Woodland Fright

August 29, 2026 susanfoxbowenLeave a comment

We made it to the weekend — whew! Yesterday turned out to be a bit busier than anticipated. The kiddo participated in the first round of basketball tryouts, and let’s just say it got off to a bumpy start. Quite literally. He’s got quite the nasty bump & bruise on his knee that we spent the evening nursing. Hoping it looks better after a good night’s rest!

As promised though, we’re strolling through Sleepy Hollow today. And look who we rustled up — Casper and friends! The new Frightfully Fun suite is so fun and we’re dazzling it up with some shimmery touches for the perfect pops of fun!

We get started with a base of black cardstock. A sheet of the swirling stars paper from the new Frightfully Fun paper pack gives us our spooky backdrop. And we wrap it with some black shiny ribbon before adhering to the card front. The Everyday Arches dies help us create our matted focal panel with a combo of orange Autumn Woodland glimmer paper and Frightfully Fun scary woods paper. Our cute little ghosties are diecut with the Oh My Fright dies and I added some detailing to each with a white chalk pen. Our dies also help us create the rest of our scene. The moon is a sheet of the pale yellow pastel shimmer paper with the clouds from a sheet of the blue Sunset shimmer vellum. Our bats are cut from Secret Sea glimmer paper and I added some detailing around the eyes with the chalk pen. Our sentiment from the Oh My Fright stamps is heat embossed in white on black paper and then cut into a banner shape before being adhered to the bottom corner of our card front. We finish things off with some dots and ghosts and bats from the Ghosts and Dots embellishments pack.

It’s a busy one today but I’m hoping to get some crafty playtime this afternoon to work on some 3D projects for an upcoming craft show.

Products used in today’s card:
Basic Black CS
Frightfully Fun, Autumn Woodland glimmer (coming in Sept), Peaceful Garden glimmer, pastels shimmer, Sunset shimmer vellum DSP
Everyday Archie’s dies
Oh My Fright bundle (coming in Sept)
Versamark
Black & clear EP
Ghosts & dots (coming in Sept)
Black shiny ribbon (coming in Sept)
Dimensionals
Adhesives

Tidings of Home

August 27, 2026August 27, 2026 susanfoxbowenLeave a comment

Howdy, friends! Welcome back. It’s hard to believe it’s already Thursday, although Monday & Tuesday definitely felt like Thursday & Friday. *chuckle*

I had some grand plans for a 3D project for today but ultimately figured out that I needed to devote more time to it in order to get it just right. So I hope to bring that to you over the weekend. Today, we’re getting another look at the Neutral Noel suite of products to include the awesome dies and embossing folder. And to add that touch of razzle dazzle in line with our design theme this week, we’re also using some of the new holiday hot foil products. So let’s dive in and see how this beauty comes together.

To start, I have to give props to the inspiration behind this card design. I’m CASEing a catalog CASE by Stamping Beauty NZ (follow her over on Insta!). Honestly, the catalog sample did not stand out to me like her card did. I love the neutral color palette and the overall feel of the card. But as I usually do when (theoretically) CASEing a card, it’s never truly a copy and stamp exactly situation. I always take liberties from the inspiration.

So we stick to the (mostly) neutral color palette here with a base of white cardstock. And our background panel of white is machine embossed with the new Soft Linen embossing folder. I punched things up a bit with the backdrop panel for the focal section by using a sheet of the All Wrapped Up foiled paper and cut it with the oval die from the Welcome Noel set. And the focal elements is where things get creative.

I paper pieced several houses diecut with the Welcome Noel dies from a combination of Crumb Cake, Early Espresso, and Golden Glow pearlized paper. I just love the soft glow in the windows provided by that pearlized paper! We dress up our houses with some holiday greenery cut from Peaceful Pine paper using the evergreen deco pieces in the Welcome Noel die set and add some peppermints and rhinestones. Next up, we prepare our large spruce tree by stamping tone-on-tone on Peaceful Pine cardstock and diecutting using the Welcome Noel bundle. Our little deer comes from the new Graceful Evergreen Deer hot foil bundle. The deer is foiled in copper and then diecut with the coordinating die. Using all of these elements, we build our scene on our focal panel with dimensionals to create depth of scene.

