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Elegant Blue, White and Gold Nativity Christmas Card Idea

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There’s something so peaceful about a blue, white and gold Christmas card — calm, classic, and timeless. This week, I wanted to capture that feeling in a handmade design that celebrates the true meaning of Christmas — the Nativity. 💙🤍

Dies were provided by Amazing Paper Grace for today’s creation.

The Inspiration

When I think of Christmas, I always come back to that serene image of the Nativity — quiet, simple, and full of light. I decided to create a card that reflected that sense of peace using cool winter blues, crisp white, and a touch of gold shimmer and sparkle. The result is an elegant, spiritual design that feels both traditional and modern.

💡 How I Made It:

This simply elegant card has been created using just three die sets. Two die sets were designed to work together to create a stunning nativity scene that can be used to create a 3D vignette or just add dimension and depth to a simple card base. Here I have created a nativity vignette using a combination of gold ombre card and white card and then used foam tape for dimension before adding it to the coordinating background frame. Add some pearl poinsettias, sparkly leaves and pearl accents on a embossed vellum background and you have a very elegant Christmas card. 💙💙

Share the Joy

If you love Nativity-themed cards or elegant blue and white designs, I’d love to know! 💬
Tell me in the comments — what colours are you using for your Christmas cards this year?

And don’t forget to pin this project for later!

✂️ Supplies I Used:

Amazing Paper Grace Products Used:

S6-159 Grand Christmas Lattice Arch

S4-1006 Nativity Layering Set

S4-1239 Holiday Label Motif

SES-046 Holly Flourish Embossing Folder

Other Products:

Craft Perfect Ombre Pastels Cardstock

Spellbinders Essentials Cardstock – Glacier

Craft Perfect Pure White Vellum

Neenah Classic Crest Solar White Cardstock 110 Ib

House of Paper White Cardstock – 300 gsm

Spellbinders Treasure Trove Cardstock – Gold

Altenew Pearl Dots – Ivory

Pink Fresh Studio Gems – Clear with Gold Dust

Foam strips, squares

Bearly Art Glue

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👻 m. Halloween Ghost Shaker Card – “Boo!” Card Tutorial

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Looking for a fun and spooky Halloween card idea? This adorable ghost shaker card is the perfect mix of cute and creepy! 🎃 This Halloween shaker card is quick, fun, and easy to personalize. Mix and match Amazing Paper Grace die sets to change the mood and theme easily to suit the image you use.

I love how the shaker element adds that playful hocus pocus rattle — perfect for sending a bit of Halloween cheer (and maybe a little scare 😉).

Have you made your Halloween cards yet? Drop a 👻 in the comments if you’re feeling spooky too!

Dies were provided by Amazing Paper Grace for today’s creation.

💡 How I Made It:

I started by colouring the ghostly image with Copic markers and then cut the image to create the base of the shaker element. The shaker element is the star of the card — I die cut a frame out of white cardstock, added an ombre purple/blue glittery shadow before adding a clear acetate layer to the back of the frame. I filled this with some hocus pocus Halloween shaker mixes before sealing it up with foam tape onto the coloured image.

I finished it off with a fun Halloween sentiment and embellished with autumn leaves and a pumpkin as well as a sparkly spider web complete with dangling spiders.

This ghost shaker card is packed with Halloween fun, dimension and layers, and a playful “Boo!” sentiment — perfect for sending a little Halloween cheer.

👻 Why You’ll Love This Card:

So if you’re looking for DIY Halloween card inspiration, grab your supplies and make your own ghost shaker card today. It’s a frightfully fun project that’s sure to make anyone smile!

