Heart of Christmas - Week 16 - 2023

 

Welcome to The Heart of Christmas. Can you believe it is only 5 weeks until Christmas. That is crazy! Where has the year gone?!

This week I have tried to find yet another fancy fold. I was looking through some of my old designs and I found one but I couldn't find my blog post for it so I thought well this has to be a winner. I will try that but then I couldn't find how I made it so I had to pull apart a partially made base with no decorations to see how I made it so I could make it again for you. Don't worry I did it very carefully so that I can reglue it and decorate it!

Here goes nothing!

Here is my original!

And it opens out like this:

Then you keep folding it out:

I obviously hadn't given it away to anyone for Christmas! I will have to do that this year! LOL!

So I just had to CASE my own card for our hop today! I was trying to work out what to call it so I am going to call it a Spin, Slide, Fold Out Card! I have no idea I need to be better at names! 

I have gone all sparkly and starry with my card and used the gorgeous Shining Brightly Specialty DSP for my card!

So the base of the card is Night of Navy and then layered with Very Vanilla and a layer of the gorgeous Shining Brightly Specialty DSP then I got out the Stars at Night Hybrid Embossing folder where the dies cut out the stars at the same time as you emboss! Love it and the Stars are beautiful! I have added the Night Of Navy & Gold Glittered ribbon under the star along with some die cut leaves and twigs. The leaves are in Coastal Cabana and Pretty Peacock. How good do they look with the Night of Navy and of course a little bit of Crumb Cake! The sentiments and all the sentiments when you see them are stamped in Night of Navy on Very Vanilla card and fussy cut out!

Now let's open the card out!

To open the card for the first stage you pull on the two ribbons and the cards will twist out. They are held together in the card by a square brad that you can find in the Annual Catalogue. Again this layer had the gorgeous Specialty DSP and those stars and fussy cut sentiments.

One more fold out layer. You fold the two sides out to reveal more stars and two sections to write on that I have decorated with more leaves to tie in with the front decorations.

Here is a little video showing you how the card opens and closes.

I had a lot of fun CASing my own card, if you would like a little more info on how to put it together just let me know.

Now is the time to head to the next amazing team member to see their fabulous creations for this week. We will be heading to Andrea Sargent, I love her gorgeous water colour creations and her fine detail, I can't wait to see what she has for us this week. Just hit the next blog button and you will go straight to her.

If for any reason there is a glitch in one of the next blog buttons and you don't go where you were expecting, you can continue your journey from the list of amazing talent listed below:

Andrea Sargent:
Kate Morgan:
Rachel Woollard:
Christine Blain:
Caroline Manwaring:
Judy May:
Sharon Davern: <=You are here

Don't forget to come back next Monday for the last week of The Heart of Christmas for 2023.

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