Colour Creations Blog Hop - 2023-2024 - Week 22 - Early Espresso

 

Welcome to week 22 of the Colour Creations Blog Hop for 2023-2024. This week we are looking at a Neutral colour - Early Espresso!

I know I have said the last couple of fancy folds that I have done have been easy well today this one is not as easy! It is a hexagon pop up box card! Well I think that is what we will call it.

Well you might be saying that doesn't look like a hexagon. Well no it is a circle but the bottom is. I have used the Happy Birthday from the Celebrate with Tags stamp set for the sentiment and it is stamped in Early Espresso. So how is this card put together, I hear you ask?

The base of the card is made up of 2 lengths joined together to form the hexagon. I have decorated 1 half with Rose Gold Specialty foil Paper and then used the gorgeous Inked Botanicals DSP over the top. On the second half some basic white so you can write your message.

In the centre of the of the hexagon I have made some paper springs so that after you have laid the card flat for packaging it will pop open. 

The middle section joins the hexagon together and is also where I attach the focal point.

For my focal point I have used the Deckled Circle Dies and layered the Early Espresso, Rose Gold and Inked Botanicals before getting out the Paper Florist Dies. I have chosen to make the flowers in Early  Espresso with Wild Wheat centre, Crumb Cake, and Pecan Pie, a flower out of the Inked Botanicals on the end of the Mossy Meadow and Soft Sea Foam I have Copper Clay flowers buds.

It was quite a fun card to make and the hardest part is the springs in the middle.

It does fold flat so you can make a box or envelope to go around it to give to that special someone.

If you have any questions about my card today, please contact me.

Now is the time to head to the next amazing person on our Early Espresso journey and this week we will be heading to the wonderful Cathy Proctor. She is also our host. I love her elegant work so 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 at any time the next blog buttons don't work come back here and head to Cathy's blog as she will have a list of all those participating from the Art with Heart team in this week's Early Espresso challenge: Cathy's Blog

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

Heart Of Christmas - Week 8 - 2023

 

Welcome to our weekly Heart of Christmas blog hop on a Monday night in Australia! We are here each week until the end of November.

Today I have for you a fancy fold (yes I know a fancy fold who would have guessed!) using the Joy of Christmas Suite Collection.

I know I say this every week but this is an easy fancy fold and with all the beautiful papers and dies that come with the Joy of Christmas suite the card is so easy to make.

For this card, the front of the card I have a belly band. On the base of the card I have used the gold wood grain from the Joyful Specialty DSP.

The focal point on the belly band is made up of die cuts from the Christmas Classics Dies and the Joy of Noel Dies. I have cut out the base in Pebbled Path and Old Olive and offset it. Then I cut out some of the leaves, twigs, branches in shaded spruce, pecan pie, crumb cake and a hint of gold. Under the NOEL which is cut out in Gold Foil is a piece of DSP from the Joy of Christmas DSP pack. Of course I can't not have some of the gems from the Loose Holly Gems and Sequins.

Now if you open the card I have scored it into 4 and decorated with gold foil and then with the Joy of Christmas DSP. I have added the sentiments in 2 scored sections that when the card is folded they will fold in but will pop out when open. They are on a base of Shaded Spruce, Gold Foil the Pebbled Path music DSP before stamping the Christmas Classic stamps in Pebbled Path and Cherry Cobbler. I have added the Loose Holly Gems and Sequins as well to the inside.

This is what it looks like from the top! Oh and on the back I added a little bit more basic white so you could write more to the recipient if you would like.

A little bit of folding and die cutting makes a fun fold. I do hope you enjoyed my card today. If you have any questions please don't hesitate to contact me.

Now is the time to head to the next amazingly talented Art With Heart Team member and that is Andrea Sargent, I love her use of colour and how she layers all her elements to make gorgeous and elegant 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.

If at any time the next blog buttons don't work you can continue your journey from the list of amazing Art With Heart team members below!

