This Snowy Scenes Snowman Happy Christmas Card is an easy one to make just with designer paper and a couple of other things. You could make a few multiples of this card but since it uses the snowglobe design on the designer paper you would be limited to how many you could make. But you still could use the design and substitute some other designer paper or stamped image for the focal point.
I used the village pattern of designer paper for the background The snowman is one of the snowglobes on the designer paper that I cut out and layered on a piece of Garden Green cardstock, cut out with the Deckled Rectangle Dies. I wanted the card to look like the snowman is part of the village.
The greeting at the bottom of the snowglobe is one of the ephemera pieces in the Joyful Sayings Ephemera Pack. (Be sure you order English, not French!). I popped it up with Stampin’ Dimensionals. The snowflake sticker in the top corner of the snowglobe is on the Sticker Sheet. I tied a separate bow with the Silver & White 1/2″ Sheer Ribbon and adhered it with a Mini Glue Dot. If you wanted to, you could add some sequins or tiny snowflakes or other sparkly bling around the snowman for some sparkle.
It’s hard to believe it is getting really close to Christmas now with Thanksgiving being a little later this year! Time to work on those card, but enjoy it while you are working!
Make this Reindeer Days Flying Reindeer Christmas Card easily for the holidays. This patterned paper looks so fun with all the little reindeer but I wasn’t quite sure what to make with it at first. Deciding to showcase one reindeer up close as the focal point of the card seemed to work well with the paper! It is so much fun to play and see what you come up with.
This card has a Real Red card base. The reindeer paper is in the Reindeer Days Designer Series Paper. I am loving this paper for Christmas cards and projects. From another sheet, I cut out this one larger reindeer with my Paper Snips scissors. The background color of the designer paper is Pool Party, but using Pool Party cardstock was too much of a contrast so I added some light Pool Party color to the diecut Basic White circle. I used a small Blending Brush and lightly added some Pool Party ink to the circle. Then it was layered on a Real Red diecut circle. These are in the Stylish Shapes Dies. The circles are popped up with lots of Stampin’ Dimensionals which also help hold down the ribbon. The reindeer is just adhered flat on the circle with Multipurpose Liquid Glue.
To add a little embellishment, I added some Real Red & Gold 3/8″ Dotted Ribbon to the back of the circles. We had this ribbon last year but it is a carry-over and still available in the Online Store. Around the reindeer I added some White Loose Snowflakes (mine are retired but look the same). Just put the tiniest dot of glue you can manage or use a toothpick to pick up glue from a puddle on some scrap paper. I used my Take Your Pick Tool to pick up the tiny snowflakes and glue them onto the card.
The greeting is a sticker in the Reindeer Days Designer Series Paper & Stickers package. You can buy the designer paper separately, but if you would like the extra stickers get Item #166612. The stickers are fun and easy to use if you have one that works with your project.
Have fun with the Reindeer Days Designer Series Paper and get it while it is available!
This A Sentimental Christmas Reindeer Card turned out entirely differently than I ever could have planned! Sometimes that happens! In this case, it was finding a scrap diecut piece in my cardstock package in the right color that jumped out at me as a possible card element.v
For the first thing, in looking through the Sentimental Christmas Designer Series PaperI was surprised to see Christmas paper in brown! Snowflakes on Pecan Pie! Who would have thought?! Maybe it goes along with the gingerbread trend last Christmas and this year also, but to me it doesn’t look exactly like that style. I saw that brown paper as a challenge and decided to see what I could come up with. I looked around online for ideas just for a short time but the answer I found was this Pecan Pie cardstock diecut in this arch shape in the Garden Meadow Dies in the Online Exclusives.
The card base is Pecan Pie cardstock with a layer of Basic White to make the designer paper stand out a little more. The white layer goes well to bring out the white snowflakes. The opposite side of the brown snowflake paper is this vintage looking reindeer print. I really liked how that looked with the snowflake paper, so it was diecut with a circle in the Stylish Shapes dies. I planned to layer it on a larger circle in Real Red, Shaded Spruce, or Pecan Pie. But when I found the arched diecut piece and tried the reindeer diecut circle, it fit perfectly in that space under the arch. Then there was just enough space underneath for a greeting.
The greeting is stamped in Pecan Pie ink on Basic White cardstock with a stamp in the Peaceful Season Stamp Set. This 2 1/2″ x 1″ piece fits perfectly underneath the reindeer circle.
