For the female version I used some of the fabulous red patterned papers and used the strip off the bottom of the papers too.  The strip border had hearts on it, so I cut a few hearts out using the heart die from the Roxstamps Nesting round cross stitched dies, handy hey?

For the first of my male themed ones I used the blue effect papers.

After cutting out the shapes on my Silhouette machine, I machine stitched them together. On the one above I used the adorable Gummiapan snowman die simply colouring him in with my copics and adding a little seam binding for his scarf. I've used this die quite a lot this year and will do so next year too, lol.

I placed him in front of the lovely fence die by Magnolia simply cutting it down to fit. I then finished it off with one of the wooden pine cones. On the opening section at the top I added a Gummiapan snowflake die and made a hoop out of some of the paper using the Gummiapan stitched banners dies and a eyelet from the mixed Meadow set.

Male themed gift stocking number two is below.

As you can see I again used the adorable snowman with his seam binding scarf. I also used some die cut words. For a little added interest I added some Snowtex on top of the letters and bits of it on the Snowman's hat. I used some of the metal sequins stars here and there too,