Pine Cone Christmas

Hi Crafty Friends,

Today I am sharing a Christmas card I created using a couple of the new dies by Karen Burniston, these will be available for preorder on Monday 24th November.

I don't normally use Kraft card much in my cardmaking, but I decided I wanted to use it for my card today. For this card I used the new Pine Cone die set as well as the Greeting Labels die set. 

For the other layers on the front of the card, I used the Rectangles & Labels Crosshatch die set. 

The sentiment is from the Season of Cheer Clear Stamp set.

For the inside of my card, I pulled out the Katherine Label Pop up die set and the Christmas Wishes Clear Stamp set.

 

Sending Smiles with Every Step

Hi Crafty Friends,

Today I am sharing a Slimline Card I created using Spellbinders Clear Stamp & Die of the Month for November 2025.

For the Slimline Card base I used an older Spellbinders die set called Hemstitch Slimline. I used an older stencil to add the clouds and grass area to the white panel. 

For the inside of the card, I added more grass along the bottom edge. I added another of the cute girls to the right hand side of the card and a sentiment.

 

Charmed To Know You

Hi Crafty Friends,

Today I am sharing a fun 5 x 7 girly themed card using some of the products from Spellbinders November Club Kits. This was a fun card to make.

Most of the products used on this card is from the Large Die of the Month, this set includes the die to cut the bag shape, the bag parts and all the charms except for the pig, which was the freebie Caboodle set for November. 

I used the Petite Tuft 3D Embossing Folder to add the texture to the purse.

I wanted to use a sentiment stamp from Darcies, but when I went looking for it, it was missing. So I printed it on my computer. The good news later that night I found it on the floor, but as the card was done I didn’t replace it for this card. 

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Red & Green Merry Christmas

 

Hi Crafty Friends,

Today I am sharing four more Christmas cards I created recently using stencils & foil plates.

These cards were created using Spellbinders Baubles & Festive Background Stencil which was the Stencil of the Month for October 2024. I used red & green inks for the baubles and then used a gold texture paste for the hanger.

I used Waffle Flower Crafts Merry Christmas Duo & it’s coordinating foil plate for the sentiment for the two cards above.

For this card, I used a Spellbinders sentiment which is the negative image of my foiled sentiment.

When I was adding the gold texture paste, I got some where I didn’t want it. As I didn’t want to waste the panel, I cut the layers smaller for this one,

For the inside of my card I stamped a Christmas sentiment from Divinity Designs using Metallic Gold ink.

Christmas Favorites

 

Hi Crafty Friends,

Welcome to my blog. Today I am sharing another Christmas themed Floating Cube Fold Card using a tutorial by Sam Calcott, which you can find here.

This card folds down to 5 x 7 if you do the single row of cubes like I have for my card, or 7 x 7 if you have a row of cubes on each side of the white panel.

To decorate my card, I used Hero Arts Best Gift Ever Collection, which includes Press Plates, stencils and dies to create the presents. Rather than use the Betterpress, I used gold glimmer foil on all the bows & sentiments.

Here is a look at the back of my card, I added another sentiment and two more presents. Both sentiments used on this card are the negative image using the leftover foil after foiling the original.

Sweet Christmas

Hi Crafty Friends,

Today I am sharing a Gingerbread themed Christmas card using papers from Spellbinders / Stamperia Candy Christmas Collection. This was a nice quick card as it mainly uses papers or stickers from the collection.

I added the gingerbread house paper to the right side of my card. I then used a fishtail banner die to die cut the waffle paper on the left. 

For the inside of the card, I added a gingerbread themed sentiment and also the gingerbread tree sticker.

Ho Ho Ho

 

Hi Crafty Friends,

Today I am sharing a fun Christmas card using a tutorial from Sam Calcott. This is called a Floating Cube Tower Card and you can find her tutorial here.

I opted to just make the half version of the card, adding the 4 cubes to the left side of the card. The full version would have the cubes on both sides. 

To decorate my card, I used Spellbinders Chimney Capers die set.  I added the “Ho Ho Ho” sentiment to the moon area. I also added two strip sentiments to the bottom of the card using the Marry & Bright Sentiment Strip Betterpress set.

I added the “Merry Christmas” sentiment which is a foil plate from Waffle Flower, and also added another of the strip sentiments I used on the front.

