Category: Card ideas

Hello and wecome to today’s post. I am so grateful that you have popped by.

It is Wednesday and it is time for another Freshly Brewed Project blog hop project. Our theme this week is Winter Blues.

The winter months in Australia span June to August and here, in Brisbane, we haven’t really experienced much cold weather yet. Most days have averaged around 22C. It’s not cold enough to look blue nor is it cold enough to feel blue because of the weather. For this card, I simply decided to go with the idea of the colour blue.

I started by selecting a piece of paper from the Tidings of Christmas 6″x 6″ Designer Series Paper. Although this is Christmas themed DSP, I am using it for a different purpose – offering sunshine to combat winter blues.

The Misty Moonlight card base and other features cover the ‘blues’ element of the theme. These features include the In Colour Ribbon, In Colour Square Gems and other Misty Moonlight cardstock die cut pieces.

After I cut the DSP layer, I wrapped lengths of the two ribbons around the front and adhered them, to the back, with Tear & Tape. The DSP layer was then adhered to the card base.

I used the Label Me Lovely Punch to create the base for the Christmas Trimmings die cut pieces. After these pieces were adhered to the punched base, I added a double bow made using the white Baker’s twine. The sentiment, from the Celebrate with Flowers Stamp Set, was stamped in Misty Moonlight and Cherry Cobbler. The sentiment was punched using the same punch and cut with my trimmer, so that it would slide under the ribbons. I decided to fussy cut the Cherry Cobbler ‘Sunshine’ so that I could pop it up on Stampin’ Dimensionals.

I stamped one of the Tidings & Trimmings images, in Cherry Cobbler, on the card insert and envelope front. The final touch was the add a few of the 2020-2022 In Colour Square Gems to the sentiment layer.

Here are many of the products I used to create this card. This is the first time that I have used the Tidings & Trimmings Bundle – and it wasn’t for a Christmas card. I will definitely make one very soon.

Who would you send a ‘sunshine filled’ card to?

Make sure that pop along to see what the other FBP team have created:

• Leonie Schroder
• Michele Miller
• Jeanne Moss

Happy stamping.

If you live in Australia, you can order any of the products I used to make this card by going to my online store. Just click on any of the images below.

Product List

Celebrate With Flowers Cling Stamp Set (English) [155059] $31.00	Christmas Trimmings Dies [155561] $47.00	Label Me Lovely Punch [151296] $31.00	Flowers For Every Season Ribbon Combo Pack [153620] $17.50	Baker's Twine Essentials Pack [155475] $19.25
2020–2022 In Color Square Gems [155572] $14.00	Tidings Of Christmas 6" X 6" (15.2 X 15.2 Cm) Designer Series Paper [155718] $20.00	Basic White A4 Cardstock [159228] $17.00	Cherry Cobbler A4 Card Stock [121681] $15.25	Evening Evergreen A4 Cardstock [155575] $15.25
Misty Moonlight A4 Cardstock [153086] $15.25	Cherry Cobbler Classic Stampin' Pad [147083] $13.00	Misty Moonlight Classic Stampin' Pad [153118] $13.00	Multipurpose Liquid Glue [110755] $7.00	Tear & Tape Adhesive [138995] $12.25
Stampin' Dimensionals [104430] $6.00	Mini Glue Dots [103683] $8.00	Mini Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machine [150673] $104.00	Paper Snips [103579] $17.00	Paper Trimmer [152392] $44.00