Hi, crafty friends! It’s that time of year: the holiday release from Purple Onion Designs is finally live!! This year, there are two collections: one from Pei and one from Holly Mabutas. Today I’m sharing a card with an image from Pei’s collection, but rest assured – I will have one with Holly’s over the weekend.

The It’s the season! collection consists of 11 images and a sentiment set with five sentiments. I’ll use the sentiments on cards in the upcoming weeks, but the sentiment on this particular card is from the Seasons Sayings sentiment set that came out last year. The image, however, is Magical Christmas, and it’s from this new release. I love the bear and cat waving at Santa’s sleigh in front of the moon. I used the Winter Trees background stamp from the Tofu & Friends Holiday collection from 2023 to fill out the scene a little. It makes it look like they’re deep in the woods in the middle of nowhere. I stamped the background and the moon with Classic Kraft ink from Papertrey Ink, while using Memento Tuxedo Black for the foreground. Once my coloring was complete, I re-stamped Santa’s sleigh with Obsidian ink from Altenew and white heat embossed the little trail of stars behind the sleigh.

This card came together pretty easily, and even though I had planned on using more bluegreens for the clothing, in the end I did go back to my trusty blues. You can just never go wrong with blue! I even stamped the sentiment in Altenew Winter Lake ink, to get even more blue in there. I like having the color of the sentiment match the rest of the card.

Simple color palette for this one. I used a lot of dark colors, and I also used BV27, which is a color I’ve made myself, as I find the gap from 29 to 25 a bit tricky to work with for large night skies like this.

For a limited time, the entire It’s the season! collection is available as a bundle with all 11 images and the five sentiments at a discounted 30% off. The offer is available until Wednesday 11 November, 2026 on the Purple Onion Designs website.