I’m not sure why but I don’t seem to make many winter themed general sentiment cards.  Maybe after making a bunch of Christmas cards I’m ready to move on to warm weather colors and images?  But…

As I was flipping through my 6×6 paper pads I came across Carta Bella’s Winter Market.  It’s a pretty paper pad with lots of blues, greens and hints of peach.  With fun images like skiers, snowmen, hats and mittens, it was perfect for general sentiment winter cards.

The first card features snowflakes and skiers.  With all the blues in the paper, it was easy to find a blue cardstock for the matting.  I didn’t have a matching blue ink, but Versafine’s Smokey Gray ink matched the muted tones of the papers.  For a finishing touch, I added a few silver brads.

For this card I used the hats and mittens paper and a tone-on-tone snowflake print.  Normally I would use the tone-on-tone paper as the background but it just seemed too pale with the darker background of the hats and mittens print.  Also, by switching the papers you can really see the snowflakes die cut from DCWV peach glitter cardstock.  Keeping with the blue scheme, the sentiment is stamped on light blue cardstock.

For these cards, I wanted to try out a new coverplate die I had ordered from Amazon.  I have ordered dies before and found they can be a bit hit or miss – some work really well and others not so much.  This die came as a 2 pack along with a diagonal strip coverplate.  Both worked really well and the price was very reasonable.  On the cards I used a smooth solid color cardstock as the background so the “quilt” pattern would really show up.  For the pattern paper I used scrap pieces left over from other cards.  For a bit of sparkle I added snowflakes cut from DCWV white glitter cardstock and Love from Lizi peel-offs.

While I only made a few cards it was a nice transition from Christmas into spring and general themed cards.