This A Little Bit Festive Christmas Stockings Card is another fun and easy Christmas card to make! All you need is the A Little Bit Festive Specialty Designer Series Paper plus one greeting. As I’ve said in other blog posts, the A Little Bit Festive paper is special because it consists of 3 double-sided sheets of designer series paper and 3 sheets of Christmas die cuts! What more can you ask for?! Everything is matched and ready for you to use right there in one package!
This card base is Garden Green although you could choose Real Red instead. It would also be pretty. The layer on the front is Basic White cardstock that measures 5 1/4″ x 3″. Underneath the top and bottom of the Basic White layer are strips of the designer paper with the green triangle trees. You could make a whole layer of it which ouls mostly get covered up by the white piece, so I just used two strips adhered underneath the white layer. You can cut them at 5 1/4″ x 1″ and that should give you enough for the margin to show top and bottom. It just adds an interesting border.
I chose the row of Christmas stockings die cut which includes the branch of greenery that they are hanging from. I added some little star diecuts to fill up some space. The greeting is in the Joyful Sayings Ephemera. I adhered everything flat to the card front but you could pop up some or all of it with Stampin’ Dimensionals. I also added some red dots for berries on the bough of greenery in the Cherry Cobbler & Pearl Adhesive-Backed Berries. I think those little red dots add a lot to the card above the stockings.
That’s all there is for that card! Using the ephemera packs in the Holiday Mini Catalog and the diecut in the A Little Bit Festive Specialty Designer Series Paper have been so fun to use and so quick and easy! Make sure you have used yours! And if you don’t need more cards, make tags for packages!
When you don’t have your own original idea, you can copy a card from the Stampin’ Up! catalog as I did with this A Little Bit Festive Cocoa & Gingerbread Card. You will find the sample that I copied on page 18 in the Holiday Mini Catalog. I changed mine just a tiny bit, but it was fun to make!
This Christmas card uses the A Little Bit Festive Specialty Designer Series Paper. This paper comes with three regular double-sided sheets of designer paper and three sheets of Christmas die cuts that you can use for cards or holiday projects. It’s really fun to work with, just playing with all the pieces!
This card has a card base of Real Red and a layer of the red and white striped designer paper in this package. After playing with the die cut pieces to get the design set, I cut a piece of Basic White cardstock at 3 1/4″ x 3 1/2″ layered on a piece of Real Red cardstock at 3 1/2″ x 3 3/4″. I arranged the die cut pieces like on the sample in the catalog. The cup of hot chocolate is adhered flat to the card, the gingerbread tree and gingerbread man are popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals, and the gingerbread present is glued flat on the card. I chose “Happy Holidays” for the greeting in the Joyful Sayings Ephemera Pack.
For a little embellishment, this was the perfect card on which to use the Real Red & White Adhesive-Backed Peppermints. Unfortunately, these cute embellishments have been very difficult to keep in stock and are backordered even now. Hopefully, you already snagged some earlier. These do look cute with two next to the cocoa cup and one looking like it is floating in the whipped cream topping!
My card looks almost exactly like the sample card in the catalog, but if you look closely, you will see mine is the full size card and the sample looks to be square. My red and white stripes are running horizontally rather than vertically. And as I said, I used a different greeting and the peppermint embellishments. This is what usually happens when you plan to copy a card Almost always you will find your own little twist you want to put on the card and that helps get your creativity flowing!
If you don’t have the A Little Bit Festive Specialty Designer Series Paper with which to make this easy and pretty A Little Bit Festive Christmas Tree Card, you ought to put it on your Stampin’ Up! order today, the first day of FREE SHIPPING! Today, December 9 is the first of three days to get FREE SHIPPING with a minimum order of $75. It’s a good time to stock up on any basics you need and all the things you “want” out of the Holiday Mini Catalog and from the Last Chance Products List where you might be able to get a few things at a discount!
