This darling card from Keiko features a sweet deer peeking through a wreath decorated with poinsettia, pinecones, gingerbread men and ornaments, all created with dies. She added foil and glitter for some shimmering snowy details too. Learn more at the Honey Bee Stamps blog.
I love animals and so of course I love animal stamps and dies and tend to use them quite frequently when creating my cards, especially during the Holidays. Including birds and animals can add a whimsical, cute, fun or even an elegant touch to your Winter and Christmas cards depending on the style you choose. If you’re still working on those last minute Holiday cards you’ll want to check out these wonderful card examples featuring animals.
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This yummy card from Catherine has a delicious looking Christmas figgy pudding, snowflake frame and sentiment cut with dies. But the cutest part are the little stamped mice giving their own tiny version. Ink splatter and more snowflakes add nice movement to the card too. Find more details at the Lawn Fawn blog.
Natasha cleverly took a peeking bear die and turned him into a gingerbread bear, so a gingerbear? 🙂 She used markers for the brown cookie color and white gel pen for the icing accents. He’s looking around a large ornament made with different collaged pattern papers. Watch her tutorial video on the Hero Arts blog.
This serene scene from Gina has a colorful masked and ink blended sky with deer and tree silhouette stamps. She also included a stamped sentiment and some gems and notice the black cardstock mat, it helps pull everything together. I spotted this on the Gina K. Designs Instagram page.
How crazy cute is this elephant Christmas card from Davina!? There’s rows of little die cut snow globes with tiny stamped elephants inside with hats and presents. There’s also a sweet scene at the bottom of elephants decorating a tree. Find more info at the Mama Elephant blog.
Using pattern paper is a quick and easy way to add a snowy background to a wintery scene like Samantha did on this adorable penguin card. She colored her stamped images with Copic markers and finished the scene with a die cut hill and trees. Take a closer look on the Pink and Main blog.
This fancy fox is all dressed up for Christmas in his Santa hat and scarf. Laura’s placed him inside a snow globe with stary background and sprigs of greenery with red gem berries. There’s also a heat embossed sentiment on the base. Learn more over at the Simon Says Stamp blog.
Here’s a beautiful but quick and easy card from Joan. She stamped the polar bear, masked him and the snow with masking paper and ink blended the sky with two colors of blue ink putting a stamped sentiment in the snow. She also added splatter and tiny flakes to include some snow. Find directions on the Spellbinders blog.
This little bunny and penguin are ready to skate right into your hearts on this wintery Holiday card from Ilina. A great way to use smaller stamps is to pull the eye towards them with a shape like she did here with a die cut circle. I love the tiny stamped and die cut sentiment she added overlapping the circle. Find out more at the Trinity Stamps blog.
Rena designed a three panel shaker card filled with Holiday confetti for Christmas with a sentiment in the center and two cute stamped bunnies on either side. She used the same stamp from Whimsy twice but colored the hats differently for added interest. I came across her idea on the Rena Jung Instagram page.
This cute Country Christmas card is made to resemble and envelope with a seal. Gennette used pattern paper for the “flap”, and used an adorable mouse stamp over a snowflake for the “seal”. There’s also a little woodland stamped and watercolored scene in the background too. Find out how she put this all together on the Art Impressions blog.
Christy used new stamps and dies from Lawn Fawn to design this wonderful Panda card. The stamped Pandas are dressed up and exchanging gifts under the die cut Bamboo. I love how she hung stockings and ornaments from the Bamboo, so clever! Watch her video on the Christy Gets Crafty blog.
I hope you’ve enjoying getting inspiration from all these amazing animal themed Christmas cards. Have a jolly day!
-Heather
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