Christmas Time Collection Day 2

Welcome to Day 2 of this year’s holiday collection! Thank you so much for joining us. Your enthusiasm makes all our behind-the-scenes hard work worth it! We appreciate you sharing in the excitement with us! 😊

Before we get to today’s products and projects, just a reminder for later this week! Laurie will be hosting an Instagram Live presentation of all of the new products right before they go live in the shop. Join her on Thursday, October 7 at 8:00am CDT (note the change from our usual day/time), so tune in if you’d like to check it out!

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Below is a quick look at all of the new products. Click on the links below each product heading for more details and information, or click HERE to see all of the new products in the shop. (**Please Note: although the new products are visible in the shop, they will not be available to purchase until 10am EDT on Thursday, October 7).

Curio: Attic Ornaments die + Curio: Divider & Details II die

If you’re a fan of our Curio line, you’ll love today’s additions! We have an adorable vintage-style ornament set that includes all sorts of Christmas treasures! We’re also releasing a new version of the Divider & Details die. This new version features openings in a slightly different orientation than the original, allowing you more design options. Today’s new ornament set works well with either, but when paired with the ornaments, the original version lends itself better to cards with a horizontal orientation, while this new version lends itself better to vertical card designs.

Click HERE for Curio: Attic Ornaments die details ($17)
Click HERE for Curio: Divider & Details II die details ($26)

Ornament Box Top Vertical rubber stamp + die

Reminiscent of vintage ornament boxes, this fun A2 sized rubber stamp works wonderfully with our line of Curio products! The matching open-center die can be used to cut a window, as well as some of the elements from the image, which can then be layered to create multi-colored image from a single stamp. This vertical version is designed to cover the front of a vertical A2 card.

Click HERE for Ornament Box Top Vertical rubber stamp details ($16)
Click HERE for Ornament Box Top Vertical die details ($17)

Ornament Box Top Horizontal rubber stamp + die

Reminiscent of vintage ornament boxes, this fun A2 sized rubber stamp works wonderfully with our line of Curio products! The matching open-center dies can be used to cut a window, as well as some of the elements from the image, which can then be layered to create multi-colored image from a single stamp. This horizontal version is designed to cover the front of a horizontal A2 card.

Click HERE for Ornament Box Top Horizontal rubber stamp details ($16)
Click HERE for Ornament Box Top Horizontal die details ($22)

If you’d like to see the Curio: Ornaments and Ornament Box tops in action, check out Angelica’s great video she has for us today! I love to see her process.

Hourglass Frame die + Hourglass Insert die

Use our Hourglass Frame and Hourglass Insert dies to create beautiful projects time and time again! The Hourglass Insert is designed with the inner and outer cut lines as separate dies, allowing you to create shaker elements and more. The Hourglass Frame acts as a “holder” for the hourglass insert, but it’s pretty on its own as well when used as a decorative frame. It includes the hourglass frame as well as a separate interior cut that can be used to create windows and frames.

Click HERE for Hourglass Frame die details ($24)
Click HERE for Hourglass Insert die details ($20)

Christmas Time in the Country stamp set + die

These fun scene-building dies and stamps are designed to allow you to create scenes inside our Hourglass dies! Whether you prefer to stamp or diecut, there are options for you! With the zero-border design, these dies can be paired with the stamp set, or used as stand-alone dies. The country set includes an adorable house or nativity scene, trees, snowdrifts, and more.

Click HERE for Christmas Time in the Country stamp set details ($15)
Click HERE for Christmas Time in the Country die details ($22)

Christmas Time in the City stamp set + die

These fun scene-building dies and stamps are designed to allow you to create scenes inside our Hourglass dies! Whether you prefer to stamp or diecut, there are options for you! With the zero-border design, these dies can be paired with the stamp set, or used as stand-alone dies. The city set includes a skyline, trees, and more for building a city scene.

Click HERE for Christmas Time in the City stamp set details ($15)
Click HERE for Christmas Time in the City die details ($17)

Christmas Time Sentiments stamp set + die

This 3×4″ stamp set includes several “time” themed sentiments, perfect for pairing with the other items in our Christmas Time product suite. The banner fits perfectly across the hourglass Frame die.

Click HERE for Christmas Time Sentiments stamp set details ($7)
Click HERE for Christmas Time Sentiments die details ($6)

Snowfall Sequin Mix

Click HERE for Snowfall Sequin Mix details ($4.50)

I’m so excited to share my projects today! First up is a whole bunch of shaped and shaker cards using the new Hourglass and Christmas Time stamps and dies. I had so much fun building these wintery scenes inside the hourglass.