Here For The Presents

 

Hi Crafty Friends,

Today I have a Christmas themed Shaker Card to share with you using products from Hero Arts Best Gift Ever Collection.

Using the stencil in this collection I stencilled 6 different panels in each of the colours used for the presents which you can see in the card above. I have lots of presents left over to make more cards using this collection.

Once I had the stencilled presents, I pulled out my glimmer machine and the Press Plate/Glimmer plate and gold foiled all the bows over the presents, this was pretty easy to line up.

I then used the coordinating die to die cut all the presents, which gave me a number of frames I could stack up to form my shaker well for my card.

I added the shaker elements to the shaker portion of the card and then added another frame to. which I had cover the back with acetate.

To finish the front of the card I used a sentiment from the coordinating Press Plate Sentiment set. I used the negative image for this particular card.

For the inside of the card, I added another sentiment from the Press Plate/Glimmer Sentiment set. I also added a Merry Cristhmas Betterpress image from Spellbinders under the sentiment. Both sentiments are also the negative image.

To finish off the inside, I added one of the extra presents I have in my stash for other cards.

Snowman Post

Hi Crafty Friends,

Today I am sharing a Postage Collage Christmas Card using products from Waffle Flower Crafts & Spellbinders.

The stencil to create the Snowman design is called Snowman and is from Waffle Flower Crafts. this is another stencil I got last year and ran out of time to use it, so I made sure I added it to my supplies to make cards this year.

For the background I used Spellbinders Snowfall Shimmer Betterpress Plate which I glimmered onto Waterfall cardstock using white foil. As I created a 5 x 7 card, I had to glimmer the card twice, the plate isn't continuous, but it doesn't look to noticeable seeing only a small amount is seen around the background.

The sentiment is another Betterpress plate from Spellbinders whic was also glimmered this time with black foil. These sentiments are the reverse using the left over foil from the first foiling.

For the inside I added another panel of the glimmered background.

I then added a glimmered sentiment and two postage cancellation images.

 

November 2025 Karen Burniston Designer Challenge

Hi Crafty Friends,

Welcome to our November Karen Burniston Designer Challenge.

Check out Karen Burniston's blog on Wednesday (US Time) when you will be able to see what all the designers created for the challenge this month, plus Karen will have an amazing video tutorial to share with us all.

Our challenge theme this month is .. "FUN FACES" - Use the Fun Faces 1 Stamp set on a card of any theme.

I wanted to make a Christmas card, so I pulled out the Fun Faces 1 stamp set and the Gnome and Santa die set for this challenge.

For the pop up portion of the card, I used the Lorna Labels Pop up along with the Merry Christmas Lorna Add-ons die set. 

I added a snowy border along the bottom of the card using white glitter cardstock and the Nature Edges die set.

I used the reindeer from the Christmas Animals die set which I added to my snow. 

To finish decorating the inside of my card, I die cut the trees from the Evergreen Pivot Panels die set. I used the Fun Faces 1 stamp set to add faces to all the trees. I also added a few snowflakes from this die set to decorate the top portion of the card.

For the front of the card, I repeated the snow, reindeer & trees (complete with faces) to create a wintery scene. 

I added a stamped sentiment to the top left corner of the card, using the Christmas Wishes stamp set & a label die from the Crosshatch Rectangles & Labels die set.

 

Cheesiest Birthday Card

 

Hi Crafty Friends,

Today I am sharing a fun Easel Card I created for a birthday card for my daughter celebrated her birthday recently.

This card uses stamps and dies from Made To Surprise by Sam Calcott's Going Against the Grain Collection which was released a few months ago.

I die cut the cheeseboard die to created the easel portion of the card in white and brown cardstock. For the brown panels, I used the die as a stencil with brown ink to give a woodgrain look.

I stamped and die cut the images multiple times and added them to my cheeseboard.

I added the sentiments as a stopper to keep the card open.

I also added the two hands holding the wine glasses, doing a reverse image for the one of the left and added them to my card.

Here is a look at my card when it is closed ready to be placed in an evelope. 

Here is the look at the inside of the card. The brown woodgrain base only goes partially up the base of the card. I then have some white space at the top to add a personal message.

Easel cards have lots of areas that can be decorated if you wish. So I decided to add another sentiment and some die cut cheese slices to decorate the back of the card.