Monday, October 26, 2026

FESTIVE CHRISTMAS BANNER

This week I'm sharing cards filled with Festive Cheer!  The Festive Cheer Bundle from Stampin' Up! is a great bundle to make Christmas cards in a Traditional Style.

This bundle has a nice variety of Christmas ornaments, sentiments, and dies to make creating quick and easy.

I also used dies from other sets to add some interest in the background shapes.  The Mossy Meadow scalloped border was made using a die from Scalloped Christmas Dies.  The pierced holes along the bottom edge of the woodgrain Country Woods Designer Series Paper (DSP) were made with a die from Nature's Symphony.  If you look closely you can see the Mossy Meadow cardstock peeking through.

The Basic White flag behind the ornaments was die cut with a Party Banner die and then embossed with candy canes from the Seasonal Mini Embossing Folders.


More ornaments were stamped on the inside of the card to continue the theme from the card front

For all the details use this link to download a PDF tutorial.

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Thursday, October 22, 2026

ELEGANT DOUBLE FLAP CHRISTMAS POINSETTIA

Today's card uses a unique Double Envelope Flap Fun fold to show off our Pretty Poinsettias.

And isn't this designer series paper pretty?  I love the colors!  It is from the Whispering Woods Collection.  For every purchase of this beautiful paper, Stampin' Up! will donate $3 to organizations around the world to spread a little holiday cheer.

If you are wondering how to make this fun fold, watch the following "how-to" video.  As I always say, it's easier than it looks.  This is true for this fun fold also, but the video will be helpful to receive some tips for how to attach the two flaps.

The card in the video is an alternative design using the adorable Christmas Crew bundle with the Timeless Christmas Designer Series Paper, but the steps are all the same no matter what products you decide to use.  

What do you think?  Not too difficult, right?

The Poinsettias on this card were die cut from Basic White cardstock and "embossed" with the Impressions Plate to give added texture.  If you aren't familiar with using an Impressions Plate below is a video I did a while back that will give you some tips & tricks for using the Plate.  (It's really more like a rubber mat, but Stampin' Up! calls it a "Plate.")


Before I assembled the layers of the Poinsettia I used a Blending Brush to add a light amount of Blueberry Bushel ink in the centers.  I've seen blue Poinsettias for the last few years, but I was never sure I liked them.  Blue just didn't seem right.  But, I have to say, I love them on this card!

The inside of the card is also great for showing off more of the pretty Whispering Woods DSP.

I'd love to know what you think of this Fun Fold and if you decide to give it a try.  Download the FREE PDF TUTORIAL using this link and get all your supplies cut and ready to go and follow along with the video.  

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Monday, October 19, 2026

PRETTY POINSETTIA WITH BOTANICAL GLOW

I am finally moving from fall cards into Christmas cards this week.  I feel like I am so far behind in making Christmas Cards that I may not get them all finished in time.  So, this week I am going to feature the Pretty Poinsettia Bundle.

Today's card is a relatively quick and easy card, but the final result is very elegant.

I used the Botanical Glow Hot Foil Die to create the background.  It was made with silver foil on regular Night of Navy cardstock.  I know two-tone cardstock is recommended because it has a smoother finish, but this Hot Foil Die created a beautiful, crisp image on regular cardstock.

The four layers of the poinsettia were die cut from Basic White cardstock using dies from the bundle.  These dies are designed to work with the Impressions Plate to create beautiful textured die cuts.  It's amazing the visual difference it makes when you see them in person.

The leaves around the flower where die cut from the middle of the Silver Foil mat using the large Leaf Stem die from Pretty Poinsettia Dies.  It was then snipped apart to create individual leaves.  

The sentiment from Pretty Poinsettia stamp set was die cut with the smallest Nested Essentials Die.

This Pretty Poinsettia stamp set includes beautiful sentiments with a wonderful variety of fonts.  This Christmas Joy sentiment that I used on the inside of the card may be my favorite.  The top three leaves from a silver foil die cut stem were added in the lower left corner to carry the elegance to the inside of the card.

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Thursday, October 15, 2026

PAINTED PUMPKINS AT THE GATE

Today's card shows how fun it can be to create unique pumpkins with the Decorative Masks from the Painted Pumpkins Bundle.

A couple of these pumpkins were made with very non-traditional "pumpkin colors", but don't they bring a nice pop of color to this birthday card?  The three pumpkin colors are Pool Party, Timid Tiger and Secret Sea.

There was no stamping to create these pumpkins.  They were colored only with the masks.

Watch this video to see how I made them.  I'll also show a set of pumpkins that were stamped first prior to coloring so you can compare the two methods to see which you prefer.


In the video I include some tips and tricks to make three different color pumpkins from the same mask.

This card uses only one gate and one fence die cut to create a little smaller gate than Monday's card.  The pumpkins needed to be carefully adhered to the gate so that the adhesive didn't "lock" the gate.  Because once again, I put a little surprise behind the gate.

This greeting was a little longer than I wanted, so I used another trick to stack it up.  I show how to do that in the video as well.

I do recommend that the white gate be created with Thick Basic White cardstock rather than Regular Basic White.  It needs to support the pumpkins, and the Regular Basic White tends to want to flex when you open the gate.  So, for my 2nd card (made in the video) I used Thick Basic White cardstock, and it worked much better.  

I used a nice large "happy birthday" sentiment from Fabulous Sayings for the inside of the card and trimmed it with the same Secret Sea DSP as was used for the front.  Fabulous Sayings was a Product of the Month stamp set from a few months ago and is no longer available.  But use whatever greetings you have!

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