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Holiday Jumpstart: Very Very MERRY

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Hello and Happy New Year to all! It’s time for the first Holiday Jumpstart of 2026!

Holiday Jumpstart: Very Very MERRY is Paper Anthology’s newest holiday card kit, which features a retro-inspired greeting in traditional colors, plus lots of sweet floral touches.

Paper Anthology’s Holiday Jumpstart Card Kit is our pre-packaged kit that includes everything you need (except adhesive) to complete FIVE copies of this new original holiday card design. This edition is called “Very Very MERRY” because of the oversized sentiment.

We all love the IDEA of making holiday cards throughout the year, instead being overloaded in November and December; but sometimes it’s hard to be inspired during the “off-season”. That issue is solved by this pre-packaged kit, which features everything you need (except adhesive) to complete five copies of this original design. Also included are complete written instructions (not pictured, but included!) and a nice big photo for reference.

This kit contains:

Five panels of white textured cardstock wrapped with Poinsettia Washi
Five sets of red and green rectangles
Five sets of pre-diecut letters to spell “Merry”
Five green metallic “Christmas” sentiments
Five large and five small green metallic diecut holly leaves
Fifteen small pinkish red diecut flowers
Ten small and ten large pale green diecut sprigs
Fifteen small smooth scarlet sequins
Five white A2 cards

CLICK HERE to visit the “Very Very MERRY” page in the Paper Anthology Etsy Shop!

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NEW Holiday Jumpstart: Dressed to Chill

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Holiday Jumpstart: Dressed to Chill is Paper Anthology’s newest holiday card kit, which features an adorable diecut snowman, waving a happy holiday hello from the North Pole.

Paper Anthology’s Holiday Jumpstart Card Kit is our pre-packaged kit that includes everything you need (except adhesive) to complete FIVE copies of this new original holiday card design. This edition is called “Dressed to Chill” because the star of the show is a sartorial snowman, strutting his stuff.

Don’t we all adore the IDEA of making holiday cards throughout the year, instead being overloaded in November and December? But sometimes it’s hard to be inspired during the “off-season”. This pre-packaged kit features everything you need (except adhesive) to complete five adorable, colorful super-cool cards; including complete written instructions (not pictured, but included!) and a nice big photo for reference.

This kit contains:

Five sheet music panels
Five snowy postage-edged background panel pieces
Five handsome snowmen
Five sets of arms, cheeks, carrot noses and black backers for snowmen
Five sets of snowman clothing: 2-piece scarves and 3-piece hats
Five 3-piece North Poles (bases, stripes and caps)
Five green sentiment flags
Five white sentiment flag backers
Fifteen diecut snowflakes
Enough silver star sequins to adorn five cards
Complete step-by-step instruction sheet with large color photo
Five glossy white A2 cards

Visit the Dressed to Chill page in the Paper Anthology Design Etsy Shop today to get your kit!

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Holiday Jumpstart: Red, White & Yule

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Holiday Jumpstart: Red, White & Yule is Paper Anthology’s newest holiday card kit, which features a dynamic geometric background, plus sweet simple holiday diecuts in traditional shades. It’s now available in our Paper Anthology Design Etsy Shop.

Paper Anthology’s Holiday Jumpstart Card Kit is our pre-packaged kit that includes everything you need (except adhesive) to complete FIVE copies of this new original holiday card design. This edition is called “Red, White & Yule ” based on the card’s color palette and it’s release date of Independence Day weekend.

Don’t we all adore the IDEA of making holiday cards throughout the year, instead being overloaded in November and December? But sometimes it’s hard to be inspired during the “off-season”. This pre-packaged kit features everything you need (except adhesive) to complete five bold, beautiful, colorful cards; including complete written instructions (not pictured, but included!) and a nice big photo for reference.