Since the greeting sounded “incomplete” on the front of the card, I went ahead and stamped “the rest of the greeting” on the inside. I added a Basic White layer over the Pecan Pie card and stamped a second greeting in Pecan Pie ink to go with what is stamped on the front of the card. Then I also added two 1/2″ strips of designer paper along the sides.
You could also add a small red bow underneath the reindeer circle, and you could also add some gems for sparkle. I love this Sentimental Christmas Designer Series Paper in the Holiday Mini Catalog. If you didn’t notice, check out page 5 where the paper is shown to see that Stampin’ Up! is donating $3 for every package of this paper sold to worthy children’s causes. I love the vintage look of this paper.
There are lots of ways that cardmaking has been made easier this season! All you need is some cardstock, designer paper, and some ephemera! Maybe some embellishments for sparkle or fun. You can’t necessarily make multiples of cards if you are using ephemera because you usually have only two or three identical pieces, but you can make an assortment of different designs of cards quickly and, especially, having fun doing it.
This card has a Garden Green cardstock base. The designer paper is Sentimental Christmas. You’ll find it on page 29 of the Holiday Mini Catalog. One special thing about this paper is that Stampin’ Up! is donating $3 for every package of Sentimental Christmas Designer Series Paper sold to benefit children’s literacy around the world. So while we stamp and create, we will also be helping children the world over!
The patterned paper I used on this card more or less has a border of candy canes, berries, and greenery as a border around the edge of the paper. It would be great for scrapbooking Christmas memories, but it can also be cut apart for cardmaking or other projects. That’s what I did to make several Christmas cards. Several of them will have the candy canes and decorations in the corner of the card, but from a piece in the center of the designer paper, you will only have the candy canes at the top or bottom of the card. You can see how the main design of the paper is at the bottom of my card.
In the center of the whole paper you can see very light snowflakes, so on my card, that provides a large open space for a large greeting on my card. I used the “Season’s Greetings” in gold foil that is in the Joyful Sayings Mix & Match Ephemera Pack in the Holiday Mini on page 15. With the elegant cursive font, these are especially beautiful. You do have to use Multipurpose Liquid Glue to adhere them as they are very narrow. It’s probably best to make a little puddle of glue on scrap paper and then use a toothpick to very carefully apply dots of glue in as many places as you can on the back of the greeting so that you use the tiniest amounts of glue possible! I decided to apply my greeting on a diagonal, but you could make it straight also.
I also applied three of the Real Red & White Adhesive-Backed Peppermints on the card. These little peppermints have been so popular it’s been hard to keep them in stock. They are due back in stock THIS WEEK so keep checking!
A red or green ribbon could be applied on the side of the card. And putting some Wink of Stella on the berries and candy canes would be nice, too, if you wanted to add some extra things to the card. If you are one of my newsletter subscribers you saw a card made with this same paper, but the design of the paper is in the corner.
It’s a good idea to find some easy cards to make to send to lots of people on your Christmas card list and then you might also like to make some that are a little more involved for some family or special people on your list!
This Reindeer Memories Christmas Card is a pretty easy one to make with some new products! And what’s more fun than new Stampin’ Up! products?! You can probably make an even simpler version of this card if you want to.
The card base is Garden Green, but you could have another green, white, or even Real Red. The layer is something new. Two new things, actually. I used the Forever Plaid 3D Embossing Folder on a piece of the new Real Red Two-Tone Cardstock. It is called Two-Tone because one side is the regular Real Red color and the other side is a slightly different shade of Real Red. It’s sort of like the Stampin’ Blends markers that come in Light and Dark. Also, this paper has a white core. Because of that, you can do certain things with this paper and the white core that you can’t do with our regular cardstock that is solid all the way through. Stampin’ Up! I believe has had some of this paper in the past but they are re-introducing it now since the closing of Close To My Heart. Stampin’ Up! is incorporating some of their great scrapbooking products.
With the Forever Plaid 3D Embossing Folder in the Holiday Mini Catalog in the Reindeer Days Suite Collection, you can use this and other folders with the two-tone cardstock and get a little bit of the white core breaking through. Or take a sanding tool of some kind and do very light sanding on the paper and let the white core show through. You can see in this photo a little bit of that. It just gives a little bit of a rustic look to the paper, a little bit of different texture. Before I adhered the embossed plaid layer, I wrapped around a white piece of the Petal Pink & White Combo Diagonal Trim Pack ribbon and added a separately tied bow later to the card front.
