Rhapsody in Craft: Poinsettia Dies

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Monday, 5 July 2021

Week 1 - Heart Of Christmas 2021

I am very excited as it is the time of year for the Heart of Christmas Blog hop. Each week on a Monday for the next 24 weeks, finishing on December 13th, the Art With Heart Team will bring you inspiration that is all things Christmas!

For our blog hops I will have the privilege to host along with Tina Gillespie and Rachel Woollard. For you that means when you hit on the "onto the next Art With Heart Team blog" button and the link is broken you can go to the hosts blog and there you will find the list of participants so you can click on their name and continue on with your blog hop. This week I am hosting so the list will be at the bottom of my post just in case there are any technical difficulties! We look forward to bringing you our creativity and love of Stampin' Up! Christmas products.

Well today for our first Heart of Christmas blog hop I have a fancy fold for you. I know, I know, I just couldn't start such a special blog hop series without a fun and fancy fold for you! I have chosen to use the Poinsettia Petals stamp set and dies that carried over into the annual catalogue.

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I know you are looking at this card and saying that doesn't look like a fancy fold card Sharon what are you talking about. You have been in lockdown way too many times and have lost your mind. Well I may have lost my mind but this card is magic! It looks like an ordinary card but open it up and.................

On the inside of the card there are 2 pop up panels. This card is called a double pop up card.

Here is a video of the card opening so you can see how magic it is!

I know I told you it was magic!

I found this card by Sam Calcott in the UK but I changed the measurements to make the card fit into our envelopes rather than be as large as she had made hers.

So what did I do to all the elements. I used Versamark and gold emboss powder to stamp all the poinsettias and leaf elements and used the Light and Dark Cherry Cobbler and Light and Dark Old Olive Stampin' Blends to colour each card once I had heat embossed them.

The back of the card I have placed a decorated page where you can write your message to the person you are giving this Christmas card.

On the front of the card I have stamped the other poinsettia in the stamp set in Versamark and heat embossed in gold and cut out all 3 layers and placed a dimensional between each layer. The other elements are also heat embossed in gold and I have used the Gold Shimmer ribbon to finish of the card.

This was a fun card to make and now that I have worked out the dimensions I think I will make a few more. If you have any questions on how to make this card or you would like to get your hands on the new mini that is coming out in August with lots of fun new Christmas stamps and papers just let me know and I am happy to help.

Now is the time to head on to the next team member participating and I always love seeing what Theresa Gerrard has for us so just click on the button and you will go straight to her blog.

In case of technical difficulties here is the list of today's participants:

Cathy Proctor
Claire Daly
Vicki Boucher
Andrea Sargent
Kate Morgan
Christine Blain
Michele Taylor
Rachel Woollard
Judy May
Ros Davidson
Sharon Davern
Theresa Gerrard
Tina Gillespie
Caroline Manwaring
Rosa Leyden

Thank you for spending some crafty time with me today,

take care,

Wednesday, 4 November 2020

Week 23 - Colour Creations showcase - " Magenta Madness"

Ok can someone please tell me why there are now only 7 weeks until Christmas! Where has the year gone! I am not too sure that in all this time of lockdown I have made enough Christmas cards. Have you? Well today I thought I would use this gorgeous InColor and make a Poinsettia Christmas card.

This week Magenta Madness

So I have paired this gorgeous vibrant pink colour with Mossy Meadow, Early Espresso, White and Gold!

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This card is really quite easy to make with all the wonderful equipment that Stampin' Up! has for you.

Firstly if you want to make multiples of the base I got the idea from our Stampin' Up! Managers Shannon and Emma who did a workshop a few days ago. I love doing fancy folds and have made many Z-fold cards but I never thought to actually adhere down that front z-fold part. I have stepped up their cards quite a bit but I got the base of the card idea from their work shop.

As you can see from this photo I have folded my base card of Early Espresso in half like normal and then scored a 3 cm panel on the front and folded that back and just before adhering it down I added 5 cm x 14.5 cm panel to the front of the Wonder of the Season Specialty DSP. Then I adhered a 2.6 cm x 14.5 cm strip of Poinsettia Place DSP to the front folded back panel.

It makes quite a nice backdrop for the striking Magenta Madness Poinsettia!

Now to finish off the base of the card before doing the poinsettia I have added another strip of the Wonder of the season specialty DSP the same size as the strip on the front and added a piece of Whisper White card so you have place to write your greeting.

For the gorgeous Magenta Madness Poinsettia I stamped the 3 different sizes onto Whisper white in Magenta Madness plus the leaves in Mossy Meadow and ran them through the Stampin' Cut 'N' Emboss machine all at the same time. I just had to run the leaves one more time and I was good to go. I put a dimensional between all the layers and then I wanted a bit of ribbon and bling so I opted for the Whisper White Crinkled Seam Binding Ribbon and the Beaded Pearls to finish of the card.

This time I didn't want to put Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays as I thought the card spoke for itself!

If you have any questions about about my card or would like to get the catalogue in your hands please let me know I would love to help.

Please head on over to the host of our weekly Colour Creations Showcases, Cathy Proctor and there you will find more inspiration for Magenta Madness and the list of the talented team from AWH who are participating this week: Cathy's Blog

Here is the list of the products I used in my card today:

Product List

Thank you for spending some crafty time with me today.

Take Care,

Monday, 19 October 2020

Heart Of Christmas - October 2020

Welcome to the Heart of Christmas Showcase for October. I can't believe we are just a couple of months away! Can you? So tonight the Art with Heart team will bring you a little inspiration for your Christmas cards and decorations to help you get ready for a wonderful season!

Have you ever had one of those weeks that everything went wrong. Yep! I had my phone die and my credit card number stolen some how we can't quite work out how yet on top of a migraine so I only have one card for you tonight! I also had to do a recording of a song so I was a fraction caught up. I had to record both the vocal and the clarinet part so 1 card it is tonight so I went for the Poinsettia and my favourite colour!

Here is my colour palette for tonight!

I know what you are thinking. A Quick card with the Poinsettia! That is not a quick card.

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Well yes it is and this is why. Get the gorgeous Poinsettia Place Designer Series Paper which is on 15% off at the moment and use your Dies that you got in the Bundle with the Stamp set because you love to save and get the 10% discount when you bundle to stamp set and dies together and this card is a breeze!

So that gorgeous white poinsettia is from the Poinsettia Place DSP and I cut the 2 top flowers out with the dies and the bottom 2 I fussy cut from the edge of the paper. The leave and sprigs one run through with the dies and you are done! Layer it all up on the Plush Poinsettia Specialty Paper and you are good to go. Add a bit of bling with the silver edged ribbon stamp Merry Christmas from the Poinsettia Petals Stamp set in Blackberry Bliss, my favourite colour use the Lovely Labels pick a punch and you are done my friend.

Don't forget to decorate the inside of your card as well.

As you can see I have added a thin strip of the Poinsettia Place DSP to the inside of the card and as you always have little strips left over why not use them on the inside of your cards.

The lovely Judy May hosts our Heart of Christmas Showcase so please head over to her blog for the list of the team who are participating today with some Christmas inspiration for you: Judy's Blog!

Don't forget that your can get 15% of selected Designer Series Paper until the end of October. You do not want to miss our on stocking up on your favourite DSP and who wouldn't want to do that they are so gorgeous!

If you would like any information about today's projects or would like to purchase the products to make these projects please do not hesitate to contact me.