Linda Tolson Designs

Greetings my stamping friends. Today I am sharing a project with you that has been percolating in my mind for many months using the Holly Jolly Bundle of products from the July 2025 Online Exclusives release.

This bundle includes a photopolymer stamp set which has words that can be used to build a verse, i.e. “Have A holly & jolly Christmas,” or as stand-alone verses (meaning all the words you need are all on one stamp); an embossing folder of holly leaves as well as a die that will fit inside of the embossing folder (making it a “hybrid” embossing folder) that then cuts out some of the portions of the holly leaves; and finally the remainder of the die set cuts out many of the stamped images and the word “joy.”

Here is my card that I made and I will explain what I did after I have provided the list of supplies I used:

Here are the Stampin’ Up! products that I used in the design of this card:

Jolly Holly Bundle (English)

[166120]

$54.00

Mossy Meadow 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Two Tone Cardstock

[166685]

$10.00

Basic White 8 1/2" X 11" Thick Cardstock

[159229]

$17.00

Basic White 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock

[166780]

$14.00

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

[102482]

$14.00

Rhinestone Basic Jewels

[144220]

$6.00

Real Red Stampin' Blends Combo Pack

[154899]

$11.00

Baker's Twine Essentials Pack

[155475]

$11.00

Mini Stampin' Dimensionals

[144108]

$4.25

Multipurpose Liquid Glue

[110755]

$6.00

I used the thick Basic White card stock for my card base cut to 5.5″ x 8.50″, scored in half at 4.25″. The card is a top fold layout, meaning when opened the card will flip upwards.

The piece of Mossy Meadow is cut to the size of the embossing folder, and you emboss and die cut at the same time. Due to the thickness of the folder, be sure to use the appropriate plates (the base plate and the gray plate #4). Then carefully trim your piece of MM down so that it is approximately 4.25″ x 5.25″.

Flip the piece of MM to back side up and everywhere a holly leaf was cut, attach a mini dimensional to add “lift” to the panel once it is attached to the card front. Be sure to also remove the paper backing from the dimensional at that time.

One you have applied all necessary dimensionals and have removed the paper backs, apply liquid glue lightly around edges and the inside flat areas so that those places will stick flat to the card front. Don’t use too much glue as you don’t want it to ooze all over your card. Carefully attach the MM piece to the front of the card base and press the flat areas adequately to make sure that the glue catches.

You will use the two rectangular dies from the set to cut the Real Red piece and the Basic White piece. If you want to conserve paper, you can even cut the word “joy” from the Real Red rectangle as long as you do not get too close to the edge since it is covered by the Basic White piece. All three of these pieces are just attached to each other with liquid glue.

I used the White Baker’s Twine from the Basics pack and just looped around my hand and attached to the back of the joy piece with the edge pieces of dimensionals. I didn’t like the “loops,” so I decided to just snip them and now have fringe.

The double holly leaf is a die from the set. I used a scoring tool to add veins. It was most likely to be used to cut out the stamped image, but I wasn’t in the mood for that at the time.

The joy piece is attached to the card front using dimensionals.

Count the number of berries on the front of your card front and then color an equivalent number of the smallest size of the Rhinestone Basic Jewels using the BULLET end of your Real Red Stampin’ Blends (Dark). If you use the brush end, it will fray. The ink should dry quickly since it is alcohol based. Apply your colored Rhinestones to the berries on your holly leaves.

I think that covers everything I did on this card. If I missed anything or there is something that is not clear, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Thank you for stopping by today. I hope you leave here inspired to put stamps to ink to paper (or maybe just some paper and dies together).

Until next time, stamp on my friends.

Linda