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Holiday Hot Cocoa

Hello! Today I have a traditional red and green holiday card to share, complete with Hot Cocoa! I share all the details in the short video.

Watch the video below or on YouTube:

I’m often asked what supplies I use to make my cards and projects, so I’ve put together a list using affiliate links when possible. If you make a purchase with these links I may receive a small commission. These help me to keep up with blog costs and continue bringing you fun projects. Thank you so much for your support!






I love a traditional red and green holiday card, how about you? I’ll be back soon with more to share!

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Holiday Shaker Tags

Hello! Today I have 3 holiday shaker tags to share along with a video on how to put them together! When you have beautiful products like this Tag Along die from Heffy Doodle, it’s easy to build a shaker tag.

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These tags were all made with some new favorites of mine from Heffy Doodle!

Tag 1: Happy Christmas Elf

For the first tag, I stenciled the Happy stencil on the background with red ink. Then I cut out the Tag Along die using the Tinsel Town paper from Heffy Doodle. (This was a part of their Mega Day sale, and I hope they have in their shop available soon!)

The images, including that happy elf are from Santa’s Village stamp set! I love it with the Christmas die as well. Watch the video to see how to assemble these tags with the shaker Sparkle Mix elements inside!

Tag 2: Santa’s workshop

For this one I changed up the color of the paper, but the images are all from Santa’s Village again. I added a candy cane to Santa’s hand…isn’t that perfect?

Tag 3: Winter Wonderland

The color scheme changed to blue & white for this tag. I love the happy penguin and snowman from the Wanna Build a Snowman stamp set!

The background is the Notre Dame stencil inked up with a light blue ink. Then I stamped on the winter wonderland in blue ink.

I’m often asked what supplies I use to make my cards and projects, so I’ve put together a list using affiliate links when possible. If you make a purchase with these links I may receive a small commission. These help me to keep up with blog costs and continue bringing you fun projects. Thank you so much for your support!






I hope you enjoyed these projects today. I love a fun holiday tag! I’ll be back with more card inspiration!

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Sleepy Bear Card

Hello! Today I am smiling at this Sleepy Bear card that I have to share. It’s a favorite bear stamp set (from Miss Ink Stamps) that I’ve paired with a favorite stencil.

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Just how cute are these bears?! This card uses NO MASKING at all…I show you how easy you can build a scene like this in the video above.

I first stamped out all my images, then I stenciled on that sky in greens, blues, and purples!

Next I colored up all the images. I used some Blue-greens on those trees (thinking of a Blue Spruce here!

For some more magic, I added some white embossing paste through the Sparkles stencil on the top; and some glitter on the snowy scene on the bottom of the panel.

I’m often asked what supplies I use to make my cards and projects, so I’ve put together a list using affiliate links when possible. If you make a purchase with these links I may receive a small commission. These help me to keep up with blog costs and continue bringing you fun projects. Thank you so much for your support!






Thanks for stopping by today! Happy Holidays!

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Holy Night cards

Hello! Today I am sharing a favorite couple of Holy Night sets from Maker Forte. I have created 2 cards to share today, with more details and information over on the Maker Forte blog HERE.

I absolutely adore the beautiful sets from Maker Forte, especially their Christmas sets!

I’m often asked what supplies I use to make my cards and projects, so I’ve put together a list using affiliate links when possible. If you make a purchase with these links I may receive a small commission. These help me to keep up with blog costs and continue bringing you fun projects. Thank you so much for your support!






Thanks for stopping by today!

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Mailbox Gift Set

Hello! Today I am sharing some favorite holiday products that I LOVE to create with. This is a Mailbox set that I made for family members this year.

Aren’t these mailboxes so cute?!? In the spirit of the holiday season, I created red mailboxes with lots of greenery in different colors. I got some different greens using GLITTER PAPER, INK BLENDING, and MICA SPRAYS!

I really think Spellbinders did a beautiful job in creating this array of products. I also used the peppermint stick and the starlight mint with the holiday add-on set.

For the sentiment on the mailbox, I chose to heat emboss in gold embossing powder using the stamp set. They also have a hot foil plate set so you can use foil if you would like!

I used a Postage Stamp Infinity die from Hero Arts for the layer just behind the mailbox. To add a little more interest, I used an embossing folder with a beautiful dot design on that layer.

The back layer is plaid Christmas paper! I love using plaid paper for Christmas and I chose a variety here to mix things up a bit.

I’m often asked what supplies I use to make my cards and projects, so I’ve put together a list using affiliate links when possible. If you make a purchase with these links I may receive a small commission. These help me to keep up with blog costs and continue bringing you fun projects. Thank you so much for your support!






I hope you enjoyed these projects today! I can’t wait to give them to my family at our Christmas party. See you soon with more papercrafting projects!

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