Gingerbread Man

As you know from this weeks posts that today is my day to post for Card A Day Blog, the theme is Christmas Food and I'm continuing the Gingerbread Man theme.  I made an Easel card for today's card.   I used Design Studio to size up my pieces.  

My card size is 4 1/4 x 4 1/4 and I'm not planning on using this card in an envelope but attaching to the bag of Gingerbread cookies that I will be making and giving to someone special. 

The ric rac is from the Plantin Schoolbook cartridge.  I added a sheer ribbon behind my gingerbread man with the bow tied on the side.

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Thanks for stopping by and don't forget to visit the Card A Day Blog for your daily inspiration. Tomorrow starts the new weekly theme of Christmas Around the World with Designer Vicki Schram of Paper Squirrel. 

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Click here to go to Splitcoast Stampers tutorial on how to make and Easel card (other sizes are in the tutorial).

Card front assembly:

Brown Cardstock  - 4 1/4 x 4 1/4

Blue Cardstock - 4x4

Cream Cardstock 3 3/4 x 3 3/4

Pattern Paper - 3 1/2 x 3 1/2

Inside Assembly:

Blue Cardstock - 4x4

Cream Cardstock 3 3/4 x 3
Red punched border - 3 3/4 x 3/4
Pattern Paper - 3 3/4 x 1 1/8

Recipe:

Paper: Cardstock: Recollections - brown, Unknown scraps - blue, red, white, cream; Pattern Paper - K&I memories scrapbook kit (it's a couple of years old)

Cricut Cartridges: From My Kitchen, George, Plantin Schoolbook

Ink: VersaMagic - Red Magic

Punch: Ornament punch border

Misc: Offray sheer ribbon, buttons, adhesive, pop up dots.

Gingerbread Man Tag Day 5

I hope you are enjoying all the Gingerbread Man ideas.  Since the Gingerbread recipe card is a gift I needed  a tag to tie it all together.   Today's project is all made from scraps from my stash.  I cut my Gingerbread man out with my Cricut at 3" - be sure to hide the cookie so it does not cut and then you can have it to very right side of your mat. 

I used an embossing pad and then white embossing powder for my stamped sentiment, then fussy cut around it.  A little bit of ribbon, ric rac, and a couple of beads and buttons and my Gingerbread Man is finished.  I plan on adding him to the package.  After she opens the presents she can use it to decorate her tree next year or as bookmark in the recipe book.

Thanks for stopping by.  Tomorrow is my day as a Designer for the Card A Day Blog.  I hope you have been stopping by and getting lots of inspiration from my fellow Designers.

Recipe:
Paper: Unknown Cardstock - scrap of red
Stamp: Stampin' Up - Just Believe
Ink: Embossing pad
Cricut Cartridge: From My Kitchen
Ribbon: Unknown scrap of red and white ric rac.
Misc: adhesive, felt, tread, buttons, beads, white embossing powder, embossing buddy and a heat gun

Gingerbread Man Mini Album - Day 4

For day 4 of the Gingerbread Man Theme I made a 6x6 mini album.  This is such a quick and easy album that it will take you hardly any time to finish.  I am using the same K&I Memories Scrapbooking Kit just different papers.

For the cover I cut the gingerbread man out of felt sewed the buttons on and glued the beads for this eyes.  The mittens and snowflakes came with the kit and I just glued them to buttons then onto the doily punched glitter paper.  It's kind of hard to see the sparkle of the glitter paper.  All of this is onto of a Sizzix die and the modern label and word window are punched out of cardstock for a title spot. I have a sheer ribbon on the side to finish it off.

I used the mittens and snowflake on the inside along with the doily punch. These are on top of a piece of the sheer ribbon on the left hand side. I have a piece of cardstock punched with the ornament border punch on the bottom of the page.

I used the same border punch on the left side of the paper with a polka dot sticker that was in the kit. I added the 1/4" sheer ribbon to the photo mat.  My ink pad came apart on me so I have a really messy photo mat that no one will notice once the pictures are in place.

I hope you are enjoying the Gingerbread Man theme I have this week and thanks so much for stopping by.

Recipe:
Paper: Pattern Paper - K&I Memories scrapbook kit (it is a couple of years old), Glitter Paper - Best Creations, Scraps of cardstock,  Chipboard - I used recycled boxes.
Ink: VersaMagic - Red Magic
Punches: Ornament border punch; Stampin' Up - ticket corner punch, modern label, word window, doily triple layer punch, decorative label, designer label.
Dies: Sizzix - Decorative Label Set #4
Cricut Cartridge: From my Kitchen
Ribbon: Artic Antics 5/8" (binding), organdy ribbon 7/8" (left side), Offray Sheerly Yours 1/4" (right side)
Misc.: felt, buttons, beads, adhesive

Gingerbread Man Place Card - Day 3

I pulled out my scraps to make this place card.  I used Design Studio to weld the shapes together to make the base.  The white rectangle is from the George and the Basic shapes and the Gingerbread man is From my Kitchen. 

Thanks so much for stopping by.

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Recipe:

Paper: Cardstock - unknown scraps - white, red; Pattern Paper - K&I Memories - scrapbook kit (it's a couple of years old)

Cricut Cartridges: Accent Essentials, From my Kitchen, George and Basic Shapes, Plantin Schoolbook

Ink: Autumn Leaves - Brown

Misc: buttons, adhesive, foam tape

Gingerbread Recipe Page - Day 2

To continue the Christmas Food Theme I have an 8x8 Recipe page for Gingerbread Cookies for Day 2 

I used Design Studio on this layout to get the sizing right. I cut the gingerbread man out of brown cardstock and the face and zig zags out of white cardstock . I used a couple of red buttons on the front of him.  The gingerbread man snowflake is from When Its Cold Outside and I have the "cookies" on a clear button in the center of the snowflake. I have the sheer ribbon running behind the snowflake and a tab on the recipe instructions.