I actually forgot I owned this A Little Bit Festive Specialty Designer Series Paper! It must have gotten lost in the shuffle even though I’d used it a little bit when I first got it. The interesting thing about this paper is that it is three sheets of double-sided designer series paper and three sheets of holiday diecuts! That makes it really fun to use! One side of the designer paper is Christmas designs and the other side has generic patterns you can use any time. And not just any diecuts, really cute ones and some that are frames for card fronts or photos. It would be great for scrapbooking, cardmaking, and other Christmas projects.
For this card (photographed on a Garden Green background), I started with a Real Red card base and a layer of Pretty in Pink cardstock to match some of the ornaments on the tree. The whole front panel of the card is in the A Little Bit of Festive package! It is so simple and pretty! I couldn’t find or think of a greeting that would fit on this card without interfering with the beautiful decorated tree until I found this very small rectangular diecut greeting in the Joyful Sayings Ephemera Pack. I placed it down at the bottom of the tree. Besides the colored ornaments on the tree, there are also gold foil accents on the tree, tiny dots plus the fancy star at the top. To this, I added five gems on the Christmas tree for a little more sparkle. These are the Pretty in Pink gems in the 2024-2026 In Color Shimmer Gems.
Don’t forget FREE SHIPPING December 9-11 this week at Stampin’ Up! with a $75 minimum order! Please be aware that depending on when your order is shipped (and there may be delays with a higher number of orders during these three days) your order may or may not reach you before Christmas. Some of you normally get your order in a couple of days and others take a week so take into account how long your order normally takes plus possible delays in getting the order shipped in the first place. Stampin’ Up! will be ready and working hard to get these orders out as fast as possible!
Also, don’t forget the new category of Last Chance Products which contains retiring Holiday Mini Catalog Products and also holds the Online Exclusive products, all of which are available while supplies last. This will also replace the Clearance Rack. This way things are in one place. Some retiring products are discounted and discounts may change during the time they are on the Last Chance list. Right now you can save 20% on the A Little Bit Festive Specialty Designer Series Paper that I featured with this card!
If you had already started an order before today, start over in your Cart. The free shipping offer is good on orders started today. For all the details, check out my blog post from the other day HERE.
Talk about a simple card! I love this Reindeer Days Forest Christmas Card and there almost couldn’t be an easier card to make! I love the look of the reindeer just out in the forest, in the snow, surrounded by beautiful evergreen trees. There are babies and adult reindeer just out relaxing in the forest!
This paper is one of the patterns in the Reindeer Days Designer Series Paper. This fun holiday paper is on the “Last Chance Products” category in the Online Store which means it is retiring from the Holiday Mini Catalog come January 6. You can still order it and it is discounted to $10.00 instead of $12.50, while supplies last. If you haven’t gotten it yet or you want another package for your stash, hurry and order so you will receive it before Christmas.
I didn’t just cut a piece out of the paper. I found the exact scene I wanted to have on my card and planned how to cut it out. Now this will wreck your perfect 4″ strips you probably would normally cut from the paper for cardmaking, but I wanted a scene, not just any old part of the paper. Once I had it cut out, I adhered it to the card base of Pecan Pie cardstock. Early Espresso would also be a good choice. I also considered adding an extra layer of Granny Apple Green or Garden Green…or both! But I liked the paper just layered on the Pecan Pie card base.
For the greeting, I chose the “Wishing You & Yours” sentiment in the Peaceful Season Stamp Set. It was a good size for this card because I didn’t want to cover up my forest scene any more than I had to. It is stamped in Pecan Pie ink on Basic White and cut out with one of the label dies in Countryside Corners. For a layer I diecut a piece of Pecan Pie cardstock with the same size Countryside Corners die. I cut it in half horizontally and adhered it to the top and bottom of the greeting. I also cut a second piece, cut it in half vertically, and adhered it to each side of the greeting. It looks like a full layer underneath and no one will notice! I added two Swirl Dots to the sides of the greeting. I thought the brown color went well with this card.
On the inside of the card, I stamped the second half of the greeting “A Season of Wonder and Happiness” also in Pecan Pie ink on Basic White.
