Christmas Cactus Card by Diane Morales

A Christmas Cactus Card for the Holidays!

Here at NND Headquarters the Christmas Cactus is one of our favorite festive flowers and today we are sharing a beautiful holiday card by Diane featuring the beautiful cactus blooms! 

This card features our Christmas Cactus Stamp Set along with our Frames & Flags and Basic Frames die sets. 

For the main floral image she stamped the bundle of blooms from the Christmas Cactus Stamp Set, colored them with alcohol markers and cut the image out using the coordinating Christmas Cactus Die Set. 

The fun scallop shaped card base was created using our using the Frames & Flags Die Set with red cardstock. For the beautiful gold background she stamped the blooms from the Christmas Cactus Die Set onto gold cardstock using clear Versamark ink. Then she added gold embossing powder and heat set. The gold panel was then cut out into the banner shape using the Basic Frames Die Set. So gorgeous!

The final touch is the sentiment, also from the Christmas Cactus Stamp Set. 

What a wonderful way to send some holiday cheer! The addition of the gold gives it the perfect special touch! 

To see more creations by Diane, you can visit on her blog, 2sisters project.

Christmas Cactus Card by Samantha Mann

Christmas Cactus!

Have you thought about making holiday cards yet? It's never too early to start and today we are sharing a Christmas card by Samantha featuring our Christmas Cactus Stamp Set and Lattice Die Set to get the inspiration started!

To create this card Samantha stamped the lovely cactus blooms from our Christmas Cactus Stamp Set multiple times. She colored all the blooms in shades of pink using watercolor markers. She added white highlights with a white gel pen to the petals and cut out all the blooms using the coordinating Christmas Cactus Die Set. 

For her card base she stenciled a white piece of cardstock using a light gray ink with our Tree Rings Stencil. Then she took that panel and cut it out using our Lattice Die Set. What a fun way to give the die cut texture! She stenciled another piece of white cardstock using our Petite Snow Stencil with white texture paste to give a subtle texture. She cut the snowy panel to fit her card front and then layered the die cut lattice over the top. She then layered all those cactus blooms along the right side, overlapping them to create a beautiful edge. 

Last she added the sentiment, stamped and embossed in white onto a black banner. The banner was die cut using our Banner Duo Die Set. She also added a few iridescent sequins around the blooms for a little bit of sparkle. 

What a gorgeous Christmas card! We hope this card gives you inspiration to get a jump start on holiday crafting!

To see more fun cards by Samantha you can visit her over on her blog, Sam' Scrap Candy!

Christmas Cactus Card by Tatiana Trafimovich

Christmas Cactus Card

Today we are sharing a gorgeous floral card by Tatiana that is perfect for celebrating the holidays!

This beautiful card features blooms from one of our favorite holiday flowers, the Christmas cactus! She stamped the images using our Christmas Cactus Stamp Set and coloring them in gorgeous hues of red and green with white gel pen accents. She cut the images out using the coordinating Christmas Cactus Die Set. 

To create her card, she started with a white card front and added dimension by using our Starfield Stencil with texture paste to create a gorgeous tone on tone look. Then she added the cactus images, arranging them onto her card in an angle. She also added a few glittery gems and the sentiment, stamped from our Christmas Cactus Stamp Set. The sentiment was embossed in white onto a black cardstock and she carefully hand cut around it before adding it to her card. 

Do you have a Christmas cactus in your house? We have one at NND headquarters and it's just starting to bloom now! 

We hope you enjoyed this beautiful card by Tatiana today! To see more of her lovely work, you can visit Tatiana at her blog, Tatiana Trafimovich! 

Holiday Reveals Day 2 - Holiday Home & Christmas Cactus

Welcome back to reveal day two for our Holiday Release! Today we have two new stamp sets that feature some of our favorite Christmas traditions, bringing home a Christmas tree and nurturing a Christmas cactus plant! Scroll down for details. Plus, we are having a giveaway today, so make sure you read all the way to the bottom of this post to see how to win!

