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.
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.
