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Sneak Peek Day 2

Penny here, welcome back to Day 2 of our October 2026 Release countdown! The excitement is officially build-up, and today’s reveals are all about creating warm, inviting winter scenes that make you want to curl up with a blanket and a mug of cocoa.

 

Today, we’re sharing a delightful pair of new additions designed to bring classic holiday comfort straight to your card fronts. Whether you love building detailed architectural scenes or adding glowing festive lights adorned with snowy branches, today’s reveals have something extra special in store. Let’s jump right in!

 

Holiday Window Stamp Set & Dies

Build cozy, heartwarming scenes with Holiday Window! This set features a six-pane window frame complete with matching shutters, a sturdy window sill, snowy drifts, lanterns, potted poinsettias, and festive pine wreaths. Pair the detailed stamps with coordinating dies to layer festive decorations inside or outside the pane for a welcoming seasonal focal point!

 

Hang the Lights Die & Stencils

Light up your holiday papercrafting with Hang the Lights! This set includes large bulb dies, metal light toppers, realistic tree branches, snow drifts, curling string wire, and greenery branches. Combine the dies with the coordinating stencil collection to easily layer fun polka dots, geometric chevron, and delicate snowflake patterns directly onto your Christmas light bulbs!

 

 

Get ready to be inspired! Our talented design team has been crafting up a storm with these new products, and their Day 2 projects are pure winter magic. From snowy windowsill scenes to vibrant patterned light strand displays, they are giving you a front-row look at all the ways to bring these sets to life!

 

Take a peek at the gorgeous project gallery below, and keep a pen handy to jot down your top picks for your October wishlist!

 

Mark your calendars for Tuesday, October 27th at 12 PM ET, when the complete October release officially lands in the shop. Set those reminders, and join us back here tomorrow morning as we reveal a whole new round of sneak peeks!

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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.

Holiday Window Stamp Set & Dies

Featured design by Bobbi

Bobbi Lemanski

SUPPLIES

STAMPS: Holiday Window
DIES: Holiday Window
CARDSTOCK: Stampers’ Select White, Fine Linen
INK: True Black, Pure Poppy, New Leaf, Harvest Gold, Scarlet Jewel, Pinefeather, Dark Chocolate, Ripe Avocado
OTHER: White Paint, White Ink Pen, Foam Tabs, Fine-tip black Marker, Copic Sketch Markers Distress Oxide Ink: Gathered Twigs, Bee Creative Precision Glue, Pearl Pen – Black

TIPS: 

  • Create the look of exterior home siding by adding a darker shade line every 3/4″ on a piece of cardstock. In this example, I used Copic Marker E31 on Fine Linen Cardstock.
  • Use white acrylic paint or white ink to create freshly fallen snow. Use a fan brush to splatter the paint/ink over the card front for a fresh and random pattern.
  • Use a darker shade of ink to create a shadow around the perimeter of the card front. This helps to frame the focal point in the center.

MarDi Rembold

Kelly Lunceford

Betty Wright

MarDi Rembold

Liane Hodges

Kassi Hulet

Melody Rupple

Kailash Naidoo

Brenda Noelke

Hang the Lights Die & Stencils Collection

Featured designs by Kelly

Kelly Lunceford

SUPPLIES

STAMPS: All About Christmas

INK: Versamark, Vintage Jadeite, Pinefeather, Pale Peony, Lovely Lady, Pure Poppy, Scarlet Jewel

CARDSTOCK: Coastal Blue, Pure Poppy, Stamper’s Select White

DIES: All About Christmas, Hang the Lights, Love to Layer: Fancy That

OTHER: gold embossing powder, antique gold cardstock, champagne foil, Fresh Greens Hot Foil Plate, Hickory Smoke Distress Spritz

TIPS: 

  • Use a light hand to blend the light bulb colors, and then a heavier hand with the stencil over the top.
  • Use a distress spritz or spray for a vintage look.
  • Let the large sentiment take center stage and use the greenery and berries to frame it.

Kelly Lunceford

SUPPLIES

STAMPS: Merry Motifs, Deerest Blessings

INK: New Leaf, Pinefeather, Blueberry Sky, Pure Poppy, Hawaiian Shores, Versamark

CARDSTOCK: New Leaf, Hawaiian Shores, Stamper’s Select White

DIES: Hang The Lights, Love to Layer: Fancy That

OTHER: Deco Framework Hot Foil Plate, green foil, Hickory Smoke Distress Spritz, vellum, silver embossing powder

TIPS: 

  • Use tone-on-tone foil and cardstock for a vintage feel.
  • Heat emboss a sentiment on Vellum to switch things up.
  • Get out of your comfort zone and try color combinations you wouldn’t normally pick.

