SPOILERS! 12 Days of Stitchmas 2025 Advent Calendar – Day 5 with Tina Smith

Welcome to day 5 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 Tina Smith as she shares inspiration with the Day 5 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 .

I am truly thrilled to share some sweet and delightful stitched cards with Day 5 of the 12 Days of Stitchmas Advent Calendar for 2025. Cocoa and Christmas hold a special place in my heart for the Christmas Season. When I saw the charming cocoa cup behind the Day 5 door, it brought back such warm memories. My mom lovingly started the tradition of sending out cocoa cups filled with sweet treats for us to savor on Christmas morning. It fills me with pride to continue that beautiful tradition, sending joyful cocoa-filled packages to all my sisters and their families.

COCOA CHEER

I love the soft colors of Chiffon and Seaside Cardstock; they both go beautifully with the Pomegranate and Truffle Cardstock and are my go-to colors for this year's Christmas cards. I thought the postage die set from Day 4 would be the perfect setting behind my cocoa mug. Instead of stitching the postage edge, I wrapped the same Vivant Gold Metallic Cord around them to pull in the gold trees that I stitched with the same cord on the mug.

TIP: Die cut the marshmallows with Spellbinders white Pop-UP Foam, they look realistic and add lots of dimension!

DOUBLE THE DELIGHT

I love that you can create a drippy cocoa cup and a regular filled cup. For this card, I did both, only adding the gold stitching to the right cup. This die is easy to flip and create a right and left-facing mug. On the right, I added marshmallows, and the left (the flipped one) I created a drippy cup with whip cream. The peppermint straw was the perfect touch! I created a present wrapped panel to place my mugs on with red and white twine on Fog cardstock. I stamped and heat-embossed a pattern with the Hero Arts Woodgrain Bold Print stamp. My greeting for this card was made easy with Hero Arts Rub-On Transfers. Watch video tutorial below or on our Youtube Channel : I hope you enjoyed my projects with Day 5 of the 12 Days of Stitchmas Advent Calendar for 2025. You can watch a step-by-step tutorial down below! So grab a cup of coffee, gather your supplies, and let’s get crafty! Thanks so much for stopping by, wishing you a day filled with crafty goodness, love, laughter and smiles! Crafty hugs, Tina Smith - Cards and Coffee Time .