Heart of Christmas - Week 18 - 2022

 

Welcome to week 18 of the Heart of Christmas. Just 1 month to go of our weekly Christmas inspirations hops, can you even believe we are that close to Christmas? I can't so I have to stop reminding myself!

This week I have taken some inspiration from the Mini Catalogue and from another demonstrator The Paper Pixie and combined the 2 to come up with my creation.

Today I have chosen to case the Paper Pixie card base design and a lovely little pouch to put the cards in but then use the Mini Catalogue as the decoration for the cards and the pouch! So let's get started and I will walk you through how I put the card together.

I started with a card base of Sweet Sorbet card stock and cut a little off the front and added some of the gorgeous Sweetest Christmas DSP in its place. Also added a bit of Basic white to the inside so that you have a place to write on your cards

Now I am making six cards to fit into my little pouch so I did all the stamping and cutting out all at the same time of each element. I cut out all the Largest Tailored tags and stamped the leaves in Garden green and added them to the front of the card.

Next came the Real Red ribbon from the Real Red and Garden Green Combo Pack

Stamp and Cut out your holly leaves and add them.

Cut out the branch in crumb cake

I used the Candy Cane Dies and cut out six candy canes from the Sweetest DSP and layered that to the front of the card so there are 6 different Candy canes.

Some Old Olive branches are added.

The Banner from the Christmas Banners stamp set is stamped in Basic Grey and then the 'Tis the season is stamped in Garden Green and cut out using the Christmas Banner Dies and popped up on dimensionals

Of course you have to add the berries to the branches so I stamped them in Sweet Sorbet and cut them out with the Christmas Banner dies and then added them with some mini glue dots.

To finish of the cards I had to add a little bling and used the Adhesive-backed seasonal sequins.

This is the front of the pouch that all 6 cards fit nicely into. Next time I might make it slightly bigger to fit envelopes as well but if you would like to see how to make it check out The Paper Pixie. Again I have used all the goodies I used on the cards but a longer banner from the Christmas banner bundle and I have also  used the large die from the Candy Cane Die to go in the opposite way to the DSP.

There are a few different ways I could close the pouch I haven't decided yet. How would you close it? A Ribbon, velcro? Something else?

If you have any questions about my projects today please do not hesitate to contact me.

Now is the time to head to the next person on our Christmas inspiration journey and today you will be heading to the wonderful Kate Morgan, she inspires me each week with her creativity. I can't wait to see what she has for us this week. Just hit the next blog button and you will go straight there.

If for any reason the next blog buttons don't go where they are supposed to just come back here and continue your journey by clicking on the names of those participating from the list below:

Kate Morgan

Andrea Sargent

Caroline Manwaring

Christine Blain

Tina Gillespie

Catherine Proctor

Rachel Woollard

Sharon Davern <= You are here

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

Heart of Christmas - 2022 - Week 17

 

Welcome to week 17 of the Heart of Christmas for 2022. We have just 5 more weeks after today of our Christmas inspiration to bring to you! Ssh! I don't think I am ready for it to be nearly December!

Today I am channeling my dear friend Caroline Manwaring the queen of the embossing folders and I also saw a similar card to this by Laura Du Bois so I am so casing her colour scheme and layout just using different products!

I so loved the simple elegance of the white on white with the touches of Soft Sea Foam and gold that I just had to make this card with some of our current products!

The card base is a Thick Basic White which I have layered on top a piece of Basic White embossed with the Stripes from the Stripes and Splatters 3D Embossing folders pack. The wreath is 2 layers of the the Natural Prints dies one in Soft Sea Foam and one in Basic White. I have used the sentiment from the Peace to you stamp set and heat embossed that in gold and cut it out with the stitched rectangle dies and layered it on soft sea foam and popped up on dimenisionals.

You may remember from last year and carried over into this year's mini the Merriest Moments bundle. I have used the poinsettia from the dies cut in white and separated by dimensional. The gold centre is the gorgeous distressed gold paper. I have also added the little leaf behind from the Framed Florets Dies!

I think this is a card you could actually make multiples of quite quickly and change up the soft sea foam for other colours as well. What colour would you chose?

If you have any questions about my card today just let me know.

