Thank you for joining me today to enjoy my Christmas Cardinal card idea featuring the Toile Tidings suite from Stampin’ Up! I’ve teamed up with 3 other members of my Luv 2 Stamp Group to bring you a Blog Hopfeaturing Holiday Catalog ideas today! Scroll down to link to my friends Melanie, Cindee and Kurstan!
As I was stamping the Cardinal from the Toile Christmas stamp set, I decided to use my Blender Pen and Wink of Stella to blend the Real Red ink a bit, and then I wanted the face a bit darker, so I used my Dark Smoky Slate Stampin’ Blends marker and colored over the red face to darken it. I also used my Dark Daffodil Delight Stampin’ Blends marker to color the beak.
After coloring the Cardinal I die cut him out with the matching Christmas Cardinal dies. This Toile Christmas bundle is priced at 10% off, and is found on page 7 of the 2019 Holiday catalog or #152367 online.
Stamping Tips!
Above & Below: Tips to help you make this Christmas Cardinal handstamped Christmas card, featuring the stamped and die cut wreath from the Tidings All Around bundle #152371, vellum and Toile Tidings designer paper.
My base card is a top fold Real Red cardstock base, with a 4″ x 5-1/4″ piece of Toile Tidings designer paper on top. I used a 3-1/2″ x 4-3/4″ piece of vellum over the Toile Tiding paper so that the die cut wreath and cardinal would stand out a little more. The final touch was to add a die cut branch in Garden Green from the Christmas Cardinal dies. It’s actually 2 small branches giving the appearance of a larger branch.
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The Seasonal Wreath set from Stampin’ UP! is beautiful and I thought I’d try it out with the new Golden Glitz Delicata ink pad!! It’s so pretty! I simply stamped the wreath in the Gold Glitz ink onto So Saffron cardstock and wow!! perfect for my Fall Thank You customer cards! Find the Seasonal Wreath set at the back of the 2019 Holiday Catalog on page 59, or HERE online.
I stamped the wreath in Golden Glitz Delicata ink onto a die cut So Saffron piece of cardstock (die cut with the Stitched Rectangle dies), layered that onto a piece of Come to Gather Designer paper, and each base card is a Thick Very Vanilla card base.
I love ALL 3 of the new Delicata Metallic ink pads!!!
As I’ve mentioned in previous posts.. these great new ink pads are currently on backorder status, but I always recommend getting them onto your order so that your order will be fulfilled when they arrive back in the Stampin’ UP! warehouse. Find them on page 16 of your Holiday catalog or here online:
Celestial Copper Delicata Metallic ink pad #150707
Above: for most of the cards I created with the Seasonal Wreath stamp and the Golden Glitz ink pad, I kept the wreath simple and added die cut sprigs from the Christmas Layers dies. I added a cute stamped/die cut bow from the Bells are Ringing bundle, and a sentiment stamped onto die cut tags from the Trio of Tags dies!!
Below: I was looking at this pretty So Saffron / Very Vanilla combo and thought… hmmm this might make a pretty wedding card. So, I created this card and die cut the wreath with the coordinating “All-Around Wreaths Dies” and popped it up with Stampin’ Dimensionals, added the Gold 3/8″ Metallic Edge ribbon, and a wedding greeting! So pretty! Gold Metallic Pearls complete this card. The greeting is from the Beautiful Bouquet stamp set.
And lastly, I decided to color in some of the wreath with my Stampin’ Blends markers just to add a touch of color with the Gold Glitz!
Happy Fall everyone!! Isn’t is always crazy how you can tell it’s transitioning into fall when it’s totally dark when you wake up in the morning!? The feeling of the fall season is definitely in the air and I thought I’d try a Daisy Punch Card celebrating that fall feeling! I sent these customer Thank You Cards out a couple weeks ago.. hope my Stampin’ UP! customers enjoyed them!!
I started by stamping lots AND LOTS of medium daisy images from the Daisy Lane bundle, onto So Saffron, Crushed Curry and Pumpkin Pie cardstock, then stamped the centers in Early Espresso ink (from the Daisy Delight set), then punching them all out with the Medium Daisy punch. I layered 2 punched images together (offset) and they really reminded me of my mom’s garden full of fall colored chrysanthemums each year!