Rachel Woollard
Kate Morgan
Christine Blain
Theresa Gerrard
Cathy Proctor
Caroline Manwaring
Judy May
Sharon Davern <= You Are Here
Andrea Sargent

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

Colour Creations Blog Hop - 2023-2024 - Week 21 - Daffodil Delight - Double Slider Card

 

Welcome to the Colour Creations Blog Hop for our spotlight on Daffodil Delight! This is one of our yellows and is from our Brights collection!

I thought for this week as I hadn't done a double slider card in ever so long I would do one this week. 

Here is the colour combination for my project today! A very simple colour palette! 

I had taken some photos of the inner workings of the card but when I came to get them after I had made the card they had disappeared. For the inside workings of the card you  need a plastic bag and I thought the perfect thing to recycle was the plastic bag that our card stock comes in. So I am not wasting a thing that Stampin' Up! sends you and you don't need to worry about your card stock being in plastic just make a double slider card.

So the centre section is where all the action is. I cut that piece of Daffodil Delight to measure 14.9 cm by the length of the A4 piece of card stock which is 29.5 cm. I scored 1 cm in then at 10.5 then 19 so at 9.5 cm intervals after the 1 cm to give 3 equal sections and folded all the score lines. On the 1 cm fold I put tear 'n' tape on the complete opposite side section I put a section of plastic wrapped around about 5 cm width and taped it to itself so that it would slide around. I put a piece of tear 'n' tape on the plastic right on the top left when the card was folded in and then folded the card out and placed another piece right on the edge on the right. I added 2 pieces of Daffodil delight to these tapes before closing up the box making sure that it would slide freely then we could decorate.

For this card I wanted to find a really lovely Designer Series Paper and the I couldn't go past the Hello, Irresistible which is an online exclusive! It was just perfect for what I had in mind! It has the gorgeous Daffodil delight tones and Lost Lagoon in this particular piece that I have chosen. On this pull out side I have stamped the flower from the Translucent Florals in Daffodil Delight and cut it out with the dies and placed it on a piece of Basic White which I had cut out with the Deckled Rectangle Dies. I had first stamped a stem in Lost Lagoon on the white card stock before placing the flower. The leaves are Vellum which I have first coloured with the Stampin' Blends of Soft Sea Foam and Lost Lagoon then cut out with the dies. I have then added the leafy twig like branch over the top that is stamped in Lost Lagoon. I have done the same for the other side except I used a Petal Pink Flower.

For the main centre section of the card I have stamped the 2 larger and the 2 smallest flowers in Daffodil delight and Petal Pink and layered them over the leaves that are stamped in Lost Lagoon and Soft Sea Foam. The Sentiment which comes in the Translucent Flower stamp set is stamped in Lost Lagoon and I have cut it out with the Deckled Rectangle Dies. I couldn't help myself I had to add some brushed Brass Butterflies. Of course a double bow of white bakers twine is a perfect finish after the butterflies are fluttering all around.

Each side has been punched with the slot from the Very Best Trio punch and there is plenty of room when it is fully pulled out for  you to write your message to the recipient but you can also slide it just in to only display the beautiful decorations.

Normally I haven't added a stand to a double slider card but I thought that a birthday card needed to be on display and you have to be able to stand your card up so I have added a little stand to the back.

When you are mailing your card or hand delivering your card it will fit into one of our C6 envelopes so it is just perfect when all folded in to each other and I have added those little bow of bakers twine into the slots that I punched so that you know that you need to pull them to reveal the rest of your card.

I do hope you have enjoyed my project today and if you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact me.

 

Now is the time to head to the next very talented person on our journey of Daffodil Delight and this week you will be heading to Cathy I can't wait to see what she had created for us, her cards are always so elegant. Just hit the next blog button and you will go straight there.

