Heart Of Christmas - 2023 - Week 1 - Perched In A Tree Note Cards

Welcome to the first week of The Heart of Christmas for 2023. Every Monday until the end of November the Art with Heart team will be bringing you some wonderful Christmas inspiration. Cards, tags, and 3D projects all to help you get ready for Christmas. Hope you have fun and will join us every week. Let the festivities begin!

This week I am using one of the carry over stamp set that you can find in the Annual catalogue that you might already have from last year. I needed to make some little note cards for my Christmas in July Dinner I was having so I thought this would be the perfect first card for our Heart of Christmas. You could used these to pop in with gifts for family, friends or your kids teachers.

Did you know that Stampin' Up! have envelopes that are 3x3 inches, well I happen to have some in my stash for a different project so I thought they were just the thing for this project and that was my starting point for the size of my note card!

I have used the Perched In A Tree stamp set for my note cards and I needed to make 12. I made them for a pay it forward for the group of ladies coming out to my Christmas in July dinner. I gave them each one and told them to use them to put on gifts or to give as gifts. Starting their pay it forward for the Christmas and gift giving season.

Now for some reason which I can not fathom I did not buy the dies to go with this stamp set. So instead of being able to die cut out the branch and the bird I had to fussy cut! Well guess what will be on one of my orders! Can I suggest that if you see a bundle buy it as a bundle as you will save 10% not be a silly duffer like me and do it separately!

There are a couple of layers to this card. Firstly there is the Thick Basic White card base 3 x 6 inches folded in half. I then cut a 3 x3 piece of Basic White and using the Soft Sea Foam ink pad stamped the solid leaf splatter image on the two corners before putting it through the Cut 'N' Emboss machine with the Merry Melody 3D embossing Folder and adhering it to the card base.

The bird and branch were stamped in Basic Gray and then I took out the Stampin' Blends and had some fun with the bird! I used: Light & Dark Cherry Cobbler, Light & Dark Sweet Sorbet, Light & Dark Crumb Cake, Light & Dark Pecan Pie, Dark Lemon Lolly, Light Balmy Blue, SU 300, SU 200, Colour Lifter and Wink of Stella.

This angle might give you a good look at the glitter on the little bird from the Wink of Stella.

To finish off all the cards I used some linen thread to make a little nest and attached that with a mini glue dot and popped that under the branch which I coloured with the Stampin' Blends and popped the brand and the bird up on Dimensionals! I stamped the sentiment in Pecan Pie and fussy cut that out and popped it up on Dimensionals as well. Some come out really well with the colour lifter some I am still working on using that a bit better, but you can see some of the birds are light and some are a little darker all used the exact same blends it just depends on how much I went back over the area and blended it back in.

Now is the time to head to the next very talented team member for some Christmas inspiration and this week you will be heading to Christina Barnes, I can't wait to see what she has created for us. Just hit the next blog button and you will go straight there.

If you have any issues with the next blog button not working I have a list of the team participating below so you can continue your Christmas inspiration there!

If you have any questions about my project today please get in contact, plus the new September - December mini  is coming out and if you would like a copy to find out all about the Christmas goodies let me know

List of those participating in the Heart of Christmas Blog hop if you would like to do your blog hopping from here!
Christina Barnes:
Christine Blain:
Kate Morgan:
Andrea Sargent:
Theresa Gerrard:
Rachel Woollard:
Tina Gillespie:
Judy May:
Michele Taylor:
Catherine Proctor:
Rosa Leyden:
Caroline Manwaring:
Sharon Davern: <You are here

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