AWH Heart of Christmas Week 6

by What Cathy Made | Sep 9, 2024 | Christmas cards, Rustic Christmas Countdown Kit, Shining Christmas DSP, What Cathy Made

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!

AWH Heart of Christmas Week 4

by What Cathy Made | Aug 26, 2024 | Christmas cards, Rustic Christmas Countdown Kit, Shining Christmas DSP, What Cathy Made

Welcome to week 4 of the Art with Heart Team Stampin’ Up! Heart of Christmas blog hop for 2024. I hope you we are inspiring you with our Christmas card ideas. 

My Christmas cards for week 4 of our Heart of Christmas blog hop use the stunning Shining Christmas 12″ x 12″ (30.5 x 30.5 cm) Specialty Designer Series Paper as well as elements from the Rustic Christmas Countdown Kit.

Between making these cards and my blog going live the Shining Christmas DSP is unfortunately now unavailable, however you can use any DSP patterns in this very simple fancy fold.

Using half a sheet of A4 cardstock I’ve scored it on the landscape side at 2½ and 6½ inches and decorated the side flaps with DSP. These flaps slightly overlap at the front.

For each of the three cards I’ve made a one inch belly band, decorated with different elements from the Rustic Christmas Countdown Kit.

The “Peace and Joy” sentiment is stamped in Early Espresso and it comes from a stamp set called the Peaceful Season Stamp Set, available from September 4.

Cherry Cobbler embellishments from the Rustic Christmas Countdown Kit add a final touch of bling.

With a simple fancy fold like this I decided to make three cards so I could showcase the different patterns in this DSP. It’s also a wonderful way to build up my Christmas Card collection!

Now it’s time to hop in over to our next participant, the lovely Theresa Gerrard – I can’t wait to see what Theresa 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 a great job of hosting our Heart of Christmas blog every Monday.

The AWH team will be back on Wednesday night, showcasing Coastal Cabana, or you can enjoy some more Heart of Christmas inspiration next Monday night.

I hope you can join us then!