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Freestyle Creativity with ephemera & leftovers!

Have you ever gathered some of your extra die-cuts and layers and just played?  We did this at my Team Meeting this weekend and they loved it!  

I put out lots of extra die-cuts and layers plus the Fully Flowering and Greetings for All ephemera plus the Stripes & Florals cards and envelopes and they had fun making their style of cards.  These are mine: 

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Here are each of them below.  The left two include some ephemera and the right two feature dies and greetings I had on hand. 

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I found that layering dies and ephemera onto another layer like the white die-cut above or the Lemon Lolly & Black DSP layers below helps anchor them. 

 

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The colors in the Stripes & Florals cards and envelopes are Balmy Blue & Bubble Bath.  Nice soft colors you can accent easily.

See these pretty cards & envelopes here.  

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The cards above & below feature a bunch of dies I had on hand. Above includes Basic Beige and Gold. 

The card below includes Basic Gray & Pretty Peacock. 

 

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I hope you're encouraged to try making cards using your leftovers.

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• Fantastic card with the Merry Christmas stamp with a free project sheet & video

  December 9, 2025

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  The font on this Merry Christmas stamp sold me on it. Just a little bit of the fun, curviness I love.

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  This Merry Christmas stamp is a true classic with a bit of that Victorian feel to it. I don’t often keep retired stamps but I will keep this one! It’s on sale now too; while supplies last. Click here to see it.

  I paired it with the Traditions of Christmas designer paper here. It’s discounted and on the Last Chance list here. However it’s currently out of stock but should be back next week.
  A bit of holly and berries with some ribbon and you’re done! As you can see I added the same DSP to my envelope flap. Now that makes a card extra special!

  This next one features the Need for Tweed designer series paper. See that here. Fun prints with lots of texture. It’s also on sale right now and available while supplies last.

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  I stamped the inside with greetings from the Traditional Labels stamp set.

  Aren’t they a beautiful set of cards! I will be making more of these and it’s a bonus that it uses up a nice piece of designer paper. No hoarding it!

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  Here’s the free project sheet for you. Click here to download or print it.

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• Quick & Pretty Traditions of Christmas with video

  December 8, 2025

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  I shared how to create these beautiful Christmas cards on last week’s video. Scroll down to grab the free project sheet or watch the video.

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  Aren’t they beautiful? Flower bouquet’s for Christmas? Absolutely!
  My colors include White, Real Red, Old Olive & Mossy meadow.

  These are made with a few products from the 2025 Holiday catalog and one from our Online Exclusives. Here’s the list:

  – Traditions of Christmas specialty designer series paper
  – Christmas Greenery dies seen here
  – Traditional Labels stamp set seen here
  – Peaceful Greenery embossing folder (now discounted) seen here
  – Textured Notes dies seen here

  Traditions of Christmas specialty designer series paper

  Whew! Seems like a lot but you could easily substitute other products. Instead of using the Christmas Greenery dies the bouquet from the DSP could be fussy cut.

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  I’ve used this pretty designer paper a lot this season. It’s a sure winner with it’s gold foil accents. And it’s now discounted! See it here.

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  It’s so easy to die-cut the florals with the dies in the Christmas Greenery dies I might just make a few more of these cards.
  I did texture the front of the card base but you could easily add a second layer to the front instead.

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  Here’s the free project sheet for this card. Click here to print or download it and save to a folder on your computer.

  Below is the video tutorial for this card and one more quick Christmas card. I hope you watch it!

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  December 5, 2025

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  From December 1–9, prepaid Paper Pumpkin subscriptions will be discounted as follows:

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  Each month my subscribers and my Team receive a bunch of bonus project ideas in a PDF featuring the most recent Paper Pumpkin kit. The kits are great as is but it can be fun to get creative with them too!

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