Priscilla's Papercrafts

Monday, November 24, 2025

Holly Jolly Merry Monday

It was an "all Christmas" card club this weekend. We created four holiday-themed cards, so I'll show them this week.

First up, a "holly jolly" card featuring Shaded Spruce and Soft Seafoam, two oft-forgotten colors.

The background was embossed with the Peaceful Greenery embossing folder, which creates a "label-sized" space in the center, perfect for layering our labels. But before adding the labels, we adhered some Shaded Spruce/Soft Seafoam ribbon around the middle.

We heat-embossed the greeting (from Keeping Traditions) with clear embossing powder after first stamping in Shaded Spruce, followed by Versamark.

The holly leaves were fussy-cut, with added Wink of Stella for some extra shine. And don't you love those Traditional Sparkling Sequins? Just the right touch to finish off our card.

These products are all from the September - December 2025 Mini Catalog and are available now.

Product List

Keeping Traditions Photopolymer Stamp Set (English)

[166806]

$20.00

Shaded Spruce Classic Stampin' Pad

[147088]

$9.00

Versamark Pad

[102283]

$9.50

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

[146981]

$14.00

Soft Sea Foam 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock

[146988]

$14.00

Basic White 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock

[166780]

$14.00

Peaceful Greenery 3 D Embossing Folder

[165928]

$10.00

Peace On Earth Dies

[165924]

$24.00

Pretty Florals Dies

[165178]

$37.00

Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machine

[149653]

$140.00

Clear Stampin’ Emboss Powder

[109130]

$6.00

Heat Tool (Us And Canada)

[129053]

$32.00

Shaded Spruce & Soft Sea Foam 1/2" (1.3 Cm) Ribbon

[165234]

$8.50

Traditional Sparkling Sequins

[165875]

$8.00

Stampin' Dimensionals

[104430]

$4.25

Monday, November 17, 2025

GingerSanta?

Sometimes I just don't know what to do with myself. So I start to play. I had a Gingerbread Man sitting on my desk, and after seeing other demonstrators turn their little guys into "others", I decided I needed a Santa.

And then he sat on my desk for another week.

This afternoon I used an old embossing folder and gave him a home at the North Pole. It's snowing there, but he's warm and happy!

I used a piece of 12" x 12" Two-Tone Cardstock in Pool Party, cut to 6" x 12" and scored at 6". The embossing folder is retired and I don't remember the name of it 😞, but after embossing I cut the mountains from the rest of the piece. The Light and Wonder dies has a great die that could be used to make a mountain if you wanted to duplicate this card.

For the Santa, I cut a second "man" in Real Red and one more in Basic Black. Then I just cut the "suit" and added in the mittens and boots. The "fur" is a piece of the hat from the Gingerbread Man dies; I just cut it several times in Basic White and pieced the pieces together to make the fur.

OK, time to get serious again...but I did have fun creating this little guy!

Product List

Gingerbread Man Photopolymer Stamp Set (English)

[169206]

$24.00

Keeping Traditions Photopolymer Stamp Set (English)

[166806]

$20.00

Gingerbread Man Bundle (English)

[165785]

$54.00

Pecan Pie Classic Stampin' Pad

[161665]

$9.00

Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad

[132708]

$8.00

Pool Party 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Two Tone Cardstock

[166691]

$10.00

Pecan Pie 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock

[161717]

$14.00

Real Red 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock

[102482]

$14.00

Basic Black 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock

[121045]

$14.00

Basic White 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock

[159276]

$13.00

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

[119686]

$14.00

Gingerbread Man Dies

[165784]

$36.00

Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machine

[149653]

$140.00

Stampin' Dimensionals

[104430]

$4.25

Monday, October 27, 2025

A Triangle Flap Fold Card for Merry Monday

I had someone ask how to make this card - a Triangle Flap Fold card. I didn't have directions on my old post (from 2023!) so I recreated it using new products:

The card base is Cherry Cobbler, and the designer paper is from the Traditions of Christmas pack of 12" x 12" paper. I'm including some step-by-step photos so you can make one of your own.

Start with a piece of cardstock measuring 5-1/2" x 8-1/2". Score it on the long edge at 4-1/4". Then on the side that will be the front of your card, cut on a diagonal from the top center score line to the bottom, outer corner, as shown. This will create the triangle on the front of the card.

Now take a piece of designer paper, measuring 4" x 5-1/4", and cut it from the top left side to the bottom right corner - this will cover your triangle on the front of the card.

To create the flap, cut your cardstock to 8" x 3", and score at 4".

A little hard to see, but to make the "point" on the flap, I measured 1" from the edge and 1" from the bottom corner up - you'll see little pencil marks on my paper here. Cut each corner off, creating the flap that looks like the photo above this one. Repeat on the other end.

Add a white layer to the inside and outside of the flap.

Now adhere a piece of designer paper to the inside of your card; this piece measures 4" x 5-1/4". (I used the dotted piece from the Traditions of Christmas paper).

Stamp your greeting on the inside of the flap, then adhere it to the inside of the card, matching up the flat, folded edge of flap to the edge of the patterned paper inside.

Fold the front triangle over the inside of the card, then fold the flap over the front:

Add your greeting to the front of the flap (I used the Nested Essentials to cut a tag, and heat-embossed the greeting from Ornamental Christmas in gold, then cut the holly leaves from the Keeping Traditions stamps, popping them up on my label). I embossed the white layer with the Beautiful Pattern embossing folder. Add a few jewels (mine are from the 12 Days of Crafting Advent Calendar). And your card is complete!

I hope you'll give this fun-fold a try!

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