Heart of Christmas - 2024 - Week 9 - Fun Fold Pop Up Christmas Trees

 

Welcome to the Heart of Christmas for Week 9. I can't believe it is week 9 and we are already at the end of September.

This week I have for you a fun fold springy pop up type of fold that I found watching Jay from Mitosu crafts for one of their Fun Fold Fridays and I thought I would try and make the fold but a Christmas version. This card is a card with 2 spring like folds. One upside down and attached to the base of the card and a little one that holds the focal point of the card. Let's have a look!

For my card I have chosen to use the gorgeous Peaceful Seasons and Peaceful Evergreens bundles. I am loving these this year! Plus can you see the Designer Series Paper? Yes you guessed it I have used
the Winter Meadows Paper. It has such beautiful tones in it, I can't resist it.

The card base is in Lost Lagoon. I really can't take my eyes off this colour and I have taken the beautiful Winter Meadow DSP and dry embossed with the Painted Trees Embossing Folder. The photo was a little hard to capture but I hope you cand get the idea.

I have taken on of the other pieces of the Winter Meadows DSP and adhered to the top and bottom sections of the larger spring. The embossed DSP is adhered in the middle. Then that is adhered onto a card front and the little spring is adhered to the middle of the front of the card.

There is one more piece to add to the middle spring and this makes sure that top and bottom pieces don't get out of control and spring away. No this is to hold them all together and it is only attached to the little spring and then you can decorate.

Here is a side on view of the spring attached to the front of the card.

Here you can see the middle little spring and how the front panel is attached to that spring and holds the fancy fold together.

I am holding down the larger back spring so that you can see that the front focal point is only attached to the middle spring.

For the decorations on the front of the card I have stamped the Peaceful Evergreen treen twice in Pretty Peacock and once in Lost Lagoon and cut them out with the Peaceful Evergreen Dies along with the gold foil overlay and star. I have stamped the Christmas from the Peaceful Seasons stamp set in Moody Mauve and cut it out with the Peaceful Seasons dies along with the Merry which has been heat embossed in gold. These sentiments have been popped up on dimensionals.

On the inside I have heat embossed the sentiment from the Peaceful Seasons.

If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact me.

Now is the time to head to the next wonderful Art with Heart team member and this week you will be heading to the amazing Andrea Sargent, I am loving her beautiful creations each week and I can't wait to see what she has for us this week. Hit the next blog button and you will go straight there.

If you have an issue with your next blog button please come back here and you can continue your blog hop from the list below of the wonderful Art with Heart Team members participating this week in the Heart of Christmas blog hop.

Andrea Sargent:
Claire Daly:
Kate Morgan:
Judy May:

Sharon Davern: <= You are here

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

Colour Creations Blog Hop - Week 22 - 2024 - 2025 - Daffodil Delight

 

Welcome to our weekly Wednesday Colour Creations Blog Hop. This week we are looking at the bright yellow colour of Daffodil Delight.

I have a quick card for you again today using the Spotlight on Nature Stamp set and dies.

For my card I have gone with a very simple colour palette.

To start my card I took a piece of Basic Black for the card base and layered it with another piece of Basic Black which I had embossed with the Exposed Brick 3D embossing folder.

On some Basic White card I then stamped the 3 images of the flower, leaves and the butterfly which I coloured with the Light and Dark Daffodil Delight, the Light Lemon Lolly and the Light and Dark Lost Lagoon Stampin Blends.

I then used the Spotlight on Nature dies to cut the 3 circles before adhering them with dimensionals to the card base. The sentiment is heat embossed with the WOW White Embossing Powder and you can find this sentiment in the Wildflower Designs Stamp set. Can't forget the bling which are pearls that I have colours with the Daffodil Delight Stampin' Blends.

I don't know about you but I don't always write a lot on the inside of the card so I decided to add another flower to the inside of the card.

If you have any questions or would like to get your hands on some awesome product please do not hesitate to contact me.

