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 13 - Heart Of Christmas 2021

 

Welcome to week 13 of the Heart of Christmas, today I have for you today a quick design that you can use for almost anything. I have gone back to my Angels of Peace and treated them very simply.

So for this card I have made a hinge card or a flap fold card. I am not quite sure what to call it but it is a fun and quick card to make.

The first thing you need to do is cut a normal card base in Soft Succulent and then after folding in half cut a 2.5 cm or a 1 inch strip of the front edge. You will use this for the hinge mechanism.

On the inside of the card I have a Basic White piece of card that I cut at 10 x 14.5 cm and I have also cut a piece of the Tidings of Christmas DSP the same size. Cut a strip off that is 2.5 cm and flip it over and adhere to the Basic White card.

Before adhering the inside of your card down add your hinge. Fold your Soft Succulent strip in half and then cut from the fold on one side to 2.5 cm so it just sits under the DSP so you have lots of space to write.

On the front of the card you can attached to the hinge a sentiment or I have attached our lovely Angel which I have Gold Heat Embossed. I have popped it up on dimensionals after cutting a backing in soft succulent and gold foil using the Hippo & Friends Dies. I think these dies in this shape remind me of a lovely mirror!

On the inside I have place out little Angel.

I have heat embossed in gold the 2 sentiments and using another shape from the Hippo & Friends Dies and added them to the front and the inside of the card.

This design is quick and you can use many shapes or designs for the sentiment or focal point picture or just use it as sentiment. You do not need to double side it like I have today in this stepped up version.

If you would like any information about my project today or about any of your crafting needs please do not hesitate to contact me.

Now is the time to head to the next person on our hop around week 13 of Christmas inspiration so just hit the next blog button and you will head over to  Ros Davidson blog. I love to see what she has for us each week she is so creative.

I have the privilege of hosting this week so if for any reason one of the next blog buttons does not work please come back here and  you will be able to continue your journey in our Heart of Christmas Blog Hop by clicking on the list of the participants below.

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

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

Week 10 - Heart of Christmas

 

I know you will not be surprised but I couldn't help myself! I made a fancy fold for you for this week, week 10 of the Heart of Christmas Blog Hop 2021! Yes I know, I know! I said I was going to make quick stacks of cards to build up my stash. Well I did do that last week. So there is that, but the Angels were singing to me and they told me that I just had to make another card.

Welcome to Week 10 of Heart of Christmas and to my Double Display card featuring the Angels of Peace!

Well this card was a little bit involved as I thought I needed to make it smaller than the measurement than I had seen on Pinterest for the base. I was thinking cut my card base in half vertically at 10.5 cm and then go from there. Well it did work it just meant I had to do some math and my poor head was not in the game so I worked it out on paper first before I did it on the card stock. Good tip for young players or old players like me even! You know the old adage: "Measure twice, cut once" Hey it worked and it is the perfect size for the angel! 

In the end as you can see there are quite a few folds and score lines so I decided that I would not to worry about how big that centre piece was that is not cut or scored along the line just to work out how big I wanted the edge parts that fold and how big I wanted the panel. Once I had decided that I just went from each of the 4 corners first scoring the lines both horizontally that I needed and vertically then I cut the 4 horizontal lines. This also meant that I had everything in the correct position before I cut. Ok so I was really checking my work again!!! LOL!! It really isn't that hard I just don't think my brain was working very well today.

So once I had the fold all sorted then I cut the gorgeous Peaceful Place Specialty DSP to fit each of the sections and on the front 5 panels I have embossed them with the Merry Melody 3D embossing Folder.

You might notice that the 2 angels are placed on 2 extra panels that are adhered to the sides of the card to give that extra bit of surface for displaying the Angels.

In the centre of the card I have stamped the beautiful sentiment in Basic Gray  to match the DSP and cut it out with the Scalloped Contour Dies.

On the back I have added another greeting and space for writing but you could also add the space for writing on the front and leave the back empty if you wish.

I have coloured the Angels with the Stampin' Blends after stamping them in Basic Grey and popped them on dimensionals. As you can see you can carefully fold the card down to fit into our envelopes.

I know that maybe I could have made it a little taller but still I like that the  Angel's fit just nicely onto the card. And this way I can make 2 card bases from 1 piece of card stock as well.

Don't forget to add your star!

Hope this card brings you some Angel Joy today.

Please do not hesitate to contact me if you would like any information about this project today or any of your crafting need.

Now is the time to head to the next person on our journey around week 10 of the Heart of Christmas Blog Hop and the lovely Christine Blain who always inspires me with her gorgeous creations is next on our hop. Last week Christine had the most beautiful elegant card and I can't wait to see what she has for us this week. Just hit the next blog but to go straight to her post now! 

If for some reason the next blog buttons doesn't work at any stage of the journey please head on over to the host of this weeks Heart Of Christmas blog hop the lovely and talented Tina Gillespie and she will have a list of the participants and you can continue your hope there: Tina's Blog

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

Week 7 - Heart of Christmas

 

Week 7 of The Heart of Christmas and I hope you are enjoying the inspiration of the team at Art with Heart each week as they bring you different ideas to get your Christmas cards ready for this year. 

