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,