Heart of Christmas 2025 - Week 4 - Peace On Earth

 

Welcome to Week 4 of the Heart of Christmas for 2025. Each week on a Monday the Art with Heart team will bring you some Christmas inspiration to help you get all your Christmas cards, tags and decorations ready for Christmas.

This week I am using the Peaceful Garden suite  and a quick fun fold for you!

For my card this week I have chosen the gorgeous Peaceful Garden Suite of Products as my inspiration and starting point. So all the wonderful papers, stamps, dies and embossing folders can be found starting on page 32 of the September - December 2025 Mini Catalogue.

I did however add the Damask Designs Embossing Folder to the base of the card as you can see in this photo. Here you will see one of the gorgeous DSP's from the Peaceful Garden DSP pack but you could change it to any design from the pack for this style of card. In fact this fun fold can be adapted to any occasion! So how do you make this card.

I cut the card base like a normal card base in Secret Sea card stock and folded in half. From the front of the card cut a strip off the right edge that is 1 1/4 inches or 3.2 cm that will be for your sentiment fold. On the front part that is left you can now emboss in what ever embossing folder is appropriate for your project! Cut a piece of card to fit the inside for writing and adhere. Stamp if you want to. I have stamped Peace on Earth. MAKE SURE you adhere your strip under this first after scoring at 4 1/8 inches or 10.5 cm this will give you plenty of space for a sentiment on the front and if you need to make is a little shorter you can cut it off.

Fold over your embossed front and now adhere a layer in my case Basic Beige and the gorgeous Peaceful Garden DSP to just the left side so that the card will open. the layers are 3 1/2 x 5 1/4 (8.9 x13.3 cm) for Basic Beige and 3 1/4 x 5 inches (8.3 x 12.7 cm) for the DSP 

I have added a strip of Basic Beige to the fold over Secret Sea and stamped the sentiment. As I wanted to add the doves as a feature (you could also add a ribbon bow that matched your project) The sentiment was too long so I masked the words off while inking and stamp the long sentiment in two parts to created the double line.

I can see myself making lots of this fun fold as it displays the gorgeous DSP that Stampin' Up has and it is quick to make and you can make lots out of a pack of Designer Series Paper! 

Now is the time to head to our next amazing team mate joining us for week 4 of the Heart of Christmas and this week you will be heading to the lovely Claire Daly, she inspires me all the time with her creations 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 for any reason the next blog button doesn't go where you were expecting please head back here and continue you Heart of Christmas week 4 hop from the list below:
Claire Daly:
Andrea Sargent:
Kate Morgan:
Teressa Gerrard:
Catherine Proctor:
Sharon Davern:  <=You are here

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