SPOILERS! 12 Days of Stitchmas 2025 Advent Calendar – Day 3 with Rebecca Keppel

Welcome to day 3 of our 12 Days of Stitchmas 2025 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 Rebecca Keppel as she shares inspiration with the Day 3 surprise!

Don’t miss the other video tutorials from our free Youtube Class: Day 1 with Kim Kesti; Day 2 with Jaycee Gaspar.

Hello crafty friends! Welcome to Day 3 of the Spellbinders 12 Days of Stitchmas! I’m Rebecca Keppel, and I am thrilled to be here to share Day 3 with you and two cards that I made with the Day 3 dies.

The Day three dies include a Christmas tree, star topper, scallop fringe, and two sentiment banners that say Happy Holidays.

For my first card, I cut the tree out of Spellbinders Peridot Cardstock. I cut one base with no stitching holes, and then two layers of the stitching details. I adhered the two stitching layers together so they would be more sturdy and they wouldn’t bend or get misshapen while I was stitching. Once the adhesive was dry, I started stitching with gold thread. I like to tape down the thread on the back so I don’t need to hold it the whole time. The stitching holes are cut by the die. The die also embosses lines showing you which holes connect together by long, straight stitches. Since the stitches are so long, they do not take much time to complete. Once the stitching is done, I tape the tail to the back and cut off the excess thread. Then add liquid adhesive to the back and adhere it to the die-cut tree without stitching holes. I die-cut the scallop out of gold metallic cardstock. The star is a layering die, so I cut one layer from the gold metallic and one from gold glitter cardstock. I cut the banners from Tutu Cardstock and adhered them with liquid adhesive. I created a background with the Snowflake Shimmer Betterpress plate in the Glimmer machine with gold foil, which I trimmed down to 4×5.25 and popped it up onto an A2 piece of white cardstock. I used foam squares to pop up the tree and Spectrum AB Essential Gems on the stitching holes and some of the places where the thread crosses over itself.

For my second card, I used a frosty wintery color combination. The tree is Tutu cardstock stitched with white thread. The star and scallop are cut from different cardstocks from the Antique White Treasured Cardstock pack, and the banners were cut from gold metallic cardstock. I added pearls as an accent this time. The background is the same press plate, but this time I foiled it with White Foil on Waterfall Cardstock.

Of course, this die set would look amazing with traditional cardstock colors, but I hope you now have some inspiration to think outside the box for holiday color combinations!

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Thank you so much for joining us to celebrate Day 3 of the 12 Days of Stitchmas! Have a wonderful day.

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