Heart of Christmas - Week 22 - 2022

 

Welcome to week 22 of the Heart of Christmas! Can you believe it we are already at our last Heart of Christmas blog hop for 2022. So that means you have had so much inspiration you will be able to get all of your cards make now and ready for Christmas giving.

So for this last hop I have done one more Fitting Florets Dies and DSP card but I used the Hope and Peace Stamp set. I just love this DSP so much I couldn't help myself!

Quick and easy, fast and furious however you want to call it. I know what is wrong with me. (Side note, I fell after voting in the state election and I am a bit sore and sorry for myself so a quick card was needed)

So for this card, Evening Evergreen card base, layer of the gorgeous Fitting Florets DSP, The lovely single frame from the Fitting florets die in Evening Evergreen card. On the Basic White card I have stamped the Christmas greeting in Evening Evergreen ink from the Hope & Peace stamp set. Now I hadn't used any stars this Christmas and I thought that was a bit weird and wrong so I thought I would put them all on this card! HEHE! So after adding a Brushed Metallic branch I punched out a few stars with the Starlit Punch and added those.

With the extra stars that I punched I added to the inside of my card.

Of course I needed to add some bling so in the middle of the stars I added a little gold pearl from the Festive Pearls.
 

If you have any questions about my project today or any other project and you just have to have these gorgeous products in your hands to make your Christmas cards and more. Please do not hesitate to contact me.

Now is the time to head to the very lovely and talented Andrea Sargent She is so amazing with water colouring and exceptionally elegant cards and she also loves a good puppy dog card too so 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 blogs buttons don't go where you were expecting come back here and you can continue your journey for the list of the very talented Art with heart team members participating today. 

It has been such a privilege to host the hops each week and I thank each and every person who have participated some for one week some for a few some each and every week. They are amazingly talented we hope that you were got so much joy and pleasure from all our sharing and many tips lots of inspiration to try with you card making and sharing this Christmas time. 

Andrea Sargent

Tina Gillespie

Michele Taylor

Caroline Manwaring

Kate Morgan

Kathryn Ruddick

Rachel Woollard

Catherine Proctor

Sharon Davern <= you are here

Thank you for spending the last 22 weeks with the Art with Heart team and our weekly Christmas inspiration, take care,

Heart of Christmas - Week 21 - 2022

 

Hello dear craft friends and welcome to our penultimate Heart of Christmas blog hop for 2022. Just one more week after this week. 

So I have decided at the very last minute to make a fancy fold for you. I decided I had better find one I hadn't done before and see if I could whip it up quickly as I had a meeting today and I knew my time was limited to create a card. I found a video by a UK crafter Amanda from her blog Scrimpingmommy on how to make a floating Triple diamond card so I thought I would have a go at it using our gorgeous Stampin' Up! products!

Really once you have the card base set all you have to do is decorate and what better set that the Frame & Festive and the Fitting Florets Dies and Fitting Florets DSP. Perfect.

I have used 2 pieces of Evening Evergreen card stock for my base and cut and folded the fancy fold for that and then I have used for the diamond Soft Succulent card. The Gorgeous DSP I have layered all over the folds and the diamonds before decorating. Here on the back of the card you can see a little bit of the card fold. I cut each A4 piece of card down to 14.9 cm folded them in half, folded each end back on each other and the 2 end section cut into a triangle. The middle diamond is is how you join the 2 pieces of card base together.

The folded triangles are where we get the floating diamonds part of the fancy fold from.

Now you can open the whole card out and lay it flat which is very handy when you want to write on it. As you noticed before I have added the gorgeous Fitting Florets DSP and some Basic White to the back of the card so that you can write your Christmas message to the recipient of the card.

The card can also fold up to be mailed. You will need a slightly wider envelope than the C6 but it is the same height as a C6.

Each of the Diamonds are decorated slightly differently. I have put a different sentiment on each. I have used the Stylish shapes dies to cut out a layer of Brushed Metallic Gold Card and also the sentiment stamped in Evening Evergreen.

For the Diamond on the other end of the card I have done the same and have used the Fitting Florets Dies to cut out the flowers to add to both.

For the centre diamond I have cut out the beautiful frames in the Brushed Metallic gold card. I have fussy cut the flower spray this time and with a few left over die cuts from my cards last week I added them as well to the arrangement.

Of course I couldn't walk away from the card without adding some bling so I have added some Gold adhesive-backed swirls!

I had a fun time making this card and the fold is not difficult. I just need to find time to make the envelope and that is easy with the gorgeous Fitting Florets DSP but I was running out of time to get the post up in time so I had to skip the envelope.

If you have any questions about my project today or would like to put some of the gorgeous Stampin' Up products on your Christmas wish list don't hesitate to contact me.

Now is the time to head to the next very creative person on our Christmas inspiration journey and this week we will be heading to the very talented Andrea Sargent. I love her gorgeous water colouring, I wonder what she will have for us today? Just hit the next blog and you will go straight there. 