This kit contains:

Five sheet music panels
Five stripey triangle background pieces
Five dotty triangle background pieces
Five red-embossed musical circles
Five green circle mats
Five green plaid trees
Five pre-diecut red geometric poinsettias
Five small circles to back poinsettias
Five stripey poinsettia leaves
Five small red hearts
Five pre-diecut “Merry” sentiments
Complete step-by-step instruction sheet with large color photo
Five white topfold A2 cards

Purchase Holiday Jumpstart: Red, White and Yule in the Paper Anthology Design Etsy Shop today; and check out all of the other fab kits while you’re there!

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Holiday Jumpstart: Joy to All Card Making Kit (with Stamps!)

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Holiday Jumpstart: Joy to All Card Making Kit (with Stamps!) is Paper Anthology’s newest holiday card kit, which features (and includes!) Lawn Fawn’s adorable “Joy to All” stamp set, featuring twenty-nine high quality photopolymer stamps. Use them to complete the five cards in the kit… then keep using them in your own designs for years to come.

Paper Anthology’s Holiday Jumpstart Card Kit is our pre-packaged kit that includes everything you need (except ink and adhesive) to complete FIVE copies of this new original holiday card design. This edition is called “Joy to All” based on the super-cute stamp set included in the kit.

Don’t we all adore the IDEA of making holiday cards throughout the year, instead being overloaded in November and December? But sometimes it’s hard to be inspired during the “off-season”. This pre-packaged kit features everything you need (except ink and adhesive) to complete five adorable Christmas morning scenes in card form. Kit includes complete written instructions (not pictured, but included!) and a nice big photo for reference.

This kit contains:

Lawn Fawn’s “Joy to All” stamp set
Five pre-diecut white woodgrain frames
Five red cherry background panels
Five festive plaid “wallpaper” panels
Five woodgrain “floor” pieces
Five tiny pre-diecut brown woodgrain frames
Five tiny pre-stamped Santa images to color
One 4.25 x 11″ heavy cardstock panel for stamping characters and presents
One 3 x 3.75″ white panel for stamping sentiments
Five red cherry mats for sentiments
Small piece of tan cardstock for stamping puppies
Panels of green, red and woodgrain for paper-piecing trees
Five pre-punched stars
Enough bauble, peppermint and heart pieces for five trees
Complete step-by-step instruction sheet with large color photo
Five white side-fold A2 cards

Visit the Paper Anthology Design Etsy Shop to purchase the Holiday Jumpstart: Joy to All Kit and check out the other Holiday, Birthday and Thank You Jumpstarts; plus three-card Class in a Kits and lots more!

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Holiday Jumpstart: XL Very Merry Shaker Card Making Kit

CLICK HERE to visit the Holiday Jumpstart: XL Very Merry Christmas  page in our Etsy Shop, Paper Anthology Design

Holiday Jumpstart: XL Very Merry Shaker Card Making Kit is Paper Anthology’s newest holiday card kit, this one is a little different: instead of five A2 cards (4.25 x 5.5″ each); you’ll make FOUR almost A7 sized SHAKER cards (5 x 6.25″ each). Appropriate envelopes are included.

Paper Anthology’s Holiday Jumpstart Card Kit is our pre-packaged kit that includes everything you need (except adhesive) to complete multiple copies (in this case FOUR) of a new original holiday card design. This edition is called “XL Very Merry Shaker Card” based on the card’s beautiful diecut coverplate sentiment AND it’s larger-than-usual card size.

Don’t we all adore the IDEA of making holiday cards throughout the year, instead being overloaded in November and December? But sometimes it’s hard to be inspired during the “off-season”. This pre-packaged kit features everything you need (except adhesive) to complete four beautiful, streamlined, wordart shaker cards, including complete written instructions (not pictured, but included!) and a nice big photo for reference.