Now is the time to head to the next person on our journey of Daffodil Delight. This week you will be heading to the amazing Ros Davidson, I love the way she uses colour and I can't wait to see what she has for us today. Hit the next blog button and you will go straight there.

Cathy hosts our weekly Colour Creations Blog hop and if you find that one of the links isn't going where you think it should come back here and head to Cathy's Blog and she will have a list of all the team participating in this weeks Daffodil Delight challenge: Cathy's Blog

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

Heart of Christmas - Week 8 - 2024

 

Welcome to the Heart of Christmas for week 8 of 2024. This week I have been working on baby shower cards so I have done a very quick card for you. I will show the baby cards during the coming weeks in our Colour Creations Blog Hops that you can catch on a Wednesday!

My card this week I have used the gorgeous Peaceful Season and Peaceful Evergreens stamp sets to create my card.

I am loving Lost Lagoon this year for the Christmas trees and using the Winter Meadows DSP. Along each side of this card you can see strips of this beautiful DSP.

I have a single piece of Thick Basic White which I have added the 2 strips of the Winter Meadow DSP to the edges and then another piece of Thick Basic White for the center fold of the card that I have embossed with the Dashing Designs 3D embossing folder folded in half and adhered to the back card base piece.

For the focal point of the card I have heat embossed in gold the sentiment from the Peaceful Seasons stamp set and then cut out the label using the Nested Essential Dies so that the sentiment was at the bottom leaving space for the Christmas tree.

The tree is stamped from the Peaceful Evergreens set in Lost lagoon ink and cut out with the Peaceful Evergreen dies along with the gold foil overlay and star. The tree and the focal point have been popped up on dimensionals.  

If you have any questions or would like to get you hands on the Sept-Dec Mini please contact me.

Now is the time to head to the next person in our team that is here to give you some amazing Christmas inspiration and this week you will be heading to the lovely Andrea Sargent, I can't wait to see her wonderful creations each week, she does the most amazing water colouring, so hit the next blog button and you will go straight there.

If the next blog buttons at any time don't go where you are expecting please head back here and continue you Heart of Christmas blog hop from the list of the awesome team members below:
Andrea Sargent:
Kate Morgan:
Christine Blain:
Claire Daly:
Vicki Boucher:
Judy May:
Catherine Proctor:
Rachel Woollard:
Sharon Davern: <= You are here

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

Colour Creations Blog Hop - Week 21 - 2024 - 2025 - Crushed Curry - Swing Arm Pop Out Fun Fold Card

 

Welcome to Crushed Curry week of the 2024-25 Colour Creations Blog Hop with the Art With Heart Team. Now the team knows this is not my favourite colour at all. I was asked many years ago to cut 1000 crowns for an even and Crushed Curry was the colour that was requested so I am a bit traumatized by the colour as that took a long time to do. IT really is a great colour to use for a bright golden yellow!

So for my card today I found this fancy fold on Dawn's Stamp'n Thoughts another fancy fold I hadn't tried before. It is called a Swing Arm Pop Out Fun Fold. I have used the Something Fancy stamp set for my sentiments and the Meandering Meadows DSP which had Crushed Curry as one of it's colours to bring my card to life this week.

My Colour combination for this card is:

For this card you need 1 long piece of card which is 10 inches by 5 1/2 inches and you then score at 4, 5 and 6 inches along the 10 inch side. From that first score mark you cut diagonally across to get a triangle piece and guess what that piece you cut off you turn around and use as the other part of the front of your card!

Because I wanted to have the same picture of the DSP on the front of the card I used 2 pieces of Meandering Meadows DSP to cut the triangles to go on the front of the card. If I had used plain card stock and cut the 2 triangles I could flip the triangle over to get the correct direction for the top piece without a problem but I wanted the same picture so needed 2 pieces of DSP.

Now hidden in the card is a small piece of Crushed Curry card and a small piece of window sheet to create a mechanism that when you pull the front and back edges (left and right) away from each other you will have the Swing Arm Pop Out surprise!

