With Love at Christmas…

We have more wonderful Christmas goodies to share with you today! I’m a sucker for pretty stationery, and I just love the options of today’s products for creating your own beautiful custom stationery sets, cards, and more.

All of the products being introduced on the blog this week will be available for purchase in The Shop, beginning at 10am EDT on Friday, October 4.

Let’s meet today’s new products…

With Love at Christmas stamps & dies

There’s a beautiful new way to send your love this Christmas! The With Love at Christmas set is designed to help you create beautiful holiday cards, with an eye to a completely coordinated look, inside and out. There are elements included to embellish your envelopes – a lovely faux wax seal, and labels for both the sending and return addresses. The coordinating dies offer lots of potential for unique folds and pretty borders by using the top or bottom-only cuts for the large bouquet from the set. For even more options, combine this set with the Flappable stencil set!

This set comes on a 6″ x 8″ sheet and includes a full-color printed stamping guide.
There are several sentiments included in the set that can be combined with the “at Christmas” sentiment. They are:
warm wishes
just for you
with love
sending love
sending joy & peace
Approximate sizes:
assembled multi-step bouquet – 4.1″ x 2.7″
“at Christmas” sentiment – 1.4″ x .1″
wax seal – 1″ x 1″
single poinsettia bloom – 1.5″ x 1.25″
single flower – 1″ x 1″
evergreen sprig – 1″ x .5″
eucalyptus sprig – .8″ x .6″
geometric frame – 2.5″ x 1.75″
small label – 1.75″ x .5″

Addressed die

This handy die set is perfect for embellishing envelopes and more! The large label die has an optional insert for embossing lines, perfect for hand-writing addresses. The small label is a nice size for creating return address labels. These dies can be used on cards too, of course! The large scalloped label makes for a pretty layer on an A2 card, and the small label is great for adding a sentiment. The dies in this set also coordinate with the label stamps from the With Love at Christmas stamp set.
Approximate sizes:
large label – 3″ x 2.1″
small label – 1.75″ x .5″

Flappable Stencil Collection

Give your next handmade card a completely coordinated look, from the inside to the outside. The Flappable stencil collection coordinates wonderfully with the With Love at Christmas stamp set. Use these stencils to add pretty designs to your envelope flaps. The four different designs included in this set will give you lots of variety, for the holidays and every day. Approximate sizes:
stencil design area – 6″ x 2.5″
overall stencil size – 6.75″ x 4.5″

Envelopes

These 5.5 Bar envelopes feature an elegant and traditional pointed flap. They are sized perfectly for A2 cards. Available in both white and cream, you’ll love combining these with our Flappable stencil collection to create a beautiful, coordinated look.

Sentiment Suite: Christmas stamp set

Do you ever find yourself hunting for the perfect sentiment to finish your card? The Sentiment Suite stamps cover the most popular card making occasions, with sentiments in many different layouts. You’re sure to find the perfect fit for your project, whether it’s a one-line sentiment that spans the width of the card, a small sentiment for a tag, or even the perfect saying to stamp on the inside!

The Sentiment Suite Christmas set is filled with various sentiments, perfect for the holidays. Mix and match the larger and smaller sentiments for lots of options. Pair these sentiments with the Sentiment Suite Basics dies for lots of layering options. You’ll be reaching for these great basics again and again!

Sentiments include:

• Merry Christmas (in multiple fonts and layouts)
• Sending holiday cheer
• Holiday Greetings
• Wishing you joy & peace
• From our home to yours
• At Christmas and every day
• & happy new year
• May your days by merry
• To you and yours
• Sending holiday cheer
• Merry Christmas to you & yours
• Wishing you a holiday filled with love and laughter. May the blessings of the season remain with you the whole year through
• May the spirit of Christmas fill your heart and your home. Hoping this blessed season brings joy and peace to you and yours!

To aid in your list-making and planning, below you will find the prices for today’s products.

• With Love at Christmas 6″ x 8″ stamp set – $24
• With Love at Christmas die – $31
• Addressed die – $11
• Flappable stencil collection – $15
• 5.5 Bar Envelopes White package of 25 – $4.50
• 5.5 Bar Envelopes Cream package of 25 – $4.50
• Sentiment Suite: Christmas 4″ x 6″ stamp set – $15

We’re kicking things off today with a couple of videos. This first video showcases the Flappable stencil set.

This next video showcases the With Love at Christmas set, and also shows how to create a tri-fold card that I’ll be sharing below!

I’m excited to share my projects with you using these new products! First up is the set of tri-fold cards I show in the video. These were so fun to put together. I used the same steps shown in the video, except I stamped multiples instead of just a single card like I show in the video. I stamped each step of the bouquet onto each white card base before changing out the stamp in my MISTI for the next step. They came together really quickly that way. I went to town with all of the different accessories from the set, along with the Addressed die set to create an entire coordinating ensemble. The labels for the envelopes were stamped and diecut using full-sheet adhesive label paper. This would be the perfect thing to wrap up for gift giving! I always give a bundle of handmade cards to my grandma, so I think these will be going to her. I think she’ll love them!

This next card set using the bouquet and the die that cuts just the top edge of the bouquet to create a gift card holder. Like I mentioned in the video, the die does not cut edge-to-edge on an A2 card allowing you to create a pocket. I just added adhesive around the edges when adhering the diecut panel to a card base, which created a nice pocket to tuck the gift card. Here I also used the Flappable stencil set to stencil the striped border along the bottom edge. I used the pretty label dies from the Addressed set – the larger one on the envelope, and the smaller one on the card front. The sentiment on the card front is from the Christmas Care-A-Van set, and the sentiment on the envelope label is from a set you’ll see more of tomorrow!

My next card uses all of the individual floral bits and pieces from the set, rather than the big multi-step bouquet. I diecut a whole pile of them and stamped them up in all kinds of colors. That is one of my favorite things to do! Here I started with a panel of watercolor paper and stamped some of the flowers directly onto the watercolor paper. I wet the paper and added some loose color, and also allowed the water to make the ink of the stamping run just a bit. Over that I layered a few of my stamped diecuts. Of course I had to finish it off with a matching envelope!

My next set of cards was more of me playing around with my pile of stamped diecuts. I realized that the Flappable stencils are fun to use with the Halfsies Diamond die. I stenciled the plaid on the top portion of my card base, then flipped it around and stenciled the bottom half. I then layered the Halfsies Diamond diecuts over the top and used the double ended banner die from the Sentiment Suite: Basics die set to cover the seam where the two plaid patterns meet. This card was so fun that I created it in two different color combos!

I really wanted to pull out the Bottled Up set again from last month and stamp some jars in pretty holiday green, so that’s what I did for this next card set! I once again used the individual bits and pieces from the With Love at Christmas set to build bouquets in the bottles. I stencils some glittery twigs in the background using the Mason Jar Fillers stencils. I just masked off part of the stencil to make the bunch of twigs narrower so it would fit in the jar.

That wraps up my projects for today, but there is still so much more! Now that you’ve gotten to meet all of today’s new products and see them in action, you can “greet” them for a chance to win a $50 gift card! Read on for details…

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Thank you so much for visiting and for sharing in our excitement over our Let’s Make Memories holiday collection. I hope we’ll see you back here tomorrow for one more day of projects and reveals!