Foiled Christmas Card

As promised here is another Christmas card in the Hydrangea Hue, White and Silver theme. Right now this is one of my favorite color combo's for Christmas!  

Click here to see Card 1 in this color theme.

This card is a 5-1/2" x 4-1/4" base in white. I've also used Hydrangea Hue DSP and CS as well as Vellum and Silver Foil. 

This time the foiling is more subtle as it creates the dots in the background. It kind of reminds me of snowflakes. 

The Poinsettia is die cut then I used the Impression Plate for deeper detail. It really makes such a difference! Adding some Vellum die cut leaves is a nice touch without the design getting too busy looking. I use glue dots to stick the flower petals together but before that I crease the petals a bit for dimension. 

Once again I used a sentiment from the Ephemera pack. It's a quick and easy way to get a pretty sentiment and I love the variety in the pack. 

I hope this color combo caught your eye. I currently have one more ready to share next era, though I'm sure there will be more in these colors in the future!

Thanks for stopping by! Come back often for more ideas and inspiration.

Have a great day!

Michelle Loncar

Independent Stampin' Up!® Demonstrator 

MichelleLoncar.stampinup.net

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What's Up Wednesday ~ Virtual Classes!

I want to let you know about two opportunities for online classes presented by the Stampin' Up!® Corporate Staff! These classes are wonderful and fun of great projects, ideas, tips and a whole lot more! 

Advent-ures in Christmas Craft Class

Craft along with our Stampin’ Up! product experts during the Advent-ures in Christmas Craft Class. They’ll show you how to decorate a 24-box advent calendar using the Advent Treat Boxes (168534) and a few additional products. And they’ll demonstrate different ways you can assemble the calendar to fit your space and style. By the end of class, you’ll have new tips and techniques under your belt, as well as a beautiful advent calendar to fill with goodies to use this Christmas season.

After you’ve purchased the class, we’ll send you an email within 2–3 business days with a link to the exclusive Facebook group where we’ll host the class and information about the additional supplies you’ll need to order/gather to make the projects. 

DETAILS
- Access to 1 digital video class
- Decorate 24 boxes to create an advent calendar using the Advent Treat Boxes and other select products, all sold separately
- Available for streaming: September 17 at 2:00 p.m. (MT)
- If you purchase before September 17: You’ll be able to participate in live discussions with fellow crafters
If you purchase after September 17: You’ll have access to the recorded class videos

CRAFT CLASSES
- Guide you through complete creative projects.
- Include recorded videos to rewatch and craft at your own pace.

VIRTUAL CARD RETREAT

Who: Crafters who love to make cards!

When: October 1–2; We’ll craft for up to seven hours each day, starting at 2:00 p.m. (MT) both days. 

• Celebrate World Card Making Day (October 3) during this event!

Price of 2026 October Card Retreat kit: $165 USD |$225 CAD

2026 October Card Retreat Kit Available for Purchase: September 1

Where: This retreat will take place in a private Facebook Group.

• We’ll post step-by-step instructions as well as a preparation video in this group two weeks before the retreat. 
• To join this group, you’ll need to fully complete the group admission form, which includes agreeing to the group rules and providing your name, the email address you used when you purchased the kit, and your 2026 October Card Retreat kit order number, which you can find in your confirmation email. With this information, the group administrator can admit you.
• You can watch the live event and the on-demand videos in this group.

Registration: The 2026 October Card Retreat kit is your ticket to the retreat. There is no registration. The kit includes a card with a personalized link through which you can join the exclusive Facebook group where the live retreat will stream.

Language: This live event will be presented in English. Video recordings with English, French, German, and Dutch captioning will be available through the Facebook group within two weeks of the livestream.

What do you think about all that fun? Crafting with our experts doesn't get any better! 

Michelle Loncar

Independent Stampin' Up!® Demonstrator 

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September - December 2026 Catalog is LIVE!

