I created this card for mom’s 12 Weeks of Christmas newsletter.

While this may not be “quick” – if you stamp and emboss a couple pieces of blue card stock all at once, you can cut it up and have 8 panels ready for cards. And the rest of the card is super easy.

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These two cards were created for InkUp newsletters. They both happen to use stitching and are Christmas themed, so I thought I’d post them together.

Mom had asked me to create a shaker card using the new Mica Flakes and Dimensional Foam Frames from the Holiday Mini. This card is what I came up with.

To make the ornament shaker, I stamped and punched two ornaments. From one ornament I also punched a circle (I punched a circle from scrap, placed it on my ornament, traced it, then aligned the traced line with the punch). I glued an acetate ornament to the back of the front ornament, followed by a Foam Frame, added a bit of mica, then peeled the liner from the Foam Frame and attached the back ornament.

The hardest part about this card was sewing around the Top Note!! And in case you don’t know, to do the matted Top Note, I just die cut two – one in green and one in white; the “front” one (in this case the green one) was then hand-cut around the embossed dashed lines.

This next card was quite fun. I started by cutting a Vanilla panel the size I wanted the “quilt”. I marked a dot on the Vanilla panel where the sentiment would be. Then I just took one piece of patterned paper and placed the corner on the dot and adhered it, then I trimmed the paper along the Vanilla edge. I repeated that for each of the other three patterns.

I added machine stitching to the pattern panel (zig-zag where the patterns meet and straight around the edge). I wrapped the panel with the ribbon and adhered it to the card base. Finally I stamped and punched my sentiment and adhered it with dimensionals.

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My mom, a StampinUp demonstrator, hosted a 12 Weeks of Christmas newsletter again this year. And, as in the past, I helped her with the issues.

These three projects were ones I created for the newsletter.

First up is a pop-top can. This was the first one of these I made. It was surprisingly easy – I just followed the directions at SplitCoast.

This next project is a tree decoration – Double Ball Ornament. Again, I followed directions at Splitcoast.

The only tip I have is to be careful you don’t over bend your pieces, they really need to stay flexible.

And, if you can find the right hat pin, it will make all the difference! Mine did not have a ribbon eye so I had to fake that bit and it didn’t really last.

All the projects here use Holly Berry Bouquet paper from the StampinUp Holiday mini.

And finally, my last project. This was so cool. This little box is actually created using the StampinUp Petal Cone die! Dawn Olchefske created a great video showing just how to make the box.

All supplies are StampinUp, but if you have any specific questions – don’t hesitate to ask!

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Back in September I put together a few cards for my mom’s newsletter on stitching. On this card I decided to use the StampinUp fabric as well as stitching.

I die cut about four butterflies and machine stitched them to the Crumb Cake layer. My little machine doesn’t like tight curves, so I did part of it manually moving the needle up and down. Not fun!

To do the ruffled border, I ran a long straight stitch down the center of the fabric. Then I pulled one of the threads and gathered the fabric as I went.

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