I have stamped the Sentiments on Basic White in Night of Navy and used the Stylish Shaped Dies to cut them out.

Here is a video of the card opening and closing for you to get a good understanding of how fun it is!

It is one of the quickest and fun fancy folds I have made in a long time and if you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact me. I can see lots of fun applications to this one!

Now is the time to head to the next person on our journey of Crushed Curry and this week you will be heading to Christine Blain. She is the Queen of how to use our Designer Series Paper and how to put all the different designs together to make a fabulous card. I can't wait to see what she has for us today. Hit the next blog button and you will go straight there.

If at any time the next blog button doesn't go where you are expecting please head back here and go to our amazing weekly host Cathy Proctor and she will have a list of all those participating this week in our journey of all things Crushed Curry: Cathy's Blog

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

Heart of Christmas - 2024 - Week 7 - Merry Christmas Pop Up Gift Box

 

Welcome to the Heart of Christmas Blog Hop week 7 for 2024. Each week on a Monday from August - end of November the Art with Heart team will bring you some Christmas inspiration for you.

This week I thought I would try something a little different,....... a fancy fold! I had you there for a minute didn't I! HeHe! Literally as I was typing this I was choking on my tea! Yes I am doing a fancy fold but I am doing it with a difference this week. It will be in the shape of a gift box. I found this design on Pinterest, it was a short video of about 51 seconds actually by Junzi. I have created a template which I will add as I show you so that you know how I put the box together. 

So let's get started.

First you will need to cut 2 of the first template which is the outside of the box.

 

For the inside of the box you need to cut 1.

Once you have built the 3 sections join them together. 

The 2 sections on the Black card stock is where you attach your middle box.

The 2 black sections then closes up as the box.

To make the mechanism work and to attach it to the box you need to cut 2 of each of the 2 pieces left.

Slide the mechanism through the slits made on the box and attach to the top inside of the black box.

Then we are all about the decorations.

When you have the box all closed up I have wrapped it in the beautiful Blackberry Bliss and Gold Ribbon and stamped a Bauble from Hang an Ornament in Lost Lagoon and stamped the sentiment in versamark and heat gold embossed and attached it with a little linen thread after cutting it out with the Hang an Ornament dies.

When you open the box I have stamped some beautiful trees from the Peaceful Evergreens in Lost Lagoon, Pretty Peacock and Coastal Cabana and for the main tree added a die cut of Gold Foil. To attach them to the pop up mechanism I used window sheets.

From the front it give a lot of depth to the trees.

I have used a little layer of Winter Meadows DSP before Gold Embossing a sentiment from the Peaceful Season stamp set and die cut using one of the label dies from the Peaceful Seasons dies. On the back of the box I have cut another label for you to write to the recipient.

Here is a little video of my finished project opening and closing.

We are now in September and our September-December Mini Catalogue is available so if you would like to ask any questions about my project today or would like to get your hands on the new Mini please don't hesitate contact me.

Now is the time to head to the next Art with Heart Team Member participating this week and you will be heading to the most wonderful Cathy Proctor, she has the most amazing clean and elegant style, hit the next blog button and you will go straight there.

If for some reason one of the blog buttons doesn't go where you were expecting, please come back here and continue your Heart of Christmas Week 7 blog hop from the list of Art With Heart team members participating this week from the list below.

Cathy Proctor:

Kate Morgan:

Rachel Woollard:

Andrea Sargent:
Christine Blain:

Claire Daly:

Judy May:

Sharon Davern: <= You are here

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

Colour Creations Blog Hop - Week 20 - 2024 - 2025 - Crumb Cake - Changing Leaves

 

Welcome to week 20 of the 2024-25 Colour Creations Blog Hop. Each week on a Wednesday the Art with Heart Team take one of the colours from the Stampin' Up range and challenge themselves to create with making that colour the feature! This week we have a favourite of many and a neutral colour - Crumb Cake!

