Week 22 - Heart of Christmas 2021

 

Well this is week 22 of our journey of all things Christmas and our final blog hop for this year for the Heart of Christmas. I do hope you have enjoyed hopping along with us and that you have a lovely lot of Christmas cards ready to go.

Well for the last fold of this series of Christmas blog hops I have searched for yet another fancy fold to share with you and I have come across a quadruple step card. I had to try it and I converted it to Centimetres from Inches and it worked quite well so here goes.

I have used the gorgeous Tidings and Trimmings Bundle and the Tidings of Christmas DSP to create this card with lots of copper foil.

This card starts with a base of Evening Evergreen 20.5 x 25 cm around 8 x 10 inches and that is where the fun comes in and you measure and score and cut and fold until you have all these wonderful steps off the centre of your card.

If you look at my card from the inside where I have placed some of the DSP and some Basic White so that you can write to the recipient of the card you can see all the wonderful folds with out the decorations.

Here is another view of the steps to give you an idea of the fold.

No for the front I have cut out the Tidings of Christmas DSP and layered that on to the copper foil before adding the decorations. I have stamped and cut out  using the dies the twigs, berries and leaves using the Christmas tripping dies after doing a little bit of stamping with  Evening Evergreen, Soft Succulent and Cherry Cobbler ink. I have done the same with the stockings and added a Basic Gray one in as well for a little bit of contrast with the DSP and also to tie in to the Sentiments which I stamped in Basic Gray and then fussy cut around so that you could see the gorgeous copper Star which is layered onto some more DSP.

I have also added some of the In Color Ribbon which is just beautiful to the centre piece. 

Now it will lay flat and fit perfectly into a C5 envelope if you didn't want to try an make your own. Now I need to go an make a template so I don't forget how I made it and so I can make some more in the future!

If you have any questions at anytime about today's project or any of your craft needs do not hesitate to contact me.

Now is the time to head to the next person on our Heart of Christmas blog hop Andrea Sargent. I love seeing her creativity each week. Please hit the next blog button now so that you will go straight to her blog.

Tina Gillespie is our host for the last week of Heart of Christmas 2021 so if there are any technical issues please head over to Tina's Blog and she will have the list of all those participating this week and you can continue your Christmas hop from there.

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

Week 21 - Heart of Christmas

 

Welcome to week 21 of the Heart of Christmas, we have just one more week to go for this year. I do hope you have enjoyed hopping along each week. 

For this week I have 3 cards for you using the Merriest Moments Bundle. I taught a class this week at my church for a group of ladies who have long retired from work and get together on Tuesday mornings and had asked me to come and do a Christmas card class with them. We had cards of all levels so that that we could have beginner to more advanced as I knew a few were very crafty ladies. We had card kits for everyone and our stamping began with lots of fun and laughter.

The first card I am going to show you tonight is the card that the ladies who had more experience and were able to do some die cutting along with the stamping..

I had already embossed the base of the card for everyone to save a little bit of timeThe card base is in Evening Evergreen and I have embossed it with the Merriest Moments Hybrid Embossing folder. 

In Soft Succulent I have cut and embossed out the the layering foliage and backing to the sentiment. I turned it the opposite way round to the embossed card base so you can still see some of the image to give a little bit of depth to the card.

For this card I chose to use the sentiments from the stamp set For Unto Us and have stamped it in Evening Evergreen on a piece of Basic White which I have cut out using the dies form the Merriest Moments Dies, it has a lovely stitched edge.

To finish this card for the ladies at class we stamped the 2 sizes of the poinsettias in Cherry cobbler and the large and medium sized solid leaves in Evening Evergreen and cut them out with the  dies from the bundle. We stuck them together and then cut out the centre of the flower out in Copper Foil!

We popped them all up on a dimensional and placed it in the lower left corner of the sentiment.

For the 2nd card I thought I would  step the first one up a bit and add a little with some more elements from the Merriest Moments stamp set.

I first thought what colours go with Soft Succulent, Evening Evergreen and Cherry Cobbler and I though Mint Macaron and Sahara Sand would work well so I stamped and die cut some more of the leaves and twigs in those 2 colours and added some Evening Evergreen and Soft Succulent sheer ribbon under the poinsettia. I also stamped the berries and 3 sizes of the leaves for the holly and added those.

For my 3rd card today I have CASED Tami White and just changed a little bit of her idea. I loved it as the classic Navy Blue and White were just stunning so I had to share while I was using this bundle.

I love the way the Basic White foliage pops on the Night of Navy card. The base of the card is Embossed with the Merry Melody 3D embossing folder this time instead of the Merriest Moments Embossing folder. I thought it was appropriate considering the sentiment was Hark the Herald Angels Sing!