To make this card, I also used the Reindeer Memories Scrapbooking Workshop Kit. This is one of the new products or combinations of new products that coordinate with the products we already have in the Holiday Mini Catalog. You’ll find these things online in the September Scrapbooking Brochure. This kit includes supplies to create three predesigned, two-page scrapbook spreads. For example, this Workshop Kit contains the Reindeer Memories Designer Series Paper, two-tone cardstock sheets in several colors, and a couple of sticker sheets. You can also buy packs of this two-tone paper separately or just try some out in any of these scrapbooking kits. Stampin’ Up! plans to carry all our colors in this paper in the future.
To decorate the front of this card, I used a diecut circle with the pretty border in the Spotlight on Nature Dies. To this I applied a sticker of the reindeer and Christmas tree. The diecut circle is popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals. I also colored in the plain white star on top of the tree with the Dark Daffodil Delight Stampin’ Blend Marker.
The greeting is stamped in Real Red ink and cut out with this rectangular shape in the Something Fancy Dies. I didn’t want it to become any larger with a larger layer underneath the greeting, so I cut out a piece of Garden Green in the same size, cut it in half horizontally and adhered one piece just barely peeking out from the top and one from the bottom to give a little colored contrast.
As you can see, I adhered a separate bow with Mini Glue Dots on top of the ribbon strip, plus I added some Iridescent Gems on the diecut circle piece. Of course, with stickers, you can’t make multiples of cards since you don’t have multiples of the stickers, but you can use this “scrapbooking kit” to make cards, tags, or other projects. You can even make a sort of collage for the holiday and frame it. Lots of creative possibilities! These Kits also include 12″ x 12″ scrapbooking pages that are not the designer paper that make good base layouts for your scrapbook page plus very detailed instructions if you wanted to create the ideas they provide.
Hopefully, this blog post and the products I mentioned give you some inspiration for projects you can create for the holidays!
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.
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.
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.
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!
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!
I FINALLY received my last Stampin’ Up! order yesterday! For days I was getting a notice saying it was “On Its Way!” When I checked the detailed tracking, I saw that it had gone from Salt Lake City to Albuquerque to San Antonio and then back and forth from Houston to Austin TX three times!! But I guess it was worth the wait because this Season of Green & Gold Specialty Designer Series Paper, one of the new Online Exclusives, is gorgeous! You can’t tell from my photos or even online but I can tell you it is really nice.
The greenery on these papers is just beautiful especially when accented with gold foil. And of course, on “the other side” of the paper, the patterns are more generic so you can use them any time of year or use for tags or other projects. This paper is in the Season of Green & Gold Suite Collection.
I couldn’t wait to make something with this pretty paper, so I just went with a simple card design. This Season of Green & Gold Christmas Card is what I came up with. You will love this pattern with the gold bells on it along with the foliage. Besides Christmas, you can use the bells for wedding or anniversary cards!
The card base is Garden Green cardstock. The two patterns of paper you see on this card are the two sides of the same sheet. As you can see, you could use that green plaid for almost anything! I cut the two patterns so they would overlap so I could wrap ribbon around the seam. The ribbon is the Cream 1/4″ Woven Ribbon in the Online Exclusives. It’s very pretty.
The greeting is stamped in Garden Green ink on Basic White from the Brightest Glow Stamp Set (retired). The Season of Green & Gold Suite has a new stamp set in it called Greetings of the Season. I couldn’t make up my mind on all the things when I ordered so I only got the paper in this Suite and the Cherry Cobbler and Pearl Adhesive-Backed Berries. Of course, I had to have the bling!
One of my favorite things about Christmas is Christmas lights on decorated houses. These large bulbs made a comeback several years ago but they always remind me of my childhood when Christmas trees had these large bulbs on them. It was fun to make this Merry and Bright Light Bulb Christmas Card using the Merry & Bright Stamp Set and the Merry Bold & Bright Designer Series Paper (no longer available)!
The card base is Lemon Lime Twist with a layer of Melon Mambo. Who can pass up using Melon Mambo when you have the chance to use it?! And this designer series paper has so many fun colors to use with it. I used a piece of the Christmas light bulb paper for the background. I hated to cover up very much of it.
On Basic White, I stamped several Christmas bulbs in different colors. It worked best to stamp them slightly off the edges of the paper (or they wouldn’t all fit!). I stamped the bulbs in Real Red, Melon Mambo, Crushed Curry, Pool Party, and Lemon Lime Twist. The bulb socket is Basic Gray. I also stamped the little image of “brightness” in Daffodil Delight ink. Then I used Wink of Stella to put a little sparkle on the bulbs and the “brightness” lines.
