Christmas Basics Trio - NEW Product of the Week

Good Sunday morning and Blessings to all! It is time to introduce our NEW Product of the Week, as we do each Sunday. This week we are offering a trio of 3 Christmas stamp sets (2 with dies) which make up for a perfect start to your holiday crafting. Get them at 20% OFF all week long, through next Saturday.

Christmas Basics Trio Bundle

This is a fabulous bundle to get your holiday projects underway!

Merry Christmas offers a beautiful star image (with die), 3 scripture verses and various sentiments that put the focus on the reason for the season - the birth of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

Christmas Blessings takes on a more festive view of Christmas with a lovely holly leaf (with die) and sentiments celebrating the season - many of which can be used year round for various cards and projects.

Jesus is a set that focuses on the various names of Jesus and it makes up into wonderful cards for not only Christmas and Easter, but year round as well. Especially popular is the collage word stamp included in this set.

Each of these sets is also available for purchase individually.

20% OFF thru 10/10/26

No code needed - sale prices marked

Plus FREE SHIPPING at $100

Shop our Product of the Week here.

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Merry Christmas

This lovely side-step card combines a few sets.

Merry Christmas (star, scripture, sentiment)

Angels Among Us (angel)

My Church (die cut tree line)

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Merry Christmas (star, scripture)

Love the look of the embossed star - such a night time feel.

An older pad was used - similar is The First Noel

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Merry Christmas (star, sentiment)

Love the striking way this star was colored.

Retired paper.

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Merry Christmas (star, scripture)

Another example of beautiful coloring on this star.

Find some fun Christmas paper pads here.

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Love the warm vintage feel!

Merry Christmas (star)

Worship & Praise (musical swirl)

Jesus (scripture)

Fishtail Sentiment Banners

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And how simply this is done on a single sheet of designer paper.

Merry Christmas (star, scripture)

Retired paper.

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Just a fun little project making use of paper scraps.

Merry Christmas (sentiment)

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About 50 of these small tags were made to attach to children's treat bags for our Christmas Eve Service.

Merry Christmas (scripture)

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Christmas Blessings

Pure elegance!

Christmas Blessings (holly, sentiment)

Retired paper - see Tartan Plaid, Christmas paper pads 

1.25" Silk Ribbon

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So simply beautiful!

Christmas Blessings (holly, sentiment)

Home for Christmas (designer paper)

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So festive!

Christmas Blessings (sentiment)

Scripty Background Minis Sets 1 & 2 (subtle script background)

Holiday Brushstroke #2 (pinecones, greenery)

Baroque (designer paper that script is stamped on))

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Simple, striking and fun to make!

Christmas Blessings (holly, sentiment)

Baker's Twine

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Total WOW!

Love the unique color of these holly leaves!

Christmas Blessings (holly, sentiment)

1.5" Grosgrain Striped Ribbon

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So festive!

Christmas Blessings (holly, sentiment)

Festive Flora (designer paper)

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This fun trio of tags uses the single words and scraps of holiday paper!

Christmas Blessings (sentiments)

For paper try: Tartan, Christmas, Woodgrain

Twill Ribbon

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Jesus

Such a lovely card, simply made suitable for year round use!

Jesus (background, sentiment)

Fishtail Sentiment Banners (to cut sentiment)

Find a similar Butterfly Die here.

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Lovely and very festive!

Jesus (word collage)

Merry Christmas (subtly stamped star)

Retired paper - see other Christmas paper pads 

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So easy and so full of meaning!

Jesus (sentiments)

An older pad was used - similar is The First Noel

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Again - stunning! Love the white embossed word collage.

Jesus (word collage)

Retired paper - see Tartan Plaid, Christmas paper pads 

Narrow Lace

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Another simple yet WOW card!

Jesus (scripture)

Die retired - find similar poinsettia dies here and here

Festive Flora (designer paper)

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And this is a fun one to make!!!

Jesus (word collage)

Merry Christmas (scripture)

O Christmas Tree (tree)

Grunge Light (designer paper)

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And that wraps it up for this Sunday morning. As always, many, many thanks to our very talented Design Team for all these lovely card samples!

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NEW Product of the Week

Christmas Basics Trio Bundle

Each of these sets is also available for purchase individually.

20% OFF thru 10/10/26

No code needed - sale prices marked

Plus FREE SHIPPING at $100

Shop our Product of the Week here.

Shop our Full Store here.

