 Hey guys, we are here with the fourth and final Video for the four artists four seasons digital background exchange hop thing With Bea Grubb, Peg Robinson, and Chelsea All right, so this time we're doing winter and The ladies came up with some really great winter backgrounds This is what I have left of the ones I printed because I've used them As usual the ones that I've created will be available in a free File over in Dropbox. I'll link it in the description below But these are all the different ones mine and theirs They did some really great ones. They're just simple uncomplicated digital prints of Backgrounds that they did of their art and our purpose was to show you What you could do with something like this and I think we've come up with some new and unique in different ways because we're approaching the end of the year and The holiday season I really wanted to do something appropriate to that So I'm going to revive an oldie bit of goodie on my channel and we're going to make these So if you've been following my channel for a while You know what these are if you've gotten an Etsy order for me You also have one of these because every Etsy order that goes out gets one of these. These are just little small note cards simply made from things I have in stock or that are inexpensive to get and I will link the envelope. I Want to say it's an a1 size, but I don't remember But it's a particular kind of size of envelope. I will link it in the description below I get them from Amazon Anyway, the card stock base that I use is just a plain solid colored card stock. I get them in packs like this From your local craft and hobby shop in the scrapbooking department. This one is from Hobby Lobby they're four and a half by six and a half. This one is all craft colored card stock But they come in different colored packs rainbow colored There is one that has I did pull a few out That's got like cream and gray and white So they have different ones so pick the one that's going to work for you most of the time I just use craft. I also have some black ones that I use occasionally I tried to make my cards pretty general So they could be used for a lot of different things Usually they'll say something like happy day or Congratulations or I do do some thank you ones specifically, but they don't always all say that I have a sentiment sticker download in my Etsy shop and this is one of the sheets from that And to be honest I'm not sure I have enough stickers to do all the cards. I want to do today, but I guess we'll find out But the sentiments say things like thank you. Hello. Congratulations Happy day thinking of you. So they're the type of sentiments that you could use for lots of different occasions I also print out I Have other word printables printed on stickers. These are every labor label sheets. These are labor label sheet number 5167 and I have Like believe grow glorious love. I use these also on the cards happy strength freedom breathe live open Explore motivate strength. So these were not only Developed and done for art journaling and those kind of projects, but I also did them with the cards in mind so there's lots of different Downloadables like that on my Etsy shop So you're gonna need some sentiment stickers or if you have lots of word stickers if you're like me and you're a word sticker addict Because I not only have mine, but hello. These are all words. These are just word stickers You could go through these and there's probably ones in here that you could use Deep breath that would be that would work on a card, especially if you're trying hard to keep them Are a generic and having a stock of them To just have around and when the occasion arises whether it's somebody that just needs a hey, hello, I'm thinking about you or it's a birthday or Congratulations, I heard you're having a baby or you know the front can just say congratulations And then you personally write a note on the inside I put more value to that than a store-bought greeting card to be honest with you So the sentiment on the outside on the cover can just be pretty generic and then You can write your specific message on the inside. So all of these will work. I collect a word sticker I'm a word sticker at it. So All right, so how do you make these exactly? I'll show you So put these aside. I cut a lot of The backgrounds from some other paper too that I have laying around because I need to make more cards I'm running low These are the winter ones we're gonna work on These over here So you want to cut your patterned paper to about two and a half by four and Then I always like to round the edges if he I use Who knows what this is if you're old school, you know, but this is this is a creative memories corner rounder I do have other corner punches and you can get really fancy with it Or you can just keep it simple and use a corner rounder this one. I've had for a really long time It still works like a champ But use what you have you can leave it square too if you so choose You'll need some sentiment stickers and then you're gonna need your card stock So and a glue stick glue stick. So the first thing you want to do and you want something to Push let's see like a bone folder or something All right. First thing you want to do is fold your cards first thing you want to do is put the glasses on Okay. All right. Now I can see what I'm doing. So the first thing I'm gonna do is I'm going to Fold the card stock in half now you could get your Thing out and crease it and like all that does I have one I have two of them I think I hardly use them. So you want to crease your card stock Then you're gonna get your one of your backgrounds and some glue And a scrap piece of paper Gonna glue we're gonna center that on the card just eyeball it Get a gift card or something with a straight edge and push it down Now sort of as a bonus thing if you have lots of pre cutout embellishments Like I do if you're like me you have a drawer's full of these things Let's take them out and let's use them. You don't have to get fancy with it You can if you want to these are just simple quick easy cards And I will usually just have a selection of things out which I do right now And I just grab things at random Then I grab a sentiment. I want to use this one up first Just like that That's all there is to it. I'm gonna make a whole bunch of cards and I'll be right back I made a lot of these most of them are drying But I Love them. They turn out great. Now. Yes, this is something I've done on my channel before I've showed how to make these little cards before I'll link the other videos in the description below The way they make them has not changed that much. I use Painty papers or digital background prints for the background. I have as most of you do probably to loads of Printed embellishments handmade embellishments stickers Something like that to add to the background and then the sentiment They're all made the same way. You can use a glue stick. You can use tacky glue The card stock is cheap and inexpensive Everything to decorate the cover you probably already have if you don't have labels to print out sentiments You probably have word stickers in your stash. Use those use them up these make great little cards and the Envelopes are I think a ten or eleven dollars for a hundred and they are an a one size envelope I'm going to put the link in the description below for the sentiments and everything so This is just one of many things you can do with the digital background. We've done some interesting stuff with them this year It has have everyone else in the hop. I'm going to link all their videos in the description below and I do have a Playlist for all the videos that I did so if you would like to check out the other ones where I did the wall hanging and We printed on fabric and all of that stuff Then you're more than welcome. That's it for right now I hope this gives you some great ideas of what you can do with your digital backgrounds Maybe you have a pile of digital backgrounds laying around in a bin somewhere like I do and you're like What do I do with all these? I feel like I need to use them up make some cards it is the holiday season coming up and You know, you're gonna need to if nothing else and thank you cards out I again I'd like to keep these around the house because when I need to send someone a hey, I'm thinking of you card I can grab one that says hello Or I can if it's their birthday happy day or congratulations You know, I have thinking of you. There's a lot of and I also have lots of thank you cards So at the holidays, I do like to send thank you cards out. So I use those two. 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