The Heart of Christmas - Week 15

Hello and welcome to another beautiful day.

Hope you have had a wonderful week if you are in the northern hemisphere you are having the last days of Summer and kids are starting to go back to school. Here in Australia it is spring but the weather at least where I live in Melbourne is still in winter mode.

This week I haven’t been very well with a migraine that has had me in bed every day so I am glad that I still had some pieces left from our One Sheet Wonder.  So this card is super simple and although this has a Christmas greeting you could make this same design for any kind of card you want, plus you can make multiples of it without any problem at all for your Christmas list.

I have used the 3 pieces that we originally cut and the 2 pieces that we cut as off cuts from our cards that we have made in week 13. 

 I have backed them with the gorgeous copper foil and popped then on the diagonal on some very vanilla card on top of a cherry cobbler card base. I nearly used one of our many shades of green but I came back to the very clean look of the very vanilla. The greeting is from the Merry Mistletoe stamp set and I have clear embossed this before using the stitched shape framelits to cut it out.  I have layered the greeting with cherry cobbler and copper foil using the layering oval framelits to cut these out before popping it up on dimensional after putting down some swirls of copper metallic thread. To finish of the card the new black rhinestone jewels adorn the corners.

As always Stampin’ Up makes it so simple to decorate the inside of your cards with just a little bit of interest. Merry Mistletoe stamps set has a lovely saying  and little decorations you can use on the inside of your cards. You don’t need to do much at all. I have again clear embossed as it is Christmas but you don’t need to do that at all.

For more product information for this card check out the list below.

PRODUCTS
Stamps	Merry Mistletoe
Card Stock and Papers	Very Vanilla, Cherry Cobbler, Be Merry DSP, Copper Foil
Ink	Cherry Cobbler
Acecessories / Embellishments	Copper Metallic thread, Black Rhinestone Jewels
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Shape framelints, Layering Oval Framelits, Stampin’ Dimensionals, Trimmer, fast fuse, bone folder, clear embossing powder, heat tool, embossing buddy

This week the lovely Tina Gillespie is hosting The Heart of  Christmas so hop on over to her blog to see the list of who played along this week from the Art with Heart team.

Please contact me for any more information on how to make this card, on how to get your hands on the Annual Catalogue, the new Holiday Catalogue and any of your Stampin’ Up goodies.

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

Take Care

The Heart of Christmas - Week 14

Hello and welcome to another beautiful day.

How has your week been? Here in Australia it is starting to look like spring is just around the corner even though the temperature isn’t quite there yet. I am loving all the blossoms coming out especially the magnolias on the trees. The white and pale pink ones are starting to come out around my neighbourhood but I can’t wait for the dark purples to show, they are my favourite. How about you?

Well today is Week 14 of the Heart of Christmas and week 7 of our One Sheet Wonder.

We are nearing the end we don’t have many pieces left.  Can you believe how many different cards we have made over the last 7 weeks?

We have the original pieces and a couple extra that we have made along the way when we have cut piece up to fit the designs for that week.

I am using the 2 largest pieces left the 3” x 2 ½” and the 3”x4” but I have cut down the big piece so they are now both the same size. Next week I think I will need to get very creative with what we have left.

 I have used my favourite copper foil paper and combined it with the gorgeous copper trim. But I have teased the trim just a little bit to make it look like a netting.

I have also added the gorgeous foil snowflake in silver that is available to everyone in just a couple of day’s time on September 1^st, from the new Holiday Catalogue.

By adding some clear embossed trees from the Merry Mistletoe stamp set and the cute little deer that you can cut out using the Card Front Builder framelits you can make this card extremely quickly and make multiples for your Christmas card list.  Add a little bling with the Metallic Enamel shapes.

Add the sentiment clear embossed once stamped in Cherry cobbler from the Nature sings stamp set and cut it out with the Stitched shaped framelits and layered with Cherry Cobbler card stock using the layering oval framelits. I have popped the sentiment and the trees and deer up on dimensionals and mini dimensionals. 

Don't forget to decorate the inside of your card just something simple brings your card up to the next level. I have clear embossed the sentiment as well as the little decoration as it is a Christmas card and the inside should glisten just a little bit. 

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

PRODUCTS
Stamps	Merry Mistletoe, Nature Sings
Card Stock and Papers	Whisper White, Cherry Cobbler,  Be Merry DSP, Copper Foil
Ink	Garden Green, Cherry Cobbler
Acecessories / Embellishments	Metallic Enamal shapes, Copper Trim
Tools	Big Shot, Card front builder thinlit dies, Stitched Shape framelints, Layering Ovale Framelits, Stampin’ Dimensionals, Mini dimensionals, Trimmer, fine tip glue pen, snail, fast fuse,bone folder, clear embossing powder, heat tool, embossing buddy

Don’t forget to pop over to our team leader’s blog Claire Daly for some more Christmas inspiration and to see the list of who played along this week from the Art with Heart team.

