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Slimline Christmas Card

Posted on November 15, 2024November 15, 2024 by inkspirationwithteresa

I haven’t made a slimline card in a long time. Maybe that’s because I don’t have the right size envelopes… I really should do something about that! In the meantime, I was inkspired by a design I saw online and decided to make my own slimline Christmas card.

For this card I’m pulling out the More than Autumn bundle. This is probably my favourite bundle in the Holiday Mini catalogue! And since this is a Christmas card, I’m using the little candy cane and gingerbread cookie as inkspiration for my colours. Crumb Cake is the card base and Real Red is the card mat. The card base is 7″ x 9″, scored at 3 1/2″ on the short side.

On top of that I stamped a few candy canes using Real Red ink and some hearts in Crumb Cake ink. The gingerbread cookies I decided to stamp in Pecan Pie. Then I stamped a bunch of the cups. Double what I actually needed so I could use the top part of half of them to create lids.

Then I coloured the cups with the light and dark Crumb Cake Stampin’ Blends. And each cup sleeve got either a candy cane or gingerbread cookie. I stamped them with Tuxedo Black Memento ink and then coloured them with the light versions of the Real Red and Pecan Pie Stampin’ Blends. Once these were done I stacked them all up on the card with some Stampin’ Dimensionals. Then on top of that I layered on the sentiment that I stamped with Pecan Pie, Crumb Cake and Real Red ink.

The More than Autumn bundle makes a great slimline Christmas card don’t you think?! I’m definitely not ready to put this bundle away yet! This is definitely what I’ll be using for the cards for our friends and family.

So until I share those designs, check out this other card I created using the More than Autumn bundle here.

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Monochromatic Christmas Card

Posted on October 25, 2024October 25, 2024 by inkspirationwithteresa

I’m definitely getting into the Christmas spirit with my crafting! And one pack of patterned paper that I love for this time of year is the Winter Meadow Designer Series Paper pack. I’m so glad that Stampin’ Up! decided to keep it after last year’s Holiday Mini catalogue. The colours and designs are so pretty and it’s not you’re traditional Christmas paper. So for this design I wanted to show it off the paper and this design is a great one for creating a background. It’s also great for a monochromatic Christmas card!

So Misty Moonlight is the main colour for this one. And then on top of the Designer Series Paper I layered on a piece of Basic White cardstock. The sentiment is from the Christmas Labels stamp set and of course it’s stamped in Misty Moonlight ink. Then on top of that I stamped the pair of birds from the Winterly Tree Tops stamp set. I die cut it with the coordinating die and then sadly there isn’t a Misty Moonlight Watercolour Pencil, so I lightly coloured them with Night of Navy. And added a little more in certain spots for some shadows and depth.

Finally to finish it off, I popped up the birds with some Stampin’ Dimensionals. And then added a few Rhinestone Basic Jewels.

I love a monochromatic card! And so crafting this monochromatic Christmas card was a nice bonus.

As we get closer to Christmas I’ll share some more Christmas cards. But in the meantime sign up for my weekly newsletter! Right now we’re in the midst of my 12 Weeks of Christmas. Extra, exclusive, holiday themed projects to help you get ready for the holidays and avoid some of the stress that comes with it! Sign up here.

You can also check out another card I made using the Winterly Tree Tops bundle here.

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Shoebox Swap using Winterly Tree Tops

Posted on October 18, 2024October 18, 2024 by inkspirationwithteresa

I’m finally starting on my Christmas crafting! Maybe I’ll even get my Christmas and Hannukah cards done before December! And it’s all starting with the card design for my team shoebox swap using Winterly Tree Tops. I just love these little birds from the Winterly Tree Tops bundle and it’s starting to get a little frosty around here so I thought why not make it a Christmas card. What’s a shoebox swap you might be asking… It’s similar to a regular card swap in some respects where you make the number of cards to match the number of people in your group. That way everyone gets one of each person’s card designs. But for a shoebox swap you prepare all the bits and pieces needed for people to make your card and you put them in a shoebox, or another container.

Our team swaps also have a couple of extra rules. One is that the products be current and no online exclusives… as much as we all love them the availability is somewhat unpredictable. So I’m featuring the two birds on a branch from the Winterly Tree Tops bundle. And that’s where I started with this design. I wanted to make them blue so I used my Pool Party Stampin’ Blends. Pool Party is also my card base colour and the ink colour for my sentiment from the Christmas Labels stamp set.

Behind my pretty little birds I have a piece of the Nests of Winter Designer Series Paper that coordinates with this bundle. I also dry embossed a piece of Very Vanilla cardstock using the Cane Weave 3D embossing folder. Then to match with the DSP, I added a Crumb Cake card mat behind the embossed cardstock as well as a little bit to frame the sentiment.

I hope my team members like my shoebox swap using Winterly Tree Tops!

Check out one of the other cards I made using the Winterly Tree Tops stamps and dies here.