Kelly Lunceford

SUPPLIES

STAMPS: Just Sentiments: Believe

INK: Walnut Stain Distress Oxide, Pure Poppy, Harvest Gold, New Leaf, Pinefeather, Scarlet Jewel, Versamark

CARDSTOCK: Ocean Tides, Coastal Blue, Stamper’s Select White, Pure Poppy

DIES: Hang the Lights, Love to Layer: Fancy That, Wagon Wheel

OTHER: white wood grain cardstock, Filigree Frame Hot Foil Plate, champagne foil, Hickory Smoke Distress Spritz, silver cardstock, white embossing powder, Crystal Stickles, glitter, Hang the Lights Stencil Collection

TIPS: 

  • Don’t hesitate layering different types of mats to create a unique background.
  • Heat emboss the sentiment in white powder for a crisp look.
  • Add stickles to the snow and berries for a realistic looking snowy effect.

MarDi Rembold

Melody Rupple

Bobbi Lemanski

Brenda Noelke

Melissa Phillips

Kassi Hulet

Betty Wrigth

Kailash Naidoo

Liane Hodges

Melissa Phillips

What a joyful second day of our October countdown! We are completely smitten with the cozy architectural windows, snowy ledges, customizable bulb patterns, and lush evergreen branch strands making their debut today. Watching these inviting scene-building elements come together has us so excited to see how you will bring them to life on your own crafting desk! ✨

 

Take a moment to absorb all the incredible project ideas from our design team above, and share in the comments below which Day 2 feature stole the show for you!

 

Be sure to pop back in tomorrow morning as we roll out Day 3 of our October Release Countdown—we have plenty more holiday treasures waiting to be uncovered! ❤️

 

Click HERE to see our October 2026 Release Winners page!

Winners will be announced on September 29th at 5 PM ET.

Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. Oh My! Gorgeous Holiday cards! I do love them all, but my heart strings are drawn to Bobbi’s Window card–isn’t that just fabulously festive! LOVE!!! Merry Merry!

  5. Kelly’s Hang the Lights cards are so pretty. It makes me want to use the die too 😁

  6. OMG! Obsessed with MarDi’s bulb card. Those bright colors caught my eye immediately!

  7. Right away I thought, I’m going to use some of these ideas to dress up my own windows this holiday season. And those lights with the stencils… I love them!

  10. These are all amazing. But I’m most drawn to Kassi’s Christmas light card. Just elegant. 😍😍

  11. Can’t wait to see the full reveal for the Hang the Lights bulbs. I’m already brainstorming ideas for my Christmas cards and tags!

  12. MarDi Rembold Bold and bright, fun card
    Kassi Hulet Warm and gentle card
    I can’t choose which I like the most. All the cards are unique and beautiful.

  15. I can not wait for the Holiday Window release…all the designers did such an exceptional job I can’t pick a favorite!

  16. Loving the Hang the Lights die and stencil set but favorite is the Kassi Hulet’s classy use of the hanging lights die.

  18. Hang the lines by MarDi Rembold. I love that card. So inspiring. I love everything about it.

  20. Love the holiday window scenes!! The card by MarDi is gorgeous!! Loving the Hang the Lights created by Kelly also!!

  21. Mari’s bulb card is gorgeous. Looks like they are lit up. Thanks to everyone for sharing their inspiration

  23. Bobbi Lemanski created an inviting card with the Holiday Window set and Kassi Hulet’s card with the “lone bulb” is beyond striking!

  25. I really like Kelly Lunceford’s Season’s Greetings card with the red background and gold foil

  28. Kelly’s card with the snowy branch and lights is my favorite today! Love the holiday window set too!

  30. Kailash Nairobi has created a card that I think I might be able CASE with my supplies. The large light bulbs are terrific aa are the windows with or without the shutters.

  31. Kassi Hulet’s window card and her lights card! So appealing. Also Kelly Lunceford’s card with foil and lights.

  32. Wow! Lovely inspiration! I love the card design Kelly created using the Hang the Lights die with the green frame!

  35. Beautiful new products and so are the DT projects! I adore Kelly’s first and third Hang the Lights cards! Kassi’s snowy light card also caught my eye!

  40. All the cards in this release turned out great! My favorite ornament card is MarDi’s. The stenciled background is unbelievable! The effect is fantastic! One of the first things I thought of when I saw her card was those glasses they sell at Christmastime that creates a designed halo effect around the lights! Love it!

  43. My favorite window(s) also were done by MarDi as well! I love the brick background and the snow! I am a bit bothered by the amount of white showing around the stamped images and I think it may have bothered MarDi as well because she trimmed it down on her poinsettias and greenery! Maybe Papertrey can ‘tighten’ their dies to hug the stamped images a bit better! (Don’t mean to be so picky!)

  47. MarDi’s card is definitely my favorite. It makes me able to visualize a whole tree lit up like this. The size of the bulbs really remind me of my childhood because they are the ones that were on our tree and around the roof line 70+ years ago.

  49. I just LOVE MarDi’s glowing Christmas light bulbs card! Her stenciling around the light bulbs just makes them POP! Thanks for the inspiration and chance to win.

  50. Love the white speckled effect on the blue card by Betty, it is stunning. Many beautiful products in this release!

  52. I love Kelly Lunchford’s card with the Christmas bulbs hanging from the snowy branches with the greens and berries around and the lighter green recessed background and the deeper green raised background foiled with the filigree frame!! Just gorgeous!!

