The Light the Year bundle was one of the first ones I had to have from the Fall Mini Catalogue. Why? I really love all the references to "bright", "light" and "love" which is so needed in the world right now. Here are two of the cards we made in my Avid Stampers class featuring this Bundle and which turned out beautifully. Lots of layers with the acrons, leaves and lanterns. Enjoy!
Two whimsical holiday cards today featuring the Snowy Scenes patterned paper with very different layouts: one has a large greeting on label from the Greetings of the Season dies. This bundle is available in our Online Exclusives section with it. And the second is a shaker card made the super easy way with one of our clear envelopes and the snowflake embellishments floating inside! Makes a great scene card as well! A reminder the Snowy Wonder Bundle (those great images in the scene with their dies) is on the Last Chance list so grab it while we still have supply!
I was going through my holiday cards and noticed...I have so many to share and only so many days left to share them. So I'm stepping it up and posting two per day!
In addition to a beautiful card, Stacey gifted us each this wreath made with the Sweetest Star punch! The punch gives you these 5 sided shapes and then you score each to make them mountains and valleys for a cool 3D effect. Stacey's husband used his 3D printer to create the base onto which the wrathe pieces were added. Makes a beautiful tree or hanging ornament for the festive season.
Double purpose with today's card: first this was my card for the November Shoebox Swap and then I am using it later today at a crafting session with the leadership team as part of our year end team building party. I loved using the Hang an Ornament stamp set and dies for this card. Sorry to see them go to the Last Chance List. A really great price point so if it's still there, grab it! My card also features the Forever Plaid embossing folder and some oh-so-sparkly ribbon. This was a hit last week and I'm hoping for the same today!
Would you think this is a holiday card or something for spring? The greenery could go either way. Jane designed this card for us to make at the Shoebox Swap last month and gave us lots of options for the patterned paper on the front of the card from the Country Woods collection. The greeting can also be suitable to many occasions throughout the year. Great card, Jane!
Wendy's Shoebox Card was decidedly non-Christmas and a perfect change for our creative minds! This layout is a breeze! Cut a rectangle and slice it in half on the diagonal. Cut your matte to 1/4" taller and wider than your patterned paper and slice it on a diagonal, too. They match beautifully! Sweetly Scripted greetings fit perfectly down the centre. Such a pretty card!
Stacey's card from our November Shoebox has a fun fold edge with the DSP for a unique way of up-styling your card. With rich Regal colours this card was a hit! The greeting is from the Christmas Labels bundle which has been quite popular this year and is continuing to be available after the close of this catalogue! Yeah for those of you who start your Christmas cards in January. Can you come over to my house and help me do that?
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Today I'm sharing Holly's card from our Shoebox Swap in November. The Humble Home stamp set and punch bundle is so versatile! Use it for Christmas, welcome to the neighbourhood, thank you, birthday, welcome home...just right for many occasions! On this one we heat embossed white emboss powder for the house and punched it out. No colouring required. Such a great Christmas greeting card!
What a beautiful card designed by my team member and friend Laurie for our November 30 Shoebox Swap. There were 7 of us together at Wendy's home for an afternoon of crafting. This card features the you-just-gotta-have-it bundle Spotlight on Nature stamp set and dies. You'll use those dies all the time! I think this will make a perfect project for monthly card class in the new year, right?
Another holiday card I made for the Holly Market at Trinity Church this year! So festive with the candy canes and berries and a big greeting on the front. To get your ribbon to flow behind the circle, add some tape runner adhesive and set the ribbon in a zig-zag pattern over top. Use Stampin' Dimensionals to pop it up on your card. A stitched circle is the way to go for adding a little extra to the card. Enjoy!
Oh Christmas Tree! How lovely to see these lit up and providing light in these shorter days. I remember when my kids were little and our childcare provider had a tree with battery operated candles on them a throw back to the original time when they would put real lighted candles on the branches. Very pretty!
Great little Christmas Card - too bad we can't mail them out this year! Handed out about a dozen last night to my sisters at our Sorority Christmas Dinner and they were really well received. Quick and easy design with one greeting, a couple of layers and some embossing to add dimension. Bam! Done! How many will you have out this year?
Love a Christmas wreath card and oh so easy with pretty much any leaf stamp! I used the one from the Light the Year bundle in our Sep-Dec Mini catalogue. Eight images stmaped and die cut are laid onto a circle frame (cut two circles to create the frame) which is hidden. Add your greenery, embellishments and sentiment and just like that - done! I know we're not mailing cards yet here in Canada, but this one's ready to go once we are!
A few weeks back I did a One Sheet Wonder class in the online group Global Inspiration Stamp Team and this was one of twelve cards my 12 x 12 sheet made! A lovely mix of Garden Green, Peach Pie and Early Espresso. It's one super dee duper easy layout with the centre pieces measuring 2 3/4" x 4" and one embossed layer for the background on the front. Tell me...do you like to fussy cut your greetings out? I often use a punch but this time I wanted to share as much of that pretty Mediterannean Blooms paper as possible.
