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Heirloom Frames Sending A Letter To Santa

by Joanne James23. October 2026 19:56

Happy Friday everyone! I had a lunch date cancelled today as my friend was poorly and since it has rained pretty much all day (again!), I retreated to my craft room for a couple of hours this afternoon and made a card inspired by a few challenges:

52 Christmas Card Throwdown are looking for cards featuring Christmas mailboxes, so I grabbed the sketch at Sunday Stamps (I mirrored it on the vertical as I needed my sentiment on the other side) and took red, black and paper piecing as my choices from the Festive Friday list and set to work. Take a look at what I came up with:

Here's the low-down on today's card:

I decided to use my Stamping Bella Bundle Girl 'Letter To Santa' stamp for my card, framing the postbox with an embossed frame using the retired oval Heirloom Frames embossing folder and then cutting out the centre of the panel using a retired oval framelit. I stamped the image a second time on white cardstock and coloured and fussy cut both the robin and the little girl, popping them up on dimensionals outside the frame to complete the scene. I stamped the girl a third time onto a scrap of Tis The Season retired plaid DSP and then fussy cut and paper-pieced her coat and hat with it. I finished my card with a silver foiled sentiment from the Magical Christmas Foil Dies (I snipped it in two to fit my card better):

I really love the effect of the embossed frame and it makes for a different way to use this stamp too.

Enjoy your evening - I'm settling in for this week's second instalment of The Traitors! I'll be back tomorrow with another project. Until then, happy stampin'!

Stampin' Up! Supplies Used:

MAGICAL CHRISTMAS HOT FOIL DIES (ENGLISH) (£37.00)

SILVER OPAL STAMPIN' HOT FOIL ROLLS (£11.25)

UK/IE STAMPIN' HOT FOIL SYSTEM & CRAFT CLASS (£149.00)

REAL RED A4 CARDSTOCK (£14.00)

BASIC WHITE A4 CARDSTOCK (£14.00)

BASIC BLACK HYBRID STAMPIN' PAD (£11.25)

Table built using Product Table Builder by The Crafty Owl - Independent Stampin' Up! Demonstrator.

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Comments (6) -

Deb Horst

10/25/2026 11:42:30 AM #

What an adorable image...so very cute!! Thanks for playing along with our sketch challenge by Laurie over at Sunday Stamps!! You rocked this sketch with your little girl with her snail mail!!
Deb Horst, DT #SSC397

Amy Koenders

10/25/2026 8:29:02 PM #

Oh my goodness, how cute!! Love the paper piecing! Thanks for joining us at Sunday Stamps, hope to see you again soon!

Valentina B

10/25/2026 8:51:41 PM #

Joanne, what an adorable and lovely Christmas scene with the little girl and a mailbox.
I love the idea with paper piecing it was one of the technique that I wanted to learn when I discovered this lovely world of cardmaking and is still one of my favourites. You wonderfuly created your desing and I really love it! Thank you for playing along with our theme challenge at 52CCT. Valentina DT
P.s.: Thank you for letting us know about the problems with the Inlinkz.

Claire Broadwater

10/27/2026 6:32:31 PM #

This is the cutest card!! I love all the red! The embossing if fantastic. Her little plaid coat is precious! So happy you joined us at Sunday Stamps!

Jan Clothier

10/29/2026 6:14:51 AM #

What a super scene! I didn't get these frames because they seemed a little nanna-ish to me, but certainly not in your hands they aren't! I really like the way her scarf trails right out of the frame of the card, as if she's just stepped in from somewhere else.

Helen Jennings

11/4/2026 10:20:59 PM #

What an adorable card. I love the little girl's paper pieced plaid coat. Thank you for linking to the Festive Friday Challenge.

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