Mystery Fun Fold: Pillar Card

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Happy New Year! I hope you had a wonderful holiday season and are looking forward to the New Year. I was very quiet during the month of December and felt like I needed a bit of a reset…more on that at the end of the post. While resetting, I cleaned and purged my craft area. So with more space and less “stuff”, I’m ready to get back at it! I thought the perfect post to start 2026 would be to participate in Jeanie Stark’s new year of Mystery Monday Fun Fold challenge. You can get the details for the newest challenge on Jeanie’s blog HERE.

Here’s my version of the Pillar Fun Fold card…

I love a seasonal card so I created a winter card using the SU Nests of Winter Designer Series Paper. I really like this paper. It just gives me a quiet and serene feeling.

Let’s take a look at the rest of the card…this photo shows the “pillar” aspect of the fold.

Here is the back of the card…the sentiment on the front and back of the card is from the Hello Winter stamp set from Jaded Blossom stamp company. Isn’t the font fun?

And lastly, this is how the fold fits in an envelope…

As part of my stamping reset that I mentioned above, I finally came to realization that I have way too much product that remains unused or partially used while still purchasing more that will also remain unused or under used. I know this is not something unique to me and that most of us can say the same. I decided to take this year to use many of these products that I purchased because I like them. In this light, I am no longer going to be a Stampin’ Up! demonstrator. I’m sure there will be some new products that I will just HAVE to have but I’m going to give it my best effort to use what I have. So with this, I hope you’ll still enjoy my posts and perhaps find some inspiration to use some of your own somewhat neglected but still awesome products.

Thanks for joining me today and I wish you a very happy start to this new year!

With warm regards,

Rosanne

Last Chance for Snowy Delights – CC2C

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Welcome to our last cross country trip of 2025. Our trip this month originates in California with Karen Hallam. Karen suggested that we choose a product from Stampin’ Up!’s Last Chance list. The list is fairly long so there was plenty to choose from. Let’s begin with Karen’s beautiful holiday card using the Christmas Greenery Bundle…..

For my card(s), I chose to use a product that is not only on the Last Chance list but one I haven’t used at all yet, the Snowy Delights Dies.

I don’t often make a shaped card and these cards are only as big as the largest snowflake die in the set which makes them pretty cute! The colors are Secret Sea and Cloud Cover along with a white glitter paper for the intricate die.

The sentiment is from a long retired SU stamp set, Good Greetings. Some sets are too good to let go and this is definitely one of those.

And here’s a look inside…

This sentiment is also from a retired SU set, Merry Christmas to All.

If you haven’t been to Karen’s blog HERE, please head over to see all the details on her festive card.

Well that wraps up another year of Creating Coast to Coast. Karen and I look forward to continuing collaborating from across the country in the New Year. Hope you’ll join us!

Take care,

Rosanne

Simple Vintage Christmas Card – #TTTC284

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It’s Tic Tac Toe Thursday and Team X is up. Silke created a fun challenge board that I’m sure will spark your creativity.

I kept it very simple with my card for this challenge. And the reason for that is that I found this wonderful patterned paper that I’ve had sitting on my craft desk for sometime just waiting patiently to be turned into a card.

So when I saw the challenge board and one of the elements was Navy, I knew this would be the card. I chose to go left side diagonally: Holiday Sentiment, Free, Navy.

This card came together so quickly I was almost disappointed that it didn’t require more work. The paper has such a vintage-y feel and I love the blue plaid bow. I would really like to have real ribbon like that. Basically, the only thing I did was glue a piece of Navy cardstock to a Basic Beige card base and then glue the patterned paper to the Navy panel.

The sentiment, from Hero Arts Merry Christmas Messages stamp set, is stamped directly onto the patterned paper in Navy ink. A few Navy embellishments complete the card front.

And here’s a peek inside…the sentiment is also from the same Hero Arts stamp set.

Please check out the other designers’ projects for this week’s Tic Tac Toe Challenge. And I hope you’ll join us by sharing your project with us.

Take care,

Rosanne

Magnolia Flower Pot Holiday Gift Card Holder – CC2C

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It’s time for Creating Coast to Coast with Karen Hallam, in California and myself here in Pennsylvania. This month our creative adventure starts here in PA, where I chose our direction. Given the holidays are quickly approaching, our theme this month is “gift giving”. So a holiday gift card holder seemed like a good idea.

I really enjoy creating unique ways to give either money or gift cards. Today’s card was especially fun to create. I used the retired Good Morning, Magnolia stamp set for the flowers, which were stamped in Versa Mark and heat embossed in gold embossing powder before coloring. The DSP on the flower pot is from the retired Season of Green of Gold DSP. The sentiment is from Hero Arts, More Merry Messages stamp set and is also embossed in gold.

I don’t have a template for the flower pot but I can share a few of the dimensions and how it went together. To create the pot, I cut a piece of Very Vanilla thick card stock at 10″ x 4″ and scored it at 4″ and 8″. This leaves 2″ for the front flap. Fold the 2″ flap forward and the 4″ scored line to the back. This will create the pocket after gluing the sides together. I then cut a piece of DSP to cover the front of the pot. Once that’s done, glue the front flap down. There are many ways to decorate the pot. I chose to add the sentiment to the flap.

And here’s the gift card pocket.

The gift card holder measures 2 1/2″ x 6 3/4″, scored at 4 3/4″. At the score line fold the 2″ piece up and glue the sides. This leaves a pocket for the gift card which will fit in the pocket on the back of the pot. Decorate as you like.

Please be sure to head over to Karen’s blog HERE to check out her holiday project.

Thanks for traveling with us this month.

Take care,

Rosanne