The Art With Heart, Heart of Christmas team are back for 2024 and ready to inspire you for the next seventeen weeks with our Heart of Christmas blog hop!
It’s been so cold here recently I decided to embrace the winter vibes and create a snowy Christmas card to kick off our Heart of Christmas blog hop for 2024.
As demonstrators we get to preorder from the Christmas Catty (September – December Catalogue) tomorrow morning, but in the meantime we have some amazing new online exclusives, Annual Catalogue products and carryover items to play with until the new products arrive.
I’m using the online exclusive, Greetings of the Season Bundle.
The Annual Catalogue bundle, Country Birdhouse.
The carry over Forever Forest dies.
And these carry over items, Grove dies and the Grassy Grove stamp set.
My colour combination is Mossy Meadow, Old Olive, Crumb Cake, Basic White and Basic Black. The embossed background is created with the Snowflake Sky 3D Embossing Folder. This will be getting a lot of use for my Christmas cards.
The door on the house is created using one of the dies from the new Greetings of the Season bundle with the “For You” sentiment white heat embossed. I popped an adhesive snowflake on the Crumb Cake window and added a tiny bow of Black Bakers twine.
My wooden cabin in the snow has been die cut using the Country Birdhouse dies from the Country Woods DSP – there are so many wonderful wood patterns in this DSP pack!
The trees and the deer are from the Grassy Grove stamp set and Grove dies.
Inside the card I’ve used the largest sentiment from the Greetings of the Season stamp set.
Now it’s time to hop in over to our next participant, the lovely Sharon Davern – I can’t wait to see what Sharon 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.
The AWH tea will be back on Wednesday night, showcasing Cajun Craze, or you can enjoy some more Heart of Christmas inspiration next Monday night.
Welcome to week fourteen of our Art With Heart 2024-25 Colour Creations blog hop!
This week we’re featuring Bubble Bath, a beautiful pale pink in the subtles family.
I’ve created a “no stamping” birthday card that uses beautiful Bubble Bath flowers from the Fully Flowering Ephemera pack and a sentiment from the Saying Something Ephemera pack.
My colour combination for this week’s card is guided by colours in the ephemera pieces.
The striped background layer DSP is from the new Nests of Winter DSP and it will be available in the forthcoming Christmas Catalogue.
I’ve used some of the beautiful Bubble Bath and Petunia Pop flowers and Garden Green leaves from the Fully Flowering Ephemera pack.
The “Happy Birthday” sentiment is from the Saying Something Ephemera pack.
The final touch is a few 2024–2026 In Color Shimmer Gems in Petunia Pop.
Now it’s time to hop in over to our next participant, the lovely Rachel Woollard – I can’t wait to see what Rachel has made this week!
If at any time you find a broken link, you can find the complete list of all participants below.
Welcome to week thirteen of our Art With Heart 2024-25 Colour Creations blog hop!
This week we’re featuring Boho Blue, a gorgeous soft blue that is one of the 2023–2025 In Colors.
We have so many birthdays on both sides of our family in July so surprise, surprise, I’ve made another birthday card this week!
This fancy fold card is for my niece who turned 8 earlier in July however as she has been overseas we will be catching up for her birthday later in July.
Mimi recently told me her favourite colour has changed from purple to blue – luckily I discovered this before I made her card!
I love making cards that move for children, which is why I went searching for a shutter card tutorial. I discovered a video tutorial for an easy double shutter card by a paper crafter called Sam Callott (Mixed Up Craft) – here is her video if you’d like to watch her tutorial.
I’ve used the new Birch folder to emboss the Boho Blue cardstock barn doors and my double shutter card opens to reveal a dog. My dog’s name is Superman and Mimi adores him. In fact, I’m pretty sure he is her favourite cousin!
The grass is made from Old Olive cardstock that has been die cut using the grass dies from the Beach Days dies. The dog is from Pets & More stamp set, which is a reversible stamp set. I’ve stamped the reverse side of the stamp in Pecan Pie stamped off once and the front of the dog stamp is stamped in full strength Pecan Pie. The dog bowl is also stamped in Pecan Pie and fussy cut.
After photographing the card I realised one of Superman’s hairs is on the card. How perfectly apt!