This kit contains:

Four pre-diecut patterned paper coverplate sentiment panels
Four clear acetate liners
Four deep blue cardstock backing panels
Enough custom-blended sequin mix for four shaker cards
Complete step-by-step instruction sheet with large color photo
Four silver shimmer A7 cards
Four A7 envelopes

Purchase Holiday Jumpstart: XL Very Merry Shaker Card Making Kit in our Etsy Shop, Paper Anthology Design; and check out our other Jumpstart Kits (including Thank You and Birthday themes) as well as three-card class kits and more!

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NEW Holiday Jumpstart: TREE-mendous!

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Holiday Jumpstart: TREE-mendous is Paper Anthology’s newest holiday card kit, which features a gorgeously intricate, three-layer Classic Christmas Tree, pre-diecut for you; plus all of the elements needed to make the featured card as shown.

Paper Anthology’s Holiday Jumpstart Card Kit is our pre-packaged kit that includes everything you need (except adhesive) to complete FIVE copies of this new original holiday card design. This edition is called “TREE-mendous” based on the card’s lovely focal point and festive background.

Don’t we all adore the IDEA of making holiday cards throughout the year, instead being overloaded in November and December? But sometimes it’s hard to be inspired during the “off-season”. This pre-packaged kit features everything you need (except adhesive) to complete five beautiful, detailed and colorful cards, including card bases, complete written instructions (not pictured, but included!) and a nice big photo for reference.

This kit contains:
Five background panels with scalloped corners
Five red curvy backdrops
Five solid green tree layers
Five tan tree trunk pieces
Five sets of three-part foliage
Five banner sentiments
Five banner backers
Twenty-five baubles
Five white A2 cards
Complete written instructions with large color photo

Purchase Holiday Jumpstart: TREE-mendous in our Etsy Shop, Paper Anthology Design; and check out our other Jumpstart Kits as well as three-card class kits and more!

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Hanukkah Jumpstart (New Card Kit)

CLICK HERE to visit the Hanukkah Jumpstart page in the Paper Anthology Design Etsy Shop

Hanukkah Jumpstart is our newest holiday card kit, available only from our Etsy Shop, Paper Anthology Design. This elegant card features the beautiful Menorah from Taylored Expressions’ Bright Hanukkah Stamp Set, gold embossed for you on white cardstock; with candles, flames and a sentiment added before being diecut into a neat oval that’s ready to mat on the navy blue ovals included. There are five white A2 gatefold cardbases, with an embossed belly band made of gold shimmer cardstock for each; as well as panels which have been pressure embossed with Sunny Studio’s Moroccan Circles Embossing Folder.

Paper Anthology’s Holiday Jumpstart Card Kit is our pre-packaged kit that includes everything you need (except adhesive) to complete FIVE copies of this new original holiday card design. This edition is called “Hanukkah Jumpstart” for obvious reasons.

Don’t we all adore the IDEA of making holiday cards throughout the year, instead being overloaded in November and December? But sometimes it’s hard to be inspired during the “off-season”. This pre-packaged kit features everything you need (except adhesive) to complete five beautiful, elegant Hanukkah cards, including complete written instructions and a nice big photo for reference.

This kit contains:

Five pre-stamped & gold embossed oval Menorah focal points
Five navy oval mats
Five pre-stamped Stars of David
Five embossed gold shimmer cardstock belly bands
Five sky blue embossed panels
Complete step-by-step instruction sheet with large color photo
Five white gatefold-fold A2 cards

Get your copy today, ONLY in the Paper Anthology Design Etsy Shop; then be sure to check out our other Holiday and Birthday Jumpstarts, plus our multi-card Class in a Kit selections.

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NEW Holiday Jumpstart: Christmas Roses

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Holiday Jumpstart: Christmas Roses, now available in the Paper Anthology Design Etsy Shop, is our newest holiday card kit, which features Hero Arts’ Christmas Roses white embossed for you on white cardstock; as well as pressure embossed Floral Vines panels; and a sleek “Happy Holidays” sentiment that’s been diecut from gold cardstock. Five different color recipes using Ranger Distress Oxide shades have been provided or choose your own favorite ink combinations.

