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TGIF – Ugly (CUTE!) Sweater Thank You Notes with Angelica

by Betsy December 22, 2023

written by Betsy

Can you believe Christmas is days away?? I decided to get a jump on thank you notecards for my friends and family, and thought it would be fun to share my theme for this year’s holiday thank you cards… Christmas sweaters! I picked two older die sets to make Christmas sweaters, and paired them with a simple sentiment to make these adorable notecards.

I started with Hearts At Home Sweater die. I die-cut pink and mint green card stock with the dies, and glued the collars from the die set on. I next picked out a few dies from Curio: Attic Ornaments die set to decorate the sweaters. I also used a little bit of Distress Oxide inks to a bit of shading to the sweaters.

I picked Stitched Scallops Notecard die to make my note cards with. Once I had the notecards die-cut, I stamped them with a sentiment from Wrapped In Love Sentiments Additions stamp set.

I love how clean and simple these notecards turned out. And the colors just happen to match the Nouveau square envelopes perfectly!

That’s all that I have for today. Merry Christmas everyone! Have a safe holiday, and a Happy New Year!

December 22, 2023 7 comments

TGIF – Attic Ornaments with Dawn + Save the Date!

by Betsy November 5, 2021

written by Betsy

Happy Friday! Lots of fun updates for you today! Dawn’s here with a couple of amazing projects using our Curio product line-up, plus we have a fun announcement for next week.

Before we get to Dawn’s cute projects, I wanted to give you a heads up that we have a handful of new products coming to the shop next week, focused on tags and toasting the new year! We’ll be having a few days of sneak peeks, and then product reveals on Thursday before the new products hit the shop on Friday, November 12. I’d love for you to join us for the fun as we celebrate the last new product release for the year!

Stock update

Before we get to Dawn’s projects, I also wanted to give a quick stock update. I know many of you are waiting on some dies to be restocked. We were scheduled to have those this week, but our manufacturer is running a bit behind. Our goal is to have those back in stock towards the end of next week. Thank you for your patience!

Now let’s hear from Dawn and her cute TGIF projects!

If you’ve been following along with me at Christmas time for very long, then you may have seen my mini vintage ornament boxes that I love to pull out and decorate with every year! So I was so excited to play with the new Ornament Box goodies, and create some paper versions of my vintage treasures!

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I created two different cards, one a bit more basic and the other I stepped up a bit. For the first, I kept it simple inside the box and just used the same ornament dies and added several of them, as that’s how a lot of the vintage ones came in real life. I used silver card stock, to give them a bit of shine, but kept the ornament colors all the same. I finished it with some sparkly pine branches and gems to serve as berries.

I have to laugh at the stepped up version, because if I ever saw a box of vintage ornaments stuffed this full of beauties, I’d buy it in a heartbeat! LOL! I used sparkly card stock to add lots of shiny details to the ornaments, including the silver toppers which looks so darn cute in real life! I also added the Curio Divider die cut behind all the ornaments, to give a bit of added interest. Pine branches and some popped up details on the actual box front finished things off!

Thanks for joining me today for this week’s TGIF!

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November 5, 2021 14 comments

All TGIF

TGIF – Vintage Winterberry Postcard with Wanda

by Betsy October 29, 2021

written by Betsy

Happy Fri-yay! It’s promising to be a gorgeous fall weekend here, but Wanda has me dreaming of Christmas with the beautiful project she’s created for today’s TGIF post! I’m so excited to share this with you…I hope you enjoy! 😊

Hi there, Greetery friends! I’m excited to be up on TGIF this week with you! Like most of you, I fell head over heels with the new Christmas release this month. Today I’m sharing another idea for using the Winterberry Stamps, Stencils and Dies. It is such a beautiful suite of products and it makes my retro loving heart happy. My card was inspired by old postcards and Christmas cards from the 50’s and 60’s so I used lots of glitter and classic Christmas colors.

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My finished card is a horizontal A2 sized card made from red cardstock. I layered woodgrain cardstock and then cream cardstock. I created the background by ink blending shades of yellow Distress Inks. I also stamped over the ink blending with these stamps: Pretty Postmarks and Christmas Time in the Country. I inked the edges of the Postal layer with Distress Ink also.

I used the Winterberry Stamp/Stencil Combo to ink up that pretty floral spray and die cut it out with the matching die. I added lots of glitter! The sentiment is from the Snowflake Soiree Dies set – and I die cut it from silver glitter cardstock. A few pearls were added for dimension and embellishment. I made postage stamps using the smallest ornament from the Curio: Ornaments die set. I thought I needed some vintage postage stamps for this project!

I hope you have a very happy weekend! Happy crafting until we meet again!

SUPPLIES:Winterberry Stamps, Stencils, Dies
Curio Attic Ornaments die
Postal Frames Dies
Pretty Postmarks Stamps and Dies
Christmas Time in the Country Stamps
Snowflake Soiree Dies
Blender Brushes
Unicorn Stickles
Rock Candy Glitter
Red, Cream, Woodgrain, Silver Cardstocks
Pearls
Distress Inks

October 29, 2021 18 comments