DIY Holiday Cards

If you make handmade holiday cards, we have just the thing for you! Try our variety packs. They have so many great coordinating papers and embellishments. We used the cheery holiday variety pack for these cards.



These cards come together in a snap! We cut some of our favorite patterns 5.5" x 8.5" and fold them in half for the card base. Then, added a few little pieces of paper and topped them off with some embellishments.







We hope you're have a wonderful December and holiday season!

DIY Gift Tags

Hopefully all your shopping is done and you are now busy wrapping your gifts! If you need something to dress up your packages a bit, try a special oversized tag.

We made these tags with the Holiday Cheer perforated sheet and mounted it on a larger paper cut into a tag shape. The accents are ribbons and buttons.

Check back tomorrow for more wrapping ideas!

DIY Gift Bows with Velvet or Scrapbook Paper

Hey there! It's holiday time! Are you ready? We are mostly done shopping here. But, now comes the job of wrapping up all the gifts.

When you have pretty wrapping supplies, this can be one of the most fun parts. If you want a DIY option, we have a fun and simple idea for you. Make your own gift bows! These are great because you can use any kind of paper and make the bow coordinate perfectly with your wrapping.

We even made you a fun little video to show you exactly how to do it! It's really simple. Just cut 3/4" wide strips of paper 4", 10", 11" & 12", loop as shown, and glue them together. Voila!



For our video, we used velvet paper. The texture is soft and rich, perfect for the holidays. You have to see it in real life to fully appreciate it.

The awesome part is wrapping supplies, including velvet paper, tag sheets & holiday paper is on sale this week! Check it out here.

DIY Holiday House & Trees

It's amazing what you can do with scrapbook paper! We created this cute little holiday house and trees with just paper and scissors. If you're on a budget this year, snag one of our variety packs and see what you can create.

To create the trees, cut square pieces of paper of different sizes and follow these instructions. It looks complicated at first. But, it's really quite simple.

We made the cute little house template ourselves. It's our little Christmas gift to you. Download it free by saving the image provided below. Enjoy!

Craft Dyed Wooden Christmas Trees

As promised, we have more holiday decor projects on the way! Today we have a simple idea that can be colored to match your decor. These also make great neighbor gifts.

First, cut some simple triangles out of scrap wood. Next, apply our tumble dye in whatever colors (or glitter) you'd like. This video shows how. Last, use the end of a pencil or paint brush to add dots of acrylic craft paint for "ornaments". We kept it simple with white dots. But, you can do any color.

They look so cute grouped in varying sizes. More diy holiday decor ideas coming soon!

Gold Holiday Decor Project

Freshen up your holiday decor with a few new handmade items, like these hoop art pieces. These are so simple to make with our dyes and iron-ons. Plus, the hoop art kits are on sale!

We used SEI's hoop art kit, tea tumble dye, gold glitter tumble dye, and a metallic iron-on sheet to create these pretty holiday decorations.

For the "joy" hoop art, we cut the word "joy" out on sticker paper and attached it to the fabric provided in the hoop art kit. Then, we sprayed it with our tea and gold glitter tumble dye. The finishing touch was the snowflake and circles cut out of the metallic iron-on sheet.

For the pinecone hoop art, we made snowflake and pinecone stencils out of paper and layered splashes of tea and gold tumble dye. The final layer on those was pine boughs cut from the metallic sheet.

Free Christmas Countdown with $10 Purchase

December is coming fast. So, we want to make sure you are ready to start your Christmas countdown and decorating. If you spend over $10 on our website between now and Thursday, you will receive this free Christmas countdown.

Simply slide the countdown sheet into this magnetic plastic cover. Then, you or your little ones can use a dry erase marker to cross of each day. You can reuse it year after year!

We also have some great deals going on for holiday iron-ons and decorating kits. Check it out here.

Make Your Own "Be Bright" Holiday Shirt

You can make your own holiday shirt with our iron-on transfers! They are so fun and easy to use. For this design, we used our pretty glitter alphabet to spell "BE".

Then, we cut Christmas lights out of our solid red and green sheets for the "bright" part. The iron-on sheets are so versatile. Cut any shape you can imagine! We love to use our cutting machine with these.

If you want to do something like this custom shirt or maybe design your own ugly sweater for an upcoming party, you're in luck! The holiday iron-ons, including the glitter letters and solid red and green are 50% off this week. Just to sweeten the deal, we are also giving away a free 12x12 inch magnetic sleeve and countdown with purchases of $10 or more.

Hop over to our website and check it out. :)

Origami Wreath Embellishment or Ornament

The holidays can be expensive. But, it's amazing what you can do with a little bit of inexpensive scrapbook paper. For these projects, we used the Cheery Holiday pack, which is on sale for just $10 this week.

We ran across this little origami wreath tutorial on-line and fell in love. Just imagine the possibilities! Add it to a card or scrapbook layout for a dynamic embellishment.

Of course we had to make an ornament too. They are so fun to make. Give it a try!

We haven't heard from you for a while. So, we'd like to know if you've started your holiday crafting yet? What ideas would you like to see this season?

