Christmas Card Sunday: Homemade Christmas Card Ideas
Last year I started to devote most Sundays to homemade Christmas Card ideas… I call it Christmas Card Sunday! So, if you’re struggling around the holidays to come up with your handmade card designs, well, now you’ll know where to look. 🙂 The idea, of course, is not to wait until November, but to start rubber […]
Handmade Christmas Card Sunday: Joy to All
It’s about time we brought Handmade Christmas Card Sunday back! Today I made a very simple holiday card using the retired Festive Fireplace stamp set. A little vignette of a wreath, fireplace mantel, and stockings certainly reminiscent of the holidays. You’ll find this stamp set for sale on my Retired Stamps Page. I colored everything in with […]
Handmade Christmas Card: Time to Chill
This cute handmade Christmas card features the Season of Cheer Designer Paper collection and the Snow Place stamp set, which you can pick up in a bundle with their coordinating framelits and save 15%. I also used the Squares Collection Framelits which are on sale right now during our Online Extravaganza (today is the last day). If you’ve followed my […]
My 12 Weeks of Christmas is Winding Down
My 12 Weeks of Christmas is winding down, but there are still three more weeks left. This is my annual gift to my craft newsletter subscribers, and it’s absolutely FREE! It’s full of Christmas card making tutorials, ideas for unique homemade gifts, and instructions for homemade gift bags, tags, and gift wrap. My monthly newsletter will be going […]
Paper Pumpkin Card Kit for November 2015
This month’s Paper Pumpkin card kit was awesome! It included everything needed to make 5 of each of the holiday cards you see on the right, and the designer envelopes were included. It came with a six-piece stamp set, too, and a mini Cherry Cobbler ink pad. I only used two of the stamps on these […]
Awesome Weekly Deals
Stampin’ Up! just announced the new Weekly Deals, and they are awesome! A couple holiday stamp sets — Berry Merry and Embellished Ornaments — the Winter Wonderland Designer Vellum (gorgeous!), and the Dazzling Diamonds Glitter Paper! All of these are so beautiful, and for the next week you can pick them up at a nice discount. […]
A New Card Sketch
There’s a new card sketch over at i Love Card Sketches, and here’s my rendition of it. Simple, but I really like it. What do you think? The focus is really the paper pattern that I pulled from the Season of Cheer Designer Paper collection. I used part of a retired framelit from the Labels Collection […]
Create Christmas Cards With Joyful Season
Recently I broke out the Joyful Season stamp set to create Christmas cards. Here’s the Christmas card design I came up with as my submission for this week’s sketch over at i Love Card Sketches. I’m really pleased with it. What do you think? The circle is where I stamped and watercolored using Watercolor Paper that […]
New Weekly Deals on Holiday Catalog Items!
They’ve just announced the new Weekly Deals, and there’s some Holiday Catalog items in the mix! Maybe you were thinking about picking up the Festive Flower Builder Punch. Well, now you can get it at a discount! But these deals only last one week, so don’t dilly-dally! Watch the video below on how to use […]
A Christmas Wish For You
Were you able to make my Facebook Stampin’ Up! Party!? We’ve been having a great time! Hopefully you’ll be able to make the next one. I’m thinking January, but sign up for my newsletter and you’ll get the announcement as soon as I decide. Today’s card features the Joyful Season stamp set. I haven’t dabbled […]