Our Art With Heart, Heart of Christmas team are back for 2025 and hoping to provide plenty of inspiration for the next sixteen weeks with our Heart of Christmas blog hop!
In just two days time the new September – December 2025 Mini Catalogue (AKA the Christmas Catty), the September Online Exclusives and three new kits are being released.
My two cards for week 1 use dies from the Annual Catalogue as well as products from the September Online Exclusives: the Modern Christmas Suite collection and the Elegant Pine Snowflake suite.
Both cards use the foiled gold star pattern from this gorgeous Modern Christmas 12” X 12” (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Specialty Designer Series Paper and the Party Alphabet Dies to die cut gold foil letters.
Card 1 – Noel
When creating the square gold foil mat under the DSP layer I like to use large dies to cut our the inside of the foil layer so I don’t waste all that foil. Look at how much foil I have left over!
Both cards have foliage embellishments created using the Delicate Pines Bundle, another Online Exclusive being released on September 3.
If you take a close look at my cards you can see I’ve used the berry die (it cuts six tiny berries at once) to embellish the middle of the gold heat embossed foliage pieces.
The black and gold twine for the bow is from the Black & White & Gold Bakers Twine pack, part of the Modern Christmas Suite. It’s a bit hard to see in these photos, but it is just the perfect finishing touch in real life.
Card 2 – Joy
Card two uses all the same products as card one with th exception of the twine. Instead of the black & gold twine I’ve used the Gold Striped 3/8″ (1 cm) Mesh Ribbon.
While the Party Alphabet dies are perfect for banners, home decor pieces and scrapbooking, they are also fabulous for modern and graphic cards.
Words such as “Joy”, “Noel”, “Happy”, “Hi”, “Hugs” , “Love”, “Merry” and more can be cut using these dies to create hi impact cards.
I haven’t forgotten the inside of the cards. I’ve gold heat embossed two of the sentiments from the Ornamental Christmas stamp set. The Ornamental Christmas stamp set is part of the Ornamental Christmas Bundle in the Modern Christmas Suite (online exclusive).
Take a look at some more Christmas Card inspiration on our Heart of Christmas blog hop!
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.
Our AWH team will be back on Wednesday night, showcasing Crushed Curry on our InstaHop. I hope you can join us then!
I’ve been missing in action the past month, but I was determined to join in the hop this week as it is the very last Heart of Christmas hop for the year. Sharon has done an amazing job hosting our Christmas blog. Thank you Sharon!
After attempting to make a fancy fold that did not work at all, here is super quick and easy Christmas card instead!
The O Holy Night Designer Series Paper forms the perfect background for this simple nativity scene. I’ve paired it with Silver Adhesive-backed Glimmer Paper, Night of Navy card stock and Basic White card stock.
I love the amount of detail in this nativity die from the Night Divine dies.
The Silver Adhesive-backed Glimmer Paper makes working with these detailed dies a breeze – there is no need to muck around with glue.
The glimmery stars in the sky are die cut using the dies from the Stars at Night Hybrid Embossing Folder set.
If you have a pack of the O Holy Night Designer Series Paper and a pack of the Silver Adhesive-backed Glimmer Paper (online only) this design would be ideal for mass production of Christmas cards.
A few extra die cut stars complete the inside of the card.
Now it’s time to hop on over to our next participant, the lovely Judy May. I can’t wait to see what Judy has made this week.
If at any time you find a broken link, you can find the complete list of all participants on Sharon Davern’s blog.
The challenge for Day 8 of the #30DayChristmasCardMakingChallenge is called ‘Christmas Letters’.
I’ve used the gorgeous letter box from the Stamped with Love Stamp Set, stamped in versmark onto Real Red card stock and heat embossed with gold emboss powder.
The Joy of Noel Dies were used to die cut Garden Green and Old Olive cardstock to create the greenery behind the letterbox.
Before I adhered the letterbox and the foliage to the front of the card, I used a Blending Brush to add some Pool Party ink to the card base.
I thought a very modern sentiment in a typewriter font would work well with all the white space on this card, so I’ve used the ‘so you get a card’ sentiment from the ‘Just My Type’ stamp set.