If for any reason the next blog button doesn't work just come back here and continue your journey from the list of very creative participants below.

Andrea Sargent

Kate Morgan

Rachel Woollard

Tina Gillespie

Christine Blain

Caroline Manwaring

Cathy Proctor

Sharon Davern <=You are here

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

Heart of Christmas - Week 20 - Do you still have lots of cards to make?

 

Welcome to week 20 of the Heart of Christmas just 2 weeks remaining after today, so make sure you hop around all those participating and go back through the weeks of the Heart of Christmas so that you get all that last minute inspiration before life gets too busy in December.

Today I have for you a One Sheet Wonder as I needed a few Christmas cards this week for my Church ladies as we have our Christmas breakup from my Thursday night group. We were to have it last week but I was in Sydney having fun at OnStage so we are having it this week. I thought a One Sheet Wonder would help me get a lot of cards made quickly and Stampin' Up! has such gorgeous DSP the cards practically make themselves.

So I went on a little bit of a hunt for a different template to ones I had seen before and to see if they would fit with the sentiments that I had. I found this one on a blog by Kate Deignan.

I decided to use the gorgeous Fitting florets DSP.

Once I had chosen the DSP and cut it up I layered it all up on to Evening Evergreen card bases and a Soft Succulent layer.

I adjusted the DSP layers just slightly so they had a little bit of a border with the soft succulent but the template was my starting point.

From there I used 2 stamp sets, the Framed & Festive and the Sweet Candy Canes for my sentiments. I used the dies from from the Candy Cane Dies, Framed Florets Dies and the Stylish shapes dies. 

I have used the Sentiment for 9 of the card from the Framed and Festive stamp set and cut it out with the Stylish shaped dies and then with the Brushed Metallic cardstock I have cut a layer and popped them up on dimensionals.

This is the 2 full piece of DSP. I have used Basic White, Soft Sea Foam and Sahara Sand for the foliage under the sentiment.

This design uses one of the 2 1/2 inch and the 2 inch piece of DSP.

Most of the designs have a piece of DSP like this on the bottom of the card. You could add a little bit of decoration or ...

You could add a little to both side of the sentiment.

It is up to you how to decorate both look great with these products.

Now just for fun cut one of the pieces on the diagonal and I stamped the sentiment on the Soft Succulent card stock and cut out a candy cane from the Sweet Christmas DSP added some of the foliage and a red ribbon and you have another card.

Don't forget to add some bling which I have to every card.

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

Now is the time to head to the next person on the Christmas Journey and this week you will be heading to Andrea Sargent, I love how amazing her water colouring is and the depth of textures she get in her cards. 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.

Now if for some reason the next blog button doesn't go where it is supposed to please Christmas inspiration journey from there. A Special shout out to the lovely Tina for her help this week! Thanks Tina!

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

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

Heart of Christmas - Week 19

 

Welcome to week 19 of the Heart of Christmas. We are in November so that means just 4 weeks left of Heart of Christmas. "No", I say! I am loving all the inspiration from these very talented and creative team members I want it to be Christmas all the time! But alas it would not be special if it was!

This week I have a card using the Framed and Festive stamp set. It is part of the  Framed Florets Collections.

This collection is now available until January 4th. I hope you have been loving all the sneak peaks you have been getting.

For my card today I thought I would show you  a paired back version and then a stepped up version. I have made this card using panels of the gorgeous Fitting Florets DSP. Who doesn't have a couple of pieces lying around and just needs to know what to do with them. I have a card base of Evening Evergreen layered with Soft Succulent and then 2 panels layered on top of the Fitting Florets DSP. To add a little contrast the is a band across the middle of a little extra piece of DSP. I have cut out the frames in brushed metallic gold foil and stamped the greeting in Evening evergreen. 

Now you can leave your card like this or you could step it up a little.

I took out another piece of the Fitting florets DSP and fussy cut the beautiful flower array to tie in the Balmy blue and Night of Navy Band. Under the flowers I frayed some Gold Shimmer Ribbon and popped them up on dimenionals.

Here is a closer look at the frame and the contrasting band. Plus you can see the gold swirls that I have added that come in the collection too! You have to have some bling!

No matter which version you chose to do the Fitting Florets collection make a lovely card every time!

If you have any questions or would like to get your hands on this gorgeous collection do not hesitate to contact me.

Now is the time to head to the next person on this weeks journey of wonderful Christmas inspiration and this week you will be heading to the amazing Kate Morgan. She does the most amazing creations each week so I can't wait to see what she has for us this week. Just hit the next blog button to go straight there.

If for any reason the next blog buttons don't go where they are supposed to just come back here you can continue your Christmas inspiration journey from the list of very creative participants below!

Kate Morgan

Tina Gillespie

Christine Blain

Michele Taylor

Caroline Manwaring

Kathryn Ruddick

Catherine Proctor

Sharon Davern <=You are here.

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

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,