Trick or Treat

It's almost time to Trick or Treat and these adorable critters are ready to go! Any set of adorable characters can be dressed up for Halloween, Christmas or a birthday party with a few Eyelet Outlet brad styles; the cuties happen to be from Simon Hurley's Trick or Treat stamp set (which is on sale at Ranger). The mummy bear has donned a Mustache Brad; the unicorn kitty is sporting a Tiara and Eye Glass Brads; the dashing dachshund has his Top Hat on and has invited a Long Dog friend to accompany him. Some Black Cat Brads obviously wanted to join the party and it would hardly be a spooky occasion without Bat and Pumpkin Brads. Thee handsome Frog Brad is wearing a Witch's Hat... or possibly... a powerful witch has been temporarily turned into a frog? Either way, this Boo Crew is definitely going to collect lots of candy and maybe win some prizes at the costume party! A mat of Spider Washi Tape is the perfect finishing touch to any creepy, kooky card.

Trick or Treat Shopping List:

Crown and Tiar Brads

Eye Glass Brads

Men's Hat Brads

Long Dog Brads

Cat Brads-Black

Bat Brads

Pumpkin Brads

Frog Set Brads

Witch Hat Brads

 Spider Washi Tape

All the brads, tapes, enamels and embellishments you need for Halloween and beyond are in the Eyelet Outlet Store; and there are still a couple of Trade Shows left on the Schedule... is your town on the list? 

SOS558: Hey, Ghoulfriend!

You've probably already guessed that the title, "Hey, Ghoulfriend" indicates that this fortnight's challenge at Shopping Our Stash is embracing a Halloween theme, right? So I can skip right to the part where I show off my card:

I still have some well-hoarded pink & black papers and accoutrements from Prima's Luna Collection a few years ago, and I am just going to keep on using them until they're gone! In this case I paired the "Spooky" journal card with the adorable ghosts and spiders from Lawn Fawn's Build-a-House Halloween Add-On. I popped on an Eyelet Outlet Pumpkin Brad and mounted the whole thing on Prima spider web paper adorned with (sadly out of print) EO Halloween Washi Tape. Glossy black mats and a bit of machine stitching complete the design of this 5.5" square card.

Be sure to check out the fabulous cards our talented Crew have made to inspire you, then start planning what you'll link up with us this fortnight! SOS558: Hey, Ghoulfriend runs until the evening of Monday, October 20th.

Pink + Orange = Joy

Here's a Mandala that is perfectly flat but also (...strangely enough...) has about five layers, which I'll attempt to describe below.  

Layer 1: The color. I smooshed some Simon Hurley Stellar Inks (Prom Queen, Guppy and Shooting Star) onto my craft sheet, misted with isopropyl alcohol, then picked up the color with the cardstock panel. This layer, in itself, is arguably multiple layers, as I applied each color more than once, sometimes flicked a diluted color onto the wet design, and even dried the paper a couple of times in between shades so they wouldn't dilute.

Layer 2: The hearts. Simon Hurley Happy Hearts Stencil applied pretty lightly in Bee Sting and Guppy; later I toned down a few of the hearts in the background even more with a little bit of Dina Wakley White Gesso.

Layer 3: The grungy bits. Ancient rub-on transfers, mostly white ones, a few with hints of pink or green. Some of them rubbed-on imperfectly due to age; some rubbed on quite neatly and I scraped bits off when they interfered with...

Layer 4: The mandalas! I used my medium tipped black Letter It Fineliner and the Helix Circlemaker for this step. I usually start by drawing the main shapes (circles, big petals) so I can see how much room the primary design will take up; then I come back in and add the details: veins and scallops and stitch marks, oh my!

Layer 5: The details. This is where I selectively applied the gesso I mentioned in Layer 2; mostly to the outlying pink hearts, which were a bit distracting in their full-color state; I also added a bit to the edges of the panel. At the very end, I flicked some White Gloss Spray on top. Before adding the mandala to an A7 card base, I matted it on orange glitter cardstock and machine-stitched around the edges.

And there you have it: a flat card with lots of layers, guaranteed to add a little sunshine to any mailbox! 

Oh Deer, it's Christmas!

 

CLICK HERE to visit the "Oh Deer" page in the Paper Anthology Etsy Shop!

Holiday Jumpstart: Oh Deer, it's Christmas! is Paper Anthology's newest holiday card kit, which features a STAG-geringly handsome deer, framed and embellished on this happily homespun card.

