Category Archives: Christmas

Christmas to Remember: ‘Tis the Season

Do you remember creating Dymo embossed plastic labels? If you’re not in my age group, here’s the vintage label maker (Pinterest image) that spoke to my born-organized heart: The current Stampin’ Up! set that recalls these labels is Christmas to … Continue reading

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Evergreen Elegance: Sparkly

Only two weeks left of Sale-A-Bration? How can it be? I have loved having two SABs this year, especially since the offerings were totally different this second time around. This card, from the August Jingle Jump sessions, features two products … Continue reading

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Snowflake joy

This was the first card I designed for August’s Jingle Jump. (Tomorrow begins the September Jingle Jump sessions, and I’m so excited to get started!) I couldn’t resist using the wonderful patterns in the Tidings of Christmas Designer Series Paper … Continue reading

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Festive Foliage: Merry & Bright

Background stamps are an easy choice for me — so much oomph for so little! I used to buy them in wood-mount format, but since Stampin’ Up! has been offering cling red-rubber stamps, the Stamparatus can easily serve as a … Continue reading

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Angled Snowflake

The layout of this Jingle Jump card is one of my current favorites. It uses the single-point edge from Basic Borders at an angle — hence the title of this card. I anticipated cutting so many of these panels that … Continue reading

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Festive Foliage: Merry Christmas

No, I’m not celebrating Christmas yet — I’m just getting ready for the first Jingle Jump of 2021 in a few weeks! Strangely, I’m not even playing Christmas music as I design the six cards for August’s JJ; I usually … Continue reading

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Evergreen Tag

My challenge for birthdays at this time of year is to create cards that are wintery but don’t say, “Your birthday is so close to Christmas, I’ll just send you another Christmas card.” So I use evergreens and snow — … Continue reading

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Merry Christmas

I forgot to include credit to Cindy Elam for this card design — thank you, Cindy! Blessings to you, stampin’ friends!

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Joy to the World

A simple message, a powerful message. So much more than holiday fun. I’ve been playing a lot of peaceful Christmas music this year. One of my favorite artists is Fernando Ortega; he does a beautiful version of this song that … Continue reading

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Merry and (very) bright

Do you recognize this card? Check page 18 of the retiring August-December 2020 Mini Catalog! This is not my usual style (and so I couldn’t have come anywhere close to designing something like this!), but every time I looked at … Continue reading

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