Winter Thank You Cards

One of my creative goals for the year is to try at least four Pinterest ideas: a craft, a recipe, a scrapbook layout, and a card. I needed to make a set of cards to use as this year's Christmas thank you notes, so I decided that was the perfect opportunity to get inspired by something on my Cards and Card Sketches Pinterest board. 

 

This is what I made:

Winter Thank You Cards (affiliate link)

And this is my inspiration: 

 

I really like this farm-themed card by Kristie Marcotte. Not only is it eye-catching, but it's a great way to incorporate a lot of different patterned papers and a fantastic way to use up scraps. I can definitely see myself using this design again. 

The paper I used for my cards is from a really old collection: Winter Song by SEI. It's so pretty, but I've struggled to use it over the years. It has some papers with large focal images that I tend not to use for layouts. Since I had the paper out anyway, I decided to finally cut into them to turn them into cards. Here are some of the additional cards I made:

I need to go through my older patterned paper and see if there are other papers I'm not using because of large focal images. I can always use more cards.