Stitchmas Stocking Hung On The Mantle With Care’

The focal point for this card, the pretty stitched stocking comes from Day 10 of Spellbinders’ 12 Days of Christmas. If you didn’t get a chance to pick up this great kit before it was gone, Spellbinders offers A Stocking Full of Joy which is a little bit bigger, but you make your card a 5″ x 7″ and I think it would work.

This card has a lot of dimension that you cannot see in the photo. The brick part of the fireplace is popped up and the mantle is popped up on it. So, the stocking really does look like it is hanging out in front of the fireplace.

Steps To Create the Stitchmas Stocking Card

Stitchmas Stocking

• Die-cut as follows:
  • Stocking & hanger- Poppy Field
  • Stocking cuff – Snowdrift
  • Seasons Greetings – (1) Brushed Gold (1) Snowdrift
  • Pine Branches – Fern
• Stitch the toe and heel with green floss
• Use a pencil to lightly draw the name you want to use onto the cuff
• Stitch the cuff with white embroidery floss
• Poking holes with your needle, stitch the name with black embroidery floss Be sure to place your holes at each curve
• Assemble the stocking using liquid glue

Chimney Assembly

• Blend faded brick ink over a brick wall stencil using white cardstock. And then before removing the stencil, use the ink on your gray or black brush to lightly blend over the red.
• Remove the stencil and use the ink on your brown blending brush to lightly blend over the brick in random places
• While you still have your brown brush out blend a little on the left hand side and the top (horizontally of a white card base.
• Trim the brick wall to 3 5/8″ x 4 7/8″ and then use a craft knife to cut out a 2 3/8″ x 3 3/4″ rectangle from the bottom right-hand side
• You can also use a piece of sandpaper at each of the seams in the brick wall to make it look a little more realistic
• Trim a piece of Graphite cardstock to 3 1/2″ x 4 3/4″. Then you can brush on black pastel to add some soot to the inside of the fireplace.
• Fasten the black panel directly to the card front in the lower right-hand corner with a tape runner.
• Pop up the chimney with foam squares
• Trim a piece of woodgrain cardstock to 1/2″ x 5 1/4″ and blend it with brown ink. Pop it up on top of the brick wall with foam squares
• Blend a little green ink from your green blending brush onto the tips of the pine boughs and then fasten them onto the mantle with liquid glue
• Layer the sentiments using liquid glue with the gold on top and then fasten them on the pine boughs as though they are sitting on the mantle
• Hang the stocking with a ball top needle and fasten the toe with a small foam square

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