South Pacific), stay tuned! We have some scrapbook product releases coming soon with items available to ALL customers. Yay! We’ll share more about these scrapbook product releases as details become available.”

Since CTMH has joined us, Stampin’ Up! has been working to bring traditional 12 x 12 scrapbooking products to add to our product line. Since there wasn’t time to include it in the Holiday Mini Catalog (catalogs are developed WAY early!), they are releasing a special digital brochure in September showcasing the new Stampin’ Up! scrapbooking products. Some will coordinate with products in the Holiday Mini. This includes adorable sticker sheets designed to complement the Reindeer Days Suite Collection and the Snowy Scenes Suite Collection.

The sticker sheets pair perfectly with the Snowy Scenes Designer Series Paper and Reindeer Days Designer Series Paper and will only be available to purchase WITH the coordinating Designer Series Paper. They will not be sold separately. 

All CTMH items in the Online Store now will be available beginning August 20th while supplies last. You can check them out today and make a shopping list if you find things you like! And then we’ll also look forward to the new Stampin’ Up! products in September!

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Reindeer Days Christmas Together Card

Reindeer Days Christmas Together Card

This is my first Christmas card made from my Holiday Mini Catalog preorder for Stampin’ Up! Demonstrators! So many new things to choose from! Somehow I came up with this Reindeer Days Christmas Together Card and I’m happy with how it turned out!

The card base is Garden Green although I was tempted to use Real Red because I love red for Christmas cards. The paper with the trees is in the new Reindeer Days 12″ x 12″ Designer Series Paper. Other papers have various reindeer on them and they are so cute! A couple of the reindeer can be cut out from certain designer papers in the pack with reindeer dies in the Reindeer Days Dies. It’s so fun to be able to do that, although it is a killer to cut into the beautiful paper to retrieve the reindeer you want from a section of the paper since we can’t put the whole 12″ x 12″ paper through our Cut & Emboss Machine! This one die cut out the adult and baby reindeer!

Behind the reindeer, I cut out the largest stitched circle in the Stylish Shapes Dies. I used Granny Apple Green for the circle. Before adhering the reindeer, I wanted a little something on the circle, so I stamped some little sparkle images from the Reindeer Fun Stamp Set in Granny Apple Green ink for the background. I popped up the circle with the reindeer on Stampin’ Dimensionals.

The greeting is also in the Reindeer Fun Stamp Set. It is stamped in Garden Green ink. It goes well with the two reindeer! The die I used to cut out the greeting is in the Nested Essentials Dies. I thought it fit this greeting perfectly. The greeting is also popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals. I also added a few new Gold Textured Adhesive-Backed Dots to the card front. When I got these and some other embellishments, these were my least favorite, yet they are the first new ones I used!

I think the Reindeer Days Suite Collection is going to be a very popular one because who can resist reindeer?! The paper, stamp set, and dies that I used for this card are all in the Suite, plus more. The Gold Dots are in another Suite.

While you are waiting until September 4th to be able to order from the Holiday Mini, remember that the Designer Series Paper Sale is going on with select papers 15% off through August 31! Choose your favorites for your collection!

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Full of Life Layering Leaves Autumn Card

Full of Life Layering Leaves Autumn Card

Does this Full of Life Layering Leaves Autumn Card make you think of fall? As I was looking through this designer paper, I thought the colors of this particular pattern looked like autumn. Maybe it’s wishful thinking on my part since it is nearly 100 degrees here in Houston every day for the foreseeable future, likely until November (well, maybe a “slight” exaggeration, but not much!). I thought if I paired some leaves with this paper it would give the impression of autumn!

The paper I used is the Full of Life Designer Series Paper. This pack of paper is 6″ x 6″ and has all kinds of colorful patterns as well as “the other side” of the paper with softer colors that you can use as backgrounds. If you like color and fun patterns and designs, then this paper is for you! Best of all, you can save 15% on the cost when you purchase it during the Stampin’ Up! Designer Series Paper Sale during August!

The card base is Pumpkin Pie with a layer of Old Olive. There are so many colors you can use with this Full of Life DSP. We all have so many choices for leaves we could use for this card to make it look like autumn. You can stamp or diecut leaves and we have plenty of stamp sets and dies to choose from with those items. I chose the Layering Leaves Stamp Set, which is a carryover into the new Annual Catalog from last year. You’ll find it on page 77 in the Encore Section of the catalog. I always thought it had beautiful and useful sentiments in this set.

For the focal point of this card, I diecut a piece of Basic White with the largest banner shape in the Nesting Essentials Dies. I kind of turned it into my own piece of designer paper by stamping different leaves in different colors all over the banner piece. I used some fall colors like Old Olive, Shaded Spruce, Crushed Curry, and Pumpkin Pie. For a layer, I just cut out a piece of Old Olive cardstock and trimmed out the banner shape at the bottom since there was no larger banner die to use.

Here is a card I made last year with the Layering Leaves Stamp Set which is much like I made the banner on this card.

Because I had stamped all over the banner, I needed a way to have the greeting stand out. I stamped my greeting on Basic White and cut it out with a banner shape in the Stylish Shapes Dies. The greeting is stamped in Pumpkin Pie ink and is in the Layering Leaves Stamp Set. I popped it up on Stampin’ Dimensionals. Then I used some new Natural Tones Linen Thread coming in the Nests of Winter Suite in the Holiday Mini Catalog, doubled, to tie a bow and adhere with a Mini Glue Dot. I used the Garden Green color. There are three colors of linen thread in the package.