We finish off our card design with our holiday sentiment panel. It combines two ephemera banners from the Season of Celebration pack and the hot foil sentiment from the new Twinkling Tidings bundle foiled in red. Adhere them at the top of our scene with a bow of the new holiday baker’s twine, add a few sequins, and voila!

Today’s card is a part of the Luv 2 Stamp Group Instagram Hop, which goes live at 9 AM Pacific Time (PST). Click here to head over to my Instagram feed at 9 AM Pacific/11 AM Central and check out what the other demos in our L2S Group have created for you today!

Tomorrow things will be getting spooky as we continue our tour of the new products launching next week! I hope you’ll drop by!

Products used in today’s card:
Basic White, Early Espresso, Crumb Cake, Peaceful Pine CS
In Color pearlized SP, All Wrapped Up (coming in Sept) DSP
Season of Celebration ephemera (coming in Sept)
Noel Tidings, Graceful Evergreen Deer, Welcome Noel, Twinkling Tidings dies (coming in Sept)
Twinkling Tidings, Graceful Evergreen Deer hot foil bundle (coming in Sept)
Copper & red foil (coming in Sept)
Softly Woven EF (coming in Sept)
Rhinestone basic jewels, Real Red peppermints, sparkle sequins
Seasonal baker’s twine (coming in Sept)
Dimensionals
Adhesives

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A Beautiful Christmas

August 25, 2026 susanfoxbowenLeave a comment

Howdy, folks! Welcome back. Have you melted into a puddle yet? Man, the heat this summer is something else. I know, I know. We Texans are used to summers being extra when it comes to heat. But this particular summer is EXTRA extra. Maybe it feels particularly bad because the last couple of summers have been mild by comparison. Not sure, but I’m placing my vote for an early fall! Anybody else?

On the upside, I guess you could say that the heat is forcing us all to find productive things to do inside, which is magic words in the ears of any paper crafter! So as we’re dreaming of cooler weather, I’m pulling out the Christmas sparkles. There are SO many good things hitting the store next week. And today’s razzle dazzle card has a little bit of it all — Neutral Noel foiled paper, Season of Celebration ephemera, and the Twinkling Tidings hot foil bundle.

We keep things pretty simple so that our focal panel takes center stage here and get started with a base of white cardstock. The background panel is a sheet of the beautiful Neutral Noel foiled paper. Our focal panel starts with the Twinkling Tidings image hot foiled in green. We add the tree image by stamping over the tree with Peaceful Pine ink and then cut out our panel with the arched die from the coordinating Twinkling Tidings dies. A larger arch is cut from textured gold specialty paper using the Everyday Arches dies. A beautiful sprig of evergreen and poinsettia is added to the bottom corner of the panel with dimensionals. And then we finish things off with a few rhinestone jewels.

This one is sooo beautiful in person. It’s difficult to capture all of the glints of light you see from the foiled elements. Tomorrow I’ll be taking a little crafty break to get ready for the team blog hop on Thursday where I have grand plans for a bigger 3D project to share. We have a busy day slated for the office tomorrow also, so we shall see if my grand plans come to light. I hope you’ll drop by because I’ll have something to share either way.

Products used in today’s card:
Basic White CS
Textured Gold & Neutral Noel (coming in Sept) DSP
Season of Celebration ephemera (coming in Sept)
Everyday Arches dies
Twinkling Tidings hot foil bundle (coming in Sept)
Green foil (coming in Sept)
Peaceful Pine ink
Rhinestone basic jewels
Dimensionals
Adhesives

Holiday Mini Catalog

Noel to You

August 17, 2026 susanfoxbowenLeave a comment

Happy Monday, friends! Glad you’ve stopped by. We had a busy weekend. What about you? And with it being so hot (welcome to August in Texas!), it meant some creative changes in plans too. But we had no shortage of things to do inside so it kinda worked out.

We’re still working through the new stash of holiday products that will be releasing in a few weeks and this week is all about the razzle dazzle. If there’s something sparkly, shiny, or otherwise blingy, it usually comes to join my stash. But this catalog has some particular nice razzle dazzle things! And today we’re pulling out some of the Neutral Noel products to build this scene.

We get started with a base of Peaceful Pine cardstock. A sheet of the foiled filagree paper from the Neutral Noel paper pack serves as our backdrop. And it’s wrapped in a nice bow of festive baker’s twine before getting adhered to our card front. Special note: I really should adhered the background panel with dimensionals to provide some relief from the wrapping of twine. It works okay directly adhered to the card front, but I think I would have liked a flatter look.