  55. All of Kelly’s light bulb cards are beautiful! So hard to pick a favorite. I could name about 6 in this collection!

  57. My choice for Window is: MariDi Rembold. They are all beautiful so hard to choose.

    For the Hanging Lights is: Kelly Lunceford. REally like her color choices but again they all should be chosen!

  58. Hang the Lights- yes please!!! So fun and it can be classy, elegant, or just fun and vibrant. So versatile.

  59. I think Kassi did a beautiful job on the window card. Really makes me want to knock on the door and come inside to sit by a warm fire with her. Her lightbulb in the tree is such a different take on this….love her cards this month.

  60. More holiday fun! Love the card that Kassi created with the Hanging Lights dies and stencils! So beautiful.

  64. So much beauty and creativity! My favorites are Kassi’s snowy window card and Kelly’s lights with the gold frame card. You can never go wrong with simplicity and elegance!

  65. Love the Holiday Window set, and all the window cards are so inviting. Especially like both of Kassi’s cards.

  66. I love Betty Writes holiday window. The hues of blue and the falling snow are perfect winter combinations

  67. Holiday Window looks like a winner, and Bobbi’s card at the top of the post is just lovely.

  69. I love the holiday window set! You could do a card from the inside looking out the window or outside looking in!

  70. Wow! I am totally in love with those lightbulbs and the greenery. I can’t wait to get that! The designer examples are incredible and I just watched the video that Melissa put up on YouTube and I’m in love with that set.

  71. Hang the lights, May you believe card by Kelly is gorgeous. The detail, colors and design are unbelievable. What talent!

  72. Love the old fashioned Christmas lights. My favorite card is from Kassi. Sweet simplicity grabbed my eye.

  74. The window scenes are INCREDIBLE! I LOVE LOVE LOVE how MarDi Rembold made her lights glow!

  77. I love Mar Di’s windows. The light from the lantern looks so realistic and so does the frost in the windows. And Kassi’s light bulb card is so beautiful.

  78. Oh my so hard to only pick one. I love the window from MarDi Rembold. Just looks so real and cozy.

  79. I love all the inspiration and Mardi Rembold’s literally looks like it’s shining. Wow!

  83. I love the bulb die and stencil set. Brings back such wonderful memories of Christmas trees from my youth with the big multi colored bulbs.

  84. Such beautiful cards today. I am drawn to the window cards – love Kassi’s card. So pretty!

  87. I love the Hang the Lights! MarDi’s card was stunning with the colorful light bulbs and use of the stencil!

  88. Ooohh, I just love Kelly Lunsford’s fabulous card! The Christmas bulbs on that snow covered limb could be my mass produced card this year! 🙂

  89. My favorite is Kelly Lunceford’s first Hang the Lights card. It is so cheerful and cozy, I just love it.

  91. Kassi Hulet is my favorite, as I start on my Christmas Cards, I’m making over 75 cards. Her cards shows glow coming from a window, no matter what Christmas moment the home is participating in with family or friends. It brings a simple quiet joy.

  92. I love Kelly Lunceford’s “ all is calm, all is bright” vellum sentiment banner acrothe middle of the card. It is beautiful!

  95. MarDi bright Christmas lights are my favorite. it was hard choosing as they are all beautiful.

  96. Really love MarDi Rembold’s Holiday Window card. Looks so warm and inviting. I can just imagine myself knocking on the door to see how cozy the inside of the home must look.

  102. Love the hang the lights! The design team has done a great job. Kelly Lunceford is one of my favorites!

  104. Bobbi’s polka dot lights card is so cute and love the snow covered bulb by Kassi. So festive!

  108. The Hang the Lights Die and Stencil is a fabulous collection and I love how Melissa used it today in her card! Such gorgeous inspiration and I also love card #4 by Kassi.

  109. My pick today would be Kassi Hulet’s card with the glowing window and puffy snow. I also like her second one a lot. So Christmassy feeling!

  111. The Christmas lights are my fav!!! I love that it has a stencil as well. Would make it easy to mass produce. Brilliant

  112. Kailash’s window card really grabbed me! So so pretty, and luscious, lovely colors!

  113. I love Kelly’s Christmas Light Bulb card with the vibrant colors and the Filigree Frame Hot Foil Plate.

  114. The window set is lovely. I also like Kassi’s addition of snow on the light and tree branches.

  120. I love what Melissa Phillips did with those pretty lights, the colors and design are awesome but again each and every design was pretty!

  122. Melissa’s Hang the Lights card with the yellow background is my favorite!! I love them ALL, and I’m so taken with this beautiful release!!!

  123. Beautiful holiday cards! It’s a toss-up between Hang the Lights and Holiday Window. Love the little tree cutout on the shutters!

  124. BOTH of Kassi’s cards are my favorites. They showcase the simple beauty of the Christmas season.

  125. These are all beautiful! I love the all is calm all is bright card by Kelly using the lights!

  127. I love the simplicity of Kassi’s window card. The light shining inside adds warmth to the scene and makes one wonder what might be inside. Lovely contrast.

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