Baking Mice Slimline Christmas Card

Happy Saturday Cottage Cutz Friends!

Melinda here with you, and today I am sharing a cute and festive Christmas themed slimline card I created featuring the adorable Christmas Baking Mice die from this year's amazing Christmas release!

My card is a slimline card and the completed size measures 4 x 9. It is a side folding card with a white cardstock base.  

I started by die cutting all of my pieces in white cardstock. I then proceeded to color the various pieces in with my markers. I wanted to keep my little sweet baking mice close to the color of the packaging. Once all my pieces were colored, I began to assemble them.  on the lighter colored side. So I used shades of gray and light pink-peach for their ears. I used some chalks for their cheeks. I also added some stickles to the tiny chocolate chips in the batter. 

I then proceeded to cut out the largest two dies in white cardstock of the scalloped slimline die set

I then began to adhere my mice and all their little details onto my card base. I did use some pink cardstock for the main mat and also for a mat underneath.

Here is a closer look at the sweet little title. It is from the Baking Spirits Bright die set from last year. I also used some of the cookie pieces form the Sweet As a Christmas Cookie die. I colored them all with my markers. The cookies are a ginger brown and the lettering was read. I did leave the letters of the word spirits on the rolling pin white.

I layered that inner panel onto the larger scallop stitched panel. On the larger panel I added some of that diagonal Christmas plaid paper. Lastly I did add some stickles to the larger star cookie and the tree cookie.

Here is one last look at the completed card. I think this card turned out super cute!

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Dies I Used

Christmas Baking Mice

Scallop Stitched Rectangle Slimline Set

Baking Spirits Bright

Sweet As A Christmas Cookie

Here's a look at the entire release. Be sure to head over and grab them while they last!

Well that about covers it for today! Until the next time, have a wonderfully craft-die day!

Melinda Beltran

Gift Box

 Hi Everyone!

It is Pam sharing on the blog today!

I am giving a few gift cards to friends this year.  So I have created a little box that I can put the gift card in and add a few homemade lemon drop cookies.  This little box is also perfect for any other small gift you may have in mind such as jewelry or candies.  I decorated the box to make it extra special using the Baking Spirits Bright die.

Design Steps:

1.  Using Baking Spirits Bright cut kraft and white card stock.  Glue the white on top of the baking and bright.  I used a little brown ink on the rolling pin

2.  Also cut out all of the little snowmen using white, green, blue, tan, orange and red card stock

3.  Assemble the snowmen using a fine tip glue

4.  You can either buy or create your little box

5. Glue you snowmen to the front and sides of the box

6.  Glue you baking spirits bright to the back of the box. Add your snowflakes and ribbon

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Well it is almost the most wonderful season of the year!!  Can't wait to see my family!

Hope you have a few minutes to relax and enjoy creating!

Blessings

Pam

Sweet Christmas Wishes

Hello!  This is Sukie and I have a slime line Christmas card to share.  Today's card features several of the new dies from the 3 Christmas die releases in the store.  

I selected some yummy treats to showcase on my card.  The die sets I used for the cupcakes include: Upside Down Santa Cupcake, Reindeer Christmas Cupcake, Gnome Cupcake and Snowman Christmas Cupcake. All of the pieces were cut from card stock, pieced together and popped up on card stock for some dimension.  I added a tiny bit of Stickles to a few of the die cut pieces.

The tiny cupcakes and gingerbreads are from the Baking Spirits Bright die set.  They were used as embellishments to highlight the heat embossed sentiment.  The sweet treats on this card all work together perfectly and make for a yummy card.

Here are the die sets used on my card, available in the store:

Baking Spirits Bright

Happy Friday!  It's Jeanne today with a card that was very hard to make - but only because it made me hungry while making it.  All I could think about were freshly baked cookies! 

Gingerbread is one of my favorite Christmas themes and although these are snowmen in this die they fit that general idea.  I had some gingerbread themed patterned paper and knew that combined with this die it would make the perfect stand up card!

To begin I cut my pieces from white, red, crumb cake and a small patterned paper and cardstock.

I used Copic markers to color the nose and holly leaves and I shaded the snowman, cookies and cupcake with Distress Oxide inks.

Next, I cut a piece of crumb cake cardstock to 4 1/4 x 11 inches, then scored and folded it at the 5 1/2 mark (in half, top folding).  On the top flap I scored at the 2 3/4 mark and folded this, essentially folding the top of the card in half.  This will become my easel for the image.  I cut a piece of patterned paper to 4 x 5 1/4 inches and folded it in half at the 2 5/8 inch mark.

I cut two white rectangles using the 2nd largest of the Stitched Scalloped Rectangle dies, one red rectangle using the 3rd largest of the Stitched Rectangles, one white oval using the 2nd largest of the Stitched Scalloped Ovals and one crumb cake oval using the 4th largest Stitched Oval.  I like the Stitched dies but the plain, pierced or double stitched dies work too!

To build the easel, I glued the patterned paper to the top of my card matching up the folds.

I stacked the two white rectangles and adhered the red to the top.  The two pieces of cardstock allow the folded front to have a barrier to stand against when you open the card.

Using a fine tipped glue pen, I glued down my sentiment and a few extra sweets and baking tools.

 I glued my completed sentiment to the inside of the card, about 1/8 inch from the bottom.

I assembled the medallion for the front of the card...

and glued the bottom of it to the lower half of the front of the card.  I left the top free to pop up when the card is opened as an easel.

Finally, I tied a narrow ribbon behind the medallion on the upper part of the card for a little bit of interest when the card is closed.

I hope you enjoyed my card today!  This card would be perfect for someone who loves baking! Be sure to visit the online store where the new Christmas Release (Parts 1, 2 and 3) and the new Halloween release are on sale for a limited time!

Dies:

Thanks for stopping by.  I hope you have a fun and creative weekend!