Heart of Christmas - Week 3 - 2024

 

Welcome to the Heart of Christmas week 3 for 2024. Do you love Christmas? I love Christmas and I love the mini catalogue each year from Stampin' Up! to see what gorgeous Christmas offerings we are going to have. The September-December Mini is full of fun and exciting offerings and this week I am giving you a sneak peak of  one of the stamp sets this year!

When I saw this stamp set it had my name on it! Shepherd's Care!

For the card today I have made a Faux, Side Step card. Super easy and just perfect for this stamp set. I think I will be making quite a few in this design for the card to give away this Christmas.

As you can see the base of the card is in 2 parts the main body is 8 x 5 1/2 inches and scored at 3,6 & 7 inches and the extra side step is a 3 x 6 inch and scored at 4 1/2 inches. The rest is a matter of measuring to the amount of layering/border width that you like to have for your tastes.

Now for some of the details. The card base is Pretty Peacock and I have layered that with Lost Lagoon. I am really loving that colour combination at the moment.

On the sentiment side I think you can see the gorgeous Season of Elegance Specialty DSP the best which is a Pretty Peacock colour with gold foil through it. I have stamped and heat embossing in gold 2 of the sentiments from the Shepherd's Care and layered them onto Lost lagoon before adhering them onto the different steps of the card over the DSP.

For the shepherd and sheep I have stamped onto Basic White in Basic Grey and then using Ivory for the Sheep, Light and Dark Crumb Cake for the head covering, Light & Dark Pretty Peacock and Light & Dark Lost Lagoon Stampin' Blends I coloured the image.

For the star I heat embossed in gold and fussy cut out and popped it up on a dimensional! Yes, it does fit into our envelopes I made sure before I fixed it on.

A fun design that can be replicated quite easily if you want to do many of them for Christmas.

If you have any questions about my project today or would like the new Sept-Dec Mini please don't hesitate to contact me

Now is the time to head to the next very creative person on our Christmas inspiration journey and today you will be heading to Cathy Proctor, I love her clean and elegant cards so I can't wait to see what she has for us this week. Hit the next blog button and you will go straight to her blog.

If at any time the next blog buttons don't work please come back here and you will be able to continuer your Heart of Christmas journey from any point with the list of participants below.

Cathy Proctor:
Rachel Woollard:
Theresa Gerrard:
Christine Blain:
Andrea Sargent:
Kate Morgan:
Rosa Leyden:
Claire Daly:
Judy May:
Sharon Davern: <= You are here

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