The challenge for Day 2 of the #30DayChristmasCardMakingChallenge is ‘Frosty Air’.
Can you get any more frosty than a family of polar bears relaxing on an ice shelf with snowflakes falling?
This simple, no stamping card uses the Stargazing Designer Series Paper for the frosty sky and a card from the Beary Christmas Memories & More Card Pack, fussy cut with paper snips.
The ‘Christmas is better together’ sentiment has been cut with the paper trimmer from the M&M card and mounted onto some Basic White cardstock scraps.
Adhesive snowflakes and rhinestone gems add an extra touch of frostiness to this winter scene.
The #30DayChristmasCardMakingChallenge is a global challenge hosted by UK Artisan Stampin’ Up! demonstrator, Martin Stone, and the challenge for Day 1 is “Shining Bright”.
I’ve taken today’s challenge very literally, creating a Night of Navy and Gold card that uses the Shining Brightly Specialty Designer Series Paper, Adhesive Backed star trinkets, Alphabet a la Mode dies and the Merry & Bright dies.
The ‘Shining Bright’ sentiment was die cut using an exciting new online only product, Silver & Gold 12″ x 12″ (30.5 x 30.5 cm) Adhesive-backed Glimmer Paper. As soon as I die cut the letters out they became repositionable stickers – what a game changer!
The stars were die cut from gold foil that had first been attached to an adhesive sheet. No mess and no fuss!
Instead of the letter ‘I’ in ‘Bright’ I die cut one of the Christmas light bulbs from gold foil, adding a Night of Navy filament.
Adhesive Backed star trinkets add dimension to all three gold stars.
I’ll be back tonight with a Granny apple Green card for our Art With Heart Colour Creations blog, then I have another card to share with you for Day 2 of the 30 Day Christmas Card Making Challenge.
Wherever you are in the world, keep on crafting xxx
Your Christmas countdown continues – it’s exactly 10 weeks today until Christmas Day!
I’ve been missing in action the past few weeks, so I’m super excited to be back this week with a couple of super quick and easy ‘no stamping’ cards that use the Beary Christmas Memories & More Card Pack.
At just $17.50 for 54 cards the Beary Christmas Memories & More Card Pack is a simple, affordable and easy way to get crafting this Christmas season!
Card one could not be simpler. I made two horizontal cuts across this adorable image of the polar bear family relaxing on ice platforms and icebergs.
I attached the three strips onto a Memories and More card base, leaving a narrow space between strips and flipping the top panel over to create a sky full of snowflakes.
To add extra sparkle I added some Adhesive-Backed Glitter Sequins – these are my fave embellishments. This card was completed in a matter of minutes!
Card two uses the Beary Christmas Memories & More Card Pack as well as a brand new online exclusive product, the Heartfelt Hexagon Punch.
As soon as I received this punch I knew it would be the perfect shape to create an ornament card!
The centre of the card is a smaller Memories & More Card, with the reverse side of the same Memories & More Card attached to the top and the bottom of the card.
The “For you” sentiment is a sticker form the sticker sheets also included in the Memories & More Card.
I could have used several different ribbons to create the ornament hanger and bow, however I settled on the Night of Navy 3/8″ (1 cm) Bordered Ribbon, cut in half lengthways for the bow tied with the silver metallic Simply Elegant Trim as well.
I love this colour combination of different blues/silver/white, as well as how quick and easy these cards were to create!
Now it’s time to hop on over to our next participant, the lovely Theresa Gerrard I can’t wait to see what Theresa has made this week.
If at any time you find a broken link, you can find the complete list of all participants on Sharon Davern‘s blog. Sharon does an amazing job hosting our Christmas blog every year.
Welcome to week twenty two of our Art With Heart 2023-24 Colour Creations blog hop! This week we are showcasing Early Espresso, a a rich dark brown from the neutrals family.
Early Espresso is a wonderful neutral that really makes other colours pop. It’s also fabulous for wood and nature themed cards, like the Christmas card I’ve made for this week’s hop.
The bird and the branch stamp are from the “Perched in a Tree” stamp set, stamped in Early Espresso ink as is the “Let Heaven and Nature Sing ” sentiment. With this sentiment I just had to use the Merry Melody embossing folder too!