 

It's LIVE today! 

Our NEW September -December 2026 Catalog!

Full of products to keep you crafting through Fall and Winter, Halloween and Christmas! 

Start the season off right with fresh additions to your crafting collection. From traditional Christmas essentials to tools, designer series papers and stamps you'll use again and again, these products are easy to love!

See the entire line of products on my shopping site. Get ready to make your shopping list then Click here to take a look.

Michelle Loncar

Independent Stampin' Up!® Demonstrator 

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Hot Foil Leaves ~ Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge 697

It's time for Team A from Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge to share ideas for this week's sketch. Use our sketch to get you started on a project. You can flip, flop, rotate, alter shapes.... do what you like to the sketch. We just need to be able to see the sketch in your project.  

I chose to keep it pretty close to the sketch design this time. I did change the shapes to the leaves. My top layer is fussy cut around the sentiment, but you can still see the sketch in my design.  

I did a lot of hot foiling for this card because I just can't help myself. I LOVE our new hot foil system! It's fun and easy to use and really looks nice on my projects!

This card uses our New Hot Foil Dies: Buffalo Check, Lustrous Leaves and Classic Greetings. These newest hot foil dies and Copper Foil will be available starting tomorrow, September 1st along with many others and new foil colors.

I love the Buffalo Check Hot Foil Die and felt it would be a fun look for this design. What do you think? HINT: I did one large piece and cut out the center since no one would see it. Now I have another smaller Buffalo Check piece to use later! This is one way I make the most of my supplies.

The leaves were hot foiled the other day and just waiting for me to use. I colored them with the coordinating stencils making it really easy. 

I hot foiled the sentiment and ultimately decided to fussy cut around it so there wasn't so much white showing. This layer is popped up on Dimensionals. 

Finally, I went through my embellishments to find something to go with the design. I found the sunset Sparkle Sequins and decided that was the accent it needed. 

The inside of the card is a simple stenciling of the cardstock. There are 5 stencils and #5 has this nice display of leaves. I kept the color to the lighter one used on the front. Now it's ready for a custom message when I use the card.

Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge

Now it's your turn to give our sketch a try. The challenge goes live on Monday and our blog opens for entries on Wednesday's. Have fun! We can't wait to see how our sketch inspires you!

Michelle Loncar

Independent Stampin' Up!® Demonstrator 

MichelleLoncar.stampinup.net

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The three following products will be available Starting September 1st.

Lustrous Leaves Hot Foil Bundle

Buffalo Check Hot Foil Die

Copper Foil

The following product are available now.

Framed Violets Card ~ Color Dare #718

 Hello and welcome to a new color challenge from our team at Color Dare. Each Friday we give you a new palette of colors to inspire your creativity. Use our challenge colors to make any paper craft you like. Make sure your colors are a close match. More details are in the graphic seen below.

When you're ready to join our challenge use the link below. 

The purple steered me toward the Framed Violets set. I love Violets! Pairing the colors with a sketch and it came together nicely. 

Once I had the flowers colored with ink and a water painter I die cut the flowers and the oval. Next up wad the pieces behind the oval. The sizes are ad follows:  3/4" x 4-3/4" CS, 1" x 4" CS,  2" x 3" DSP. 

The sentiment is from our new Sweetly Sentimental Hot Foil Dies withy Gold Foil. I do a bunch at once and keep them in a container so they are ready to go!

A few Dots for accents and the front is done!

Here is what the inside looks like. I wanted to bring in the DSP to the inside so I kept it simple. Since it's a notecard I add a sentiment. I'll write a custom message when I use it.

This is the finished project. I glued a piece of the DSP to the envelope flap for a pretty surprise when they go to open it. Fun, right?

Direct link to Color Dare #718

Here is the sketch I used. I like the simple lines of the design. 

Now it's your turn to create and share! We love to see how our color challenge inspires you! Have fun!

