How to Add Snow to Your Handmade Cards

Hello! You can bring the magic of winter to your handmade cards with a variety of techniques for adding snowy details. In this roundup, I’m sharing cards from past blog posts to illustrate different methods for adding snow, offering inspiration rather than focusing on specific products.

Snow can be featured in different areas of your cards, such as softly layered on the ground, gently falling in the sky, or as striking accents and focal points with die-cut snowflakes. I won’t be specifically mentioning where dies are used to create the snowflake accents, but you’ll see them featured in many of the examples throughout.  Click on the card image to be taken to the original post for additional details.

One of the simplest ways to create a snowy scene is by using a hill die to cut white cardstock, adding instant winter charm to your card.

How to Add Snow to Your Handmade Cards

For an extra touch of sparkle, you can use glitter cardstock or glitter foam to create a snow-covered ground.

How to Add Snow to Your Handmade Cards

Glitter cardstock can be used to create focal items, such as sparkling snowmen, adding a festive and eye-catching touch to your card. When I use glitter cardstock for a snowman as a focal point, I don’t use it for the ground, as it would make the snowman less distinct and take away from its prominence. I own one die with snowflakes, and I used it on the card below, along with smaller die-cut snowflakes.

One easy option to use patterned paper featuring snowflakes or a gentle snowfall, instantly setting the scene for a winter feel. The style and color of the paper helps set the mood and tone for your card.

How to Add Snow to Your Handmade Cards

Another way to add snow is by using a background stamp. The ink color, along with the style and scale of the snowflakes, shapes the overall feel of the card, with subtle changes creating entirely different effects.

How to Add Snow to Your Handmade Cards

How to Add Snow to Your Handmade Cards

An embossing folder can add texture to create a snowy sky or overall background, with the style of the snow adding character to your card.

How to Add Snow to Your Handmade Cards

Stencils are a great way to add a snowy sky, whether you’re using designs like snowflakes, snowfall, or flurries. Applying white stencil paste through the stencil creates a textured, dimensional effect.

How to Add Snow to Your Handmade Cards

White embossing paste can be sprinkled with glitter before it dries, creating a beautiful, sparkly effect that enhances the snowy scene.

How to Add Snow to Your Handmade Cards

When I want to achieve the look of snow on greenery, such as evergreen trees or sprigs, I use various embossing powders to make the greenery look as though fresh snow has gently settled on it.

How to Add Snow to Your Handmade Cards

I hope these examples inspire you to get creative with adding snow to your cards. There are many ways to capture the magic of winter—how will you add snow to your next card?

Traditional Christmas Mantel Card

Hello! A decorated mantel embodies the warmth and joy of the holiday season, making it the perfect inspiration for a Christmas card. Mantels are often the focal point of a home, traditionally adorned with garlands, stockings, and festive decor to set the tone for cozy holiday gatherings. This handmade card captures that charm with a beautifully crafted Christmas mantel, created entirely with Spellbinders products. The embossed background adds depth and elegance.

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Traditional Christmas Mantel Card

    • To begin, create an A2-size card base with glitter gold cardstock.
    • Cut a rectangle from Snowdrift cardstock with the largest die in the Nestabilities set.
    • Dry-emboss the rectangle with the 3D Vintage Ornaments folder and adhere to the card base.
    • With dies in the Mantel Village and Mantel Decorations sets, cut the mantel, houses, reindeer, banner, trees, and greenery from a variety of cardstock colors. Assemble individual elements.
    • Cut foam with the mantel die and adhere to the back of the die-cut mantel.
    • To create depth on the mantel, attach the assembled houses and sentiment banner to the back of the mantel. Adhere the greenery to the reindeer and then attach that assembly to the front of the mantel.
    • Finally, add the assembly to the card base, adding the trees to the card base on either side of the houses.

Traditional Christmas Mantel Card

I previously shared a card created with these products HERE.



Hooray! Spellbinders Whimsical Frog Card

Hello! Today, I am sharing a playful birthday card created with the November Large Die of the Month – “HOORAY! It’s Your Birthday” – by Spellbinders. The colorful card features a cute frog driving a car attached to a “Hooray!” flag. Scroll for information about the Pre-Holidays Savings Event at Spellbinders.

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    • Cut a Sea Glass cardstock panel with the Essential Rectangle die and dry-emboss with the Stargazer folder.
    • Cut a strip from Doodlebug patterned paper and add to the dry-embossed panel to create a ground.
    • Add assembly to an A-2 card base.
    • Create car, frog, flag, and presents with dies in the Large Die of the Month set from a variety of cardstock colors and assemble.
    • Add the assemblies to the card background.

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Playful Penguins in a Snow Globe

Hello! Today, I am sharing a whimsical Christmas card featuring a die-cut snow globe and playful penguins crafted with several die sets from Spellbinders. The penguins, nestled in a snowy scene, add fun and charm inside the globe, while the base is decorated with a poinsettia and seasonal greenery.

Playful Penguins in a Snow Globe

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    • To create the card, begin by dry embossing Sea Glass cardstock with the Vintage Ornaments 3D folder. Trim to A2-size and add to a card base.
    • Cut the Playful Penguins from a variety of cardstock colors and assemble. I shared a card featuring the HERE.
    • Cut the snow globe pieces (dome, base, and snow slopes) with dies in the Snow Globe and Snowman Scene sets and assemble.
    • Using dies in the Delivering Joy Sleigh set, cut the poinsettia, greenery, and sentiment tag. I previously shared a card created with the Delivering Joy Sleigh set HERE.
    • Add assembled globe, penguins, and poinsettia embellishment to the card base with glue and foam adhesive.

Playful Penguins in a Snow Globe


Amaryllis Christmas Card with Embossed Details

Hello! I’m excited to share my second Christmas card created with with Spellbinders supplies in the Amaryllis Christmas Collection by Yana Smakula. You can see my first card HERE. You may notice that this card is more detailed than my first card, with the addition of a dry-embossed panel created with the Amaryllis Garden embossing folder from the collection. The embossed texture, floral element, and timeless sentiment come together to create a refined and elegant holiday card perfect for the season.

Amaryllis Christmas Card with Embossed Details

    • Cover an A2-size card base with patterned paper. I used Echo Park paper from my stash.
    • Cut gold cardstock with the largest die in the Essential Stylish Ovals set. To soften the effect of the gold, cut a vellum oval with the same die. Adhere the ovals together in the center, which will be covered by the dry-embossed panel, and add to the card base.
    • Next, cut dark green cardstock with the next smallest die in the Essential Stylish Ovals set. Dry-emboss the oval with the Amaryllis Garden embossing folder and add to the card front.
    • With a die in the Yana’s Amaryllis set, cut the bloom from red cardstock. Carefully turn the piece over and tape from behind to keep the outline and interior pieces together. Cut two more blooms from darker red cardstock, removing the interior pieces and keeping the outlines. Next, adhere these together and adhere to the piece with the full bloom intact. Cut the flower once more from gold cardstock. Fussy-cut and add the gold stem to the bloom piece. Cut two leaves from gold cardstock.
    • Add the amaryllis to the card front with foam adhesive.
    • Press the Home for Christmas sentiment in Spruce ink on white cardstock. Cut with the coordinating die and add to the base of the assembled amaryllis.

Amaryllis Christmas Card with Embossed Details