Today is the day Stampin’ Up! brings back the Hey Chick Stamp Set from Sale-A-Bration 2017 because it was SO popular…plus they added a set of Chick Dies! You can purchase the stamp set or just the dies, or get BOTH in the Hey Chick Bundle! Save 10%! Lots of cute die pieces in this set for creating all kinds of scenes for your Chicks!
If you like chickens and cuteness, you will love these new offerings! Maybe you already have the Hey Chick Stamp Set in your stash from 2017! If you do, just order the dies. If you don’t own it, you can purchase the stamps or Bundle today and catch up!
I know chickens are popular because we could hear a rooster crowing one afternoon out for our walk around the neighborhood! I don’t think it was even from our neighborhood but from a couple streets adjacent to our subdivision. But some people love having chickens! It’s a lot easier just having chicken stamps and dies, so check out the new/not so new Chicks today!
Would you believe this True Love Red Floral Card is made from the True Love Designer Series Paper except for the vellum and the greeting? This black and white designer paper with all sorts of designs give you all sorts of opportunities to be creative!
To make this card, I decided to copy a sample card in the January-June 2021 Mini Catalog on page 10 in the Love You Always Suite. I changed the colors of the flowers and how I arranged them and I put a different greeting on my card. My greeting took up a little extended space since it was longer and narrower than the sample card, so that caused me to move the flowers around a little.
The card base is Thick Whisper White and the striped pattern of the True Love Designer Series Paper covers the whole front of the card base. I didn’t leave any margin. The piece of vellum is 5 1/2″ x 3 1/4″. You could make yours any size. Just don’t glue it down yet because glue and other adhesives show through vellum.
Then I chose another of the patterns in the designer series with these flowers. I decided which ones I wanted as close to the edge of the paper as I could get and cut those out of the sheet. I colored them in with Stampin’ Blends Markers, the Light and Dark Real Red. I wanted my card to be black, white and Real Red! The flower center is just colored with Dark Daffodil Delight. The leaves are Granny Apple Green, Light and Dark, along with a touch of Daffodil Delight. An artist friend I know always said to mix some yellow in with green, so I do!
You can leave the flowers in the group in which they appear on the designer paper or if you need to cut them apart to make them fit on your card you can do that. Some I popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals and one flower and one leaf is adhered right on the vellum.
The greeting is stamped in Real Red Ink on Whisper White from the Lots of Heart Stamp Set. It is die-cut with a die in the Tasteful Labels Dies as is the Real Red piece behind it.
If you place and adhere everything on to the vellum before you attach it to the card, you can turn the vellum over and apply adhesive on areas that are covered by the greeting and flowers on the front. That will hold it on to the card front without showing the adhesive through the vellum. I used Stampin’ Seal.
When you are looking for card ideas, if you don’t already have one in your head, think about looking at any of your Stampin’ Up! catalogs! You can copy any of the ideas, and most likely you will come up with your own version once you start creating!
Remember, Sale-A-Bration is going on so with every $50 you spend, you earn a free product in the Sale-A-Bration Brochure! No limit!
Be sure to check out the black and white True Love Designer Series Paper so you can have fun either designing with it as is or using different methods of coloring it like on this True Love Red Floral Card.
You get lots of hearts in the stamp set and dies I used to make this easy slim card, Trio of Hearts Valentine Card, for Valentine’s Day or really any time! These hearts are pretty big but they still fit perfectly on this slimline card.
I just got the Lots of Heart Bundle, which has the Lots of Heart Stamp Set and the Many Hearts Dies. And there really are many heart dies in that set! In fact, I recommend making a copy of the sheet with all the dies still adhered with your printer and keep it with your dies so you can see clearly what you are supposed to have! There are 15 different dies in the set!
To make this card, I decided to make pastel-colored hearts so I started with a card base of Pool Party Cardstock. I cut the paper 6″ x 6″ so that when I folded it in half, it would be 3″ x 6″ for a slimline card. The Whisper White layer is just a tiny bit narrower than the card base, 2 7/8″ x 5 7/8″.
I stamped the hearts on another piece of Whisper White and then die cut with one of the heart dies. This heart die also cuts a narrow outline of the heart, which I didn’t notice at first so the excess paper was getting left in the die. If you have this set, make sure you check the underside of your heart die because if you cut several times, that paper still stuck in the die will prevent getting a complete cut after awhile!