🧡 Happy Halloween and happy crafting! 🎃

✂️ Supplies I Used:

Amazing Paper Grace Dies:

S5-308 Hemstitch Rectangles

S5-519 Fall Label Motif

S3-405 Spooky Boo

Other Products Used:

Neenah Classic Crest Solar White Cardstock – 110 Ib

Craft Perfect Ombre Cardstock

Spellinders Essentials Cardstock – Rainforest, Peridot, Persimmon, Onyx

Distress Oxide Inks – Mowed Lawn, Spiced Marmalade, Carved Pumpkin, Frayed Burlap

Clear Acetate

Foam Tape

Kit and Clowder Ghost Image Bonus Class August/September

Copic Markers

Bearly Art Glue

Stickles – Crystal

Silver Gel Pen

Pretty Pink Posh Shaker Mix – Hocus Pocus Mix, Spooky Glass Beads

Glossy Accents

🧡 Happy Haunting and Happy Crafting! 🎃

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Please Vote For Me

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🏆 Vote for Me! Card of the Month Competition 🎨✨

I’m thrilled to share that my handmade card has been selected for this month’s Card of the Month Competition! 💌 It’s been so much fun creating this piece, and I’m incredibly proud of how it turned out — full of love, color, and creativity.

Now I need your help to make it to the top! 🌟

Every vote counts, and your support means the world to me. If you’ve enjoyed my work or just want to spread a little crafty kindness, please take a moment to vote for my card.

👉 https://creativescrapbooker.ca/card-of-the-month-October-2025/#/bracket/5687280/?didComeFromBracketView=true

Thank you so much for cheering me on — whether you’ve liked, shared, or voted, you’re part of what makes this creative community so amazing. 💖

Let’s make this card a winner! 🥳✂️

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Elegant Blue & White Birthday Card Design

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💙✨Blue and white never looked this elegant 💙✨

A blue and white decorative lacy birthday card with accents of silver featuring pretty lemon and white daisies with soft green leaves is always a classic and timeless look. Add an elegant “Happy Birthday” die in the center surrounded by a soft pastel background and gentle shadows for depth completes the overall aesthetic which is refined, feminine, and sophisticated.

Create elegant backgrounds to your cards with just three dies. Use one die for the background by trimming the dies in half to create the corners for the base. Add the remaining trimmed dies to the second layer and with some pretty accents with a medallion die and then add the third layer with a statement die that highlights the birthday sentiment. Amazing Paper Grace dies work so well together to create an infinite range of designs.

And we must not forget the layered daisy flowers that add the feminine touch! These daisies are incredibly easy to create quickly and can be coloured so many different combinations to suit all designs.

And of course any card made using Amazing Paper Grace dies has to have pearls to complete the card.

Dies were provided by Amazing Paper Grace for today’s creations.

Amazing Paper Grace Dies Used:

S4-1193 Layered Daisies Etched Dies

S5-479 Daisy Delight Garden Shutters A2 Card Base Etched Dies

S6-183 Butterfly Bliss Garden Shutters 5×7 Card Base Etched Dies

S4-1164 A2 Filigree Marquis Etched Dies

S5-415 Ornamental Valance Etched Dies

S4-991 Brillante Rondelle Etched Dies

S5-440 Celebration Scene Etched Dies

S4-982 Cinch and Go IV Flowers Etched Dies

Other Products Used:

Neenah Classic Crest Solar White – 110 Ib cardstock

Neenah Classic Crest Solar White – 80 Ib cardstock

Spellbinders Colorwheel Cardstock – Rainforest, Breeze,

Rajni Chawla’s Flowerite Vellum

Spellbinders Treasured Cardstock – Silver

Pearls

Foam tape, squares

Bearly Art Glue

Prills – Lemon Chiffon

Altenew Fresh Dye Inks – Oolong Tea, Matcha Tea

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Merry and Bright Christmas Card with Amazing Paper Grace

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I have another Christmas card to share with you today and this time I have mixed and matched different white and cream cardstock to create a card with so many different layers and textures using Amazing Paper Grace products. There is a hint of pearl card, pearlescent vellum, glitter card and mirror card to highlight the different layers and dies and to finish the card I have added some matte metallic gold card accents and gold pearls to bring this design together. And to keep to the festive occasion I have added a lovely Christmas embossed layer behind the decorative die cuts.

