Week 17 - Heart of Christmas

 

Welcome to another week of wonderful Christmas inspiration from the Art With Heart team. I love Mondays and I hope you do too! I can't wait for it to be Monday so I get to see all the fantastic Christmas creations. I love Christmas so that might be the reason I love Heart of Christmas time and we are at week 17 for this year!

So for today I have a quick and simple card for you and I am letting the gorgeous Designer Series Paper do all the work!

So this card is quick and you can use this gorgeous Peaceful Place Specialty Paper it is just beautiful and I decided to let it do all the talking this week.

To accompany the Peaceful Place SDSP I have used Evening Evergreen as the card base and layered it with Silver Foil added a little Evening Evergreen Open Weave ribbon and Genial Gems after I had stamped the greeting from the stamp set For Unto Us in Evening Evergreen.

On the inside of the card I have carried the same theme through and added the silver foil and the strip along the bottom of the Peaceful Place SDSP that I had trimmed from the front.

You could do this with any colour you liked, Night of Navy would be fantastic as Blue and Silver go so well together or even Real Red and Cherry Cobbler and use the Holiday Rhinestone Gems or the Red Rhinestone gems to add your bling. The possibilities are endless.

If you have any questions about my card today or would like to get your hands on some goodies to make some quick cards yourself just hit my contact button anytime.

Now is the time to head to the next very talented person on our hop around today and I can't wait to see her creation. Kathryn Mangelsdorf is joining in with us today for the first time in a long time and I can't wait to see what she has for us. Hit the next blog button to go to her blog now.

I have the privilege to host this week's blog hop so if there are any technical difficulties and one of the next blog buttons doesn't work come back here and you can continue your hop right where you left off by going to the following list of participants. Enjoy you blog hop!

Tina Gillespie
Kate Morgan
Michele Taylor
Catherine Proctor
Claire Daly
Christine Blain
Ros Davidson
Rosa Leyden
Andrea Sargent
Caroline Manwaring
Theresa Gerrard
Sharon Davern  <=You Are Here
Kathryn Mangelsdorf

Thank you for spending some Christmas crafty time with me today, take care,

Week 16 - Heart of Christmas

 

Welcome to Week 16 of Heart of Christmas. Can you believe we are now only 68 day away from Christmas day! EEK! No don't panic because if you have been following along with the Heart of Christmas for the last 16 weeks you have got a lovely stash of Christmas cards ready to go and you will be able to send them out and be happy that you have ticked that very special task off your to do list for Christmas. Plus all that joy you have spread with your homemade cards.

This week I thought I would CASE a card from the July-December Mini catalogue and get out my Wise Men and make a shaker card. I haven't really ever made one but I have seen many tips and I thought well I am just going for it!

You will find this card on page 15 of the mini catalogue and as I hadn't used the frame die yet I wanted to use it and thought well this was the perfect opportunity to try it.

To make this card I needed to work on the background of my window cut out first.

I am not sure if you can tell but I have used some night of navy with my blending brushes on the left panel to make it a little darker. The paper is from the Beauty of the Earth DSP and making it a little darker means the Wise Men are walking through twilight rather than daylight or pitch black.

Now for the front of the card I have used the gorgeous Gold Metallic paper that comes in the 6x6 pack with the Rose Gold it is just stunning and I cut it down to a card front size and used a strip that I had left over to decorate the inside of the card. Using the dies I cut out the frame. Then I used the Clear 14.6 x 11.1 cm Envelopes and adhered it to the back of the gold layer. I did have to fold the edges in a little and adhere them down but not too much and I left the opening at the bottom so I could fold it over more to keep the sequins from the Sequins for everything pack up in the area I wanted. 

Now another tip apart from using an envelope for your sequins. Do not shake it with the envelope still open if you want to see if you have enough in there because you will need to put more in there as they will go flying out!
 

Once all sealed I adhered it to the Beauty of the Early layer with dimensionals. I would have used the foam adhesive strips that I have but they like the sequins decided to fly around my craft room and I couldn't place my hand on them. Always the way when you want to use something! Must be time for a tidy of the craft room (Note to self!)

I have layered everything on a card base of Night of Navy which is what I have used to stamp the sentiment. The Wise Men are stamped in Basic Grey and then I have take out my trusty Stampin' Blends and coloured them in. Now they are not the same as in the July-Dec Mini but that is ok you can colour them how ever you like and then I cut them out using the Wise Men Tiding Dies and popped them on the front of my card along with a couple more sequins which I managed to wrangle.

Well if you need help with your sequins wrangling just let me know at any time by hitting the contact button.

