Welcome to week thirty-three of our Art With Heart 2023-24 Colour Creations blog hop!
Our colour this week, Misty Moonlight, is a beautiful blue that previously was an In Colour but has now joined the Neutrals family as a core colour. It’s one of my favourite all time colours!
As this week is our last AWH Colour Creations for 2023 and it is only 12 days until Christmas I thought I’d share some quick Christmas cards that are easy to whip up at the last minute.
These three cards all use products from the Beary Christmas Suite Collection which is retiring soon, with many of the products on sale now.
The card base and envelopes are from the Beary Christmas Memories & More Cards & Envelope packs. This pack includes 20 cards and envelopes and is currently reduced to $12.25 , which works out to be just 61 cents per card and envelope!
The cards also use the Beary Cute Bundle, which includes the Beary Cute Stamp Set and the Beary Cute Punch. I’ve stamped all the bears in Misty Moonlight, punching out the large bears with the Beary Cute Punch and fussy cutting the small bears with paper snips.
Card one features the Beary Christmas Designer Series Paper with a sentiment from the Beary Cute stamp set.
White bakers twine was coloured using my Misty Moonlight Stampin’ Blends before being tied into a bow.
Card two uses the envelope lining as the top layer of the card with the sentiment cut into individual words and arranged on top of the envelope lining layer. Adhesive snowflakes topped with adhesive-backed glitter sequins complete the scene.
Card three has three bears in a row, stamped in Misty Moonlight with Balmy Blue scarves. Once again the adhesive-backed glitter sequins add a touch of festive sparkle to another DSP design from the Beary Christmas Designer Series Paper.
Which is your favourite card of the three?
Now it’s time to hop on over to our next participant, the lovely Rachel Woollard – I can’t wait to see what Rachel has made this week!
If at any time you find a broken link, you can find the complete list of all participants below.
We’re taking a two-week break over the Christmas and New Year period, but will return on Wednesday, 3rd January when we’ll be back showcasing Mossy Meadow. I hope you can join us then.
In the meantime, I hope you have a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Welcome to week seven of our Art With Heart 2023-24 Colour Creations blog hop!
Bubble Bath is a gorgeous light pink that’s in the Subtles family, sitting somewhere in between Fresh Freesia and Moody Mauve.
My three Bubble Bath cards are all paper quilt cards that feature the Delightfully Eclectic DSP, one of the Designer Series Papers on sale at 15% off for the entire month of June (the entire list of papers on sale is listed here).
By only using four of these DSP designs, I’ve narrowed my colour pallette to Bubble Bath, Misty Moonlight, Garden Green and Basic White – with just a tiny touch of Night of Navy, Crushed Curry and Cajun Craze in the selected DSP patterns.
If you’ve never you ever made a paper quilt card before it’s such a fun technique for using DSP. I’ve created three different paper quilt cards this week, however there are as many ways to make this style of card as there are ways to make quilts!
This “Thinking of you” card is a cathedral windows card, named after the cathedral windows style of quilts it looks like. It has a lot of dimension as you can see more clearly in this side-on photo.
I’ve used the 1 3/4″ circle punch (you can also use dies) to cut Basic White cardstock circles as I wanted the effect of the white edges against the Misty Moonlight layer.
Insert squares of DSP inside the circles and use your fingers and your bone folder to fold the edges of the circle around the squares of DSP, creating the square cathedral window shape.
The colour of these pink Pastel Adhesive-Backed Sequins are actually listed on the packet as Petal Pink, but I think they match Bubble Bath perfectly.
My “Happy Birthday” card uses the the Inked & Tiled Punch Pack. These punches are designed to slot into each other so they are ideal for making a paper quilt.
No folding or measuring required for this paper quilt! Simply arrange the punched out pieces into your preferred quilt design, glue them onto a layer of Basic White cardstock and adhere your quilt to your card base.
The “Hello” card uses dies from the Patchwork Pieces dies, the Stylish Shapes dies and the Radiating Stitches dies. Seriously, how many different dies can I use on the one card, LOL!
Die cut four different DSP patterns using the Patchwork Pieces die and then arrange them in a symmetrical design, gluing alternating DSP pieces onto a cardstock layer.
The Misty Moonlight base layer and the Misty Moonlight circle layer under the sentiment are die cut with the Radiating Stitched dies – an online only product. The Hello sentiment is die cut using the smallest circle from the Stylish Shapes dies.
All three cards use sentiments from the “Go To Greetings” stamp set, stamped in Misty Moonlight. I thought the soft feminine script of these sentiments really suited the colour pallette and DSP patterns on my quilt cards.
Now it’s time to hop on over to our next participant, the lovely Kathryn Ruddick – I can’t wait to see what Kathryn has made this week!
If at any time you find a broken link, you can find the complete list of all participants below.
