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Fast & Festive “No Stamping” Garden Green Christmas Cards

by What Cathy Made | Oct 8, 2025 | Floral Impressions DSP, Fresh Freesia, Impressions Abloom bundle, What Cathy Made, With You in Mind stamp set

This week’s AWH Colour Creations challenge features Garden Green, a rich, classic Christmas green that pairs beautifully with reds, golds, and whites

Instead of reaching for my stamps, I decided to create three no-stamping Christmas cards that are quick, easy, and elegant.

Thanks to Stampin’ Up’s ephemera pieces, each card takes just minutes to assemble using basic crafting products, simply perfect for those last-minute cards or craft sessions when you just want to make something beautiful without bringing out the entire craft room!

Garden Green Christmas Colour Combination

My colour combination is inspired by the colours in the Christmas Tags & More 6″ × 6″ (15.2 × 15.2 cm) Mix & Match Specialty Designer Series Paper, pairing Garden Green with Soft Sea Foam, Real Red, Gold, Crumb Cake, and Basic White for a traditional yet fresh Christmas palette.

These are the products I’ve used to make my “fast and festive” Christmas cards.

Christmas Greetings Mix & Match Specialty Cards & Envelopes – The easiest starting point! These pre-printed card bases and coordinating envelopes give you instant polish. They come in a mixed pack of Crumb Cake and Garden Green. I’ve only used the Garden Green card bases.
Christmas Tags & More 6″ × 6″ (15.2 × 15.2 cm) Mix & Match Specialty Designer Series Paper – I love the ephemera pieces in this pack and the way everything coordinates so perfectly.
Greetings for You Mix & Match Ephemera Pack – These peel-and-stick greetings are printed in gorgeous gold foil, so your cards look elegant in seconds. You can either peel the backing off to use them as stickers or leave it on and adhere them with dimensionals, which is what I’ve done today.
Traditional Sparkling Sequins – A sprinkling of sparkle instantly turns “simple” into “special.” I used a mix of the gold and red tones to complement the Garden Green backgrounds.
Black & White & Gold Baker’s Twine – A little bow or wrap of twine adds texture and ties the whole design together (pun intended).
Foiled Frames & Labels Ephemera Pack – With a stunning gold border, the frames are a quick and easy way to add a touch of sophistication to cards.

Card One – Joy and Holly

Card 1 features the gold-foiled “Joy” sentiment, ephemera holly pieces and matching red sequins as the holly berries, creating a clean, classic Christmas look.

A frame from the Foiled Frames & Labels Ephemera Pack makes the “joy” sentiment really pop.

Card Two – Merry & Bright

This card uses an image of baubles, die cut from the Christmas Tags & More 6″ × 6″ (15.2 × 15.2 cm) Mix & Match Specialty Designer Series Paper. Precut bow images from the DSP adorn two of the baubles.

The “merry & bright” sentiment is layered onto a die cut strip from the same DSP. Red and gold sequins decorate the card.

Card Three – Mistletoe Joy

Once again, a frame from the Foiled Frames & Labels Ephemera Pack makes the decorative elements really pop, with a loose bow of the gold and white bakers twine and gold sequins finishing off the card.

The mistletoe bauble is a another precut image from the DSP, sitting behind the “joy” sentiment. It matches the mistletoe ephemera pieces.

Take a look at some more Garden Green inspiration on our Insta Hop!

Our blog hop is now an Instagram hop but the good news is that you don’t need to have an Instagram account to view all of the other projects!

Simply copy any of the Insta handles below into a new search engine window to follow the Instagram hop at any point.

Next in our Hop is Kate @craftwithkate. Be sure to check out her gorgeous project/s.

The full list of this week’s InstaHop is listed below:

Kate @craftwithkate

Kirsty @crafty.littlemiss

Andrea @andreaksargent

Sharon @sharondaverncreates

Rosa @hum.and.stamp

Helen @apaperparadise

Theresa @teegeeinspirations

Cathy @whatcathymade – you are here!

We’ll be back next Wednesday when we are showcasing Gorgeous Grape.

Looking for some more Christmas card inspiration?

Our Heart of Christmas blog hop goes live at 8pm (EAST) every Monday night with Christmas card inspiration. This hop is a traditional blog hop (not an Insta Hop) so you can see all of the team’s creations by reading my blog and clicking through to the next person .

I hope you can join us then!

Fresh Freesia “Card in an Envelope” Card

by What Cathy Made | Oct 1, 2025 | Floral Impressions DSP, Fresh Freesia, Impressions Abloom bundle, What Cathy Made, With You in Mind stamp set

Welcome to week 22 of the Art With Heart Team Colour Creations Blog Hop. This week we are featuring Fresh Freesia, a soft and versatile colour that works beautifully in both feminine and modern designs.

For my project, I’ve created a “Card in an Envelope” fancy fold card using the Floral Impressions 12″ x 12″ Designer Series Paper and the Impressions Abloom Dies. My colour combination is taken from the colours in the Floral Impressions DSP: Fresh Freesia, Misty Moonlight, Old Olive, Pool Party and Pretty in Pink.

This fold is such a fun way to surprise the recipient, as they open the normal mailing envelope to discover another envelope that contains a card with flowers that spill out of the interior envelope.

Inside the Fresh Freesia envelope there is a notecard that opens to reveal a sentiment (stamped in Misty Moonlight from the Impressions Abloom stamp set) and space to write a personal message.

How to make my Fresh Freesia “Card in an Envelope” card

The “Card in an Envelope” base is created by folding Fresh Freesia cardstock into an envelope shape, which holds the inner card. When you pull the card out, the envelope reveals a bouquet of dimensional flowers spilling over the edge.

Following the template below:

Cut 21 x 21 cm cardstock base.
Score and fold at 5.2cm in from the left and right hand side
Score and fold 6 cm from bottom side of cardstock
Measure and mark other lines in pencil
Cut away shaded areas

Once you’ve created the cardstock base, add DSP to decorate the inside back of the card and the front flaps that are folded and glued, as per the photos below. I’ve used the striped Old Olive DSP and the Fresh Freesia patterned DSP from the Floral Impressions 12″ x 12″ Designer Series Paper.

If you don’t already own the Impressions Abloom Dies, now is the perfect time to pick them up from the Last Chance section before they retire!

Take a look at some more Fresh Freesia inspiration on our Insta Hop!