Our unseasonably cool weather continues here in North Texas, and I’m looking forward to taking a longer walk today. What do you do when you’re having nicer weather in your area? I like to take advantage of cooler weather in the summer, for sure, and aside from taking a longer walk, I hope to knock out some gardening-related things outside this afternoon.

This week, we’re focusing on winter-themed products in the current Stampin’ Up! lineup in anticipation of the new winter mini catalog that will be launching in September. Today’s card is actually a nod to an older SU! wood-mounted set called Home for Christmas. The main image in that stamp set included a sled leaning against a door with a snow-filled threshold. Anyone remember that one?

So we get started on this card with a base of Shaded Spruce cardstock. Our background panel is the Mossy Meadow polka dot pattern sheet from the Season of Green & Gold designer paper pack. The door is “built” using a sheet of lighter woodgrain from the Country Woods designer paper pack. The door is adorned with an evergreen wreath which uses Shaded Spruce, Old Olive, and Garden Green cardstock and the greenery sprig from the Sophisticated Sled die set. The greenery is layered in a circle to create a wreath and then affixed to the door with dimensionals. Our sled is diecut from Pecan Pie and gold foil using the sled dies in the Sophisticated Sled die set and then leaned against the door and affixed with dimensionals. I added a few rhinestone jewels to serve as the sled rivets. To give the look of a snowy landscape, I diecut the white snowy vellum sheet from the Graceful Greenery vellum pack using the cloud dies from the Bright Skies die set. The sentiment from Sophisticated sled is stamped in Versamark on Very Vanilla cardstock and heat embossed with gold embossing powder. It’s then diecut using the Autumn Leaves dies and then affixed in the center of the wreath with dimensionals. To help draw the eye to the sentiment, I added a few Blooming Pearls on either side.

Tomorrow we’re going to fill our hearts with cheer. I hope you’ll drop in and find out how!

Products used in today’s card:
Shaded Spruce, Pecan Pie, Old Olive, Garden Green, Very Vanilla cardstock
Country Woods, Season of Green & Gold, Graceful Greenery vellum, Gold Foil DSP
Sophisticated Sled stamps & dies
Bright Skies, Autumn Leaves dies
Blooming Pearls, Rhinestone basic jewels
Dimensionals
Adhesives

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