Please contact me for any more information on how to make this card, on how to get your hands on the Annual Catalogue, the new Holiday Catalogue and any of your Stampin’ Up goodies.
Hope you have a lovely day. Thank you for spending some time with me.

Take Care

The Heart of Christmas - Week 13

Hello and welcome to another beautiful day.

Week 13 of the Heart of Christmas, how are you going playing along with the team? There have been so many fun creations for all of us to see, a visual feast that is for sure!

Today I am continuing with our One Sheet Wonder, yes I know we still have pieces left. It is amazing how many cards you can get out of 1 sheet of 12x12 DSP!  But today I also wanted to do a fancy fold so I did a little bit of surfing the net to see what would catch my eye and what would work with our pieces of Be Merry DSP that we have left.

Well today I am totally CASING Dawns Stamping thoughts cards (with a little bit of modification) that she made after getting a swap when she was on the big Stampin’ Up trip in Thailand. The lady who made this design, Laura Barto calls it the Two Way Fun Fold.   

I have done it 2 ways so that you could see it in both sides of our DSP.  I am featuring the Carols of Christmas Bundle that you can order right now as an early release before the new Holiday catalogue is available September 1.

In the first card I have used our 3” x 5 ½”, 4”x ¾”  and the 3 ¼ “x 1 ¼ “ pieces of DSP. I will give detailed instructions at the end of the post of how to make the cards.

Here it closed!

Now for the fun part how does it open! Open the greeting (which is clear embossed after being stamped in Garden green) with the arm!

Then open the middle of the card for the 2^nd way of opening and to reveal the decoration on the inside of your card!

The Christmas Wishes is from the stamps set Merry Mistletoe!

How fun is this card?

 You can also see when you look at the card from the side that I have placed the single tree on 2 dimensionals for a little more height and the cute deer just on 1 mini dimensional.

I thought for the second card I would step it up just a little bit and add some bling! I can’t get away from copper so I have used some copper foil paper and Rhinestones. I have also clear embossed all the images that I have stamped in cherry cobbler! Let’s Deck the Halls!

For this card I have used our Be Merry DSP pieces in 5 ¼ “ x 2 ½ “, 4” x ¾ “ and 4” x 1 ¼ “ . All I did a bit different was to cut the  5 1/4" piece in half length ways and cut the base card to fit the length of the DSP piece. Check out the instructions at the end of the post.

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

PRODUCTS
Stamps	Carols of Christmas, Merry Mistletoe
Card Stock and Papers	Whisper White, Cherry Cobbler, Garden Green, Early Espresso, Be Merry DSP, Copper Foil
Ink	Garden Green, Cherry Cobbler
Acecessories / Embellishments	Rhinestone,Basic Jewels
Tools	Big Shot, Card front builder thinlit dies,  Stampin’ Dimensionals, Mini dimensionals, Trimmer, snail, fast fuse,bone folder, clear embossing powder, heat tool, embossing buddy

Here are the instructions for making the cards.

·     Cut your base card stock garden green or cherry cobbler 4 ½” x 5 ½” (I cut the base to the length of the DSP piece that we had from our One sheet wonder)

·     Cut your DSP (or copper) 3” x 5 ½”

·     Cut the arm in cardstock either garden green or cherry cobbler 1” x 5 ½ “ score at 4 ¼ “

·     Cut a piece of Whisper white card stock 2 ½ “ x 11”, Score at 5 ½ “ (This will make sure it fits with the Peace on Earth card)

·     Put the arm on the base first so that your DSP (or copper foil) covers the arm.

·     Adhere the DSP to the centre of the base card with the arm open.

 

·     Place the Whisper white card on your base but don’t stick down and put the arm over the top. Use a pencil to mark where the arm is on the white card.

 

·     Using your piece of 1” wide strip of DSP (I cut down our 1 ¼” wide strip) adhere this to the front of the whisper white card stock inside the pencil marks, trim off the extra length.

·     Take the ¾ “ wide strip and flag  one end

·     Flag the end of the arm

·     Adhere the strip to the arm and trim any of  the excess.

