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Candy Cane Stripe Tag

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This simple but adorable candy cane stripe tag is so simple to make and is a great tag for any holiday gift bag or box. 

To create this card, you just need a few things:

  • Poppy Parade card stock (Stampin’ Up)
  • White card stock
  • Sentimental Christmas designer series paper (retired Stampin’ Up)
  • Holiday Tag Team stamp set (retired Stampin’ Up)
  • Little Treats stamp set (retired Stampin’ Up)
  • Scalloped Rectangle dies (retired Stampin’ Up)
  • Poppy Parade ink (Stampin’ Up)
  • Linen thread (Stampin’ Up)
  • Red Ribbon
  • Paper trimmer
  • Adhesive of choice
  • Pop dots

With your Poppy Parade card stock and the 2 ½ x 3 ¾” scallop rectangle die and cut out your background.  From your white card stock cut a piece to 2” x 3 ¼” and another piece to 1 ¼” x 2”.  Take your Sentimental Christmas designer series paper pack find the peppermint stripe piece of paper and cut a piece to 2” x 3 ¼”. 

From the Holiday Tag Team stamps find the “To From” stamp and the candy cane stamp and with the Poppy Parade ink stamp the To From in the upper half of the white piece and then the candy cane in the lower right corner.  Adhere to the back of your scallop rectangle piece. 

Take the smaller white piece you cut and find the “Ho Ho Ho Merry Christmas” and stamp it in Poppy Parade ink in the bottom half.  Adhere to the front of Peppermint stripe piece with the top at about half-way down, and leaving about ¾” from the bottom.  Wrap red ribbon around in the upper half of the white piece and adhere to the back.  Then wrap the linen thread around and tie in a knot on the front over the red ribbon.  Use pop dots to adhere to the front of the scallop rectangle.  Use your holepunch to punch a hole in the top center and run a piece of linen thread through and tie in a knot. 

What an adorable tag for any holiday gift.

If you are interested in seeing other card ideas, please visit my blog at www.daisychainfun.com or follow my website. 

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Delicate Pines Peace This Christmas Card

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This card uses the new Delicate Pines stamp set and dies from Stampin’ Up along with the Peace This Christmas stamps for the greetings.  The Mossy Meadow speckled paper from the Elegant Pine Snowflake designer series paper that goes with the Delicate Pines set just made this a great masculine card. 

To create this card, you just need a few things:

  • Mossy Meadow card stock (Stampin’ Up)
  • Baked Brown Sugar card stock (retired Stampin’ Up)
  • White card stock
  • Elegant Pine Snowflake designer series paper (September 2025 Online Exclusive Stampin’ Up)
  • Delicate Pines stamp set and dies ((September 2025 Online Exclusive Stampin’ Up)
  • Peace This Christmas stamp set (retired Stampin’ Up)
  • Mossy Meadow ink (Stampin’ Up)
  • Baked Brown Sugar ink (Stampin’ Up)
  • Paper trimmer
  • Adhesive of choice

From a piece of Mossy Meadow card stock cut your card base to 5 ½” x 8 ½”  and fold in half to 4 ¼” x 5 ½”.  Cut another piece to 3 ¼” x 4 ½”.  With your Baked Brown Sugar card stock cut a piece to 3’ x 4 ¼”.  Take your white card stock and cut a piece to 2 ¾” x 4” and one for the inside of your card to 4” x 5 ¼”.  Find the Mossy Meadow frosty looking paper in the Elegant Pine Snowflake designer series paper pack and cut a piece to 4” x 5 ¼”. 

Take the Mossy Meadow frosty piece and adhere to the front of your card base.  Then adhere the Mossy Meadow piece centered on the frosty piece, and the Baked Brown Sugar piece to that.  Take the white piece measuring 2 ¾” x 4” and find the pine bough stamp in the Delicate Pines stamp set and stamp twice in the upper left corner. 

Then use your Baked Brown Sugar ink to stamp the “May all your Christmas wishes come true” greeting stamp from the Peace This Christmas stamp set toward the lower right corner.  On a scrap piece of white card stock stamp two of the pine cones from the Delicate Pines stamp set in Baked Brown Sugar ink and cut out with the die.  Adhere them one slightly on the other over some of the pine boughs. Adhere this to the front of the Baked Brown Sugar piece on the front of your card.

For the inside of your card take the 4” x 5 ¼” piece of white card stock you cut and stamp two more of the pine boughs in Mossy Meadow ink, one in the upper left corner and one in the lower right corner.  In the Baked Brown Sugar ink stamp the “Peace, Joy and Love” greeting in the Upper Center.  Adhere this to the inside of your card. 

This is a masculine card but really great for anyone as it is just simply a nice card.

If you are interested in seeing other card ideas, please visit my blog at www.daisychainfun.com or follow my website. 

