Quick Christmas cards and last-minute treats with Humble Home from Stampin’ Up!®

 

There are two types of crafters in the Stampin’ Up!® world, I find. Those who have sorted all their Christmas projects and are now thinking ahead to 2025. And those like me.

I was convinced I had enough Christmas cards left from previous years and from this year’s events, but it turned out the box contained some 3D projects which were making it look fuller than it was.

What I DID have was quite a big pile of stamped and punched Humble Home houses which I’d made for some 3D treat boxes. However, while making them, I got distracted and stamped FAR more than I needed.

So I quickly set aside what I needed to make the required treat boxes – more on those later – and used the remaining house fronts on Stampin’ Up!® Note Cards and Envelopes to make REALLY simple cards.

My pick of the Stampin Up!® discount craft kits sale

Are you looking for a Stampin’ Up!® bargain? Some amazing Christmas gifts? Some crafty inspiration? Look no further than the Last Chance sale at my Stampin’ Up!® store.

Last time I checked there were no fewer than 20 discount craft kits in the sale. Most of them are reduced by an amazing 50%. They would make fabulous Christmas presents – easy to wrap, too!

Stampin’ Up!® craft kits are great for:

• Taking on holiday (just add scissors)

• Gifting (see above)

• Beginner crafters

• Busy crafters

• Reawakening your mojo!

• Adding to your card stash quickly and easily

• Turning into EASY scrapbook pages

Take a look at some of the Stampin’ Up!® kits available and be quick because there’s free shipping until 11pm Wednesday when you spend £60 or more.

Here are some of my favourite discount craft kits in the Stampin’ Up!® Last Chance sale...

Winterly Tree Tops Christmas ornament

I love to make my own Stampin’ Up!® Christmas ornaments to hang on the tree, on door knobs, or even use as gift tags. This year’s Christmas decoration has a bird theme, thanks to the gorgeous Winterly Tree Tops bundle of stamps and dies (164066). 

Fun Christmas cracker tutorial

 

Today I have a Christmas gift idea using your Stampin’ Up!® cardstock and Reindeer Days Designer Series Paper. And if it looks familiar then I will remind you that there’s no such thing as a new idea... and certainly not in my head at the moment. We are having building work done and the stress and mess of it all has sapped my mojo.

But what is one of my best tips for a missing mojo? Remake something you’ve made before. In my defence, a quick glance through this blog shows me that it’s been three years since I last made this half cracker gift box for a Stampin’ Up!® Zoom class during the pandemic.

Rustic new home card using Stampin Up!’s Humble Home bundle

The Humble Home stamp set and coordinating punch from Stampin’ Up!® are so versatile. 

I’ve already used them for three very different cards for Christmas and thank yous. 

It goes without saying that this useful Stampin’ Up!® bundle will also work for birthdays.

For today’s blog post, I have used the Humble Home bundle for a new home card, which is perhaps the most obvious choice.

Vintage Christmas Stampin Up Yuletide Village

Are you looking for a special Christmas idea using the Yuletide Village stamp set from Stampin’ Up!®?

Make scrapbooking easy with card kits - yes, card kits!

Since Stampin’ Up!® took over the troubled Close to My Heart scrapbooking business earlier this year, I have started scrapbooking again after a break of many years.

Happily, the takeover and launch of a new range of exciting Stampin’ Up!® scrapbooking products coincided with three new babies in the family, giving me LOTS of photos to scrapbook.

Having said that, it's a myth that you need children and small babies to justify scrapbooking; you can scrapbook your holidays, days out, family occasions, and even your day-to-day life.

But I have pledged to create two albums by Christmas, so am sticking with the baby and toddler theme.

How to turn around lots of pages quickly? Kits!

And not just Stampin’ Up!®’s fabulous new scrapbooking kits. I have a few part-finished Stampin’ Up!® card kits so decided to see if I could use these to make quick and easy scrapbook pages.

Short answer: yes you can!

10 fabulous Stampin’ Up!® colour combinations for autumn

Do you struggle to put Stampin’ Up!® colours together? Do you wish you could find new and exciting colour combinations? I know some people don't feel confident putting different Stampin’ Up!® colours together, so as I’m having a week off from crafting, here are some tips – and 10 fabulous autumn colour combinations using your favourite Stampin’ Up!® colours. 

Not just for scrapbooking! Easy card ideas using Autumn to Remember

I love trees, and I love the colours of autumn, so needed no further excuse to make these cards using Stampin’ Up!®’s Autumn to Remember stamp set. 

Stampin Up sneak peek: Otterly Adorable Suite card and 12x12" scrapbook page

Do you love otters? Who doesn’t, right? I was so excited to see the new Otterly Adorable Suite Collection in the Stampin’ Up!® Online Exclusives Collection. This is available to demonstrators to pre-order now, and goes live to customers on 5th November 2024.

The Otterly Adorable Suite Collection from Stampin’ Up!® comprises the Otterly Amazing bundle of stamps and dies, Otterly Adorable Designer Series Paper, Lost Lagoon Soft Cording and Riverside Irregular Pearls.

I used the bundle and Designer Series Paper to create a 12x12" scrapbook page and a card.