Sharing a card from my November Monthly Card class. Such pretty flowers on the one side matted by Old Olive cardstock. The Bough punch is a must have making it so easy to add flowers and leaves (shown here) to your project in a coordinating colour. The greeting is from Rustic Crate. Really like the font used. The Cajun Craze layer is embossed with what's turning out to be my new go-to folder: Forever Plaid. What I like most about this folder is it doesn't have to go into the folder straight. If you're off - that's A-OK as the pattern isn't completely straight. Perfect for me!
Today's card comes from Stacey for our November Swap. Wow! Where your pattern paper and dies make the card! This is from the Sentimental Christmas DSP our giveback paper for this catalogue. For every pack sold, Stampin' Up! will donate $4 to children's literacy. The stocking is cut out using the coordinating dies (or fussy cutting). You can get so many beautiful cards from this one pack of paper. Stacey said she hadn't stamped a greeting on DSP before which is a great reminder of these little touches to add to your card making tool kit.
Here's an amazing card using the Light the Year bundle shared by my team member, Jane at our November team swap. Two features on the white layer: die cut a Deckled Circle first out of the cardstock measuring 4 x 5.25 inches then dry emboss with the Forever Plaid folder. The Cherry Cobbler piece behind measures 4 1/8 x 5 3/8 inches and also has a Deckled Circle cut out of it to reveal the white from the card base. Tricky, eh? Looks great! Now you have a few circles to use on your next project. Top it off with a stamped, die cut and coloured candle and bough, bow and Drusy embellishments. SO pretty!
Love how my team members come up with amazing ways to use their products! Holly's swap card from the November meeting featuring the Reindeer Fun Stamp Set, dies and coordinating patterned paper behind the opening on this card! To add texture to the snowflakes, Holly heat embossed the snowsflakes in White emboss powder. An oh so cute Christmas Card for sharing this season. Enjoy!
Here in Ontario, our trees are mostly leafless now and this is a reminder they will be full again in Spring. Check out the depth of colour and texture on this tree! Made by using the stamp set, decorative masks and dies from the Frosted Forest bundle available in the Online Exclusives offering. Love how it turned out. Have a great week - the last full one in November!
For me growing up in Quebec, Christmas and winter was all about skating whether at the Rec Centre, the half-enclosed and mostly outdoor arena at Macdonald High School in Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue or on Lake St. Louis. Always seemed to have my skates at the ready! My parents would take us toboganning at Apple Hill in Beaurepaire and I remember us kids hounding dad to drag us up the hill one more time. This card really brings back those amazing childhood memories.
Got a fun fold for you today with this sweet "Rudolph" image from the Reindeer Days patterned paper. This came together super quickly and is my swap card from my team meeting last week. CASE'd (copy and share everthing) from my friend Andrea Estesen's original design. Enjoyed making a bunch of these and sharing with my team!
What a cute card layout using the smallest stitched squares in the Stylish Shapes Dies set! Karen Duke created and sent me this card in a recent swap and I love the soft muted colour palette. Use up your small scrap pieces with this layout and your favourite focal point. The greeting just fits perfectly at the bottom. Love this!
How I like to spend an afternoon...engrossed in a good mystery. Are you a bookworm? If so, what's your favourite genre to read? Do you have more than one book on the go at a time? I usually stick to one at a time to follow the story. Next best thing to reading a book is making a card about books! Hope you have some time today to get lost in a good story!
Nothing's better than.....Chocolate? Hot Cocoa? Pumpkin Spice? or maybe just Peppermint! Received this card in a Mini catalogue swap from Gen Ko in Markham. Lots of sparkle, glitz and glam plus those adorable marshmallows atop the cup containing a peppermint hot beverage. Great red accents with those cute round peppermint embellishments that have been hot this catalogue. Did you get some? Hoping they come back in stock this season.
Beautiful card designed by my friend Diana Langman featuring the Regal Winter patterned paper and our In Color Wild Wheat accents. It almost looks like gold! A cute fun fold with left and right flaps so it stands up very nicely on your mantle or wherever you show off your cards. Enjoy your Monday!
One of the Christmas Cards I created this year for the Trinity Holly Market. It was a hit and secretly my favourite of all 7 I designed. Doesn't that Flirty Flamingo layer swirl look just like snow? It's called So Swirly and you can find it in our Annual Catalogue. One of the 6" x 8 1/2" embossing folders now in the line. Perfect for larger cards and memory keeping. And I must say, the ideal one for snowbanks!
Final Day of the Annual Catalogue Seasonal Sale - Did you get all that you were stocking up on?
Spotlighting more products featured in our 3-Day Annual Catalogue Sale with today's fun shaker card. If you would like to expand your ink colour collection to include the 2024-2026 In Colors and coordinating Thoughtful Journey patterned paper this is a great time to pick them up! Save 10% on inks, 10% on cardstock and 20% off the beautiful Thoughtful Journey 6" x 6" pack of patterned paper. Use any shape to create your window opening fo rthe shaker card. Contact me to order, or order online from my online store.