That’s my first card for fall! Instead of stamping the leaves, you could use any shape, stamp the greeting, and then use diecut leaves around the edges. Lots of possibilities!

August is almost half over already and September comes next! In lots of parts of the country, that will mean fall is coming so it’s not crazy to start working on fall cards and projects!

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September 2024 Paper Pumpkin Kit

Paper Pumpkin September 2024 Autumn Abundance Kit Sq Ad

Share your gratitude and celebrate the autumn season with the Autumn Abundance Paper Pumpkin Kit! This all-inclusive crafting kit has everything you need to make beautiful, autumn-themed gratitude cards. Don’t miss the rich colors, copper foil details, and watercolored ephemera pack!

Share your love for all things autumn with this kit!  Join Paper Pumpkin by September 10th!

Kit Details:

• Makes 9 cards, 3 each of 3 designs 

• Project includes printed cards and coordinating envelopes 

• Laser cut card fronts, ephemera pack, and embellishments 

• Coordinating colors: Cajun Craze (Classic Stampin’ Spot), Crushed Curry, Poppy Parade, Pumpkin Pie, Very Vanilla, Wild Wheat

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Potions & Spells Halloween Card

Potions & Spells Halloween Card

This Potions & Spells Halloween Card was a fun card to make, even though Halloween is a little ways off yet! It was my first time to use this stamp set and dies and the background paper is from an unlikely package of designer paper! Do you know which one?

I thought maybe I had a purple designer paper pattern in my packages that I could use for a background on a Halloween card, but I quickly came across this pattern in the Flowering Zinnias Designer Series Paper. The Pumpkin Pie color and the nondescript pattern make it look like spooky Halloween paper to me! On the other side are giant zinnias, which anyone would be amazed to see if they turned this orange paper over! But that’s why our Stampin’ Up! designer series paper is so useful. One side is usually a specific theme but the other side of the papers is usually a generic pattern that you can use any time. If you were making a floral card, these little yellow designs on the orange paper would remind you of flowers. But they can also look like little twinkles or sparkles for Halloween, especially with a cauldron boiling and bubbling!

The card base is Gorgeous Grape. I almost used Blackberry Bliss cardstock but decided that was darker than I liked. It would have been fine, though. For the images on the card, I used the Potions & Spells Bundle which you will find in the Stampin’ Up! Online Exclusives and colored in with Stampin’ Blends markers. Then you can cut out the cauldron, the cat, and the bird with the matching dies. I cut out the bubbles by hand.

The cauldron is stamped with Memento ink on Gray Granite cardstock. I also added some color and shading to the edges of the pot with Stampin’ Blends. The parrot and cat are stamped on Basic White, colored with various Stampin’ Blends markers and die cut. The bubbles were kind of fun! I ended up using quite a few different colors to make them look like boiling bubbles. The finishing touch was using Soft Sea Foam on them! I felt satisfied with how they looked after using Pool Party, Petal Pink, and other colors which was starting to look a little weird until I softened everything with Soft Sea Foam.

The cauldron is glued down flat with Stampin’ Seal with the bubbles adhered flat behind the top of the pot. The cat is popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals as is the bird. The greeting is so fun! It is stamped in Gorgeous Grape ink and die cut with one of the Nested Essentials Dies. Then I sponged Gorgeous Grape ink around the edges. I also added some Glossy Dots in Gorgeous Grape and Daffodil Delight on the greeting and on the card.

It’s a fun card that came together pretty well using the new Potions & Spells Stamp Set and Dies (save 10% by buying both together in a Bundle). You’ll only find Halloween and fall sets in the Online Exclusives this year so you don’t have to wait for the Holiday Mini. Get them early and then you’ll have them and be ready to go!

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Haunted Home Kit in the Kits Collection!

Kits Collection Haunted Home Kit

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If you love Halloween as I do, I would say, just order this Haunted Home Kit right away!! Just do it, as they say! You know you will want one! I hope Stampin’ Up! ordered a lot of them because I have a feeling that they may go fast. I know it’s a bit early to think about Halloween and haunted houses, but you know how fast the holidays come up. In August, we start thinking about them a little bit, while we are sweltering in the heat, but by September we start to get serious!

We know the Stampin’ Up! Kits Collection is always easy enough for anyone to make, whether cards or crafts. You don’t already have to be a stamper or crafter. Just follow the directions, watch the video, or do your own thing. This kit has more pieces than normal, but we can all make it, no problem. This looks like a spectacular kit to me!

Here are the contents of the kit. Everything you need is already scored for easy folding or diecut already. All we have to do is glue things together. You will need a glue gun to assemble the house for best results.

Kits Collection Haunted Home Kit

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Kit includes:
*Cardboard Home Pieces
* Predesigned projects
* Step-by-step instructions
* Precut vellum and die cut paper pieces
* Enough adhesive to complete projects
*A 10-1/2″ x 8-1/2″ x 1-1/4″ (26.7 x 21.6 x 3.2 cm) printed designer box for storage or crafting on the go.

Product colors: Basic Black, Crushed Curry, Gray Granite, Moody Mauve, Pumpkin Pie

Watch Sara Douglass put together the house! If you were watching the video at home assembling your house, you can just stop it when you want to if you are following each step along the way. Sometimes I watch a video all the way through and then go back for the individual steps.

Doesn’t that look fun?!! Be sure to order yours soon, maybe a couple extras to make with grandkids or friends or one for every room in your house! 🙂

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