Pals Blog Hop: Season’s Greetings!

Welcome to the Stampin’ Pretty Pals’ Blog Hop! Ready to sprinkle some holiday magic into your crafting this season? This month’s theme, Season’s Greetings, is all about celebrating the joy of handmade creations. The Stampin’ Pretty Pals have come together to share festive cards and paper craft ideas using our favorite Stampin’ Up! products — each project designed to inspire your creativity and help you capture the spirit of the season.

For the November Blog Hop, I came upon this Double Flap Envelope card. A big Thank You to Verna Mullen of StampinNotes.com for this fun fold. Although it may not be new to you, it was new to me, and I really wanted to try it with the lovely holiday designer series papers we have in stock right now at Stampin’ Up!:

It’s an easy and fun layout, and it’s especially easy to choose one set of coordinating DSP to make the whole thing have a very unified look. Here are your instructions:

• Cut a card base from cardstock at 10 3/4″ x 5 1/2.” Score and burnish at 1 1/4,” 5 1/2,” and 9 1/2.” The folds should look like this. One of the small flaps is smaller than the other, so it tucks into itself when you fold it closed.

• Cut two panels of coordinating DSP at 5 1/4″ x 3 3/4.” I used the beautiful Traditions of Christmas, with its lovely gold foil accents. In addition, cut a Basic White panel at 5 1/4″ x 4.”
• Adhere the three panels onto your card base like this:

• Cut two squares of cardstock in the same color as your card base — one at 3 3/4″ x 3 3/4″ and one at 3 1/2″ x 3 1/2.” Cut them in half diagonally so you have two triangles of different sizes. Put the other two triangles away for another day!
• Cut two squares of coordinating DSP (in another different pattern) at 3 1/2″ x 3 1/2″ and 3 1/4″ x 3 1/4.” Cut the squares in half diagonally. Using only one of each size, adhere the two triangles onto the appropriate cardstock triangles.
• Adhere the two triangles onto the two smaller folded flaps, using only 1/4″ or less of the triangle to adhere. Tear n Tape works perfectly — stay to the edge of the triangle with it. The larger triangle should be added first, and then the smaller triangle on the second flap, as these photos show. Watch so the triangles line up as you adhere them to the flaps.

• Cut four strips of another pattern of DSP at 5 1/4″ x 1.” Take your strips and add one to each of the long blank areas, as shown below. They help to cover where the areas come together, and add a nice border to the other two sides.

• Now your card is basically made and looks like this:

• The fun part of decorating your card is next. For the front, I used a tag in Secret Sea cut from the background tag of the “Patterned Tags” Dies, along with a sentiment from the “Greetings for You” Mix and Match Ephemera Pack, some gold-striped 3/8″ ribbon, and three little gold jewels from the 2025 Advent Calendar.

• On the inside, I used another Ephemera greeting mounted on a punched out shape from the Hexagon Punch, and a stamped image on the white cardstock panel from the Joyful Tidings stamp set. Your finished card will look like this on one side:

• And like this on the other side:

• And will fold up to look like this:

I hope today’s project sparked some holiday cheer and crafting inspiration! All the ingredients for this project are listed below the Pals Line-Up. There’s so much more to see — keep the fun going by following the lineup below to visit the rest of the Pals. And be sure to join us next month when we create our own Winter Wonderland!

Stampin’ Pretty Pals Blog Hop

1. Mary Fish at Stampin’ Pretty
2. Tricia Chuba at ButterDish Designs
3. Debbie Mageed at Secrets to Stamping
4. Windy Ellard at Windy’s Wonderful Creations
5. Lisa Ann Bernard at Queen B Creations
6. Stesha Bloodhart at Stampin’ Hoot!
7. Peggy Noe at Pretty Paper Cards
8. Beth McCullough at Stamping Mom
9. Su Mohr at Aromas And Art
10. Rae Burnet at Wild West Paper Arts
11. Sue Jackson at Just Peachy Stamping
12. Mary Hanson at Up North Stampin’

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