Paper Anthology’s Holiday Jumpstart Card Kit is our pre-packaged kit that includes everything you need (except adhesive) to complete FIVE copies of this new original holiday card design. This edition is called “Oh Deer, it's Christmas!” because the wood veneer deer is the star of the show; and we can literally NEVER resist a diabolical pun! ("Sorry" or "You're Welcome"… whichever applies!)

We're all very FAWN-ed of the IDEA of making holiday cards throughout the year, instead being overloaded in November and December; but sometimes it’s hard to be inspired during the “off-season”. The BUCK stops here, in this pre-packaged kit, which features everything you need (except adhesive) to complete five copies of this original design. Also included are complete written instructions (not pictured, but included!) and a nice big photo for reference.

Visit our Etsy Shop, Paper Anthology Design to get your "Oh Deer, it's Christmas!" Kit today!

This kit contains:

Five corner-notched, striped patterned paper panels
Five plaid border strips
Five handsome wood veneer deer diecuts
Five pre-diecut green wreaths
Five woodgrain patterned backing circles
Five pre-diecut "Happy Holidays" sentiments
Ten deep green holly leaves
Ten pale green vine branches
Five sets of holly berry clusters
Complete step-by-step instruction sheet with large color photo
Five kraft A2 cards

CLICK HERE to visit the "Oh Deer" page in the Paper Anthology Etsy Shop!

Home (Again)

Over at Jingle Belles, Stephanie and I are still creating cards inspired by HOME. You can include a house on your card, use home-like products (bricks, woodgrain, etc) or incorporate the word HOME. Here's my card:

Another super-scrappy creation here. It's got a couple of designer paper off-cuts, a random tag, chipboard as well as ordinary stickers, five (5!) styles of ancient washi tape and a tiny car cut from patterned paper. Fun fact: The "12 Days" chipboard sticker has been in my stash for AT LEAST ten years... and I cannot decide if that fact is triumph or tragedy...?

Remember you still have until next Wednesday evening (9/8/25) to join the fun for JB2520: Home for the Holidays.

Enamel Accents Googly Eyes Halloween Card

What's more fun than a Halloween card covered in googly eyes? A card covered in googly eyes you've made yourself, in every size and shape you could desire, using Enamel Accents! Hop over to the Ranger Project Tutorials Page and follow along as I show YOU how to do it... then stay to see how I add the eyes to this fun and funky (pink!) Halloween card.

Spoiler Alert: Dina Wakley's Scribbly Ravens and Block Alpha Stamp Sets also play a crucial part in this project, as does Simon Hurley's Moroccan Tile Background Stamp, some fab Archival Inks, and a few shades of Ranger Embossing Powder, including Glow Up, which is very cool in two ways: #1 it glows in the dark(!); and #2 in ordinary light, it makes the perfect neutral, especially when used on Black Heavystock (just sayin').

Too Cute to Spook

Halloween is just around the corner and one of the best trends of recent years is the GAL-o-ween category, which gives us a chance to make pretty, feminine Halloween cards for our girl friends! Eyelet Outlet Brads are, of course the perfect addition to any Trick-or-Treat theme; this one sports Pumpkin Brads, Spiders, a Witch Hat and some super cute Black Cat Brads peeping out here and there, not to mention a few Rose Brads and Mini Butterflies to glam things up.

Sweet and Spooky Shopping List:

Pumpkin Brads

Spider Brads

Witch Hat Brads

Black Cat Brads

Rose Brads

Mini Butterfly Brads

Eyelet Outlet has all the brads, tapes, bling and embellies you need for Halloween and beyond!

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Would this be a good time for a bold and funky watercolor Mandala Monday? 

My friend @sherriscott67 gifted me a set of  @carandache Neocolor II watersoluble wax pastels, so OF COURSE I had to test them out immediately. And WOW... they do not disappoint! Intense, high-quality pigments, beautiful shades and super-smooth consistency mean you can use them wet or dry; and layer them under or over lots of other media. Since I knew I wanted to add details on top with my @ranger_ink Letter It Fineliners, I chose to mostly scribble my colors onto a plastic palette and pick them up with a waterbrush. But I did also like dipping the tips into water and drawing with them. Oh and it's fun to wet the crayons and flick droplets onto wet or dry paper. I'm not yet expert at coloring them dry and then blending the shades with water, but I intend to practice more on that score.

After all of the basic shapes were in place, I dried the paper (front and back!) with my heat gun and added all the lines and details you see here. I'd write more but I kind of want to go back and play with them... so that's all for now!

