Heart of Christmas - 2024 - Week 11

 

Welcome to the Heart of Christmas 2024 for Week 11. Hope you have had a great week. I organised a sip and paint event for my church on Saturday night except we called it supper and paint. So lots of yummy supper, coffee, tea, soft drink and we had an artist come and help us find our creative side. We all got to do our own canvas and we had lots of fun. I did a butterfly and my daughter did a giraffe. 

I have not quite finished my butterfly but as I was organising the event I thought I really should start to pack up. 

So because of that I ran out of time to do a big project for you this week and I was thinking how about a kit! Did you know that for October all of the Stampin' Up kits are up to 30% off!

Not just the Christmas ones so grab yourself a kit or 2 or 3. They are so great to have on hand to throw in your bag to take with you on holiday with you or of you need a quick card for birthday or saying thanks or you name it there is a kit for almost every occasion.

The Christmas Ornament Kit has 3 designs and are fun to put together and are come with the gorgeous gold hoops.

Design 1 comes with a small hoop but perfectly formed.

Design 2 and 3 are on the larger gold hoop. Aren't the pinecones and berries so cute!

Design 3 have gold berries and a red bow.

I still had my light of the year stamp set and dies on my desk from last week and I thought I might step up the ornament a little. You can keep the ornaments just like the kit has them or you can add a little bit more from your own stash and get creative.

So I stamped the smaller of the 2 lanterns in Pebbled Path and die cut it out. I stamped the candle in Crumb cake and then using Daffodil Delight Stampin' Blend I coloured the flame and added a little bit of a glow. I stamped the sentiment in Real Red and fussy cut and popped it up on dimensionals like the lantern.

I borrowed my daughters small Christmas tree that she has in her room to hang the ornaments but these are going to look fantastic on my large tree and when I finish the rest I can't wait to give as gifts to my friends and love ones.

If you have any questions about the ornaments kits or the other kits that are on sale and there are 3 other Christmas kits, before you start on the other fun kits, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Now is the time to head to the next wonderful team member on our Heart of Christmas journey this week and you will be heading to my beautiful friend Andrea Sargent. She does the most amazing work and I can't wait to see what she has for us this week, just hit the next blog button and you will go straight there.

If for any reason one of the next blog buttons doesn't go quite where you were expecting please come back here and continue your Heart of Christmas week 11 blog hop from the list below of wonderful Art with Heart team members participating this week.

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

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

Heart of Christmas - Week 10 - 2024

 

Welcome to this week 10 of the Heart of Christmas for 2024. I have a new stamp set for you today that I haven't used before and I wanted to get it out and give it a little bit of a try.

I love lanterns and so does my daughter so this was one of the stamp sets that I had to get and play with out of our Sept-Dec Mini this year.  For the card base I have used Pebbled Path and layered with Pecan Pie and then used the gorgeous Nests of Winter DSP before adding all the decorations.

I have stamped the lantern in Pebbled Path from the Light the Year stamp set on Basic White then added the candle stamped in Crumb Cake and coloured the flame with Daffodil Delight dark Stampin' Blend and the glow in the light blend. The Pine Cones are Stamped in Pecan Pie and Early Espresso and I really love how they turned out. I have die cut some leaves from the dies in Mossy Meadow and the fussy cut the sprigs of pine from the Seasons of Green and Gold Specialty DSP. To Finish off the arrangement before adding the gold embossed sentiment I have added a Poinsettia from the A Little Bit Festive Mix and Match Specialty DSP.

I have gold embossed one more sentiment on the inside of the card and layered with Pecan Pie to match the front.

If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact me.

Now is the time to head to the next person on our Heart of Christmas journey and this week you will be heading to the wonderful Rachel Woollard. She does amazing work with the stampin' blends I wonder what she has in store for us this week or maybe something else to inspire us. I can't wait so hit the next blog button and you will go straight there.

If at any time the next blog button doesn't go where you think it should come back here and you can continue your Heart of Christmas blog hop from the list below of our team members participating this week.

Claire Daly:
Andrea Sargent:
Judy May:
Kate Morgan:
Catherine Proctor:
Sharon Davern: <= You are here
Rachel Woollard:

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