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,

Week 14 - Colour Creations Blog Hop - Crushed Curry

 

Welcome to this week of colour challenge and creativity. Crushed Curry is the colour up in the spotlight for Week 14 of Colour Creations Blog Hop.  

Ok I need to confess that it is not my favourite colour as I had to make 1000 crowns in this colour a few years ago and I think the time it took to make that many crowns ......I just run from this colour but it really is a lovely colour for crowns if you ever need one!

Today I have a simple stamping card for you. I have used one of my favourite stamp sets from the Annual catalogue Quiet Meadow.

For this card today I have used the blending brushes to blend a panel of Basic White card with Crushed Curry ink getting gradually darker until the bottom being the darkest. I then used the Painted Label Dies and cut out the panel. First one end and not putting the panel all the way through and then the other end also not putting it all the way through the Cut & Emboss machine so that I didn't cut the panel in half. It is a great way of extending your labels. I then used Memento black ink to stamp the flower onto the panel.

I stamped the Thinking of you sentiment on Basic White in Memento ink and used the Quiet meadow Dies to cut it our then using the Timeworn Type 3D Embossing Folder I put it and the layer behind the crushed curry and stamped panel through the Cut & Emboss machine. I popped the sentiment up on some dimensionals and finished the card off with 3 matt black dots. A clean and simple card for you today. I am loving this new Timeworn Type Embossing folder that is in the July-December Mini don't hesitate to get one soon.

If you have any questions about today's project of any of your crafting needs please do not hesitate to contact me.

Now is the time to head to the next blog on our journey in Crushed Curry creativity and Christine Blain is next. I love seeing all the wonderful layers and details that she creates in her gorgeous cards so I can't wait to see what she has for us this week. Last week for Crumb Cake there was so much wonderful texture I looked at her card for a long time. Just hit the next blog button to go straight there.

If for any reason on your way around the blog hop there is a broken link just head to our host Cathy and she will have a list of the participants and you can continue your hop from there. Cathy's Blog

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

Week 9 - Heart of Christmas

Welcome to Week 9 of the Heart o Christmas Blog Hop for 2021. We are at the end of another month

I don't know about you but have you been watching the Paralympics? Aren't they exciting to watch! Well today while I was watching the amazingly fit, I could never do that athletes I did a little bit of fussy cutting and a bit of Christmas DSP putting together for you to give you a bit of an idea of what you can do if you have little bits of extra Designer Series paper left over from a project.

So if you have been following along for a bit you would know that I have been using the Tidings of Christmas DSP. This is where I started my inspiration for my cards today.

I used the colours to start me on my journey into my stack of cards.

So the colours that are used in this particular DSP is Cherry Cobbler, Evening Evergreen, Misty Moonlight, Sahara Sand and Soft Succulent. I started there with my card base and the Sahara Sand side of the DSP for the neutral base then with some off cuts strips I created the card base. Each card having their own colour as a layer of each of the thin strips in the centre of the card. Once I had done this then I went looking for my sentiment.

One of my favourite bundles in the Stampin' Up annual catalogue is the Inspired Thoughts Bundle that comes with this gorgeous sentiment stamp set and the Inspiring Canopy Dies. Well it just happens to have this Christmas stamp in amongst the sentiments and I went perfect for my card today!

Each sentiment is stamped in the corresponding colour. Then I took out my punches. Punches are quick and these cards were quick to make.

For the sentiment itself I first punched out the greeting with the Everyday Label Punch and then shortened each end with the punch to be closer to the words.

The punch under each sentiment is the Label Me Lovely and I have punch that out in each corresponding colour and trimmed back one little edge at the top and bottom of the sentiment. By doing this it made these sentiments so quick and easy to do and layer.

Under each sentiment is the gorgeous Fine Art Ribbon which has that beautiful fine gold thread through it to just give each card a bit of bling. Now to finish off each card comes my little bit of Fussy cutting that you can do with extra little bits of DSP that you have. I chose the Sweet Stocking DSP, It is a little cute don't you think?

I hope this gives you a little bit of an idea of what to do with some left over pieces of designer series paper. The DSP is gorgeous no matter what packet you have, show it off!

 

If you have any questions about today's project please do not hesitate to contact me.

