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 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 15 - Heart of Christmas

 

We are at week 15 of our Heart of Christmas blog hop and each week until the middle of  December the ladies from the Art With Heart Team will bring you some Christmas inspiration each Monday night.

This week I will be doing something in Blue and Silver tones. The reason is my girlfriend wanted to change her colour theme for Christmas this year when we were talking and she wanted to get away from the normal red and green traditional colours and go with blues and silvers. So I am going to challenge myself to make her a card in those colours!

Well I have made her a card but I have kept is quite simple and all about the words and sentiment that I know my friend will like.

So for this card I have started with a Night of Navy card base and layered it with silver foil. I then added an embossed layer of Basic White in the Merry Melody 3D embossing Folder with a little bit of Silver Elegant trim wrapped around it.

On another piece of Basic White I took my blending brush and with Misty Moonlight and Night of Navy I blending the 2 colours together to give the colour for the background of my White Heat Embossed Sentiments. I thought the 2 blended together gave a nice colour of the changing of the night sky. I heat embossed the sentiments from For Unto Us stamp set and cut the centre piece from the Hippo & Friends Dies and the little sentiment from the Stitched Rectangle dies where I made one of the dies fit my purpure by making it a little smaller than the die actually was.

I have also die cut some silver foil stars from the Stitched Stars dies and added a little bow of elegant trim to finish off the card. On the inside I have added a layer of Silver foil under the Basic White to continue the theme to the inside of my card.

If you have any questions about my project today or about any of your Christmas crafty needs please do not hesitate to contact me.

Now is the time to hit the next blog button and head to the next very creative person on our journey in Christmas creativity. This week you will be heading to Christine Blain I can't wait to see what she has for us, I always love seeing her creations and how she uses designer series paper and different textures. 

I have the privilege to host this week so if for any reason one of the next blog buttons doesn't take you to the next blog just come back here and click on the next person on the list below and continue the blog hop from there.

Christine Blain
Andrea Sargent
Kate Morgan
Theresa Gerrard
Michele Taylor
Caroline Manwaring
Tina Gillespie
Catherine Proctor
Sharon Davern <= You are Here

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

Week 11 - Heart of Christmas

 

Welcome to week 11 of the Heart of Christmas Blog Hop.

This week you may have come to me from Michele Taylor or you may have started here either way welcome and hope you enjoy today's hop.

I went for something a little different today. I needed to do a quick card as it is my daughter's 20th Birthday today. EEK! No more teenager's in the house! She has requested a very specific cake, I will put it at the end of the post. So quick card it was. I decided 15 quick cards were the go.

 At the beginning of each new catalogue, either the annual catalogue or the mini catalogue I participate in a Designer Series paper and other specialty papers share. Where you can get a 1/4 sample of each of the new papers and some other people get a share in those papers and you all share the cost. So I thought I had better use a bit off my shares up and put these gorgeous papers to some good use.

I started with the Heart Warming Hugs DSP, I kind of used them as my colour block on my card and then had different DSP behind them depending on what I had left from the different paper shares and even a couple from a Sale-a-bration DSP. Once I had cut my Heart Warming Hugs DSP into the 2 sizes for the backdrop of the stamped greeting and I put together a few more DSP backdrops and adhered the colour blocks onto them. Once I had done that I put the whole lot through with the Merry Melody 3D Embossing folder.

I have made 15 card for you today. I made them as a stamp a stack. So in the Heart Warming Hugs DSP the colours are Real Red, Mossy Meadow and Pear Pizzazz so I stamped 2 of the Christmas Greetings from For Unto Us stamp set in the 3 colours.

Once I had stamped them in the 3 colours I got out the Hippo & Friends Dies which has some great frames and I used those to cut out the Christmas Greetings to put on the front of the cards. I am loving these label/frames dies from Hippo & Friends.

Each card either has a ribbon in Shimmer Gold or Evening Evergreen Sheer as it goes really well with the Pear Pizzazz in the DSP or a couple I just use the Matt black Dots.

So you may be wondering which Designer Series papers I used to back my colour blocking of the Heartwarming Hugs. I have used: Harvest Meadow, Peaceful Place Specialty, along with Peaceful Prints. Then I layered behind them as part of my shares that I had Brushed Metallic Cardstock in Bronze, Copper and Gold, along with Red Foil and Black Glitter paper.

I thought this would be a great way to show you how to do multiple cards, how to stamp a stack of greetings and use up some of your Designer series paper! If you have any questions please don't hesitate to contact me!

Now is the time to head over to the next person on our blog hop journey and the lovely Caroline Manwaring is next. I love seeing what Caroline has for us each week. She has stunning, clean cards and she is the Queen of using the subtle embossing folder!

If at any time any of the next blog buttons do not work please head to the host of this week's Tina Gillespie who will have the list of those participating and you can continue you blog hop there. Tina's Blog.

Ok here is the cake! I was asked to make a post apocalyptic ruin with moss and leaves growing.

This is the photos I found to try and replicate.

Here is my attempt! In orange poppy seed as well!

Fun fact I used the Hammered Metal 3D Embossing folder for the texture on the walls and I used the Stitched leaves dies for the texture on the leaves. Stampin' Up comes in handy for cake making as well!

Thank you for spending some 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,