The hearts are stamped in Blushing Bride, Mint Macaron, and Pool Party ink. Since the photopolymer stamps are new, even though I wiped them on my Shammy a couple of times, the ink still beaded up a tiny bit when I stamped, but I don’t think it’s anything that’s bad enough to jump out. I adhered the hearts flat on the white card layer, but I could have popped them up on Stampin’ Dimensionals. Either way is fine. I did stamp the greeting in Pool Party Ink and then popped that up on Dimensionals. The greeting is in the Lots of Heart Stamp Set.
I almost left it as is at that point, but I decided to add some Champagne Rhinestone Basic Jewels. Who can resist a few rhinestones?! And for a final touch, I just used a piece of white twine I had to make a little bow on the center heart, adhered with a rolled-up Mini Glue Dot.
This is one example of how you can make an easy Valentine using three hearts in the Lots of Heart Stamp Set in the January-June 2021 Mini Catalog on page 15.
I couldn’t wait to play with the new Gilded Leafing again but I wanted to try something different and I came up with this Art Gallery Floral With Gilded Frame Card.
I’ve loved the little floral stamp in the Art Gallery Stamp Set in the Fine Art Floral Suite. I got the idea to stamp the flower and then make a gilded frame around it. Instead of using Versamark Ink and Heat & Stick Powder before applying the Gilded Leafing, as I did on this card, I simply made the frame with strips of Tear & Tape Adhesive! You can either pick up pieces of the gold leaf and stick it onto the adhesive, which I started doing. But then I just plunged the piece into my container, pulled it out but still held it over the container, and simply rubbed most of the excess off with my fingers. The Gilded Leafing is so soft, you almost want to stick your hands in it! When I had most of it off, I used a soft brush I had from years ago to brush off the last little bits. You can also use one of theStamping Sponges.
The card base is Night of Navy, and I chose that because on another card I made with the Dandy Garden DSP I really liked the yellow flowers and dark blue background of that paper. I started off coloring the stamp with Stampin’ Write Markers but since it was new and I hadn’t prepared the stamp first, the ink from the markers just beaded up. I decided to just skip to a regular ink pad, Mango Melody. I tried to mostly get it on the flowers but I knew that even if I got it on the leaves, that’s okay because they would be covered with green ink. On these I did use the Mossy Meadow Stampin’ Write Marker because it was the darkest green and it would look lighter stamped. What you see on the card is my first attempt, so it worked out great! I layered this on a piece of Mango Melody Cardstock and then added the Gilded Leafing around the sides.
Since I had used the Mango Melody under the flower piece, I decided to use it as a thin layer on top of the Night of Navy card base. The top layer is a piece of the Fine Art Floral Designer Series Paper. Instead of using the floral side, of course, I turned it over and used this light blue with a pattern on it that looks like it was painted with a paint brush! To add to that texture, I embossed the paper with the Painted Texture 3D Embossing Folder.
I adhered the floral piece to the card front with Stampin’ Dimensionals®. For the greeting, I stamped a birthday sentiment from the Art Gallery Stamp Set in Mossy Meadow Ink and then die-cut it with a die in the Floral Gallery dies. I think all of these main products are in the Fine Art Floral Suite! I’m sure it will be one of the most popular Suites in the Spring Mini Catalog! Everything in that Suite is lovely!
If it isn’t on your shopping list yet, be sure to put it on there, at least if you like florals. The paper is gorgeous. The Gilded Leafing is fun and elegant. The Fine Art Ribbon is beautiful and soft. You will want everything!
Remember, with every $50 increment you purchase, you earn a free Sale-A-Bration product! If you spend $100 or more, you can choose one of the special Level 2 products, unless you want two Level 1 products at the $50 level.
Today is maybe a bigger day for stampers than New Year’s Day because Stampin’ Up!’s biggest promotion of the year begins, Sale-A-Bration 2021, as well as the release of the new January-June 2021 Mini Catalog with great new products in it!
When you purchase any of these new products (or Annual Catalog products!) and your order totals $50 or more (before shipping and tax) you earn a FREE product in the Sale-A-Bration Brochure! For every $50 you spend, you earn a free Sale-A-Bration product. If you spend $100, you may choose one of the select higher-level products.
You can mix and match your free products, too. If you spend $100, you can choose two $50 level products OR you can choose one $100 level product. If you spend $150 (you get Stampin’ Rewards of 10% already!), you can choose three $50 level products OR one $100 level product and one $50 product. You get the idea! No limit! Just ask me if you have questions!