·     Stamp your greeting on Whisper White card stock and clear emboss. I like to cut it out after I have stamped it in case I stamp it a little crooked then layer it on the card stock or copper foil that matches the card. ( Do all this first before you adhere your trees for your Peace on Earth card.)

·     Now it is time to die cut the trees and deer or to stamp the images of baubles onto the white card stock and to clear emboss them.

·     Remember when you place the single tree to do a double dimensional layer and then a mini dimensional for the deer. (When you are doing your Peace on Earth card, place your whisper white card on the base, place you greeting on the arm just so you know that you are not covering the trees and you know make sure where to place your trees)

·     Add the rhinestones to the baubles

·     Stamp Christmas Wishes and decorate the inside of your card.

·     You can now adhere your Whisper White card to the base card.

·     Place a few dimensionals to the end of the arm to pop up your greeting and attach your greeting.

·     Now your Two Way Fun Fold card is complete!           

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Don’t forget to pop over to our team leader’s blog Claire Daly for some more Christmas inspiration.

Please contact me for any more information on how to make these cards, on how to get your hands on the Annual Catalogue, the new Holiday Catalogue and any of your Stampin’ Up goodies.

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

Take Care

The Heart of Christmas - Week 11

Hello and welcome to another beautiful day.

Wow there are only 17 Wednesdays including today until the last week of November. 

Today with our One Page Wonder cards I felt a bit like some copper and triangles.

I have been inspired by a couple of the talented ladies in the Art with Heart team this week.

 Christine Blain used a gorgeous gold embossed background to her card last week and has inspired me to add a little something extra to my first card this week.

I have copper embossed the holly branches from the Father Christmas stamp set using VersaMark and Copper Embossing powder and the heat tool straight onto the cherry cobbler card base of the card this week.

 I knew I wanted to have the triangle piece of the Be Merry DSP just offset but I think it needed a little something and this has sure done it! Thanks for the inspiration Christine!

Then in no time the card came together with Father Christmas stamped in memento ink, cut out with the oval from Stitched shaped framelit, backed with the gorgeous copper foil paper cut out with the scalloped oval from the layering oval framelits. Place our triangle piece of Be Merry DSP with the Cherry Cobbler side facing up just a little bit diagonal rather that straight and adhere that to your card base. With a little bit of snail in the centre of your card place some big swirls of metallic copper thread before popping Father Christmas up on some dimensionals and onto  your card. Now I have stamped Merry Christmas from The Star of Light stamp set and cut it out and backed it with copper foil and popped it up with dimensionals as well.

The inside of the card I have stamped with smokey slate the gorgeous holly branches from the Father Christmas stamp set and then the sentiment is from the Star  of Light stamp set in memento.

Now I also wanted to do the other triangle so that we could see what it looked like. So for this card I turned the Be Merry DSP triangle over so that the pretty Christmas trees were showing. I was inspired by very talented Judy May with her Christmas wreath last week. Thank you Judy!

I have stamped the big sentiment from Merry Mistletoe and cut it out with the large circle from the stitched shaped framelits then used 2  of the Boxwood wreath embellishments to go around this large circle.  Before adhering the leaves to the circle I have wrapped a little bit of copper metallic thread around the leaves then adhered both to the sentiment with mini glue dots. I am really loving the ¼” copper trim and have used it to make a gorgeous bow at the bottom of the wreath and attached it with a mini glue dot as well.  The little berries are regal enamel shapes that match so well with the card base. I have used some snail to attach the triangle straight onto the card base and then our wreath I have used lots of dimensionals. You can use 4 or 5 I think I used a couple more. And there you have it easy as can be!

The inside decorated with the little trees and sentiment out of the Merry Mistletoe stamp set.  Stampin' Up gorgeous stamp sets and coordinating accessories making card making easy and simply beautiful every time!

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

PRODUCTS
Stamps	Father Christmas, Star of Light, Merry Mistletoe
Card Stock and Papers	Whisper White, Cherry Cobbler,  Be Merry DSP, Copper Foil
Ink	Memento, Smokey Slate, Versamark, Garden Green
Acecessories / Embellishments	Metallic copper Thread, Regal Enamel Shapes, ¼” Copper Trim, Boxwood Wreath Embellishments
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched shaped framelits, Layering oval framelits, Stampin’ Dimensionals,  Trimmer, snail, bone folder, copper embossing powder, heat tool, embossing buddy

Don’t forget to pop over to our team leader’s blog Claire Daly for some more Christmas inspiration and for the list of some very talented team members who have participated this week.

Please contact me for any more information on how to make this card, on how to get your hands on the Annual Catalogue and any of your Stampin’ Up goodies.

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

Take Care