Heart of Christmas 2024 - Week 2 - Floating Gatefold Double Pop Up Card

 Welcome to week 2 of the Heart of Christmas for 2024. How amazing was week 1?! I loved it and I would think you did too! I am so glad that you are back with us for week 2.

This week I have gone back the lovely Laura Stranks in Queensland for another fancy fold after all these years I am searching everywhere for a different fold that I haven't done or a different take on a fold that I have previously done and then I put it together with our wonderful Christmas offerings from Stampin' Up!

Well this week I am going with a Floating Gatefold Double Pop Up Card and I thought as I still had all the gorgeous Green and Gold Specialty Papers out and the Greetings of the Season stamp set I would use them again to make this card!

My card base and layers are the same as last week, Mossy Meadow and Very Vanilla and then the gorgeous Green and Gold Specialty DSP. With a gatefold card you need a belly band and I have used the Mossy Meadow as my band and layered it with the Green and Gold Specialty DSP but the side without the gold in it for a little bit of contrast. I have die cut out the leaves and fussy cut out the bells and ribbon and adhere these to the square which I have adhered on the diamond with dimensionals.

When you open the gatefold card SUPRISE! 2 Pop-ups! I have lined the 2 inside parts of the gate the same as the front and the inside panel I have heat embossed It's the most wonderful time of the year! This all happens before you add your 2 pop ups! I have made them slightly smaller that in the original directions so that you can see the sentiment in the middle properly.

Each of the Merry Christmas words have been heat embossed and fussy cut out before adding to the pop up squares.

On the back of the card I have added a panel for you to write your message to the recipient and decorated it with a couple of strips of the gorgeous Green and Gold Specialty DSP.

Here is a short video of the card opening for you!

If you have any questions about my project today or of you would like to get your hands on the new Sept-Dec Mini Catalogue please do not hesitate to contact me.

Now is the time to head to the next amazing team member who is participating in this week's Heart of Christmas and this week you will be heading to the wonderful Kate Morgan. I love what Kate creates each week so 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 on of your next blog buttons doesn't take you where you think you should go come back to my blog each week as I will have the privilege to host our Heart of Christmas blog hop and I will have the list of our wonderful team members participating and you can continue your blog hop from the list.

Kate Morgan: 
Cathy Proctor:
Theresa Gerrard:
Claire Daly:
Andrea Sargent:
Rachel Woollard:
Christine Blain:
Judy May:
Sharon Davern: <= You are here

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

Colour Creation Blog Hop - Week 15 - 2024- 2025 - Cajun Craze - Side by Side Stepper Card

 

Welcome to Cajun Craze week of the 2024-2025 Colour Creations Blog hop! 

I must admit this is not a colour I use very much but I dug deep and tried to find a fancy fold for you to help with the process. I went to Mitosu Crafts the home of Jay and Barry in the UK for this weeks inspiration on the fold and this one came from Jay!

The fold is called a Side by Side Stepper Card

Here is my colour combination for the card.

The card fold is a very simple fold but very effective I think and really the gorgeous Thoughtful Journeys DSP in combinations with the Changing Leaves Bundle Does all the work for you. Don't you just love these gorgeous papers!

So the fold is an 8 inch x 8 inch and you score at 1 inch and then at 2 inch along the bottom and turn and score down the middle at 4 inches. Then cut up to the 2 inch mark on that centre score line and fold. Really simple, then comes the decorations!

I have layered the Cajun Craze base with Very Vanilla and on this panel I have used the Changing Leaves Hybrid Embossing folder on the Very Vanilla layer. The leaves are in Mossy Meadow and Cajun Craze and a couple of sprigs of Crumb cake. For the solid leaf I use my sponge dauber directly on the stamp and used Cajun Craze, Calypso Coral and Crushed Curry ink before stamping onto Very Vanilla card. The little bird is from the Country Birdhouse stamp set and I have coloured him using L & D Cajun Craze, Light Calypso Coral, Light Daffodil Delight light Wild Wheat, Black Dot Stampin' Blends.

The little branch that the bird is sitting on is also frontthe  Country Birdhouse stamped 3 times in Crumb Cake then coloured with Cajun Craze watercolour pencil.

On the second panel I have again layered the gorgeous Thoughtful Journey DSP on the Very Vanilla and Cajun Craze and I have added a little bit of lined threat under the sentiments that I have stamped in Cajun craze and then cut out using the Changing Leaves dies.

On the back I have decorated with more of the fabulous Thoughtful Journey DSP and Very Vanilla so your can write to the recipient.