Michelle Loncar

Independent Stampin' Up!® Demonstrator 

Michelle Loncar.stampinup.net

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Slimline Pretty Poinsettia Card

The other day I decided to create some Christmas cards with the Pretty Poinsettia Bundle. Now if you know me you've heard me say more than one time that I LOVE to make Christmas cards in non-traditional colors. I do like traditional colors but I really like non-traditional colors, too! Lets take a look at this one in Hydrangea Hue. 

Sticking with the Hydrangea Hue, White and Silver theme I came up with this beauty. The silver is a Hot Foil design and the leaves on the right are die cut from silver paper. 

The background is mostly stamped then hot foiled. On the right end you can see the embossed section that adds a fun texture. 

The Pretty Poinsettia Bundle has the stamp set and dies. The extra fun part about the dies is that they are designed so when you use our Impressions Plate after die cutting it gives an even deeper impression of the die. Take a close look at the flower petals and you'l see what I mean.

Using the Impressions Plate is easy. You die cut the normal way. After that flip over the die with the CS in place, lay the Impressions Plate on top and run it through again. Now you have the deep image! By the way, it's called an Impressions Plate but it's actually a rubber mat kind of thing. 

I alternated white and Hydrangea Hue leaves for my flower because I wanted to create a better contrast with the flower and background. The touch of silver leaves carries the silver from one endow the card to the other.

The flower was put together using Mini Gluer Dots in the center. Play around either the way you layer the petals to ge the look you want. I actually added 2 layers of the 2nd largest petal for s fuller look.

The Rhinestones add a nice touch of sparkle and the ribbon gives your eyes a stopping place on the left end. 

I hope you enjoyed seeing one of my favorite Christmas cards for this coming season. I have a few more in this color theme I'll share soon.

Michelle Lonar

Independent Stampin' Up!® Demonstrator 

MichelleLoncar.stampinup.net

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What's Up Wednesday ~ Strawberry Card

 I didn't plan it this way but it fell into place perfectly so I'm going with it. Last week on What's Up Wednesday I showed you a technique for using the Simple Leaf Punch. Today I have a different technique using that same punch that will surprise you!

I can't claim I came up with this idea myself. that credit goes to my fellow demonstrator Liz Wheeler. As soon as I saw her card I knew I needed to give it a try! Thanks for the inspiration, Liz!

Do you see what I saw when I looked at this card? I saw the cute strawberry as my mind was telling me we don't have a strawberry stamp like that! As I looked harder I realized it was made using the Simple Leaf Punch! How very clever!

This photo shows the two images I used to create the strawberry. Do you see a strawberry now? The larger leaves can be punched out with the coordination Simple Leaf Punch. The small leaves need to be fussy cut. Don't worry about the stems as they aren't seen in this design.

In this photo you can see the layers I built with the elements. The middle leaf is glued directly to the card front. The berry and other two leave are popped up with Stampin' Dimensionals foam. This multi layer look gives a nice depth to the design. The red bow accents the berry and covers the ends of the leaves you don't want seen. 

The DSP used is 2026-2028 Gingham Gallery. Each side has a tone on tone plaid with one side being a larger and the other side a smaller version. I liked the smaller side for this design because it reminded me of a berry basket. The Perennial Postage Dies also add to the feeling of the berry basket with the notches. 

The sentiment is from our Sweetly Sentimental Hot Foil Dies. I used gold foil to go with the warm tone of the colors. The fun part about this die is you get a bunch of sentiments all at once! I keep the rest of them in a craft box ready to go at a moments notice. A few gold accents ties in with the gold of the sentiment. 

What do you think of this surprising use of the Simple Leaf Punch? Thanks again, Liz Wheeler, for the inspiration. I had a lot of fun making this card and re-living the memories of all those times my daughters and I went strawberry picking. 

Michelle Loncar

Independent Stampin' Up!® Demonstrator 

MichelleLoncar.stampinup.net

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