Today’s challenge is “Gingerbread Dream” and the brief is to create a festive card that evokes the sweet, cozy charm of gingerbread.
I have to confess if had to name my favourite Christmas food it would be gingerbread. Literally, any type of gingerbread–German lebkuchen, Dutch speculaas, Swedish pepparkakor, gingerbread men, iced gingerbread biscuits and fully decorated gingerbread houses. I even love plain old Arnotts Ginger Nut Biscuits!
So I couldn’t I just make a card with only one gingerbread item, could I?
I’ve created the biscuit box using the two tackle box dies from the Gone Fishing dies. Die cut Pecan Pie card stock was attached the tackle box base using foam adhesive strips.
A Pecan Pie Stampin’ Blend coloured the inside and the outside edge of the white foam adhesive strips to match the cardstock and create the illusion of a biscuit box
I used the top tackle box die to die cut the tartan DSP to perfectly fit and line the box and then created an assortment of gingerbread using fussy cut images from the A Little Bit Festive DSP.
I also created an extra jam filled gingerbread biscuit made using the Perennial Postage Dies and the star from the Snowy Wonder dies die cutting the jam centre from glimmer paper.
The Garden Green foliage was die cut using Citrus dies and the “Celebrate” sentiment is from the Well Wishes dies.
Many of the elements in the card have had shading added using a sponge dauber.
I’ll hopefully be back tomorrow with another “30 Days of Christmas” Christmas card. I hope you can join me then.
It’s November 1, which can only mean one thing… It’s the start of the 30 Day Christmas Card Making challenge!
Papercrafters around the world are inspired by challenge prompts created by Martin Stone (Martin’s Mayhem – Papercrafter) to make a card for all 30 days of the month of November. Will I manage to create a card every day? Fingers crossed, that is my intent, but life often has a habit of getting in the way.
Today’s challenge is “O Christmas Tree” and the brief is to create a festive tree card that captures the spirit of the season.
As an Aussie living down under, our Christmas Day is typically warm and sunny and I hope my rainbow Christmas tree card captures the vibrancy of an Australian Christmas.
These are the colours of the cardstock I’ve used to create my rainbow.
I’ve used an Online Exclusive, the Forever Forest Dies, to create my trees and the stars. The “Christmas” die is from the Peaceful Seasons dies and the white heat embossed sentiment is from the Peaceful Seasons stamp set.
If you look closely you’ll see I’ve replaced the dot above the ‘i’ in Christmas with one of the silver stars.
TIP: I’ve added an adhesive sheet to my foil before die cutting to make it easier to adhere.
You can more clearly see the lovely shine the silver foil gives to this card from this side on view.
I’ll hopefully be back tomorrow with another “30 Days of Christmas” Christmas card. I hope you can join me then.
Welcome to week twenty-seven of our Art With Heart 2024-25 Colour Creations blog hop!
This week we’re featuring Gorgeous Grape, a rich purple from the Regals family and I’ve made a fancy fold called a cascading card to showcase this vibrant purple colour.
My colour scheme is fairly monochromatic, apart from the pop of Lemon Lime Twist on the DSP pattern on the inside of the coordinating handmade envelope.
This type of fancy fold is a wonderful substitute for when you want to give someone a bunch of flowers, however you can’t see them in person. It also stands up beautifully for display.
If you’d like to make a cascading card there are plenty of online videos you can watch for the directions. My basic measurements and instructions are as follows:
Card base: two sheets of 21 x 28 cm Basic White card stock
Measure down and mark 8cm along the 21 cm side of the card bases then use your trimmer to cut an angle from the 8cm mark to the opposite corner
Discard the smaller piece from the card bases then score the larger pieces along the 28 cm side at 7, 14 and 21 cm.
At the 7 and the 21 cm score lines mark the halfway mark and on one card base cut down to this mark and on the other cardbase cut up.
Fold score lines and slide the cut pieces into each other to form one large cascading card.
Decorate with DSP, flowers and leaves.
My DSP is from the Flowering Zinnias Designer Series Paper and the flowers and leaves are made using a mix of the Simply Zinnia Dies and the Bough Punch.
Because of the way this card stands up for display I’ve split the sentiment over the two sides of the card.
I’ve been quite liberal using the Gorgeous Grape Glossy Dots Assortment embellishments and the Fresh Freesia Tinsel Gems Three-Pack to decorate the card.
An oversized card like this needs a handmade envelope. You can make one out of a sheet of 12 x 12 DSP if you score and cut it as shown below.
I hope my intended recipient feels the love I’ve put into the creation of this card and the paper hug I’m sending her way!
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.
If you have any questions please contact me. Or you can find out more and order your Starter Kit here by scanning the QR code above with your phone.
The AWH Colour Creations team will be back next Wednesday 6th November, showcasing Granny Apple Green or you can join us on Monday night for some more Christmas inspiration.
