Heart of Christmas 2025 - Week 13

 

We have come to the last Heart of Christmas blog hop for 2025, I am so glad that you have been on the  journey with us this year.

So for the last project this year I have returned to the stamp set that I started our journey on 13 weeks ago " A Child is Born"

This is such a beautiful Stamp set and I just love how easy it is to colour as well.

So for the base of my card I have used Pecan Pie  and added a layer of Basic Beige which I have embossed with the Exposed Brick 3D embossing folder, I have then embossed 2 layers of Pecan Pie in the Birch Wood 3D embossing folder and cut the out the frames slightly different sizes using the Every Day Arches dies.

I coloured the Nativity scene with water colour pencils and blended them with the wink of stella brush. I first stamped the scene in Early Espresso on Basic White and fussy cut it out. I used a combination of colours for the hay (Daffodil delight and Crushed Curry), the Stall (Early Espresso and Pecan Pie, Mary's Hair (Pecan Pie, Pumpkin Pie and Daffodil Delight) and Baby Jesus (Night of Navy and Balmy Blue, Joseph I used singular colours on his clothing and hair.

It is a little hard to see the shimmer of the Wink Of Stella but I think you can see it on this one!

The sentiment is heat embossed in gold on some Basic Beige card and I used the Textured Note Des to cut it out and popped it up on some dimensionals and the Gold Foil Star I used the Peace on Earth Dies.

Now is the time to head to the next amazing crafty person on our last Heart of Christmas hop for 2025 and this week you will be going to our wonderful Team leader Claire Daly, hit the next blog button and you will go straight there.

If at any time one of the blog buttons doesn't quite go where you were expecting, please come back here and continue your Week 13 Heart of Christmas journey from the list below of amazing Art With Heart team members:
Claire Daly:
Andrea Sargent:
Kate Morgan:
Catherine Proctor:
Sharon Davern: <= You are here

Thank you for spending some Christmas crafty time with me today and the last few weeks with our Heart of Christmas blog hops.

See you next year for Heart of Christmas 2026, take care,

Heart of Christmas 2025 - Week 2

 

Welcome to week 2 of the Heart of Christmas for 2025. It is the time of year that I love and the time of year that members of the Art with Heart team craft all things Christmas and share them with you! We will be doing this until the last week in November so come and join us each week.

This week for you I have CASEd a card from the new Sept-Dec Mini. It is a great way to get you started if you need some inspiration for your Christmas cards. On Page 24 there is a card using the Christmas Greenery and Traditional Labels so I took that card and added a couple more layers because I could.

To start I stamped the spray of flower image on Basic White with Memento Black in and with my Water Colour Pencils still out from my card last week I added a little colour to the image then used my Blender Pen to blend and colour the image. Here I have added the Cherry Cobbler and Flirty Flamingo and then I added Old Olive to the leaves and a little line of Basic Black before die cutting it out with the Christmas Greenery dies.

The base of the card in the sample is the embossed layer of the Peaceful Greenery 3D embossing folder on Basic White straight on the Thick Basic White card. I have added a layer of Brushed Gold and Old Olive to my card base.

From there you could add the elements straight to the card but I have added the next layer like in the sample in the Sept-Dec Mini.

I have added another layer of Old Olive and Basic White, Brushed Gold strip underneath them to add a highlight to the sentiment from the Traditional Labels stamp set which has been Gold Wow heat embossed on Old Olive card. Both the Spray of flowers and the sentiment are popped up on dimensionals.

Now is the time to head to the next Art with Heart team member participating this week in the Heart of Christmas and this week you will be heading to the amazing Cathy Proctor, just hit the next blog button and you will go straight there. I can't wait to see what she has for us this week.

If, at anytime, one of the next blog buttons does not go quite where you think, please come back here and continue your Heart of Christmas blog hop from the list below of the Art with Heart team members participating this week.
Cathy Proctor
Kate Morgan
Judy May
Claire Daly
Rachel Woollard
Sharon Davern <= You are here

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

Heart of Christmas 2025 - Week 1

Welcome to The Heart of Christmas for 2025. A group of very talented people from the Art with Heart Team will be joining each other over the next 13 weeks on a Monday night here in Australia to share with you the joy of Christmas through craft. It might be a card that you would like to make, table decorations, tree trimmings or how to decorated and package up those presents. So come along for the journey over the next 13 weeks right up until the end of November and you will have your Christmas all sorted and ready to go!

Today I will be using the new A Child is Born stamp set in the new September - December Mini which is available to everyone starting September 3rd!

Now this stamp set might be a little strange for people as there are no faces on the Nativity and animals but this reminds me of the Willow Tree figurines and I have a few of those.

For my card today I have made a fancy fold that I have slightly changed from a card that I made all the way back in 2021. If you would like to check that one out click here 

In my card today I have a base of Misty Moonlight that is half of our A4 cut at 10.5 x 29.5 cm then folded in half and the half folded back on itself to get the stand. I have lined each of these surfaces with the gorgeous  Peaceful Garden DSP 10 x 14.4 cm and then 2, 7 x 10 cm pieces.