Grab a Slice?

This pizza is high in fibers (acrylic ones, lol!) and has zero calories and fat!

It's about throw-pillow-sized; but you probably get a better sense of it when modeled by a small nephew...

...and also a slightly larger nephew!

Notes for crocheters: I used the Pizza Slice Pillow pattern from @HMKHandmade Etsy Shop with two strands of Vanna's Choice Yarn (in Beige, Mustard and Scarlet) on an L hook; then a single strand and an F hook for the toppings (White, Scarlet, Cranberry and Olive). I chose to make my onions as rings and I added tomato slices... just because I liked how they looked. 

Home for the Holidays

There's just something about being Home for the Holidays, isn't there? Thus, that's the theme (and feeling) we're celebrating at Jingle Belles this fortnight. That means we're asking you to make a holiday card that includes a House, Housing-like materials (wood-grain paper, a brick embossing folder), or the word "Home". Or, you know, if you're feeling really overachievery, you could do all three! Here's my card; spoiler alert: I did not do all three, lol!

As a cardmaker who sometimes feels silly saving all my off-cuts of patterned paper and cardstock, this design is a little bit of a triumph because, apart from the 5.5" square cardbase, it's made entirely of scraps! I used both dies from Penny Black's Trees and Hills set; Both curvy dies from MFT's Stitched Basic Edges 2; and the house, fence, trees and snowflakes from Spellbinders' Winter Label Motifs set. The diecut flag sentiment is also Spellbinders and was in my leftover diecuts box, glued up and ready to roll.  

Be sure to head over to Jingle Belles to see Stephanie's beautiful card and link up your own HOME-made masterpiece. JB2520: Home for the Holidays runs until 6pm (Eastern) on Wednesday, October 8th.

Hello, Fall

Autumn is here and there are lots of fabulous Eyelet Outlet Brads to help us celebrate that fact. Here we have Leaf Brads, Acorn and Squirrel Brads, Sunflower Brads, and a Pumpkin Brad in a Pick-up Truck. The matted letter squares are mounted on a background of beautiful vertically-oriented Autumn Washi Tape.

Fabulous Fall Shopping List:

Leaf Brads

Acorn and Squirrel Brads

Sunflower Brads

Pumpkin Brad

Truck Brads

Autumn Washi Tape

The perfect embellishments for any season can be found in the Eyelet Outlet Store! 

SOS557: With Sympathy

The new challenge at Shopping Our Stash (#557) tackles one of the hardest types of card to make (imo); those expressing Sympathy or You're in My Thoughts/Prayers. So it's not a bad idea to have one or two on hand when you need them, right?

I started with a blank 5x7" piece of Simon Hurley Stark White Cardstock (my go-to) and added a torn piece of graph paper* that spans two opposing corners. Then I broke out quite an eclectic mix of stamps to make a collaged background: Wendy Vecchi's Studio 490 Botanical Register (stamped in Cobalt Archival); Stampendous Leaf Prints (in Sea Grass and Olive); and Stampendous Postage Creations (in Pebble Beach). Altenew's Paint-a-Flower Sweet Peas have center stage; they were embossed with Ranger's Bubbly e/p and watercolored with Tombows that I scribbled onto a mat and picked up with a waterbrush full of isopropyl alcohol**. When the flowers were dry, I added a bit of additional shading with my Prismacolor pencils. 

If you hop over to SOS you'll see the inspiring cards our Crew have made and you can link up your own. SOS557: With Sympathy runs until the evening of Monday, September 22nd.

*If I'm making a collage and suspect I might want to line some of the elements up neatly, it's super-helpful to add in an element that has fairly consistent horizontal lines: text paper, graph paper, sheet music, even patterned paper with subtle lines or checks is perfect for this; you can then stamp words, add alphabet stickers or line up strips of washi perfectly with NO measuring! ;) 

**One of my favorite tips from Wendy Vecchi is to use rubbing alcohol instead of water for watercoloring and smooshing, even when the inks are water-based. For some reason, the alcohol DOES NOT warp or pill cardstock the way water does. I assume this involves something sciencey, like the fact that alcohol dries and evaporates much more quickly...? (Honestly I have no idea WHY; I just know it works, lol!)