I used these Fall Stampin’ Up! colors: Crushed Curry, So Saffron, Pumpkin Pie, Early Espresso, Copper and Very Vanilla on my Fall Note Card.
I stamped 2 large fall leaf images from the Gather Together set, in Copper Delicata Metallic ink, onto the Very Vanilla note cards, (for the background) and then die cut lots of beautiful leaves from the coordinating Gathered Leaves dies found in the Gather Together bundle, using the Copper Foil paper. I layered 2 of the die cut copper foil leaves onto each card.
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I love ALL 3 of the new Delicata Metallic ink pads!!!
Find them on page 16 of your Holiday catalog or here online:
Celestial Copper Delicata Metallic ink pad #150707
The new Delicata Metallic ink pads are AMAZING and perfect for the fall and holiday season!! They are SO popular that they’ve hit the backorder list.. but my recommendation is ALWAYS to go ahead and get them on your order so that when they come back in stock, your order is fulfilled, rather than waiting to potentially see them back on the backorder list again.
The Season of Thanks stamp image is stamped with Cajun Craze ink and is found in the Gather Together stamp set.
Thank you for your super kind comments and enthusiastic response to this beautiful Gold Pizza Box with the 3-D pumpkin that I created with Cindee!! We both loved how this project came out and I’m glad you did too! Use it for Thanksgiving or anytime in the fall – hostess gift, table favor, table decor, neighbor gift..
Fall Project Video
See this project and other fall ideas in my VIDEO HERE!
We created a paper belly band to slip around the pizza box so that the recipient can slide it off, and retrieve the goodie in side. The Stampin’ UP! products used are all listed at the bottom of this blog post and can be found online in the Come to Gather Suite as well as the Harvest Hellos Bundle. Find the Gold Pizza Boxes online here. The beautiful greeting is found in the For the Love of Felt set.
The trick to this great 3-D pumpkin is to stamp and punch 8 pumpkin images then fold them in 1/2 and adhere them back to back to back… (see this video). We used 8 folded pumpkins added to one flat pumpkin as you’ll see in the video. You can make this with however many folded pumpkins you would like to. I used the Simply Scored board to make folding them super easy.
In addition to the beautiful pumpkin, the other start of the show on my gold pizza box is the leaves!!! When Cindee and I made these, she smooshed the leaf die (from the Gather Together Bundle) into the ink pad, then placed it onto the cardstock, then die cut them. We used Cajun Craze ink and Soft Suede cardstock. After die cutting, Cindee crumpled the leaves in her hand to give them lots of 3-D texture.
After the leaves, pumpkin and greeting were attached to the Come to Gather Designer Paper belly band, we flicked Gold speckles on the leaves and pumpkin. We also sponged gold onto the leaves. We used the new Delicata Golden Glitz ink pad and reinker for this (per the video).
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Mini Curvy Keepsakes box Stampin’ Up! video:
Note: you only need a 6×6 or 5-1/2″ x 8-1/2″ piece of cardstock or designer paper for this die.
If you are taking a treat to a hostess this Thanksgiving, or decorating for a fall party, you might enjoy these Copper Dotted Treat Bags!! The Copper accents are the perfect feel for fall!! Find them on page 173 in your annual Stampin’ Up! catalog or #149609 in my online store.
To decorate the Copper Dotted bag, I stamped pumpkins from the Gather together stamp set in Memento black ink and colored them with Stampin’ Blends. I die cut them with the coordinating dies called Gathered Leaves dies. Buy the set and the dies together at a 10% Discount HERE!
Fall Project Video
Did you see the video I posted with over a dozen fall ideas? See the Fall Ideas Video HERE!
To Finish my Copper Dotted Treat Bag:
2″ x 5″ piece of Come to Gather designer paper punched with the Banner Triple punch
Gold, Copper and Come to Gather DSP leaves die cut from the Gathered Leaves dies
Copper Washi Tape and Copper clip from the Tags & More Accessories Kit #149652
Stamped pumpkins and greeting from the Gather Together stamp set
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