Each week I look forward to seeing what each creative Art With Heart team member brings to our hops and Theresa Gerrard is no exception. Last week Theresa brought us the gorgeous Whimsical Trees in the lovely colours of Soft Succulent, Evening Evergreen and Polished pink with lots of beautiful texture I can't wait to see what she has to share with us this week. Just hit the next button to head there now!

If at any time the next blog buttons don't work just come back here as I have the privilege to host this weeks Heart of Christmas Blog Hop and below is the list of participants. You can click on the names and you continue you blog hop from there.

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

Week 13 - Colour Creations Blog Hop - Crumb Cake

 

This week for our Colour Creations Blog Hop we are looking at one of our the neutral colours, Crumb Cake. It is such a favourite of many and I love how you can put this colour with absolutely everything or leave it as the focal point.

Today I have created a card with texture and layers and paired Crumb Cake with my favourite colour just because I could Blackberry Bliss. I got out the Blackberry Beauty Suite from the July-December Mini and added a few little touches from that suite to my Crumb Cake card.

For this card I have also used Early Espresso to make all the Crumb Cake elements pop. This card is full of scrumptious layers of Crumb Cake. The card Base and then the first layer is a piece of Tidings of Christmas DSP. The centre piece is a piece of crumb cake which has been embossed with the leaf pattern from the Greenery Embossing folder pack.

Also on that layer you can see some spatter of crumb cake ink from my Stampin' Write Marker. You can also see the bling here and in the opposite bottom corner they are the gorgeous, love them, you need them, go put them in your shopping cart now, Brushed Metallic Adhesive-Backed Dots that come in brass, gold and copper. These are the gold one!

Over the top of this I have used the stunning Blackberry Beauty DSP and the frame is from the Blackberry Beauty Ephemera pack which I have popped up on mini dimensionals. The gold flowers and foliage is also from the ephemera pack.  I decided not to use the Gold Shimmer ribbon that goes with the suite but to use the Gold Fine Art ribbon as it has more of the Crumb Cake look and gold speckles through it. 

The words and I have stamped from the Beauty of Tomorrow Stamp set in Crumb Cake on Basic White card and fussy cut them out and double layered them onto mini dimensionals and the bird is die cut out using the Beautiful Leaves Dies that comes in a bundle with the stamp set or all together when you buy the suite.

Hope you have enjoyed my layer upon layer of texture and dimension of Crumb Cake and a bit of Blackberry bliss thrown in there as well.

If you have any questions about my card today please do not hesitate to contact me.

Now is the time to head over to the next blog on our journey in Crumb Cake. Please click on the next blog button now to head to Cathy Proctor's blog last week she created a fabulous and floral card for our Coastal Cabana blog hop and I just loved it.

If for any reason the next blog button doesn't work and let's face it we all have technical gremlins sometimes, please head over to our lovely host Cathy Proctor for the Colour Creations Blog Hop and there you will find the complete list of those participating in today's hop: Cathy's Blog

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

Week 8 - Heart of Christmas

 

Welcome to Week 8 of the Heart of Christmas for 2021. I have a decided not to do a fancy fold today purely as I wanted to make sure I had a card for you as I spent the weekend in bed with a migraine and I wanted to start to show you some quick cards now that we are getting to the end of the year (SSSHH! don't tell me that!) I know we don't want to hear that we are nearing the end of the year so I wanted to start to show you some quick Christmas cards so that you can start to build up your stash.

I have shown you some cards with the Peaceful Deer and the Angels of Peace, (I must have been on a theme of peace) so I thought I had better get out the Wise Men in the Great Tidings Bundle as I had not had a play with them yet.

I first cut out the City of David in Basic Black and  used the negative as a guide to kind of give me hills to blend some night sky in the distance for the Wise Men. I placed the then negative with a little extra cutting to fit the whole piece across the Basic White card and got out Misty Moonlight and Night of Navy and started to blend away. I went the way of the City of David first and then turn the mask over to have the hill go the other way for the Wise Men. For some reason I just think they need to be travelling over hill and dale to get there as it was a very long journey for them. I left it quite pale around the city so that it was a highlight. I cut out an extra city in Gold Shimmer Vellum as a light shadow. In the sky  you can also see some extra twinkling stars I have used the White Stampin' Chalk Marker

On the inside of the card I have  heat embossed the 3 gifts of the Wise Men and coloured them with the Stampin' blends like I have with the 3 Wise men on the front of the card.

