We continue our tour of the Online Exclusive bundle by Stampin’ Up! called Frosted Forest. And today, things are cooling off a little bit as we find our forest covered in a light dusting of snow.
Today’s card is also the start of a brand NEW blog series called Sketchy Fridays, where we’ll be using sketches as the basis for our card designs. We’re kicking off this series with the sketches found in the current 2024-25 Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog. Did you know that there are 22 sketches included in the new catalog at the bottom of page 22? What a fantastic resource we have right at our fingertips to make beautiful cards in a jiffy!
And today, we begin with Sketch #4 which we are pairing with the Frosted Forest bundle. This sketch drew me because of its large focal panel which allows a beautiful product bundle, like Frosted Forest, to take center stage. TIP: remember that a sketch is just a starting point and moving elements around to suit your design is a-okay!
I loved the pairing of the Winter Meadow paper with the lovely evergreens in the Frosted Forest set. So we get started with a card base of Mossy Meadow. The base of our focal panel is a combination of gold foil specialty paper and a patterned sheet from the Winter Meadow designer series paper pack. Our focal panel is a piece of Very Vanilla cardstock where we stamp both the small and large evergreens from the Frosted Forest stamp set in black ink and then shade them in using the decorative masks and a combination of Shaded Spruce, Old Olive, and Garden Green inks. The snowflakes from Merriest Trees are stamped in Versamark and I then used mask #2 to apply Versamark to both trees and a Versamark pen to fill in underneath both evergreens. All of this is heat embossed using the opaque bright white embossing powder. The focal panel is matted with Boho Blue luster paper and then adhered with dimensionals. Our sentiment from Everyday Greetings is stamped in Versamark on Mossy Meadow and heat embossed in metallic gold rich embossing powder. Fussy cutting around the sentiment gives it a more casual feel. The sentiment is adhered to a Gold Mercury vellum mat with dimensionals. Our vellum mat has been diecut with the smallest Deckled Rectangle die and is adhered to the focal panel with a strip of tear-n-tape. I added a dove from Frosted Forest and a few rhinestone basic jewels to finish things off.
Using a sketch is like using a recipe when you’re cooking — it gives you a great place to start but allows you to spice things up with your own variations. For me, it helps a design come together more quickly because I have a great base.
Tomorrow we’ll be finishing up our card series using the Frosted Forest bundle with one of my favorite fun folds. I hope you’ll drop by and check it out!
Products used in today’s card:
Mossy Meadow, Very Vanilla cardstock
Gold Mercury vellum, Winter Meadow, Boho Blue luster, Gold foil DSP
Frosted Forest stamps, decorative masks, and dies
Everyday Greetings stamps
Deckled Rectangles
Embossing powder
Rhinestone basic jewels
Dimensionals
Adhesives
Song Sparrow Papercrafts 