You may have arrived at my blog from the lovely Caroline Manwaring's blog but if not welcome and I have found another fancy fold for you this week.. After this week I will have to start making batches of cards so that we will have lots ready for Christmas but for now as we are still in August I thought you would have time to do one more fancy fun folds for that special someone.

So the fold that I found for you is called a Balcony fold! I hadn't come across this one before this week so just had to try it as you know me I am always up for trying different fold!

When I saw that it was a balcony card the first thing I thought of was a theatre and that made me think of Angels singing so I had to have the Angels of Peace singing to us from the Balcony! You know me by now and you know my brain just goes there! LOL!

I followed a tutorial by a lady called Iced Images on YouTube to get the exact dimensions of the card and how to put it together.

So the first thing I did was put the base of the card together.

The card base itself is in Evening Evergreen card and I started with a 6x6 inch piece so that led me to the gorgeous 6x6 pack of DSP in the Annual Catalogue Tiding of Christmas. I then cut layers of Cherry Cobbler card and the DSP along with the 2 balcony pieces.

Once I had put them all together which was really easy 3 pieces of card, some scoring and then some matting. Now for the Angels

AS I have thought we needed a choir of angels on the balcony I needed more than 2 this week so I stamped the large one and the 3 little angels the normal way but as you can see one of the little ones is facing the other direction.

I stamped the angel on to a silicon mat and then place the Basic White card over it to pick up the ink so that the image was reversed. I then went over the lines with my Stampin' write marker just a little more defined as they can be a little blurry doing the image this way but it is great to get the angel looking the other direction. All the Angels are coloured with the Stampin' Blends.

For the sentiments I have used a Tasteful Label dies to cut them out. I used a full one for Hark the Herald from the For Unto Us stamp set and I cut out the other sentiment from the Angels of Peace stamp set and then shortened it.

Behind each sentiment I have used a crumb cake piece of the Tidings of Christmas DSP and with the Merry Melody Embossing Folder I have embossed it. I also just highlighted the notes on the DSP with the Light Crumb Cake Stampin' Blends. Angles need to have music if they are going to sing.

I have decorated the back of the card on one side and left the other side for writing your greetings but you could just decorate or do both for greetings.

It does fold flat and would need an envelope to fit a 6x6 inch card so I would need to make one but I haven't done that as yet. I might challenge myself to make it just that bit smaller next time to see if I can get it to fit into one of our envelopes.

I hope you have enjoyed my fancy fold card today and if you have any questions or would like the measurements do not hesitated to contact me.

Now is the time to head to the next person on our hop for this weeks Heart of Christmas and this week you will head over to Ros Davidson. I love seeing what Ros creates each week as her creation are always fun and bold. Last week she made Gingerbread and Peppermint cookies so I can't wait to see what she has for us this week.

I have the privilege of hosting our blog hop this week so if for any reason one of the next blog buttons does not work just come back here and you will be able to continue on with your hop by clicking on the names below.

Kate Morgan:
Tina Gillespie: 
Claire Daly:  
Catherine Proctor:  
Michele Taylor:
Christine Blain:
Caroline Manwaring:
Sharon Davern:  <= YOU ARE HERE
Ros Davidson:
Theresa Gerrard:
Rosa Leyden:
Rachel Woollard:
Judy May:

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

Week 4 - Heart of Christmas

 

I am loving our Heart of Christmas Blog hops this year and I hope you are too and getting lots of inspiration for your Christmas cards already. We are at week 4 and there are lots more to come.

Last week I fell in love with the "Angels of Peace" stamp set giving you a sneak peak at the new stamp set from the July -Dec Mini catalogue which will go live on August 3rd.and I have used it again this week and I am using another fancy fold just because I think this one also lends itself to this stamp set and I couldn't help myself!

This card is a side step card with the 2 panels so that the Angels are highlighted. I love that the Angels are oriented this way to make a card like this just so easy to make.

For this card I have chosen to use the Painted Christmas DSP from the new mini which has the gorgeous colours of Pear Pizzazz, Soft Succulent and Evening Evergreen as part of the colours and those are the ones I have chosen to use.

I have used the Evening Evergreen as my card base and the Soft Succulent as the first layer of matting before using the holly layer of Pear Pizzazz Painted Christmas DSP. I have stamped the Angels in Basic Gray on Basic White and coloured them with the Stampin' Blends so I have added another green with the Mint Macaron in the dresses of the angels. Pale Papaya wings, So Saffron hair Polished Pink flowers and Evening Evergreen holly. The Sentiment on I have stamped in Basic Gray and punched out using the Label Me Fancy punch then I cut down the edges, I punched out 2 in Evening Evergreen and cut one in half and trimmed it so that only the curved edged showed so I could just have them come out around the edges. and popped it up on dimensionals like I have with the larger angel.

Don't forget to add a little star stamping and sentiment to the inside of your card.

Hope you have enjoyed this weeks design and use of the side step card for the Angels of Peace. If you have any questions at all about this card or you would like to get the July-December mini in your hands please do not hesitate to contact me.

Now is the time to head to the next blog on our Christmas trip this week and the next person today is Claire Daly. Last week Claire bought us a set of gorgeous quick cards to make, I can't wait to see what she has for us this week so click on the button below and head there now!

If at any time there is a technical issue and one of the links are broken, (it does happen some times) please head over to this weeks host Tina Gillespie and she will have the list of all the participants and you will be able to continue the hop there. Tina's blog

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