Heart of Christmas 2025 - Week 1

Welcome to The Heart of Christmas for 2025. A group of very talented people from the Art with Heart Team will be joining each other over the next 13 weeks on a Monday night here in Australia to share with you the joy of Christmas through craft. It might be a card that you would like to make, table decorations, tree trimmings or how to decorated and package up those presents. So come along for the journey over the next 13 weeks right up until the end of November and you will have your Christmas all sorted and ready to go!

Today I will be using the new A Child is Born stamp set in the new September - December Mini which is available to everyone starting September 3rd!

Now this stamp set might be a little strange for people as there are no faces on the Nativity and animals but this reminds me of the Willow Tree figurines and I have a few of those.

For my card today I have made a fancy fold that I have slightly changed from a card that I made all the way back in 2021. If you would like to check that one out click here 

In my card today I have a base of Misty Moonlight that is half of our A4 cut at 10.5 x 29.5 cm then folded in half and the half folded back on itself to get the stand. I have lined each of these surfaces with the gorgeous  Peaceful Garden DSP 10 x 14.4 cm and then 2, 7 x 10 cm pieces.

For the focal point of the card I have a piece of Pecan Pie card which is 9.5 cm wide x  26.8 cm I folded and scored this in half and layered another gorgeous piece of the Peaceful Garden DSP on this at 12.5 x 9 cm. 

On another piece of Pecan Pie I stamped the image of Mary, Joseph and Jesus in Early Espresso and then got out the Water Color Pencils pack #1. I used Early Espresso on Mary's hair and the staff, I also used Pecan Pie, Early Espresso and Basic Gray on Joseph's Hair, for the skin colour I used a very pale application of Pecan Pie. As you can see I then coloured the figures in Basic White. I didn't blend them as to give them a carved look. The manger is coloured with Early Espresso and under the hay I have layered Daffodil Delight before cross hatching Pecan Pie to add texture. Oh and don't forget the bling on the star is from the Hues of Blues Flowers!

On the inside I also added the lamb and the cattle on a piece of Vanilla

The little lamb is coloured the same as our Nativity on the front and the cow or cattle has a layer of Basic Gray before Early Espresso with both having a face of Pecan Pie.

I hope you have enjoyed week 1 of the Heart of Christmas please come back next Monday to join us again and remember all these wonderful products go on sale with the September - December Mini Wednesday September 3rd!

The next person on our Heart of Christmas Journey for week 1 is Cathy Proctor: I love her creations and I can't wait to see what she had for us this week. Her cards are always beautiful and elegant. Hit the next blog button and you will go directly there:

If at anytime you have a next blog button that sends you to a place you were not expecting, each week I have the privilege to host our Heart of Christmas blog and I will have the list below for you to continue your hop so come back here and find everyone listed go from there.

Catherine Proctor
Kate Morgan
Claire Daly
Andrea Sargent
Judy May
Vicki Boucher
Rachel Woollard
Rosa Leyden
Sharon Davern  <= You are here

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

Colour Creations Blog Hop - 2024-2025 - Week 36 - Moody Mauve - Cutest Onsie Baby Pop Up Card

 

Welcome to week 36 of our Colour Creations Blog hop. 

I have been making a series of Baby Cards using the Cutest Onsies Bundle and I made them in September last year but I made them in 3 different colours so I could bring them to you over time with our Colour Creations Blog hop. One was Fresh Freesia, one Lemon Lolly and today Moody Mauve.

I created this card for our dear friend as her she was having her first baby and this was for the Baby Shower! By the time I made this card we had found out that she was having a baby girl! This card is an extension to a card I made last year which was called a Double Door Pop Up Card and you can find it here if you want to have a look at it. 

For this card I have used Moody Mauve as the base of the card and layered with Soft Sea Foam, Gold Foil and the DSP is Wildly Flowering. I have used the White Diagonal Trim to tie the card together as it needs a little help with all the extra pop up as you will see. 

There are a layer of Basic White cut out with the Spotlight on nature dies then another circle cut out with the spotlight on nature dies so I could adhere the White Bakers twine in between for a little clothes line. I have stamped and the Cutest Onsie on the Country Lace DSP and a piece of  Petal Pink Pink card before die cutting them out with the Cutest Onsie Dies. I then embossed one with the Eyelet Embossing folder! The sentiment is stamped in Moody Mauve and I have used a die from the Something Fancy Dies to cut out the sentiment. See those cute clouds they are from the Adventurous Sky dies!

Now let's open the card!

As you can see it open's up and then keeps going! Again I have layered the inside with the same as the front but the door I have used Nature's Sweetness SDSP and Meandering Meadows DSP as the background of the pop up doors. 

To decorate the inside of the card I have used the Petal Pink and  and Soft sea Foam. I have used the Alphabet Al A Mode dies and the Cutest onsie Dies. The for the hearts the Adoring Hearts Hybrid Dies and Embossing Folder.

On the other door I have the same colouring and added Girl!

In the center after I completed the card I added another piece of Basic White to write my message to the expectant Mum!

The card is lots of fun to open. As you can see from this angle!

And from this angle as you are opening the card.

Here is a video of the card opening!

Now is the time to head to the next wonderful person on our Moody Mauve journey and this week you will be heading to the amazing Kate Morgan. Hit the next blog button and you will go straight there

If for any reason on your journey around one of the next blog buttons stop working please come back here and head to our awesome weekly host as she will have a list of everyone participating and you can continue your hop from there: Cathy Proctor's Blog

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

Colour Creations Blog Hop - Week 35 - 2024-2025 - Misty Moonlight

 

Welcome back after our Christmas and New Year break, I do hope that you had a wonderful time with your family and friends. Christmas time is always my favourite time of year and to add to the excitement my husband and I got married on the 28th of Dec, my birthday is the 29th and his birthday is the 30th so we just party for a week, then we need to sleep for about 3 I think as we are getting too old to party that hard! LOL!

Anyway back to the matter at hand and this week we are looking at the lovely muted blue of Misty Moonlight!

For my design this week I have cased a very simple design that I saw on Pinterest with the idea that I could make many of these for a welcome back card for my craft group at church for the beginning of February with the plan to send them out the week before to the whole group! I thought this design would be easy to replicate quickly. Then of course I added things to spice it up for the blog hop today!

For this card I have used the gorgeous Spotlight on Nature Bundle which has become one of my favourite bundles to use from the Annual Catalogue.

This card has a base of Misty Moonlight and then layered with Crumb Cake and Basic White which has been dry embossed with the Exposed Brick 3D embossing folder. the Misty Moonlight strip is the reverse side of the Wildly Flowering DSP that you see that has been placed on top of it with the Crumb Cake background with Misty Moonlight and Moody Mauve flowers.  Around this layer I have tied the Silver and White Sheer Ribbon that I have coloured with the Dark Mistly Moonlight Stampin' Blends pen. The focal point is created by die cutting 2 circles one in Misty Moonlight and one in Basic White and then I have used Crumb Cake to stamp on the Basic White before fussy cutting the Butterfly which has been coloured using the Misty Moonlight and Moody Mauve Stampin Blends and a touch of Wink of Stella. The Pearls were also coloured with the stampin blends.

Now is the time to head to the next wonderful team member who is participating in the Misty Moonlight colour challenge this week and you if you hit the next blog button you will go straight to the amazing Cathy Proctor

If one of the next blog buttons doesn't happen to work, please head to our fantastic weekly host Cathy Proctor and you will be able to see a list of the AWH team that are participating this week and you can continue your hop from there: Cathy's Blog.

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