Hello everyone! I am excited to participate in another year of the Get Cracking on Christmas series and wicked excited to work on my stash of holiday cards throughout the year! I will continue to create holiday cards with NO STRESS, using stamps and supplies I haven’t had a chance to play with yet and experimenting with different techniques.
If you missed my Crafty Chat in January, I went over Get Cracking on Christmas. Why I do it, my approach to it, and how you can join. Catch the replay here!
If you would like to read more about this series, you can do so here
Visit
Visit my site right here, on the third Thursday of each month, to be inspired!
Join Me LIVE
Each month, I will offer a LIVE where I create my card and share tips and tricks with you! This month’s YouTube LIVE will be Tuesday July 22nd at 12p ET, right on my YouTube channel. Stop reading and set an alarm on your phone so you don’t miss out, or tap the notification bell on YouTube! You can use the world clock here to figure out what time it will be where you live.
Don’t worry; if you can’t make my LIVE, you can always catch the replay on my YouTube channel, and I will also post the replay of the video below right on this post.
Inspiration & Share
As you create your holiday cards this year, be sure to tag me on Instagram @jennshurkus and use the hashtag #getcrackingonchristmas so I can see them! You can also “follow” this hashtag on Instagram to be inspired in your feed.
We can do this! We can create holiday cards all year and be more prepared for the holiday season!
Get Cracking: Sweet Hot Foiling
Be sure to read to the end as I have a fun little giveaway to share!
Sometimes I’m just in the mood to COLOR—and this sweet image from Purple Onion Designs, illustrated by Pei, was exactly what I needed! While organizing recently, I stumbled upon this festive Season’s Greetings sentiment from Trinity Stamps. It both die-cuts and hot foils, how fun is that?! Naturally, that sent me down a hot foiling rabbit hole. There’s just something about kraft cardstock paired with gold foil that makes me swoon, so I used Lawn Fawn’s Starry Sky Hot Foil Plate on kraft… and I’m obsessed with how it turned out!
I stamped the image with Lawn Fawn’s Crunchy Leaf ink, which is both alcohol-marker and watercolor friendly. Using a brown outline gives the image such a cozy, warm feel, perfect for holiday baking scenes! I colored it in with Copic markers and shared my swatches below so you can easily recreate the look using your coloring medium of choice.
Curious about Copic markers or just getting started with alcohol-based coloring? My Copic 101 online class is a great place to begin, it even comes with a handy workbook!
For the hot foiling, I used the Spellbinders Glimmer Hot Foil System with my Spellbinders Platinum die-cut machine. But good news, this foiling system is compatible with most die-cut machines, so no need to have a Platinum specifically!
To spread a little crafty cheer, I thought it would be fun to offer up a giveaway! I’ll be sending this Baking Fun stamp from Purple Onion Designs to one lucky winner. To enter, just leave a comment below and let me know: what’s your favorite thing to bake during the holiday season?
This giveaway is open to U.S. residents and will close on July 27th at 9p ET. I’ll reach out to the winner via email and update this post with their name as well. Good luck, and happy baking (and coloring)! 🍪✨
WINNER
Thank you to everyone for sharing your baking favorites! The winner is : Juanita Goulet – I have sent them an email
I’ll also be sharing the process of creating this card during my LIVE, so I hope you’ll join me for some creative fun and see how it all comes together!
Learn how on YouTube LIVE
I can’t wait to share my process for this card on my YouTube channel on Tuesday July 22nd at 12p ET. I hope you will join me, and remember, you can work on your holiday cards while you watch!
Cardmaking Supplies Used:
The supplies I used are linked below. Click on the picture, and you will be taken to the product. I use affiliate links when available, which means if you make a purchase, I get a small commission at no extra cost to you. I appreciate your support!
I love making homemade caramel corn and lefse.
Very cute card. I like to bake Snowballs at Christmas time.
so cute – love this card
Your card is adorable!! I love to make cinnamon rolls, especially during the holidays.
So cute, Jenn. Already bought the stamp but just wanted to say what a great class this was. Lots of good tips.
I enjoy baking cookies with my daughters for Christmas.
We have a family baking day each year and bake tons of cookies. Snowballs, peanut butter kiss cookies and snickerdoodles are my faves
I love to bake cookies and eat all of them!
I just finished watching your YouTube video. This card has to be one of the cutest Christmas cards I have seen! During the holiday season I always enjoy making Grandma V’s sugar cookies, Rum Cake, and Buckeyes (you can take the girl out of Ohio, but you can’t take Ohio out of the girl). 🙂
My favorite thing to bake during the holiday season is my grandma’s Carmel corn and her thumb print cookies. Not only are they delicious but it brings back memories of my grandma. She was such a beautiful soul and she loved to bake !!! I cherish her recipes and will continue her legacy with baking!!
Our family always makes rainbow spritz cookies during the holidays. It’s a whole family affair since everyone has to take a chunk of dough and get the color mixed in!
This is a sweet adorable card. Thank you for the fussy cutting tips.
My favorite thing to bake at Christmas time is a super old recipe for chocolate chip cookies. The recipe is called Foothill House Sweet Dreams! If I’m feeling super productive, my family makes homemade tamales.
My favorite Christmas dessert is my brother Paul’s “Ho Ho Roll”!!
