So Very Merry 2026

Online Card Classes is hosting another holiday cardmaking class this year. As in previous years, the emphasis is on batch making cards, typically 4 cards per design.

As usual you can choose between purchasing the class kit designed by Kristina Werner from Concord & 9th or you can shop your stash. I have lots of holiday products in my stash, so that’s what I’m using.

A holiday card in green, pink and silver tones looks like a sheet of postage stamps in different sizes. Each stamp depicts a green, wrapped gift with a pink bow. The bows sparkle. The sentiment is another postage stamp. It reads "May your days be merry."
A detail shot of a holiday card in green, pink and silver tones that looks like a sheet of postage stamps in different sizes. Each stamp depicts a green, wrapped gift with a pink bow. The bows sparkle. The sentiment is another postage stamp. It reads "Santa is coming to town." Clear, silvery dew drops are scattered around the sentiment.
A detail shot of a holiday card in green, pink and silver tones that looks like a sheet of postage stamps in different sizes. Each stamp depicts a green, wrapped gift with a pink bow. The bows sparkle. The sentiment is another postage stamp. It reads "May your days be merry." Some clear, silvery flatback pearls are scattered around the sentiment.

Kristina on Day 1

Kristina’s first batch of cards used stenciling to add texture. First she stenciled a framed snowflake in multiple colors. Then she added a clear glitter stencil paste on top. Her sentiment was heat embossed in white on black cardstock.

Stenciling

I chose to use Waffle Flower Postage Collage products for my cards. First I stenciled with Pinkfresh inks through the Postage Collage Gifts Stencil onto Hammermill cardstock. Then I came back with the bow stencil and applied clear Ranger Stickles through it.

When the glitter glue had dried, I die cut my panels with the Waffle Flower Postage Collage Die. As usual I added a second die cut of Accent Opaque behind the first one for stability.

Sentiments

The high-contrast look isn’t really my thing, so I chose to heat emboss my sentiments in silver on Hammermill. Most of them are from a Hero Arts stamp set called Cozy Town, CM467. I picked it up at their Richmond, CA location when they had a holiday sale in 2022.

I cut the sentiments down to fit on individual postage stamps from the Postage Collage Die. After I ink blended a little of the pink that I used for the bows onto my sentiments, I cut apart another Postage Collage Die cut. Then I used them to mat my sentiments.

Background

I couldn’t resist adding a bit more texture, so I dry embossed 4 panels of Hammermill Spellbinders Embossing Folder of the Month for July 2025. Then I glued my panels to 4 A2 card bases.

Final Assembly

I popped up my Postage Collage panels on foam tape centered on the embossed backgrounds. Then I popped up my sentiment postage stamps on top, taking care to place them so they break up the strong lines of the postage collage layout. To finish up I scatted some silvery dew drops around the sentiments.

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