The Annual Catalogue Seasonal Sale begins today for 3 days only and I'm thrilled to share a card featuring these sale items:
What's this? For 3 days only you can SAVE $$$ on your crafting supplies:
Autumn continues to be upon us giving us a very long season which I'm thoroughly enjoying - how about you? While I love pumpkin in pies, cakes and loaves, I'm not particularly drawn to it in hot bevvies so for me today's card has hot chocolate written all over it in a blanket of whipped creams on these pretty autumn colours of petal pink and pumpkin pie. Welcome Autumn and may you stay with us a wee bit longer so we can enjoy your beautiful sunny and warm days.
Just love the font on this stamp wishing your Days be Merry & Bright! It's so cheerful and playful. It's from the Sweetest Star stamp set and pairs perfectly with the reindeer from the Sentimental Christmas patterned paper. If you haven't gotten yours yet, do reach out or place your order online. With each purchase of the Sentimental Christmas Designer Series Paper, Stampin' Up! will donate $4 to support children’s literacy around the world so you'll also be supporting a great cause. #164209 $17.00. Happy Days!
Here's a card we made at a recent team event with gorgeous vellum and coordinating patterned paper from the Online Exclusive product, Graceful Greenery Vellum paper pack. I die cut them with the Sentimental Dies set which has a pair of layering tags but any shape will work. On the card base I used the Painted Trees 3D embossing folder which gives some texture if in the end the treetops were hidden. That Wild Wheat ribbon makes another appearance looking very gold paired with these colours. Enjoy!
There's so much more to the Humble Home bundle than holiday cards - it comes with this great Welcome greeting which is great for inviting people to a party but also for a "glad you're home" card or to welcome a new family to the neighbourhood. To achieve the light brick, I found it best to stamp off once as our amazing ink pads are super juicy. I've also used the edge of an old gift card to push ink away from the centre to ink up a stamp then push it back. The roof goes on after the brick house stamp. Alternated Real Red and Misty Moonlight inks for the sentiment for a change and adorned with 3 of the Basic Gray and Smoky Slate pearls. Enjoy!
Pumpkin season seems to be behind us but I wanted to share one more card from the incredibly versatile Warms My Heart stamp set in the Sep-Dec Mini Catalogue. The woven leaves were arranged to created a layer behind the stamped and cut image. Arffixing the large circle to extend beyond the embossed layer is a way to use those larger shapes in your stash beyond taking up the front of the card. Simply adhere to the edge and trim from the back before adding. Copy this layout with any focal point. Thanks for stopping by!
Popping in with a more traditional holiday card. Having candles at the table is such a cozy way to enjoy your holiday meal whatever the size of your get together to celebrate. The colours in this patterned paper remind me of the meals we celebrated growing up: gold and yellow hues with red and green. Although growing up in an older neighbourhood in Quebec candles were used more than just for dinners as our power outages were regular in the winter months! We certainly enjoyed them encircled in pine or cedar on the table.
Bringing you a non-traditional coloured holiday card today, featuring the Snowy Scenes patterned paper and greeting from the coordinating stamp set. On this card I used: Petal Pink, Pool Party and Garden Green to coordinating with the circle from the designer series paper. The Snowflake 3D embossing folder is a well loved accessory this season. It's easy to line up so your embossing is perfect every time. Those teeny snowflakes finish it off with a little dot of liquid glue (or folded Mini Glue Dots). I whipped up a dozen of these for last week's Craft Fair. So easy.
Are you a coffee or tea drinker? Or maybe both? I'm partial to pure tea (nothing added) and my fave is Earl Grey. Even a latte is a little too much richness for me. For sure in Canada you need a warm bevvie to start these cooler days be it coffee, tea, hot cider or hot chocolate. Many a parent has a "Tim's" cup at sporting events, walking the dog or heading off to work. I think we can all agree nothing's better than a warm pick me up to keep you enjoying our fall and winter days. Happy Tuesday!
It's coming...the most wonderful time of the year with holiday parties, light celebrations, Christmas Bazaars. Just as the nights are longer we begin to see people decorating their houses with bright lights, garland and red bows. This week is forecast to be fairly warm and mostly dry so I marvel at those who will get their lights up before it's freezing rain - smart! Enjoy your decorating friends....I'm not quite ready yet but I have loads of holiday cards made. Perhaps I should string them up on garland and call it decorated.
I've really been drawn to creating new cards with the Regal Flora bundle. Such deep, rich colours in the patterned paper called Regal Winter for deciding on the card base and accent colours: Blackberry Bliss, Gold Foil, Highland Heather, Soft Sea Foam. After making this card, I copied it for a Wedding Card that my son Alec gave to his friends who were married in Ocrtober. Great design, right?