Pro tip – I should have added some acetate behind the top sentiment die and added it to the front with some more foam strips for more dimension and depth to the Christmas scene.

Dies were provided by Amazing Paper Grace for today’s creations.

Products Used:

Die of the Month July 2020 – Fanfare Elegant Rectangles

S4-1005 Reindeer Prance Layering Set

SES-046 Holly Flourish Embossing Folder

S4-960 Cinch and Go Poinsettia

Other Products Used:

Jamie Rodgers Pearl Card – Ice Gold

White Mirror Card

Spellbinders Treasured Cardstock Gold – Matte Gold

Spellbinders Treasured Cardstock White – Glitter

Pink Fresh Studio Gold Pearls

Bearly Art Glue

Foam Strips

Foam Squares

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Hey Boo Halloween with Amazing Paper Grace

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I can’t get over how fast this year has gone and it won’t be long until it is Christmas – eek!! However, there is Halloween to get through first and today I have a Halloween card to share with you featuring dies from the Amazing Paper Grace Halloween Add-ons collection by Becca Feeken paired with the Amazing Paper Grace Die of the Month July 2021 Pop up 3D Vignette Home Sweet Home. This card is totally outside my comfort zone with the dark colours and the ink blended background but I must say that I am pleased this card came together very well. I love the pop of yellow in the windows and door and the sparkly silver accents really pop with the spooky background. And isn’t the cat just the cutest!!

Dies were provided by Amazing Paper Grace for today’s creations.

Amazing Paper Grace Dies Used:

S3-405 Spooky Boo Etched Dies

S4-1071 Spooky Cottage Etched Dies

Die of the Month July 2021 – Pop up 3D Vignette Home Sweet Home

Other Products Used:

Spellbinders Essentials Cardstock – Royal Amethyst, Onyx, Purple Blossom, Chamomile, Purple mist

Spellbinders Treasured Cardstock – Silver Assorted Pack – Glitter Metallic, Brushed Metallic

Hammermill Cardstock

House of Paper White Cardstock 300 gsm

Pink Fresh Studio Silver Cardstock

Distress Oxide inks – Black Soot, Hickory Smoke, Villanous Potion, Shaded Lilac, Salvaged Patina

Spellbinders White Splatter

Distress Spritz – Weathered Wood

Black faceted gems from stash

Bearly Art Glue

Foam Squares

Stickles – Diamond

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Card of the Month – Please Vote For Me!

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I am excited to announce that my beautiful Christmas card has been selected to go in the Creative Scrapbooker Magazine October Card of the Month competition. I would love for you to vote for me and share the link to help me win. Here is the link: https://creativescrapbooker.ca/card-of-the-month-october-2025/. Thank you so much for supporting me in my creative journey. Wishing you all a wonderful day.

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‘Tis the Season with Amazing Paper Grace

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I was asked recently to make some New Zealand Christmas themed Christmas cards and I thought it would be a great opportunity to use the Amazing Paper Grace Graceful Borders – Graceful Frame Maker Etched Die to create a frame for this cute kiwi on a beach scene. I was really happy with how this card turned out. And I love the cute Santa kiwi too!

Dies were provided by Amazing Paper Grace for today’s creations.

My Project

I am so amazed at the ingenuity of this die to create so many different frame combinations and for this card I have used the Amazing Paper Grace Graceful Borders – Graceful Fans Etched Dies to make a fan border for the image. I have also used the Amazing Paper Grace Classic Fluted Square Etched Dies to complete the frame. I have added some poinsettias and foliage from the Amazing Paper Grace Die of the Month November 2020 Pop up 3D Vignette Poinsettia Sleigh Etched Dies and the I have mounted the foiled sentiment from the Amazing Paper Grace Die of the Month November 2020 Pop up 3D Vignette Poinsettia Sleigh Etched Dies on the banner from the Amazing Paper Grace Vintage Pierced Banners Etched Dies. To finish the card I have added some sparkle on the sea and the flowers using some Diamond Stickles and to the hat with Stickles Frosted Lace and some gold pearls to the corners and flower centres.