Several of the patterns in the Reindeer Days Designer Series Paper lend themselves to choosing a scene for your card rather than just cutting the paper into pieces randomly. Try it!
It is December, if you can believe it, and December means Christmas cards like this Take a Bow Bells Christmas Card. This is a basic card design so it would be pretty easy to duplicate if you wanted to make multiples. The only thing that would prevent that would be the ephemera piece I placed on the front of the card. You could omit any image there and only have a greeting, or you could stamp an image instead.
The card base is Real Red, one of the colors in the Take a Bow 6″ x 6″ Designer Series Paper. This paper is so great for the holidays, but there’s no reason why you couldn’t use many of the patterns for any time of year. Its 6″ x 6″ size means it’s a little easier to use that the large 12″ x 12″ sheets of paper. This paper is part of the Take a Bow Bundle if you would like the dies with which to make bows for your holiday packages or any gifts throughout the year.
For this card, I used a piece of the red, white, and green diagonally striped paper cut at 4″ x 5 1/4″ for the first layer on the card. I added a strip of the white polka dot paper to the side. It is cut at 5 1/4″ x 1 1/2″. Usually we line it up with the left edge of the designer paper, but sometimes I move it over to the right so that a little bit of the designer paper shows on the left side, too.
Before adhering the designer papers to the card, I wrapped around a piece of white ribbon in the Petal Pink & White 1/4″ Diagonal Trim Combo Pack. I tied a separate bow and adhered it with a Mini Glue Dot on the back. I usually also like to place a glue dot underneath the ribbon underneath the bow to hold everything in place.
The greeting is stamped in Real Red ink on Basic White cardstock using one of the greetings in the Peaceful Season Stamp Set. I found a die in the Unbounded Love Dies that I thought worked perfectly to fit the greeting plus add something special to the card. It is popped up with Stampin’ Dimensionals. The ephemera piece of bells and ribbon is found in the Joyful Images Ephemera Pack in the Holiday Mini Catalog. It was just laying there on my table begging to be used on a card. It is also popped up with Stampin’ Dimensionals.
If you start looking for Christmas card ideas that aren’t fussy, you can try out something like this card! It looks festive, it’s easy to make, and if you like, you can jazz it up even more for something fancier.
Special Note:Check back tomorrow, December 3, for three new designer papers….well, they are popular papers we had previously but have been re-colored!! If you didn’t own them then, they will be new to you! Also, we will all see the Last Chance List for both catalogs and I’ll explain the new category. Check back tomorrow for sure!!
The card base is Real Red cardstock. The diagonally striped paper as a layer on the card is in the Snowy Scenes 12″ x 12″ Designer Series Paper. This paper has such cute images of snowglobes, penguins, snowmen, villages, and more! Have you noticed how much “pink” is out there this season in Christmas decorations? Some of these papers use that pastel peach and mint color scheme that seems to be in style these days. Even if you are a traditionalist with red and green, you will find plenty of those colors mixed in with some of the pastel colors.
The round piece you see on the card front with the penguin and evergreen trees is diecut from one of the snowglobes on the designer paper. I used the Stylish Shapes Dies to cut the stitched circle shape. It fit just about perfectly in that snowglobe image. The big tree on the card front is a sticker from the Snowy Scenes Sticker Sheet in the special online version of the Snowy Scenes DSP. All you have to do is peel it off the main sheet and adhere it where you want because it already has adhesive on the back. I added a gold foil star to the top from the Joyful Images Ephemera in the Holiday Mini Catalog. The snowflake over the penguin is also a sticker from that sheet! It’s really fun to just use a sticker!
The greeting is stamped in Real Red ink on Basic White. It’s in the Reindeer Fun Stamp Set. I cut apart the two words after stamping so they would fit better on the card in the space I had. For a little bling, I added some white sequins from the Sequins Trio package.
That’s how easy this card is! Just because the cute penguin is in a snowglobe doesn’t mean you have to have a snowglobe on your card! Use things in different ways!
Have fun making some Christmas cards over the Thanksgiving holiday if you have time!
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!