Now is the time to go to the next very talented person on our Christmas inspiration journey and this week we will be going to the very talented Caroline Manwaring! She is the queen of the subtle embossing folders and beautiful elegant cards, I can't wait to see what she has for us this week.

If you find a broken link just head back here as you will be able to continue your journey from the list below of the talented team members participating this week.

Caroline Manwaring

Andrea Sargent

Kate Morgan

Michele Taylor

Tina Gillespie

Theresa Gerrard

Christine Blain

Kathryn Ruddick

Rosa Leyden

Sharon Davern <= You are here

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

Week 16 - Heart of Christmas - Framed & Festive Sneak Peak

 

Welcome to week 16 of the Heart of Christmas. This is our Monday night time where some of the team come and play with some Christmas goodies and bring you some inspiration for you. We will continue right up until the last Monday of November.

This week I am bringing you a sneak peak of a new collection called Fitting Florets! You will be able to order these goodies starting November 1st.

From the collection I am using the Framed & Festive Cling Stamp set, the Framed Floret Dies and the gorgeous Fitting Florets DSP.

This Collection comes with another gorgeous stamp set and beautiful Designer Series Paper, the dies and some gold swirls. The Framed Florets stamps are photopolymer and the Framed & Festive stamps are red rubber cling stamps.

For my card today I have used the simple "Z" Fold and added a ribbon to give it a little extra "WOW"

So if you remember from my Friendliest Gnome cards from a couple of weeks ago, I made the "z" fold card and then put the focal point o the front with the Gnomes. I have done the same thing this time but before you put the focal point card on your card you need to do one more step.

So make sure you have put on all your gorgeous Fitting florets DSP and your Basic White so that you have somewhere to write on your card then with your Take Your Pick tool I just made a whole to thread my Gold Shimmer Ribbon through from from the back and making it long enough to tie a bow. I think next time I will make it a bit longer.

Once you have tied your ribbon you can add your focal point! I have cut out the frame in the gorgeous Distressed Gold Specialty Paper, and I have stamped the Sentiment in Basic Grey and cut it out using one of the other frames so I will have an extra frame to use later. The Flowers are cut out with the dies from the Fitting Florets DSP and there is a gorgeous leaf die also that I have used to and cut out in Soft Succulent. I have added some bling because there is never enough bling with the matt Solid Faceted Gems in Melon Mambo and Mossy Meadow!

If you have any questions about my card tonight or would like to get these fantastic products on November 1st just let me know!

Now is the time to head to the next very talented person on our Christmas Journey and today we will be heading to the lovely Andrea Sargent. She is so fantastic with her water colouring and her elegant designs, I wonder what she has for us today. Just hit the next blog button and you will go straight to her blog.

If you have a broken link at any time just come back here and you can continue your blog hop from the list of participants this week. You will find the links to the talented ladies below:

Michele Taylor

Kate Morgan

Tina Gillespie

Caroline Manwaring

Christine Blain

Catherine Proctor

Kathryn Ruddick

Sharon Davern <=You are here

Andrea Sargent

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

Heart of Christmas - 2022 - Week 15

 

Welcome to week 15 of the Heart of Christmas, so happy you could join the Art With Heart team as we share some Christmas inspiration with you.

This week I have used the gorgeous Kindest Gnomes once again and put them on another fancy fold for you.

So for this card I have also used the Gnome dies and the Storybook Gnomes DSP.  This card starts with a card base of half an A4 piece of Night of Navy card and folded in half but cut vertically so you have the really long thin card base.

 On the front I have layered a piece of the Storybook Gnomes DSP and then a layer of vellum. Then using other pieces of the DSP and the Gnome Dies I have cut out the mushrooms and Gnomes and stamped the sentiment and placed that on the front of the card.

On the inside I have used the same DSP to layer on the inside and then a strip of Night of navy folded in 4 to help the Gnomes pop up. I have cut layers of Pool Party and Basic White in the Deckled Rectangle for the Gnomes to sit on.

Here is a closer look at the Gnomes!

These gnomes I have stamped and then coloured with the stampin blends. You can have so much fun with this set. On the back of the card I have made a space for you to write to the recipient of the card.

If you have any questions about this card or you would like to have a play with these gorgeous gnomes yourself please get in contact with me

Now is the time to go to the amazingly talented Kate Morgan. I love seeing her creations each week. She blows me away and I can't wait to see what she has for us this week. Just hit the next blog button and go straight there.

