As I was looking through my designer papers, I realized some of them have not been used for quite awhile with Halloween and Christmas projects taking the focus plus new products coming out pretty frequently. From that perspective, I made this Nests of Winter Thinking of You Card. If you wanted to, you could make it into a holiday card with a different greeting.
This paper has been around for awhile but it is still available! It came out last year in the Holiday Mini Catalog along with the Winterly Tree Tops Bundle of stamp set and dies. That Bundle was retired in April 2025, but the pretty Nests of Winter Designer Series Paper is still available! It does say “Low Inventory” as I write this so if you want to purchase it or get another package if you already have some, better hurry! It wasn’t a package of paper I would have chosen, but we used it in a virtual Stampin’ Up! event last fall and I loved it! Before the paper is gone, I decided to set it aside and make a card with it!
The card base is Garden Green Cardstock with a layer of the green striped pattern on the back of one of the featured papers. What I really like was this pair of birds sitting on a branch with red berries. I cut it out by hand with my Paper Snips, then layered the birds on a diecut piece of the Nests of Winter Designer Paper. It was cut out with the Branching Out Dies found on page 50 in the September-December 2025 Holiday Catalog, and then layered on a diecut of Real Red. You could also use Cherry Cobbler. The birds and the layers are all adhered flat on the card but you could pop up the birds or the layers with Stampin’ Dimensionals.
The greeting is one I found in the Greetings For All Ephemera Pack. There are ephemera packs in the Annual Catalog on page 25 and in the Holiday Mini on page 15. If you don’t own any ephemera packs yet it’s time to get some! They are fun and easy to use. At first I thought this diecut greeting in the ephemera pack would be too small for this card, but once I placed it on the diecut piece, I really liked it there! If you wanted this to be a Christmas card, just add a different greeting…or just a winter card!
I couldn’t resist adding three small Cherry Cobbler & Pearl Adhesive-Backed Berries to the card front to match the berries on the paper! These are also “Low Inventory” so bette grab them if you want them. They are great for Christmas cards or any time.
This Nests of Winter Designer Series Paper just appealed to me when I came across i t, looking for something different from all the Christmas and Halloween paper. Often we get so caught up in all our new things, we forget about our older products. This was a pretty paper and I was inspired to use it for something different! Check your designer papers and see if there is something you haven’t used in awhile!
