Week 19 - Heart of Christmas

 

Welcome to week 19 of the Heart of Christmas blog Hop for 2021. This week I will be creating for you something a little different. I have used the Give it a Whirl dies to create my card. I know a little different but I saw this idea on Jini Merck's page and thought I would give it a go.

I have paired the Give it a Whirl dies with the Great Tidings Bundle and the 3 Wise Men are are bringing the joy of their gifts with each spin of the little wheel.

Now I have hidden the brad in the City of David but if you didn't want to have the City of David you could hide the brad behind a star or a Wise Man's head.

After I cut out the wheel for the sentiments and picture to go behind our cut out window in the Peaceful Place Specialty DSP with all the silver snowflake stars I put the wheel back over the top, lined up the stamp, picked it up with my Stamp-a-ratus plate removed the wheel so I could put the magnets in place in case I wanted to stamp more than once and stamped the image. I didn't do that with the first one I just eye balled it. I will let you guess which one that was before I got a clue!

I have used the beautiful blending brushes to add a little Night of Navy to the Wheel of sentiment and the sentiment on the front of the card so that it wasn't so start white against the silver and Night of Navy card and you know I can't resist the Stampin' Blends, there are a few different colours today but still my trusty Blackberry bliss! Oh the silver star is from the Give it a Whirl dies.

If you would like any information at any time about today's card or any of your crafty needs please do not hesitate to contact me.

Now is the time to head to the next person on the our journey and today you will be heading to Andrea Sargent, I love her eye for detail, her ability to use different techniques and her cards are always so beautiful. Just hit the next blog button now to be taken to this very talented lady to see what she has for us this week.

I have the privilege to host this week the very talented group of ladies and if for any reason there is a technical issue you can come back to my blog and continue you hop from here with the list of those participating just below. 

Tina Gillespie
Caroline Manwaring
Theresa Gerrard
Kate Morgan
Christine Blain
Catherine Proctor
Ros Davidson
Rachel Woollard
Sharon Davern  <= You are here
Andrea Sargent
Rosa Leyden

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

take care,

Week 17 - Heart of Christmas

 

Welcome to another week of wonderful Christmas inspiration from the Art With Heart team. I love Mondays and I hope you do too! I can't wait for it to be Monday so I get to see all the fantastic Christmas creations. I love Christmas so that might be the reason I love Heart of Christmas time and we are at week 17 for this year!

So for today I have a quick and simple card for you and I am letting the gorgeous Designer Series Paper do all the work!

So this card is quick and you can use this gorgeous Peaceful Place Specialty Paper it is just beautiful and I decided to let it do all the talking this week.

To accompany the Peaceful Place SDSP I have used Evening Evergreen as the card base and layered it with Silver Foil added a little Evening Evergreen Open Weave ribbon and Genial Gems after I had stamped the greeting from the stamp set For Unto Us in Evening Evergreen.

On the inside of the card I have carried the same theme through and added the silver foil and the strip along the bottom of the Peaceful Place SDSP that I had trimmed from the front.

You could do this with any colour you liked, Night of Navy would be fantastic as Blue and Silver go so well together or even Real Red and Cherry Cobbler and use the Holiday Rhinestone Gems or the Red Rhinestone gems to add your bling. The possibilities are endless.

If you have any questions about my card today or would like to get your hands on some goodies to make some quick cards yourself just hit my contact button anytime.

Now is the time to head to the next very talented person on our hop around today and I can't wait to see her creation. Kathryn Mangelsdorf is joining in with us today for the first time in a long time and I can't wait to see what she has for us. Hit the next blog button to go to her blog now.

I have the privilege to host this week's blog hop so if there are any technical difficulties and one of the next blog buttons doesn't work come back here and you can continue your hop right where you left off by going to the following list of participants. Enjoy you blog hop!

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

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

Week 11 - Heart of Christmas

 

Welcome to week 11 of the Heart of Christmas Blog Hop.

This week you may have come to me from Michele Taylor or you may have started here either way welcome and hope you enjoy today's hop.

I went for something a little different today. I needed to do a quick card as it is my daughter's 20th Birthday today. EEK! No more teenager's in the house! She has requested a very specific cake, I will put it at the end of the post. So quick card it was. I decided 15 quick cards were the go.

 At the beginning of each new catalogue, either the annual catalogue or the mini catalogue I participate in a Designer Series paper and other specialty papers share. Where you can get a 1/4 sample of each of the new papers and some other people get a share in those papers and you all share the cost. So I thought I had better use a bit off my shares up and put these gorgeous papers to some good use.

I started with the Heart Warming Hugs DSP, I kind of used them as my colour block on my card and then had different DSP behind them depending on what I had left from the different paper shares and even a couple from a Sale-a-bration DSP. Once I had cut my Heart Warming Hugs DSP into the 2 sizes for the backdrop of the stamped greeting and I put together a few more DSP backdrops and adhered the colour blocks onto them. Once I had done that I put the whole lot through with the Merry Melody 3D Embossing folder.

