Classic Evergreens - Stampin' Up! Peaceful Evergreens

 You can't go wrong with a nice pine or evergreen stamp set especially this time of year!  The Stampin' Up! Peaceful Evergreens bundle is perfect for Christmas and winter cards and it's such a classic style that you can use them for years to come.  I designed this card for a recent class and wanted to pair the stamp set bundle along with the Painted Trees 3D embossing folder.  They are a match made in Christmas card heaven!

  This design starts with a Cherry Cobbler card base, then a layer of Basic White.  The white is topped with a piece of Garden Green Two-Toned cardstock that is embossed with the Painted Trees embossing folder.  A sanding block is used to on the raised image to pull out some of the white core of the cardstock and it looks like snow dusted branches.

  The evergreen is stamped in Garden Green ink and is topped with the coordinating overlay die cut to add a snow covered look as well.  The tree is popped on dimensionals and topped with a gold foil star.

  The fun gold embossed sentiment is on a Cherry Cobbler die cut label from the Peaceful Season stamp and die set.  The gold trim is perfect for threading through the label and adding a bow to the side.

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All of the supplies used to make this card can be purchased in my ONLINE STORE

Stamps: Peaceful Evergreens, Peaceful Season

Ink: Garden Green, Versamark

Paper: Cherry Cobbler, Basic White, Garden Green Two-Toned cardstock (Scrapbooking Line), Gold Foil

Accessories: Peaceful Evergreens dies, Peaceful Season Dies, gold embossing powder, Gold trim, dimensionals, Painted Trees embossing folder

Rudolph Christmas Tag - Stampin' Up! Reindeer Fun

  I love the Stampin' Up! Reindeer Fun bundle because it's like getting 1 stamp set plus 2 die sets.  You not only get the dies that coordinate with the stamped images but you get basically another die set that makes the reindeer head as well as the gifts and bows.  Not to mention the wreath, holly and light strand dies.  So you can make lovely cards with stamping as well as without or a nice mix of both! My stampers made this design last week at class and the only stamping is the sentiment. 

  Adorable right?  We started with a Real Red card base then a piece of the Reindeer Days DSP in a fun classic red and green plaid pattern.   At the top of the DSP is a strip of Festive Glimmer Paper in Garden Green.  It adds a nice bit of sparkle to the card.

  Next is a Granny Apple Green tag and a punched Basic White Circle.  We used this nice crisp background to pop up our cute Rudolph on dimensionals.  Starting from back to front we used Early Espresso, Basic Beige and Pecan Pie cardstock for the deer layers.  The Cherry Cobbler Festive Glimmer paper nose is added by going back and using the 2nd layer die to cut it.  Garden Green linen thread is tied through the tag hole and then the tag is popped on dimensionals.

  A strip of Basic White is used for the Granny Apply Green sentiment and is added under the deer.  A bit of Garden Green and more Cherry Cobbler Glimmer Paper is used to die cut the holly.

  Finally a few Silver Ribboned Adhesive-Backed Dots are added for a bit more Christmas shine.

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All of the current supplies used to make this card can be purchased in my ONLINE STORE.

Stamps: Reindeer Fun

Ink: Granny Apple Green

Paper: Real Red, Granny Apple Green, Basic White, Festive Glimmer Paper, Early Espresso, Basic Beige, Pecan Pie, Reindeer Days DSP

Accessories: Reindeer Fun dies, circle punch, dimensionals, Ribboned Adhesive-Backed Dots (Online Exclusive), tag punch (retired)

Autumn Postcard - Stampin' Up! Autumn Leaves

   I tend to send out a handful of Thanksgiving cards so I like to design a few fall-ish cards that can work for that purpose.  The Autumn Leaves stamp set and dies that came out last year and are still available work perfectly for cards for this time of year.  I designed this one for my local stampers to make at a recent class and I made a few extras for my own needs too.  I love this color combo as well!

  One of the current In Colors from the 2023-2025 set is Copper Clay and let me tell you it's a superstar in the autumn card arena!  It's just the right amount of brown and orange!  I used it here for the card base as well as the ink for the oak leaf.  The next layer is a piece of the Sweet Days of Autumn DSP that was released with the new scrapbooking line in a perfect subtle Old Olive pattern.

  I used Very Vanilla and the Perennial Postage die set to make the main panel for the card.  If you want an easy way to add some pop and detail to your designs think about using dies that add a different edge to your panels.  A stitched detail, a cut out or this "stamp" edge is just an easy way to bring your cards up a notch.  My favorite dies that do this are the Perennial Postage dies, Spotlight on Nature dies, Stitched Shapes dies and Deckled Rectangle dies.  Give them a try and see!

 I stamped all of my leaves around the edge and stamped off some of the images so there would be a variety.  The veins of the leaves are stamped next in Pecan Pie ink.  I used the same ink for the sentiment from the Iconic Imagery set as well as the sponged edge of the panel.

  Natural Tones linen thread in Copper Clay is used for a nice bow and then 2 Earth Tones Shimmer Gems are added near the sentiment.  My stampers at class actually used the Faux Glass Dots for their embellishments because all of those colors matched this card so they had a choice of which color to use.

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Stamps: Autumn Leaves, Iconic Imagery (Online Exclusive)

Paper: Copper Clay, Very Vanilla, Sweet Days of Autumn DSP (Scrapbooking Line)

Ink: Copper Clay, Crushed Curry, Old Olive, Pecan Pie

Accessories: Perennial Postage dies,  Natural Tones linen thread, Earth Tones Shimmer Gems (or Faux Glass Dots)

Tagged Evergreen - Stampin' up! Peaceful Evergreens

   A recently closed challenge at the Paper Players wanted us to make a clean and simple (CAS) card with a tag as part of the design.  I don't think I quite nailed the CAS part as the more that I look at it it seems a bit busy.  Maybe the dark background or the embossed pattern?  Regardless of it it's clean and simple it's a nice quick design for a Christmas card.  You can easily re-create this one yourself with whatever pine tree/evergreen tree stamp set you have and make the tag out of any specialty or designer series paper.

  The background is a piece of Cherry Cobbler cardstock embossed with the Forever Plaid embossing folder.  Using an old tag punch I punched a piece of retired Gold Fine Shimmer Paper, added a bit of retired ribbon and popped it on dimensionals on the card front.

  The tree is the largest tree from the Peaceful Evergreens stamp set. I stamped it in Shaded Spruce ink onto Shaded Spruce cardstock.  After it was die cut I sponged some gold ink on the edges of the tree then popped it on dimensionals over the edge of the tag.

  The sentiment is from the Peaceful Season stamp set and is stamped in Cherry Cobbler on a narrow strip of Very Vanilla.  

  I knew I had a few little Cherry Cobbler enamel embellishments left over from a past Paper Pumpkin kit so I dug those out and added 3 of them on the tag under the sentiment.

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All of the current products used to make this card can be purchased in my ONLINE STORE.

Stamps: Peaceful Evergreens, Peaceful Season

Ink: Shaded Spruce, Cherry Cobbler

Paper: Cherry Cobbler, Shaded Spruce, Very Vanilla, Fine Shimmer Paper (retired)

Accessories: Forever Plaid embossing folder, Peaceful Evergreens dies, dimensionals, tag punch (retired), gold/vanilla ribbon (retired), Cherry Cobbler enamel dots (retired)