The greeting is stamped from the Merry & Bright Stamp Set in Melon Mambo on a scrap of Basic White. Those words in the color blocks are easy to trim down with just a tiny border of white around them. Then I glued them down. Those center pieces are 2 1/2″ x 3 1/4″ layered on Melon Mambo cut at 2 3/4″ x 3 1/2″ and finally Lemon Lime Twist cut at 3″ x 3 3/4″. I think you can still see a lot of the background bulbs. I really like the way this card turned out! Another good idea would be to clear emboss the bulbs to make them shiny.
Remember, Stampin’ Up! just refreshed the Clearance Rack yesterday so be sure to check it out. I haven’t kept track of what was on there and what sold out early. I wish they would leave the product up and just mark it “Sold Out” so we could see what we missed! Everything on there is “while supplies last”.
Watch for my 12 Week of Christmas newsletter for Week 10 coming this afternoon at 1:00 PM if you are one of my Mailing List subscribers!
How about a bright Christmas card like this Holly Jolly Christmas Tag Card using Lemon Lime Twist?! Doesn’t Lemon Lime Twist sound like the perfect color for a Christmas card? I think it works fine on this card and many others, too! I love the classic Christmas card look, but I also love the fun and bright designs!
You’d be amazed if you knew how many times my mind changes ideas as I start planning a card (if I even have a plan before I start pulling out paper!) and making the card. This started by copying a Christmas tag I’d already made. After I made the tag, I thought, why not put it on a card? And that’s how this card came about.
The card base is Shaded Spruce cardstock with a layer of Lemon Lime Twist paper in the Brights 6″ x 6″ Designer Series Paper. I chose a pattern in there that I hoped wouldn’t be too busy behind the tag.
The tag is diecut with the tag die in the Merriest Trees Dies and so is the little tree designer paper in the Merry Bold & Bright Designer Series Paper (retired). To make the designer paper layer on the cardstock tag, I just trimmed the designer paper just inside the “stitching” on the diecut paper. That gives it just enough of a border to fit on the tag.
For the little tree on the tag, I used another piece of the Brights 6″ x 6″ DSP and cut it out with the smallest tree die in the Merriest Trees Dies. For a little greeting on the tag, I stamped the words in the Merry & Bright Stamp Set in Shaded Spruce ink on Basic white. To make the words fit on my little tree, I trimmed around them with Paper snips following the curve of the cursive writing.
To embellish the tag after adhering the stamped words, I used a Star Trinket (retired) on top of the tree and just three little Lemon Lime Twist gems in the Tinsel Gems Four-Pack. The ribbon at the top is the Silver & White 1/2″ Sheer Ribbon.
Try making some gift tags and then either use them as tags for presents or stick them on the front of a card and make the tag the focal point! Either way, you win!
I love this patterned paper with poinsettias, evergreen foliage, pinecones, and berries so I thought I would just make an easy card. This Easy Joy of Christmas Card is made with the Joy of Christmas Designer Series Paper (retired). It didn’t photograph very well in trying to get the embossed greeting to show up, too, but it’s a classic Christmas paper to use.
The card base is Old Olive and I added a layer of Real Red because I love Real Red and it looks good with the red on the paper. Before adhering the designer paper to the card, I added a strip of the Real Red & Gold 3/8″ Dotted Ribbon down the side of the card and tied on a knot.
This A Walk In The Forest Cottage Wreaths Holiday Card evolved just from looking at the designer paper. After deciding on the top and bottom patterns of the paper, the center part idea popped into my head. You don’t always have to have a complete idea for a card before you can start making one!
This card base is Real Red. The designer paper isA Walk In The Forestin the Holiday Mini Catalog. It is one of the retiring papers when the Mini ends. It’s on page 5 of the Holiday Mini.
The ribbon around the seam where the two papers meet is the Real Red & Gold 3/8″ Dotted Ribbon. I meant to wrap it around the sides but I glued down the paper to the card base before I remembered to adhere the ribbon. So it just goes to the end of the paper on each side. I used a strip of Stampin’ Seal+ so the ribbon is adhered down well.
I used the Country Wreaths Dies to cut out two wreaths, one in Old Olive and the bottom one in Shaded Spruce. I also die-cut the bow out of Real Red. The wreath is adhered to a 2 3/4″ x 2 3/4″ square of Basic White and layered on a red and black square of the Joy of Christmas Designer Series Paper. That square is 3 1/4″ x 3 1/4″.
