Last Week’s Card & Cuppa – Elegant Pine Snowflakes DSP

December 15, 2025December 11, 2025 ~ Karen Young

Last week’s Card & Cuppa class project was this Christmas Card made with pretty DSP.

If you’ve been following me for a while, you’ll know I love a striped project, especially for Christmas Cards.

They are quick and easy to make and are great scrap busters. You can also cut a lot of strips from one pack of DSP.

The most difficult part of creating one of these is deciding the arrangment of the stripes!

I chose to lay my stripes diagonally, but you can place them vertically or horizontally if you’d prefer.

Each stripe is stuck to a hidden background piece of Basic White cardstock. You could use any cardstock or paper for this.

Next, all the overhanging pieces are cut away. You can keep some of these offcuts for future stripe projects. They make good corner pieces.

Then, a sentiment from the Ornamental Christmas Stamp Set is stamped tone-on-tone onto an Old Olive circle. Many seasonal products are now in the Last Chance Products section, so make sure you grab them while you can.

A length of the Black & White & Gold Baker’s Twine is then added to create a swoosh before the sentiment is attached using Dimensionals.

Join me at one of my classes. Head to my Class Timetable for full details.

Happy crafting

Karen Young HIPPOFROG Designs

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Countdown to Christmas 2025 – Week 10

December 6, 2025December 4, 2025 ~ Karen Young

This poinsettia card is the design for Week 10 of my Countdown to Christmas 2025 series. It was also one of the projects from the ‘Special Christmas Cards’ session at my Christmas Card Making Day.

These ‘special’ cards are those you would hand-deliver to the special people in your life. There are extra steps in the designs including additional layers. They are also handed over in an envelope handmade from DSP.

If you’ve been around for a while, you’ll know that my special Christmas cards projects always include a poinsettia. This year is no different!

For this project, stars from the Ornamental Stamp Set are stamped onto the background using Lemon Lolly.

Next, the poinsettia and flower image is stamped twice and cut out using the Christmas Greenery Stamp Set and Dies Bundle. A combination of Real Red, Shaded Spruce, Garden Green, Lemon Lolly are used to colour in the images. The outline is stamped in Basic Gray.

These two images are then stuck to the background using Dimensionals.

Using the Traditional Labels Stamp Set and Dies Bundle, a sentiment is stamped, cut out and layered together.

A length of the fabulous Black & White & Gold Baker’s Twine is looped before the sentiment is attached, again using Dimensionals.

Using Wink of Stella, a touch of sparkle is given to the centres of the flowers.

Some of the items used on this project are now Last Chance Products, and some are discounted too. Don’t miss out on getting your hands on these fabulous items.

Join me at one of my classes. Head to my Class Timetable for full details.

Happy crafting

Karen Young HIPPOFROG Designs

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Countdown to Christmas 2025 – Week 7

November 15, 2025November 13, 2025 ~ Karen Young

This card from my recent Christmas Card Making Day is also the project for Week 7 of my Countdown to Christmas 2025 series.

There were four Christmas Cards to make in the ‘Crack Your Christmas Cards’ morning session, and this is the second of the four.

This design uses a colour combination of Old Olive, Mossy Meadow and Daffodil Delight, with Basic White.

All of the images are from the Ornamental Christmas Stamp Set.

First, the trees are stamped in different generations around the edge in Old Olive, followed by the stars.

A sentiment is then stamped in Mossy Meadow and cut out using a large Circle Punch.

With a length of the Black & White & Gold Baker’s Twine attached to the top of the project, the sentiment is then added with Dimensionals to look like a bauble hanging from a tree.

The Stamp Set, Circle Punch and Baker’s Twine are all from the Online Exclusives range.

Finally, a bunny ears bow is added at the top of the bauble.