Loosey Goosey Mandala Monday

Sometimes when I start a mandala, I have a pretty clear, well-thought-out plan and sometimes I have NONE whatsoever. Guess which this was, lol?! On this evening, I happened to have a bunch of Dina Wakley MEdia Stencils and a bunch of Simon Hurley Stellar Inks sitting out on my worktable, so I just drew some really rough basic shapes, then started randomly filling them with stenciled colors and patterns. There was a point at which I could've stopped and had a semi-traditional mandala... but luckily I kept going and added stamps, gesso and some marker outlines to make it crazier, more colorful, and totally rambunctious! ;)

 

Flowers, Flowers, Everywhere!

Well not quite everywhere, but certainly all over this sweet little giftbag I made using the multi-layer flower dies from Wendy Vecchi's Essential Envelopes Die Set, part of her Not Your Ordinary Card Collection from Spellbinders.

I chose the colors to coordinate with a gift card and holder I made with the Essential Envelopes set last year when the collection first debuted from Spellbinders. You can read a bit more about it on the original post if you'd like.

The felt is of the self-adhesive variety, made for papercrafting, and comes in a set of 25 gorgeous rainbow shades from Peachy Keen Crafts. It's considerably thinner than ordinary felt, so it diecuts beautifully.

I added Eyelet Outlet Jewel Brads to the flower centers purely as decoration, because the self-adhesive felt sticks really well to both paper and to other pieces of the felt... making layered diecuts easy as pie! PS: That's some WV Washi under the flowers for a little extra color!

Wendy's brand new Spellbinders' release, featuring stamps, stencils, 3D embossing folders and additional coordinating accessories for the Essential Envelopes set, will be coming out on October 10th. Check out Wendy's Instagram Account or the Make Art with Wendy Vecchi Facebook Group for a sneak preview and stay tuned!

Hi-Ho SILVER!

It's the second week of "Baby it's GOLD Outside" at Jingle Belles. And, as you may recall, despite the title, we're embracing all metallics, so this week I went with silver. Here's my card:

This card has FOUR different styles of metallic cardstock: matte, sparkly, glimmery and full-on metallic silver... a personal best, lol! It's also got three different metallic tapes and some deep blue shimmer paper that isn't quiiiiiite metallic but adds to the vibe of the card, I think. I've paired Penny Black's Glorious poinsettia die (cut three times, clustered together and blinged up a bit) with Altenew's splendid Perfect Poinsettias 3D Embossing Folder... that I highlighted with a bit of metallic rub-on paste in a rich blue shade.

JB2519: Baby it's GOLD Outside runs until 6pm (Eastern) on Wednesday, September 24th. Head on over to Jingle Belles to link up your own Metallic Masterpiece! 

I'll Never Ghost You

Eyelet Outlet Ghost Brads and Ghost Washi are not just awesome for Halloween, they are specter-tacular all year 'round! Here they're starring in a fun and fabulous friendship card that's perfect for any season! 

Happily Haunted Shopping List:

Ghost Brads

Heart Brads

Ghost Washi

The Eyelet Outlet Online Store has embellishments for every occasion; as does the EO Booth; check our Tradeshow Schedule to see when we'll be coming to a town near you!

Another Mondrian Mandala Monday

It's been a while since I've done a Mondrian Mandala Monday, so here's quite a straightforward version in which I've adopted both the primary color palette and the gridded structure of Piet Mondrian's Utopian abstract designs... then added mandala details into some of the blocks. 

Black Letter It Fineliners from Ranger (they're on sale!) plus a few red, yellow and blue Tombow Dual Brush Pens in my Canson Mixed Media Sketchbook. 

Fur Babies and Rub-On Transfers

It's always fun to combine old and new supplies, right? This page in my Dina Wakley Ledger Journal features Dina's Circle Furbabies Stamp Set, stamped in rich brown Weeping Willow Stellar Ink from Simon Hurley; then adorned with every fall shade of ancient rub-on in my (considerable) collection!

The best part about a slightly messy collage format is that when using really old rub-on transfers you never quite know if they'll rub on perfectly, imperfectly or sometimes not at all... and this sort of configuration is quite forgiving no matter what happens.

For the record, most of these transfers were of the modestly priced, no-name variety; and yet, unlike some newer, higher-priced, fancier brands in my stash, they went on really nicely, with no flaking and very few imperfections!

