Heart of Christmas - Week 17 - 2024

 

Welcome to our last Heart of Christmas Blog hop for 2024. It is sad that it is over but I do hope that you have enjoyed this year and all the wonderful inspiration from the Art with Heart team.

I have been a bit under the weather this week so I have gone with a simple card that you can use your dies and gorgeous DSP that you may have left over from your other Christmas cards.

For my card today I have used a card base of Basic Beige and layered it with a piece of Seasons of Elegance then a layer Old Olive Card Stock before adding a layer of Basic Beige that has been embossed with with the Fern 3D Embossing Folder.

Onto the base I created I then die cut out the sprigs/bows of greenery from the Green and Gold Specialty DSP and adhered them trimming off the part over hanging the edges. I then cut 2 tags with the Something Fancy Dies, one in the Graceful Greenery Vellum and one in the Seasons of Elegance DSP. To finish off the card I have added another sprig of greenery to the tag, a little bit of Gold Twisted Thread and the sentiment is Wow Gold Heat embossed from the Greetings of the season stamp set and die cut out with the Stylish Shape dies.

I do hope you have enjoyed my card today and that you will continue to join the team on a Wednesday as we have our weekly Colour Creations Blog Hop which is always a lot of fun and full of inspiration!

Now is the time to head to the next amazing person on our Heart of Christmas Journey this week and if you hit the next blog button you will go straight to the wonderfully talented Andrea Sargent:

If one of your next blog buttons doesn't go quite where you were expecting you can look at the list below of the wonderful people participating this week and you can continue your hop from there.

Andrea Sargent:
Kate Morgan:
Rachel Woollard:
Catherine Proctor:
Christine Blain:
Sharon Davern: <= You are here

It has been an honour hosting the Heart of Christmas blog hop this year I do hope you have enjoyed every minute and will join us again next year for Heart of Christmas 2025

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

Heart Of Christmas - Week 5 - 2024

 

Welcome to week 5 of the Heart of Christmas. This week I have for you a Book Binding fold with a pop up on the inside! I found this extra little part to the Book Binding Fold on Karen Titus page a US Stampin' Up! Demonstrator.

I have used the Seasons of Green and Gold Suite and Peaceful Season Bungle for this card.

For the base of the card I have used Mossy Meadow card stock and cut it in half vertically then scored in half and 1 inch along from the center fold on one side to create the book fold. Then we have all the lovely decorations a layer of Cherry cobbler card then the Season of Green and Gold Specialty. I have a different one on the edge of the book. I have die cut out the leaves and fussy cut out the bell and after adding a square of Mossy Meadow, Very Vanilla and the reverse side of one of the pieces of DSP on it's point I have placed it all up on dimensionals. The sentiment is from the Peaceful Seasons Stamp set and I have gold embossed it before using the Peaceful Seasons Dies to cut out the label.

When you open the card the Green and Gold Specialty Paper has been folded in the center and folds out when you open the card.

On this one side I have used a sentiment from the Greetings of the Season.

On this side of the card I have made a space for writing to the recipient and you could always add more on the back of your card, I have decorated with the Graceful Greenery Vellum.

If you have any questions about my card today please do not hesitate to contact me.

Now is the time to head to the next amazing person on our team for week 5 of Heart of Christmas and this week you will be going to Judy May, hit the next blog button and go straight there.

If you have one of the next blog buttons doesn't go where you were expecting, there is a list of the amazing Art with Heart team below who are participating this week. You will be able to continue your hop from the list below:

Claire Daly:
Andrea Sargent:
Christina Barnes:
Christine Blain:
Kate Morgan:
Rosa Leyden:
Sharon Davern: <= You are here
Judy May:

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

Heart of Christmas 2024 - Week 1

 

Welcome to week 1 of the Heart of Christmas Blog Hop for 2024. Each week until the end of November on a Monday, members of the Art with Heart team will bring you some Christmas inspiration so you will be ready with all your Christmas cards, packaging needs and decorating inspiration in time for Christmas.

This week I thought I had better start with a fancy fold. If you were playing along at home last Wednesday with out Bubble Bath Colour creations blog hop I let you know that I was trying a card and I had tried a couple of times and couldn't stick the landing. I had watched a couple of different tutorials on this particular fold and still couldn't make the fold work just right. Well I found yet another tutorial and using different measurements I think I have finally scored!

Today my fancy fold is called a double swing fold card! I have made a single swing fold card before and you can find that one here for our Summer Splash colour creation blog hop.

The reason I think I manage to get this one to work finally is because this was made with a piece of card stock 10 x 6 inches rather than the 12 x 6 inches of the 2 other tutorials I had been watching or maybe it was the person giving the tutorial. Laura Stranks from Brisbane!

I have used a card base of Mossy Meadow and layered with Very Vanilla and the gorgeous paper is the Seasons of Green and Gold Specialty DSP. 

When you lay the card out flat you can see all the different section. I have stamped the sentiment in Versamark and gold heat embossed. The stamp set is the Greetings of the Season stamp set and this along with the DSP is part of the Seasons of Green and Gold Suite Collection that is an online exclusive. You may notice that I have embossed the 2 side panels with the Changing Leaves Hybrid Embossing Folder.

If you flip the card over you will see the front 2 side sections which I have also embossed in the Changing leaves folder but I have added die cuts from the Green and Gold Specialty DSP and a vellum leaf from the Graceful Greenery Vellum. I then gold embossed Merry Christmas on Very Vanilla and fussy cut that out. Here also on the back there is a place to write your message.

I have made a little video of the card opening and closing for you so you can see the double swing card in action.

I do hope you have enjoyed my first project for the Heart of Christmas 2024

If you would like any information about my project today, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Now is the time to head to the next person on our Heart of Christmas inspiration journey and tonight you will be heading to Rosa Leyden, I can't wait to see what she has for us. Hit the next blog button and you will go straight there.

If for any reason one of your next blog buttons doesn't take you to where you think you should go come back to my blog each week as I have the privilege to host our Heart of Christmas blog hop and I will have the list of our wonderful team members participating and you can continue your blog hop from the list.

Rosa Leyden

Christine Blain

Theresa Gerrard

Kate Morgan

Claire Daly

Kathryn Mangelsdorf

Rachel Woollard

Andrea Sargent

Judy May

Cathy Proctor

Sharon Davern   <= You are here

Thank you for spending some Christmas crafty time with me today, and please come back next Monday for more Christmas inspiration, take care,