Happy Halloween everyone! It's Jeanne posting today. Normally I post on Friday but I switched with Janet because of last Friday's video blog hop. Wasn't that fun?
Although today is Halloween, I have a Christmas card for you featuring one of my favorites - a gingerbread man!
This card uses the Gingerbread Baking set, the Cross-Stitched Squares set and the Sweet phrase. The card is an A2 top fold with landscape orientation. I cut a piece of patterned paper 1/4 inch smaller - 4 x 5 1/4 inches. This gives a nice 1/8 inch border all the way around.
I used the middle square from the Cross-Stitched Squares to cut the base for the gingerbread man. He is cut from Crumb Cake card stock; the rest of his pieces and the sentiment uses white. I colored his tie using markers.
To give him a "crispy cookie" feel, I sponged the edges in Crumb Cake ink. I then used a multi-liner pen to color in his eyes and nose.
I glued on his tie and frosting but decided I would use glitter enamel dots for his gumdrop buttons. The white square didn't stand out as much as I wanted so using my paper cutter I cut out a green square that was slightly larger than the cross-stitched one.
For the sentiment, the strip of red card stock is 5 1/4 x 1 1/2 inches and the green is 5 x 1 5/8 inches.
I used white embossing powder to heat emboss"have a" and "holiday". To get the placement, I put the red strip in my MISTI and laid the SWEET die cut where I wanted it on the strip. Then I positioned the stamps and closed the lid. I removed the die cut and proceeded with the embossing. "Sweet" is covered in three coats of Wink of Stella and really sparkles person. When it was dry I glued it down in position.
The last things I did were adhering the square with the gingerbread to the front using foam dots and adding a ribbon bow in the corner.
Thanks for stopping by today! See you Friday!