Now is the time to head to the next very creative person on our Heart of Christmas journey for week 16, just hit the next blog button and you will be taken to Rosa Leyden I love her work and can't wait to see what she has created for us this week, last week it was gorgeous Whimsical Christmas trees and snow flakes!

 

If at any time the next blog button doesn't work just head to this week's host my dear friend Tina Gillespie and on her blog you will find the list of all those participating this week: Tina's Blog

Thank you for spending some Christmas crafty time with me today, take care,

Week 15 - Heart of Christmas

 

We are at week 15 of our Heart of Christmas blog hop and each week until the middle of  December the ladies from the Art With Heart Team will bring you some Christmas inspiration each Monday night.

This week I will be doing something in Blue and Silver tones. The reason is my girlfriend wanted to change her colour theme for Christmas this year when we were talking and she wanted to get away from the normal red and green traditional colours and go with blues and silvers. So I am going to challenge myself to make her a card in those colours!

Well I have made her a card but I have kept is quite simple and all about the words and sentiment that I know my friend will like.

So for this card I have started with a Night of Navy card base and layered it with silver foil. I then added an embossed layer of Basic White in the Merry Melody 3D embossing Folder with a little bit of Silver Elegant trim wrapped around it.

On another piece of Basic White I took my blending brush and with Misty Moonlight and Night of Navy I blending the 2 colours together to give the colour for the background of my White Heat Embossed Sentiments. I thought the 2 blended together gave a nice colour of the changing of the night sky. I heat embossed the sentiments from For Unto Us stamp set and cut the centre piece from the Hippo & Friends Dies and the little sentiment from the Stitched Rectangle dies where I made one of the dies fit my purpure by making it a little smaller than the die actually was.

I have also die cut some silver foil stars from the Stitched Stars dies and added a little bow of elegant trim to finish off the card. On the inside I have added a layer of Silver foil under the Basic White to continue the theme to the inside of my card.

If you have any questions about my project today or about any of your Christmas crafty needs please do not hesitate to contact me.

Now is the time to hit the next blog button and head to the next very creative person on our journey in Christmas creativity. This week you will be heading to Christine Blain I can't wait to see what she has for us, I always love seeing her creations and how she uses designer series paper and different textures. 

I have the privilege to host this week so if for any reason one of the next blog buttons doesn't take you to the next blog just come back here and click on the next person on the list below and continue the blog hop from there.

Christine Blain
Andrea Sargent
Kate Morgan
Theresa Gerrard
Michele Taylor
Caroline Manwaring
Tina Gillespie
Catherine Proctor
Sharon Davern <= You are Here

Thank you for spending some Christmas crafty time with me today, take care,

Week 14 - Heart Of Christmas

 

Welcome to week 14 of the Heart of Christmas, for this week I thought I would do another fancy fold for you. I know I just can't help myself.

This week I have created a Tri-Corn Fold! Along with this weeks card I am using the Trimmings & Tidings Bundle I have had it sitting there forever but I have been playing with my Angels stamp set and I thought I would get it out and have a play this week.

So for this card the base is is half of your A4 card and you just fold and glue.

It is a good idea once you have made all your folds to cut and adhere your papers before adhering your card finally together in the middle. It is just easier that way. I have used the Brushed Metallic Card stock and the Tidings of Christmas DSP layered on a base of Evening Evergreen for this card.

I kept the decorations quite simple for this card as the fold is so fancy like one of those hats a sailor of the tall ships wear. For my decoration I stamped the sentiment first and then cut out the tag with the Tailor Made Tags  but you could do it the other way round. I knew the angle I kind of wanted it it on but still wanted the word straight. I have stamped the stocking in Basic Gray and cut it out with the Christmas Tidings Dies as well as the star. The Stocking is coloured in with Light and Dark Poppy Parade, Dark Evening Evergreen and Light Soft Sea Foam Stampin' Blends.

I also cut out a couple extra pieced of Basic White to place on the back / inside of the hat for writing.

Of course this card folds nicely flat to fit into our C6 envelopes so it is a fun card to make and send for Christmas.

I have topped off the tag with some Evening Evergreen Sheer ribbon and some white Bakers Twine.

Hope you have enjoyed this fancy fold tonight and if you have any questions about my card today or any of your crafty needs please do not hesitate to contact me.

The next person on our journey around our Christmas blog hop this week is the lovely Judy May, I always love to see how creative she is each week. Can't wait to see what she does this week. Just hit the next blog button to go there now!

The Heart Of Christmas is hosted by the lovely Tina so if at anytime one of the next blog buttons doesn't work just head to Tina's blog and she will have a list of the participants and you can continue you blog hop from there! Tina's Blog

Thank you for spending some Christmas crafty time with me today, take care,