The greeting is stamped in Real Red on a very narrow strip of Basic White from the Brightest Glow Stamp Set. To embellish the card, I colored an Iridescent Rhinestone with a Dark Real Red Stampin’ Blend to make it red to match the bow. I also added three gold Festive Pearls near the wreath.
This is a pretty easy card to make once you have the design and it was fun to use the wreath dies and bow.
It’s time for quick and easy Christmas cards like this Merry Bold & Bright Merry Christmas Card. I love this Merry Bold & Bright Designer Series Paper so I thought I would use it with this fun red Christmas tree pattern to make an easy card.
This is just a basic card design, easy for a beginner stamper! The card base is Real Red although maybe the proper coordinating color is Poppy Parade. But my favorite color, especially for Christmas is Real Red. The designer paper is cut at 4″ x 5 1/4″. I debated whether I wanted to use a layer of Basic White under it which sometimes highlights the design a little more, but I wanted to keep it super simple.
The greeting is stamped from the Brightest Glow Stamp Set in Real Red ink on Basic White and die cut with a label shape in the Something Fancy Dies, then layered on a Real Red larger die-cut label in the set.
Before adhering anything, I added a piece of Real Red ribbon from the Real Red & Burlap Ribbon Combo across the middle of the card and adhered it underneath on both sides of the designer paper. Then I adhered the designer paper to the card base. The greeting is popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals®. On each side of the greeting, I tied just a piece of ribbon in a knot for a little decoration. And for a little sparkle, I added three Adhesive-Backed Glitter Sequins in Old Olive.
On the inside of the card, I will add a Basic White layer with a stamped greeting or a personal note. I could add a strip of the matching designer paper along the bottom or on the side of that white inside layer.
Several of these products will retire at the end of the Holiday Mini and are on the Last Chance List. Be sure to check that out, especially this Merry Bold & Bright paper since it has so many bright and happy patterns to use for birthdays, thinking of you, and many other occasions when you make cards or even scrapbook pages.
After making a card with an ornament made just out of a circle die and designer paper, I thought why not make another card the same way except make three ornaments? That was the inspiration for the Christmas Ornaments Holiday Card. You never know where your inspiration will come from. Sometimes it just comes from looking at a card already on your table!
This card starts with a base of Melon Mambo. It’s one of the coordinating colors of the Merry Bold & Bright Designer Series Paper. I love the bright colors and patterns of this paper besides the Christmas lights patterns. We can use these generic patterns long after Christmas.
To make the ornaments I used two different sizes of stitched circle dies in the Stylish Shapes Dies. You could use three different sizes if you wanted to. Or make a bunch of really small ornaments! I used three different patterns of the designer paper to look like bright and merry ornaments hanging from the evergreen bough. It could be from a tree or from a garland!
For the greenery, I had another idea at first, but I changed my mind and decided on the die cuts of Old Olive cardstock from the die in the Joy of Noel Dies. I cut out three of the branches going across the top of the card. You can let the ends extend over the edge of the card at first while placing them, then trim off the overlap before gluing down the card layer. I used Basic White for the layer thinking everything would show up better on plain white.
I just drew a straight line down from the evergreen bough to the ornament. I used a strip of cardstock as a straight guide. The large striped ornament is popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals as is the small polka dot ornament. The ornament with the stars is glued down flat. I just tied gold bows and adhered those with Mini Glue Dots.
The greeting is in the Joy of Noel Stamp Set. I stamped it in Melon Mambo, but I wasn’t happy with its size for the small space I had to place it. So I cut around the greeting with my Paper Snips and thought it fit perfectly! I used Mini Dimensionals to adhere the side that was not over the ornament, which I had to do because the ornament was popped up. Therefore, the part of the greeting over the ornament only got glue on the back portion, not a dimensional.
For some finishing touches, I added some Melon Mambo Iridescent Adhesive-Backed Discs to the foliage to look a little like berries. And whatever image that tiny little leafy-looking stamp is in the Joy of Noel Stamp Set I stamped along the strings of the ornaments. I’m not sure why except I had envisioned stamping some small Christmas words in the background of the card layer, but I didn’t see anything quite like what I was looking for. But whatever they are, I really like that touch of Melon Mambo with the ornaments!
Here is the card I made a short time ago with the Shining Christmas Designer Series Paper. That’s why I say I took inspiration from another card I had made recently!
Remember, the Last Chance List for the Holiday Mini Catalog is out if you want to know which products are retiring from the Holiday Mini at the end of the season. A few products are discounted.