Mini Stampin’ Cut & Emboss Available Today!
Finally, this little cutie, the Mini Cut & Emboss Machine is available beginning today!! This cute machine has a compact footprint for easy storage and travel. The 3-1/2″ platform works with many of Stampin’ Up!’s smaller dies and smaller embossing folders. Dies and embossing folders that are compatible with the Mini Stampin’ Cut & Emboss Machine are indicated in the product description in our catalogs and online store. Includes 1 Mini Base Plate (Plate 1), 2 Mini Cutting Plates (Plate 2), 1 Mini Embossing Plate (Plate 3), and 1 Mini 3D Embossing Plate (Plate 4).
If you want to JOIN STAMPIN’ UP! as a Demonstrator, in your Starter Kit you will also receive a free stack of our Regals, Subtles, Neutrals, Brights, and 2020—2022 In Color Designer Series Paper. There couldn’t be a better time to join the Stampin’ Up! family. Think about it and let me know if you have questions! You’re always invited to be a Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator!
If you have a large order yourself or go in together with friends, at a $300 order you will receive an exclusive Punch Party Stamp Set for FREE!
New Mini Catalog Live Today!
The January-June 2021 Mini Catalog is ready for ordering today! You will find fresh, new products for spring. If you have not received your catalog yet from me if you are a regular customer of mine, I still hope it will come soon now that the holidays are over…but remember, you can view it online as well as just viewing the products in the Online Store.
If you are new and interested in purchasing Stampin’ Up! products, I would be happy to be your Demonstrator and send you the catalogs if you would like. Just email me at Karen@Karenstamps.com and send me your contact information.
And one more thing…..new Basic White Cardstock and other products available today! Remember, our Whisper White line was no longer being produced so Stampin’ Up! found an acceptable substitute called Basic White. Just search in the Online Store for Basic White to see all the products!
And remember, for every $50 you spend with Stampin’ Up!, you will earn a FREE Sale-A-Bration product! So when you put those two things together, what can be a better way to start off a New Year!!
I’m finally getting a chance to play with some new things in the upcoming January – June 2021 Mini Catalog, coming January 5th and the result was this Fine Art Floral Thinking of You Card.
As you can imagine, this Fine Art Floral Designer Series Paper is gorgeous! When you get your catalog or look at it online next week, look at the back cover because you will see how the artists created the designs for this paper. One side of every sheet is a floral design and the other side is a more generic, plainer watercolor washed design.
And when you look at the back of the designer paper package, you will be amazed at how many coordinating colors go with this paper! I think there were twelve colors plus white. I always write all the colors with a marker on the back cardboard so I can read them easier than trying to squint and read Stampin’ Up!’s tiny print!
The card base is Flirty Flamingo. I cut a strip of the designer paper thinking I would put it on the side of the card, but as I turned over the floral side, I really liked the other side, too, and ended up with this design I adhered two strips of the “other side” to the sides of the card but leaving 1/4″ of Flirty Flamingo showing, and then adhered the floral side over the top and down the middle. That panel is 2 1/4″ wide. Not what I had planned at all, but it’s what it turned out to be!
For the greeting, I sort of copied a sample in the catalog. I die-cut only the word “just” from a die in the Floral Gallery Dies. The die says “just want to say” but I just laid the Merry Merlot Cardstock over the word “just” and die cut that. Don’t forget to save the dot over the J!
I die cut the label for the greeting from the Tasteful Labels Dies in the Annual Catalog. Then I stamped the “thinking of you” in the new Art Gallery Stamp Set on the label in Merry Merlot ink but did not ink up the “I’m”. I got lucky and did not mess it up! Then the die-cut word “just” is adhered to the label also. I popped this greeting up with Stampin’ Dimensionals. You can purchase the Art Gallery Stamp Set and the Floral Gallery Dies in the Art Gallery Bundle and save 10%.
I thought I was finished and was ready to photograph the card but I thought it still needed “something”. Of course that something was a little bling from the Champagne Rhinestone Jewels.
Once I had the design figured out, it was a pretty easy card to make. This is a beautiful suite that you will be attracted to when you see the new catalog!
The new January-June 2021 Mini Catalog starts Tuesday, January 5th….next week!! That will also be the first day of the biggest promotion of the year, Sale-A-Bration! What a week to look forward to!
