Heart of Christmas - Week 14 - 2024 - Shepherd's Care Candles

 

Welcome to the last month of the Heart of Christmas blog hop for 2024. We have 4 more including tonight with the last one of this year being on November the 25th, I hope you will stick with us right to the end.

Today I thought I would do something a little different and something I haven't done for a while and that is decorate a couple of candles.

For my project today I have continued with my favourite colour scheme for this year of Crumb Cake, Lost Lagoon, Pretty Peacock and Ivory.

To start with I gathered all my goodies which included white tissue paper, a candle and the Stampin' Up! heat tool. I still have one of the older versions and if you have the newer versions with the 2 settings of cooler and then a little hotter on the heat tool that would be perfect for this type of project.

As you can see from all the goodies I gathered I thought that perhaps I would stamp the Shepherd in Memento black so that it didn't look too muted when it was applied to the candle. When I stamped the image on to the tissue paper I thought it was a bit over the TOP and in your face too strong so I reverted back to Basic Grey! I was a lot happier with that.

I stamped the star in Crushed Curry and then a few more stars using the dot stamp in crushed curry. For the back of the candle I took another piece of tissue paper and stamped the Town Of David and the sentiment in Early Espresso.

Before adhering the image to the candle I coloured the shepherd and the sheep on the back with the Stampin' Blends. Going over a couple of times once they were dry to give a good depth of colour. I also cut close to the image as you don't need a lot of tissue paper around the edge of the image.

Now I still have in my drawer of all papers some wax paper so I was able to hold a piece of wax paper over the image that I was trying to adhere but you can use baking paper to hold the imaged tight and smoothly to the candle. Then using the Stampin' Up! Heat tool you slowly and gently heat the wax of the candle to bleed through the tissue paper and adhere the image to the candle. I have done 2 candles for you so you can see both the front and the back at the same time.

Well that was fun I do hope you give candle decorating a try!

Let me know if you have any questions.

Now is the time to head to the next amazing team member participating this week in our Heart of Christmas blog hop and this week you will be heading to Andrea Sargent. She does the most wonderful things with water colouring so I can't wait to see what she has for us today. Hit the next blog button and you will go straight there.

If at anytime the next blog button doesn't go where you were expecting please come back here and continue your Heart of Christmas Blog Hop from the list below of those participating today.

Andrea Sargent:
Christine Blain:
Catherine Proctor:
Kate Morgan:
Sharon Davern: <=You are here

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

Colour Creations Blog Hop - Week 10 - 2024-2025 - Berry Burst - Triple Flap Fun Fold

 

This week for our journey through colour we are looking at the bright colour of Berry Burst!

One of my friends and down lines, Brenda wanted to learn to make a specific Fancy Fold for her Daughter's birthday so today we had a crafting session together and we made a Triple Flap Fun Fold. I created the card for our Berry Burst Colour Challenge and Brenda made the one for her daughter's upcoming birthday in the colour scheme of the party so we can't show you that but it looks fabulous!

For my card today I have used the Spotlight on Nature Bundle as I thought it was perfect for this card design and then the Dotted Circle 3D Embossing folder cried out to me and said you have to use me too!

For this front panel that is cut into 3 I first used my blending brush with Berry Burst on the paper and blended some ink and put the card through the Cut & Emboss machine with the Dotted Circle 3D folder BUT I debossed it OOOPS! SO instead of redoing it I just brushed over the dots with what ink was left on my blending brush and I liked the effect way better! I cut the panel into 3 to get the triple flaps and backed them on the basic white layers.

A Piece of Berry Burst card was cut at 14 cm x 28cm and then divided into 3 and the 2 sides have a z-fold. On those 4 smaller panels I have added the gorgeous Perennial Lavender DSP.

When adhere the triple panels on fold up your card base and adhere to the one side only, then alternate the middle panel before doing the bottom panel. Making sure you only adhere one half of the panel to the card base so you can open your card!

On the inside of the card I have added a piece of basic white so that you can write your greeting and I have stamped the leaf image and coloured it in with the Dark and Light Lost Lagoon and Light Pretty Peacock Stampin' Blends. The Happy Birthday is from the Online Exclusive Stamp set Magnolia Mood.

For the decoration on the front of the card I have stamped the flower stamp from the Spotlight on Nature and cut it out using the Dies. I coloured the image using the Light and Dark Berry Burst, Dark Bubble Bath, Light and Dark Lost Lagoon and Light Pretty Peacock. I then blended a little Balmy Blue over the image. For the butterfly which I fussy cut out I used Light and Dark Azure Afternoon and Light Balmy Blue. Can you see the Basic Gray pearls I have used on the body of the butterfly? 

For the Dear Friend sentiment which I have stamped in Smoky Slate I have cut out with a deckled rectangle die I have popped up on mini dimensionals that I positioned in between the dots of the embossing folder.

To give the whole card stability you have 1 layer of Berry Burst at the back to adhere the whole folded card to. This also helps it stand.

If you have any questions about my project today or would like to get your hands on some of these gorgeous products so you can make one of these cards yourself please do not hesitate to contact me.

Now is the time to head to the next wonderful team member participating in our Berry Burst colour challenge this week and today you will be heading to the amazingly talented Kate Morgan, I can't wait to see what she has for us this week. Hit the next blog button and you will go straight there.

If for any reason the next blog button doesn't go where you were expecting, please come back here and head to our amazing weekly host the lovely Cathy Proctor and she will have a list of those participating in this week's challenge of Berry Burst.

