Stampin' Up - New Holiday Catalogue - Art With Heart Blog Hop

Hello Lovely Friends,

Tonight some of the Art with Heart Stampin’ Up! team girls are sharing some fun and fabulous ideas to inspire you from our brand new Holiday Catalogue available on 1st September until 2nd January 2018. Be sure to request your copy of the catalogue today!

Do you remember the Christmas carol The Little Drummer Boy? Well when I saw this new bundle I just had to get it!

 I sang this carol as a solo in my grade 2 Christmas pageant 40 years ago shh!  Well Musical Seasons and Musical Instrument Framelit Die bundle brought back all the happy memories! I’m sure I was nervous but maybe that was what helped steer me on the path of becoming a music teacher!

For my first card today I have used the gorgeous Merry Music Specialty DSP and I have cleared embossed the Little Drummer Boy and then using my sponge dauber with night of navy ink I have given him a little shadow. I have gone over the embossing using the emboss resist technique. Making sure to wipe the residual ink off the embossed drummer boy with a tissue. Subsequently I used my sponge dauber to add some night of navy to the edges of the paper and without adding any more ink to the sponge I have lightly gone over the rest of the music paper just to give it a little hint of blue.

I had to put the words on the cards as well so I have stamped them using the Labeler Alphabet in memento and popped them up using the mini dimensionals.

How gorgeous is the Vintage Crochet trim that I have attached to the edges of this card? You are going to love it, it is so soft and just beautiful, you will want to put it on all your projects!

The middle of the card is always lovely to decorate and this stamp set comes with a beautiful verse for Christmas.

My second card I think will be perfect for my friend in Minnesota. She plays the French horn and as Christmas time is also in the winter there as opposed to summer here in Australia, this card is for her.

This bundle comes with lovely framelits that you can use to cut out your stamped images and also a French horn and treble clef which I have done here in the new Champagne Foil paper. Oh, I am in love! Move over Copper foil! It is gorgeous! I have accompanied it with the new Foil Snowflakes that come in silver and gold. This one is the silver snowflake that I have cut in half. I have adhered them with the fine tip glue pen to the beautiful Merry Music Paper, this time I have used the black background image.

Peace, Joy and love have been clear embossed on smoky slate card stock when stamped with Cherry Cobbler ink and popped up on some dimensionals.

I have stamped the inside once more with the lovely verse that comes with this stamp set Musical Seasons and added a touch of the Merry Music Speciality DSP.

For more product information about both cards check out the list below.

PRODUCTS
Stamps	Musical Season, Labeler Alphabet
Card Stock and Papers	Whisper White, Night of Navy, Smoky Slate, Cherry Cobbler, Merry Music Specialty DSP.
Ink	Versamark, Night of Navy, Memento, Cherry Cobbler
Acecessories / Embellishments	Vintage Crochet trim, Rhinestone basic jewels
Tools	Paper Snips, heat tool, Musical instruments framelits, , finetip glue pen, sponge dauber, embossing buddy, clear emboss powder, big shot, stampin’ dimensionals,  fast fuse, trimmer

Now it’s time to hop on over to our next participant, the very talented and lovely Kimberly Hern. 

    

If you find a broken link or have come to this blog hop from a different entry point, you can view the participants below:

. Alisha Watson
2. Claire Daly
3. Ros Davidson
4. Judy May
5. MonikaO'Neill
6. Rebecca Jacovou
7. Rachel Palmieri
8. Kate Morgan 
9. Caroline Manwaring
10. Catherine Proctor
11. Tina Gillespie
12. Kathryn Mangelsdorf
13. Rachel Woollard
14. Sharon Davern
15. Kimberly Hern

Hope you have a lovely day. Thank you for spending some time with me.

Take Care

The Heart of Christmas - Week 3

Hello and welcome to another beautiful day.

I hope you have enjoyed the long weekend we have had here in Australia. I have done a little bit of creating and had a lovely relaxing time with the family which included some board games. We love having a good games night, how about you?

As part of my creating this weekend I made our weekly Christmas card for our Heart of Christmas get together with you so let the countdown continue …..there are only 25 Wednesdays including today until the last week of November. 

Today I thought I would mix it up a little bit from the last 2 weeks. I still have Santa but I have used the Santa from the Cookie Cutter Christmas set. He is so cute.  I have paired him with the new hostess set In the City and all I had the hardest time not singing at the top of my lungs Santa Claus is coming to town! Well now you will be singing it all day too with this cute card! I can’t Stop!

To make this cute card you need to:

1.           Cut your Basic grey A4 card stock in half and then fold in half for your
card base

2.         Cut a piece of Be Merry DSP 14.5 cm x 10 cm

3.         Cut 2 x 12 cm  lengths of Copper Trim and 1 x 12 cm length of Silver Natural Trim

4.        Adhere copper then silver the copper trim 2cm up from the bottom of the Be Merry DSP

5.         Adhere Be Merry DSP to the Front of your Basic Grey card Base.

6.        With your embossing buddy lightly rub over the bottom quarter of the rest of the Basic Grey cards stock piece that you have.

7.        Choose the 4 houses  and 1 tree you would like to use from In the City Stamp set and ink up with versa mark and stamp onto the Basic Grey card stock that you have rubbed lightly with the embossing buddy.

8.        Once you have stamped 4 houses and a tree pour over the silver embossing powder and tap of the excess back into the embossing powder. Then heat set with the heating tool.

9.        When set fussy cut out the houses and adhere just above the copper trim using Stampin’ Dimensionals

10.    Stamp Santa from Cookie cutter Christmas Stamp set in Memento ink and then use the Cookie cutter builder punch to punch him out.

11.       Use Cherry cobbler and Basic Grey Stampin’ Write markers to colour in Santa.

12.     Use a bit more copper trim and make a loop and adhere to the back of Santa and then pop him up on dimensionals and adhere him in the top left corner.

13.     Now using the Labeler Alphabet spell out “Santa Claus is coming to town” and cut them out and pop them up using the new Mini Dimensionals! Try not to sing! I bet you can’t! 😊

It was lots of fun making this card!

 For more product information check out the list below.

PRODUCTS
Stamps	Cookie Cutter Christmas, In the City, Labeler Alphabet
Card Stock and Papers	Whisper White, Basic Grey, Be Merry DSP
Ink	Memento, Versamark, Cherry Cobbler & Basic Grey Stampin’ Write Marker
Acecessories / Embellishments	Silver Natural Trim, Copper Trim, Silver Embossing Powder
Tools	Cookie Cutter Builder Punch, Embossing Buddy, Heat Tool, Stampin’ Stampin’ Dimensionals, Mini Stampin’ Dimensionals, Trimmer, Fast fuse, Paper snips, bone folder

Don’t forget to contact me for more information on how to make this card, on how to get your hands on the new Annual Catalogue and any of your Stampin’ Up goodies.

The Art With Heart team will be sharing some Christmas inspiration for you as well this week and our team leader Claire Daly will have links to other members of the team that are participating this week so check out Claire’s blog and her Christmas card and then you will be able to see what else the team has in store for you too!

Hope you have a lovely day. Thank you for spending some time with me.

Take Care