It’s going to be time to wrap gifts sooner than we want to realize, so here is an idea – this Gold Mini Pizza Box With Christmas Poinsettia. Just put a treat inside or a small gift and decorate the box exactly how you want!
It’s a good idea to keep a package of these Gold Mini Pizza Boxes on hand. They are pretty already being gold so you can just add a little decoration and you’ll have a gorgeous gift box ready to go. These boxes are food safe so you can add a cookie or two inside, some Christmas fudge or candy, a set of 3″ x 3″ notecards or some other gift. You get 8 mini pizza boxes in a package!
I got the inspiration for this gift box after seeing a Christmas card online (not handmade) although I ended up changing it a little. The card had gold, dark blue, and red poinsettias with gold trim. It also had swirly things in the background in gold. So I thought I would try that red, blue, and gold color scheme as a gift box!
The blue I chose is Night of Navy although I started with Misty Moonlight. Really, either would be fine. I liked the slightly darker shade. The poinsettia is made with Real Red Cardstock and the Poinsettia Dies. I used two layers of the medium size flower and the smallest flower for the center. Just using the largest poinsettia flower in the center of this box would be pretty also, but I wanted room for gold trim of some kind. I ended up using Gold Foil for a few leaves and the sprigs in the die set. The flower is popped up with Stampin’ Dimensionals®. It’s a good idea to use your fingers to sort of fold up the petals and leaves a little bit to give them some dimension.
The greeting is stamped with the Itty Bitty Christmas Stamp Set and cut out with the Classic Label Punch. The greeting is popped up with Mini Stampin’ Dimensionals.
There are so many things you can do with these Gold Mini Pizza Boxes! They can be decorated for any occasion. You can use them for a birthday treat or gift or take a few cookies or candy to your neighbor. You could do some stamping on cardstock for the top and tie a ribbon around the box. Or add a belly band with a greeting.
Order some of these boxes or the plain white Mini Pizza Boxes to have on hand. You will have fun decorating them for many occasions, especially Christmas!
Use the So Many Snowflakes Die to make this So Many Snowflakes Die-Cut Holiday Card and let the sparkles show through the snowflake! I realized I hadn’t used my glimmer paper enough so I tried it out on this card with the see-through die-cut negative.
The card base is Balmy Blue with a layer of Whisper White. I die cut the largest snowflake from the So Many Snowflakes Dies in the Whisper White. Since I didn’t purchase the Snowflake Wishes Stamp Set (even Demonstrators can’t have everything!), I used some snowflakes in the Snowman Season Stamp Set to stamp some random snowflakes in Balmy Blue Ink on the front of the card.
For the sparkle under the die-cut, I adhered a piece of Balmy Blue Glimmer Paper. It’s always difficult to photograph sparkle and shine, but it looks very pretty under there! Then this Whisper White layer with the Balmy Blue Glimmer Paper underneath adhered to the Balmy Blue Cardstock card base.
The greeting is from the Poinsettia Petals Stamp Set. It is stamped in Balmy Blue Ink and punched with the Lovely Labels Pick A Punch. I simply cut a little strip of Balmy Blue Cardstock to layer underneath the greeting to help it stand out a little and popped it up with Stampin’ Dimensionals®. For a final touch, I added two Adhesive-Backed Snowflakes. These are so fun to play with and easy to use with the adhesive already on them!
I think this would actually be an easy Christmas card to duplicate if you wanted several to send. It involves the die-cutting and punching the greeting, but you could make a simpler greeting by cutting a rectangle or using another die rather than the punch. Do it assembly-line fashion like I described yesterday in my blog post!
When you are going to make a batch of Christmas cards, whether it’s a few or a hundred, plan to make them “assembly-line style”. I learned early on not to make one whole card, then another whole card, and then another. Instead, gather all your supplies and do each step for ALL the cards. Whether you are cutting or stamping or adding embellishments, you will do it faster if you do it over and over again. And if you are making a whole pile of cards, you almost get “muscle memory” for doing each step and that makes it even easier!
I am copying a card Snowflake Splendor Merry Christmas Card, I already made awhile back (in August!!) but liked it a lot. Since I like to make a lot of different cards from all the ideas I see in the catalogs and online, I’m making many different designs and maybe five copies of each one. The only problem is that when I go to send them, I have to choose which card to send to which person! You might choose one card design and make 50 cards the same. I’ve done that, also. Then everyone just gets the same card! And your muscle-memory gets really good at making the cards!
