Christmas Card Sunday: Rubber Stamping Christmas Cards
When rubber stamping Christmas cards, try mixing and matching images, papers, and accessories to come up with some beautiful handmade card designs. For Christmas Card Sunday today I decided to go shabby chic! I love the look of vintage Christmas cards, I don’t know why I don’t spend more time making them. The beauty of these card […]
Christmas Card Sunday: Holiday Card Ideas
Welcome back to Christmas Card Sunday, where each week I share different holiday card ideas so we’re not frantically rubber stamping Christmas cards at the last minute. Thanks for stopping by. Today’s Christmas card making idea combines some retired with some current Stampin’ Up! catalog sets and accessories. Do you recognize them? First, let’s talk about […]
Christmas Card Sunday: Country Christmas Cards
Welcome to Christmas Card Sunday, a weekly feature where I design various handcrafted Christmas cards to inspire your creativity and get you started rubber stamping Christmas cards early instead of waiting until the last minute! Let’s get them done this year, what do you say? 🙂 All you really need to make beautiful country Christmas cards is a tree stamp or […]
Homemade Christmas Card Sunday: Joyous Celebrations
Today’s homemade Christmas card begins with a beautiful paper pattern from a retired designer paper collection… sorry, I can’t remember the name of it. I cut it into three pieces of 1 3/4″ x 4 1/8″ each and mounted them onto the card front. The focal point is the “JOY” in the decorative oval frame, stamped in Night of […]
Coming Soon: Stampin’ Up! Retired List
The Stampin’ Up! retired list will be out in less than two weeks, and it’s got me thinking about what I hope I won’t see on that list. How about you? It always amazes me how Stampin’ Up! keeps coming up with beautiful new stamp sets, but it seems that every year I worry about […]
DIY Christmas Card Sunday: Wonderland
It’s time for DIY Christmas Card Sunday again, and today I’m featuring one of the popular Stampin’ Up! retired stamps from last year, Wonderland. I love this stamp set, so you won’t find it on my Retired Rubber Stamps page. 🙂 At least, not yet. I’m not sure I want to part with it because it […]
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 […]