Day 1: Christmas Theme Week + Daily Giveaways
Hello crafty friends, it’s June! We are starting Christmas Theme Week today and there will also be a giveaway each day, in honor of the holiday season. My contribution to the theme week is this fun card featuring the adorable Holiday Birds.
The idea for this card came to me when I was playing around with some stencils and I happened to use some colors that would be perfect for a Christmas card. The stencil I used was the Layered Floral Vines. As you might notice, I added another layer of flowers in each of the diamond shapes by simply shifting the stencil. I really like how it gives a fuller pattern that doesn’t leave as much white space on my background panel.
I used the Winter Hat Shaker to create my center piece. I blended my pieces using the same red and pink shades that I used with the stencil earlier. I filled the shaker with the Rustic Shaker Beads and flowers from the Easter Holder Additions. That way the flowers from the background could be represented elsewhere to. I went even further with my flower theme and turned the hat’s pompom into a flower aswel, using one of the circles with stitching details from the Champagne Flute Shaker.
To make it stand out against the busy background, I cut out out an Eyelet Heart from sage green cardstock to back my shaker piece onto. As busy as the card already looked, I really wanted to add more, so I cut out the Holiday Birds from various colors of cardstock and even did some Copic blending on them. I also added white gel pen detailing on all my die cut pieces.
For my sentiment, I chose the ‘Winter Greetings’ from the… you guessed it, Winter Greetings stamp set. I stamped it in red ink to compliment the color scheme.
A card with traditional holiday colors that still has a surprising element you wouldn’t expect to see in a Christmas card: flowers! This was a very satisfying card to put together and I hope you enjoyed reading about it just as much as I enjoyed making it.
GIVEAWAY
For today’s giveaway, we are giving away a $25 Pretty Pink Posh gift card. All you have to do is leave a comment on this post sharing your favorite holiday color palette to use on your projects.
All giveaways for Christmas Theme Week will end on December 10th. We’ll share a post with all the winners on the PPP blog later that week.
Thanks so much for visiting today. See you tomorrow for another day of inspiration and giveaways!
I’m more a rustic Christmas look vibe.
My favorite holiday color palette is evergreen, teal and cranberry. Love this beautiful card!
What a beautiful card! I love everything about it. Whomever gets it will love it
My favorite holiday color palette to use on your projects is blues and purples. I love the royal feel of those colors for the holidays!
I usually use traditional red and green or blue and silver.
OMG! This is gorgeous! I LOVE the cardinals and colors! My fav colors for Xmas is Red, Kraft, and White!
Adorable card! I love red and green, I’m very traditional.
Very pretty. I don’t necessarily have a favorite palette for holiday crafting, but I like to include gold or silver in my crafts along with glitter.
My new favourite colours for Christmas and pink, teal, blue and white! :)
Usually is red, green and gold! :)
I love icy blues and silver for the holidays.
I prefer the traditional colors of white, a deep cranberry red and dark pine green for most Christmas projects but I love this spin on the classic palette, it’s softer and sweeter. I will have to try it out on my own projects. I love the unique idea of using the little flowers for a Christmas card as well. Something I wouldn’t have thought of but is a great idea to stretch your supplies. Beautiful card!
I love the traditional red and green color scheme, but I also love red and aqua at the holidays.
I usually do a traditional red and green color palette, but right now, I’m making a card for a friend with teal, silver and coral!
Absolutely gorgeous card! The layered stenciling and floral details are so creative, and the Winter Hat Shaker looks incredible with the matching colors and floral touches!
I love using icy blues, snowy white, and silver. It gives my holiday projects a frosty, winter-wonderland look!
Happy December!!! Oh I love this sweet scene!! My favorite is pink and teal!!!
My favorite color palette for the holidays is white, red, olive green and gold
I am very traditional when making Christmas cards, so I like shades of red & green mixed with black & white. For winter cards, I like blue, purple & green.
My favorite scene for Christmas is the nativity, so !y favorite color scheme is browns, yellow gold, blue, green and white.
I love bright holiday colors – hot pink, bright green, aqua.
I always favor a red on my Christmas cards. Love the pink shade you used with the red. The cardinals are adorable!
Love this card and the inspiration – great jumping off point…and a remind that I own this set and NEED to use it to finish up some holiday crafting! Thank you for the inspiration!
I love using blues, lilacs and a touch of pink!
Gorgeous card! Love all the details! This year I’m loving the pastels light blue, pink, green, and yellow. Thanks!