Christmas Cards

We know, we know! Christmas products are hitting the shelves before some of us are ready. You may want to enjoy the season of Thanksgiving before moving on to thinking about gifting. However, if you are a card-maker you know holiday cards take time and the earlier you get started, the better! So, we're here to help those early crafters today.

Here are three simple card ideas. This card kit will be available on our website soon. But, if you can't wait, we have several other holiday card kits on sale this week!

Little 3-D touches make all the difference! These little gems our some of our most favorite embellishments to use, especially for the holidays.

We also used gems on the wreath to add dimension and sparkle. But, we think it's the ribbon that makes this card even so pretty.

For this last card, we cropped the poinsettia paper to create an interesting background. So, we only needed a few more accents to make it complete.

Are you ready to start your holiday crafting now or are you going to wait until Thanksgiving is over to think about it?

Inexpensive Last-Minute Gifts using Scrapbook Paper

If it just hit you that Christmas is less than 2 weeks away, don't fret! We have a couple of simple, inexpensive gift ideas for you. It's amazing how thoughtfulness and scrapbook paper can make a little gift extra special!



These paper mugs would be perfect for classmates, neighbors, teachers, coworkers, or friends. We used the Club SEI cutting file to cut the mug shape out of Sweet Yule paper. Then, we just added some yummy cocoa and a candy cane!



If you happen to know a nature-lover or bird-watcher, sprinkle some bird seed into a bag and top it off with some scrapbook paper and die-cuts. This concept is great for people with all kinds of different interests, think golf balls, sewing supplies, fishing lures, flower seeds... The possibilities are endless!

Simple Holiday Card Ideas with Scalloped Edges

It's not too late to send out holiday cards! So grab your favorite scrapbook paper and get creating.

We used our new Sweet Yule papers for these pretty cards. One of our favorite details are the scalloped edges. This was so easy to do with the scalloped mats that come in our December scrapbooking kit. Just fold them in half, add die-cuts, and gems!

If you are done with your holiday cards, you could make some extra and tie them up to give to someone else. What a great gift idea for someone who likes to give cards!

Here's one more scalloped card. This one is a little bit bigger for someone special. Have you ever considered giving a thank you card as part of your Christmas gift? I did this for my parents once and they loved it!

We hope our scalloped card ideas have inspired you to create some cards of your own!

DIY Holiday Snowman Apron

This apron was so fun to make! It would be a great family activity or simple gift idea. All you really need is an apron and iron-on sheets. We even sell patterns sheets, that would be cool too! Check out the video:

Christmas Gifting Ideas Using Scrapbook Supplies

The Jolly Jingle collection is so much fun! You can make the most cheerful cards with this line. But, today, we wanted to show you some other ideas too.

Have you ever thought of using scrapbook supplies to decorate your gifts? Quickly sew together some scraps of papers or die-cuts and wrap them around your gift box for unique twist on the usual ribbon wrap. For this box, we used shapes cut from the paper using the cutting file, available to Club SEI members.

We also used the cutting file to make some gift cards. They are 4x4 inches each, perfect for adding to a gift bag. Add adhesive gems for more dimension.

What about making your own bow using scrapbook paper? We made a simple bow with strips of paper for this tissue box. Here's another way to arrange the strips for a bigger bow. The tag is from the Club SEI click-n-print.

Learn more and sign up for Club SEI here.

Christmas Cards with Gold Metallic Accents

IIf you have some last-minute holiday cards to make, ​grab your December Club SEI Scrapbooking Kit. Just because the kit is designed for making scrapbook pages doesn't mean you can't use the supplies to make cards, tags or other holiday crafts.

I fell in love with the metallics and gold foil details featured in the design of these papers and embellishments. To further bring out the metallic accents for my cards, I picked up a stack of pre-folded gold-edged cards from Michaels. I simply cut the patterned paper to fit the size of each card front, then decorated with stickers and baubles. Using dimensional adhesive (foam squares) further makes the designs "pop." I can't wait to give these elegant cards to my family this year!

Happy Holidays,
Stephanie

Repurposed Door Knobs Holiday Decor

Hi, Connie here with a really fun project, especially if you have some old door knobs laying around. I found that the Glimmering Boughs Collection was just what I needed to create these adorable Christmas Trees.

See what I mean~so cute!!! The supplies that you will need are, the vintage door knob, Glimmering Boughs/holiday wishes sheet, Yuletide Greetings Sundries and the Bright paper doilies by Sei. Instructions~ #1. Fussy cut the Evergreen Tree found on Holiday Wishes sheet. #2. Glue the gold snowflakes to the tree (found in the Yuletide Greetings Sundries Pack). #3. Add the pearls and star to the die cut tree.

#4. Stuff a small piece of Styrofoam in the door knob hole. #5. Add a long pin to the back of the trees. Stick the pin in the Styrofoam. After the Holidays, pull the pin tree out and the tree is ready to pack for next year.

Very fun project and made so easy with the Sei products!!
Thanks for stopping by~
Connie