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Sneak Peek Day 4

Penny here! Welcome to Day 4 of our December Release Countdown — the final day of sneak peeks!


And today we’re wrapping up our sneak peeks with designs that celebrate home, heart, and meaningful connections. These final reveals are all about creating projects that feel personal, comforting, and full of warmth, perfect for cards that truly come from the heart. 🤍🏡✨

 

Home Is Where the Heart Is Sentiments Mini Stamp Set & Dies

This heartfelt mini sentiment set is designed to help you share messages of love, belonging, and togetherness. With a mix of thoughtful phrases and elegant fonts, these sentiments are perfect for housewarming cards, family-themed projects, and everyday encouragement. The coordinating dies make it easy to add clean, polished focal sentiments to cards, tags, and layered designs.

 

Designer’s Free Space

Today’s Free Space highlights how beautifully our designers mix and match favorites from across the December Release. From cozy home scenes to soft, heartfelt sentiments, these projects showcase the versatility of the new products when combined in fresh and creative ways. It’s the perfect place to find inspiration for making your cards feel uniquely yours. ✨

 

Below, you’ll find beautiful inspiration from our design team, filled with warmth, creativity, and thoughtful details. Be sure to scroll through and let us know which project or product speaks to you most, we love hearing what inspires you!

 

And don’t forget, our new release goes live on Tuesday, December 30th at 12PM ET.

Set your reminders now!

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It’s easy! Scroll through the sneak peeks and leave a comment at the bottom telling us which project is your favorite.

Home Is Where the Heart Is Sentiments Mini Stamp Set & Dies

Featured design by Melissa

Melissa Phillips

SUPPLIES

STAMPS:  Home is Where the Heart Is
INK:  Olive Twist, Pure Poppy, Pale Peony, Ripe Avocado, Simply Chartreuse, Aqua Mist
PAPER:  Mint Julep, Stamper’s Select White, Sweet Blush, Bitty Big Soft Stone, Classic Kraft
DIES:  Love to Layer:  Playful Scallops, Home is Where the Heart Is, Love to Layer:  Polished Points, Rounded Rectangles:  Pierced
OTHER:  sequins, Fired Brick, Saltwater Taffy, and Fossilized Amber Distress Spritz, white paint, Crystal Stickles Glitter, adhesive gems

TIPS: 

  • Color your die cut pieces using Distress Spritz instead of ink to add extra shimmer and shine.  I’ve used Saltwater Taffy to color my tiny home.
  • Add dimension to each layer by using foam adhesive.  This builds layer upon layer and really makes your focal point pop!
Seeka

Betty Wright

Bobbi Lemanski

Brenda Noelke
Liane Hodges

Renée Bergeron

Designer's Free Space

Melissa Phillips

Betty Wright

Bobbi Lemanski

Brenda Noelke

Nina Brackett

And that’s a wrap on Day 4 of our December Sneak Peeks! We hope today’s cozy designs and heartfelt details sparked ideas for creating projects filled with warmth and meaning. 🏠✨ Take a moment to scroll through the beautiful designer projects above and let us know which one caught your eye, we always love hearing what inspires you!

 

Tomorrow is release day! 🎉 Our December Release goes live Tuesday at 12PM ET, and the full collection is almost here.

 

Set your reminders, gather your supplies, and get ready to create, the countdown is nearly complete! 🎄💫

 

Click HERE to see our December 2025 Release Winners page!

Winners will be announced on December 30th at 3PM ET.

Reader Interactions

Comments

  3. Melissa Phillips style is unmatched. I adore the Home is Where the Heart Is card, as well as the heart card. So many layers, warm colors and rich texture. Just beautiful!

  8. All of the designs are lovely. I’m especially drawn to Melissa’s “Home Is Where the Heart Is “ card. The combination of colors really caught my eye. I also really like how the scalloped oval die was used.

  21. WOW! Each one of these is so pretty! My favorite today is Melissa’s Home Is Where The Heart Is. Her signature style is perfection!

  24. I love the heart card by Betty. So perfect for Valentines Day! All the designers have done a wonderful job!

  28. Betty Wright’s Hearts and Roses card is absolutely stunning and who wouldn’t love to be on the receiving end of of getting that card?
    Love it!!!

  29. Betty’s Valentine card is my favorite because it really pops with the roses topping the hearts. Great job to all the designers and Happy New Year!

  30. Melissa’s cards are my favorite. I love all the detail, her signature colors and style, and the sentiments on each of these is what speaks to me the most.

  34. Love the houses!! One of my favorites and I adore the first card by Melissa as well as her Love card!! I love the way she frames things in florals and her soft color choices!! She is always an inspiration to me!

  37. I love Melissa’s ‘home is where friends meet’ card. Love the pink & mint green and those darling trees! Gorgeous array of cards from the team, too.

  45. All beautiful projects! If I had to pick one, it would be Seeka’s. I love the color combination that was used! ❤️

  48. I love Betty’s card as I want to make Valentines for friends this year and her card is beautiful!

  50. Love Brenda’s “home is wherever you are” card. All are beautiful; thanks for sharing

  52. Benda’s free space card is so pretty. Love the sentiment she used along with the pretty pink house.

  53. My favorite today is the card by Brenda Noelke in the Designer’s Free Space category. The colors, sentiment and simplicity attracted me to this design.

  63. Little house are my favorite stamps and dies so all the card that feature this cute little house are my favorites.

  65. Melissa’s sweet little home is my favorite! I love all your little house options, especially this one.

  66. Absolutely loving Melissa’s home & love cards! She’s the master at chic country cottage vibes & her style pairs so beautifully with this set. I am totally here for it!

  67. I have two favorites! Brenda Noelke’s “Love Makes a House a Home” and Betty Wright’s Valentine card. I loved both of them; and couldn’t choose just one. Loved the background, colors, finishing touches, and sentiment on Brenda’s card. Loved the different hearts, background and frame, and all of the finishing touches on Betty’s card. Both were absolutely beautiful!!

  71. Melissa’s style and production is irresistible ….. love the warmth and expressive colors…. The house one is just perfect and makes me smile.

  77. Seeka and Brenda Noelke get my vote for today. Even though there’s a lot going on, the have a “clean and simple” look that I like

  78. Beautiful card inspirations. Love the “Love” card by melissa with the hearts and roses.

  79. Oh my word! I love hearts all year long!♥️♥️♥️Can’t wait to get my hands on these!💖💖💖

  80. I’m really excited about the doily hearts. From today’s designs, Seeka’s house card is my favorite. I love the colors, the placement choices, and the sentiment. It’s a beautiful gift for someone.

  83. Betty’s Valentine card is so beautiful, I’ll definitely use it for inspiration when the time comes to create!

  85. I absolutely love Melissa’s home is where the heart is card!
    What a Gorgeous release and beautiful designs by all!

  91. Betty’s card is my favorite because it reminds me of the Valentine’s of my youth–so nostalgic.

  101. I love all the house cards, but the very last one on the post (Brenda’s) is my favorite!

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