I love all the colors of Christmas but my favorites are cranberry and evergreen.
Absolutely adore Junes cards! My favorite color combo for holiday cards is light purples and dark navy blues with white. It gives that beautiful ethereal evening over snow feeling !!
I love a traditional red and green holiday color scheme but also shades of blue. PPP has the best shaker dies!!
Loving your adorable card today! The winter hat shaker is so cute and I love the sweet birds!
Favorite holiday color palette… kraft, red and white! And I love the traditional red, green and gold too!
Beautiful card! I love the birdie shaker element. I love the teal green, aqua, silver and gold colors for Christmas.
Such a beautiful card! A lot of my favorite elements are included! I love a deeper take on traditional Christmas colors…muted cranberry/deep pine green/muted sage. Having said that though, I am drawn this year to adding pinks in with the cranberry colors.
Love this card, and the background paper is spectacular! Right now I’m using a lot of Pinks and Reds since my cards have a Nutcracker theme. So many beautiful color choices to choose from, it’s hard to decide. I may throw in some blue and silver cards too. Thank you for the opportunity to win a gift card!
Beautiful card. New to your site, but loving all the cards and dies. My holiday pallette is burgundy and gold with a touch of green.
Beautiful card! I like the traditional look… red and green with some gold and silver accents! 🎄
Pink, silver and burgundy, or traditional red, gold and green!
I love shades of burgundy, dusty pink and a darker green for things like poinsettias. I also like using tradition red, green, etc. for more cute pictures.
I like silver and navy blue
I’m into pink and aqua on Christmas cards.
I like a good, deep red and a dark green (evergreen). I also like the more modern pinky-red and aqua.
Lori S in PA
Silver & red, gold & blue
I really like using light pink, cranberry, rainforest from C9 and some white sparkle. ✨
I like red, green, gold and silver
I do like pink and green but I tend to go with the traditional rich red with green. Adorable shaker hat.
I use red and green or blue and gold for holiday cards.
I’m enjoying pinks, teals, and aquas for cards this year.
Such a beautiful card! I am all over the place when it comes to Christmas colors – blues/silvers, red/green, red/black/gold, red/pink/white, even pink/purple/green!
I prefer the vintage colors: crimson red, mossy green, antique gold.
What a sweet shaker! I love the stitching detail on the hat trim. I’ve been leaning towards non-traditional colors, especially pink & teal.
I’m a fan of Silver & Teal
I don’t have a specific go to color but I like my Christmas/winter cards to glitter and shine. So I like the gold and silver metallic added in.
I love the colors you used for stamping the background on this card, so very pretty! For Christmas cards I am a traditional color palette girl.
I’m more of a traditional color palette girl when it comes to my cards. I love the vintage patterned papers. But blue and silver is also beautiful.
Adorable shaker card-love those red birds! I’m still working on my cards–my palette this year is varied, I’m using ink drop PP, mostly midnight but other shades with gold sentiment and stained-glass window. I seem to be attracted to the dark blue-aqua-red and gold colors.
Since I love making Nativity scenes I love using royal blues and purples and silvers that creat great night skies
What a beautifully delightful card and I love the birds! I like a lot of color combos, including traditional red and green. One of my favorite cards so far this year was red, green, cream and gold. Thanks for the giveaway!
My favorite holiday color palette would be a cranberry and sage but this card makes me think I can add a couple new colors to the favorites! Adorable card!
great colors!
Turquoise and pink!
I love a good blue and silver card
I like both non traditional, like blues and purples, and traditional. I usually change it up year to year.
Pretty card! This is a tough question…I don’t really have a favorite color combo for holiday cards. I love color and am pretty happy with most any combo.
My favorite color palette is Teal, white shimmer/glitter, and pink. But honestly I just love all Christmas colors. I do love a crisp white, emerald green and Christmas red.
My favorite combo is silver and blue. That definitely means silver glitter paste and paper too.
I love this dies set! The project is wonderful, I love the colors used!!!
Love your card!! The hat and birds are so cute!! My favorite medium color combo for Christmas/Winter has been blues, white, and maybe with Silver.
I love a traditional red/green colors with a metallic gold/silver added!
Traditional Christmas Red and green!
Lovely shaker! I tend to stay with the traditional color palette.
Sweet shaker design. I enjoy using pink and teal as a twist on the traditional red and green.
Love dark green and cranberry