The bird and tree trunk were then die cut using the coordinating Aspen Tree Dies.
I coloured the bird and the tree branch using watercolour pencils, then blended the colouring in with a blender pen to make the colours smooth.
The Old Olive cardstock foliage is created using one section of the Christmas Pinecone Dies and the final touches are a bow of linen thread and a few music notes from the Loose Holly Gems & Sequins.
Now it’s time to hop on 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.
Your Christmas countdown continues – it’s exactly three months or 13 weeks today until Christmas Day!
This week’s Christmas card is a fancy fold card – I’m not 100% sure of the name, however think it could be called a peek a boo flap card? Here’s a short video to show you how it works.
As you probably know, I love monochromatic cards. I’ve taken the colour scheme for my card from the stunning gold and Very Vanilla Shining Brightly 12″ x 12″ (30.5 x 30.5 cm) Specialty Designer Series Paper I’ve used on the front of the card and also inside it too.
The gorgeous candle image and both sentiments are all from the Radiant Light stampset.
The gold heat embossed candle image and the gold glimmer circle layer behind it are both die cut using the new Decked Circle Dies.
The Silver & Gold 12″ x 12″ (30.5 x 30.5 cm) Adhesive-backed Glimmer Paper is self adhesive and it is a brand new online only release.
Here’s what the card looks like partially opened…
Here’s what the card looks like fully opened…
The Adhesive-Backed Star Trinkets on the front tag sentiment pick up the stars in the DSP – the perfect embellishment!
It’s so hard to photograph the glorious sparkly gold elements in my card so I also took a photograph outside in my garden.
Now it’s time to hop on over to our next participant, the lovely Caroline Manwaring. I can’t wait to see what Caroline has made this week.
If at any time you find a broken link, you can find the complete list of all participants on Sharon’s blog.
I’ll be back on Wednesday with the AWH Colour Creations blog where we will be showcasing Early Espresso – I’ve made another Christmas card for Wednesday night’s blog!
Your Christmas countdown continues – it’s 15 weeks today until Christmas Day!
This week’s Christmas card couldn’t be simpler. I’ve used the new Fragrant Forest stamp – a background stamp that’s quite frankly just too gorgeous to cover up!
I’ve stamped this stamp in Mossy Meadow onto Basic White cardstock adding a Mossy Meadow Sentiment label as I love monochromatic cards.
The Fragrant Forest background stamp works with any Christmas sentiment. I’ve stamped and embossed two different sentiments from the Christmas Classics stamp set, however, I can’t decide which one I prefer.
Card one is a smaller sentiment I’ve fussy cut around – I like that this smaller sentiment shows more of the background imagery.
Card two has a larger sentiment, die cut using the rounded square die from the Christmas Classics Dies. I like that the larger sentiment allows room for a bit of bling.
The Adhesive-Backed Glitter Sequins are my favourite embellishment from this catalogue!!!
Which sentiment do you think works best?
Now it’s time to hop on 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 onSharon‘s blog.
Your Christmas countdown continues – it’s 16 weeks today until Christmas Day! And in even more exciting news, it’s only two days until the Stampin’ Up! September December Mini Catalogue goes live and you can purchase the Merry & Bright bundle.
Sometimes the dies in a bundle can be overlooked if they don’t have a matching stamp set, and to honest, I don’t think I realised the Merry & Bright bundle included these two strings of Christmas lights until my delivery arrived!
I’ve used the die with the more rounded light bulb to create this slimline card. Four “string of Christmas lights” dies were die cut from Basic White cardstock and then coloured in with a variety of Stampin’ Blends.
The top layer of the card was embossed using the Fern 3D embossing folder to mimic the branches of a Christmas tree.
Using the star die in the Merry & Bright bundle, I die cut a few stars from the More Dazzle Specialty paper.
The sentiment is from the Merry & Bright stamp set, stamped in Memento Tuxedo black for contrast against the white card base and card front layer and and the bright colours of the Christmas lights.
Now it’s time to hop on over to our next participant, the lovely Rosa Leyden. I can’t wait to see what Rosa has made this week.
If at any time you find a broken link, you can find the complete list of all participants on Sharon’s blog.
