Week 12 - Heart of Christmas

 

Can you believe it we are already half way through our Heart of Christmas series for this year! That can only mean 1 thing! Yes you guessed it! Christmas is not very far away, dare I say only 96 days away! Ok now erase that from your panic stricken mind and let's have some fun with this week's Heart of Christmas Blog Hop.

I decided because we were panic stricken to go with the Peaceful Deer so we could all be nice and calm and peaceful!

So for my card today I have combined a few different elements to create this card and placed it all on a base of Evening Evergreen.

I first Gold heat embossed the deer and punched them out with the Deer Builder Punch. For the 2 outside deer I coloured with my Stampin' Blends. I used the Ivory, Light and Dark Crumb Cake for them. The background paper is from the Sale-A-Bration brochure is the Peaceful Prints and I have embossed that with the Bark 3D embossing folder.

Behind the deer I have cut out some more of the Peaceful Prints DSP with the Hippo & Friends Dies and stamped the trees from the Peaceful Deer stamp set in Soft Succulents and Evening Evergreen and put that through the Bark 3D embossing folder and fussy cut them out before adhering to the label and popping the deer up on dimensionals. The sentiment is heat embossed in gold and I have used the die from the Harvest Die set as it has the similar shaped end as the label I have cut our for the deer to be on.

Under the deer I have splashed across the page some gorgeous Evening Evergreen Open Weave Ribbon

If you have any questions about this card or about Sale-A-Bration and how to get your hands on this beautiful Designer Series Paper for free with a $90 purchase please do not hesitate to contact me before the end of September.

Now is the time to head to the next person on our journey in this weeks Heart of Christmas blog hop and we will be heading to the wonderful Kate Morgan, I love seeing what Kate has for us each week, she is so creative, last week she made the most beautiful craft and rose gold Christmas trees. Just hit the next blog button to head there right now!

I have the privilege of hosting this weeks Heart of Christmas blog hop so if for any reason one of the links does not work you can come back here and continue your hop with the list of participant below.

Kate Morgan
Michele Taylor
Christine Blain
Rachel Woollard
Claire Daly
Theresa Gerrard
Catherine Proctor
Tina Gillespie
Ros Davidson
Caroline Manwaring
Rosa Leyden
Andrea Sargent
Sharon Davern  <=You Are Here

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

take care,

Week 6 - Heart of Christmas

 

Well today I have hunted hi and low for another fancy fold for you and I have been working on it all day. You will have to forgive that people in lockdown think that they actually need to be fed. I mean don't they know I have fancy fold cards to make! So today the card is more the adventure than the decorations I might put more on later but I am happy with where I am at now but it is quite the grand card and needs a few more decorations on other parts I think.

I found this fold by Jo Blackman a lady in the UK and I thought I just needed to give it a try. She called it a Hexagonal layered card. There are 10 pieces of card stock and 60 pieces of DSP before I started to decorate so stick with me and here we go!

So the very fist thing I did was cut all the base of the hexagonal card. I did this in Garden Green card as I was using the Peaceful Prints DSP which is a Sale-A-Bration item that you can earn for free when you purchase $90 work of product and if you have been looking in the New July-Dec Mini Catalogue I don't think that will be hard . Add a couple of things to bundle of Peaceful Deer and  Deer builder Punch.

  So we start with the tall centre hexagon and build our way around that firstly with the 3 full size  hexagons then with the 3 that we have cut a little bit out of as a place to decorate. Now we have the card base and we can start to put all those pieces of Peaceful Prints DSP on each section.

Before attaching the centre strip I attached the loop so that I could use it for the decorations.

 

As you can see both inside and out of each section is there is the lovely DSP.

I used an off cut from my card stock to measure exactly where I wanted the loop for the decorations.

Each section of decoration I  have used the Peaceful Dear Stamp set and used the garden green in and Soft Succulent Ink for the trees and put them through the Cut & Emboss Machine with the Evergreen Forest 3D embossing folder. I used the Label Me Fancy Punch for this sentiment and just made it a little shorter to fit into the spot.

This section I stamped the Deer in Early Espresso ink and then coloured him in with Crumb Cake Light and Dark  Stampin Blends. I love the Stampin' Blends

For this section I used the Deer Builder punch once again and punched out the red deer from the Peaceful Prints Paper.

Of course all of this can fold flat if you want it too.

And if you like you can even put a tea light candle in the bottom as well.

I hope you enjoyed my card tonight I certainly enjoyed putting it together. If you have any questions about this card please do not hesitate to contact me.

