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I hope you can join me then! Until then, stay safe and keep crafting!
Welcome to week 7 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’ve used the brand new Decorative Trees bundle (Decorative Trees stamp set and Decorative Trees dies). The number of stunning dies in this bundle provides opportunities for so many different colour combinations and designs of cards.
I decided to use the tree outline die to die cut some of the beautiful DSP designs in Very Vanilla and gold from the Season of Green & Gold 12″ x 12″ (30.5 x 30.5 cm) Specialty Designer Series Paper.
The middle tree has been heat embossed in gold using stamps from the Decorative Tree stamp set.
The Early Espresso layer is from the Country Woods 12″ x 12″ (30.5 x 30.5 cm) Designer Series Paper embossed using the Timber 3D Embossing Folder.
The stars on the top of the tree and the tree bases have all been die cut from gold foil.
As there is a lot of gold on the front of the card I’ve kept the inside very neutral in Early Espresso and Very Vanilla.
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 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 Crushed Curry, or you can enjoy some more Heart of Christmas inspiration next Monday night.
I hope you can join us then!
Welcome to week twenty of our Art With Heart 2024-25 Colour Creations blog hop!
This week we’re featuring Crumb Cake, probably my favourite Stampin’ Up colour as I consider it to be the perfect neutral.
I couldn’t resist making another Christmas card for this week, using a stand alone stamp set that was the very first product to catch my eye in the 2024 Holiday Catalogue: Yuletide Village.
I’ve deliberately kept my colour scheme very neutral with a lot of white as Crumb Cake is often the bridesmaid to other colours.
The original inspiration for this card came from a beautiful card created by a US Stampin’ Up! demonstrator called Sharon Williams Bardsley.
I’ve used the Snowflake Sky 3D Embossing Folder for the Basic White cardstock layer and the beautiful Crumb Cake and white DSP design from the Nests of Winter DSP, die cut using the arched frame from the Garden Meadow dies.
The white trees behind the buildings are die cut with the Frosted Forest dies, while the green trees are stamps from the Yuletide Village stamp set, coloured with Stampin’ Blends and fussy cut.
All of the buildings are coloured using light and dark Crumb Cake Stampin’ Blends, with a touch of Pecan Pie on the church.
I’ve trimmed the word “love” from the sentiment and added five Earth Tones Shimmer Gems to complete the card.
Now it’s time to hop in over to our next participant, the lovely Amie McIllroy – 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.
Catherine Proctor – you are here!
The AWH Colour Creations team will be back next Wednesday 19th September, showcasing Crushed Curry or you can join us on Monday night for some more Christmas inspiration.
I hope you can join us then!
Welcome to week 6 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’ve used the brand new Reindeer Fun bundle (Reindeer Fun stamp set and Reindeer Fun dies) and the Perennial Postage Dies to create a postage collage card.
I’ve used one of my favourite Christmas colour combinations for this card: Real Red, Crumb Cake, Pecan Pie, Pool Party, Shaded Spruce and Basic White.
My card base began with half a sheet of A4 cardstock folded in half, which I then trimmed down by approximately 1 cm.
TOP TIP: Trimming 1 cm off the bottom of the card is an easy hack I use when I want to use the large Stampin’ Up! dies on my card bases as the large Stampin’ Up! dies are designed to fit US card bases, which are shorter and wider than our A6 size card bases.
Five smaller Perennial Postage dies of assorted sizes were die cut from Basic White cardstock and then lightly shaded with Pool Party ink using a small blending brush.
Using the Reindeer Fun dies I die cut an assortment of cardstock pieces to decorate each panel. The foliage has been fussy cut from the large Reindeer Fun foliage frame die.
I’ve also stamped the holly leaves and holly berry stamps from the Reindeer Fun stamp set on the top left panel.
The “Merry Christmas” sentiment from the Reindeer Fun stamp set was stamped over two different panel pieces to make it fit. I really like splitting the sentiment as it also draws your eye around the different elements on the card.
I used my dark Real Red Stampin’ Blend to colour some Rhinestone Basic Jewels. They add a very festive touch of bling to my card. Perhaps I have gone slightly overboard with them?
Now it’s time to hop in over to our next participant, the our lovely host, 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. Sharon does an amazing job of hosting our Heart of Christmas blog every Monday.
The AWH team will be back on Wednesday night, showcasing Crumb Cake, or you can enjoy some more Heart of Christmas inspiration next Monday night.
I hope you can join us then!
Welcome to week nineteen of our Art With Heart 2024-25 Colour Creations blog hop!
This week we’re featuring Copper Clay, a rich copper colour from the 2023–2025 In Colors.
It was Father’s Day last Sunday so I made a Father’s Day card for my dad using the Tartan Foil 12″ x 12″ (30.5 x 30.5 cm) Specialty Designer Series Paper. I also used this stunning DSP to wrap his Father’s Day gift!
The Sheets of DSP were not quite big enough to wrap the gift so I simply joined a Copper Clay sheet and a Pebbled Path Sheet together using Tear & Tape Adhesive to match the Father’s Day card.
I also used these two colours from the 2023–2025 In Color Jute Trim in my gift wrapping.
Enough about the wrapping – let’s take a look at the card. This type of fancy fold is called a napkin fold and I folded an 11 x 11 inch piece of Basic White card stock to make my card.
The Napkin fold is held flat (ish) with a belly band. The layered cardstock squares are die cut using the Stylish Shapes Dies and the “DAD” sentiment is stamped in Pebble Path ink using a sentiment stamp from the Trusty Tools Stamp Set.
Here is the napkin fold card opened up.
I’ve used the Trusty Tools Stamp Set to decorate the inside panel as well, stamped in Tuxedo Black Memento, Copper Clay and Pebbled Path.
Neutrals Adhesive-Backed Sequins complete the sentiment panel on the belly band.
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 at any time you find a broken link, you can find the complete list of all participants below.
Catherine Proctor – you are here!
The AWH Colour Creations team will be back next Wednesday 11th September, showcasing Crumb Cake or you can join us on Monday night for some more Christmas inspiration.
I hope you can join us then!