The first step, as you see in the top photo is to cut all your paper and score the card base as well. Cut the card base, layers, designer paper, scrap pieces….everything you need to make the card. Make little piles of the same pieces so you don’t get them mixed up.
Now amazingly, this time I remembered to use the Adhesive Sheets before cutting out the snowflakes! This makes it easier to adhere them because they will already have adhesive on all the little areas from the Adhesive Sheets. No need to add tiny drops of glue! The snowflakes are made with the So Many Snowflakes Dies.
For this card, I diecut all the white snowflakes out of the Whisper White layer I was going to use under the designer paper. Shhh! Don’t tell anybody! They’ll never know!
Adhere the Whisper White layer to the Highland Heather card base. And since I used the Adhesive Sheets on the back so I could diecut the snowflakes, I don’t even have to use glue, just adhere the Whisper White to the card. Do all the cards like this.
Adhere all the die-cut snowflakes to all the pieces of the watercolor pattern in the Snowflake Splendor Designer Series Paper. The Take Your Pick tool helps to separate the backing of the adhesive sheets from the snowflake.
When you have stamping to do making Christmas cards, it’s really useful to have the Stamparatus! Get the words or whatever images lined up perfectly and then stamp with the Stamparatus! If the inked image is incomplete, you can just reink the stamp and stamp again as long as you don’t move the paper!
Finish assembling your cards by adding some Holiday Rhinestone Basic Jewels. Inside the card, adhere the smaller designer paper snowflakes you already cut out and stamp the greeting using the Stamparatus on another layer of Whisper White, also from the Poinsettia Petals Stamp Set. Then you have a stack of Christmas cards all finished!! Make them assembly-line style!
I was really happy with the way this Pink Poinsettia Petals Happy Holidays Card turned out. The colors turned out to look pretty nice together with the Plush Poinsettia Specialty Paper in the background.
The card base is just Whisper White with a layer of the Plush Poinsettia Specialty Paper. This paper is beautiful with the flocked poinsettias on white vellum.
The poinsettia petals are all die-cut with the Poinsettia Dies. I used Petal Pink Cardstock and the die-cut leaves are Pear Pizzazz. Each poinsettia and leaf has two pieces – the outline that cuts it out and a separate inside piece that does the embossing of the veins in the leaves and petals. If you have trouble lining them up, just keep turning the inside piece until it fits in the outline die. You might even want to mark one of the lined up points with a Sharpie on both pieces. Those little green sprigs are also a die in the set. I think they add a lot.
The Petal Pink strip along the side was just in my bag of cardstock! It is from the Peony Dies. I think it is accidentally perfect! It adds a little something along the side of the card without taking away from the poinsettia and doesn’t take up any extra space like a ribbon with a bow would.
The greeting is in the Poinsettia Petals Stamp Set as well as a very nice “Merry Christmas” greeting. I stamped it in Petal Pink Ink on Whisper White and die cut with the Layering Ovals die along with a Petal Pink scalloped oval die for the layer. I think it is small enough to not take away from the poinsettia and fits just fine in the space.
For the poinsettia center, I just added some Gold Glitter Enamel Dots. I adhered three of the smallest ones and one the next size up and that looked perfect. As I was cleaning up, I had a Dot stuck on my finger from the package so I stuck that on the flower center too! I thought about using the Gilded Gems but for this card, I liked the Gold Glitter Dots better and they are better for mailing.
This card is a little fussier to make so I don’t know that I would want to make many multiples of it with all the die-cutting, yet now that I have the card design maybe it wouldn’t be too bad – or too bad for you to copy. Click HERE to see another poinsettia Christmas card I made, this time with the traditional red poinsettia.
This Poinsettia Place Suite of products is all so beautiful it’s worth a little extra effort so try your hand at a card something like this Pink Poinsettia Petals Happy Holidays Card.
You can’t help but be happy when you stamp with the Freezin’ Fun Stamp Set like on this Freezin’ Fun Penguin Merry Christmas Card! It is the cutest stamp set and so much fun to stamp with. Whether you use one or more of the whimsical characters and accessory stamps in the set, you can’t make anything except a “happy” card, as my friend would say.
