SPOILERS! 12 Days of Stitchmas 2025 Advent Calendar – Day 8 with Lisa Tilson

Welcome to day 8 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 Lisa Tilson as she shares inspiration with the Day 8 surprise!

Don’t miss the other video tutorials from our free Youtube Class: Day 1 with Kim Kesti; Day 2 with Jaycee Gaspar; Day 3 with Rebecca Keppel; Day 4 with Nichol Spohr; Day 5 with Tina Smith; Day 6 with Mindy Eggen; Day 7 with Carissa Wiley.

Hello crafty friends! It’s Lisa Tilson here today, and I am so excited to be sharing a couple of ideas for Day 8 of the 12 Days of Stitchmas with you! Day 8 is a set of stitching dies that create a super cute winter hat. Included are dies that cut the main part of the hat, the hat trim, a bobble to go on top, and a sentiment.

So, let’s take a look at my two cards.

Snow Day

For my first card, I am using only items from the kit, and I have popped them onto an ink-blended background. I have used two hats on my card, but I think three cascading down the card would also be fun!

1. I began by die-cutting both of the hats. I used Rainforest, Fern, Orchid, and Mulberry ColorWheel Cardstock for the hat and hat trims.
2. I then die cut the bobble twice from Pop Up Die Cutting White Glitter Foam Sheets.
3. The thread that I am using is the Diamant Light Gold thread, and I doubled it up so as to add some extra “weight” to the stitching.
4. I started off by stitching the main section of the hat, followed by the trim and finally the bobble. This was then repeated for the second hat. I secured my thread at the back of each die-cut piece using Best Ever Craft Tape.
5. The trims and bobble were then adhered onto the main hat piece using Bearly Art Glue.

6. For my background, I took an A2 panel of Seaside ColorWheel Cardstock and, using a blending brush, I blended Salvaged Patina and Peacock Feathers Distress Inks around the outside, making sure to leave the centre as light as possible.
7. The hats were then adhered on top using foam squares. I used one layer for the pink hat and a double layer for the green hat.
8. My sentiment is from the Day 8 stitching dies, and it was die cut twice from white cardstock, and both pieces adhered together to form a small stack. I then added it directly onto my panel.
9. For a little extra interest around the hats, I die cut the snowflake from Day 6 three times and adhered them using wet adhesive.
10. To finish, I added some Gold Mix Gems for some added sparkle and then adhered the panel onto a top-folding white A2 note card.

Sending You Joy

My next card features the Day 8 hat, and I thought it would pair well with the Day 5 mug. This time, I changed up my background, foiled a sentiment, and added some fun additional Christmas accents.

1. The hat was die cut once again from Rainforest and Fern ColorWheel Cardstock. The mug and marshmallows were die cut from Seaside, Truffle, and Alabaster.
2. I popped the non-stitching pieces to one side and stitched the hat and mug using DMC threads. To prevent any unsightly accidents, I used a round-end needle! The hat was stitched using DMC Light Parrot Green and a dark green from my stash. The mug was stitched using DMC Light Seagreen. For both, I used two strands of thickness.
3. Once I had stitched the pieces, I adhered them together using Bearly Art Glue.
4. The candy canes, holly, and berries are from Christmas Wonder Etched Dies – this set is fabulous as it includes so many useful Christmas dies, and I reach for it often. The holly was die cut from Rainforest and Fern, the berries from Poppy. The candy canes were cut from white card and Poppy. I adhered all the bits together where needed and went to work on the background.

5. For the background, I pressed the Sprinkled Confetti Press Plate onto Porcelain Cardstock using the BetterPress LetterPress System. I adhered it onto a top-folding white A2 note card.
6. The hat and mug were then adhered on top with foam squares.
7. I slotted the candy canes behind the hat and mug and adhered them with Bearly Art Glue. The holly and berries were also adhered directly onto the mug.
8. I popped some small pieces of foam square behind the marshmallows and added them just below the hat and mug.
9. Next, I foiled a sentiment from Mistletoe Greetings Press Plate and Die Set using Satin Champagne Foil and the Glimmer Hot Foil System. I cut it out with the matching die and also cut a couple of extra layers from white card to form a small solid stack.
10. This was then adhered using glue at the bottom of the card.
11. I finished by embellishing with some Gold Mix Gems and the snowflake from the Day 6 stitching die set.

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I hope that you have enjoyed seeing my two cards today and that they give you some inspiration for using this fabulous Advent Calendar. If you would like to see more of my cards, I would love to have you join me over on my blog, Instagram, Facebook, or YouTube. In the meantime, thank you so much for joining me here on the Spellbinders blog today. I hope that you have a fabulous day!

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Neenah Solar White Classic Crest 80 & 110lb cardstock, Distress Ink Salvaged Patina, Distress Ink Peacock Feathers, Hero Arts Blending Brushes, Embellishment Wand