The doghouse is made from the Country Birdhouse die with the base chopped off. The flowers are also from the Country Birdhouse dies and I created the stems using the narrow roof edging die from the same set. The thicker roof die has been used for the top of the dog house.
These bones and the dog ball from the Pets & More stamp set have been fussy cut.
I used a circle punch to create finger pulls and pull tabs.
The card sits on a 5 x 7 inch card base which I will stamp and decorate inside too before I give Mimi her birthday card next weekend.
Now it’s time to hop in over to our next participant, the lovely Andrea Sargent – I can’t wait to see what Andrea has made this week!
If at any time you find a broken link, you can find the complete list of all participants below.
Welcome to week twelve of our Art With Heart 2024-25 Colour Creations blog hop!
This week we’re featuring Blueberry Bushel, a rich and clear deep blue from the Regals family. And as it my dad’s birthday this weekend I’ve made him a Blueberry Bushel birthday card.
My dad loves all things astronomical so I decided to give the northern lights technique a go. This is the colour combination I chose, although if you look at photos of the northern lights you’ll see that you can really use any combination of colours.
The northern lights technique is fun and easy to do. All you need is blending brushes, ink and cardstock.
Start from the bottom of the card and apply the ink in upward strokes working in order from the lightest colour to the darkest colour. Then go back over each colour to add depth and blend. I added the Blueberry Bushel last.
I used two of the tree stamps from the Forever Forest Stamp set (stamped in Memento ink) to create the forest silhouette at the base of the card.
I stamped the moon and stars image from the same stamp set in Versamark ink and heat embossed it in white.
The “Happy Birthday” sentiment is from the Country Birdhouse Stamp Set, also stamped in Versamark ink and heat embossed in white. I chose this sentiment as it was long and narrow and I didn’t want to cover up any of the gorgeous northern lights.
This sentiment from the Gone Fishing stamp set was the perfect sentiment to use on the inside of my dad’s birthday card!
Now it’s time to hop in over to our next participant, the lovely Rachel Woollard – I can’t wait to see what Rachel has made this week!
If at any time you find a broken link, you can find the complete list of all participants below.
Welcome to week eleven of our Art With Heart 2024-25 Colour Creations blog hop!
This week we’re featuring Blackberry Bliss, a very dark berry colour that has recently moved from the Regals family to the Neutrals.
It was a great opportunity to crack open my new Expressions of Kindness Kit.
My colour scheme is the colours included in this kit: Blackberry Bliss, gold foil, Lost Lagoon, Mossy Meadow, Petunia Pop, Pretty Peacock, Wild Wheat.
The Expressions of Kindness Kit is such great value for money. It comes with a full set of instructions, an acrylic block as well as everything you need to make 8 cards, 4 each of 2 designs. * Expressions of Kindness Photopolymer Stamp Set * Blackberry Bliss Stampin’ Spot * Roll of white ribbon * 8 printed card bases * 8 printed envelopes * Folded card: 5-1/2″ x 4-1/4″ (14 x 10.8 cm) * Printed die-cut images and gold foil labels * Adhesive-backed gold sparkle gems * Adhesive dots and Stampin’ dimensionals
Here are the two card designs and envelopes made as per the kit instructions. The envelopes really are as stunning as the card bases!
Then I went rogue and chopped up one of the gold foiled card bases to make two extra cards on Blackberry Bliss card bases. The design of these card bases extends to the back of the card as well as the front.
This is the “simple stamping” card I made using the back of the card base.
I stamped the sentiment directly only the patterned card and the thistle stamp onto the Blackberry Bliss flowers, adding a layer of Lost Lagoon card stock and some of the gold sparkly gems included in the kit.
My second card variation used the front of the card base and a spare sentiment label included in the kit. Can you guess how I made the gold sprigs?
This is the leftover gold foil in the kit.
I used my Bough Punch to punch out sprig pieces from this gold foil.
I love this gorgeous kit and I know I’ll be using the stamp set on other projects as well as on the cards included in the kit.
Now it’s time to hop in over to our next participant, the lovely Kate Morgan – I can’t wait to see what Kate has made this week!
If at any time you find a broken link, you can find the complete list of all participants below.
