Ideas for Christmas Cards: Lovely as a Tree

Most Sundays this year I’m devoting to ideas for Christmas cards.  Now is the time to begin planning your handmade Christmas card designs.  Just enter “Christmas” in the Search box in the upper right for  more handmade card designs. With today’s card I went back to a tried and true stamp set, Lovely as a […]

Sunday Handmade Christmas Card Ideas Lovely as a Tree

Welcome to my first Sunday Handmade Christmas Card Ideas post. You may remember from my Top 3 2015 Resolutions post that this year I’m dedicating most of my Sundays to ideas for Christmas cards.  Don’t get caught short next year, join me and let’s get those cards done! This first Christmas card design for the new […]

Funny Christmas Cards

Happy Monday! Do you need some funny Christmas cards for those goofy, irreverent friends of yours?  You know the ones I’m talking about!  Well, this Christmas card couldn’t be easier. I cut the exercising Santas from the Santa & Company Designer Paper collection into squares, and mounted them on slightly larger squares of Basic Black.  […]

Ideas for Christmas Cards: Beauty of the Season

As you know, I’ve been posting a lot of ideas for Christmas cards and seasonal cards lately.   I know Christmas isn’t for a few months yet, but you’ll need some time if you want to create and send out some unique handmade cards for the holidays. Starting with the focal image from Beauty of the […]

Just 24 Hours Left!

There’s just 24 hours left to sign up for my newsletter and receive my 12 Weeks of Christmas, full of free craft tutorials for holiday craft ideas. Every Wednesday for the next 12 weeks you will receive a new project tutorial for things such as ideas for Christmas cards, handmade gift tags, bags, and boxes, […]

Gatefold Homemade Christmas Card

Isn’t this gate fold card beautiful? What a great idea as a way to send a family photo at the holidays. Last weekend we had a team get-together, swapping cards and stamping other projects.  This was one of the cards I received in the swap.  It was created by one of my team members, Donna […]

Bright & Beautiful Handmade Christmas Card Ideas

With the Bright & Beautiful stamp set (wood-135026/clear-135029) from the new Stampin’ Up! Holiday Catalog, it’s easy to come up with gorgeous handmade Christmas card ideas.  Couple it with the Stars Framelits, Brushed Silver Card Stock, and some frosted sequins and snowflakes, and you’ve got a dazzling combination! I used the Bitty Banners Framelits to […]

Another Christmas Card Idea

Have you started your holiday cards yet?  Well, today I have another Christmas card idea for your inspiration. This simple card highlights one of my all-time favorite stamp sets, Lovely as a Tree.  Type in “Lovely as a Tree” in the Search box in the upper right of this page to search this blog and […]

Simple Christmas Cards

As simple Christmas cards go, this has to be one of the easiest.  The focal part of the card is designer paper!  I just cut off a strip of houses on one of the patterns included in the Nordic Noel Designer Paper collection, attached it to some Real Red card stock, and then mounted it […]

Christmas Wishes

Christmas Wishes from the new Holiday Catalog is an exquisite stamp set with a wonderful sentiment.  You can see another Christmas card idea using this set here.  And the All is Calm Designer Paper collection… so lovely and tranquil… I love the colors! The color scheme for this card was Whisper White, Basic Gray, and […]