Brian’s Week in Review: November 30, 2025

Welcome to my Week in Review! Each Sunday, I like to share a quick recap for those who don’t follow along every day—and a little extra behind-the-scenes for those who do. You don’t want to miss these extras! ♥

Thankful for Family

Thanksgiving was small (Mom, Jeremiah and Jeremiah’s Mom), but that didn’t mean we ate small. We enjoyed turkey, cornbread dressing, sweet potato casserole, squash casserole, macaroni and cheese, green beans, cranberry sauce and rolls. We finished that off with pecan pie, brownie pie and ice cream. We planned to play games but decided to sit back and watch a the National Dog Show and a movie. That was likely a better choice for letting our food settle a bit.

Thankful for Crafting Time

Mom has been here a little more than a week, and we’ve really made the most of our time. Mom finished a lap quilt she’s been working on, and I’ve been … you guessed it … making cards. In all the craft time, we also made time for puzzling and cooking. Since you ask about it, here’ the puzzle we finished last week to bring in Thanksgiving:

This seems like a really simple puzzle, but there are a lot of repeated patterns and colors (seems to be a lesson I learn over and over). More sunflowers than I originally expected. We had fun with it.

Mom and I have a lot more crafting ahead of us, but first we are meeting with my sister-in-law’s family today for more eating. While I will enjoy lunch with the family, I will appreciate getting back to a schedule of lighter eating. Balance is good.

Thankful for Stampin’ Up! Promotions

Black Friday Sale

Stampin’ Up!’s Black Friday sale ends tomorrow (Monday, December 1). While many of the promoted items have sold out in the United States, most of the Stampin’ Blends are still 40% off – a great deal! If you’d like to take a quick look at the products still available, CLICK HERE.

Prepaid Paper Pumpkin Sale

Stampin’ Up!’s Cyber Monday sale starts tomorrow with great discounts on Prepaid Paper Pumpkin Subscriptions. From December 1–9, prepaid Paper Pumpkin subscriptions will be discounted as follows:

• 3-month prepaid: $61.00 (regular price $81.00)
• 6-month prepaid: $122.00 (regular price $162.00)
• 12-month prepaid: $244.00 (regular price $324.00)

There are some “fine print” elements if you are already a subscriber. I will work with Demo Support to give you all the information you need to take advantage of this. Will share more when I can. ♥

Product of the Month

Starting Tuesday, Stampin’ Up! is kicking off it’s monthly Product of the Month promotion. Here’s the basics – with a $75 order (before taxes/shipping and after applied rewards), shoppers are given the opportunity to add the exclusive Product of the Month to their shopping cart for just $5. The Product of the Month will vary from month to month – and I can’t wait to share the December product. 🙂

To learn more, here’s a .pdf you can download: CLICK HERE.

Week in Review

Enough about me and the current/upcoming promotions. Let’s get back to the week in review. Here’s a look at the projects I shared with you this week (don’t miss the bonus add-ins!) …

Monday

This past week was all about gratitude and Thanksgiving-themed projects. I kicked off the week with this card that showcases three pages of the Gather Together Specialty Designer Series Paper and the Label Me Grateful Bundle:

The panels are beautiful, but the dramatic bow brings it all together. Don’t you think?

To learn more about this project and the products I used to make it, CLICK HERE.

Tuesday

On Tuesday I gave you the full rundown of Stampin’ Up!’s Black Friday Sale.

With a Black Friday sale starting three days before Black Friday (which is pretty standard these days), I gave you the gentle nudge to get ahead of the sale so you could pick up the papers and blades and adhesives you wanted. Those all sold out of inventory quickly, but there are still a lot of Stampin’ Blends left at a 40% discount. ♥

To learn more, CLICK HERE.

Wednesday

With the Black Friday Sale underway, I turned my focus back to Thanksgiving projects. Here’s the card I created for the Be Inspired Blog Hop:

The theme was “Feeling Festive.” While most projects featured Christmas products, I’ve been in the Thanksgiving spirit, so I made this card with the Etched Autumn stamp set.

To learn more about this card and the products I used to make it, CLICK HERE.

Thursday

On Thursday I launched my parade of Thanksgiving cards. In my post, I shared 25 Fall-themed cards and thank you cards with links to the original posts for each.

To enjoy the parade of cards, CLICK HERE.

Friday

I created a black card to share on Black Friday. With the gorgeous assortment of black papers in the Modern Christmas Specialty Designer Series Paper, it wasn’t a big reach to make this mostly-black card:

Oh, how I love these papers. This card was relatively easy to pull together, and I love how rich they look. The gold elements really make the card special.

To learn more about this project and the products I used to make it, CLICK HERE.

Saturday

On Saturday I shared the tags I made to accompany the kits I mailed out for my Joyful Days card class. Here’s a look at the tag:

I loved making these tags and the five colorful stripes.

A little backstory… while I was trying to get ahead of my projects for the Joyful Days class, I cropped a basic white “JOY” with the Abundant Joy Dies for each of the kits before I had finalized all of my designs. When I finalized my projects with a silver glimmer “JOY” I was left with a pile of white “JOY”s. Onto the tags they went! They were the perfect size and color and shape for these fun tags!

To learn more about these tags and the products I used to make them, CLICK HERE.

Looking Ahead

I’ve got some fun projects to share with you this coming week, including updates to the coming promotions. I hope you’ll come back every day this coming week! 🙂

The Holiday One-for-One Card Swaps were also mailed out this weekend. They are wonderful! If you participated, be on the lookout. I’ll soon be sharing them on my blog – but I want to make sure the recipients receive them first. 🙂

Thanks for stopping by today!

Brian