Tamara's Paper Trail

Tuesday, October 21, 2025

Quick, Easy Card Layout in Minutes - MCM Layout Oct 20, 2025

Happy Tuesday! It's all-systems-go around here today, as I need to prep for my BOGO Event, happening tomorrow night! Yes, every time SU offers Free Shipping I piggy back onto that and GIVE you my free retired stuff when you place an order of the same value through my store. Order new, get retired for free! ... and, if your order of new stuff is over $100 Canadians, the shipping is free - whoot! Stack those deals, Friends! Canadians, head to my FB page here Wed, Oct 22nd at 6:30 pm MT to snag the stuff!

But I digress ....

Last night I taught you a quick, cute card layout. SO simple, but impactful! As usual, I like the designer paper to do all the heavy lifting. You don't need a lot of supplies, so great for beginner card makers or mass producing. If you want it "fancier", add more layers, texture and/or embellishments/die cuts. It's very versatile! Check them out ...

This one is the "easiest" with the fewest steps/techniques/product. I used the Traditions of Christmas paper and Peace on Earth sentiment and die cuts. The large circle is from Spotlight on Nature (easily my most used dies in my 20 years with Stampin' Up! A MUST have!).

This one uses more products and techniques. I heat embossed in gold for the die cuts and sentiment, which is from Traditional Labels. The paper is from Modern Christmas.

These ones are fun! ... and the "yay" is from a stamp set not yet available to the public - Eat Cake. Coming out Nov 4, 2025.

This ones uses Woven Textiles DSP and the Soft Waves embossing folder. The boat and retirement sentiment are from Sunrise Sailing bundle.

This one uses Beautiful Gallery paper ...

They really are quick and easy to make. Keep it simple or jazz it up - depends on how much time and product you have on your hands. Wanna make one? Here is the "recipe" of the pieces you need to prep ...

... and here is the Mystery Card Monday (MCM) Facebook Live replay, showing you how to cut the papers and put all the pieces together ...

So that's it for this week. If you would like to join me LIVE for my MCM (Mystery Card Monday) sessions, you can catch me on my FaceBook Page here at 7:00 pm Mountain Time every Monday ... or on my YouTube Channel here at the same time (I stream live to both). Like and Follow my FB Page and/or Subscribe to my YouTube Channel. I'd love to have you - the live community is AMAZING and so much fun!

If you live in Canada and would like to purchase any of the items I used for my cards, just click any of the pictures below and you will be taken to my Stampin' Up! online store. Thank you! I appreciate your support!

Stay amazing!

Tamara

Product List

Peace On Earth Bundle (English)

[165925]

$53.00

Sunrise Sailing Bundle (English)

[165497]

$69.25

Traditional Labels Bundle (English)

[165865]

$59.25

Spotlight On Nature Dies

[163580]

$48.00

Traditions Of Christmas 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Specialty Designer Series Paper

[165853]

$23.00

Beautiful Gallery 6" X 6" (15.2 X 15.2 Cm) Designer Series Paper

[165196]

$17.00

Woven Textures 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Designer Series Paper

[165560]

$17.00

Modern Christmas 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Specialty Designer Series Paper

[165990]

$23.00

Gold Foil Sheets

[132622]

$7.00

Basic White 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock

[166780]

$20.00

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

[102482]

$15.75

Secret Sea 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock

[165624]

$20.00

Basic Beige 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock

[164511]

$20.00

Crumb Cake 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock

[120953]

$15.75

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

[121045]

$15.75

Real Red Classic Stampin' Pad

[147084]

$12.25

Secret Sea Classic Stampin' Pad

[165285]

$12.25

Pecan Pie Classic Stampin' Pad

[161665]

$12.25

Early Espresso Classic Stampin' Pad

[147114]

$12.25

Versamark Pad

[102283]

$13.00

Metallics Wow! Embossing Powder

[165678]

$29.00

Sunflower 3 D Embossing Folder

[166145]

$16.50

Soft Waves 3 D Embossing Folder

[164695]

$15.00

Eyelet 3D Embossing Folder

[163414]

$13.75

Black & White & Gold Baker's Twine

[166005]

$11.75

Traditional Sparkling Sequins

[165875]

$11.00

Streaked Dots

[165902]

$12.25

Stampin' Seal

[152813]

$11.00

Bone Folder

[102300]

$11.00

Heat Tool (Us And Canada)

[129053]

$44.00

Paper Trimmer

[152392]

$39.00

Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machine

[149653]

$191.00

Wednesday, October 8, 2025

Basic Card Layout - MCM Layout Oct 7, 2025

Happy Wednesday, Friends! I hope you're having a great week! I'm plugging along, trying to get caught up post-Extravaganza and birthday celebrations for mini-me, who turned 20 on Sunday (!!!). I was exhausted after the weekend so my MCM project HAD to be quick and easy. Nailed it! I turned to page 14 of the Sept-Dec 2025 mini catalogue for a card sketch layout to inspire me. This is what I came up with ....

REALLY quick and easy. Of course, as always, you can fancy it up or keep it clean and simple. This one uses the Beautiful Gallery paper and the sentiment is from our new All Inclusive Kit, Handmade & Heartfelt. It's a GREAT stamp set!

This one is the same layout, just a different position of the focal layer ...

For this one I used the Kintsugi paper and stamp set. I did use the designer paper for the top focal layer, as I found it too "busy". I added die cut images instead.