JB2519: Baby it's GOLD Outside

Time for a brand new theme at Jingle Belles: For "Baby it's GOLD Outside" we're embracing heavy metal! Ok, technically we're just looking for metallics: the title's eponymous gold, obviously, but silver, bronze, copper, platinum and brass are also welcome, in the form of metallic papers; gold or silver embossing powder; metal beads, brads or wire; glitter... you get the idea, right? Here's what I made:

I embraced gold this week for a bunch of different elements: the vintage postcard I scanned and re-sized is framed with a gold diecut and matted on part of a gold doily; the strip of music paper and the scalloped piece beneath it are both gold metallic (I have recently re-discovered my collection of ancient border punches!); it's impossible to tell from the photo, but the reindeer sticker has glittery accents, as well.

Funny story: I used some gloriously golden, stupendously sparkly Stickles Glitter Gel in Solar Flare through a stencil, intending to use it prominently as my background piece. When I finished, I randomly wiped the extraneous gel onto a piece of plain white cardstock before washing the stencil in the kitchen sink with dishsoap. Guess which piece I wound up using on the card? (Hint: NOT the fancy stenciled one, lol!!!)

JB2519: Baby it's GOLD Outside runs until 6pm (Eastern) on Wednesday, September 24th. Head on over to Jingle Belles to link up your own Metallic Masterpiece!   

Stay Creepy, My Friends!

The Halloween season is creeping up on us, and nothing is creepier (in a very CUTE way!) than Eyelet Outlet Monster Brads! On this colorful card they've brought along some diecut monster friends sporting Small Eye Brads and a couple of Bat Brads have swooped in to join the party.

Monster Mash Shopping List:

Monster Brads

Small Eye Brads

Bat Brads

If you'd like to make your Halloween cards more creepy, kooky, mysterious or spooky, visit the Eyelet Outlet Online Store!

SOS556: The Cat is in the Bag

There's a new challenge at Shopping Our Stash. For "The Cat is in the Bag" we'd like you to feature any kind of bag (purse, backpack, beach bag) and/or a cat; so there are LOTS of ways to go this time! I chose the "cat" option, as you can see:

I have several different "cat" options, but my favorite is this adorable guy from the Halloween Add-On to Wendy Vecchi's Essential Envelopes set. Since I had the bin out, I also used two of the Pinking Edge Frames and sentiment from the Birthday Add-On to her Not Your Ordinary Card Collection from Spellbinders; and one of the Heartfelt Thanks and Scallops frames as well as the Flowers and Foliage 3D Embossing Folder, which are both part of From the Garden Collection. I love piecing the cat using sticky-back black felt, it's hard to tell in a photo, but IRL it has lots of texture. I split the birthday diecuts and added "PURR" in velvetty pink letters to make the whole thing a tiny bit punny. ;)

SOS556: The Cat is in the Bag will run at SOS until the evening of Monday, September 22nd. Be sure to hop over to Shopping Our Stash and see the inspiring cards the Crew have made!

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It's a Wibbly-Wobbly Mandala Monday which I cannot say I'm in love with... but it was fun to make and it's a colorful beginning to my latest sketchbook; it's the 12th one, I believe.

Handcut grungy patterned paper shapes at the center; more shapes added with brush pens further out towards the edge; lots of Fineliner and Posca Pen details throughout.

'Twas the 12 Days of Cardstock

Over at Jingle Belles, Stephanie and I are still celebrating Cardstock Christmas by making holiday cards with absolutely no designer/patterned paper. (Yikes!)

Not only is this card entirely free of patterned paper, I've used mostly scraps and leftovers! When I was making the Dressed to Chill kits last week, I made a few different versions of the sign and the happy snowperson from Simon Hurley's Spellbinders North Pole Sentiments Die Set; the white-embossed watercolor panel (made with Hero Arts' Christmas Rose cover stamp) was made probably a year ago and (mysteriously?!) never used; the sparkly snowflakes were in my diecut organizer; and the background is made of thin, random-width strips of coordinating pink cardstock, stuck to an adhesive sheet and stitched around the edges.

JB2518: Cardstock Christmas runs until next Wednesday evening, September 10th, so there's still time to join the fun!

Back to School Dylusions Agenda

Let's be honest, one of the best things about "Back to School" season is treating ourselves to a few new supplies, am I right? There are Dylusions Dyalog Insert Books for every taste and usage, and I'm pretty sure I'm going to be wanting a bunch more of them, but for starters, I'm on the Ranger Project Tutorials Page adding my own "punny" style to my Dylusions Agenda Insert, because to me, nothing says, "Back to SCHOOL" as well as lots of colorful, whimsical fishes; so as soon as I saw Simon Hurley's super-fun Under the Sea Photopolymer Stamp Set, I was HOOKED. You should swim on over and SEA the full tutorial, which also features Dylusions Stencils, Ranger Archivals and shimmering oceany shades of Liquid Pearls! Find the whole story HERE!