Our focal panel begins with a sheet of foiled plaid from the All Wrapped Up paper pack that’s cut with the new Scalloped Christmas Cheer dies. We cut a piece of white velveteen paper with the Branching Out dies to create our snowy scene that’s built with the Welcome Noel stamp & die bundle. The trees are stamped tone-on-tone on Peaceful Pine and cut with the coordinating dies, while the houses are paper pieced with a combination of Crumb Cake, Early Espresso, and Golden Glow pearlized paper to create a warm glow in the windows. The deer is cut from Pecan Pie cardstock and placed in our scene with dimensionals for depth of scene. We finish things off with a sentiment from the Greetings for You ephemera pack and a few red sequins from the new sparkle pack.

We continue rolling through the dazzle dazzle tomorrow. I hope you’ll drop in!

Products used in today’s card:
Peaceful Pine, Pecan Pie, Early Espresso, Crumb Cake CS
Velveteen SP, Pearlized SP, *Neutral Noel, *All Wrapped Up DSP
*Welcome Noel bundle
Branching Out, *Scalloped Christmas Cheer dies
Greetings for You ephemera (retired)
*Festive twine
*Sparkle sequins
Dimensionals
Adhesives
*coming in Sept

Holiday Mini Catalog · Winter

Wonderful Snowflakes

August 14, 2026 susanfoxbowenLeave a comment

TGIF, everybody! We have made it to the weekend, and I don’t know about you but I’m ready. After surviving the first week of school schedule change, downtime is required and stat!

And speaking of downtime, I got to put an idea into action in the studio this evening as I put this card together. I put the latest SU! sketch into action and had fun adding a few twists to meet our them this week. We’re letting the new Dreamy Snowflakes bundle take center stage today.

We get started with a base of Cloud Cover cardstock. To capture the twinkle of freshly falling snow, I decided to have our focal panel backdrop be a sheet of blue shimmer vellum. I picked a coordinating piece of the Velvet Meadow patterned paper to create the corner circle elements. Before cutting them out, the full panel is run through the Dreamy Snowflakes embossing folder to give us our background flakes in each corner. The three snowflakes in the center are created with a combination of shimmer vellum and white velvet specialty paper using the Dreamy Snowflakes dies. After glueing the vellum and velvet together, they’re adhered to our card front with dimensionals. The sentiment from the Season of Celebration ephemera pack is stacked on some gold and white baker’s twine and then adhered over the snowflakes with dimensionals. A few adhesive snowflakes finish things off with the perfect amount of twinkle.

We will finish off this week’s trek in the woods tomorrow. I hope you’ll drop by!

Products used in today’s card:
Cloud Cover CS
Velvet Meadow, Velveteen, Sunset Shimmer vellum DSP
Dream Snowflakes dies & EF (coming in Sept)
Season of Celebration ephemera (coming in Sept)
Gold & white baker’s twine
Adhesive snowflakes (coming in Sept)
Dimensionals
Adhesives

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Christmas Joy

August 13, 2026 susanfoxbowenLeave a comment

Welcome back, everybody! As I’m sure you could tell, yesterday didn’t exactly go as planned. By the time I had the free time to craft, my giddy up had gone and went! Alas, that’s the way it goes sometimes.

But I got some inspiration and a little time today and pulled out the new Neutral Noel suite and a few other new releases to pull this one together as we continue our outdoor frollicks.

So for this one, we get started with a base of Peaceful Pine cardstock. The backdrop is a sheet of the red plaid paper from the Creative Celebrations paper pack and then we finish it off with strips of the gorgeous gold trefoil from the Neutral Noel pack. We wrap the whole caboodle with some festive tricolor twine. Our focal panel starts with a large white oval panel that’s cut with the Noel Tidings dies and then machine embossed with the new Dreamy Snowflakes embossing folder, we affix to that two evergreen wreaths also cut with the Noel Tidings dies. To that we add a sprig of evergreen and poinsettias from the Season of Celebration ephemera pack and top it all off with our sentiment banner, also from the ephemera pack. We finish everything off with a pop of sparkle with a scattering of red sequins.

Tomorrow we’re going to trek along with Mr. Frost. I hope you’ll drop by!

