Christmas in July Scene Card

Handmade Christmas card featuring a pink vintage van with gifts and a cute snowman.
Merry Christmas card with a pink van carrying a tree and gifts beside a snowman in falling snow, by Honey Bee Stamps.

Happy Monday friends! It’s Keiko from Happy Tree Studio here today. It has been excruciatingly hot here in Tokyo and I needed to make something snowy today! I have decided to use the new van die to make a fun Christmas scene card.

Angled view of the Christmas in July van card with a wreath on the front, a Honey Bee Stamps project.

For the snowy background, I die cut a piece of navy card stock with Snow Day Cover Plate , blended some white pigment ink around the edges, then adhere it to the white card base. I then made a snowy hill with white glitter card stock and foam mounted on the panel. You can use any hill die or simply hand cut it using scissors. I picked out a color scheme with pink, red, green, mint, and white and die cut all the elements from colored card stocks and some specialty papers such as foil and pattern papers. Here are the die sets I used:
Lovely Layers: Beach Bound (van)
Build A Snowman (snowman, gift packages)
Christmas Market Cart Add-On (greeneries, wreath, Christmas lights)
Summer Cabins (tree on the van)

Close-up of the pink van with a red bow wreath, presents and a snowman on the navy card, made with Honey Bee Stamps.

To add texture and interest to some of the die cuts, I either inked them or added shading with markers. After adhering the die cut elements, I splattered the entire panel with some white paint to add some finer snow. The sentiments are from Bitty Buzzwords: Holidays set and I die cut the Christmas twice from white card stock and once from white glitter card stock. I then die cut the shadow from velum and adhere the glitter one on top and other two white layers on the back. I white heat embossed the Merry word on the same navy card stock and cut it out (I used Mini Messages Banner die but you can easily hand trim it). I added the sentiments and the card is complete!

Christmas van scene card beside red and white ornaments and greenery, a Honey Bee Stamps card.

Thank you so much for stopping by today. Have a wonderful week!

Keiko Ichikawa for Honey Bee Stamps designer signature in black script with a small flying bee.

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