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Christmas Card with Winter Meadow

Posted on November 3, 2023November 3, 2023 by inkspirationwithteresa

Patterned paper can make it so easy to create beautiful handmade cards! And the Winter Meadow Designer Series Paper pack is no exception. The colours and designs are so pretty. And one thing I really like about this pack is that it’s not your typical Christmas patterned paper. I really didn’t need to add much to craft this beautiful Christmas card with Winter Meadow DSP.

I started with choosing the design from the pack of patterned paper. And this one is great just on it’s own. So I decided to use it as my card mat. For the card base I went neutral… Crumb Cake. The other colours came from the patterned paper; Misty Moonlight and Garden Green.

I paired it with the Joy of Noel bundle. The pines branches are Misty Moonlight cardstock. And the berries I stamped in Garden Green. Then for NOEL I used Crumb Cake. To make it easy to pop all this up with some Stampin’ Dimensionals I punched out a Basic White circle and layered them on. And to finish it off I added some Wink of Stella to the NOEL, along with a few Rhinestone Basic Jewels.

I really like this Christmas card with Winter Meadow DSP. And I can’t wait to craft some more!

Check out a fun fold card I made using the Joy of Noel bundle here.

And if you want to see all the different designs in the Winter Meadow DSP pack, then head over to my online shop.

Corner Box Card

Posted on October 29, 2023October 29, 2023 by inkspirationwithteresa

This month the Fancy Folds Design team is making a Corner Box card. It’s such a simple card to make and it’ll fit in a typical envelope… which is always nice! For my card design I’m taking advantage of the upcoming holiday season for my inkspiration. Plus I recently got the Winter Meadow Designer Series Paper pack and am excited to get crafting with it!

I started with choosing my patterned paper. I wanted one design that was fairly simple, so I can write a little note on it. And I wanted the other to have a bit more to it. I chose a Misty Moonlight design from the pack. And what was perfect is that this sheet of DSP worked for both! So for the card base I used Misty Moonlight cardstock.

To make the card base, I used a piece that was 5 1/2″ x 8 1/2″ and scored along the long side at 2 1/8″, 4 1/4″ and 6 3/8″. Then I also needed a strip that was 1″ x 5 1/2″ and 2 1″ circles. And both of these needed to be scored in half. The strip holds the card base together so that it stands up. I used Tear & Tape Adhesive to hold it all together. Then the 2 circles held up my image and sentiment.

I used the Joy to Noel stamps and dies bundle for my image and sentiment. I stamped both with Misty Moonlight ink. And then used the coordinating dies to cut them out. Once I got them all stuck to my card base I added some Wink of Stella to my “NOEL”.

Here’s the front and back of my Corner Box card…

Remember to keep hopping to see all the Corner Box card designs! Up next is Mette Nordling Shaw and you can check out her card here.

And if you want to check out last month’s hop you can do that here. Last month we made a Pop Out Fun Fold card.

Mirror Fold Card

Posted on July 15, 2022July 15, 2022 by inkspirationwithteresa

It’s blog hop time again! And this month the Fancy Folds Design Team is making a Mirror Fold Card. I saw this card a little while ago and am excited to share it with you. For measurements and steps to try this yourself check out my YouTube video. Just as a heads up there were a couple of parts that were a bit tricky, but I still love how these cards turned out.

For whatever reason I decided to make two different versions of this card. Maybe it’s the excitement from the newly launched July-December mini catalogue. Who knows?! Anyway… I made one version using the Hues of Happiness suite of products to make a birthday card. And the other version is a Christmas card using the All Spruced Up bundle.

For the birthday card I used Melon Mambo for the card base and a simple design for my patterned paper. The Hues of Happiness Designer Series Paper is sssooo pretty, but I wanted a simple design so the the flowers would be the focus. I cut out the flowers using the coordinating dies. Don’t you just love it when the dies work for both the stamped images AND the images in the DSP pack? I know I do! I popped up the flowers on the front panel using some Stampin’ Dimensionals and then heat embossed “happy birthday” in white on a piece of Basic Black cardstock. Then to finish it off I added a couple of Rhinestone Basic Jewels.

For the Christmas card I used Pear Pizzazz for my card base and the Painted Christmas Designer Series Paper. I’m so glad this pack of patterned paper is back! The designs are so pretty and some can be used for occasions other than Christmas too. To decorate this version I used the All Spruced Up dies with a few different papers, including the Gold & Silver Foil DSP from the Sale-a-bration catalogue. I cut out the phrase with one of the He’s All That dies and popped it up with some Stampin’ Dimensionals. And when I finally found my Festive Pearls I added a couple of the gold ones to the card to finish it off.

I hope you enjoy this month’s fun fold! Keep hopping around the world and check out the next Mirror Fold Card from Mette Nordling Shaw here.

And you can always check out what we made last month, which was a Diamond Z Fold card. Check out that hop starting here.