Products used in today’s card:
Peaceful Pine, Basic White CS
Creative Celebrations & Neutral Noel (coming in Sept) DSP
Season of Celebration ephemera (coming in Sept)
Noel Tidings bundle (coming in Sept)
Dreamy Snowflakes EF (coming in Sept)
Sparkle sequins & gold dots (coming in Sept)
Holiday baker’s twine (coming in Sept)
Dimensionals
Adhesives

Coming Soon · Holiday Mini Catalog

Christmas Magic

August 11, 2026 susanfoxbowenLeave a comment

Howdy, friends! Welcome to the nest. I’m glad you’ve stopped by today. This week, we’re designing around the great outdoors. And today is one of the cards where you have an idea but you have to pivot. I had this grand idea using one of the new holiday sets that will launch in September but then didn’t have quite enough time or brain power to pull it all together. But I had enough pieces to make a variation of yesterday’s layout with a little holiday magic from the Season of Celebration ephemera pack.

So we get started with a base of white cardstock and then use a sheet of the gorgeous Shimmering Stripes glitter paper as the backdrop. I pulled the gorgeous Christmas plaid paper from the new All Wrapped Up paper pack. HINT: if you decide to use the new foiled paper, it’s much thicker paper and the foil bit do not tear easily since they’re more stretchy than fibrous, but I used the paper snips here and there to help keep the tearing going. I adhered my two sparkly panels together with tear and tape for added adhesiveness. The panel is then wrapped in silver-edged sheer ribbon before adhering it to the card front with dimensionals. Our focal section uses a couple of images from the Season of Celebration ephemera pack and then a couple of stamped evergreen branches using the new Noel Tidings stamp & die bundle. It’s adhered to our card front with several layers of dimensionals so it stands nice and proud above our ribbon. We finish things off with a few of the new sparkle sequins.

We’re continuing our trek in the great outdoors tomorrow. Who knows — maybe I can get that card in my head out on paper! You’ll have to drop by to see. *wink*

Products used in today’s card:
White CS
Shimmering Stripes, All Wrapped Up (coming in Sept) DSP
Season of Celebration ephemera (coming in Sept)
Noel Tidings bundle (coming in Sept)
Sparkle sequins (coming in Sept)
Silver-edged sheer ribbon
Dimensionals
Adhesives

Holiday Mini Catalog · Holidays

Wreath of Joy

September 6, 2025 susanfoxbowenLeave a comment

This week we’ve been making clean & simple holiday card designs using some of the new Stampin’ Up! holiday products that just launched this week. Today we’re pairing up the Joyful Days Memories & More cards with the Greetings for You ephemera to create this lovely wreath of joy.

We get started with a base of Early Espresso cardstock. I love how it pulls out the wood stem of the evergreen in the wreath. Our backdrop is one of the larger cards of Christmas plaid from the Joyful Days pack. This really makes things festive. Our focal panel consists of two panels – the wreath card from the Joyful Days pack and the mat of Old Olive Season of Elegance paper. I love how this gives the perfect amount of sparkle that really helps bring our sentiment front and center. The full panel is adhered to the card backdrop using dimensionals. The sentiment JOY is from the Greetings for You ephemera pack and is adhered on multiple layers of dimensionals to ensure it stands tall above the rest of the design. We finish things off with a bow of Mossy Meadow & Gold ribbon at the top-center of our wreath and then some gold sparkly sequins from the Traditional Sparkling Sequins pack in opposing corners to tie the gold elements together.

I hope you’ve gotten some good ideas from this week’s designs to get you started on your holiday card stash. Next week is all about birthdays. I hope you’ll come along as we tour through the crafty stash to make some fun birthday cards.

Product List

Early Espresso 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock

[119686]

$14.00

Season Of Elegance 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Specialty Designer Series Paper

[164144]

$16.50

Joyful Days Memories & More Card Pack

[165822]

$11.50

Greetings For You Mix & Match Ephemera Pack (English)

[166208]

$8.50

Mossy Meadow & Gold 1/4" (6.4 Mm)

[166158]

$9.50

Traditional Sparkling Sequins

[165875]

$8.00

Stampin' Dimensionals

[104430]

$4.25

Mini Stampin' Dimensionals

[144108]

$4.25

Mini Glue Dots

[103683]

