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Happy Friday! It’s TGIF time and Norine is here today with the most beautiful wintery thank you card. Her timing is perfect…we’re supposed to get our first winter storm of the year today, so I’m in the mood for some frosty goodness. 🙂

Hello Greetery friends, Norine back with you today with a thank you card that is a bit of a cross-over between Christmas and Winter.  Your choice.  It can be anything you need it to be, and if you’re finished Christmas card crafting then this card has you covered for the thank yous that come next!

I’m going to be honest here.  I didn’t set out to make this precise card.  I didn’t have anything specific in mind and no particular inspiration, so I just sifted through my Greetery sets and pulled all the ones that appealed to me in the moment…..

which ended up being a stack like this!  Ultimately  I used only a fraction of these stamps/dies, but that’s an indication of how the creative process works for me some days.

The first stamp set I was inspired by was the red rubber Fond of Foliage background stamp, which I inked up with three shades of blue/green inks – Ranger Distress Speckled Egg, Bundled Sage and Stormy Sky.  I spritzed the stamp liberally with water from a mister bottle and closed the stamp positioner onto a watercolor paper panel, leaving it closed for a minute or two, to really soak into the cardstock. I chose those colors because I felt that they nicely straddled a Christmas or Winter theme.

Once dry (helped along with my heat tool) I stamped a second layer of unfocused detail around the edges and 2 corners of the panel, using Iced Spruce Distress ink and the Big Plans background stamp.

Next, I stenciled and glitter embossed a snowflake die cut from the Snowflake Soiree die and stencil set, I die cut the pine boughs with the Botanicuts Pine Bough die set from watercolor paper and painted them with the smoosh technique and more Ranger Distress Ink colors.  I layered them together, then touched the edges randomly with Embossing paste and Silver glimmer paste, then touched the paste in sparkle glitter and let them dry.

I die cut a leafy branch from vellum paper with a die in the Signed, Sealed With A Kiss set, and die cut both the inside and outside die cuts from watercolor paper using the Inside and Out Berry Branch set, painting them with varying shades of blue/green ink/paint.  Then I hot foiled the Opposites Attract Thank You sentiment using Spellbinders Sky Bright Glimmer foil and die cutting afterwards.  I die cut extra layers of the “thank you” sentiment to give the greeting extra oomph.  Then I layered all the components together and adhered the layers, with the snowflake to finish on top.  Some clear flat sequins finish the card.

Thank you for your interest, for stopping by today and have a lovely day!