2025 Holiday Card Series #5 | Sending Holiday Cheer

Hi crafty friends!  Today I am sharing an A6 size card that was inspired by an older Purple Onion Designs background stamp that I’ve had for a few years that has evergreen trees and a snowy road that runs through the center.  Let’s see what I come up with!

The supplies used:

Mama Elephant – Tree Picking Stamp Set

      Onion Designs – Nordic Road Background

      Concord & 9^th – Season’s Greetings Stamp and Die Set

      Flower – A6 Piercing Layers Dies

     X-Press It Blending Cardstock

      Says Stamp – So Very Black Cardstock

      Lawn Fawn – Jet Black Premium Ink Pad

      Ranger/Tim Holtz – Distress Speckled Egg Ink Pad

      Altenew – Obsidian Black Pigment Ink Pad

      Copic Alcohol Markers – G21, G24, G28, E33, E37, E39, C0, C1, C3, C5

      Pink & Main – Cottontail Flock

      Sakura Quickie Glue Pen .07

      Sakura White Gelly Roll Pen 08

      Spellbinders BetterPress Letterpress System

      Spellbinders Platinum 6 Die Cutting Machine

      Scrapbook Adhesives Thin 3D Foam Squares

      Scor-Pal Scor-Tape Double Sided Adhesive ½”

      Bearly Art Precision Craft Glue

      Anna Griffin Empress Die Cutting Machine

Creating the Card Front Background

I cut a piece of X-Press It Blending Cardstock to measure 6-1/4” x 4-1/2”.  Next, I stamped the Purple Onion Designs red rubber stamp called Nordic Road Background onto the X-Press It cardstock using Lawn Fawn Jet Black ink.  I heat set the ink to ensure it was dry and began using Copic alcohol markers to color the image.  The Copic marker color combinations I used were:

     Trees:  G21, G24, G28

     Tree Trunks & Fence:  E33, E37, E29

     Snowy Background:  C0, C1, C3, C5

For the winter sky, I used a large blending brush and Distress Speckled Egg ink and blended the sky area until I reached the intensity that looked pleasing.  Once the ink dried, I used the second largest die from the Waffle Flower A6 Piercing Dies and die cut the background panel.  I used the largest die from this die set to cut a black cardstock matte.

Creating the Focal Point

My focal point for this Christmas card will be the cute rabbit family from the Mama Elephant Tree Picking stamp set.  I’ll be Copic coloring the family in the car as well as the adorable rabbit that appears to be reaching toward the small rabbit on top of the tree trunk.  Too much cuteness in this stamp set!  For the Copic alcohol coloring, these are my coloring combinations:

     Tree:  G21, G24, G28

     Car:  R24, R29, R39 (body), C3, C0 (lights),

        C4, C6, C9 (tires), N5, N3, N1 (trim)

     Teal Rabbit:  BG45, BG49, BG78

     Rabbit’s Furs:  E43, E42, E41, E40, R11 (inside ears, cheeks & noses)

Once I completed coloring all the elements from the rabbit family, I fussy cut the two images – it was quick and easy.  I placed both images onto my glass mat and added Sakura Quickie Glue to the rabbit tails and on the band and pom-pom of each rabbit’s hat.  While the Quickie Glue is still blue I added Pink & Main’s Cottontail Flock to all the tails, bands, and pom-poms and tapped off the excess to return it to the jar.  Once the Quickie Glue dried, I placed thin foam squares on the back side of each of them.

Building the Sentiment

The sentiment was stamped directly onto the card front for this design.  I chose the “Sending Holiday Cheer” stamp from Concord & 9^th’s Season’s Greetings stamp and die set and stamped onto the background panel in the center of the sky using Altenew Obsidian Pigment Ink.

Finishing the Design

For the card base, I cut a piece of heavy weight, white cardstock to measure 9” x 6-1/4” and scored it in half so that the card base measures 6-1/4” x 4-1/2”.  I added double-sided adhesive strips to the back of the colored card front and adhered it to the black matting panel, then adhered the card front to the card base with liquid glue.  Next, I removed all the adhesive backers from the squares on the back side of my rabbit family and adhered them to the card front.  Another holiday card completed for the 2025 season!

Thank you for stopping by and checking out today’s blog post, I really appreciate it.  Until next time, happy crafting!