If at any time you have a broken next button link just come back here and continue your hop from the list of participants joining us today from the Art with Heart team.

Kate Morgan

Tina Gillespie

Kathryn Ruddick

Andrea Sargent

Christine Blain

Michele Taylor

Caroline Manwaring

Catherine Proctor

Rosa Leyden

Sharon Davern <= You are Here

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

Colour Creations Blog Hop - Week 23 - Gorgeous Grape

 

Hello and welcome to week 23 of the Art with Heart teams Colour Creations Blog Hop. I have been away for a few weeks from this weekly blog hop but I wanted to try and get back with a clean and simple card this week. Well that is what is in my head to plan to do let's see what comes out by the time I make my card. I am having one of those weeks. Yes, but who doesn't like to challenge themselves every now and again! Right?!

This week we are looking at Gorgeous Grape:

Gorgeous Grape is one of the colours from the Brights collection and is a deep rich purple!

So this is what I have come up with:

I have gone back to probably my most used set of the 2022-23 Annual Catalogue and that is the Cottage Rose. I will link you back to some of my Cottage Rose Posts right at the end of this post if you want to go back and have a look some time.

I took out the blending brush and gave a little shadow of gorgeous grape behind the focal rose. Instead of using the large rose from the stamp set I used the medium. I took the blender pen and carefully added some dark lines of Gorgeous grape (as I had stamped the image in Basic Grey) and when there was less ink on the blender pen I added some paler gorgeous grape ink to the outer edge of the petals. The Natural Finish Ribbon I thought was a nice background for the flower and the leaves that I coloured in old olive stampin' blends.

If you have any questions about my project today please do not hesitate to contact me.

Now is the time to head to the next person on our journey of Gorgeous Grape and today you will be going to Cathy Proctor, I love the way she creates such elegant cards, so just hit on the next blog button and you will go straight there. I can't wait to see what she has for us today!

If at anytime you find a broken link please head to our lovely weekly host Cathy Proctor and on her blog she will have the list of the Art with Heart team members participating this week. Thanks Cathy: Cathy's Blog

If you want to look back at some other ideas for this gorgeous stamp set here are the blog posts to get some other ideas for how to use the Cottage Rose Bundle:

Card 1
Card 2

Card 3

Card 4

Card 5

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

Heart of Christmas - 2022 - Week 14

 

Welcome to week 14 of the Heart of Christmas blog hop. Each week until the end of November and shh that is only this week and 8 more we will be bringing you Christmas inspiration for your decorating and cardmaking for this year!

So this week I thought I had better ink up those gorgeous Gnomes! I know late to the party but hey better late than never, right!

I thought I would do a simple "Z" Fold card with a focal point panel, square, rectangle on the front! Now you can say, don't you know what you have made. Well at the time of writing this part of my blog I actually haven't made the card so it could even be a circle! Let's see what the card will be by the time we get to the end of the blog!

Let the card fun begin!

So this is the what I came up with as you see I used the deckled rectangle for the focal point of my card!  I hadn't used them yet so I thought it was the perfect time to get them out. I actually ran out of time to do much today so I had to find some quick ideas for you.

So what are the quick things you can do to make these cards. Cut a card base of Early Espresso and fold in half and then fold the front back on itself to make the "z" fold. Then it is a matter of choosing your DSP that you like. I have taken all the colours for my cards tonight from the Storybook Gnomes DSP. It is a layer that you would normally put on as the first layer and cut in half and split between the front and the inside. Do that for some Basic White as well and you have a place to write on.

For 2 of my cards I have taken the Gnome dies and cut out the mushroom and gnomes from the DSP and the grass from some card stock. Fantastic that was quick I have stamped the sentiment in Night of Navy and fussy cut that as I liked it a bit separated on my card front. On the piece of Basic White I have used my blending brush and put a little bit of Balmy Blue to have a shadow around the mushrooms. Pop them all on the deckled card and you have your card finished.

Now if you have a little more time you can stamp your mushroom and gnome and colour them in with your stampin' blends and cut them out with the Gnome Dies.

I used similar colours to the DSP that I cut out with the dies to colour the mushroom and gnome that I had stamped in basic grey! Pretty close to the original but you don't have to do that you can make it in any colours you like!

