Welcome to week 8 of the Art with Heart Team Stampin’ Up! Heart of Christmas blog hop for 2024. I hope you we are continuing to inspiring you each week with our Christmas card ideas.
For this week’s Christmas card I’m featuring the beautiful vintage style Sentimental Christmas DSP. This DSP raises money for children’s literacy with $4.25 for every pack sold given to local charities around the world.
I don’t know the name of this easy fun fold, however it is a fabulous fun fold to use when you want to showcase both sides of a designer series paper. I’ve used this adorable reindeer pattern with a Pecan Pie snowflake pattern on the reverse side.
The card is basically two cards that overlap. The second card is smaller and its flap overlaps the DSP flap of the base card.
The card base is one quarter of a sheet of A4 cardstock. The DSP is adhered to the card base and has a flap on the right side that opens up. This shows the reverse side of the DSP.
Here’s what the card looks like when closed. I used a single glue dot to keep the card closed and it doesn’t tear the DSP or the cardstock when opened and closed multiple times.
Two of the Stitched Shapes circles cut out the feature piece of DSP on the front of the card. I’ve stamped a sentiment from the Peaceful Season Stamp Set in Pecan Pie along with holly from the Reindeer Fun stamp set.
Inside the card I’ve stamped another sentiment from the a sentiment from the Peaceful Season Stamp Set and some more holly.
To enable the card to stand up for display I added a piece of cardstock on the back.
This is a great design to mass produce a batch of Christmas cards. It can be made with 12″ x 12″ DSP or 6″ x 6″ DSP.
Now it’s time to hop in over to our next participant, the lovely Rachel Woollard. It’s Rachel’s birthday today and I can’t wait to see what the birthday girl has made this week!
If the next button link is not working or you’d like to see the entire list of participants go to Sharon Davern‘s blog. Sharon does an amazing job of hosting our Heart of Christmas blog every Monday.
The AWH team will be back on Wednesday night, showcasing Daffodil Delight, or you can enjoy some more Heart of Christmas inspiration next Monday night.
I hope you can join us then!
Such a fabulous way to use this gorgeous paper, Cathy. The stand makes this fancy fold perfect when it can be displayed. Beautiful!
Oh Cathy, your card is so gorgeous. I haven’t seen that fold with the DSP but love it. It’s similar to a Joy Fold. Love you split sentiment. As has been said – the stand to enable the card to stand for display is a great idea. I may need to add it to my card (it wasn’t till I photographed it that I realised it kept falling over). Love your card Cathy xxx
What a beatuiful card, Cathy. I love how so much of the patterned paper is used in such a clever fold showing both sides. Clever to put the stand on the back too!
This is adorable Cathy! That DSP is so sweet and you have picked my favourite sheet in it. That fold really showcases the paper designs and coordination well. The stand on the back of the card is a brilliant idea. I’m going to have to try that for sure.
I love that your card features both sides of your chosen DSP. Great idea to put the stand on the back so that the card can still stand up
What a fabulous fold to show this beautiful paper off. I love the sentiment you used with it as well. What an awesome idea to add a little stand so the card would stand up. Gorgeous card Cathy!
This is very sweet, Cath! Lovely way to show both sides of the delightful patterned paper, and I like how you’ve split the sentiment.