Tamara's Paper Trail: 2025

Wednesday, November 26, 2025

Make 4 cards in about half an hour! MCM Layout Nov 24, 2025

Happy Wednesday! Well ... hopefully for YOU ... I'm sick as a dog so not particularly happy but ...

Did you get a chance to watch MCM this week? As often happens, I was running behind and needed a quick layout. I rummaged through my Tickle Trunk of cards and found one of my favourites for quick, easy mass-producable ones. The perfect beauty of this is that it works with absolutely ANY of our Designer Papers. ANY! Cut it to 3" x 3" (so you get 4 cards out of a 6" x 6" piece of DSP), mat it, add a sentiment and DONE! As always, you can "step it up but adding layers and/or texture. Easy as 1, 2, 3 ... as shown here ...

1. BASIC! No embossing and minimal embellishing ...

2. Emboss the 3 3/4" x 5" layer ...

3. Add die cuts ...

These are the four cards I made Monday night ... all "medium" level ...

Traditions of Christmas paper, Long Time No See Sentiment and Traditional Wreath 3D Embossing Folder and Traditional Sparkling Sequins ...

Instead of embossing the back layer for this one, I used more DSP ... Wildly Flowering. The sentiment is from the new Banner Sayings Bundle (set & punch) and Charming Shimmer Faceted Dots ...

Elegant Pine Snowflakes DSP, sentiment from the Kit "Calm & Bright" and the Traditional Wreath 3D Embossing Folder ...

... and finally Cute as Can Bee paper (and scrapbook sticker) and Bee My Valentine set ...

SO crazy quick and easy ... yet so lovely! ANY paper ... ANY sentiment - DONE!

If you want to make some cards using this layout, use this "recipe" for the pieces you need to prep ...

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

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

Long Time No See Photopolymer Stamp Set (English)

[166189]

$28.00

Banner Sayings Bundle (English)

[167051]

$54.00

Calm & Bright Kit (English)

[166461]

$36.00

Bee My Valentine Photopolymer Stamp Set (English)

[162547]

$29.00

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

[165853]

$23.00

Wildly Flowering 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Designer Series Paper

[163323]

$17.00

Elegant Pine Snowflakes 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Designer Series Paper

[166066]

$17.00

Cute As Can Bee 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Designer Series Paper & Sticker Sheet (English)

[166618]

$23.25

Christmas Greenery Dies

[165872]

$49.00

Basic White 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock

[159276]

$18.00

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

[102482]

$20.00

Old Olive 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock

[100702]

$20.00

Secret Sea 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock

[165624]

$20.00

Granny Apple Green 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock

[146990]

$20.00

Petunia Pop 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock

[163801]

$20.00

Old Olive Classic Stampin' Pad

[147090]

$12.25

Misty Moonlight Classic Stampin' Pad

[153118]

$12.25

Secret Sea Classic Stampin' Pad

[165285]

$12.25

Traditional Wreath 3 D Embossing Folder

[165874]

$15.00

Traditional Sparkling Sequins

[165875]

$11.00

Charming Shimmer Faceted Dots

[166139]

$11.75

Baker's Twine Essentials Pack

[155475]

$15.00

Linen Thread

[104199]

$7.00

Multipurpose Liquid Glue

[110755]

$8.25

Stampin' Dimensionals

[104430]

$6.00

Stampin' Seal

[152813]

$11.00

Bone Folder

[102300]

$11.00

Take Your Pick

[144107]

$16.50

Paper Trimmer

[152392]

$39.00

Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machine

[149653]

$191.00

Sunday, November 23, 2025

Make 3 Cards in Half an Hour - MCM Layout Nov 17, 2025

*** Edited - nope - didn't get this done Thursday - it's now Sunday! lol

Happy Thursday! (... assuming I FINISH this post before the end of the day! lol). It's been a crazy week with Alicia out of town, Becca out every night and Craig doing a 2 days prep and "sit around and wait" for some medical tests. Today is another busy one with doctor appointment for me (gotta get that blood pressure down!), visiting Dad and a *little* Black Friday shopping! So let's get to it ...

This weeks MCM is a fun one. You can make just ONE card ... or ... by chopping THREE pieces of DSP at the same time, you can make three cards with the Cut, Stack, Shuffle idea. Here are the cards we made .

This batch was made with the Kintsugi Inspirations paper and sentiment from Pattern of Friendship (which apparently is now retired!).

With Pastels not being my "go to" colour family I really had to stretch myself on this one, but the die cuts from the Wildflower Birthday DSP helped immensely! The Pattern of Friendship sentiment was used again.

These two are the "basic" layout, using just one piece of DSP and maintaining the pattern. Make sure you watch the video replay below to get the cuts right! The one on the right uses Beautiful Gallery DSP and the sentiment is from the NEW bundle Friendly Foliage ...

At the end of the "show" I showed you these two cards, using the Jolly Holly Hybrid Embossing Folder. The one on the left uses the All Season Velvet paper that I have finally started playing with. It adds some GREAT texture and interest to your projects!