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Tuesday, October 31, 2017

Sweet Holiday

Happy Halloween everyone!  It's Jeanne posting today.  Normally I post on Friday but I switched with Janet because of last Friday's video blog hop.  Wasn't that fun?

Although today is Halloween, I have a Christmas card for you featuring one of my favorites - a gingerbread man!
This card uses the Gingerbread Baking set, the Cross-Stitched Squares set and the Sweet phrase.  The card is an A2 top fold  with landscape orientation.  I cut a piece of patterned paper 1/4 inch smaller - 4 x 5 1/4 inches.  This gives a nice 1/8 inch border all the way around.
I used the middle square from the Cross-Stitched Squares to cut the base for the gingerbread man.  He is cut from Crumb Cake card stock; the rest of his pieces and the sentiment uses white.  I colored his tie using markers.
To give him a "crispy cookie" feel, I sponged the edges in Crumb Cake ink.  I then used a multi-liner pen to color in his eyes and nose.
I glued on his tie and frosting but decided I would use glitter enamel dots for his gumdrop buttons.  The white square didn't stand out as much as I wanted so using my paper cutter I cut out a green square that was slightly larger than the cross-stitched one.
For the sentiment, the strip of red card stock is 5 1/4 x 1 1/2 inches and the green is 5 x 1 5/8 inches.

I used white embossing powder to heat emboss"have a" and "holiday".  To get the placement, I put the red strip in my MISTI and laid the SWEET die cut where I wanted it on the strip.  Then I positioned the stamps and closed the lid.  I removed the die cut and proceeded with the embossing.  "Sweet" is covered in three coats of Wink of Stella and really sparkles person.  When it was dry I glued it down in position.

The last things I did were adhering the square with the gingerbread to the front using foam dots and adding a ribbon bow in the corner.

http://www.scrappingcottage.com/cottagecutzgingerbreadbakingset.aspx
http://www.scrappingcottage.com/cottagecutzcross-stitchedsquaresetbasics.aspx

http://www.scrappingcottage.com/cottagecutzexpressionsplussweetphrase.aspx
Thanks for stopping by today!  See you Friday!

9 comments:

  1. Cute card -- I LOVE the red/white striped background paper to show off your gingerbread man.

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  2. This is super cute Jeanne- and your designer paper is perfect- love this gingerbread man die

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  3. Such a sweet card! Your gingerbread man is absolutely adorable! And you are right about the hop, it was amazing with lots of inspiration!

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  4. Love the bold papers so much fun! And that gingerbread man is so cute!!

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  5. So cute! I love your gingerbread man being used with the Sweet expression.

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  6. This is so sweet - the gingerbread boy/girl baking die is too cute.
    Karen

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  7. Goodness, how I love gingerbread people! Yours is adorable. Thanks for switching with me last week too. You're the best! -Janet

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