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Believe in Santa Paws
by Allison Frazier

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Hello, Poppystamps friends! I am excited to be back on the blog today sharing some adorable new products! This "Sitting Dachshund" is just one of several new dachshund dies. Isn't he so handsome with his sweater and hat? And the sentiment is just perfect!

To start my card today, I fussy cut a snowbank shape out of masking paper and masked the bottom of a white A2 card base. I blended the sky with three shades of blue ink and removed the mask to reveal the pristine snow underneath.

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I cut my little pup from two different colors of card stock - brown and black. I glued the top black layer to the bottom brown layer. I did add in a white eyeball. I glued on a black ear and then adhered my Santa hat on top. I cut the sweater using paper from the Gladiola Plaid Paper Pack from Memory Box. Before adhering my pup to the snowbank, I took a light blue alcohol marker and added some shadows underneath where he would be. After finishing up with the pup, I moved on to the sentiment. I cut it from both white and red card stock, and then I adhered the red layer to the white layer with a slight offset. I love creating drop shadow effects like this with word dies.

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I held off on adhering the sentiment to the card base because I wanted to make sure it didn't overlap any of the snowflakes that I planned on adding. These snowflakes are actually new rub ons from Memory Box! I really only planned on adding a few, but it gets a little addicting and before I knew it, the entire sky was full! Once I was done, I glued down my sentiment. To finish the scene, I added the adorable Nordic Dimple Trees, along with the Nordic Dimpled Tree Toppers. These trees are so sweet! Just like with the pup, I added some shading both on the trees and below the trees with a light blue alcohol marker. 

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I love how this card turned out, and I hope it brings a smile to your face. Thanks for joining us today.

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Winter Friends
by Tricia Barber

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Hello all!  I have a winter friends card to share with you today.  I am feeling all the plaids for this winter so I started with a plaid background from Yuletide Plaid paper pack from Memory Box.   To create my scene I die cut from white and glitter white cardstock the Nordic Treeline Craft die and used this as my background.  I layered some of the glittered die cuts on top to mimic ice and snow. 

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For the scene, I die cut the Nordic Playful Penguin and the Nordic Happy Snowman using the Leafy and Lagoon paper packs.   I built each of the images up and used my markers to color in the nose, eyes and penguin feet.   I made sure to match up some of the colored cardstock on each so that they went well together.   I layered these onto some cardstock strips.   

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To finish off my card, I stamped and die cut a greeting from the Holiday Banners Clear stamp and die set.  I hope you have a wonderful day! 

 

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Merry Christmas Forest
By Meghan Kennihan

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Hi Crafty Friends,
I'm delighted to share with you the first of MANY Christmas cards I made with the NEW Poppy Stamps Nordic Wonderland Release. This card features the Nordic Wispy and Dimple trees with the Yuletide Cheer 6x6 Paper Pad.

Make Crafty Friends Q & A:
Q: When do you start making your Christmas cards?
A: Me? All year round... I make at least 5 a month

Step #1: I started my card by die cutting the Poppy Stamps Nordic Trees out of plain green cardstock from the Poppy Stamps Leafy Green 6x6 Paper Pad and the matching green and gold plaid paper from the Yuletide Plaid 6x6 Paper Pad.

Step #2: I arranged the trees on my card with my favorite paper of the Yuletide Cheer 6x6 Paper Pad in the background because it looks like gold snow. I add little gold gems to each of the trees with the Poppy Stamps Christmas Fairy Jewels

Step #3: I finish my card with the beautiful Merry Christmas Moonlight Script Die with the metallic gold paper from the Poppy Stamps Rainbow Reflections Mirror 6x6 Paper Pad and mounted it on a matching gold base.

 

 

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Be Merry!
by Rachel Duong

Hi friends! It's Rachel here to share an adorable holiday card. Even though it is summer, it is never too early to begin your holiday crafting. I used the Poppystamps "Nordic Bundled Bear" and the "Nordic Treeline" dies.
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To create this card I began by cutting out the bear in kraft, red, white, black and plaid patterned paper. After I glued the bear together I added foam dimensionals on the back to pop up the image.

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Next I covered the white A2 cardbase with a Memory Box  "Yuletide Cheer" paper.

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I die cut the "Nordic Treeline" in green, brown and white. I trimmed the trees off the kraft keeping the trunk and ground. I glued it in place. Trim off trees off the white copy. The only part of the white paper used is the ground.IMG_6174

Then I die cut the "Be Merry" sentiment in white and red. I double layered the sentiment to pop it up before going onto the cardfront.