$7.25

Add All to Cart

Holiday Mini Catalog · Holidays

Christmas Wishes

September 5, 2025 susanfoxbowenLeave a comment

Howdy, friends! Have this week’s card designs gotten you into the holiday spirit? Well, today’s card will have you smelling evergreens. *wink*

We’re using some of the new Stampin’ Up! holiday release products to create our clean & simple holiday card designs this week. And today, we’re pairing up the Joyful Days Memories & More card pack with the Christmas Tags & More paper pack with coordinating ephemera sheets and the Greetings for You ephemera pack. And what kind of card would it be if I didn’t include some sparkle? *grin*

We get started with this card with a base of Shaded Spruce cardstock. The background panel is a sheet of snowflake pattern Christmas Tags & More paper diecut with the largest Textured Notes die. The bottom of the panel is wrapped with Shaded Spruce sheer ribbon that is tied off with some gold thread (both now retired). Our focal panel is the smaller evergreen card from the Joyful Days card pack that is matted with some (retired) Shaded Spruce festive glimmer paper and mounted on dimensionals. I added some of the packages from the ephemera sheet included in the Christmas Tags & More pack and mounted them on varying levels of dimensionals for some realistic depth of scene. The tree baubles are some of the traditional sparkling sequins. We finish things off with a holiday sentiment from the Greetings for You ephemera pack and mount it with enough dimensionals to stand above the center focal point.

This is such a super simple design – so fun & so easy to put together. And don’t you think it’s just a lovely way to send some holiday cheer? Tomorrow we’re going to close out this week’s design series with a traditional evergreen wreath. I hope you’ll pop in and check it out.

Product List

Shaded Spruce 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock

[146981]

$14.00

Christmas Tags & More 6" X 6" (15.2 X 15.2 Cm) Mix & Match Specialty Designer Series Paper

[165907]

$12.50

Festive 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Glimmer Paper

[164106]

$12.00

Joyful Days Memories & More Card Pack

[165822]

$11.50

Textured Notes Dies

[165555]

$31.00

Greetings For You Mix & Match Ephemera Pack (English)

[166208]

$8.50

Traditional Sparkling Sequins

[165875]

$8.00

Shaded Spruce 1/2" (1.3 Cm) Satin & Sheer Ribbon

[164224]

$8.50

Gold Twisted Thread

[164603]

$7.50

Mini Stampin' Dimensionals

[144108]

$4.25

Mini Glue Dots

[103683]

$7.25

Add All to Cart

Holiday Mini Catalog · Holidays

From Our House

September 4, 2025 susanfoxbowenLeave a comment

It’s hard to believe that we’re already quickly approaching the weekend. It’s been a super busy week, so it’s really just flying by. I’m gonna need two weekends just to recover. *ha!* So have you gotten to check out all the new goodies that launched yesterday? Which ones are your must-haves? I’m looking forward to playing around more with my faves from the new Holiday Mini catalog & the new Online Exclusives. And since it’s craft show season, I’ll have even more reasons to be in the craft room creating fun new projects!

This week, we’re getting a look at some of the must-haves that I got from the new release. And we’re using the new products to create clean & simple holiday cards. Today’s card combines the Joyful Days Memories & More cards with the Christmas Greenery Dies and the Gathering Together patterned paper to create a design that extends well beyond the traditional Christmas holidays. With the more masculine, neutral color palette, you can easily use this design from fall through winter. And that’s a design I can get behind!

We start with a base of Cherry Cobbler cardstock to tie with the subtle striping in our focal panel plain backdrop. I chose a sheet of the striped foiled Old Olive paper from the Gathering Together paper pack as the full-panel backdrop. It coordinates perfectly with the Joyful Days card that serves as our focal panel background. The evergreen branches are cut from gold foil specialty paper using the Christmas Greenery dies and are tied together with some (now retired) Cherry Cobbler & Gold satin ribbon. The sentiment is from the Greetings for You ephemera pack and is mounted on a small panel of gold & white foiled grid paper from the Nature’s Sweetness paper pack and cut using the Traditional Labels dies. I added some dimensionals behind the sentiment and then behind the full panel when adhering over the greenery to be sure they catch the eye. Some extra sparkle from the traditional sparkling sequins add the perfect coordinating gold finish.

Tomorrow we’re headed to the trees … the Christmas trees. I hope you’ll drop by and check out O Tannenbaum!

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