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I put together a video for you, showcasing several of these products and showing you two ways to create shaker cards with the new Hourglass Frame and Insert dies…

You can use the stamps or the dies (or both!) to build the scenes. Whichever method you prefer to work with. The Christmas Time in the City and Christmas Time in the Country dies have zero border, so they can be used as stand-alone dies without the stamps. But there are lots of little extra details included in the stamp sets that are great for adding to your scenes!

This one uses the Christmas Time in the City dies. I show how to put together a shaped shaker like this in the video above.

Both of these use the Christmas Time in the Country sets – the card on the left uses the dies, and the one on the right is all stamped.

This one again uses the Christmas Time in the City dies and I went for a more muted color scheme with shades of blue and white. The two skyline dies from the set layer to create a neat shadow effect.

In the video above, I show an alternate way to create a shaker card that’s a bit simpler than the shaped version, which is what I used for this next card.

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I used the smaller die from the Hourglass Insert to cut a window in my card front so I could build a pretty nativity scene using the Christmas Time in the Country dies. Our BotaniCuts Palm die is a great addition to the scene! I filled my shaker with glitter and tiny diecut stars, which were cut using the confetti dies included in the Hourglass Insert die.

Besides making scenes inside the hourglasses, I thought it would be so pretty to pair with our new Winterberry Bouquet set. This card came together so easily thanks to the big berry bouquet! Turned at a bit of an angle, it curves around the hourglass just perfectly. I tucked in a few of the individual sprigs from the set as well, just to add a little more fullness and dimension.

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The shaker card is kind of a combo of the two versions I shared in the video. I created a shaker frame like I showed on the second card in the video, but put acetate on both the front and the back so it’s completely see-through. Then I cut a window from my card front using the smaller of the two Hourglass Insert dies (just like I showed in the first card in the video) and added my clear shaker over the top. The “Christmas time” sentiment is actually stamped on the inside of the card and it shows through the clear hourglass. I’ve been stuck on gold, but this time I cut the Hourglass frame from a cool metallic sliver cardstock, and I love how wintery it looks with the red berries!

How about a fun bonus project! When I was finished diecutting all of the hourglass frames for my shakers, I had a whole bunch of the inner hourglass diecuts left over. I couldn’t let them go to waste, and it occurred to me that they look like bows!

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I stacked up three of them and wrapped the center with the smaller banner from the Crimped Slimline set, and added the larger banner to the back as tails. I embellished the center with some BotaniCuts Pine and the new Pine Wisp, and it makes a super fun package topper!

Next I have some projects using the new Curio and Ornament Box Tops! I had so much fun with these. Putting these colorful ornaments together was so fun! Here you can see a side-by-side comparison of the new version of the Curio: Divider & Details die. The original version is on the right, and the new version II is on the left.

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I inked them up in all the colors, and cut lots of details from various metallic cardstocks for lots of shimmer and shine. The new Curio Divider II die also includes some small banner dies that work with the Curio: Labels stamp set so you can tuck small banner sentiments in your curio boxes.

I love all of the different ornaments and details in this die set, but my favorite might be that little deer! I love how quick and easy the Ornament Box tops are. I stamped a whole bunch of them in different colors. Some I used as the main box top, and some were used to cut the banners and details using the matching dies.

My next project uses the Ornament Box Top Vertical stamp, along with the new Curio: Attic Ornaments dies, but this time instead of arranging them in the Divider die, I wanted to hang them from the new Pine Wisp die. The needles on the pine die are small enough that you can slip the hole in the ornament tops onto the needles.

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I diecut the window from the Vertical Box Top and put a panel of watercolor paper behind it, which was watercolored with some shades of green. I added my Pine Wisp branches, which I glittered up for a frosty look. Then I just slipped several ornaments onto the needles and secured them with some foam tape. I added a few of the small snowflakes from our Snowfall Sequin Mix. This was such a fun one to put together!

For my final project for today, I combined our two product groupings! I used the Ornament Box Top Vertical stamp to create a frame for a city scene made with the Christmas Time in the City dies.

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This come together really quickly! For the snowdrifts, I used our Drifting die, which is one I always find myself reaching for this time of year. It’s so versatile and makes a pretty starting point for scene building. I tucked in several of the skyline dies, some trees, and strung some banners across the sky.

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 prize! We’ll be giving away TWO $50 gift cards for today’s blog hop

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