The card base is Balmy Blue with a layer of the Snowflake Splendor Designer Series Paper. Sometimes it’s not what you plan to use, it’s what piece of paper you spy when you get out your package of designer paper. In this case, I saw this piece with the various purples and wanted to use it on my card. To help the designer paper stand out a bit, I put a layer of Whisper White behind it.
I found the scalloped circle die cut piece already in my package of Balmy Blue so I tried to just use that. I stamped the little penguin on Whisper White and die cut with the Layering Circles Die. Since the penguin looks like he is jumping (or there is a snowboard in the stamp set you can use with him) I decided to stamp a pile of snowballs he is jumping over! Then I also stamped and die cut with the Freezin’ Fun Stamp Set and the Freezin’ Friends Dies. If you want both, get the Freezin’ Fun Bundle and save 10%.
The images are all colored in with Stampin’ Blends alcohol markers, but you can use ink, Watercolor Pencils, or whatever you like. On the die cut circle with the penguin I also stamped some snowflakes in Balmy Blue, stamped off once.
After adhering the scalloped circle with the stamped image to the card front, I adhered one small tree flat on the Whisper White circle but popped up the other two trees with Stampin’ Dimensionals®. I meant to put the image pretty far into the lower right corner of the card, but leave room for aa tree or two, so I think I could have moved it over to the right a little bit more.
You could make this same card design with any of the characters in the Freezin’ Fun Stamp Set. If you like fun and whimsical Christmas cards, then this is the set for you!
Not only is today Election Day but you can purchase an early-release group of products called Curvy Celebrations! Celebrate with curvy stamps, dies, and more! Designed for a variety of special occasions, so you can get a lot of use out of it.
This set will be in the upcoming January-June 2021 Mini Catalog but you can purchase it now! If you purchase the entire group, the Quite Curvy Variety Bundle (158396), you will save 10%! The Christmas items in this Bundle are only available until January 4, 2021. The rest will be in the Mini Catalog in January. The last “safe” day to order before Christmas is December 10th, according to Stampin’ Up! but I’d order as soon as possible. Click on the images below.
The best value is the Quite Curvy Variety Bundle. You get these items:
If you click on the three horizontal bars on the top left of the Home Page of the Store and click on the “What’s New” category, you will see the Quite Curvy Variety Bundle listed. Or use the link above to directly to my page.
Have fun looking over this new group of products designed to give you additional options for your holiday projects and cards!
Fresh off making a Thanksgiving card with plaid designer paper, I wondered if I could do one with a wreath and I came up with this Plaid Tidings Christmas Wreath Card.
The card base is Real Red (although I could have used Cherry Cobbler also). Then I chose this red and green plaid pattern in the Plaid Tidings Designer Series Paper. I die cut a wreath with the Wreath Builder Dies. I was going to leave it as is, but I ended up cutting out another partial wreath out of Granny Apple Green for contrast and cut off little sprigs to add on to the main wreath.
I die cut several flowers of different sizes out of Real Red Cardstock with dies in the Wreath Builder Dies. Since the die punches out out a tiny center circle from the flowers, I decided to cut very small pieces of Bumblebee Cardstock to adhere to the back of every flower to give it a yellow center. I wouldn’t have had to since I planned to add a jewel to the center, but I did it. A little tedious, though! After placing and adhering the flowers around the wreath, I added Gold Glimmer Enamel Dots to some of the flowers.
The greeting is stamped in Real Red ink on Whisper White Cardstock from the Banner Year Stamp Set and die cut from the Tasteful Labels Dies. Then this greeting was layered on a Real Red die cut from the Ornate Frames Dies. I also added Gold Glimmer Enamel Dots to each end of that piece.
After I got the wreath adhered to the card front, I added a small bow to the top of the wreath. The ribbon is the All The Trimmings Ribbon Combo Pack. The red color is actually Poppy Parade trimmed in gold but it looks fine on my wreath. The other color in the ribbon combo is Old Olive.
The Arrange A Wreath Bundle is a great one to own and use well past Christmas. You know you can make a wreath for any occasion on any card or project so don’t think it is just for the holidays. Here is a Thanksgiving card I made with the Bundle. Change up the colors for a birthday or whatever occasion you need.
If you start making Christmas cards now, you will be ahead of the game and not so rushed right in the midst of the holidays. It’s already November! So get a head start, maybe make a version of this Plaid Tidings Christmas Wreath Card that is a little bit simpler. But now that you have the design it won’t be so hard to duplicate! Have fun stamping!
