Mix & Match Joyful Images and Sayings Ephemera

Hello Crafting Friends! It's been a long time since I have blogged! Summer kept me so busy and frankly, I've been in a bit of a funk. I so miss my mom and her sweet smile! I got involved in my quilting this year after taking a very long hiatus. I spent a lot of days each week this summer enhancing my quilting skills by learning English Paper piecing, Wool embroidery and now crayon colored embroidery. I've missed sharing with you what I've been making in my stamping studio. So I'm back making lots of Holiday cards!

I went through another thumb surgery on 10/30 due to a reoccurrence of a tumor of the tendon sheath. I'm crossing all my fingers that this darn thing doesn't come back! If you had a chance to catch my Facebook Live unboxing of my November Online Exclusives purchases, you will see the big bandage - lol!

Last week's Facebook Live, I shared making some easy Christmas cards using the Mix & Match Joyful Images Ephemera Pack, the Joyful Sayings Ephemera Pack and the Gold Dipped Mix & Match Cards & Envelopes.

If you need some easy crafting time to get a lot of cards completed for Christmas - this may be just the products to help you get there! These products are on pages 14 - 15 in the 2025 September - December Mini Catalog. Pages 16 - 17 of the catalog have filled with card ideas, of which I used many of them. There are also some fabulous card templates to apply to your inspirational ideas!

Here are the 3 cards I created on Friday, one in each of the beautiful Gold Dimmed cards in Real Red, Night of Navy, and Garden Green. For these 3 cards, I used the entire card which is beautifully colored and edged in gold foil on the front and back of the cards! The matching envelopes are so pretty too! You get 9 card bases and 9 envelopes - so 3 green, 3 red and 3 blue.

For the green card, I used the sweet cabin and some greenery from the Joyful Images Ephemera pack. I used the lovely Let It Snow sentiment banner from the Joyful Sayings Ephemera pack. I added some Drusy Adhesive-Backed Embellishments to add some glittery bling! Got to have bling! There are so many images and sayings in these packs. You will get 2 each of 4 sheets of images and the same for the sayings. Plenty to decorate lots of cards!

For the red card, I used the cute bell cluster and the lovely foiled Happy Holidays. The big, bold foiled words compliment the gold foiled edges of the card so beautifully!

For the blue card, I used the tree border and the cute snowman! I so love snowmen! I backed the sentiment with an additional blue strip provided in the Joyful Sayings pack to help the sentiment to stand out a little more against the white card base.

I spent some time over the weekend and finished another 16 cards and 8 tags! I split the remaining 6 card fronts into 12 by cutting down the center of the score line. Six of the card fronts I trimmed to 5 1/2" x 4 1/4" to fill the entire card front. I then trimmed down the remaining 6 card fronts to 5 1/4" x 4" to leave a border around them. Once I trimmed all the cards down, I had 6 envelopes left. The cards and envelopes measure 6 1/4" x 4 1/4" so my 5 1/2" x 4 1/4" cards were dwarfed in these envelopes. So guess what, I cut down 3 envelopes one of each color and made 3 more cards! I still have 3 more envelopes left, but I'm thinking of getting another set of the cards, so maybe I won't cut them down once I cut in half and I can make some cards to fit the envelopes - lol!

Here are photos of the cards I made with what was trimmed to 5 1/2" x 4 1/4".

I spent a little time cutting up some additional greenery using the Sentimental Wishes Dies (tiny leaves), Winterly Tree Tops Dies (evergreen spings) from the Festive 12" x 12" Glimmer Paper (Cherry Cobbler, Garden Green and Granny Apple Green), and the white glimmer paper from the Berry Burst, Old Olive & White 12" x 12" Glimmer Specialty Paper. I even cut some wonderful trees using the Peaceful Evergreens dies with some of the Season of Elegance 12" x 12" Specialty Designer Series Paper.

Here are the 6 cards I made from cutting down the half card fronts to 5 1/4" x 4" and mounted them to Real Red, Garden Green and Night of Navy cardstock.

I added some additional fun by adding some ribbon to some of the cards - Cherry Cobbler & Gold 1/4" Satin Ribbon on the Noel card, green twine from the Natural Tones Linen Thread on the reindeer card, and Wild Wheat 3/8" Rustic Striped Ribbon on the Christmas tree card. I even designed a couple of cards to use the fun tags from the Tags for the Season Mix & Match Ephemera Pack - the reindeer and the Christmas Tree cards.

Here is a card that I made just using a tag with some images and a saying and embellished with the Real Red & White Baker's Twine. I love the tags - they are so colorful and make a great backdrop for images and words to embellish!

I don't know about you - but I am always searching for gift tags when I am wrapping presents! Here are the 6 remaining tags I made! I used the Gold & Silver 1/8" Trim Combo Pack for the ties on some of the tags. These tiny width ribbons are perfect for tags and add that extra special glitz!

After all of these, I only used 1 sheet each of the images, sayings and tags. That leaves a lot to create more! If I just duplicate what I made here, I would end up with 36 cards and 16 tags and all I need to purchase more of is the Gold Dipped cards and envelopes. I had so much fun creating all of these and sharing with you! I would love to hear from you what is your favorite! So please leave a comment on this post!

I hope you have enjoyed some inspiration on how to make some quick and easy cards and tags for the upcoming holidays! I hope that you are able to spend some quality time in your crafting space to get your holiday creating on!

I look forward to sharing more inspiration with you next week!

Don't forget to join me on Facebook Live on Friday's from 12pm - 1pm (MT)! Click here to go to my business page and follow me there! You should receive a notification when my next live is scheduled! I'll be showing you how to make this cute card from the Dear Santa Cling Stamp Set.