Back to School!

Here in the Northeastern US, the week after Labor Day is the traditional time for kids (and grown-ups!) to go back to school. Here's a card featuring Eyelet Outlet School Bus Brads, Book Brads, Eye Glass Brads, Sun and Cloud Brads and even a Mini Ladybug.

Back to School Shopping List:

School Bus Brads

Book Brads

Eye Glass Brads

Sun and Cloud Brads

Mini Ladybug Brads

Whatever card-making occasions you're celebrating this week, Eyelet Outlet has all the embellishments you need!

Triple Play Mandala Monday

The three-day Labor Day weekend surely deserves not one, not two, but THREE Mandalas, don't you think?

I used my Wendy Vecchi Archival Inks from Ranger to make three super-colorful Smoosh- Spray- Dip backgrounds; which are pretty much exactly like they sound: SMOOSH some ink (or scribble a marker) onto your craft mat... SPRAY the ink with Isopropyl Alcohol... and DIP your paper into the ink. Repeat as necessary until you have the colors and coverage you desire.

Since I knew I was going to make mandalas, I smooshed my first couple of inks for each piece into circle(ish) shapes to have a starting point. I recommend smooshing one shade at a time to avoid contaminating your ink pads. I also like to pick up any leftover ink with a paintbrush and flick it onto the wet paper to get the cool random splatter pattern. This is the first time I've outlined the splatters, but I like how they came out.

When the backgrounds were dry (you can use a heat tool to expedite) I went in with my Letter It Fineliners to add all the basic shapes, petals and details. When necessary, I added additional coordinating colors to some of the shapes, so they'd blend in... or stand out from... the rest of the marks. At the very end I got a bit dotty with a white Posca Pen.

Wishing all who are celebrating a very happy, safe and burger-centric Labor Day!!! ♥

JB2518: Cardstock Christmas

This fortnight at Jingle Belles, we're celebrating Cardstock Christmas, which means we're asking you to step away from the patterned paper... (scary, I KNOW!!!) ...put it away, there's NONE allowed! We're creating cards using only cardstock. You can tear it, ink it, stamp it, spray it, emboss it … but stick to only cardstock for your holiday card design!

One of my favorite ways to make a fast, easy background is with Wendy Vecchi's Build a Plaid Layering Stencils from Spellbinders and her Ranger Archival Inks. In this case I used Carnation, Goldenrod, Mulberry and Fern Green. As I often do, I built my plaid on a diagonal, and at the end I added some gold pen lines as well as two coordinating (cardstock!) mats, plus some poinsettia and foliage diecuts from the Christmas Add-On set for Wendy's Not Your Ordinary Card Collection. I couldn't resist finishing off with a few white velvet holly leaves and some glittery gold enamel dots.

Bes sure to visit Jingle Belles to see Stephanie's beautiful card and to link up your own cardstock-centric masterpieces. JB2518: Cardstock Christmas runs until the evening of Wednesday, September 10th.

Holiday Jumpstart: Dressed to CHILL!

Holiday Jumpstart: Dressed to Chill is Paper Anthology's newest holiday card kit, which features an adorable diecut snowman, waving a happy holiday hello from the North Pole.

Paper Anthology’s Holiday Jumpstart Card Kit is our pre-packaged kit that includes everything you need (except adhesive) to complete FIVE copies of this new original holiday card design. This edition is called “Dressed to Chill” because the star of the show is a sartorial snowman, strutting his stuff.

Don’t we all adore the IDEA of making holiday cards throughout the year, instead being overloaded in November and December? But sometimes it’s hard to be inspired during the “off-season”. This pre-packaged kit features everything you need (except adhesive) to complete five adorable, colorful super-cool cards; including complete written instructions (not pictured, but included!) and a nice big photo for reference.

This kit contains:

Five sheet music panels
Five snowy postage-edged background panel pieces
Five handsome snowmen
Five sets of arms, cheeks, carrot noses and black backers for snowmen
Five sets of snowman clothing: 2-piece scarves and 3-piece hats
Five 3-piece North Poles (bases, stripes and caps)
Five green sentiment flags
Five white sentiment flag backers
Fifteen diecut snowflakes
Enough silver star sequins to adorn five cards
Complete step-by-step instruction sheet with large color photo
Five glossy white A2 cards