If at any time the next blog button doesn't work please head to our amazing host and she will have a list of everyone participating this week in Daffodil Delight and you will be able to continue your hop from there: Cathy's Blog

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

Heart Of Christmas - Week 7

 

Welcome to the Heart of Christmas Week 7 for 2023. Each Monday until the end of November the Art with Heart team will be bringing you some gorgeous Christmas inspiration for you so that you will be ready for Christmas.

This week I have been quite busy out and about with my son at the Sandown 500 car racing and of course making my daughter's birthday cake so I have not had a lot of time to make a card. My card today I found the inspiration for from Carol Buckalew a Demonstrator from the US and thought I would CASE that and put my own spin on it for my card today!

I have chosen to use the O Holy Night Suite again this week. I just love this suite and I couldn't resist it again. I love that Carol had used it as a luminary so I had to give it a go as well.

I have tried to take a photo of it as it was getting dark so you could see the battery votive candle shine through! Now for the details!

I have used Night at Navy for the card base and cut 2 pieces on for the flat back panel and one for the box on the front. The box is 3 sides plus 2 edges to adhere it to the panel at the back.  I cut the gorgeous O Holy Night DSP in such a way that it wrapped around the edges of the box. Plus on the front and inside of the box I added some starry DSP. 

Before adhering the box to the panel I cut adhered the DSP and cut out the front centre panel with the Deckled Rectangle Die and adhere a layer of Vellum to the inside then adhered the box to the panel and I couldn't leave the inside without a layer of DSP so I added the extra piece to finish it off.

Now of course comes the decorations. I cut the stars in Gold Foil from the Stars at night Dies there are 2 layered on top of each other. The Nativity is also in Gold foil and cut to separate the shepherd and Wise Man. I couldn't help myself I had to cut lots of animals and the Camel was just walking into the scene. The stable was cut down and the legs cut off and turned upside down to fill in the gaps to make it look a little bit more stable so to speak!

I have stamped on the back panel the stars from the Stars at Night stamp set in Misty Moonlight stamped off and then the sentiment from the Night Divine stamp set in Night of Navy.

I so hope you have enjoyed this luminary it will be a great card to give and a lovely decoration for Christmas time.

If you have any questions please don't hesitate to contact me.

Now is the time to head to the next very talented Art With Heart Team Member and this week you will be heading to Theresa Gerrard. I can't wait to see what she has for us this week. Just hit the next blog button and you will head straight there.

If for any reason one of the next blog buttons do not work you can continue your Heart of Christmas journey below from the list of talented Art with Heart team members participating this week.

Theresa Gerrard
Andrea Sargent
Michele Taylor
Tina Gillespie
Kate Morgan
Caroline Manwaring
Christine Blain
Rachel Woollard
Judy May
Sharon Davern <=You are here

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

Heart of Christmas - Week 6 - 2023 - Fun Fold

 

Welcome to week 6 of the 2023 Heart of Christmas blog hop! I do hop you are enjoying what the Art With Heart team are bringing you each week.

This week I have a really simple fun fold for you to do and lots of lovely layers. I know you will have fun making this one!

I just had to use this bundle for this fun fold I couldn't help myself and I just want to make so many of them.

I have used the Night Divine Bundle and the gorgeous O Holy Night DSP from the O Holy Night suite! AS you can see in this photo there are lots of yummy layers

When you open the card out you reveal the nativity scene.

I have taken the colours for the card from the DSP O Holy Night. Night of Navy, Boho Blue, Copper Clay, Crumb Cake, Basic White, Basic Black and I threw in a little Wild Wheat to be wild!

For the card base I have a piece of Night of Navy 27 x 14.9 cm and I have scored it at 4.1 and 8.2 cm and then you turn it around and do it at the other end exactly the same and fold first a mountain and then a valley fold. Then it is all about layering and adding a couple of extra cards to the front! For this part I have layered Boho Blue cut one 10 x 14.4 for the centre and the 2 sides are 3.8 x 14.4 and you actually need 4 of those so cut 4. The gorgeous O Holy Night DSP is 9.5x13.9 cm and one 13.9x 3.3 and you will need 4 of those so cut them at the same time. Adhere them to your card base then we can work on the front layers before decorating.