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Plaid Deer Tag

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I just love this holiday tag with the plaid and deer with the jingle bell around it’s neck.  The Festive Farmhouse designer series paper just has so many pretty papers, this plaid being my favorite and the deer head just goes perfectly. 

To create this card, you just need a few things:

  • Old Olive card stock (Stampin’ Up)
  • White card stock
  • Festive Farmhouse designer series paper (retired Stampin’ Up)
  • Traditional Labels stamp set (Sept-Dec Mini Catalog Stampin’ Up)
  • Tag, Traditional Combo Original die (retired Sizzix)
  • Deer (unknown if punch or die)
  • Pine Bough die (Sizzix)
  • Silver cord (retired Stampin’ Up)
  • Mini Jingle Bells (retired Stampin’ Up)
  • Cherry Cobbler ink (Stampin’ Up)
  • Adhesive of choice

From your white card stock use the Tag, Traditional Combo to cut the larger tag.  Use a deer die or punch to cut out a deer from the white as well.  Find the red plaid paper in the Festive Farmhouse designer series paper pack and cut out this with the same Tag, Traditional Combo large tag.  With the Old Olive and a pine bough die cut out two sprigs.

Take your deer and a small piece of silver cord and a silver jingle bell.  Run the cord through the jingle bell and adhere each end to the back of the deer with the cord around it’s neck.  Then adhere the two pine sprigs to the back, one on each side, trimming to the length you need them at.  Adhere the deer to the red plaid tag. 

Take your white tag and the To: and From: stamps from the Traditional Labels stamp set and stamp them on the back of the white tag in Cherry Cobbler ink. 

Use silver cord and run through both of your tag holes and tie in a knot.  What an wonderful tag for any male you are wrapping a gift for.

If you are interested in seeing other card ideas, please visit my blog at www.daisychainfun.com or follow my website. 

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Traditions of Christmas Merry and Bright Card

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The Traditions of Christmas suite from Stampin’ Up is so elegant looking and is just gorgeous.  This Merry and Bright card using paper and dies from the set to make a lovely card to the holidays. 

To create this card, you just need a few things:

  • Real Red card stock (Stampin’ Up)
  • Pretty in Pink card stock (Stampin’ Up)
  • Old Olive card stock (Stampin’ Up)
  • Gold card stock
  • White card stock
  • Traditions of Christmas designer series paper (September 2025 Online Exclusive Stampin’ Up)
  • Traditional Labels stamp set (September 2025 Online Exclusive Stampin’ Up)
  • Christmas Greenery Dies (September 2025 Online Exclusive Stampin’ Up)
  • Petals of Beauty Dies (September 2025 Online Exclusive Stampin’ Up)
  • Stitched Rectangle Dies (retired Stampin’ Up)
  • Beautiful Pattern Embossing Folder (September 2025 Online Exclusive Stampin’ Up)
  • Real Red ink (Stampin’ Up)
  • Paper trimmer
  • Adhesive of choice

For the card base use Real Red card stock and cut a piece to 5 ½” x 8 ½” and fold in half.  From the Pretty in Pink card stock cut a piece to 4” x 5 ¼” and another the same size from white cards stock. 

Use the Old Olive card stock and the evergreen die from the Christmas Greenery dies and cut four evergreen branches.  From the gold card stock use the three pieces to make up the bow and cut one set and then cut two of the leaf branches from the Petals of Beauty dies.  Cut the gold leaf pieces in half to give your four pieces.  With your Traditions of Christmas designer series paper find the piece with the large poinsettia floral grouping and use the die from the Christmas Greenery set to cut out one and then use a pair of scissors to cut out one of the single flowers with leaves.  From white card stock cut out a stitched label dies and stamp the “Merry and Bright” greeting stamps in Real Red ink onto the label. 

Take the piece of Pretty in Pink piece you cut and emboss using the Beautify Pattern embossing folder.  Adhere to the front of your card.  Adhere your four evergreen pieces toward the top of the card making sure they don’t overhang the edge of your card.  Then adhere the four gold leaf pieces and then the poinsettia cut out piece on top of those.  Put the gold bow together and adhere it to the lower center of your Poinsettia.  Adhere the Merry and Bright label in the lower right corner under a bit of the greenery. 

For the inside of your card adhere the white piece of card stock and adhere the flower you cut out in the lower left corner.  Use Real Red ink and the “Merry Christmas” greeting stamp from the Traditional Labels stamp set and stamp in the upper center.

This makes a beautiful Christmas card for anyone you care about.

If you are interested in seeing other card ideas, please visit my blog at www.daisychainfun.com or follow my website. 

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Gold Ornament Tag

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This gold ornament tag is fairly simple but turned out really adorable.  It uses the Shining Brightly designer series paper from Stampin’ Up for the ornament, cut out with an ornament die and a tag die with a bit of a cut out pine bough to hang it on. 

