Gingerbread Cottage

Hello Blogger Friends! Thanks for taking the time to stop and visit with The Charmed Life Blog this first Saturday in December. 

Only 22 days until Christmas! I have all of my decorating done except for my living room tree. That is my task for today after I finish this Blog post. Then I will be onto finishing my Christmas cards and getting them mailed. 

I sort of started my Christmas shopping, but I am not nearly done.  I am waiting for ideas from my family. I also will be baking and candy making. I feel like I am right on schedule for getting everything completed so I will see what happens. 

Now onto my card for today. I am featuring the new Gingerbread Cottage Die and created a center step fun fold.

Design Steps:

I used the colors from the Splitcoaststampers color challenge #970. We were to use real red, pool party, lemon lolly and old olive for the color combo. 

real red, pool party, lemon lolly, old olive

I had this center step fun fold card in my stash. I bought these premade. They are an A2 size card and fold flat for mailing. This premade base is ivory, and I wanted it to be the pool party shade. So, I cut cardstock and pool party designer paper to cover the ivory panels completely. I wanted to tone down the designer paper a bit, so I added a layer of vellum paper to each panel.

Next, I cut the Gingerbread Cottage in the challenge colors plus a few allowed neutrals. It's such a cute die. I love it as a Christmas card.
 

I wanted a bold Christmas sentiment and decided to use the CottageCutz Merry Christmas w/Shadow phrase (Christmas 2021). I cut it in red cardstock 2x and added it to a white glitter cardstock panel. 

To finish off my card, I attached the gingerbread cottage to the center panel with dimensional adhesive. I cut the pine trees that are part of this die in the old olive shade.

Well that's it for me for this post. So until next time.......God Bless. 

I am also entering:

1.  Crafty Calendar Challenge is Christmas themed. 

2.  Crafty Catz is anything goes-optional is to make them smile. 

3.  Creative Creases is anything goes with a fun fold.

4.  C.R.A.F.T. Challenge #700 is anything goes. 

5.  Creative Knockouts has a "tis the season" challenge.