Fall Friends IG Card Hop - Week 10

Hello again friends; I hope you're having a wonderful Wednesday. I'm back with my card for Week 10 of the 'Fall Friends' IG card hop organised by my lovely friend Kelly. This week Kelly is our hostess and she has chosen 'baked goods' and although we are a fall hop we are so close to Christmas that we are now also including winter/holiday creations.  You could go with apple pie, cookies, gingerbread so lots of yummy foods to choose from.  

I don't really need any more fall cards so I thought I would go with a Christmas card this week and wanted to use this adorable gingerbread die that I discovered in my stash.  I had a layout in my mind and die cut quite a few of the gingerbread people but changed my mind and only ended up using 2 so I have lots left over for more cards so perhaps you will see them again soon lol! 

Here is my card:

A close up of the gingerbread:

Plus I decorated the inside:

I began by die cutting the gingerbread and all the tiny pieces to decorate them using scrap card from my scraps bin.  I assembled them using liquid glue (which was the longest part of the whole card, especially as I originally die cut about 10 of them!).  I had a piece of brown dotty paper on my desk left over from another project and thought it matched my gingerbread perfectly.  I cut the paper to 3 7/8" x 5 1/8" and added a thin red mat layer behind with double sided tape.  I die cut a fish tail banner from some woodgrain pattern paper and again cut another one from red card as a mat layer (I had to trim the pattern paper ever so slightly as I didn't have a nesting banner so used the same one for both layers).  I added the banner to my base layer with foam tape and added the gingerbread people with foam squares.  I die cut the 'sweet' word 3 times from red card and adhered them together with liquid glue; I then also adhered it to the banner with liquid glue.  I stamped a sentiment in red ink and die cut it with a sentiment strip die.  I adhered this below the sweet word with a mix of liquid glue and foam tape.  Rather than add embellishments I die cut some hearts from the kraft card and added some white gel pen details to make them look a little like heart cookies.  I added these around the gingerbread with liquid glue.  The panel was then added to my card base with double sided tape.  For the inside I cut a white panel 3 7/8" x 5 1/8" and again added a red mat layer with double sided tape.  I took a strip of the woodgrain paper and added it to the bottom of the panel with double sided tape and above that adhered a thin strip of red card with liquid glue.  I had badly cut one of my gingerbread so decided to cut him in half and added him over the woodgrain paper with liquid glue.  I also added one of the heart cookies.  I stamped a sentiment in black ink in the centre of the panel and this was then added to my card base with double sided tape.  A really fun card and I'm really happy with it.  I hope you like it too. 

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

The 12 months of Christmas challenge - anything Christmas goes optional all stitched up

Allsorts challenge - Christmas

Aud Sentiments challenge - glitter and/or Christmas + sentiment

Craft Rocket challenge - Christmas and/or winter

Creative Friday challenge - Christmas 

Daisy Chain challenge - Christmas and/or winter

Day of the Month Card Club challenge - national gingerbread cookie day

Die Cut Divas challenge - any holiday of the year (Christmas)

Inkspirational challenge - layer it

Jingle Belles challenge - Christmas feast

Merry Little Christmas challenge - anything Christmas goes

Unicorn challenge - Christmas and/or winter

I hope you will pop over to Instagram and check out the hop; use the hashtag #fallfriendscardhop2024 to see all the gorgeous creations and also if you want to participate we will be able to find you. 

I'll be back tomorrow with my card for the Krafty Chicks challenge so I hope you will pop back and check it out. Until then enjoy the rest of your day and thank you so much for stopping by.

Love and hugs,

card ingredients:

Spellbinders - stocking full of joy die set (for gingerbread) - retired

Spellbinders - sweet treat box die set (for sweet word)

Spellbinders - holiday besties clear stamp (for inside sentiment)

MFT - tag builder blueprints 6 (for hearts)

MFT - blueprints 13 (for fishtail banner) - retired

MFT - my itty bitty holiday clear stamp (for outside sentiment) ? retired

Gina K Designs - sentiment strips dies

Gina K Designs - warm cocoa ink pad (to add dimension to my gingerbread)

Gina K Designs - red hot ink pad

Limetree Crafts - 250gsm smooth white card (not currently available)

Patterned paper from a pad I bought in TK Maxx

red and kraft card from scraps bin

Versafine - onyx black ink pad