Cookie Cutter Christmas

I absolutely love this set!  To be honest though, I forgot that I had it or I would have been making cards with it this entire Holiday season!!!  I love it for the versatility - you can make a Santa, and Eskimo, a bear, a reindeer or a gingerbread man/woman - fun!!!  And, there is lots of accessories and cute sentiments as well.  But, the best part about it is the punch that goes with it!  I didn't realize how much I liked punches until I had done an entire season of dies through my die cutter!  When you have hand problems, it hurts!  I have to get the automatic power extension to my We R Memory Keepers Evolution die cutter and I will be okay; in the meantime though, there are my Stampin' Up punches!  Oh, one more awesome thing about this set is that there is a Halloween stamp set that goes with it also - so versatile!!!

Cookie Cutter Christmas - Santa!!!

So, I started these two cards with some Simon Says Stamp card stock that I cut down to a A2 top folding and A2 side folding card.  I then stamped all of the little characters onto some white card stock with either Memento tuxedo black (for the ones that I wanted to color in) or a variety of Avery Elle Kraft, Avery Elle Tuffle, Stampin' Up Creamy Caramel and Stampin' Up Chocolate Chip inks.  I wanted to have a little bit of a color difference for my gingerbread guys/girls!  I then colored in the other images with my Spectrum Noir alcohol markers in DR1, DR2, FL3, CG1, CG2, CG3, FS1, IG1, TB1, CR2 and the Blender.

For the Santa card I used some patterned paper from Pink Paisley in Yuletide.  I cut about an inch off of the side of the front of the card and glued the three little Santa's in a row.  I added the patterned paper to the inside of the card in a one inch strip and then added a white stripe sticker from the Love from Lizi kit.  I then used the Tim Holtz clear ink and the Hero Arts white embossing powder to heat emboss the sentiment.  I also added some wink of Stella to the fur on all of the Santa's costumes.  Finally, I added some sequins to the card from the Snowflake mix from Pretty Pink Posh that I had in my stash to give it that final punch.  Love it!!!!

Supplies for the Santa cards.

For the Gingerbread card, I took three gingerbread in differing shades of brown (mentioned above) and then cut the kraft cardstock in half - actually I cut out about 1/3 of the card stock so there could be an opening.  I used the same white rope stripe stickers from the Love from Lizi card kit to accent those two pieces and then I used the three gingerbread to hold the card together.  I added a bow to the hair of one and the neck of another for a little punch and used glitter stickles to make them sparkle!  Finally, I used some sequins from the Reindeer sequing mix from Kat's Scrappiness.  I just love how this turned out as well.

Cute little gingerbread Cookie Cutter cards!

Supplies for the gingerbread cards.

Now I am off to try to get all of the cards that I made over this season mailed (Yes, I'm late because I have had the flu)!!!  Hope you enjoyed and hope that you have the most wonderful holiday!  Jude  :-)

Side view - you can see how the gingerbread hold the card together - fun!

PS  If you are interested in the stamp set from Stampin' Up, they are available on the web site linked - and the Halloween one that goes with this set is being discontinued and is on sale!  There is also a brand new catalog coming out right now and it has some awesome things in it - I will do a haul here soon!  Thanks!
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