For my card this week I have used a card sketch and cased her card at Stamps-n-Linger by Mary Dethrage and she has used this sketch by Freshly made sketches

Here is the colour combination I have used for my card.

I know you are saying no fancy fold. Well yes every now and then I need to have a break! I have used the beautiful Changing leaves bundle. It has the stamp set and the Hybrid Embossing Folder and Die and the Changing Leaves Dies as well. It is a fantastic bundle.

I have a Crumb Cake Base and then a layer of Crumb Cake which I have embossed with the Changing Leaves Embossing Folder. Over the top of this gorgeous base I have layered die cut leaves and twigs in Crumb Cake and Very Vanilla along with stamped Moody Mauve and die cut leaves for a pop of colour! The sentiment is stamped is Crumb Cake and is from the Changing Leaves stamp set and I have used the Changing Leave dies to cut it out and layered it on a piece of Country Woods DSP which I also used the Changing Leaves Dies to cut out. I had to have some bling so I used the Neutrals Adhesive Backed Sequins that comes in 4 colours!

This layout and design could be used with any of our other colours to have a "pop" of colour it is such a versatile layout and the wonderful Crumb Cake!

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 person on our journey of  Crumb Cake and this week you will be heading to Rachel Woollard, I can't wait to see what she has created this week. Hit the next blog button and you will go straight there.

If the next blog button doesn't go where you think it should go come back here and head to our amazing weekly host Cathy Proctor, each week she has the list of those participating and you will be able to continue your hop in Crumb Cake from there: Cathy's Blog

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

Heart of Christmas - Week 6 - Peaceful Evergreens Turtle Flap Fancy Fold Card

 

Welcome to week 6 of The Heart of Christmas Blog Hop. I do hope that you have been loving our last few weeks of our Heart of Christmas blog hop for 2024.

This week I have found another fancy fold for you and I have paired it with the Peaceful Evergreen Bundle and the Peaceful Season Bundle.

This is what the card looks like before I started to decorate.

The base of the card is in Lost Lagoon then I have layered with Pretty Peacock and the gorgeous Winter Meadow DSP.

On the inside I have used Pretty Peacock card for the mechanism and I have used the Winter Meadow DSP again for all the layers. The gorgeous trees on one side but the other side gives a lovely contrast that we can use.

The surprise for this fold is if you pull on the edge of the trees on the contrast strips you have 4 flaps pop out and there is your Turtle Flap Fancy Fold Card. Now for the decorations.

I have used the Thoughtful Wishes dies in white to back my Christmas Tree. The tree has been stamped in Lost Lagoon on the reverse side of the DSP then I have cut it out with the Peaceful Evergreen Dies. I have cut out in Gold Foil the over layer and the star with the dies from the same set. I have Gold Embossed onto Pretty Peacock and then Cherry cobbler onto Basic White for the Merry Christmas from the Peaceful Season stamp and then used the Peaceful Season Dies to cut them out. The were popped up on dimensionals.

The decorations on the inside of the card are made using the Peaceful Evergreen stamps and dies again and I have stamped and embossed in gold sentiments from the Peaceful Seasons stamp set and used the label die to cut it out as well.

I have used 5 other sentiments for the pop outs.

On the bottom pop out I used 2

Here is a video of how the card works.

If you have any questions about my card today or would like to get your hands on the new Sept-Dec Mini Catalogue please do not hesitate to contact me.

Now is the time to head to the next extremely talented team member and this week you will be heading to our wonderful team leader Claire Daly, I love her style so I can't wait to see what she has for us this week. Hit the next blog button and you will go straight there.

If at any stage your next blog button doesn't go where you were expecting or it just stops working please come back here and below I have the list of everyone participating this week and you will be able to continue your hop from the list of amazingly talented Art With Heart team members below:

Claire Daly:

Kate Morgan:
Andrea Sargent:
Judy May:

Christina Barnes:
Vicki Boucher:

Rosa Leyden:
Christine Blain:
Cathy Proctor:
Sharon Davern <= You are here

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