I have made 15 card for you today. I made them as a stamp a stack. So in the Heart Warming Hugs DSP the colours are Real Red, Mossy Meadow and Pear Pizzazz so I stamped 2 of the Christmas Greetings from For Unto Us stamp set in the 3 colours.

Once I had stamped them in the 3 colours I got out the Hippo & Friends Dies which has some great frames and I used those to cut out the Christmas Greetings to put on the front of the cards. I am loving these label/frames dies from Hippo & Friends.

Each card either has a ribbon in Shimmer Gold or Evening Evergreen Sheer as it goes really well with the Pear Pizzazz in the DSP or a couple I just use the Matt black Dots.

So you may be wondering which Designer Series papers I used to back my colour blocking of the Heartwarming Hugs. I have used: Harvest Meadow, Peaceful Place Specialty, along with Peaceful Prints. Then I layered behind them as part of my shares that I had Brushed Metallic Cardstock in Bronze, Copper and Gold, along with Red Foil and Black Glitter paper.

I thought this would be a great way to show you how to do multiple cards, how to stamp a stack of greetings and use up some of your Designer series paper! If you have any questions please don't hesitate to contact me!

Now is the time to head over to the next person on our blog hop journey and the lovely Caroline Manwaring is next. I love seeing what Caroline has for us each week. She has stunning, clean cards and she is the Queen of using the subtle embossing folder!

If at any time any of the next blog buttons do not work please head to the host of this week's Tina Gillespie who will have the list of those participating and you can continue you blog hop there. Tina's Blog.

Ok here is the cake! I was asked to make a post apocalyptic ruin with moss and leaves growing.

This is the photos I found to try and replicate.

Here is my attempt! In orange poppy seed as well!

Fun fact I used the Hammered Metal 3D Embossing folder for the texture on the walls and I used the Stitched leaves dies for the texture on the leaves. Stampin' Up comes in handy for cake making as well!

Thank you for spending some crafty time with me today,

take care

Week 10 - Heart of Christmas

 

I know you will not be surprised but I couldn't help myself! I made a fancy fold for you for this week, week 10 of the Heart of Christmas Blog Hop 2021! Yes I know, I know! I said I was going to make quick stacks of cards to build up my stash. Well I did do that last week. So there is that, but the Angels were singing to me and they told me that I just had to make another card.

Welcome to Week 10 of Heart of Christmas and to my Double Display card featuring the Angels of Peace!

Well this card was a little bit involved as I thought I needed to make it smaller than the measurement than I had seen on Pinterest for the base. I was thinking cut my card base in half vertically at 10.5 cm and then go from there. Well it did work it just meant I had to do some math and my poor head was not in the game so I worked it out on paper first before I did it on the card stock. Good tip for young players or old players like me even! You know the old adage: "Measure twice, cut once" Hey it worked and it is the perfect size for the angel! 

In the end as you can see there are quite a few folds and score lines so I decided that I would not to worry about how big that centre piece was that is not cut or scored along the line just to work out how big I wanted the edge parts that fold and how big I wanted the panel. Once I had decided that I just went from each of the 4 corners first scoring the lines both horizontally that I needed and vertically then I cut the 4 horizontal lines. This also meant that I had everything in the correct position before I cut. Ok so I was really checking my work again!!! LOL!! It really isn't that hard I just don't think my brain was working very well today.

So once I had the fold all sorted then I cut the gorgeous Peaceful Place Specialty DSP to fit each of the sections and on the front 5 panels I have embossed them with the Merry Melody 3D embossing Folder.

You might notice that the 2 angels are placed on 2 extra panels that are adhered to the sides of the card to give that extra bit of surface for displaying the Angels.

In the centre of the card I have stamped the beautiful sentiment in Basic Gray  to match the DSP and cut it out with the Scalloped Contour Dies.

On the back I have added another greeting and space for writing but you could also add the space for writing on the front and leave the back empty if you wish.

I have coloured the Angels with the Stampin' Blends after stamping them in Basic Grey and popped them on dimensionals. As you can see you can carefully fold the card down to fit into our envelopes.

I know that maybe I could have made it a little taller but still I like that the  Angel's fit just nicely onto the card. And this way I can make 2 card bases from 1 piece of card stock as well.

Don't forget to add your star!

Hope this card brings you some Angel Joy today.

Please do not hesitate to contact me if you would like any information about this project today or any of your crafting need.

Now is the time to head to the next person on our journey around week 10 of the Heart of Christmas Blog Hop and the lovely Christine Blain who always inspires me with her gorgeous creations is next on our hop. Last week Christine had the most beautiful elegant card and I can't wait to see what she has for us this week. Just hit the next blog but to go straight to her post now! 

If for some reason the next blog buttons doesn't work at any stage of the journey please head on over to the host of this weeks Heart Of Christmas blog hop the lovely and talented Tina Gillespie and she will have a list of the participants and you can continue your hope there: Tina's Blog

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