Week 18 - Heart of Christmas

 

Welcome to week 18 of the Heart of Christmas Blog Hop.
You may have come to my blog from the lovely Cathy but no matter where you have entered the blog you please have fun hopping around with the Art with Heart team for this week's Christmas inspiration and if at any time one of the next blog buttons sends you to Mars instead of to the next person on our journey just head to our host Tina Gillespie and you can continue your blog hop from there as she will have the whole list of today's participants.

I have 2 projects for you today, you will be happy that I have found another fancy fold for you and it is quick and easy so I have made it all gold and Blackberry "blissy"! So Regal! Just fitting for the Wise Men Kings I think and a Christmas Tag! So let's get started!

I saw this card by Mari Fredericks and converted it from inches to cm so that it would work with our A4 cardstock so that you would get 2 cards per sheet of cardstock. This fun fancy fold is perfect for showcasing the 2 Wise Men from the Great Tidings stamp set.

I started with a 1/2 piece of my favourite Blackberry Bliss cardstock cut @ 10.5 cm x 28 cm. I then scored the base @ 7,12.7,15.2,20.2 and 22.9 cm which if you are using inches equates to 2 3/4, 5,6,8 and 9 inches.

So fold and the base up like a little fan with the last one folding over the front.

Once you fold out your card and line it with the gorgeous Blackberry Beauty Specialty DSP gold embossed Wise Men and the sentiment. Oh and don't forget to gold emboss the belly band that holds the card all together.

Now for my tag I needed 20 bags of goodies for my Church ladies to go out for dinner in a couple of weeks and my friend who normally helps me organise these nights is on her way driving to Canberra to see her Mum and Dad so she wanted to get them organised like now as she won't be here when we get to go out for our night out. Which sounds so good after months locked down. So she came by with lollies, chocolates, bells, stars and bags ready for me to add a tag. 

Now Stampin' Up has bags that you can use that are just perfect but she had them all ready for me so I couldn't change them. So how did I make the tags.

I have made these tags using the Tailor Made Tags, the Merry Melody 3D embossing folder and the Tidings and Trimming Bundle. I first cut out the Sahara Sand tags and embossed them with the Merry Melody 3D embossing folder. Fun note you can get 10 of the largest die out of one sheet so great I needed 20! Winning with 2 sheets! Then I cut out the Christmas Tidings DSP with the same size tag and you can get 4 out of one of the 6x6 sheets. I have only decorated one of the tags so far so on to the next 19 but I wanted to show you I have cut a silhouette star in the DSP and then in gold foil the filigree star. Heat embossed in white onto Cherry cobbler the Noel which I thought went well with the music embossed tag. I then stamped and cut some of the foliage and popped them behind the star.

If you have any questions about my card or tag today do not hesitate to contact me.

Now is the time to head to my friend the lovely and talented Christine Blain. I always love to see what she has created, she has the best ideas with Designer series paper so I can't wait to see her creation this week. Just hit the next blog button to be taken to her blog.

Tina's Blog in case you visit Mars: Tina

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

take care,