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Finally I added a red "Fairy Jewel" after the sentiment. IMG_6157

I can't wait to create polar bears and black bears. This bear is definitely a favorite die and has so much personality!IMG_6168
Until next time, don't forget to start your holiday projects now. There are so many amazing dies from the Poppystamps winter release. The bear is only one of them!
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Winter Greetings
by Allison Frazier

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Hello, Poppystamps friends! I am so excited to share this card today because it features several products from the brand new Nordic Wonderland Collection! I am just in love with these new products. July is normally the time when I start building up my holiday card stash, so the timing of this collection was perfect. The hardest part of making this card was having to choose which products to use - I can't wait to use them all!

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I started my card by assembling the adorable Nordic Playful Penguin. He is so cute, right?? I love everything about him, but my favorite part is probably the hat. I used three different shades of turquoise card stock for his clothing. There are two dies in this set. One cuts the penguin parts, and the other cuts the clothing. You can cut it all from white card stock and then color the pieces with ink or markers. I did color the feet and nose with a Copic marker, but otherwise, I cut all the pieces from colored card stock. 

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I started assembling the card by glueing a panel of patterned paper onto a white card base. This paper comes from the new Yuletide Cheer paper pack from Memory Box. I used two dies from the Nordic Wintertide Border to create a white field of snow for the bottom of the card. I glued white card stock behind this border, which has cutouts. I love the tone on tone texture this gives! I used the new Nordic Treeline to add to my scene. These trees are so adorable - the tops of the trees look like they're smiling! I glued the trees behind the Nordic Wintertide Border and then adhered all of it down to the card base.

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For my sentiment, I used the new Holiday Banners stamp and die set. I heat embossed the sentiment onto black cardstock with white embossing powder. I cut it out with the matching die and then popped it up on thin foam squares. To finish the card, I added a little bit of snow at the top. I created the "snow" using some of the cutout pieces from the Nordic Wintertide Border. The little star shape comes from the Flower and Leaf Sprinkles set. 

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I love how this card turned out. That penguin has my heart, and so does this new collection. Be sure to check out all of the new goodies! I hope this card brings a smile to your face. Thanks for joining us today!

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PSC#112 Challenge Reminder - Sparkling New Year!
by Sphoorti

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Hello Poppy Peeps!


It's Sphoorti with a gentle reminder of this month's challenge - PSC#112 - Sparkling New Year! This month we're looking for some SPARKLE! We hope that gets you thinking of fireworks, a little confetti, or maybe some bubbly! Even if you're ringing in the new year comfy cozy at home, and watching the snow fall and sparkle in the sun, we want you to capture the magic. Just add some glitter, gems or foil to your design so we can watch you shine this year!  

 

Projects can be for any occasion, and you're not limited to making cards. We welcome home décor, page layouts, tags and everything in between! It's your choice, just be sure to use at least one Poppystamps die on your project! You must use a Poppystamps product to be eligible to win.

 

This was my take on the challenge, and such a quick and easy one - it's another that you can totally mass produce this for the holidays! It's actually even faster than the one I had in my previous challenge post, check it out here!

 

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Hope you like it!

 

Did you know you can use dies to hot foil? I absolutely love the design of the 2574 Scandinavian Snowflake Plate craft die and thought I'd try to see how it would look hot foiled. It turned out even better than I'd imagined! I've said it before, and I'll say it again - this die is SO beautiful!

 

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Using some silver mirror cardstock from the FP1003 Rainbow Reflections Mirror Pad 6x6 pack, I die cut a strip to adhere a sentiment on. I took a piece of vellum and adhered it to the back of the strip and foam mounted it for some dimension.

 

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Then I used the CB513 Christmas Banners clear stamp and die set to emboss the Happy New Year sentiment and die cut it. I adhered the sentiment to the foiled band and adhered it towards the bottom of the card.

 

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And actually, that was it! So easy-peasy!

 

I actually have a bonus card for you too! It came together even quicker than the one above! For this one, I hot foiled the 2574 Scandinavian Snowflake Plate craft die plate the same way, but for the sentiment, I used the die cuts from the and old JOY sentiment die that is no longer available, unfortunately. But the Snowflake Plate still is, so be sure to get one before it's gone! 

 

 

Now it's your turn to take on the Sparkling New Year challenge! Need a little more motivation? How about a prize? The winner of this challenge (chosen at random) will receive a $20 Gift Certificate to spend on their favorites from the store! Remember - projects can be for any occasion, and you're not limited to making cards. We welcome home décor, page layouts, tags and everything in between! It's your choice, just be sure to use at least one Poppystamps die on your project!

 

 

Have a great rest of your week, and good luck!

 

Love,

Sphoorti

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