Heirloom Frames Sending A Letter To Santa

by Joanne James23. October 2026 19:56

Happy Friday everyone! I had a lunch date cancelled today as my friend was poorly and since it has rained pretty much all day (again!), I retreated to my craft room for a couple of hours this afternoon and made a card inspired by a few challenges:

         

52 Christmas Card Throwdown are looking for cards featuring Christmas mailboxes, so I grabbed the sketch at Sunday Stamps (I mirrored it on the vertical as I needed my sentiment on the other side) and took red, black and paper piecing as my choices from the Festive Friday list and set to work. Take a look at what I came up with:

 

Here's the low-down on today's card:

I decided to use my Stamping Bella Bundle Girl 'Letter To Santa' stamp for my card, framing the postbox with an embossed frame using the retired oval Heirloom Frames embossing folder and then cutting out the centre of the panel using a retired oval framelit. I stamped the image a second time on white cardstock and coloured and fussy cut both the robin and the little girl, popping them up on dimensionals outside the frame to complete the scene. I stamped the girl a third time onto a scrap of Tis The Season retired plaid DSP and then fussy cut and paper-pieced her coat and hat with it. I finished my card with a silver foiled sentiment from the Magical Christmas Foil Dies (I snipped it in two to fit my card better):

 

I really love the effect of the embossed frame and it makes for a different way to use this stamp too. 

Enjoy your evening - I'm settling in for this week's second instalment of The Traitors! I'll be back tomorrow with another project. Until then, happy stampin'!

 

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