Holiday Jumpstart: Ice Ice Baby

Holiday Jumpstart: Ice Ice Baby is Paper Anthology's newest holiday card kit, which features a nostalgic pair of ice skates, on an embossed poinsettia background that YOU ink in your favorite shade.

Please note that this edition makes FOUR A6 cards, rather than our usual quantity of five A2 cards; just because the skates fit better on a bigger card. This kit also comes with four white A6 envelopes.

Paper Anthology’s Holiday Jumpstart Card Kit is our pre-packaged kit that includes everything you need (except adhesive and your choice of ink colors) to complete FOUR copies of this new original holiday card design. This edition is called “Ice Ice Baby” because it has ice skates, and we can literally NEVER resist a diabolical pun!

We all love 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”. That issue is solved by this pre-packaged kit, which features everything you need (except adhesive and your choice of ink colors) to complete four copies of this original design. Also included are complete written instructions (not pictured, but included!) and a nice big photo for reference; plus a secondary photo showing the skate parts as they come AND as they get assembled. The instructions detail the specific Archival Ink colors used on all four versions of the background shown on the cover, as well as suggestions for swapping to Distress Ink shades, if desired; but honestly, this concept WILL work with your favorite color and brand of inks!

CLICK HERE to go to the Ice Ice Baby listing in our Paper Anthology Design Etsy Shop

This kit contains:
Four embossed (uncolored!) poinsettia backgrounds
Four sets of boot, blade and heel parts to assemble four pairs of skates
Four diecut silver metallic sentiments
Enough pale grey floss to (optionally) stitch the laces on four pairs of skates
Four white A6 cards
Four white A6 envelopes

Christmas Critters and Creatures

It's the second week of the prompt we've called, "While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks" at Jingle Belles and thus we're still creating cards that feature animals; OR you can go with "creatures" like a yeti or monster, if you prefer. 

Weirdly enough, I've gone fairly traditionally yet again this week! I was flipping through my holiday dies and re-discovered Memory Box's Serene Bird and Branch die set, which, bizarrely, I don't think I've used for a couple of years? And suddenly I just thought, "That's the one!" I've cut the bird from a really soft silver-grey metallic cardstock, then added it and quite a lot of small foliage to the center of MFT's Happy Holidays Circle Frame; then added Dare 2B Artzy's Slim-Mini Snowflake panel behind the whole thing and set it atop some ancient Basic Grey Wisteria paper. In the photo, the lavender and purple both look very strong and slightly "off" but I assure you, IRL, it's quite a nice card.

Link your critter- or creature-centric cards on the original While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks post, for a chance to win a super-cool Sizzix Reindeer die! This challenge ends next Wendesday evening, November 4th.

Make-It Candy Cane Wishes Card by Lauren Bergold

The holidays are right around the corner, and Ranger's Make-It line has stepped up with beautiful new Christmas and Hanukkah stamps and stencils. I've got a tutorial for this fun Candy Cane Wishes card up on the Ranger Project Tutorials Page, I'd love for you to hop over there and check it out this very vibrant card which features the Christmas Sweets Clear Stamp Set and 6x9" Peppermints Stencil, not to mention the brand new Mini Archival Inks, lots of Liquid Pearls and some of my favorite Ranger Embossing Powders.

New Mini Archivals and Perfect Pearls from Ranger!

New (today!) from Ranger: Three new Mini Archival Ink Kits, featuring all your favorite colors from the last year or so, now in convenient MINI size; perfect for stamp platforms and super convenient storage! Set Five has: Sweet Treat, Sea Grass, Aquamarine and Aubergine; Set Six has: Cayenne, Coastal Coral, Sun Dazed and Emerald Green; Set Seven has: Graphite, Dark Roast, Pebble Beach and Sand Castle.

Meanwhile, there are also SIX new shades of luscious, shimmery Perfect Pearls: Fire & Ice, Cherry Bomb, Snow Globe, Dragonfly, Evening Gown and Fairy Frost. 

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Here are a few cards I've made using the new Perfect Pearls and Archival Minis, along with some of the new Make-It Stamps and Stencils which came our yesterday:

If you'd like to WIN the new Mini Archivals and Perfect Pearls, check out my Instagram @llaurenb for a little giveaway!

New Ranger Make-It Holiday Stamps and Stencils!

Ranger's Make-It line of  beautiful, affordable, stamps and stencils just got a Holiday Glow-Up! Introducing new Merry Greenery and Christmas Sweets Stamps, plus a lovely new Peppermints Stencil. But don't think it's just about XMAS, oh no...

...because there's also a Happy Hanukkah Stamp Set and a Twinkling Stars Stencil!

Here are a few cards I made using these sets, but be sure to check out the official Ranger release post which is full of inspiration!

Stay tuned for another new release from Ranger, as well!

Floral Halloween

Halloween isn't just for kiddos, so here's a soft, floral card that's all grown up! An Eyelet Outlet Pumpkin Brad, Colored Daisy, Rose Brad, Sugar Skull and even a Mini Butterfly adorn these pretty stamped  pumpkins on their soft purple spider web stenciled background. 

Pretty Pumpkins Shopping List:

Pumpkin Brads

Colored Daisy Brads

Rose Brads

Sugar Skull Brads

Mini Butterfly Brads

Wishing you a safe and Happy Halloween with lots of treats... and absolutely no tricks!

Spider Web Mandala

Halloween is next Sunday and I haven't even posted a Spider Web Mandala? Shocking! So here's one right now.

Of course a fancy zen-doodle web wouldn't be complete without providing a home for some handsome Eyelet Outlet Spider Brads, too... unless you're an arachnophobe, in which case, my apologies; come back tomorrow, when I promise this space will be entirely spider-free!