Winter Greetings

Some people love playing in the snow during the winter.  Others move to warm climates to avoid shoveling the white stuff that falls from the sky. But for most, sending a little winter love is enough to warm the soul during the chilly, winter months.  For those that absolutely love snowflakes, these cards might just be enough to put a smile on a loved one's face regardless of how close they live to the Equator.  This card is also a great option for a unique Holiday Card. 

Winter Love for Warming the Soul

To make the card:

1. Purchase blank, colored cards or cut your cards from a piece of colored card stock.

2. Find a base, patterned winter themed card stock or paper and cut a strip about two inches wide, and a height slightly smaller than the height of your card.  Attach to one side of the card.

3. Use another winter themed piece of card stock or paper and cut a large base square, approximately 4 by 4 inches for this card.  Attach to card.

4. Cut a small strip of winter themed paper or card stock about one inch by three inches.  Center and attach to strip from step two.

5. Cut a square of about 3.5 by 3.5 inches and attach to base square from step three.  

6. Using an awl, needle or skewer, punch holes in each corner of the square in step five.

7. Attach brads of choice to each corner of card. 

8. Purchase or cut your own snow flakes.  For this card, the snow flakes were ornaments found at a local craft store.  You could also use a pre-cut snow flake or cut your own snow flake from your paper cutting machine.  Attach to the card using double sided foam stickers.

9. Use embellishments that look like little snow balls and jewels from your local craft store.  The more random the pattern, the more they will look like snow on your card.

10. Find a piece of card stock or paper that has a snow-people repeating pattern and cut a strip wide enough to see all of the snow-people  

Inside of Card

11. Using paper that matches the paper already used for the card, cut a strip about two inches in height.  Attach to the inside of the card.

12. Attach the strip of snow-people from step ten to the strip cut in step eleven.

13. Using the same embellishments from step nine, add to the base strip above your snow-people strip.

14. Write your winter greeting, use a holiday inspired stamp, seal with love and send in the mail.

  

 Always remember, you might be sending a card with some winter warms to your loved one, but a cup of hot chocolate goes great when watching the snow fall outside of your window, creating this card.