Welcome to week twenty-eight of our Art With Heart 2024-25 Colour Creations blog hop!
This week we’re featuring Granny Apple Green, a vibrant, fresh green from the Brights family. My card tonight has also been created for the 30 Day Christmas Card making challenge and today’s challenge is Day Six, “Stocking Stuffer”.
As I don’t own a current Christmas stocking stamp, once again, the die cuts from the A Little Bit Festive DSP come to the rescue!
Luckily, the four stockings die cut piece are coloured with Granny Apple Green, Real Red, Cherry Cobbler, Garden Green and a touch of Pecan Pie.
To make these four stockings look like they are hanging on a mantlepiece I’ve added a layer of Basic White cardstock embossed using the Exposed Brick 3D Embossing Folder, bordered with the Granny Apple Green glimmer paper. from the Festive 12″ x 12″ (30.5 x 30.5 cm) Glimmer Paper.
This outdoor photo shows how shimmery the Granny Apple Green glimmer paper is!
To add texture and interest to the four stockings I’ve added Granny Apple Green and Garden Green die cut fronds using dies from the Winterly Tree Top dies. I’ve used a sponge dauber to add more Granny Apple Green to the edges of the foliage.
The red embellishments are from the Cherry Cobbler & Pearl Adhesive-Backed Berries and the Real Red stamped sentiment is from the Decorative Trees stamp set.
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.
The AWH Colour Creations team will be back next Wednesday 13th November, showcasing Gray Granite or you can join us on Monday night for some more Christmas inspiration.
Welcome to week 12 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.
Warning – if you only like traditional Christmas cards in traditional colours, please turn away now! My card this week is very sparkly and definitely not traditional at all, but it features a super cool technique I had never heard of before and you might like to learn about too!
On a Facebook live last week, Stampin’ Up’s Sara Douglass demonstrated how to heat emboss glimmer paper. I had no idea glimmer paper could be heat embossed, but the technique is exactly the same as heat embossing any other type of paper.
Both Sara and I used the Decorative Trees bundle for our projects.
I decided to use the Petunia Pop and Pretty in Pink glimmer papers from the 2024–2026 In Color Glimmer Specialty Paper pack, heat embossed with white embossing powder. I layered my three trees over this delightful “bokeh effect” DSP pattern from the Bright & Beautiful 6″ x 6″ (15.2 x 15.2 cm) Designer Series Paper.
In addition to heat embossing I used the die inlay technique for the middle tree. This is where you die cut twice, laying the negative image from one colour inside the postive die cut image in a different colour.
As you can see in the photos above and below, the negative pieces create another die inlay tree I can use on another card.
The white heat embossed sentiment also comes from the Decorative Tree stamp set, stamped onto a strip of Petunia Pop card stock. Can you see the delightful sparkle this glimmer paper has?
The outside photo gives you a better idea of just how sparkly these glimmer papers are!
Now it’s time to hop in over to our next participant, the lovely Kate Morgan. I can’t wait to see the project Kate 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 Garden Green, or you can enjoy some more Heart of Christmas inspiration next Monday night.
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.
