Simply Magical Christmas

September 1, 2026 susanfoxbowenLeave a comment

Welcome to a bright, new shiny week! The weekend went by in a whiz-bang around here. I don’t know about you, but I needed another day or two. But alas, we’re off and running on this week.

Exciting things are here in crafty land! EIGHT new releases have hit the online store today — the new holiday catalog, the new Online Exclusives, the new Hot Foil Magic catalog, new kits, a new craft class, a new Product of the Month, and a couple of other things I can’t remember right at the moment. Whew.

So this week’s theme is all about the holidays, which will span a whole host of holiday goodness from September to December. And we’re getting started with a super simple and gorgeously stunning holiday card using one of the new hot foil bundles — Magical Christmas.

I used a neutral base of white cardstock. A sheet of the textured foil sheets from the Neutral Noel paper pack covers the entire card front. I hot foiled the Magical Christmas plate in gold foil on a sheet of Garden Green cardstock and then cut it down so there were narrow borders all the way around and matted this panel with a sheet of the red Timeless Metallic specialty paper cut with the largest Perennial Postage die. We adhere our focal panel to the card front with dimensionals and add some of the Christmas epoxy shapes willy nilly on the card front for little pops of color and interest amongst our Christmas sentiments and finish things off with a bow of holiday baker’s twine in the corner.

This is super shiny and eye-catching in person. And it comes together in no time flat. You can easily make a whole set in one crafting session! We’re going to be making all sorts of holiday cards this week. We’ll be dreaming of sweater weather with tomorrow’s design. I hope you’ll drop by and check it out.

Products used in today’s card:
Basic White, Garden Green CS
Neutral Noel, Timeless Metallic DSP (coming tomorrow!)
Magical Christmas hot foil plate (coming tomorrow!)
Gold foil (coming tomorrow!)
Perennial Postage dies
Christmas epoxy shapes (coming tomorrow!)
Holiday baker’s twine (coming tomorrow!)
Dimensionals
Adhesives

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