Thanks for stopping by.

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From my Kitchen - Gingerbread Man - 3" and the shadow feature; Face - Layers features at 3"
Gingerbread Man Snowflake: When Its Cold Outside - 4"
Plantin Schoolbook - zig zag width 4.871 height .411

Recipe:
Paper: Cardstock: DCWV - Blue; Recollections - Brown and White; Pattern Paper - K&I Memories Scrapbook kit (it's a couple of years old)
Cricut Cartridges - George and Basic Shapes, From My Kitchen, When Its Cold Outside, Plantin Schoolbook
Ink: VersaMagic - Red Magic, Autumn Leaves - brown
Stamp: My Sentiments Exactly - Holiday Tags
Punch: Stampin' Up 1 3/8"
Misc: adhesive, pop up dots, buttons, Organdy Ribbon 7/8", buttons.

Gingerbread Man Treat Jar - Day 1

The Card A Day Blog's theme this week is Christmas Food.   The first thing I thought of was Gingerbread Cookies and my card inspiration this week is on Saturday so I thought I would have a week of Gingerbread Man ideas.  For today I have a Gingerbread Man Treat Jar. 

The red cardstock is 2 1/4" with the punched border and the pattern paper is 1 5/8".  Over that I wrapped a sheer 7/8' ribbon.  I stamped my sentiment in red and then layered them onto another punched cardstock.   

I used the From my Kitchen cartridge to cut the gingerbread man out of felt and sewed on a couple of button's with light weight yarn and a couple of beads for his eyes.

Thanks for stopping by.

From My Kitchen - gingerbread man cut out at 3" with the shadow feature selected.

Recipe:
Paper: Cardstock -Unknown Scraps - red, brown, blue, white; Pattern Paper - K&I Memories scrapbook kit ( it is several years old)
Cricut Cartridge: From my Kitchen
Ink: Stampin' Up - Real Red
Stamps: Stampin' Up: Snow Swirled - "May the true spirit...", Hodgepodge Happiness - "just 4 you"
Punch: Stampin' Up - Decorative Label, Modern Label, Word Window; Unknown: -Christmas Ornament Border Punch.
Misc: felt, buttons, yarn, beads, thread, adhesive

April's Calendar

Well I was going to say April Showers bring May's Flowers but I don't have anything resembling rain for showers on my April CD Calendar.

I just love this background paper and decided the Doily was the perfect accent for my calendar mat. I didn't even glimmer mist it just glued it onto the mat then onto my calendar base. I added a flower pin and a ribbon bow to the side.

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Click here for the file. The file does include an umbrella for the background if you want to use that instead.

Recipe: DCWV Cardstock - black, white, green and red. Pattern Paper - Unknown (was a leftover scrap), small doily

Ink: Inkadinkado - olive green

Cricut Cartridges: Designer Calendar, George, From My Kitchen

Misc: pop up dots, glue, pin, beads, ribbon

March CD Calendar

I decided I needed some bright spring colors for this month.


The little green flower is made from three shamrock, sprayed with glimmer mist then formed int a flower shape. I used my stickles to make the swirl bling. I copied one of the premade swirl blings and used a transparency to mark my dots, then transferred this to the calendar. At every dot I just used a little bit of stickles to make my bling.

I also added a little bit of bright green pom pom ribbon to the bottom of the calendar.

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Recipe:

Paper: DCWV cardstock - black, white, blue and green; Pattern Paper - Citrus Stack

Cricut Cartridges: Designers Calendar, George, From My Kitchen

Misc: adhesive, stickles

January CD Calendar

The ladies asked me if I was doing my CD calendars again as they would like a set. So here is the month of January just for them.
I glimmer misted the snowflake and attached it to the calendar base. I did not glue it down all the way because I liked the way the top and bottom curled up a bit - it just gives it a little bit more of dimension. I did have to fussy cut the light blue label as the Cricut cuts it in one piece.

There are pop dots between the mitten layers.

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Recipe:

Glimmer Mist : Jazz Blue

Ink: VersaMagic - Red Magic

Cricut Cartridges: George, From My Kitchen, Designers Calendar

Paper: Cardstock - White, black, blue, red, pink Pattern Paper - Unknown

Snow Covered Pine Tree- Day 9

I'm playing catch with the 30 Days of Christmas Cards so here is the second post for the day. If you are looking for Day 8 please scroll down. For Day 9 I have started with the sketch from Unscripted Sketches #80. I love this stamp and try to use it every Christmas. It reminds me of the snow falling in the Mountains of Montana and brings back lots of memories.

The frame is from the cartridge From My Kitchen and is on a bunch of pop up dots, I wanted it to stand out from stamped image.

I have the snowflakes on clear buttons and glue dots here, I wanted to be able to see through the cuts to the background paper.

I used a piece of the pattern paper from the front for the inside of the card. All of my edges are ink blue.

Thanks for stopping by.

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Recipe: Paper: Cardstock -Kraft, white and green; Pattern paper -DCWV Holiday Collection - The Christmas Stack

Ink: VersaMagic - Aegean Blue, Archival Brilliance Pigment Ink - Moonlight White

Stamp: The Stampin' Place - Snow Covered Pine Tree

Cricut Cartridges: Christmas Noel, From My Kitchen, George

Misc: Pop up dots, glue dots, glue, white embossing powder