Hi Crafty Friends, Today I am sharing two 5 x 7 Christmas cards using mostly products from Hero Arts Hero Handmade Holiday Workshop 2025. I didn’t get around to playing with anything in this kit last year, as the end of the year wasn’t the greatest for me, ending up in hospital 3 times in 3 months. But I do love anything record related. Earlier this month, Hero Arts released all the products included in this set individually so those who didn’t get it back then could purchase it now. Included in this release are two stamp sets for occasions other than Christmas that can be used with the records. I can’t wait to play with those. 
For the background on this card I pulled out Spellbinders Poppy cardstock & the Music Notes Embossing Folder. I used the Drop the Needle die set to create the record & record player parts. I used two of the sentiments from the Swinging Christmas stamp set to add the record label in the centre of the record. To finish off the front of the card, I added a Christmas sentiment from Waffle Flower Crafts.
For the inside of the card, I added the left over piece of embossed card along the bottom edge. I added a sentiment from the Wishing You stamp set.
 Hi Crafty Friends, Today I am sharing another "Christmas in July Card", recently when I was looking through my Spellbinder Collections I spied the folder that held my Stampendous Hugs die sets (Stampendous is own by Spellbinders). Anyway I could see through the file that there was a Christmas gnome already die cut and assembled, waiting patiently to be used on the card, so I pulled it out to make this card. The die set used here is Stampendous Gnome Hugs. To create the background behind the gnome, I pulled out an older Spellbinders Betterpress Plate called Season's Greetings Evergreens. I used my Betterpress and two different green inks to add the trees to my white panel. I moved the trees slightly up and to the right before inking the second time with my lighter ink. I sponged the top of the white panel with blue inks to create my sky and then splattered it with white paint to resemble snow. The sentiment GNOEL, is from an older Honey Bee Stamps stamp set. I layered this to the middle of a Slimline card, adding embossed green pieces of card to the top and bottom. This was embossed using Made To Surprise's Festive Tartan Embossing Folder and then adding white ink to the raised areas.
For the inside of the card, I added another gnome themed Christmas sentiment from the Honey Bee Stamps stamp set.
I added another green embossed panel to the bottom of my card and added the die cut stocking which I also found in my stash.
Hi Crafty Friends, Welcome to our Karen Burniston Products - KB Riley LLC November Release Blog Hop. The Design Team have come together with Karen today for a fun blog hop to celebrate the release of 10 new dies and 5 new stamp sets. Sneak peeks of the new release started last week, and the dies are available to order NOW!
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This release includes: - 3 new Pop-up Die Sets
- 4 new Add-ons Die Sets
- 2 new Elements Die Sets
- 1 new Paper People Die Set
- 5 new Clear Sentiment Stamp Sets
Dies are available to order now on the website. GIVEAWAY: To celebrate the release Karen Burniston and each of the Karen Burniston - KB Riley LLC Design Team members will be giving away a $25 Gift Certificate to some lucky person who comments on our blog posts, so make sure you join the hop and comment on everyone's blog post. Winners will be randomly chosen from ALL of the blog hop comments received on our blog posts by Thursday 30th July. Lots of chances to win some goodies, so just leave a comment on this post or any other blog hop posts to enter! Don't forget to leave some way for us to contact you, in case you are a lucky winner!  For my card today I decided to use the new Gazebo Stage Add-ons & Little Bench Pop-up die sets along with the Stage Pop-up die set to create this fun Christmas project which can be both a card and an ornament.
To decorate my card, I added Christmas trees on the front using the larger tree in the Winter Charms die set. I also added another tree on the gazebo which is from the Evergreen Pivot Panels Pop-up die set.
Of course I need a Santa, so I pulled out the Gnome & Santa die set for that, adding it just in front of the little bench on the gazebo.
The holly on the. roof is from Fireplace Extras 1 die set, and the Christmas lights on the front are from the Christmas Borders 1 die set.
Here is a look at my card when it is closed ready to be placed in an envelope. I measures approximated 6 1/4 inches x 7 1/2 inches. I am showing it with the stage base under the railing, but you could also fold it so the base is in the centre which will mean it would be 6 1/4 x 5 3/4.
I added a sentiment to the gazebo roof which is from the Christmas Wishes Clear Stamp set. I also added one under the base, which is where you can also write your message, this stamp is from the Season of Cheer Clear Stamp set.
Well that's about it from me today, thank you for dropping by. To continue on the blog hop, click on the next person on the list, which is Jennifer Webster
Hi Crafty Friends, Today I am sharing another Slimline Card I created recently. This one uses Spellbinders large die of the month from May 2026. Unfortunately my All Clubs Crate for May went missing on its way from the USA to Australia ... it never left the USA. I was able to get a refund, but it means I missed out on the kit and the freebies. Anyway, I did end up reordering the large die of the month as I really liked this set. The die set creates a partial soda can, but with a bit of partial die cutting I was able to make a larger can. I used the Press & Foil set from March 2026 to add the Birthday Wishes to the lower left side of the can. I then used the lemon/lime die in the large die of the month to add the limes to cover the remainder of the can. For my background of my card I used the Lemon Fresco Embossing Folder, which is from the Weekender 2025 kit. I embossed on white cardstock and then went over the raised areas using green ink. To finish off the front of the card, I added the straw, lime, umbrella & bird to the top of the soda can.
For the inside of the card, I added another can to the bottom right corner of my card. For the sentiment I pulled out an older Spellbinders stamp/die set called Bubble Over, which worked perfectly with the theme of this card.
 Hi Crafty Friends, Spellbinders July Club Kits normally have a Christmas theme to them to coincide with Christmas in July. This years All Clubs Crate didn't disappoint! My kit arrived last Wednesday, so I wasted no time pulling out all the die sets and assembling all the fun images. 
For my first card using the kits, I used the All Clubs Crate Bonus die set ... Candy Cane Swing. This die set comes with the candy cane which does swing back and forth, the bow, greener, snowman & penguin. I decided to pull out my Made To Surprise 5 x 7 Side Panel Card die set to create a Side Panel Card. I die cut it from white, and then used red and white for the layers. I used the 3D Embossing Folder of the Month ... Festive Greetings to add texture to the white panels. On the side panel on the right, I added a Merry using an older MFT die set called Stacked Merry. I also added two stamped sentiments from the Merry Sentiments Clear Stamp/die set designed by Lisa Horton for Spellbinders. 
I added a panel on the back so I had a place to add an additional sentiment & a place to write a personal greeting. The sentiments used here are from the July 2026 Clear Stamp/Die of the Month ... Cue the Merry.
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