Okay, now on to the project I want to show you. This one is inspired by a card I saw in Cards magazine, which was created by Jennifer Gallacher. Her card was a happy holidays card to a teacher, which had a 3D stitched stocking on the front that held pencils with cute little tages on it. I liked the card and idea so much I took out the page out of the magazine (it's page 170, if that helps!). Unfortunately, now I have no idea which issue it came from and haven't been able to find it on the internet to link to it! My apologies about that!
Anyway, I reworked the card using Stampin' Up! products and a new template I created for the stocking -- I wanted it to be wide enough to fit a gift card, some candies, some pens or pencils, or other little trinkets -- so still great for a teacher card, but versatile enough to be given to anyone you want to surprise with a little holiday treat! Really happy with how it turned out -- may need to use it to stitch up some fabric stockings, too. So without further ado, here's my card:
The fun trim on the stocking is real fabric -- Stampin' Up!'s beautiful new Candy Cane Christmas Designer Fabric! I cut it with the new Tasteful Trim Bigz XL die, also from the Holiday Mini catalog, and my Big Shot. The stitching on my paper stocking is done with a white Uniball Signo gel pen -- quick and easy. And, I discovered the gel pen even worked on the fabric. Fun!
Hope you like this project -- come make it at the Extravaganza, or if you can't do that, be sure to let me know if you'd like a kit for it!
Thanks for stopping by!
- Michelle
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