Of course when your card is all folded up it fits perfectly into our envelopes.

I do hope you enjoyed this fun fold if you have any questions please don't hesitate to contact me.

Now is the time to head to the next wonderful creative joining us for Cajun Craze and this week you will be heading to Theresa Gerrard. I can't wait to see what lovely project she has for us. Hit the next blog button and go you will head straight there.

If at any time the next blog button doesn't go quite where you were expecting, please head back here and go to our weekly host, the lovely Cathy Proctor and she will have a list of all the participants for this week of Cajun Craze.

Thank you so much for spending some crafty time with me this week, take care,

Heart of Christmas 2024 - Week 1

 

Welcome to week 1 of the Heart of Christmas Blog Hop for 2024. Each week until the end of November on a Monday, members of the Art with Heart team will bring you some Christmas inspiration so you will be ready with all your Christmas cards, packaging needs and decorating inspiration in time for Christmas.

This week I thought I had better start with a fancy fold. If you were playing along at home last Wednesday with out Bubble Bath Colour creations blog hop I let you know that I was trying a card and I had tried a couple of times and couldn't stick the landing. I had watched a couple of different tutorials on this particular fold and still couldn't make the fold work just right. Well I found yet another tutorial and using different measurements I think I have finally scored!

Today my fancy fold is called a double swing fold card! I have made a single swing fold card before and you can find that one here for our Summer Splash colour creation blog hop.

The reason I think I manage to get this one to work finally is because this was made with a piece of card stock 10 x 6 inches rather than the 12 x 6 inches of the 2 other tutorials I had been watching or maybe it was the person giving the tutorial. Laura Stranks from Brisbane!

I have used a card base of Mossy Meadow and layered with Very Vanilla and the gorgeous paper is the Seasons of Green and Gold Specialty DSP. 

When you lay the card out flat you can see all the different section. I have stamped the sentiment in Versamark and gold heat embossed. The stamp set is the Greetings of the Season stamp set and this along with the DSP is part of the Seasons of Green and Gold Suite Collection that is an online exclusive. You may notice that I have embossed the 2 side panels with the Changing Leaves Hybrid Embossing Folder.

If you flip the card over you will see the front 2 side sections which I have also embossed in the Changing leaves folder but I have added die cuts from the Green and Gold Specialty DSP and a vellum leaf from the Graceful Greenery Vellum. I then gold embossed Merry Christmas on Very Vanilla and fussy cut that out. Here also on the back there is a place to write your message.

I have made a little video of the card opening and closing for you so you can see the double swing card in action.

I do hope you have enjoyed my first project for the Heart of Christmas 2024

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

Now is the time to head to the next person on our Heart of Christmas inspiration journey and tonight you will be heading to Rosa Leyden, I can't wait to see what she has for us. Hit the next blog button and you will go straight there.

If for any reason one of your next blog buttons doesn't take you to where you think you should go come back to my blog each week as I have the privilege to host our Heart of Christmas blog hop and I will have the list of our wonderful team members participating and you can continue your blog hop from the list.

Rosa Leyden

Christine Blain

Theresa Gerrard

Kate Morgan

Claire Daly

Kathryn Mangelsdorf

Rachel Woollard

Andrea Sargent

Judy May

Cathy Proctor

Sharon Davern   <= You are here

Thank you for spending some Christmas crafty time with me today, and please come back next Monday for more Christmas inspiration, take care, 

Colour Creations Blog Hop - Week 14 - 2024-2025 - Bubble Bath Interlocking Inspiring Snapdragon Card

 

Welcome to this week's Colour Creations Blog Hop. This week we are championing Bubble Bath. A gorgeous soft Pink.

Last week if you were here I hinted at the colour and showed you a Baby Card both in Boho Blue and in Bubble Bath so this week I thought I had better do a different card for you.

I have chosen a very simple colour palette for my card today and this card came about after I had tried a different fancy fold and although I had tried to follow directions from 2 different people I just couldn't stick the landing! So I need a bit more practice on that one before I can bring you the gold medal performance of that particular fancy fold. (Yes I have been watching the Olympics)

My fold is called an Interlocking Fancy Fold. This is where the left front panel slides in under the right front panel. I had to get the Inspiring Snapdragons Bundle for my daughter as her boyfriend gave her snapdragons for their first date!

For my card today I have used a Bubble Bath Card base and have created a "Z" fold on each end. On the 2 parts of the "Z" fold  I have stamped the Snapdragon flower in Bubble Bath. stamped the  Snapdragon to decorate.