Now the base of the card you already have the 2 sides cut so adhere those and we will look at the other sections to cut. The O Holy night section is Night of Navy 13 x 7.1 cm, Boho Blue 7.1 x 12.5 cm and the DSP is 6.7 x 12. I have heat embossed in White the O Holy Night from the Night Divine stamp set before adhering the section together and then you can adhere it to the left front of your card centering it. The Camel Panel is Night of Navy 11.5x6.5 cm, Boho Blue, 6x 11 cm and the DSP is 5.5 x 10.5 cm. BEFORE you adhere this side close up the card and place dimensionals directly next to the O Holy night panel and then adhere your camel section onto the dimensionals. This will ensure that the card will fold up nicely! I added another little sentiment and the dimensions of the layers are Night of Navy 7.8x4.9 cm, Boho Blue 7.3 x 4.4 cm and the DSP is 6.8 x 3.9 make sure you heat emboss before adhering. Don't place this one on your card until we decorate.

Let's Decorate: I have taken the dies from the bundle and just had a little bit of fun. The stable is in Copper Clay as are a couple of the cattle. The camels are in Crumb Cake, I was going for the sandy dessert look! The sheep well they had to be white didn't they?! Clouds were going to be white and fluffy! The nativity is in Basic Black! You are of course wondering where the hay die came from? Well I am glad you asked and this is where my Wild Wheat and wildness came in. I went to the Earthen Texture Dies and there you have it HAY! I did a little in crumb cake to add contrast.

I couldn't just have 1 camel as there are three gifts of Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh so there are 3! Plus there had to be more than a couple of cattle and sheep so I put a couple more.

And on the back there are a couple of more cattle lowing and a place for you to write your message of Christmas cheer!

I do hope you have enjoyed this fun fold and all the animals that joined in the first Christmas. If you just need to have them please let me know and I can help you get your own animals, don't hesitate to contact me.

Now is the time to head to the next wonderfully creative person on the Art With Heart team participating this week in the Heart of Christmas and this week you will be heading to Andrea Sargent. I love her work and her gorgeous water colouring. 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 at any time one of the buttons don't work you can continue your Heart of Christmas Blog Hop from the list of wonderful creative people below or you can do your complete hop from that list.

Andrea Sargent
Michele Taylor
Christine Blain
Kate Morgan
Rachel Woollard
Theresa Gerrard
Caroline Manwaring
Rosa Leyden
Catherine Proctor
Sharon Davern <= You are here

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

Colour Creations Blog Hop - Week 19 - Crumb Cake

 

Welcome to Colour Creations Blog Hop Crumb Cake week!

I needed to do something really simple today or at least something that didn't require a lot construction. So no fancy fold today my friends. I have been in search of medication for my daughter that seems to be not in the country until the end of the year and she can't just stop this one and go cold turkey so I am not exactly sure how that works. Oh the joys of the supply chain!

So for my card to day I wanted texture and I thought I would then stamp a simple flower, heat emboss it and use bleach. So let's see if I managed any of that.

Here is my colour combination, plus a little gold heat emboss added in.

I started with a crumb cake card base and sponged some crumb cake around the edge which I did for the DSP layer and the embossed layers and sentiment. The DSP layer is part of the Earther Elegance DSP

I layered that with a piece of Crumb Cake embossed with the Timeworn Type 3D embossing folder then the strips are another layer of Crumb cake embossed with the crisscross embossing folder from the Basic 3D embossing folder set of 3 that is an online exclusive.

To create the flowers I have heat embossed in gold onto crumb cake cardstock the flowers from the Quiet Meadow stamp set and then with bleach I have painted over the flowers petals. This brings out a lovely yellow. I then fussy cut them and to compliment the flowers I added to leaf die cuts in Ombre Pretty Peacock from the Earther Elegance DSP and also die cut out the pot and wrapped it with the Natural Wavy Trim. Plus a couple of spiky sticks in Lemon Lolly and Soft Sea foam from the Earther Texture Dies. The Leaves were die cut from the Gorgeously Made Dies as was the sentiment which was heat embossed in gold.
 

