Week 11 - Heart of Christmas

 

Welcome to week 11 of the Heart of Christmas Blog Hop.

This week you may have come to me from Michele Taylor or you may have started here either way welcome and hope you enjoy today's hop.

I went for something a little different today. I needed to do a quick card as it is my daughter's 20th Birthday today. EEK! No more teenager's in the house! She has requested a very specific cake, I will put it at the end of the post. So quick card it was. I decided 15 quick cards were the go.

 At the beginning of each new catalogue, either the annual catalogue or the mini catalogue I participate in a Designer Series paper and other specialty papers share. Where you can get a 1/4 sample of each of the new papers and some other people get a share in those papers and you all share the cost. So I thought I had better use a bit off my shares up and put these gorgeous papers to some good use.

I started with the Heart Warming Hugs DSP, I kind of used them as my colour block on my card and then had different DSP behind them depending on what I had left from the different paper shares and even a couple from a Sale-a-bration DSP. Once I had cut my Heart Warming Hugs DSP into the 2 sizes for the backdrop of the stamped greeting and I put together a few more DSP backdrops and adhered the colour blocks onto them. Once I had done that I put the whole lot through with the Merry Melody 3D Embossing folder.

I have made 15 card for you today. I made them as a stamp a stack. So in the Heart Warming Hugs DSP the colours are Real Red, Mossy Meadow and Pear Pizzazz so I stamped 2 of the Christmas Greetings from For Unto Us stamp set in the 3 colours.

Once I had stamped them in the 3 colours I got out the Hippo & Friends Dies which has some great frames and I used those to cut out the Christmas Greetings to put on the front of the cards. I am loving these label/frames dies from Hippo & Friends.

Each card either has a ribbon in Shimmer Gold or Evening Evergreen Sheer as it goes really well with the Pear Pizzazz in the DSP or a couple I just use the Matt black Dots.

So you may be wondering which Designer Series papers I used to back my colour blocking of the Heartwarming Hugs. I have used: Harvest Meadow, Peaceful Place Specialty, along with Peaceful Prints. Then I layered behind them as part of my shares that I had Brushed Metallic Cardstock in Bronze, Copper and Gold, along with Red Foil and Black Glitter paper.

I thought this would be a great way to show you how to do multiple cards, how to stamp a stack of greetings and use up some of your Designer series paper! If you have any questions please don't hesitate to contact me!

Now is the time to head over to the next person on our blog hop journey and the lovely Caroline Manwaring is next. I love seeing what Caroline has for us each week. She has stunning, clean cards and she is the Queen of using the subtle embossing folder!

If at any time any of the next blog buttons do not work please head to the host of this week's Tina Gillespie who will have the list of those participating and you can continue you blog hop there. Tina's Blog.

Ok here is the cake! I was asked to make a post apocalyptic ruin with moss and leaves growing.

This is the photos I found to try and replicate.

Here is my attempt! In orange poppy seed as well!

Fun fact I used the Hammered Metal 3D Embossing folder for the texture on the walls and I used the Stitched leaves dies for the texture on the leaves. Stampin' Up comes in handy for cake making as well!

Thank you for spending some crafty time with me today,

take care

Week 15 - Colour Creations Blog Hop - Daffodil Delight

 

Welcome to week 15 of the Colour Creations Blog Hop! I have a fast card for you today. I have a bit going on this week. You may ask what you are in lock down you can't be busy! Well I need to go get toilet paper!  Yes that is true, we have only 1 roll in each toilet. So yep need to go get toilet paper and as it is such a scarce resource in lockdown times I need to go and get it. No only joking the shops have restocked now that we have been in lockdown for so long. I also have to organise a monthly get together for my church group but we will be doing that on zoom and I need to do a recording as I am singing a solo and the recordings take quite some time. So for you I have a quick card for Daffodil Delight.

Now I don't know why but the Prized Peony stamp was saying come and colour me. 

I think I have only seen pinks and purples of different shades but I did a bit of research and you can actually get yellow ones as well so I went for it. Mostly pale yellow up to some darker but mostly pale but I went for it anyway. Call it artistic licence!

So for this card I have stamped the peony bloom in smoky slate on Basic White to create a background for the front larger flower. I have popped that on to a piece of Daffodil Delight card that has been embossed with the Bark 3D embossing folder and placed on a base of Thick Basic White card.

I stamped the large Peony in Memento ink and then used my Blender Pen to colour the flower in with Daffodil Delight ink and Mossy Meadow for the leaves.

I cut out the Peony with the Peony Dies and cut out an extra shape in Vellum and attached that to the back of the coloured flower just offsetting it slightly. I then popped them onto the front of the card with dimensionals and got out the Wink of Stella and put lots of gorgeous glitter all over the luscious yellow flowers.

I thought the beautiful Gold shimmer ribbon and the white crinkle ribbon combined was just what this card needed and I tied them together and I liked the look and I managed to tie a pretty good bow so I went with it and attached it with some mini glue dots.

Now the sentiment was so fun to do. I took 3 of the 4 sentiments and with my Smokey Slate Stampin' Write marker I put the ink on just the words that I wanted from each sentiment and stamped them onto Basic White and fussy cut them out with my paper snips. Popped them up on some mini dimensionals and my card was complete with it's own personalised sentiment. 

If you have any questions or would like to purchase the products to make this card please do not hesitate to contact me. 

Now is the time to head to the next blog on our journey and this week you will be heading to Michele Taylor. She is so very creative and I get excited each week to see what she has created. Last week she made a wreath card that was extremely creative so just hit the next blog button to head on over there now.

If for any reason one of the next blog buttons do not work head to our weekly host, the very talented and creative  Cathy Proctor's blog as she will have the list of those participating: Cathy's Blog

Now I had better go and do that recording.

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

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