Start with a Kit

Do you need a card for a specific occasion? Are you getting to craft at another location and you don’t want to pack your entire craft room? Start with a kit.

This weekend we had a 2-day craft hang-out at our church. You could bring whatever you were working on and come and go as you liked from 9am-9pm Friday and Saturday.

I was planning to work on cards. I didn’t have a specific plan and know exactly what products I would need. So, I started with a kit. Pack a kit with some coordiating cardstock and embellishments and see what you can create.

Of course the kits are amazing and gorgeous if you follow the detailed instructions to create the projects exactly as designed. But maybe you want to stretch your creative muscles and try something new.

Just start with a kit.

White card with pink smaller rectangle layer on top. On top of the pink rectangle is a sentiment label stamped with "Merry Christmas" n teal. With teal and white branches sticking out from behind the label. Decorated with pink and white dots.

Card Details

Do you need to create a card but you don’t know where to start? I want to help turn your crafting strehttps://www.stampinup.com/products/pretty-in-pink-8-1-2-x-11-cardstock?demoid=2169750ss into success. Start with a kit.

Photos of all 3 card designs from the Cozy & Bright kit with diecut trees, ornaments, branches in shades of teal, pink, and white.

This card started with the Calm & Bright Kit. The only thing I added to the kit was a piece of Pretty in Pink cardstock. Everything else I took from the kit.

The FMS713 sketch inspired the design and pieces from this kit were perfect to create something appropriate for the challenge.

Start with the card base from the kit.
Then, add a 3″ x 4″ piece of Pretty In Pink Cardstock
Next, choose a sentiment from the kit’s stamp set and stamp in the color of the ink spot included on a label from the kit.
Next, add the pre-punched branches from the kit
Finally, add the pink and white embellishments from the kit

White card with teal cardstock strip on left side of paper Light brown diamond shape in center of card with tree dies in shades of pink, teal, and white. Sentiment label with scallops across bottom says, "sending joy."

Here is another alternate card created with the Calm & Bright Card Kit with the addition of Lost Lagoon and Crumb Cake Cardstock.

*The Calm & Bright Card kit is currently out of stock.

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40% off
- Stampin’ Blends
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- Ink bundles
25% off
- Select adhesive
15% off
- Select cardstock

From December 1–9, prepaid Paper Pumpkin subscriptions will be discounted as follows:

3-month prepaid: $61.00 (regular price $81.00)
6-month prepaid: $122.00 (regular price $162.00)
12-month prepaid: $244.00 (regular price $324.00)

Whichever subscription you choose, it will begin with the Watercolor in Bloom Kit. This kit cannot be skipped. Following the December kit, you may skip months you do not want to receive. The Paper Pumpkin subscription must be purchased between 8:00am MT, December 1 and 11:59pm MT, December 9. This would make a great gift for yourself, but also for someone else on your Christmas list.