Carol’s stunning card uses snowflake dies in white on white for a textured background and lovely layering floral dies for loads of dimension too. Touches of glitter add the perfect touch of sparkle. Learn more at the Honey Bee Stamps blog.
Using flowers on your handmade cards doesn’t have to end when summer is over, there’s lots of beautiful florals and botanicals throughout the Winter like Poinsettia, Holly, Mistletoe, Christmas Lilies and more. These designs make amazing Holiday and Christmas cards so let’s take a look at some handmade card examples that use Botanical and Floral stamps, stencils and dies.
Beneath each photo you’ll see a link, click it for more details such as products used, tutorials and techniques.
Gina used layering stencils in a trendy postage style card with non-traditional blue tones for this beautiful Christmas rose card. Tiny stamps help finish the details of each faux postage stamp and there’s little silver gems for some shine. I spotted this card on the Gina K Designs Instagram page.
This beautiful Winter flower bouquet sits in an old fashioned milk jug on a stamped and water colored card from Karen. She used markers to color directly on the rubber stamps then used water to soften and blend the colors. Take a closer look at the Art Impressions blog.
Savannah created a snow globe and filled it with pretty florals on her card. She stamped and heat embossed on acetate for the clear globe, adding a die cut base and filling it with die cut botanicals and splatter for snow. There’s also a gold embossed sentiment. Find all the details at the Pink and Main blog.
Agnieszka used a hot foil plate and gold foil for the base of the wreath on this stunning holiday card. They then used acrylic markers to add flowers and leaves with a foiled sentiment on a round die cut circle on the center. Check out different color variations of this design on the Altenew blog.
Jenn also created a botanical wreath but with a mixed media style. She used dies from Tim Holtz and some of his Distress Oxide Inks sprayed with water for a wonderful splatter effect. She’s sharing step by steps directions on the Ranger Ink blog.
Rachel used a stencil to add a colorful and dynamic background to her Christmas card. Over top she added a stamped holly sprig. The green stamped and die cut sentiment has be cut several times to add extra height for dimension. Take a closer peek at the Hero Arts blog.
For this pretty Poinsettia card Jill used stencils that have coordinating dies with stitching holes from Waffler Flower, adding hand sewing with embroidery floss. In the center she included a stamped and die cut sentiment as well as a bit more stitching along the top and bottom. Find more details at the Fastest Turtle blog.
Erika used pattern paper for the plaid background of this card adding a scalloped square with stamped sentiment in the center. In two corners she added her stamp botanicals colored with Copic markers with touches of gold pen for some shine. Learn more at the Catherine Pooler blog.
I love the non-traditional pink on this fantastic card from Betty! She used a hot foil plate and gold foil for the background and then used dies cut from pink and green cardstocks for a wonderful swag of botanicals. There’s also a doily and stamped sentiment label too. Take a closer look over at the Papertrey Ink blog.
Here’s a terrific trio of floral Christmas card from Adrienne using a new Holiday kit from Spellbinders. These card use a variety of products and techniques like die cutting, dry embossing, letter pressing and printed ephemera. She breaks it all down over on the Spellbinders blog.
Kristina used her new Poinsettia stamps and dies to created several different styles of cards for the Holidays. This one has a wonderful ink blended blue background that makes the red and white flowers really pop! I love the gold touches on the card edge, sentiments and splatter! Watch her video tutorial at the K. Werner Design blog.
I hope you take time during this busy Holiday season to stop and smell the flowers and also include them in your cards this year.
-Heather
