Stitchmas Nutcracker

Hi Crafty Friends,

Today I am sharing a Mini Slimline Christmas card using the final die set from Spellbinders 12 Days of Stitchmas 2025. Wow so many pieces in this set to creat this cute nutcracker, but it was easy enough to put together by just die cutting and assembling one section at a time. 

As you can see I did stitch the various pieces, I felt this one needed to be stitched, however I would have preferred to have some gold metallic embroidery floss rather than the thin gold thread I had to use as it was all I had. 

I added the sentiment from Hero Arts A Little Nuts stamp set, to the red panel on the left hand side of my card. To finish off the card, I added three gold pearls to the top of the same panel.

For the inside, I added another of the sentiments from the Hero Arts stamp set, and added a gold border to the right hand side of the card.

 

Fa La La Bear

 

Hi Crafty Friends,

Today I am continuing sharing my cards I created using the dies from Spellbinders 12 Days of Stitchmas Advent Calendar. For this card I ended up using dies from three different days. The cute bear is from Day 6; the "Fa La La" from Day 7 and I also used the Christmas Tree from Day 3 on the inside.

For this card I created a Centre Step Card using an older die set from my stash. I also have a video tutorial on my YouTube channel showing how easy these are to make if you don't have dies.

I used the Snowflake Shimmer Betterpress plate to create the snowy background. This was white foiled onto blue cardstock and then I added darker inks to the top portion of the panels.

The sign post is from the North Pole Sentiments die set. As you can see, I did stitch the bears tummy and scarf.

I die cut the letters to spell "FA LA LA" from red and green cardstock and added them to the bottom to the card. I didn't stitch these.

For the inside of the card, I added the Christmas tree from Day 3 to the lower right hand side of the card. I also added a stamped sentiment from my stash.

Happy Holidays Tree

Hi Crafty Friends,

Today I am sharing a Mini Slimline Christmas card I created using the Day 3 die set from Spellbinders 12 Days of Stitchmas 2025 kit. For this card I opted not to stitch the Christmas tree, instead I added some gems over the tree. 

I layered the tree onto a striped panel using Spellbinders/Lisa Horton Lots of Stripes die set. I then layered this to a mini slimline card which I had embossed using the Holiday Lights 3D Embossing Folder.

For the inside of my card, I added a Christmas sentiment from an older Pinkfresh Studios die set.

 

Merriest Christmas Mugs

Hi Crafty Friends,

Today I am sharing another Christmas card using dies from Spellbinders 12 Day of Stitchmas Advent Calendar. This card uses the mug from Day 5. 

While looking for a slimline card die set, I came across this Slimline Star background from Whimsy Stamps. This panel was already put together and just needed to be put onto a Slimline card. So as you can see, I pulled it out to use on today’s card.

I did say the other day that I wasn’t planning to stitch these dies, but as you can see I did for this card. After 9 months my hands seem to be improving, so sewing this wasn’t a struggle. I used the reverse side of the die to get the mirror image for the mug on the left side. 

To finish off the front of the card, I added a foiled Christmas sentiment from Pinkfresh Studios to the centre of the card.

For the inside of the card, I added another mug, without stitching. I also added a foiled sentiment from Spellbinders.

 

Merry & Bright

Hi Crafty Friends,

Since Tuesday 23rd September, Spellbinders have been revealing their 12 Days of Stitchmas Advent Calendar. This is an advent calendar that you open prior to December as it contains dies to help with making Christmas cards. I managed to pick one up recently, so I have been having fun pulling out the dies and making some cards.

This is the first one I made on the weekend using the dies from Day 2 - “Merry & Bright”. For most of my cards, I won’t be including stitching. A while back while looking for a Slimline die, I discovered this slimline panel all die cut and put together which I have been wanting to turn into a card. I added the paper background to the middle and added some maroon diagonal pieces to the borders. I then die cut ‘Merry’ and ‘Bright’ from both pink and maroon cardstock and offset the pink over the maroon and adhered to my card. I die cut the ampersand from maroon cardstock and added in the centre.

To finish off the front of the card, I added the gold foiled sentiment.

For the inside of my card, I added another gold foiled sentiment. I also added two ornaments which I believe is from Day 4.