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 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,

Week 8 - Heart of Christmas

 

Welcome to Week 8 of the Heart of Christmas for 2021. I have a decided not to do a fancy fold today purely as I wanted to make sure I had a card for you as I spent the weekend in bed with a migraine and I wanted to start to show you some quick cards now that we are getting to the end of the year (SSSHH! don't tell me that!) I know we don't want to hear that we are nearing the end of the year so I wanted to start to show you some quick Christmas cards so that you can start to build up your stash.

I have shown you some cards with the Peaceful Deer and the Angels of Peace, (I must have been on a theme of peace) so I thought I had better get out the Wise Men in the Great Tidings Bundle as I had not had a play with them yet.

I first cut out the City of David in Basic Black and  used the negative as a guide to kind of give me hills to blend some night sky in the distance for the Wise Men. I placed the then negative with a little extra cutting to fit the whole piece across the Basic White card and got out Misty Moonlight and Night of Navy and started to blend away. I went the way of the City of David first and then turn the mask over to have the hill go the other way for the Wise Men. For some reason I just think they need to be travelling over hill and dale to get there as it was a very long journey for them. I left it quite pale around the city so that it was a highlight. I cut out an extra city in Gold Shimmer Vellum as a light shadow. In the sky  you can also see some extra twinkling stars I have used the White Stampin' Chalk Marker

On the inside of the card I have  heat embossed the 3 gifts of the Wise Men and coloured them with the Stampin' blends like I have with the 3 Wise men on the front of the card.

The 3 Wise Men have been heat embossed on gold and coloured with the Stampin' Blends I couldn't help but used my favourite Blackberry Bliss for one. What colours would you use to colour these kings? For the hill that the Wise Men are standing on I am using the Tidings of Christmas DSP and after heat embossing the sentiment I trimmed it down with the paper trimmer and then using the Lovely Labels Pick a Punch I made the ends look like they were fit for a king! LOL!

Well if you would like to know anymore about how I created the background before I added it to a layer of Gold Shimmer Vellum and then to a base of Night of Navy to finish off my card please don't hesitate to contact me.

Please head over to the always extremely creative Andrea Sargent's blog. I love her creations each week and she always puts such thought and care into each card. I can't wait to discover all the extra wow she manages to pack into a card. Last time Andrea created gorgeous Pillow Box treats for us so hit the next blog button to go there now.

If at any time the next blog buttons don't work while you are going around that blog hop just head on over to our host of this weeks Heart of Christmas Tina Gillespie and there you will find a list of those participating and you will be able to continue the hop from there.

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