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

Colour Creations Blog Hop - Week 3 - 2024-25 - Pretty In Pink

 

Welcome to week 3 of Colour Creations Blog Hop for 2024 - 25! This week we are bringing back a lovely pink colour - Pretty In Pink!

I have gone super simple this week! I know you would have thought after all that busy and craziness of the last few weeks I would keep it going with the fancy folds but no this week I am going simple!

We all need a quick card to make and this one is as quick as they come. So quick I made 6! You can make them as a set and give away or keep them for yourself to use when you need a card!

Ok, you are asking "Why, Sharon, why did you make 6?" Well there are 6 sentiments with the Thoughtful Wishes stamp set of course so I just had to. The card design is a quick CASE (copy and share everything) of a 2020 poppy card by Brian King)

My card base is Pretty In Pink card base and then unlike Brian I have a layer of Designer Series Paper. I have used the 4 designs of the InColor 2024-26 DSP and then as I needed another 2 to complete my 6 because of the 6 sentiments I went looking and I found 2 more with the Lilly Pond Lane DSP. 

Here are the 4 InColor designs and the sentiments I used and of course the piece of DSP left over I adhered to the envelope flap so each card has their own envelope.

Here are the 2 Lilly Pond Lane designs that are on the back of the some really cute duck and pond scenes. For the sentiments I have stamped them in Basic Gray and cut them out using either the Deckled Rectangle or Circle Dies.

For the focal point of the card I have stamped the little stamp of 5 flowers over and over again in a row and coloured them using the Stampin' Blends. I have used Light and Dark Pretty In Pink on the flower petals and Light Pretty Peacock and Light Lost Lagoon on the leaves. Then the strip of flowers was layered on a piece of Basic Black and adhered to the center of the card front before adhering the sentiments on dimensionals.

There you have it 6 super quick cards that can be given as a gift set or kept to be used when you need to let someone know you are thinking of them.

If you would like to play with some of these new products and have a look at the new Annual Catalogue please do not hesitate to contact me.

Now is the time to head to the next wonderful team member participating in our Pretty in Pink challenge and this week you will be heading to our host Cathy Proctor, I can't wait to see her gorgeous project this week. Hit the next blog button and you will go straight there.

If for any reason one of the next blog buttons goes somewhere unexpected please head back here and go to our amazing hosts blog Cathy Proctor and she will have the list of all those participating this week in Pretty In Pink: Cathy's Blog!

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

Colour Creations Blog Hop - Week 1 - 2024-25 - Peach Pie

 

Welcome to week 1 of the 2024-25 Colour Creations Blog Hop! How exciting it is to be in a brand nee year of Stampin' Up! with a new catalogue and 5 brand new InColors and a new neutral colour. These 6 new colours will be the first 6 weeks of our Colour Creations Blog Hop for this year. I can't wait for you to join me and the some of the amazingly creative  Art With Heart Team as we share with you the year of Colour Creations Inspirations!

This week we start with Peach Pie!

So today I have made a simple fancy fold card for you as why wouldn't I. I have made a Double Box Fold Card. I only have 1 project today as I am in the middle of making 100 boxes for Mother's Day and I have just finished a project of 45 boxes, 11 baskets and 12 embroidered table cloths for an event. I will have photos at the end of this post to show you. I hope you forgive me for a quick card today!

I have used the beautiful Country Flowers Bundle from the Country Woods Suite which you can find on page 50 of the new Annual Catalogue!

I created the base of the card in Crumb Cake and decorated it with the New InColor DSP leaf design with Peach Pie before continuing on with the focal point design.

Behind the pot of flowers I have cut a piece of the Country Woods DSP using the Nested Essential Dies. After cutting it in the largest of die in the rounded rectangle I decided that it was not quite tall enough for all of my lovely flowers, pot and stool, so I extended it by cutting half and then turning and placing the die in the grooves to line up the die correct and extending it a little more and only cutting half again.

It the Country Flowers stamp set there are 2 lots of flowers and I thought that I could stamp both sets and add lots of flowers to a bucket. Plus who doesn't like to get a lot a flowers! I have popped all of these up on dimensionals and added a couple of Peach Pie die cut flowers as well with the Basic Gray & Smoky Slate Pearls. I love that all of these stamped images can be die cut! Did you notice a little bit of Peach Pie ribbon peaking out?

I have loved to colour since the year dot and here are all the Stampin' Blends I used to colour these images.

The stool: Dark and Light Crumb Cake
The Pot: Light and Dark Smoky Slate
The Flowers: Light and Dark Peach Pie, Light and Dark  Petunia Pop, Dark Bubble Bath, Light Flirty Flamingo, Light, Lemon Lolly, Light and Dark Daffodil Delight, Ivory, Light Lost Lagoon.

Do you see the flower market stamp? I stamped that in Basic Gray after I had finished colouring the pot, you could also leave it off but I kind of like it.

On the back of the card I stamped the sentiment from the Country Flowers stamp set and cut them out with the Nested Essential dies and the card folds up neatly to go in an envelope.

If you have any questions about my project today or would like to get your hands on the new 2024-25 Annual Catalogue

please do not hesitate to contact me.

Now is the time to head to the next amazingly talented person on our Peach Pie journey and you will be heading to the very talented Kate Morgan. Just hit the next blog button and you will go straight there.

If at any time the next blog button doesn't go where you expect at any time please come back here and head to our lovely host Cathy Proctor and she will have the list of those participating today and you will be able to continue your blog hop from there: Cathy's Blog

I hope you will come back next week and join us for the next new InColor which is Petunia Pop!

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

P.S. here are the items I worked on for the guest speaker for all those who attended, now I am working on 100 more for Mother's Day!

Bring on Mother's Day!