Welcome to week 13 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.
The Snowy Scenes Suite collection has so many different elements to play with I ended up creating two cards instead of one for tonight’s blog hop. Although they use the same layout, the colours are very different, drawn from the different DSP designs.
Card one features the soft Petal Pink paper from the Snowy Scenes DSP and the Snowflake Sky 3D Embossing Folder.
The Merry Christmas sentiment is created in Petal Pink, white and black, using stamps and dies from the Peaceful Season Bundle.
The snowman has been shaded using the light Petal Pink Stampin’ Blend with a tiny touch of Poppy Parade for the nose.
The colour scheme for card two is Pool Party and Garden Green, this time drawing inspiration from a different design in the Snowy Scenes DSP. The embossing folder is the crosshatch design from the Basics 3D Embossing Folders.
The large square label die from the Peaceful Season dies has slots that are designed for ribbon to be threaded through. I’ve cut a length of the Pool Party Pompom Ribbon to thread though the label. How cute is this ribbon!
Instead of a snowman as the focal image, for this card I’ve stamped and die cut an assortment of trees in Pool Party and Garden Green, arranging them onto the Peaceful Season’s label. I’ve also stamped a few snowflakes and added Rhinestone Basic Jewels.
The “Joy & Love to You” sentiment and label are stamped and die cut using the Peaceful Season Bundle bundle.
So, which design do you prefer? Although I’m more of a blue and a green girl, I actually think the lighter and less dominant Petal Pink DSP works better to make the focal image and sentiment really pop.
Now it’s time to hop in over to our next participant, the lovely Judy May. I can’t wait to see the project Judy has created 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.
Our AWH team will be back on Wednesday night, showcasing Gorgeous Grape, or you can enjoy some more Heart of Christmas inspiration next Monday night.
Welcome to week twenty-six of our Art With Heart 2024-25 Colour Creations blog hop!
This week we’re featuring Garden Green, a mid green from the Regals family. This colour was a bit of a challenge for me as my “go to” greens are always Mossy Meadow and Old Olive.
After my very non-traditional pink glimmer Christmas card I made for Monday night’s blog I’ve swung the pendulum 180 degrees and made two very classic Christmas cards.
(And yes, I will admit, I’ve managed to sneak in some Mossy Meadow and Old Olive too thanks to the stunning the Season of Green & Gold Specialty DSP!)
Most of these products are online exclusives, some available now (the Season of Green & Gold Specialty DSP, the Golden Greenery Bundle and the Greetings of the Season Bundle) and two of them (the Gold Twisted Thread and the Brushed Silver & Gold Foil Specialty Paper) will be available from the 5th November.
My colour combination is taken from the colours in the Season of Green & Gold Specialty DSP: Garden Green, Very Vanilla, Gold, Mossy Meadow, Old Olive and Pecan Pie.
I’ve used the same strips of DSP and the new Gold Foil Specialty Paper on a Garden Green cardstock base for both cards. I arranged the DSP strips in a different order and made one vertical card and one horizontal card as the layout works equally well for both orientations.
All of the greenery and the bells are cut from the Season of Green & Gold Specialty DSP. Some images have been die cut using the Golden Greenery Dies designed to cut certain shapes from the DSP, while others have been fussy cut using paper snips.
Card one has a double bow made from the Garden Green Natural Tones Linen Thread and the forthcoming Gold Twisted Thread.
Here’s a closer look at these gorgeous threads. They are both soft, small and easy to tie in a bow, just perfect for adding texture and interest to cards.
For both cards I die cut the sentiments using the largest die from the Greetings of the Season dies. I left it at full size for card one, however for card two I had to shorten the largest sentiment label from the Greetings of the Season dies to make it fit my horizontal design.
To do this I simply ran the sentiment label back through the Stampin’ Up! Stampin’ Cut & Emboss Machine, lining up the dotted border edge (you can feel the die “sit” into the groove of the existing dotted border edge) and positioning the base of the die higher up before partially die cutting it again.
Both the sentiments have been gold heat embossed onto Very Vanilla cardstock. I forget to use Very Vanilla cardstock but I really should do it more often as it gives cards such a classically elegant feel!
This slightly angled photo gives you an better idea of the beautiful gold foiling on this DSP.
If you’re looking for a layout that works well for mass producing cards I can highly recommend this one.
The stunning DSP really does all the work for you and apart from the heat embossed sentiments there is no other stamping needed on the front of the card!
Now it’s time to hop in over to our next participant, the lovely Amie McIlroy. I can’t wait to see what Amie has made this week!
If at any time you find a broken link, you can find the complete list of all participants below.
If you have any questions please contact me. Or you can find out more and order your Starter Kit here by scanning the QR code above with your phone.
The AWH Colour Creations team will be back next Wednesday 23rd October, showcasing Gorgeous Grape or you can join us on Monday night for some more Christmas inspiration.
