Holiday Wishes Stocking

Hi everyone, Christina here to share a festive die cutting project featuring the Stocking Shaker Die. I chose not to create a shaker for this card, but you could easily add a shaker component if you wanted and fill it with some glorious shaker beads! Grab your die cutting machine, and let’s get started! 

For the background, I started by stenciling Winter Words on minty green cardstock with white stencil paste. After the paste set, I trimmed the cardstock to fit inside the largest Eyelet Rectangle that I had die cut from ivory cardstock. I glued the panel in place and then attached everything to an A2 mint green cardstock panel.

Next, I die cut all the elements for my project. For the stocking, I used vanilla cardstock and lightly stenciled it with the Deco Leaves Stencil using Antique Linen Distress Ink. I topped the stocking with an ivory cuff. For the goodies inside the stocking, I used cardstock in ivory and red and green, as well as a couple of scrap pieces of patterned paper. I applied subtle shading to the pieces with Distress Inks or Copic markers and added white gel pen highlights to the candy and the berries. I shopped my stash for all the goodies in my stocking and used the Big Christmas Cupcake and Big Valentine Cupcake Sets, the Winter Mug and Holiday Mug Additions Sets, and to make the bows on the presents, I used the little bow from the Ornament Cover Plate Die.

I attached all the assembled elements to my background with a combination of either liquid adhesive or foam squares. I finished my card design with a sentiment from the Sentiment Strips: Christmas Stamp Set, heat embossed with white embossing powder on red cardstock, and attached to a scalloped Sentiment Strip.

That completes this festive die cutting project featuring the Stocking Shaker Die. I hope you’re inspired to create your own stocking filled with whatever goodies you find in your stash! See you again soon!