Heart of Christmas - Week 17 - 2023

 

Welcome to our last week of the Heart of Christmas for 2023. I can't believe we have come to the end of another fantastic year of Christmas inspiration! I would like to thank the wonderful Art With Heart team for another wonderful year of the Heart of Christmas it has been another year of such beautiful inspiration.

For my card tonight I have revisited a fancy fold card that I did in 2018 and it is still a card that people ask me for details about today. If you would like to see that card here is the blog post: click here

My card today is a front panel gate fold card. I couldn't resist using the beautiful Night Divine Bundle one more time to create this card.

Here is the template for the card. There are only 2 cuts and the rest is score and folding. I suggest you score the 2 side panels at 5 cm first  Cut between the 2 score lines 3 cm from the edge. then do your other score lines. It is quick and easy!  Then decorate to your hearts content.

This view shows how to fold the card. With the bottom and the top thin section folded back in a point and the middle section out to the front and the side sections although folded back slightly to the front to help with balance since I have added the Nativity to the centre of the card!

When you lay the card flat this is how it looks. I have a base of Night of Navy and have used the O Holy Night DSP to decorate the panels. Making sure I have some stars at the top. I used the Deckled Circle Dies for my focal point! Night of Navy backed again and then a piece of the O Holy Night DSP with stars then I cut out the Nativity in gold foil and cut just the little bit off the hem of the shepherd and wise man to make them fit the circle. 

Of course we can not forget the camels and the cattle and the sheep so they are there and some wispy clouds as well. The sentiment is from the Night Divine stamp set heat embossed in gold and die cut with the Christmas Classic Dies. Don't forget the star which is die cut from gold foil from the Stars at Night dies.

Now it will fold to go in a normal envelope but it will be a little bulky so I would lay it flat and put it in a little bit bigger envelop or make a box envelope for it.

I also added a place to write on the back and another camel as you can not have enough of these animals!

If you would like more information on how to create this card please do not hesitate to contact me.

Now is the time to head to the next wonderfully talented person on our travels this week and you will be heading to Andrea Sargent, I love her work so much 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 you have trouble with any of the links please continue your Christmas inspiration blog hop from the list of amazingly talented Art With Heart team members below:
Andrea Sargent:

Christine Blain:

Kate Morgan: 

Tina Gillespie:
Kathryn Mangelsdorf:

Michele Taylor:

Rachel Woollard:
Caroline Manwaring:
Rosa Leyden:
Catherine Proctor:
Judy May:

Sharon Davern: <= You are here

Thank you for spending some Christmas crafty time with me today and for the last 17 weeks. Have a safe and Merry Christmas, take care