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Fringe Tree

Posted on December 5, 2025 9:57 PM by Julie Comment

I have a fairly clean & simple card today featuring two sizes of the new Fringe Dies. I thought it would be fun to use them to make a Christmas tree. They were fan folded to make the 3 layers. Pretty easy!

It’s my turn to host the Inspiration Challenge IC1044 and we are visiting The Paper Mill & their Pinterest Board where I was inspired by THIS picture.

After die cutting 3 shades of green, 2 using the small fringe die & 1 using the medium fringe die, I fan folded them. The tree base is a die cut wood plank & I trimmed the top to narrow it. It’s popped up twice then the fan folded fringe was attached. I had a little extra fringe left over, so I trimmed the bottom in choppy layers & attached it over the centers of the fringe, then added a bit of gold glitter glue to the bottoms. The smallest star die was cut out of glitter paper, as was the JOY words. The Joy shadow is cut out of white glitter paper, popped up & added on top of the bottom fringe.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

Stamps: none

Paper: Staples 110# white, & gold white glitter card stock, 3 shades of green, lt blue, sky blue

Ink: none

Accessories: Brass & Bliss: Small & Medium Fringe, Wood Planks, Nested Stars, Marquee Nested Rectangles, Joy Horiz & Vertical, dies, Stickles

Sm Fringe die 5853-01D	Med Fringe die 5853-02D	Star dies 5729D	Joy Vert & Horiz dies 5826-03D	Marquee Rectangle dies 5819-05D
AC color card stock	Staples 110# White Card Stock	DCWV Glitter Matstack	Stickles

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HoHo Trees

Posted on November 8, 2025 9:36 PM by Julie Comment

This is a Christmas card that a little more going on. It features part of a large background, the negative of die cut greeting and a group of die cut trees. This would also look great pared down a bit by removing an item or two.

A big congrats to Valerie, the newest Featured Stamper FS979! She has a really sweet gallery & I chose THIS card to case. I kept the layout & big words background but I used different stamps, dies & left off the vellum.

To make my card, I stamped the big Christmas word background w/ a dark green ink, then die cut it w/ its coordinating die. When I figured out how much of it I was going to use, I trimmed off a little more than half of the left side. It’s attached to a white panel that has the inside part of the HoHoHo die. A bright red was attached behind it. I cut a few strips of red & 2 shades of green & attached them as shown. The 3 sizes of trees were cut out of white & popped up. The large tree on top is cut out white glitter card as is the star above it.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

Stamps: Brass & Bliss: Christmas Background Mash Up

Paper: Staples 110# white, Christmas green, red, pine green, grass green, white glitter

Ink: Versaclair Rain Forest

Accessories: Brass & Bliss: Evergreen Trees, Christmas Background Mash Up, HoHoHo, Stars, Rectangles dies,, MISTI

Christmas Background Mash Up 37038	Christmas Background Mash Up dies 37038D	Rectangle dies 5003D	Star dies 5729D	Evergreen Tree dies 5217-01D
Staples 110# White Card Stock	AC color card stock	DCWV Glitter Matstack	Versafine Clair ink	MISTI

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Spooky Town

Posted on September 19, 2025 10:23 PM by Julie Comment

It’s just a few days from Fall & some of the leaves are starting to turn. It’s also a great time to get some Halloween cards made. This new Spooky Town and Midnight Mischief paper pads are just made for each other. Add a frame, a purple tree and a spooky owl and you have a complete card.

For the Inspiration Challenge IC1033, we are visiting The Blue Peony & their Pinterest Board. THIS inspired my card. (This spooky town set & paper are a sneak peek of some new items being released on 9/24 & we’re having an IG Hop w/ prizes on that Wednesday morning. You can get there by clicking my LINKabout 9 am EDT on 9/24.)

To make my card, I die cut all the little spooky houses out of gray, lavender, purple, black & some scraps of orange for the pumpkins, and yellow for behind the windows. Then it was just a matter of mix & match for putting them together. I didn’t want them to look too pristine, so there’s a slight tilt to a couple of them. The tree and owl were also die cut & put together. The gray frame was cut just shy of the card front size & I used a deckle rectangle to cut out the inside. It’s popped up a little, as is the tree & owl. The scene is attached to one of sheets in the paper pack. The pumpkins & ghosts were added. I left off the bats since there are bats already in the paper.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

Stamps: none

Paper: Staples 110# white, black, gray, lavender, purple, scraps of orange & bright yellow, Brass & Bliss: Midnight Mischief paper pad

Ink: none

Accessories: Brass & Bliss: Owl & Halloween Tree, Spooky Town Scape, Deckle Rectangles dies

Owl & Halloween Tree die 5334-07D	Spooky Town Scape dies 5722-05D	Deckle Rectangle dies 5176D	Midnight Mischief paper 2305
Staples 110# White Card Stock	AC color card stock