Heart of Christmas 2025 - Week 8

Hello fellow stampers! Welcome back to this week’s Heart of Christmas Stampin’ Up! blog hop for 2025! Each week until 24 November 2025 the Art With Heart team will showcase Christmas cards and projects to inspire you to create your own.

The Traditions of Christmas DSP is the star of this weeks two cards. As many of the blog participants have mentioned previously this DSP is beautiful! I love the colours as well as the images found in this paper, 

The first card has several layers of the Christmas greenery that were die cut from the DSP using the Christmas Greenery die set, including the holly leaves. The other leafy foliage was die cut from the Season of Elegance specialty paper using the Impressions Abloom die set (currently in the Last Chance section). This foliage has Old Olive and Gold colours to coordinate with the colours in the Traditions of Christmas DSP. These were all arranged behind the centre floral piece.

The upside down arches were die cut using the Everyday Arches DSP from Old Olive and Bubble Bath card stock. I adhered the Christmas greenery bundle at the top. The sentiment was from a previous project where I embossed and die cut from Gold foil using the Christmas Words Collage EF and die set.

To finish the front of the card I adhered a die cut bow and added some Traditional Sparkling sequins.

The card inner has a DSP strip at the bottom and some Holly leaves and berries. The sentiment is stamped with Real Red ink and from the Traditional Labels stamp and die set.

The second card is much simpler, where the DSP takes centre stage! All I had to do was add another gold embossed Christmas greeting with some Gold Striped mesh ribbon and Gold & White Bakers twine. The DSP layer is adhered to Pool Party card base.

Please head on to the next participant for more Christmas inspiration the lovely and very talented Judy May.

If at any time you find a broken link please head to the blog of our host, the lovely Sharon Davern and she will have the list of all those participating.

Don’t forget to check back next Monday for more Christmas projects. Hope you have a fabulous week ahead!

Heart of Christmas 2025 - Week 7

Hello fellow stampers! Welcome back to this week’s Heart of Christmas Stampin’ Up! blog hop for 2025! Each week until 24 November 2025 the Art With Heart team will showcase Christmas cards and projects to inspire you to create your own.

For this week’s inspiration I really wanted to create a card that replicated an arched door decorated with Christmas greenery and wreath. To do this I used the Everyday Arches die set.

The arched door was die cut from Basic White thick card stock. The card base height was measured to the size of the largest sized arch. The width a bit narrower to allow the partial die cutting of the arch. The card base was scored both left and right sides and folded down.

Next I die cut another arch of the same size with the Wood Textured Specialty paper. The arch was cut in half vertically and adhered to the front panels of the card. I did have to trim a bit at the inner sides to compensate for the narrower front width.

Two more arches of the smallest size were die cut from Secret Sea card stock to create ‘windows’ in the doors. The Christmas greenery above the doors has been fussy cut from the Christmas Tags and More mix and match specialty paper. The wreath is a pre-cut image also found in this pack. I have just fussy cut the edges of the wreath.

The sentiment from the Traditional Labels stamp set was stamped with VersaMark on Secret Sea card stock and heat embossed with white WOW! embossing powder. This was fussy cut and adhered onto the greenery. I finished the card with a double bow of White & Gold bakers twine and Gold striped mesh ribbon.

For the card inner I have adhered more arches and fussy cut Christmas baubles. The sentiment is stamped with Real Red ink and is also from the Traditional Labels stamp set.

Please head on to the next participant for more Christmas inspiration the lovely and very talented Rachel Woollard.

If at any time you find a broken link please head to the blog of our host for this week, the lovely Judy May and she will have the list of all those participating.

Don’t forget to check back next Monday for more Christmas projects. Hope you have a fabulous week ahead!

Heart of Christmas 2025 - Week 5

Hello fellow stampers! Welcome back to this week’s Heart of Christmas Stampin’ Up! blog hop for 2025! Each week until 24 November 2025 the Art With Heart team will showcase Christmas cards and projects to inspire you to create your own.

This weeks card is a Z-fold design that showcases the North Pole Delivery DSP. This DSP has a Christmas mail theme with some lovely snow covered village shops and cute animals carrying mail to drop into letter boxes! 

The card measurements are as follows:

• Pool Party card base is 29.6cm x 10.5cm, scored at 7.4cm and 14.8cm
• Pool Party strip width is 4.5cm, scored as above
• DSP village shop strip: 14.4cm x 4.1cm (x1) , 7cm x 4.1cm (x2)
• Embossed strip using So Swirly EF: 14.4cm x 4cm (x1) , 7cm x 4cm (x2)
• DSP dotty panels: 14.4cm x 6.5cm (x1) , 7cm x 4cm (x2)

To put the card together I adhered the various DSP and embossed panels to the card base first. Next, I adhered the village shops DSP strip to the Pool Party strip. This strip was then adhered to the card base. 