Well these cards were so much fun to put together with this bundle I hope that you have enjoyed having a bit a of a look today at the Merriest Moments Bundle.

If you have any questions or would like help in making these cards please do not hesitate in contacting me.

Now is the time to head to the next incredible creative person who is Tina Gillespie, I always love seeing her take on a new template each week. Just hit the next blog button now to go straight to her blog.

Now if you happen to have an issue with any of the next blog buttons not working just come back here to my blog as I have the privilege of hosting this week and you will find the list of participants below and you can continue your hop from there anytime you find any technical issues.

Tina Gillespie
Kate Morgan
Andrea Sargent
Caroline Manwaring
Christine Blain
Theresa Gerrard
Catherine Proctor
Ros Davidson
Rosa Leyden
Kathryn Mangelsdorf
Sharon Davern  <=You are here

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

Week 20 - Heart of Christmas 2021

Welcome to Week 20 of the Heart of Christmas Blog Hop. Can you believe we are nearly at the end of our Heart of Christmas Blog hops for 2021, just another couple of weeks to go.

This week I am going to show you a quick card that I saw on line from a friend in the US and I thought it was just sweet and simple and you could make multiple of this without much effect.

  

For this card I have used a lot of tone on tone with the Very Vanilla card stock and I have used the lovely large Angel from Angels of Peace. It is such a beautiful stamp.

I started with the Thick Very Vanilla card base and then on regular Very Vanilla I embossed using the Merry Melody 3D embossing folder as we all know Angels love to sing! Before adhering the sheet music to the card base I have wrapped around the scalloped lace ribbon and tied a bow. 

I have then stamped the Angel in Basic Gray onto a piece of Very Vanilla which I have cut to size and then die cut a border on the side with the Basic Border Dies. Doesn't it look like the Angel is singing in the clouds! Adhere that on with some dimensionals and then attach a small sentiment and you can be finished or you could add some genial gems.

I decided that I would add a little bling to the card with the genial gems and by adding some colour to the Angel with the stampin' blends. Either way the Angel is still singing and you can make multiple of this card in no time.

Now is the time to head to the next person on our Heart of Christmas Journey and this week it will be the lovely Tina Gillespie. I love to see how she interprets a card sketch each week to help us get our Christmas card stash up an so that we will have plenty of cards ready to go for Christmas. Just click the next blog button to go there now.

Now if for any reason we have a technical issue with the next blog buttons at any time on your journey around our blog hop you can go to this week's host Tina Gillespie's blog and she will have the list of those participating and you can continue you hop from there. Tina's Blog.

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

Week 19 - Heart of Christmas

 

Welcome to week 19 of the Heart of Christmas blog Hop for 2021. This week I will be creating for you something a little different. I have used the Give it a Whirl dies to create my card. I know a little different but I saw this idea on Jini Merck's page and thought I would give it a go.

I have paired the Give it a Whirl dies with the Great Tidings Bundle and the 3 Wise Men are are bringing the joy of their gifts with each spin of the little wheel.

Now I have hidden the brad in the City of David but if you didn't want to have the City of David you could hide the brad behind a star or a Wise Man's head.

After I cut out the wheel for the sentiments and picture to go behind our cut out window in the Peaceful Place Specialty DSP with all the silver snowflake stars I put the wheel back over the top, lined up the stamp, picked it up with my Stamp-a-ratus plate removed the wheel so I could put the magnets in place in case I wanted to stamp more than once and stamped the image. I didn't do that with the first one I just eye balled it. I will let you guess which one that was before I got a clue!

I have used the beautiful blending brushes to add a little Night of Navy to the Wheel of sentiment and the sentiment on the front of the card so that it wasn't so start white against the silver and Night of Navy card and you know I can't resist the Stampin' Blends, there are a few different colours today but still my trusty Blackberry bliss! Oh the silver star is from the Give it a Whirl dies.

If you would like any information at any time about today's card or any of your crafty needs please do not hesitate to contact me.

Now is the time to head to the next person on the our journey and today you will be heading to Andrea Sargent, I love her eye for detail, her ability to use different techniques and her cards are always so beautiful. Just hit the next blog button now to be taken to this very talented lady to see what she has for us this week.

I have the privilege to host this week the very talented group of ladies and if for any reason there is a technical issue you can come back to my blog and continue you hop from here with the list of those participating just below. 

Tina Gillespie
Caroline Manwaring
Theresa Gerrard
Kate Morgan
Christine Blain
Catherine Proctor
Ros Davidson
Rachel Woollard
Sharon Davern  <= You are here
Andrea Sargent
Rosa Leyden

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

take care,

Week 17 - Heart of Christmas

 

Welcome to another week of wonderful Christmas inspiration from the Art With Heart team. I love Mondays and I hope you do too! I can't wait for it to be Monday so I get to see all the fantastic Christmas creations. I love Christmas so that might be the reason I love Heart of Christmas time and we are at week 17 for this year!