The 3 Wise Men have been heat embossed on gold and coloured with the Stampin' Blends I couldn't help but used my favourite Blackberry Bliss for one. What colours would you use to colour these kings? For the hill that the Wise Men are standing on I am using the Tidings of Christmas DSP and after heat embossing the sentiment I trimmed it down with the paper trimmer and then using the Lovely Labels Pick a Punch I made the ends look like they were fit for a king! LOL!

Well if you would like to know anymore about how I created the background before I added it to a layer of Gold Shimmer Vellum and then to a base of Night of Navy to finish off my card please don't hesitate to contact me.

Please head over to the always extremely creative Andrea Sargent's blog. I love her creations each week and she always puts such thought and care into each card. I can't wait to discover all the extra wow she manages to pack into a card. Last time Andrea created gorgeous Pillow Box treats for us so hit the next blog button to go there now.

If at any time the next blog buttons don't work while you are going around that blog hop just head on over to our host of this weeks Heart of Christmas Tina Gillespie and there you will find a list of those participating and you will be able to continue the hop from there.

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

Week 12 - Colour Creations Blog Hop - Coastal Cabana

 

Coastal Cabana, I love this colour. 

That was a bold statement. I know it is not Blackberry Bliss which is my absolute favourite colour but I do love this colour and I am so glad that it is one of Stampin' Up! regular colours. It used to be my daughter's favourite colour. Now as she has gotten older she has decided that she likes more maroony purple colours! Now Blackberry bliss or Rich Razzleberry would go really well with Coastal Cabana I went for a very simple palette. Mind you that song kept coming to mind EVERY TIME I say this colour! You know the one! Come on sing it will me Copa, Copacabana! You are welcome! You will have that stuck in your head for the rest of the hop now!

I know you are ready for my card but you can dance and sing to Barry Manilow while you look at my card. I have used one of my favourite bundles from the Annual Catalogue and just had to have flowers. 

For my card I wanted to create a lot of texture so I took out a piece of Basic White card and stamped the broken word stamp down the page. I used the Stamparatus and started at the top then moved it down one hinge and the card down 1 little square on the small grid paper that fits in the Stamparatus. A full movement down with the hinge was just a bit too much of a gap between each stamping for me. I stamped this in Early Espresso in to correspond with my card base. Then the fun begins. I used a New embossing folder from the New Mini catalogue called Timeworn Type 3DEF. Oh I love it. As you can see it doesn't look white. I first swiped my crumb cake ink over the intended side of the embossing folder so that the raised letters and worn out parts would come out white still. Almost like I had stained the paper with a tea bag.

I did the same thing to the sentiment which I stamped first in Early Espresso, cut out with the die from the Meadow Dies and then ran it through the Timeworn Type embossing folder with crumb cake ink.

Under the flowers onto the card I have stamped the flowers over the embossing in crumb cake to give a little more texture looking and then I have started to layer my flower arrangement. The leaves are cut from Soft Sea Foam card which I thought was quite fitting as we are using Coastal Cabana! The Crumb Cake stalks are but from the Christmas DSP Tidings of Christmas as they have the lovely print of plants on that side so just adding that little bit extra element. The gold is from the Blackberry Beauty Ephemera Pack. (Ok almost had Blackberry bliss in there hehe!) and I have some linen thread behind my flowers as well.

As on the front of my card I have on the inside coloured my flowers with the blender pen as we don't have Stampin' Blends in Coastal Cabana. The centre of the flower is however dark So Saffron Stampin' Blends. On the front you may be wondering what I have used in the centre of the flowers? Well I am glad you asked. They are the new gorgeous brushed metallic dots from the New July-Dec Mini that come in Gold, Brass and Copper. They look so good you will want a pack of these.

Well my internet keeps dropping in and out so I had better stop and let you go so that you actually have a post to read and that it actually goes live when it is supposed to. If you have any questions about my card do not hesitate to contact me.

Now is the time to head to the next blog and this week you will be heading to the lovely Theresa Gerrard's blog. Last week Theresa's Cinnamon Cider card with the Nature's Harvest Bundle was gorgeous. I can't wait to see what she has for us this week with Coastal Cabana. Just hit the next blog button to go to her blog now....

Our weekly coordinator of the Colour Creations blog hop is the always inspiring Cathy Proctor and if for any reason one of the next blog buttons don't work just head to Cathy's blog and you will find a list of all those participating: Cathy's Blog.

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