Paper Pieced Holly Blessings

Good Friday morning! Hope everyone is full and happy with a pleasant holiday weekend before them. We know so many can not take time from work and if you are in that category we THANK YOU from the bottom of our hearts for keeping this country running.

Deb Saaranen is here today sharing a lovely and easy to make Christmas card featuring what I believe is her favorite technique - paper piecing. It's fun, quick and easy, always yielding a beautiful and impressive result. Her blog is linked further down where she explains in detail how to paper piece.

Our Season of Thanks & Giving Sale is still in effect, also linked further down. 20% OFF the entire store, including already reduced items

So classic and simple. Very appealing!

And using only minimal supplies - we love that!

Christmas Blessings (holly and sentiment)

Home for Christmas paper pad by Carta Bella

The arched die is Stampin' Up.

Keep it Simple ~ Make it Pretty

Our mantra - fullfilled with this card.

Find Deb's post with the how-to on paper piecing.

Thanks so much, Deb!

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Products Used

Christmas Blessings by Stamp Simply Clear Stamps

A fun Christmas set with so many of the words being useful for year round projects as well.

Home for Christmas by Carta Bella

Find more fun pads by Carta Bella here.

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Season of Thanks & Giving

It's our Season of Thanks and Giving Sale!

20% OFF Storewide

Use code BLESSED20 at checkout.

Shop Stamp Simply here.

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Our Christmas Selections

Our Christmas Selections

offer so many beautiful sets.

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Our Scripture Selections

This is just a sampling of our large selection of

Scripture Stamps.

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Quick & Easy Christmas Cards (& Christmas in July Sale)

We were on a specific mission to pull cards from our archives for this post. We wanted to showcase cards that are quick and easy, clean and simple - something along those lines - knowing that so many of us either mass produce or create a variety of different cards for Christmas. In either case, keeping it simple seems to be appropriate.

Our Christmas in July Sale runs thru Sunday, 7/27. Get 20% OFF all Christmas stamps, dies, paper pads and so much more. All the sale details will be at the end of this post.

Now, on to the quick and easy card samples we selected, in no special order.

Jesus

Christmas Paper - pad used is retired

Narrow Lace

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Christmas Blessings

Festive Flora paper by Craft Consortium

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Merry  Christmas

Bazzill Mirror Cardstock

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Farmhouse Christmas

Christmas Joy (sentiment)

Scorched Wood paper by Craft Consortium

The First Noel paper by Echo Park

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We are including a few cards using O Christmas Tree as it is such a very versatile set including 3 completely different trees.

O Christmas Tree

Snowfall Speckles embossing folder by Tim Holtz

A similar background embossing folder would be Intertwine by Tim Holtz

O Christmas Tree

The wainscoting look was created by scoring every 1/2" on a scoreboard.

This is the inside of the card shown above.

Wonder of Christmas Sentiments

O Christmas Tree

O Christmas Tree

Typewritten Year Round Greetings (sentiment)

Fishtail Sentiment Banner

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Winter Poinsettia Floral Cluster

Similar vintage paper can be found in Vintage Emporium by Craft Consortium

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Seasonal Wreaths/Fall Winter

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Christmas Joy

Praying Hands (square dies)

Crochet Lace

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Christmas Peace

Sparkle embossing folder by Tim Holtz

A Wonderful Christmas paper pad by Carta Bella

Luxury Pearlescent Metallic Cardstock in gold

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Christmas Stockings & Mittens

Snowflake Blessings Border Strip (sentiment)

Fishtail Sentiment Banners

Similar papers in Welcome Winter by Carta Bella

Christmas Stockings & Mittens

Similar papers in Welcome Winter by Carta Bella

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Snowflake Blessings Border Strip

Rhinestones

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Angels Among Us

The First Noel paper pad by Echo Park

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Vintage Christmas Images

Fishtail Sentiment Banners

Vintage Oval and Twigs die set (greenery)

(above die goes with Vintage Christmas Background)

A Wonderful Christmas paper pad by Carta Bella

This is the inside of the card shown above.

Vintage Christmas Images

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Vintage Christmas Background

Vintage Christmas Images

Tartan Plaid paper pad by Craft Consortium

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Christmas in July Sale

Thru Sun 7/27 Only

20% OFF All Christmas Items

(includes items already reduced)

Use Code: CHRISTMAS at checkout

With FREE shipping at $100.

SHOP HERE

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All these are 20% off with the code:

Christmas Themed Stamp Simply Clear Stamps/Dies

All Christmas Paper

All Tim Holtz Dies - Folders - Stencils

All Flowers, Gems & Pins

All Ribbon

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