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How To Make Beautiful & Easy Handmade Christmas Cards

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Want to make easy handmade Christmas cards this year? I have the perfect stamp set and instructions to help you to make your cards. This is the perfect design if you like to make quite a few, as there is not a lot of cutting and layering, yet, they look fantastic! Another reason I love … Read more

Homemade Christmas Card Idea That Is Easy To Make | Easy Fun Fold Card

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This do-it-yourself homemade Christmas card idea is easy to make & packs a WOW. It’s a fun fold card too. These stamps are so beautiful and you can put together these scene cards very easily with the dies.

This stamp set is not only perfect for Christmas Cards, but it’s also great for masculine cards. You could easily make these into birthday, thank you, or ???

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I am sure you will like this quick and easy fun fold layout. Don’t forget, you can change your stamps, inks and papers and use this idea with anything.

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Free Christmas Card Ideas To Kick Start Your Holiday Crafting Session

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’Tis the season to share some of my free Christmas card ideas to kick start your holiday crafting session!

Time to start making Christmas cards! Did I really say that? I’m absolutely the person who will not bring Christmas into my home until after Thanksgiving but when it comes to making our Christmas cards waiting until after Thanksgiving can put us in a bind!

There are some fun NEW card designs in store for you in the coming weeks but today I’m sharing free Christmas card ideas from last year that you can use to kick start your holiday card making session.

The stamps and dies are still available for each of these card ideas, but it’s possible that the designer series paper or embellishments may not be. That’s OK–those are the things you can easily substitute.

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To get the details for any of these free Christmas card ideas simply click the link to visit the original post with measurements, etc.

Hopefully these will inspire you to create your own Christmas cards this year.

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How To Make Beautiful Christmas Cards Super Quick & Fun

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I’m going to teach you how to make beautiful Christmas cards quickly! AND these DIY Cards don’t require a lot of supplies! It’s a simple layout using Designer Series Paper.

Not ready to make Christmas cards yet? (me either, honestly!). This is the perfect card layout that works great with any papers and greetings!

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Grab your favorite Designer Series Paper, or those scraps you have sitting around, and make some beautiful Christmas Cards!

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4 Poinsettia Cards You’ll Rave About

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Check out these 4 Poinsettia cards you’ll rave about. Easy to make Christmas cards —some casual, some elegant and all beautiful.

Do you ever look at a stamp set and feel unsure of how to use it?  Should I stamp, then color?  Or use colored card stock? Do I do something else?

I am going to show you how you can make 4 Poinsettia cards with different styles and techniques  with one stamp set.  You pick the style of stamping you like.  It’s one stamp set – 4 different ways all resulting with beautiful Poinsettia cards you can send this holiday season. 

These are the 4 design ideas for Poinsettia cards I have using the Stampin Up Poinsettia Petals bundle.

We are using the Stampin’ Up! Poinsettia Petals stamps and coordinating dies.  In the video I will give you all different tips for using these products in different ways.  If you like to color–color the images!  If you you don’t, there are other card techniques and options to use.

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4 DIY Christmas Cards That Look Great and Are Easy to Make

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I’ve got 4 DIY Christmas cards made with the Stampin’ Up! Gnome for the Holidays to share. Talk about easy homemade cards for the season! Plus, I’m sharing tips for coloring with the Stampin’ Blends. I think these are such cute Christmas cards.

Aside from the Gnome, the second feature on these cards is coloring with the Stampin’ Blends. These are my favorite alcohol based markers. I truly never liked to color until I started using these–they are awesome!

4 DIY Christmas cards made with the Stampin' Up! Gnome for the Holidays stamp set.

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Elegant Christmas Cards to Make That Will Leave You Saying WOW

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Want to see elegant Christmas cards to make that will leave you saying WOW?! These card may look difficult to make but they are easy.

These are a little “over the top” for the style of cards I normally make and share, but I thought you’d like something a little different.

If you want to make your own elegant Christmas Cards, you may want to copy these.  The Poinsettia Dies are the star of the show.  I used the Poinsettia Petals stamp set, but only for the stamped greetings. If you’d like to copy these cards, you could use stamps you already have and just purchase the dies. 

Elegant Christmas cards are perfect to make this holiday season

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Monochromatic Christmas Cards to Make That Will Save You Time

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I’ve got monochromatic Christmas cards to make that will save you time and turn out lovely!

It is the time of the year to start thinking about making your Christmas cards.  And I know you want to know how to make beautiful Christmas cards that are simple to make. These are easy and minimal on supplies too. What’s not to love?!  

Both of these cards use the same “card recipe” and supplies.  The monochromatic Christmas cards designs keeps the supply list really small. 

This is a perfect card to make if your list is long and you have to make a lot of them.  These should make up pretty quick.

Monochromatic Christmas cards are easy to make and a time saver.

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How to Make a Die Cut Window Christmas Card

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Want a fun and different project? You can learn how to make a die cut window Christmas card like this in a flash!

I am back today with my third set of cards using the Snowflake Splendor Suite.  I hope you are enjoying this blog/video series. It just takes a few extra supplies to “step up” a project and learning how to die cut a window for a card front is one of those techniques you’ll use over and over. 

Today we are focusing on the ‘So Many Snowflakes’ dies and the Balmy Blue Glimmer Paper, oh and a little stamping.

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DIY Christmas Cards | The Most Wonderful Time

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Christmas seems so far off, but it’s time to start those DIY Christmas cards for family and friends.  This project medley makes beautiful Christmas cards! When the new mini catalog came out, I was super excited to see that the ‘Most Wonderful Time’ Product Medley was back.  If you missed out last year, you can … Read more

53+ Easy Christmas Card Ideas Grouped by Stamp Sets

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Hello my friends I’ve got 53+ easy Christmas card ideas grouped by stamp sets.  Today’s post is short and sweet because I just want to “re-share” many of the Christmas cards I have shared with you over the past couple of months.  I thought it would be helpful to have these easy Christmas card ideas … Read more

Easy DIY Christmas Cards You Still Have Time to Make | 48+ Card Ideas

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I have easy DIY Christmas cards you still have time to make but first I was to say Happy Thanksgiving (a day late) to all of you, my friends and blog followers.  This season, I am thankful for you for allowing me to share my love of creating quick and easy cards with you.  A … Read more