Holiday Home

This fun 4x6 stamp set features a variety of snowmen, dressed for the holidays! These snowy friends are so cute holding Christmas trees, stockings, wreaths and strings of holiday lights. Create wintery holiday scenes and don't forget to use the little snowflakes to create a snowy sky. Die sets sold separately.

Holiday Home Stamp Set

• 4 x6 photopolymer stamp set
• Includes 10 stamps: 8 images and 2 sentiments
• Coordinating Holiday Home purr-fect die set (sold separately) includes 8 dies
• Available for purchase in our online shop starting Friday, October 15th

Christmas Cactus

This 3x4 stamp set features a gorgeous stem of blooms from a Christmas Cactus plant. This lovely floral image will be so fun to color and is perfect for creating beautiful holiday cards. It also includes two lovely sentiments that are perfect for holiday greetings.

Christmas Cactus Stamp Set

• 3x4 photopolymer stamp set
• Includes 3 stamps: 1 image and 2 sentiments
• Coordinating Christmas Cactus purr-fect die set (sold separately) includes 1 die
• Available for purchase in our online shop starting Friday, October 15th

Get for Holiday Traditions with Projects from our Design Team!

Check out all the awesome projects below from our Design Team below! Then, make sure to click through to all their blogs for details on their cards - you will find a few extra cards on some of the DT blogs and you might even find a fun video or two along the way! Make sure to comment on all the blogs for a chance to win! Details on the giveaway are at the bottom of today's post.

Created by Maria using the new Holiday Home Stamp Set. Additional products used: Land Borders Die Set, Sea Borders Die Set, Snow Globe Scenes Stamp Set, Snow Globe Scenes Die Set

Created by Amanda using the new Christmas Cactus Stamp Set. Additional products used: Snowfall Stencil, Framework Die Set

Created by Samantha using the new Holiday Home Stamp Set. 

Created by Tatiana using the new Christmas Cactus Stamp Set and the Meowy Christmas Paper Pad (shown yesterday on the post: Holiday Reveal Day 1). Additional products used:

Circle Frames Die Set

Created by Samantha using the new Holiday Home Stamp Set. Additional products used: Evergreens Stencil

Created by Zsofia using the new Holiday Home Stamp Set. Additional products used: Slimline Frames & Portholes Die Set, Hills & Grass Stencil

Created by Ellen using the new Christmas Cactus Stamp Set and the Meowy Christmas Paper Pad (shown yesterday on the post: Holiday Reveal Day 1). Additional products used: Frames Squared Die Set

Created by Farhana using the new Holiday Home Stamp Set. Additional products used: Snowfall Stencil, Snow Globe Shaker Die Set

Created by Tina using the new Christmas Cactus Stamp Set and the Meowy Christmas Paper Pad (shown yesterday on the post: Holiday Reveal Day 1). Additional products used: Circle Frames Die Set, Pines & Holly Die Set

Created by Larissa using the new Holiday Home Stamp Set. Additional products used: Heart Frames Die Set

Would you like to win the “Holiday Home" or the "Christmas Cactus" Stamp Set?
We will chose ONE lucky winner for each stamp set! 

Here's how to win: Comment on the NND blog and Design Team blogs (see list below)! The winner will be chosen at random from the collective reveal posts. Make sure to check out each of their blogs and comment for your chance to win. You will not know which blog has been chosen so the more you comment on the better your chances are of winning! You have until Thursday October 14th at 9pm ET to comment  -- winners will be announced on the blog post on Friday, October 15th.  

Check out all the awesome Design Team Blogs below to enter:

Newton's Nook Designs

Ellen Haxelmans

Tina Herbeck

Larissa Heskett

Samantha Mann

Zsofia Molnar

Maria Russell

Farhana Sarker

Tatiana Trafimovich

Samantha VanArnhem

Amanda Wilcox