So for today I have a quick and simple card for you and I am letting the gorgeous Designer Series Paper do all the work!

So this card is quick and you can use this gorgeous Peaceful Place Specialty Paper it is just beautiful and I decided to let it do all the talking this week.

To accompany the Peaceful Place SDSP I have used Evening Evergreen as the card base and layered it with Silver Foil added a little Evening Evergreen Open Weave ribbon and Genial Gems after I had stamped the greeting from the stamp set For Unto Us in Evening Evergreen.

On the inside of the card I have carried the same theme through and added the silver foil and the strip along the bottom of the Peaceful Place SDSP that I had trimmed from the front.

You could do this with any colour you liked, Night of Navy would be fantastic as Blue and Silver go so well together or even Real Red and Cherry Cobbler and use the Holiday Rhinestone Gems or the Red Rhinestone gems to add your bling. The possibilities are endless.

If you have any questions about my card today or would like to get your hands on some goodies to make some quick cards yourself just hit my contact button anytime.

Now is the time to head to the next very talented person on our hop around today and I can't wait to see her creation. Kathryn Mangelsdorf is joining in with us today for the first time in a long time and I can't wait to see what she has for us. Hit the next blog button to go to her blog now.

I have the privilege to host this week's blog hop so if there are any technical difficulties and one of the next blog buttons doesn't work come back here and you can continue your hop right where you left off by going to the following list of participants. Enjoy you blog hop!

Tina Gillespie
Kate Morgan
Michele Taylor
Catherine Proctor
Claire Daly
Christine Blain
Ros Davidson
Rosa Leyden
Andrea Sargent
Caroline Manwaring
Theresa Gerrard
Sharon Davern  <=You Are Here
Kathryn Mangelsdorf

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

Week 16 - Heart of Christmas

 

Welcome to Week 16 of Heart of Christmas. Can you believe we are now only 68 day away from Christmas day! EEK! No don't panic because if you have been following along with the Heart of Christmas for the last 16 weeks you have got a lovely stash of Christmas cards ready to go and you will be able to send them out and be happy that you have ticked that very special task off your to do list for Christmas. Plus all that joy you have spread with your homemade cards.

This week I thought I would CASE a card from the July-December Mini catalogue and get out my Wise Men and make a shaker card. I haven't really ever made one but I have seen many tips and I thought well I am just going for it!

You will find this card on page 15 of the mini catalogue and as I hadn't used the frame die yet I wanted to use it and thought well this was the perfect opportunity to try it.

To make this card I needed to work on the background of my window cut out first.

I am not sure if you can tell but I have used some night of navy with my blending brushes on the left panel to make it a little darker. The paper is from the Beauty of the Earth DSP and making it a little darker means the Wise Men are walking through twilight rather than daylight or pitch black.

Now for the front of the card I have used the gorgeous Gold Metallic paper that comes in the 6x6 pack with the Rose Gold it is just stunning and I cut it down to a card front size and used a strip that I had left over to decorate the inside of the card. Using the dies I cut out the frame. Then I used the Clear 14.6 x 11.1 cm Envelopes and adhered it to the back of the gold layer. I did have to fold the edges in a little and adhere them down but not too much and I left the opening at the bottom so I could fold it over more to keep the sequins from the Sequins for everything pack up in the area I wanted. 

Now another tip apart from using an envelope for your sequins. Do not shake it with the envelope still open if you want to see if you have enough in there because you will need to put more in there as they will go flying out!
 

Once all sealed I adhered it to the Beauty of the Early layer with dimensionals. I would have used the foam adhesive strips that I have but they like the sequins decided to fly around my craft room and I couldn't place my hand on them. Always the way when you want to use something! Must be time for a tidy of the craft room (Note to self!)

I have layered everything on a card base of Night of Navy which is what I have used to stamp the sentiment. The Wise Men are stamped in Basic Grey and then I have take out my trusty Stampin' Blends and coloured them in. Now they are not the same as in the July-Dec Mini but that is ok you can colour them how ever you like and then I cut them out using the Wise Men Tiding Dies and popped them on the front of my card along with a couple more sequins which I managed to wrangle.

Well if you need help with your sequins wrangling just let me know at any time by hitting the contact button.

Now is the time to head to the next very creative person on our Heart of Christmas journey for week 16, just hit the next blog button and you will be taken to Rosa Leyden I love her work and can't wait to see what she has created for us this week, last week it was gorgeous Whimsical Christmas trees and snow flakes!

 

If at any time the next blog button doesn't work just head to this week's host my dear friend Tina Gillespie and on her blog you will find the list of all those participating this week: Tina's Blog

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