Paper Anthology’s Holiday Jumpstart Card Kits are our pre-packaged kits that include everything you need (except adhesive and blendable inks) to complete FIVE copies of an original holiday card design. This edition is called “Christmas Roses” based on the card’s beautiful blooms. Available only in the Get your copy of Holiday Jumpstart Card Kit: Christmas Roses, only available in the Paper Anthology Etsy Shop. While you’re there, check out our other kits for holidays, birthdays and occasions!

Don’t we all adore the IDEA of making holiday cards throughout the year, instead being overloaded in November and December? But sometimes it’s hard to be inspired during the “off-season”. This pre-packaged kit features everything you need (except adhesive and blendable inks) to complete five beautiful, detailed and colorful cards, including complete written instructions (not pictured, but included!) five unique color recipes and a nice big photo showing all five colorways for reference.

This kit contains:

Five pre-stamped and white embossed Christmas Roses panels
Five pressure embossed Floral Vines panels
Five pre-diecut gold cardstock Happy Holidays sentiments
Five gold glitter cardstock panels
Fifteen golden half-pearl accents
Complete step-by-step instruction sheet with large color photo
Accent pictures showing detail of color blends and cutting
Five different color recipes using Ranger Distress Oxide or Distress Ink shades
Five white top-fold A2 cards

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NEW Halloween Kit: Happy Haunting

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With Halloween on it’s way, we’ve put the focus on hocus pocus! It’s not just WITCH-ful thinking, our newest Class in a Kit, Happy Haunting, really is creepy, kooky, mysterious and spooky; not to mention cute as can be, and thus these cards are suitable for sending to boys and ghouls of all ages. The designs are built around some of our favorite seasonal stamps and dies from Impression Obsession, Lawn Fawn, Hero Arts and more; but here’s the best part: ALL of the diecuts have been pre-cut for you; and all of the sentiments pre-stamped! You get to skip right to the FUN parts: arranging, assembling and attaching all the elements into some of the fastest (and cutest!) Halloween cards ever.

This kit has everything you need… (except adhesives and optional ink for edging) including LOTS of googley eyes! …to create all three A2 cards as pictured, as well as step-by-step instructions and a nice big color photo to help with placement. It’s all treats and no tricks. Click THIS LINK (or the text under the photo above; or ANY of the bolded text in this post!) to go directly to the Happy Haunting product page in our Etsy Shop, Paper Anthology Design.

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New Holiday Jumpstart: Simply Joy

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Get a jumpstart on your holidays with this brand new Holiday Jumpstart Kit – containing everything you need to make five Simply Joy cards – Just add adhesive! Click THIS LINK to go directly to the product page in our Etsy Shop, Paper Anthology Design.

Holiday Jumpstart Simply Joy is a Paper Anthology holiday card kit, which features the beautiful Spellbinders die set “Joy”.

Paper Anthology’s Holiday Jumpstart Card Kit is our pre-packaged kit that includes everything you need (except adhesive) to complete FIVE copies of this new original holiday card design. This edition is called “Simply Joy”.

Don’t we all adore the IDEA of making holiday cards throughout the year, instead being overloaded in November and December? But sometimes it’s hard to be inspired during the “off-season”. Here’s a self-paced option that works entirely on your schedule, with all the “boring parts” done for you.

This pre-packaged kit features everything you need (except adhesive) to complete five beautiful, detailed and colorful cards, including complete written instructions and a nice big photo for reference.

This kit contains:

Five kraft card bases
5 gingham patterned paper panels
5 green metallic die cuts
20 red metallic die cut flowers
20 gold self adhesive dots
a bunch of glitter dots (125)
5 sets of gold glitter foam letters
Complete step-by-step instruction sheet with large color photo

Visit the Paper Anthology Design Etsy Shop to see all of the currently available Holiday Jumpstarts, Birthday Jumpstarts, Class in a Kit selections and more; including Simply Joy!