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!