Please head over to the next blog which is Vick Boucher, I love all the layers and gorgeous textures Vicki has on her projects so I am looking forward to seeing what she has for us this week.

If for any reason the next blog button doesn't work and it does sometimes happen in technology land please head over to the host of this weeks Heart of Christmas blog hop Tina Gillespie and there you will find the list of participants this week and you can continue your blog hop there! Tina's Blog!

Week 2 - Heart of Christmas 2021

 

Today for week 2 of Heart of Christmas I thought I would bring you a twist on a fancy fold card. Yes I know it is a fancy fold or a fun fold but I couldn't go and not do a fancy fold after last week.

This week I am doing a twist on the Easel Card plus giving you a sneak peak at some new Product in the New July -Dec Mini Catalogue and the August-September Sale-A-Bration brochure 

I am using the Peaceful Deer and Deer Builder Punch Bundle and you get 10% off when you purchase as a bundle and who doesn't like a bargain and then the  Peaceful Prints DSP you can earn for free with a $90AUD purchase.

This was such a fun card to make and it is always fun to do a twist on a card.

So for my card today I have made a Spinner Easel Card.

So for this fun fold card I have used the DSP for my colour combination. The DSP is Peaceful Prints from the Sale-A-Bration brochure. So the pieces that I chosen have Garden Green and Basic Black and Sahara Sand.

For the base I have cut a piece of Garden Green in half and then folded in half and half again. I did this so that I knew exactly where to put my circle die from the layering circle dies to cut out the opening in the card. I put this through the Cut & Emboss machine then I layered the  Peaceful Prints and Sahara sand layers together and carefully positioned it over the hole and used a pencil to mark on it where to cut and then cut it out. I adhere it to the card and then folded it to form the easel.

Now for the spinner.

I have taken the same size circle and a larger scalloped circle and cut them out in Basic Black twice. Now this gorgeous little dear I have used Versamark and heat embossed in gold Stampin' Emboss Powder and punch him out with the Deer Builder Punch. Well I needed 2 so I thought I would get out my silicon mat and stamp him again on the mat in versamark and then place my Basic White card down over the stamped image to pick up the versamark and heat emboss in gold. Well it worked and I do have a nice gold embossed deer. It was only halfway through pouring the gold emboss powder onto the reverse deer that I realised that the wording will backwards. It all of a sudden dawned on me.  But It really doesn't look that bad.

 

Anyway then I put the gorgeous little dear after punching him out onto some linen thread and adhered him with a couple of glue dots in between the 2 black scalloped circles and adhered the circles together with some liquid glue before adhering just the bottom of the circle to the card.

This is how my spinner card works, so cute! A little video for you!

For the rest of my decorations I have stamped the lying down dear in versamark on Basic White and gold embossed it as well and then with a little crumb cake ink used the blending brush to give it a soft colour.

Now as you can see the trees in the stamp set stamp flat but I thought hold on a minute I will take a leaf out of the queen of embossing folders Caroline Manwaring (she is the next blog to go to) and get out my Evergreen Forest 3D embossing folder and after fussing cutting them out I ran them all through the Cut & Emboss machine.

As you can see there is so much texture in this embossing folder that after cutting the stamped images out individually I was able to place all of the tree in the folder at the same time and put it through in one go. The trees are stamped in Garden Green and Soft Succulent.

Of course then you need somewhere for the Easel to sit once you have opened your card so I have heat embossed in gold, "Merry Christmas" from the Peaceful Deer stamp set onto Basic Black Card Stock and popped it up onto dimensions and placed in the middle of the card base under the window of the deer.

I wanted to leave the front of the card clear of writing when it was sitting up on display so I have added a panel to the back of the card to write your greeting and Christmas message. I put another layer of the Peaceful Prints DSP and a layer of Sahara sands card stock.

I hope you have enjoyed my project today, I certainly enjoyed making it for you!

 If you have any questions about today's project or would like to get your hands on one of those new Mini Catalogues and Sale-a-bration brochures just let me know!

Please head over to the next blog on your tour around week 2 of Heart of Christmas. You will be heading to the lovely  Caroline Manwaring, I always love seeing what she has created and how she has used Stampin' Up!'s embossing folders, she is amazing!

If for any reason there is technical issue and the next blog button doesn't work please head over to the blog of this weeks host Tina Gillespie and there you will find the links to all the people participating and you will be able to continue you blog hop there: Tina's Blog

Thank you for spending some crafty time with me today,

take care,