You can see how this die works in this video that Becca Feeken has made here:

Amazing Paper Grace Products used:

S4-1151 Fluted Classics Squares Etched Dies

Die of the Month November 2020 Pop up 3D Vignette Poinsettia Sleigh Etched Dies

S4-820 Vintage Pierced Banners Etched Dies

S6-112 Graceful Borders – Graceful Frame Maker Etched Die

S4-703 Graceful Borders – Graceful Fans Etched Dies

Other Products:

Heartfelt Creations Luxe Gold Cardstock

Spellbinders Essentials Cardstock – Snowdrift, Rainforest

Creative Expressions Foundation Cardstock – Ruby Red

House of Paper White Cardstock 300 gsm

Hammermill White Cardstock

Free NZ Kiwi image from Facebook

Neenah Classic Crest Solar White – 110 Ib cardstock

Neenah Classic Crest Solar White – 80 Ib cardstock

Foam Tape

Bearly Art Glue

My Sweet Petunia Precision Glue Press

Stickles – Diamond

Spellbinders Hot Foil – Opal

PFS gold pearls

Lisa Horton Crafts Cloud 9 inks – Very Berry, Festive Fir

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Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas with Amazing Paper Grace

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One of my favourite papercraft techniques is hot foiling and I do it a lot – particularly for sentiments. I have purchased a Better Press machine but I tend to use the plates for hot foiling instead. Amazing Paper Grace has the most beautiful and elegant hot foil plates and today I have used the Amazing Paper Grace Merry Filigree Quatrefoil Hot Foil Plate as a base for my Christmas card. I have used non-traditional colours for my card and I love the how the colour combination of pink, gold and green work with the pops of traditional red berries.

Dies were provided by Amazing Paper Grace for today’s creations.

Amazing Paper Grace Products used:

GLP-123 Merry Filigree Quatrefoil Hot Foil Plate 

S4-1239 Holiday Label Motif Etched Dies

S4-928 Hemstitch Circle Etched Dies

Other Products:

Spellbinders Colorwheel Cardstock – Rainforest

Spellbinders Essentials Cardstock – Peridot, Fern, Pink Sand, Wild Berry

Creative Expressions Foundation Cardstock – Raspberry

Gina K Designs Cardstock – Chocolate Truffle

Neenah Classic Crest Solar White – 110 Ib cardstock

Lawn Fawn Mirror Gold Cardstock

Spellbinders Foil – Aura

Distress ink – Kitsch Flamingo, Mowed Lawn

Pink Fresh Studio Gems – Ballet Slippers

Waffle Flower Adhesive Strips

Glossy Accents

Bearly Art Glue

My Sweet Petunia Precision Glue Press

Foam Tape

Foam Squares

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Amazing Paper Grace Christmas Poinsettia

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It is scarily close to Christmas now and I have another Christmas card to share with you using the Amazing Paper Grace Oval Coronet Etched Dies as a beautiful frame for a pretty poinsettia image I found on Facebook. I have used vellum for the insert to add texture but still allow the image to show through. I have added some embellishments around the frame (listed below) and a fabulous full silver bow to finish off the card. I love the clean simplicity of this card and the red poinsettia really pops through the white and silver accents of the card.

Dies were provided by Amazing Paper Grace for today’s creations.

Amazing Paper Grace Products Used:

S4-1051 Oval Coronet Etched Dies

S4-926 Tags Etched Dies

S4-1243 Merry Flourish Etched Dies

SES-046 Holly Flourish Embossing Folder

S5-462 Silent Night Make A Scene Etched Dies

Other Products:

House of Cards White Cardstock 300 gsm

Heartfelt Creations Luxe Silver Cardstock

Craft Perfect White Vellum

AI poinsettia image from Facebook

Pearls from stash

Silver satin ribbon

Bearly Art Glue

My Sweet Petunia Precision Glue Press

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