To create this card, you just need a few things:

  • Very Vanilla card stock (Stampin’ Up)
  • Mossy Meadow card stock (Stampin’ Up)
  • Gold Foil card stock (Stampin’ Up)
  • Shining Brightly designer series paper (retired Stampin’ Up)
  • Traditional Labels stamp set (Sept-Dec Mini Catalog Stampin’ Up)
  • Tag, Scallop Original die (Sizzix)
  • Ornament die (Sizzix 139663)
  • Pine Bough die (Sizzix 661597A)
  • Basic Beige 3/8” Ribbon (2025-26 Annual Catalog Stampin’ Up)
  • Mossy Meadow ink (Stampin’ Up)
  • Adhesive of choice
  • Pop dots

From a piece of Very Vanilla card stock use the Tag, Scallop Original die to cut out your tag.  From a piece of Mossy Meadow use the Pine Bough die to cut out your pine and adhere it to the upper left side of your tag and trim off the excess.  Use the ornament die to cut out the cream and gold paper from the Shining Bright designer series paper and gold foil card stock to cut out the top of your ornament.  Adhere them together and add to your tag with pop dots. 

For the back of your tag use the To: and From: stamps and Mossy Meadow ink and stamp on the back of your tag.  What a beautiful tag to put on any gift. 

If you are interested in seeing other card ideas, please visit my blog at www.daisychainfun.com or follow my website. 

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Magical Meadows Winter Wishes Card

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I love how this card turned out, the Blueberry Bushel paper is usually a bit bright for me, but I love it with this paper and stamps.  The Winter Meadows designer series paper is one of my favorite holiday papers from Stampin’ Up.  The Magical Meadows stamps and dies are also just such great sets.

To create this card, you just need a few things:

  • Blueberry Bushel card stock (Stampin’ Up)
  • White card stock
  • Winter Meadows designer series paper (Stampin’ Up)
  • Magical Meadows stamp set and dies (Stampin’ Up)
  • Rectangle label die (unknown)
  • Blueberry Bushel ink (Stampin’ Up)
  • Scoring board to scoring blade for paper trimmer
  • Adhesive-backed Pearls, the packages say Red and Green Adhesive-Backed Pearls but they are silver and gold, and I have more than one pack and they all say that (retired Stampin’ Up)
  • Paper trimmer
  • Adhesive of choice
  • Pop dots

From the Blueberry Bushel card stock cut a card base to 4 ¼” x 8 ¼”, and score at 2 ¾” and fold the short side to the front.  Then cut another piece to 2 ½” x 7”, then score at 3 ½” and fold in half.  From white card stock cut a piece to 2 ¼” x 3 ¼” for the inside of your card.  Take your Winter Meadows designer series paper and find the blue tree paper and also the Blueberry Bushel speckled paper.  From the tree paper cut a piece to 4” x 5 ¼” and another to 2 ½” x 4”.  From the Blueberry Bushel speckled paper cut a piece to 2 ¼” x 3 ¼”. 

Take your card base and your two tree pieces and adhere the smaller tree piece to the front panel and the larger tree panel to the inside.  Now take the smaller piece of Blueberry Bushel card stock and with the fold facing to the left adhere the back to the center of the large tree paper and then fold over the front of the smaller panel.  Adhere the white piece to the inside of the small, folded piece and adhere the Blueberry Bushel speckled paper to the front of the small, folded piece. 

Use a rectangle label die measuring about 2” x 3 1/8” to cut out your label from white card stock. Use the trees stamp from the Magical Meadow stamp set and stamp in the lower left corner of your label in Blueberry Bushel ink.  The stamp the “Winter Wishes” with Blueberry Bushel ink in the upper right corner of your label.  Adhere your label to the front of the small folded piece with pop dots.  Put a few random silver Adhesive-Backed Pearls around on the label. 

For the inside of your card use a scrap piece of Blueberry Bushel card stock and the two sizes of tree dies in the Magical Meadows dies and cut out one of each size.  Adhere these to the lower left corner on the white card stock on the inside of your card.  Then in Blueberry Bushel ink stamp the “may this season of sparkle bring joy and delight” greeting stamp in the upper center of the white inside.

Here is a really pretty holiday card to welcome the holidays to anyone!

If you are interested in seeing other card ideas, please visit my blog at www.daisychainfun.com or follow my website. 

All cards are handmade and photos taken by DaisyChainFun.

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Peppermint Treasure Tag

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These peppermint tags are so cute.  I have been wanting to use the peppermint embellishments from Stampin’ Up and found this peppermint candy paper from Gingerbread and Peppermint designer series paper from Stampin’ Up which was perfect. 

