IDEAS Blog Hop - December 2025 - We're cut out to be Friends! / Stamping With Melva

IDEAS Blog Hop - December 2025 - We're cut out to be Friends!

Wednesday, 3 December 2025

Welcome to our December IDEAS Tutorial Blog Hop! This month our theme is "We're Cut Out to Be Friends". Our global team is from Australia, Europe, Canada and the United States. Join me to hop to each designers' blog for sneak peeks of our projects. The collage below has a tiny peek of each designers' project!

Our Tutorial has 13 demonstrator designers with over 26+ projects from various countries around the world. The December 2025 IDEAS Tutorial Bundle has detailed instructions, colour photography, and tips. My project is a pretty card featuring the Traditional Christmas Suite. I don't think my card is very "Christmassy" - and shows off how you can use the bundles from Stampin' Up! for different occasions!

Here is a sneak peek of my project in the tutorial.

My project is exclusive to the Tutorial Bundle, so if you want to see it, you have to get your hands on the tutorial.

I have three options for you to get the tutorial:

Place an order via my online store for $45 CDN (before shipping and taxes) using this month's host code. Make sure you allow Stampin' Up! to share your contact details so that I can email the tutorial to you. If your order is over $200 CDN, don't use the Host Code or you will miss out on the Stampin' Rewards. I'll still send you the PDF
Join my Ink and Papers Stampers Team and you'll get the IDEAS Tutorial for free. Definitely a reason to take advantage of the great join offer!
Buy the tutorial for $20 CDN via my Square Store

Here's another project for you featuring products from the Brushed with Beauty Suite from Stampin' Up®. This was an Online Exclusive that released in November and I can't stop playing with it!

Instructions

Cut Crumb Cake cardstock 4 1/4" x 11" and score at 5 1/2". Fold and burnish on scoreline using Bone Folder to form card base.
Cut Designer Series Paper 4" x 5 1/4"
Adhere to card base.
Cut out 2 arches using 3rd largest Everyday Arches Die from 2 patterns of Designer Series Paper.
Adhere to cardbase off set
Cut out "just" using 3 sizes of Dies - largest in Mossy Meadow, middle in Crumb Cake and smallest in Very Vanilla
Cut out "because" using 3 sizes of Dies - largest in Mossy Meadow, middle in Crumb Cake and smallest in Very Vanilla
Adhere the layers of the words together.
Adhere to card base using Dimensionals
Stamp "Its Your Birthday" on Very Vanilla cardstock using Mossy Meadow ink
Cut out using label die
Adhere to cardbase using Dimensionals
Adhere embellishments
Cut Very Vanilla cardstock 4" x 5 1/4"
Cut Designer Series Paper 3/4" x 4"
Adhere to the bottom of the Very Vanilla cardstock
Adhere to the inside of the card.

You can find all of the supplies for this card in my Online Store.

Check out my Youtube Video for tips and tricks to make this card. Don't forget to subscribe to my Stamping with Melva YouTube Channel!

Now it's time to be inspired by all of the Projects in our Blog Hop!

I hope you have been inspired!

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