Heart of Christmas 2026 - Week 6

 

Welcome to week 6 of the Heart of Christms. A group of creative friends from the Art with Heart team are back with our Annual Heart of Christmas blog hop. Follow through the blogs each Monday night until the end of November for Christmas card inspiration.

This week all best plans went out the window as I have been in bed with one of the worst virus's going around and I am still coughing like crazy but I am on the mend. So because of that I needed a quick card for today. 

Layers and Arches! What else could you ask for?! Ok so a little Hot Foiling too just because I couldn't resist!

So before I started I based my colouring all around the Whispering Woods DSP and went for a card base in Pretty Peacock! I took the largest Everyday Arches Die and cut out all except the fold of the card. Using the dies goind down in order of sizes I cut out the Metal Effects Specialty Paper then the Whispering Woods DSP. Don't forget to cut a piece of Basic White for the inside of the card too!

To make sure you can have a little bit of the gorgeous DSP showing skip a couple of sizes but make sure your Christmas tree still fits and cut out a Basic White arch. I stamped the tree in Pretty Peacock and then heat embossed some Wow Gold sparkly spots all over to represent the ornaments. I popped that up on some dimenstionals and the greeting and start is Hot Foiled in Gold on Pretty Peacock using the Magical Christmas Hot Foil Dies.

Now is the time to head to our next team member in this weeks hop and you will be heading to Kate Morgan. I can not wait to see her amazing creation this week! Hit the next blog button and you will go straight there.

If at anytime you get lost please head back here and you will be able to continue you Heart of Christmas week 6 hop from the list below:
Kate Morgan:
Judy May:
Helen Reeve:
Claire Daly:
Sue Madex:
Theresa Gerrard:
Andrea Sargent:
Sharon Davern: < You are here

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

Heart of Christmas 2026 - Week 4 - Rotating Joyful Friends Fun Fold

 

A group of creative friends from the Art with Heart team are back with our Annual Heart of Christmas blog hop. Follow through the blogs each Monday night until the end of November for Christmas card inspiration. Welcome to Week 4 of the Heart of Christmas for 2026.

This week for you I have made a Rotating Pop Up card using the Joyful Friends Stamp Set plus a few others to help me. I first saw this fun fancy fold a couple of years ago and it is all I could think about with these Joyful Friend Aussie Christmas images! I have decided that we have a Koala, Kangaroo with a Joey, Wombat in 2 different poses you tell me otherwise and a Kookaburra! 

So to make this card I got the directions from Barry on Mituso crafts in the UK you will be able to find the directions there if you want to have a go at this fun fold.

I used quite a few of our gorgeous Christmas goodies to creat this card. Firstly I stamped all the cute animals from Joyful Friends in Basic Gray on Basic White and then got out my STampin Blends and went to town. As I was using the Shispering Woods DSP which has the lovely tones of Pretty Peacock and Lost Lagoon I had to colour the leaves around my Koala in Lost Lagoon Light and Dark Stampin Blends with some Cherry Cobbler red Gum Nut Blossoms.

 I still had a greeting in my stash from playing with the Hot Foils Magical Christmas dies so that was used and I added the Hot Foil Wreath & Wonders to the wreath Behind the Koala.  Yes I couldn't stop there so I added some stamped images from the Wreath & Wonder Stamp set as well in Pretty Peacock and Lost Lagoon which I fussy cut out along with the Koala!

On the inside of the card I have again decorated it with the gorgeous Whispering Woods DSP but now the fun happens with the Rotating Pop up mechanism and the fun animals. I have coloured the animals as you can see with the Stampin' Blends and fussy cut them out. I have a tree left over from last week so that was perfect for this week as well. Some more of the Hot Foiling left over as well and they go perfectly on the inside with my Aussie Animals on some Spotlight in Nature die cut circles!

Here is a video of the card opening and closing so you get an idea of the mechanism working.

It was a fun card to make so I do hope you liked it too! Plus aren't these animals just the cutest?!

It is now time to head to the fantastic Kate Morgan, I can't wait to see her projects this week. She has been doing some amazing fancy folds and you know I love fancy folds. Will she do another one this week Or maybe another type of card that is spectacular too! Hit the next blog button and you will go straight there to find out!

If you get lost at any time please head bag here and continue your Week 4 Heart of Christmas 2026 inspiration hop from the list below!
Andrea Sargent:
Theresa Gerrard:
Claire Daly:
Helen Reeve:
Sharon Davern: You are here
Kate Morgan:

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