Today is a day off from school for my children so I am taking the opportunity to get crafty! Our church had a wonderful Family camp this past weekend and so now we are just relaxing.

I am continuing to make Christmas cards right now as I am still in the mood to do so!

For these two cards I used The Stamps of Life Card Kit.

I also used the Gingerbread 2 Stamp set and coordinating dies.

I wanted to make several things so I began by stamping lots of gingerbread men with dark brown ink on Stampin up Baked Brown Sugar cardstock. I tried several paper colors but I liked this best.

The stamp set includes lots of cute embellishments including a bow tie, a star button, a circle for his buttons (they were raisins at my house growing up) and lots of icing choices. Just so versatile.

I added a red bow tie and put red stickles on top of that. I did the same for the green stars. The icing is so cute – I stamped it with white pigment ink. I really like that each cookie can have its own personality!

I die cut the happy holidays in red and mounted on green to make it pop. I finished it off with red seam binding.

For this second card, I used the same red and green card stock. I began by die cutting the circle using the Happy Birthday Circle Dies. The outer circle doesn’t cut out a circle, but it leaves a circle of punched holes. I sewed around the circle with the thick twine in the Card kit. The gingerbread man was the perfect centerpiece.

I stamped the sentiment and added a little more twine to the edge.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you have a great day!!

Items Used:

The Stamps of Life Card Kit Club
The Stamps of Life Kiwi Cardstock
The Stamps of Life Cranberry Cardstock
The Stamps of Life Happy Birthday Circle Dies Set
The Stamps of Life Gingerbread2stamp set and Dies
Stampin’ Up Baked Brown Sugar Cardstock (retired)