This card is so cute. I can’t wait to watch the process on this one 🙂 So nice to have a giveaway….Well, it’s not a normal Christmas treat but I just learned to make these so from now on, every year I plan to make Cream Puffs. A few drops of red food coloring and a squirt of whipped cream on the top and you can make them look like Santa Hats. So easy to make and always a hit 🙂
I live in Oregon but as a Wisconsin born/raised daughter of a farm Mom, baking oodles of Christmas cookies was a necessity. I have baked/gifted about a dozen different varieties each year – many are very ornate. I will never forget proudly putting out a platter of exquisite cookies for guests, when my almost 4-yr-old son said, “Mom, aren’t there any Oreos?” I cracked up. Today, I’m 72 and he’s 35 and is one of my biggest cardmaking cheerleaders!
What a cute image! For me Christmas baking is cookies from Peanut Butter Blossoms to Chocolate Crinkles and everything in between.
I always bake 3 or 4 different kinds of Christmas cookies when my adult children come home for the holiday. It’s one of our favorite holiday activities.
We make for Christmas is a ice box cake
Hi Jen!
What a sweet little critter🤗 Just perfect for a
Christmas greeting. I love the colours you chose
with this card, and the foil adds a nice elevated look to
your card🥰🤗
Hope to catch the live, see you soon!
Cookies. My favorites are Buckeyes.
Such a cute card! I bake a seafood quiche for breakfast on Christmas morning! A bit different than sweets, but my girls love it! I make one for each so they have leftovers for a few days!
Such an adorable image and great card. I love to bake. A cranberry orange cake and give it as a gift to coworkers.
I love making gingerbread cookies that I roll in either sanding sugar or Christmas colored nonperils. I also make spritz cookies and fudge. Your card is so cute!
I love to bake for the holidays, and besides spritz cookies and cranberry cake, I make a bûche de Noël for Christmas dinner dessert!
I love baking Christmas cookies to give as gifts
I love baking oatmeal raisin cookies
I love to bake Christmas cookies! My favorites are Russian tea cakes and peanut butter blossoms!
I love making frosted sugar cookie cutouts. My dad makes all the dough from scratch using his mom’s recipe from growing up on the farm. Our family gets together and bakes about 20 dozen cookies, and we frost them together. It’s become a favorite tradition for us.
Love to bake shortbread cookies , reminds of my moms Christmas
I love making cookies for a cookie exchange! You make a few dozen of the same cookie and come home with a variety! I like to make pumpkin chocolate chip cookies 🙂
Cookies with sprinkles
Cookies! Specifically sugar cookies & chocolate crinkle cookies. I just love all things Christmas & winter. ❄️
Sugar cookies and then frosting and decorating with sprinkles. However, gingerbread cookies are one of my favorites to eat!
So cute! I bake Chocolate Crinkle Cookies which my daughter loves. When she was in college, I would make extra batches every time she came between Thanksgiving and New Year’s, so she could share with all her friends!
That’s a cute card Jenn!
I love to bake any kind of Christmas cookies. I bring some to work and give some to our friends. Of course there are always some that I leave home for us!
SO CUTE!!!!!! I love to make pecan sandies. They are easy, delicious, and I won a baking contest making them!
Love the card. I love baking cookies with my sisters. We all get together. It’s so much fun.
I love baking and giving my braided cherry-almond bread. It is quite time consuming so I don’t get to make it every year.
What an adorable little baker for your sweet card!
I love doing some holiday baking! My favorite are the almond bar cookies I make each year! I got the recipe from a friend in about 1987 and have made them for Christmas ever since then! They are a family favorite!
Thank you for the reminder that I need to start on Christmas cards. This card is adorable. I love baking cookies at Christmas.
This is such a cute card! I love to make cookies. My personal favorite are Hershey Kiss peanut butter cookies or any type of butter/shortbread cookie that pairs well with a cup of tea or hot cocoa.
I make everyone in the family about 4 dozen cookies. We ship all over the states these cookies are non bake. Take 2 ritz crackers and spread peanut butter between to make a sandwich, then dip the crackers into melted in the microwave blocks of white chocolate. Put on cookie sheets and put in refrigerater until chocolate is set. YUMMY. These make a large batch and are quick. Thanks
I love baking cookies, especially chocolate kisses cookies. Warm cookies and hot cocoa are the perfect holiday duo!
Such a sweet stamp set, I love foiling with my glimmer machine. We always bake monster cookies , and sugar cookies, grandkids love cutting out the sugar cookies, granddaughter calls the cookie cutters die cuts
I have to bake Spritz cookies at Christmastime. Those little buttery cookies are way to easy to pop in your mouth!
Sure do love that little stamp but no favorites that I bake….never have liked to cook! Haha! Great card!
Spritz cookies hands down! Yummy! And they remind me of my momma! ❤️
I’m a terrible baker! But each year I try! My favorite thing to make is cut out cookies so I can decorate them. One year I ran out of steam so I froze a bunch of undecorated cookies and found I love a frozen cookie with my afternoon cappuccino. A happy surprise for sure.
My favorite baking is not an item but an experience. Some friends and I gather mid December for 3 days and have a baking marathon: sugar cookies, Russian tea cakes, moose balls, Krunkake (? On spelling) etc. We assemble plates of cookies for delivery in the neighborhood, along with a home plate for each participant. Such lovely times to visit and share the bounty!
I love to make our holiday sugar cookies recipe. It brings back years of happy memories each time we take our first bite during the holiday season.
This card is so cute! My favorite thing to bake is Monkey Bread for Christmas morning. It’s a tradition in my family.
Terri, what dough base do you start with? I’ve tried all kinds from scratch to frozen dough to Pillsbury cut-up dough. They all turn out super soggy so I gave up.