For the focal point of the card I have a piece of Pecan Pie card which is 9.5 cm wide x  26.8 cm I folded and scored this in half and layered another gorgeous piece of the Peaceful Garden DSP on this at 12.5 x 9 cm. 

On another piece of Pecan Pie I stamped the image of Mary, Joseph and Jesus in Early Espresso and then got out the Water Color Pencils pack #1. I used Early Espresso on Mary's hair and the staff, I also used Pecan Pie, Early Espresso and Basic Gray on Joseph's Hair, for the skin colour I used a very pale application of Pecan Pie. As you can see I then coloured the figures in Basic White. I didn't blend them as to give them a carved look. The manger is coloured with Early Espresso and under the hay I have layered Daffodil Delight before cross hatching Pecan Pie to add texture. Oh and don't forget the bling on the star is from the Hues of Blues Flowers!

On the inside I also added the lamb and the cattle on a piece of Vanilla

The little lamb is coloured the same as our Nativity on the front and the cow or cattle has a layer of Basic Gray before Early Espresso with both having a face of Pecan Pie.

I hope you have enjoyed week 1 of the Heart of Christmas please come back next Monday to join us again and remember all these wonderful products go on sale with the September - December Mini Wednesday September 3rd!

The next person on our Heart of Christmas Journey for week 1 is Cathy Proctor: I love her creations and I can't wait to see what she had for us this week. Her cards are always beautiful and elegant. Hit the next blog button and you will go directly there:

If at anytime you have a next blog button that sends you to a place you were not expecting, each week I have the privilege to host our Heart of Christmas blog and I will have the list below for you to continue your hop so come back here and find everyone listed go from there.

Catherine Proctor
Kate Morgan
Claire Daly
Andrea Sargent
Judy May
Vicki Boucher
Rachel Woollard
Rosa Leyden
Sharon Davern  <= You are here

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

Colour Creations Blog Hop - Week 26 - 2024 - 2025 - Garden Green - Sweet Peas Birthday Peek - A- Boo Card

 Hello my Crafty Friends, today I am bringing you a card fun fold that I made a few years ago but for some reason I must not have blogged it so I found my prototype and then found the original video from Dawn Stampin' Thoughts and now we have today's card for Garden Green week of our 2024-25 Colour Creations Blog Hop! 

I saw this great version by @2bgcrafting using the Sweet Peas Stamp set so I just had to recreate this card and make a version of it myself, it is so fun!

For this card I have used Thick Basic White card for every part of the card except the frames which I used normal Basic White.

For the front of the card I have the Peek-a-Boo window which I have cut out with the Nested Essential Dies. I first cut all the different sections to create the fun fold and I will put a template at the end of the post. I then cut out the the frame using the same dies.

Before adding the frame to the front of the card I stamped the leaves and the sentiment. I coloured the leaves with the Light Soft Sea Foam Stampin' Blends, a little bit of Garden Green Watercolor Pencil was added to the leaves and with the Blender Pen it was was smoothed out over the leaf. The Garden Green Watercolor Pencil was also added over the PEA of the sentiment and using the Blender Pen smoothed over as well. 

The "Grumpy" Pea is on the very back page of the fancy fold so to get it in the correct location you have to hold the the top layer with the cut out window over the top and stamp through the window. I have coloured this Pea with light Soft Sea Foam Stampin' Blend and then added the Garden Green Watercolor Pencil over the top to accentuate his grumpiness.

As you slowly open the card you can see that something is starting to cover our "Grumpy" Pea

When the card is fully open our Grumpy pea has been replaced in the window by a "Happy Birthday Pea" I have coloured the peas with the Soft Sea foam Light and Dark Stampin' Blends and the pea shell and added detail to the leaves and single birthday pea with the Garden Green Watercolor Pencil. The birthday Hat is Light and Dark Pumpkin Pie Stampin' Blend.

Here is a little video of the card opening to show how fun it is.

Here is the template for the card.

The middle card is adhered to the back of the front and aligning the edge and the cut out windows. The small folded section of the card front is free flowing so that they can slide behind each other to create the peek-a-boo. The Card Back is then adhered to the edge of the middle card on the same side that you have adhered the card front. This stabilizes the middle section of the card and holds it all together. I hope you can see that through watching how the card opens and folds in the video. 

If you would like any information or have any questions about my project today please do not hesitate to contact me.

Now is the time to head to the next wonderful team member participating this week with our colour challenge of Garden Green. This week you will be heading to the amazingly talented Christine Blain, hit the next blog button and you will go straight there:

If for any reason a next blog button doesn't work please head to our host, Cathy Proctor's Blog, she does a wonderful job each week keeping us all organised. You will find a list of all those participating this week on the journey of Garden Green: Cathy's Blog

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