Winter Woods – Thank You

Design Team Time.

For: Hand Stamped Sentiments (#480), we have an eclectic Inspiration Board with lots of interesting images.  I opted for the Birch Tree image and the overall Neutral Color Palette.

For: Face Book’s Case-ing Tuesday (#548) Sketch, found on page 52 of the Jan – Apr 2026 Mini Catalog.  CASE: (Copy and Steal Everything) Making it the same; (Copy and Slightly Edit) Almost the same with a little variation; (Copy and Selectively Edit) Changing things.  You are welcome to choose how you create.

My design was also influenced by Just Us Girls (#806) with another Mood Board and my take-aways included the Neutral Color Palette of Stone, Wood and Brick, Arched Windows/Doors, with a pop of Red.

Here is the result:

Steps:

• Card Base: (8½” x 5½” scored at 4¼”) Crumb Cake cardstock.
• Background Panel: (4” x 5¼”) Very Vanilla cardstock dry-embossed with the Exposed Brick 3D Embossing Folder.  Crumb Cake ink was added with a Blending Brush to highlight the texture and then the Panel was distressed using Paper Snips.
• Accent Panel: (3” x 3½”) Dark Wood patterned piece of paper from the Country Woods Designer Series Paper pack.
• Focal Panel: (3” x 4”) Pecan Pie and Very Vanilla cardstocks.
  • The Pecan Pie cardstock was double die-cut with both the (2⅝” x 3⅞”) and (2¼” x 3”) Arch dies from the Everyday Arches Dies set, an On-Line Exclusive product, to create a Frame to resemble a Window.
  • The Birch Tree image from the retired Winter Woods stamp set was stamped multiple times with Early Espresso ink onto the Very Vanilla cardstock.  The space between the Trees was colored with the Light Cloud Cover Stampin’ Blends Marker and then die-cut with the (2¼” x 3”) Arch die.
• Decoration – Bird: For the pop of red, a Bird was fussy-cut from one of the Multiple Birds patterned paper from the Nests of Winter Designer Series Paper pack.
• Sentiment Label: (3⅞” x ⅞”) Vellum Specialty Paper scrap.
  • The sentiment, Thank you for your kindness, from the retired Welcoming Woods stamp set was stamped with Versamark ink and heat-set with Black Embossing Powder.

All elements were adhered to the card base to resemble the sketch.  The Bird was tucked into the Window.  A few Basic Grey retired Classic Matte Dots were used to hide and anchor the Mini Glue Dots used to attach the Banner.

I love inspiration boards can spark your creativity, and this turned out to be a nice winter thank you card.

I look forward to seeing what you will create with the Hand Stamped Sentiments Mood Board and the Case-ing Tuesday Sketch.

Thanks for spending some of your time with me today.  Cheers,  Jolanda!

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