To create this card, you just need a few things:

  • Real Red card stock (Stampin’ Up)
  • White card stock
  • Gingerbread and Peppermint designer series paper (retired Stampin’ Up)
  • No Peeking stamp set (retired Stampin’ Up)
  • Bright Baubles stamp set (retired Stampin’ Up)
  • Peaceful Wishes stamp set (retired Stampin’ Up)
  • Real Red ink (Stampin’ Up)
  • Crecent Combo Tag Set Original Die (retired Sizzix)
  • Real Red and White adhesive-backed Peppermints embellishments (retired Stampin’ Up)
  • Adhesive of choice

From white card stock cut two of the largest size tags with the Crecent Combo Tag die, and then cut one from each of the peppermint papers from the Gingerbread and Peppermint designer series papers. 

From your Real Red card stock cut two pieces to 1 ¼” x 1 ¾” and two white pieces to 1” x 1 ¾”.  In Real Red ink stamp “Merry Christmas” from the Peaceful Wishes stamp set on one of the white pieces.  Then stamp the “No Peeking” in Real Red ink on the other white piece from the No Peeking stamp set.  Adhere each white piece to the red piece and adhere the Merry Christmas one to the front of the green and red peppermint tag and the No Peeking to the red and white peppermint paper.  Use the Real Red and White Adhesive-Backed Peppermint embellishments to decorate around your greetings. 

On the two white tags use the “To From” stamp from the Bright Baubles stamp set and stamp on each white tag in Real Red ink.  Use red ribbon (I used Mini Ruffled Ribbon) through both the white and decorative tag for each and tie in a knot. 

Here are two very cute tags to use for your holiday wrapping.

If you are interested in seeing other card ideas, please visit my blog at www.daisychainfun.com or follow my website. 

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Delicate Pines Celebrate the Season Card

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This dark card made with the Secret Sea pines paper from the Elegant Pines designer series paper from Stampin’ Up made a great holiday card.  I love the blend of colors that just brighten it enough. 

To create this card, you just need a few things:

  • Secret Sea card stock (Stampin’ Up)
  • Old Olive card stock (Stampin’ Up)
  • Shaded Spruce card stock (Stampin’ Up)
  • Cherry Cobbler card stock (Stampin’ Up)
  • Elegant Pines designer series paper (October 2025 Online Exclusive Stampin’ Up)
  • Delicate Pines stamp set and dies (October 2025 Online Exclusive Stampin’ Up)
  • Words of Beauty dies (November 2025 Online Exclusive Stampin’ Up)
  • Faceted Snowflake embellishments (October 2025 Online Exclusive Stampin’ Up)
  • Secret Sea ink (2025-2027 In Color Stampin’ Up)
  • Paper trimmer
  • Adhesive of choice

Take a piece of Secret Sea card stock and cut a card base to 5 ½” x 8 ½” and fold in half.  From the Old Olive card stock cut a piece for the inside to 4” x 5 ¼” and a piece for your triangle to 5 ½” square, the cut from corner to corner to form two triangles.  From the Elegant Pine designer series paper cut a piece to 5 ¼” square and cut corner to corner to form two triangles.  Adhere your Secret Sea pines triangle to the Old Olive triangle, leaving an 1/8” or so edge on the two sides and lining the long edge up to each other. 

From some scrap pieces of Old Olive card stock cut the longest label from the Words of Beauty dies and two sets of leaves from the Delicate Pines dies.  Then from some Shaded Spruce card stock cut two of the pine pieces from the Delicate Pines dies and cut in half to get four.  Cut two of the floral die from Cherry Cobbler card stock. 

With the “Celebrate the Season” stamp from the Delicate Pines stamp set, stamp on the Old Olive label in Secret Sea Ink.  Adhere the label in the lower right corner of the front of your card base, leaving a very small edge.  Take your triangle piece and put adhesive on the back, then adhere to the front of your card base off-center with about ½” hanging off the bottom and close to the label and the point about ½” from the right edge, trim the excess. 

Adhere your two Old Olive leaves, then two of the Shaded Spruce pine pieces and topping with a Cherry Cobbler flower.  Use one of the large Shaded Spruce snowflake embellishments from the Faceted Snowflakes for the center of your flower and three (mixed sizes) of the Cherry Cobbler snowflakes randomly on the Secret Sea. 

For the inside of your card stamp in Secret Sea ink the “It’s the most magical time of the year” greeting in the upper portion of the Old Olive piece you cut for the inside.  Adhere to the inside of your card.  Decorate the lower left corner with pieces of the other two pine sprigs and top with the flower and put another large Shaded Spruce snowflake embellishment as the flower center. 

This is such a pretty holiday card, and is great for anyone as it isn’t Christmas specific.

If you are interested in seeing other card ideas, please visit my blog at www.daisychainfun.com or follow my website. 

All cards are handmade and photos taken by DaisyChainFun.

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