The good ol' days with Winter Post

 

I love this vintage-looking image from the retired Winter Post stamp set. I used the set at my 20-card Christmas class yesterday. It was FUN!

 

I enjoyed mixing new colors and designer paper (Winter Frost Specialty) with an older stamp set. It gives it a new look. I used Smoky Slate and Coastal Cabana inks, along with the 2-1/2" circle punch and ticket punch (for the Occasions Alphabet sentiment, page 134 of the big catalog).

 

I cut a few extra cards, so I'll have some to sell at my one and only craft fair this winter, which is in 2 weeks.

 

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5 quick cards: From Christmas Lodge to Button Buddies

These are the cards from my most recent 10-card class. I hope you like them!

For this first card, I used Christmas Lodge with Frostwood Lodge dsp. Both items are in the Holiday Mini Catalog. I CASE'd the idea, though I changed the card body to Whisper White, used different punches, and added Dazzling Diamonds glitter to the tree with a 2-way glue pen.

This Snow Much Fun card uses Domestic Goddess dsp, so the card body is Pool Party card stock and the ribbon is ruffled Calypso Coral. The "window" is from a new Holiday Mini die called Peekaboo Frames. I used the Northern Frost decorative strip die on silver glimmer paper for the snowflake.

This Winter Post card uses Well Worn dsp, the music wheel and Four Greetings. I CASE'd the idea from LeAnne at Wee Inklings.

This Pear Pizzazz card features the Holiday Mini stamp set Bright Hopes, along with Letters to Santa dsp and Pretty in Pink scallop dotted ribbon. I used the Scallop Oval die for the main image, adding the sentiment in Early Espresso ink, along with a few rhinestones.

And Button Buddies and Brights dsp was used for the final card, along with a sentiment from Teeny, Tiny Wishes. I used the Buttons sizzlet to make matching buttons out of Pacific Point card stock for everybody, threading white Baker's Twine in each and adhering it with a dimensional.



Winter Post tin of cards...

This is part of a gift to my Dad and his significant other, Cindy. When I first bought the tin, it was loaded with chocolate-covered pretzels - my daughter's favorite treat!

Well, the pretzels were eaten in no-time flat, and I grabbed the tin. It's the perfect size for cards, and I managed to put 25 in there!

I used the Winter Post stamp set in Tempting Turquoise, along with the Snowflake Punch with a jumbo Chocolate Chip brad through it. I used the Scallop Edge Punch at the bottom and a strip of White Organza ribbon.

A 1-1/4" double-stitched Chocolate Chip ribbon

Winter Post filmstrip technique card...

Filmstrip Technique is fun to use when you have lots of great images in a stamp set, as in Winter Post.

I stamped the images in Close to Cocoa, Brocade Blue and Old Olive, then punched them out with the 1-3/8" square punch and layered them on a Chocolate Chip strip 2-1/4" wide that had been punched on each side with the Spiral Punch.

There's a Brocade Blue layer under the "filmstrip" on the Very Vanilla card, and a knot of Chocolate Chip taffeta at the fold.

For the greeting, I inked the stamp in Brocade Blue then used a blender pen to remove the blue ink from "Dec. 25" and inked it with an Old Olive marker. I punched it with the Designer Label Punch and adhered it with dimensionals.