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 amazing creative in our team and this week you will be heading to our wonderful host Cathy Proctor. Just hit the next blog button and you will go straight there.

If a next blog button goes somewhere it is not supposed to go come back here and head to Cathy's blog as she has the list of those participating this week and you will be able to continue your Crumb Cake Blog Hop from there: Cathy's Blog

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

Heart of Christmas - 2023 - Week 5

 

Welcome to week 5 of The Heart of Christmas for 2023. This week I have for you a fancy fold as I know you hold out for one each week. I thought I would continue to use up some of the gorgeous DSP that I had started with over the past couple of weeks that was still sitting on my desk. Believe it or not I just used the same pieces I had already started with and continued with those. This one is supper fun and easy to make.

I am not sure if you would call this an inverted Triple Bridge fold card or a Triple column card. Either way it folds down flat and fits perfectly into our C6 envelopes. I am a bit obsessed with the collapsing panels at the moment as you can see.

Well for this card I started with the colours to the A Walk in the Forest DSP and had the card base in Pretty Peacock. I cut it as half a card base as this card doesn't actually open it just stands. 10.5 cm x 14.9 cm. Then I had the 3 Bridge Folds or columns or what ever you would like to call them. I cut them Ok I am going to go between inches and cm's in this card but as the Stampin' Up trimmer does as well it makes life so much easier I say! So the bridges are 5 inches by 1 3/4 and I  scored at 1/2, 1, 4, 4 1/2 inches. The beautiful Joy of Christmas DSP leafy pattern I had some left over from my last project so I cut that into strips of 4.1 x 1 cm and the Beautiful Music DSP from the Joy of Christmas DSP is also cut at 4.1 cm x 7.3 cm. 

I Adhered all of that to the bridges before burnishing with the bone folder.To adhere the bridges down you add the Liquid glue to the one side of the bridge and do the top and bottom first so they are both touching the top and bottom of the base card. Especially the bottom so the card stands up the place the middle bridge. Then fold the bridge all the way to the left and flatten out the right part of the bridge to adhere the right side. This will ensure that your card will fold flat into the envelope without having a bend. 

The decorations for the front of the card are just perfect I think. I still had that piece of A walk in the Forest DSP that I cut our the tree from for my Trucking Along card so I got out the Dies from the Merriest Tree and cut out the tree and then in gold cut out the garland and the star. The tree skirt/basket I cut in Crumb Cake. I stamped the ornaments in Cherry Cobbler and die cut those before stamping and cutting out the presents. Now I can't put too many under the tree as in my house they are not wrapped until the last minute when the kids have finally gone to bed on Christmas Eve. How about your house?! The sentiment is stamped in Pretty Peacock and I have used the Gorgeously Made Dies to cut it out.

On the back I have cut another tree and basket/skirt  and added another layer of Pretty Peacock for stability. Now there is somewhere to write your greeting.

And just to prove to you it does actually fit in the envelope there you go.

If you have any questions about this card please let me know and I will be happy to help. I know going back and forth from cm to inches is a bit crazy but I am definitely crazy!

Now is the time to head to the next amazing and talented team member participating this week in the Heart of Christmas for some more Christmas inspiration and this week you will be heading to Michele Taylor, I can't wait to see what she has for us. Just hit the next blog button and it will take you right there.

If the next blog buttons don't work for any reason you can continue your journey from the list of amazing Art With Heart team members participating in Week 5 of the Heart of Christmas below:

Michele Taylor
Tina Gillespie
Kate Morgan
Rachel Woollard
Christine Blain
Judy May
Andrea Sargent
Theresa Gerrard
Catherine Proctor
Rosa Leyden
Sharon Davern <= You are here

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