Cards, Papercrafting

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. 

All cards are handmade and photos taken by DaisyChainFun.

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Cards, Papercrafting

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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