For the pine and fir trees to stand in the middle I adhered a smaller Pool Party strip scored to make an open box. The trees are from the Ornamental Christmas stamp set and stamped with Garden Green ink. These were die cut with coordinating dies and the white edges coloured with Pool Party Stampin’ Blends to blend with the background DSP.

The sentiment from the Traditional Labels stamp and die bundle is stamped with Poppy Parade ink and die cut with the coordinating label die. The sentiment was adhered to another die cut label of Poppy Parade card stock.

Please head on to the next participant for more Christmas inspiration the lovely and very talented Sharon Davern. Sharon is also hosting this blog hop and If at any time you find a broken link she will have the full list of all those participating.

Don’t forget to check back next week for more Christmas projects. Hope you have a fabulous week ahead!

 

Heart of Christmas 2025 - Week 3

 

Hello fellow stampers! Welcome back to this week’s Heart of Christmas Stampin’ Up! blog hop for 2025! Each week until 24 November 2025 the Art With Heart team will showcase Christmas cards and projects to inspire you to create your own.

I am still playing around with the Modern Christmas DSP (Online Exclusive) this week to make my card and three gift tags. The other Stampin’ Up! products I have used is the coordinating Ornamental Christmas die set and the fabulous Christmas Words Collage hybrid embossing folder. This EF will emboss and die cut the words in one go! Brilliant and the die cut words look stunning using the Gold foil sheets.

For my card I adhered the DSP layer to the Basic Black card stock base. Some White & Gold baker’s twine was twisted and adhered behind the gold foil die cut star before adhering to the DSP layer with dimensionals. 

The embossed and die cut Christmas words were also adhered to the DSP. The word ‘wonder’ was adhered to Basic Black card stock and then fussy cut to frame the word.

The three tags each have die cut baubles from the Modern Christmas DSP. The tags measure 2 3/4 inch x 3 1/2 inch. The embossed and die cut Christmas words were adhered with dimensionals.

To each bauble I have adhered the Gold foil die cut tops in addition to the diamond die cut shapes to add highlights to the black card stock tag.

Please head on to the next participant for more Christmas inspiration the lovely and very talented Cathy Proctor.

If at any time you find a broken link please head to the blog of our host, the lovely Sharon Davern and she will have the list of all those participating.

Don’t forget to check back next Monday for more Christmas projects. Hope you have a fabulous week ahead!

Heart of Christmas 2025 - Week 1

Hello fellow stampers! I’m very excited to welcome everyone to the very first week of the Heart of Christmas Stampin’ Up! blog hop for 2025! Each week until 24 November 2025 the Art With Heart team will showcase Christmas cards and projects to inspire you to create your own.

Stampin’ Up! have released the latest Mini Catalogue (September - December 2025) to demonstrators only and will soon be available to the general public from 3 September! Along with the Mini catalogue release there are additional Online Exclusive items which I have also used this week.

For my cards this week I have used the Modern Christmas DSP - comprised of elegant black, white and gold foil patterned papers. The coordinating stamp and die bundle is Ornamental Christmas and I have stamped a few of the sentiments and images in VersaMark ink and heat embossed with Gold embossing powder. So elegant! 

For my first card I have stamped two trees in Memento Black ink and the middle tree and stars were heat embossed with Gold embossing powder. The stamped panel was die cut with a rectangle die from the Textured Notes die set.

The die cut panel was adhered to the starry gold and black DSP and I also die cut another gold star and basket for the middle tree. The ‘basket’ is actually the top of a die cut bauble (also found in the Ornamental Christmas die set). I found the idea to use the bauble top as a tree basket in the sample cards and thought….brilliant! I finished the card with the gold embossed and coordinating black and gold twine.

The second card has a die cut circle from the DSP propped up on dimensionals to give height. The sentiment is from the new Traditional Labels stamp and die bundle from the upcoming Mini catalogue, and has been heat embossed with Gold embossing powder. The sentiment was then die cut with a double banner die. This die cut banner has a slit halfway which I have slid over the bottom of the circle die cut. The top banner is actually hidden behind the circle piece.

To finish the card I fussy cut a holly branch from the DSP and adhered to the front with another bow tied using the Black and Gold Twine.

For my last card I have kept it simple with a thin layer of DSP mounted onto Gold Foil sheet. The sentiment stamped straight onto the card and heat embossed with Gold embossing powder and finished with another bow!

Please head on to the next participant for more Christmas inspiration the lovely and very talented Sharon Davern. Sharon is also hosting this blog hop and If at any time you find a broken link she will have the full list of all those participating.

Don’t forget to check back next week for more Christmas projects. Hope you have a fabulous week ahead!