SPOILERS! 12 Days of Stitchmas Advent Calendar 2024 | Day 12 With Allison Frazier

Welcome to the last day of our 12 Days of Stitchmas 2024 Advent Calendar class! Join us and stitch your way through the season! We invited 12 guest artists to share inspiration with the 12 stitching surprises. Let’s welcome Allison Frazier as he shares inspiration with the Day 12 surprise!

Don’t miss the other video tutorials from our free Youtube Class: Day 1 with Suzanne Hue | Day 2 with Laura Bassen | Day 3 with Kim Kesti | Day 4 with Michelle Short | Day 5 with Lisa Tilson | Day 6 with Mindy Eggen | Day 7 with Carissa Wiley | Day 8 with Cheryl Penner | Day 9 with Yana Smakula | Day 10 with Rebecca Keppel | Day 11 with Jaycee Gaspar

Hello Spellbinders friends and welcome to the final day of the 12 Days of Stitchmas! This is Allison Frazier, and I am thrilled to be sharing two cards with you today. I have had so much fun opening all the windows of this amazing Advent Calendar to find the surprises waiting inside. Day 12 brings us a set of dies to create an adorable cardinal and a little sprig of holly and berries.

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Peace, Love, Joy

For my first card, I am only using the contents of the 12 Days of Stitchmas 2024 Advent Calendar and the 12 Days of Stitchmas Stitch Along Add-on Kit. For my color palette, I am using the Dahlia, Teal Topaz and Waterfall cardstock that is included in the kit. I did bring in two other colors of Spellbinders cardstock from my stash to round out my palette – Persimmon and Berry Pink. I love using nontraditional colors for holiday cards! For smaller details, I also used the Onyx and Snowdrift cardstock from the kit.

I die-cut the main pieces for the cardinal using the Berry Pink cardstock and the Dahlia cardstock. I used the darker shade of pink DMC Floss from the kit to stitch the cardinal. I assembled the cardinal using Bearly Art Glue. For the little sprigs of berries, I cut the main sprig from both Teal Topaz and Waterfall cardstock, and the berries from both Berry Pink and Dahlia cardstock.

I also brought in some elements from Day 8, including the pine leaf, the poinsettia, and the small holly leaf. I die-cut the pine leaf three times using the Waterfall cardstock, and I stitched all three using both shades of turquoise DMC floss from the kit. I die cut two poinsettias from the Persimmon cardstock and three of the holly leaves from the Teal Topaz cardstock.

I chose a sentiment from the Exclusive Sentiments Stamp Set included in the kit, and I stamped it onto a white panel using black pigment ink. I had cut this white panel using the new Perfect Touch Rectangles and Tag die set. I used the second largest die from that set, which allowed me to have a nice margin of both Waterfall and Teal Topaz around it.

I adhered all my elements to the card panel using Bearly Art Glue and foam squares. I added some highlights to the berries with a white gel pen, and then I finished the card by adding some of the Fashion Oyster Pearls from the kit.

Joy, Unstitched

For my second card, I brought in several goodies from my stash. I started with the letters from the Stitched Alphabet Collection. I cut the outline layers from the Teal Topaz cardstock and the detail layers from the Waterfall cardstock. Even though these detail letters have holes for stitching, I chose not to stitch anything on this second card. I think it’s really important to stretch the use of our supplies, and all of the stitching dies look great even when they’re not stitched. I did keep all of the little pieces that would have come out of the stitching holes. Any of those little pieces that came out when I die cut the letters were put back in using an easy die-cut inlay technique.

I die-cut the cardinal pieces from the same Berry Pink and Dahlia cardstock as the first card, but I reversed the colors so that the Dahlia is the main color for this second card. Just like the letters, I did not stitch the bird. I think the stitching holes themselves add so much texture, especially with the other color of cardstock peeking through. Again, I assembled the bird using Bearly Art Glue.

As for all the little foliage scattered here and there on the card, I took the opportunity to dig through my plentiful stash of Spellbinders Christmas dies. I always find that I use my older die sets the most when I am making holiday cards. So many of these die sets are just classic and will stay in my stash forever. The older sets that I used include the Parcel & Post Christmas Decorations, the Build-A-Wreath, and the Christmas Blooms. I also used the Delivering Joy Sleigh set that just came out last month. Could I have just used one of these sets to add foliage? Of course! But, I had already pulled them all out and just started grabbing whatever looked good to me.

I cut most of the foliage using the Teal Topaz cardstock. For the little branches under the bird, which come from the Build-A-Wreath set, I used the Persimmon cardstock. I also used this orange cardstock for the flowers – you can see where I incorporated that poinsettia from Day 8 again.

I assembled my card base the same as I did for the first card, except the base on this card is the Teal Topaz, and the mat is the Waterfall. I used the same die from the Perfect Touch Rectangles and Tag die set to create the white panel. I chose a different stamp from the Exclusive Sentiments Stamp Set for this card and again used black pigment ink.

I finished this card the same as the first, by adding white highlights to the berries and the Fashion Oyster Pearls from the kit as embellishments.

I hope these cards bring a smile to your face and give you some inspiration for the final day of the 12 Days of Stitchmas. If you missed any of the other days, be sure to check them out. Thank you so much for joining us!

Spellbinders Supplies:

Other Supplies

Versafine Clair Nocturne Ink, foam squares, double-sided tape