For the 2 front focal point panels I have layered the panels on Smoky Slate and a layer of Lost Lagoon DSP from the Frames and Flowers Specialty Pack ( I didn't want to waste anything from my failed landing  attempt) 

On the Basic White layer I have stamped in Bubble Bath the Snapdragons in different sizes. I then die cut the Snapdragons out in Bubble Bath and Moody Mauve to layer over the top of the stamped images. I thought the panel was a little stark so I stamped the dotted stamp in Soft Sea Foam while I laid a piece of copy paper over the snapdragons so they didn't get lots of little dots on them.

Across the 2 panels I have fussy cut the sentiment after stamping in Smoky Slate on Basic white from the Inspiring Snapdragon stamp set. Under the sentiment I have added I have used the Bough Punch and cut some more of the Lost Lagoon DSP and some Crumb cake card stock and the Iridescent Trim I have cut in half and added with a glue dot.

To make the panels interlocking : The left panel is adhered straight to the card base and the  right panel is placed on dimensionals so that the left panel can slide under it and lock in place.

On the inside of the card when open there is a place for you to write your message to the recipient and I have also stamped a Snapdragon in Bubble Bath.

I do hope you like my card today, if you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact me.

Now is the time to head to the next very talented person on our Bubble Bathe journey and this week you will be heading to our amazing host Cathy Proctor, 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 one of the next blog buttons goes somewhere it shouldn't, please come back here and go to hour lovely host and she will have all those from the AWHT participating this week in Bubble Bath: Cathy Proctor

Be sure to come back on Monday August 5th at 8 p.m. Australian Standard Time as we start the Heart of Christmas Blog hop for 2024.

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

Colour Creation Blog Hop - Week 13 - 2024-2025 - Boho Blue - Everyday Details Baby Card

 

Welcome to week 13 of the colour creations blog hop. We are looking at the colour Boho Blue this week and I think you are going to love it. 

This week I have another fun fold for you! I know that last week if you have been following along I said that is was an easy fun/fancy fold and some of you disagreed. Well this week, super simple is the name of the game!

We have some lovely family friends and we went to the wedding of the eldest daughter early last year, we are so excited that they are expecting. SO while I was waiting for the gender reveal (only immediate family were invited) I made a card with Boho Blue to go with the present I wanted to give before we get to the Baby shower later in the year.

I used a number of items as you can see to make this sweet card, along with the Everyday Details bundle!

The card base is Boho Blue card stock cut in half vertically at the 10.5 cm mark then I scored and folded it in half and folded one half back on itself. I then embossed some Crumb Cake card stock with the Adoring Hearts Hybrid Embossing Folder and adhered that to the card base.

The card base then forms a "z"

The focal point card base is created by a layer of Boho Blue card and a layer of Basic White which I have blended with Boho Blue ink and the blending brush to make a soft blue background for the focal image to sit on.

The colours I have used in my image which I have stamped in crumb cake are Coastal Cabana, Cajun Craze, Basic White, Crumb Cake and Boho Blue. I have cut out using the Everyday Detail dies and then backed it with a deckled circle cut out of Boho Blue card so you can see it through the little holes in the die cut circle.

To colour the image which is stamped in crumb cake I used the water colour pencils, blender pen and Wink of Stella. The Wink of Stella really made the eggs sparkle! I used the blender pen on the eggs and then the Wink of Stella but by adding that extra amount of Cajun Craze behind the eggs in the nest it makes them look like they are really nestled in to stay warm!

To colour the Iridescent Striped Trim (ribbon) I have used the Dark Boho Blue Stampin' Blends. Along with the basic pearls which have also been coloured the the Boho Blue Stampin' Blends.

The image is popped up on dimensionals and the sentiment stamped in Boho Blue and cut it out with the Everyday Details dies is also popped up on one end. The trim is adhered using a mini glue dot!

On the inside of the card I have added a space to write on the card.

Well wouldn't you know it, at the gender reveal my Boho Blue card has to turn into a Bubble Bath card and that is the colour of next week so here is the card in both colours!

I like it in both colours and now you know that next week is another fabulous colour for you to come back and check out all the wonderful creation from the team.

If you have any questions about my project today, or would like to get you hands on these gorgeous products so you can have make your own card, please don't hesitate to contact me.                                                                                              

Now is the time to head to the next team member and this week you will be going to the wonderful Rosa Leyden. I can't wait to see what she has created for us this week. Hit the next blog button and you will go straight there.

If for any reason the next blog button goes somewhere you were not expecting, come back here and head to our amazing host Cathy Proctor as she will have the list of all those participating this week and you will be able to continue your hop from there: Boho Blue

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