This Coming Home Haunted House Halloween Card was so fun to create! I didn’t know what it was going to be until I made it! I had seen the idea online of making Halloween houses out of what we are mostly using as Christmas houses and I thought that was so clever that I had to use that idea.
To get this card started I stamped one house in the Coming Home Stamp Set on Whisper White and then colored it in with various colors of Stampin’ Blends markers. You can use whatever colors you like. I wanted my house to look haunted so I chose some light and dark gray colors for the house with a couple different yellows for the windows. I wanted to roof to look a little spooky so I used a purple on it along with grays and black. The chimney is part Cherry Cobbler. Then to make it look even more run-down, I drew lines with the pointy end of the Basic Black Blends marker to resemble shingles or bricks on the house. That’s not what the stamp looks like.
The card base is Basic Black with a layer of Gorgeous Grape. As I looked through my embossing folders, I found this Woodland Embossing Folder and used that. Originally I thought just any kind of small background folder for some texture would be fine, but when I found this one with the trees, thought it was perfect for Halloween spookiness.
After I had stamped the haunted house, I cut it out with Paper Snips and originally thought I would adhere it to a die-cut circle or rectangle to be the focal point of the card, but then I decided I could just place it at the bottom of the card and it could look like it was out in the woods. I also carefully stamped some trees in Memento Black in the Coming Home Stamp Set in between the embossed trees. I got lucky that I didn’t mess up the embossing!
The greeting is from the Banner Year Stamp Set. I have gotten a lot of use out of this stamp set even though it is one you might overlook. I like the variety of greetings and small images. I stamped it on Crushed Curry Cardstock and then used a die-cut in the Tasteful Labels Dies. I love the look of that circle die with the fancy edge. I popped that up with Stampin’ Dimensionals® and placed some ghosts behind it.
To make all my ghosts, I die cut the smallest plain hearts in the Be Mine Stitched Dies and cut them in half. You can read about why I make ghosts like that HERE in this recent post. The haunted house had to have some ghosts, too! I colored on some eyes on the ghosts with a marker.
And that’s it for my Coming Home Haunted House Halloween Card which was so fun to make! Halloween is Saturday so time is running out to enjoy creating for this fun holiday!
I still have pieces from my September Paper Pumpkin Kit so I used stamps and pieces to make this Paper Pumpkin Halloween Card & Tag. I actually started with the tag because I have this Halloween sweater tree I bought from someone on Instagram and I thought it would be fun to hang a tag on it for Halloween.
And after I made the tag, I thought I should copy myself and make a Halloween card as long as I had extra pieces I had die cut and everything still out on the table!
I used a lot of varied things! To start with, I used the Stitched So Sweetly Dies for the Pumpkin Pie and Basic Black pieces to make the tag and then the focal point on the card. The pumpkin on the tag is stamped with the stamp set in the Paper Pumpkin Kit and then colored with Stampin’ Blends. The greeting is from the Paper Pumpkin stamp set also and stamped on Granny Apple Green, then die cut with a die in the Tasteful Labels Dies. For some tiny little stems of leaves in various colors, I used the dies in theForever Flourishing Dies. And I found some tiny little flowers in the Budding Blooms Dies. Sometimes you should just look through all your dies and see what you can use! It doesn’t always have to be in a coordinating set. I added a Gilded Gem on top of each flower on the tag. The ribbon on the tag is the beautiful Black 3/8″ Glittered Organdy Ribbon.
The Halloween card is very similar. The card base is Cajun Craze with a layer of Pumpkin Pie. To get the wood background, I used a pattern in the In Good Taste Designer Series Paper. This large pack of designer paper is on sale in the Stampin’ Up! Designer Series Paper Sale until October 31 so don’t miss it! Instead of the stamped pumpkin, I used one of the pumpkin diecuts in the September Paper Pumpkin Kit, as well as a couple swirly vines plus some colored stems I already die-cut like on the tag. For a couple of embellishments I used two of the Gold Glitter Enamel Dots and tied a bow with the Black Glittered Ribbon.
Here is a photo of what I did with the tag! I bought this sweater tree from @thelittlegreenbean on Instagram, also the two little embroidered mushrooms on the right. After Halloween, I could make a fall or Thanksgiving tag to hang on the tree. (If you recognize the Witches Candy Shoppe sign in the background, that was some designer paper from several years ago that was perfect for framing for home decor!
