This dark card made with the Secret Sea pines paper from the Elegant Pines designer series paper from Stampin’ Up made a great holiday card. I love the blend of colors that just brighten it enough.
To create this card, you just need a few things:
- Secret Sea card stock (Stampin’ Up)
- Old Olive card stock (Stampin’ Up)
- Shaded Spruce card stock (Stampin’ Up)
- Cherry Cobbler card stock (Stampin’ Up)
- Elegant Pines designer series paper (October 2025 Online Exclusive Stampin’ Up)
- Delicate Pines stamp set and dies (October 2025 Online Exclusive Stampin’ Up)
- Words of Beauty dies (November 2025 Online Exclusive Stampin’ Up)
- Faceted Snowflake embellishments (October 2025 Online Exclusive Stampin’ Up)
- Secret Sea ink (2025-2027 In Color Stampin’ Up)
- Paper trimmer
- Adhesive of choice
Take a piece of Secret Sea card stock and cut a card base to 5 ½” x 8 ½” and fold in half. From the Old Olive card stock cut a piece for the inside to 4” x 5 ¼” and a piece for your triangle to 5 ½” square, the cut from corner to corner to form two triangles. From the Elegant Pine designer series paper cut a piece to 5 ¼” square and cut corner to corner to form two triangles. Adhere your Secret Sea pines triangle to the Old Olive triangle, leaving an 1/8” or so edge on the two sides and lining the long edge up to each other.
From some scrap pieces of Old Olive card stock cut the longest label from the Words of Beauty dies and two sets of leaves from the Delicate Pines dies. Then from some Shaded Spruce card stock cut two of the pine pieces from the Delicate Pines dies and cut in half to get four. Cut two of the floral die from Cherry Cobbler card stock.
With the “Celebrate the Season” stamp from the Delicate Pines stamp set, stamp on the Old Olive label in Secret Sea Ink. Adhere the label in the lower right corner of the front of your card base, leaving a very small edge. Take your triangle piece and put adhesive on the back, then adhere to the front of your card base off-center with about ½” hanging off the bottom and close to the label and the point about ½” from the right edge, trim the excess.
Adhere your two Old Olive leaves, then two of the Shaded Spruce pine pieces and topping with a Cherry Cobbler flower. Use one of the large Shaded Spruce snowflake embellishments from the Faceted Snowflakes for the center of your flower and three (mixed sizes) of the Cherry Cobbler snowflakes randomly on the Secret Sea.
For the inside of your card stamp in Secret Sea ink the “It’s the most magical time of the year” greeting in the upper portion of the Old Olive piece you cut for the inside. Adhere to the inside of your card. Decorate the lower left corner with pieces of the other two pine sprigs and top with the flower and put another large Shaded Spruce snowflake embellishment as the flower center.
This is such a pretty holiday card, and is great for anyone as it isn’t Christmas specific.
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