Quick easy fancy fold cards with all the help from Stampin' Up!

If you have any questions about my project today please do not hesitate to contact me and I will be happy to help.

Now is the time to head to the next person on our Heart of Christmas journey for week 14 and it is the very talented Kate Morgan. I just love what she brings to us each week. She is so creative, I can't wait to see what technique or fancy fold she has for us this week. Just hit the next blog button and you will go straight there.

If for any reason your next blog button doesn't work please come back here and continue you hop from the where you left off. You can find the list of participants in this weeks Heart of Christmas blog hop below:

Kate Morgan

Catherine Proctor

Tina Gillespie

Andrea Sargent

Christine Blain

Kathryn Ruddick

Michele Taylor

Caroline Manwaring

Sharon Davern <=You are here

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

World Card Making Day 2022

 

Thank you for joining us on World Card Making Day! Each year on the first Saturday in October we set aside the day to make cards. This year the lovely Kathryn Mangelsdorf put a call out for some of us to do a blog hop as well. What a fantastic idea Kathryn. Thanks for hosting our hop!

Here is what I have made for our hop. 

I love making fancy fold cards, they don't have to be super difficult and this one is just a couple of cuts and folds. It is called a Diagonal Joy Fold Card. I need to make around 20 thank you cards for my daughters 21st that we have just had and I thought a nice easy fancy fold would be just the ticket!

 

Now you can decorate them anyway you like but the base of the card is easy to make. Let me take you through the steps after choosing your colour scheme and I used the Abigail Rose DSP for my base colour palette.

Step 1. Card base A4 score in half down the middle

Step 2. Cut in half and then using the middle score line cut from there to the bottom of the card base diagonally. Do this for both cards and you will have 2 card bases.

Here are my 20 ready to go for all my thank you cards!

Step 3. Choose the DSP that you would like to use and cut it to the size that is the first layer that you would add to your base card. I cut mine to 10 x 14.4cm. Cut these diagonally into triangles. (As you can see the one side I can use for my basic grey bases and the other side for my Early Espresso bases)

Step 4. Cut the card that will become the other folding part and where you write to your receiver of the card. Mine are 8 x 21 cm. score and fold in half.

Step 5. Sorry no photo cut DSP that you wish to go under your focal point flower 7.5 cm x10 cm

Step 6. Cut another piece of DSP or you could cut a piece of Mossy Meadow card the size of 10 x 14.4 cm and your the split card textured dies. I thought it would look like the flowers had a lattice background.

Step 7: Stamp your flowers and leaves and your sentiment. I have done both on Very Vanilla and Basic White to go with the colours of my cards. I have used the Cottage Rose Stamp for the flower and the Celebrating you for the Thank you stamp

Step 8: Die cut and colour your roses and leaves. I used the cottage Rose Dies to cut these out and then the wonderful Stampin' Blends to colour them in. Don't they look wonderful all together.

Now we can assemble our card.

Step 9: First adhere the split die texture piece or your piece of DSP to the inside of your card.

Step 10: Adhere the triangle to the front of the card. Start with the tip it makes it easier.

Step 11: Place adhesive on the back of your folded writing section and slide it under your triangle fold and adhere to the lattice base card.

It is easier to make sure you have it centred if you slide it in carefully before pushing down and adhering.

Step 12: Decorate the front of your card anyway you like. See the thank you I have cut that out using the Celebrations Tag Dies. It was the perfect fit!

Here are the 2 colour schemes with the yellow rose together.

You can even fold the triangle the other way if you wanted a different look.

Here is half of them but all 20 are complete ready to be written in and sent out this week. Oh and I couldn't help but put on some bling with the gorgeous Iridescent Pearls.

I do hope those steps were helpful and will encourage you to try making the base and you can decorate it with your stamps and in your style but if you have any questions about my project today don't hesitate to contact me.

Now is the time to head to the next person on our World Card Making Day Hop and that will be the very talented artist Kathryn Ruddick, I love how she adds colour to her projects so just hit the next blog button below and you will head straight there. I can't wait to see what she has for us!

If at any time there is a broken link our lovely host Kathryn Mangelsdorf will have a list of those participating and you can continue your hop from there. Click here to go to Kathryn's Blog

Thank you for spending some World Card Making Day crafty time with me today, take care,