Heart of Christmas 2025 - Week 12

 

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.

My project for this week is not a card but a Christmas nutcracker and using the Stampin’ Up! Nutcracker Tags kit. I had created these Christmas nutcrackers a few weeks ago but have now noticed that this kit is no longer available. If you still have these tags you could use them or you can decorate the Christmas nutcracker in other ways.

I have started with an A4 sized Modern Christmas DSP. Next, I scored on the short side at 1cm, 6cm, 11cm and 16cm. That is, a 1cm tab to adhere the open side of the cracker and then scored every 5cm.

Here is a little video to show the steps to create the Christmas nutcracker.

How to make a Christmas nutcracker

1. Take the A4 sheet and score on the short-side at 1cm, 6cm, 11cm and 16cm.
2. Fold all scored sides and flatten with a bone folder. Fold sheet in half.
3. Adhere the 1cm tab to the open side of the A4 sheet.
4. Fold sheet in half again. The folded cracker will make it easier to cut the triangles later on.
5. Mark from the top of the cracker at 4cm and 6cm. This will be the guide to make the triangle cuts. Repeat at the bottom of your cracker.
6. Grab a ruler and fold slightly halfway between the 4cm and 6cm marks.
7. Cut triangles from the 4cm mark and down to the 6cm mark.
8. Repeat for the opposite side and then the same at the bottom of the cracker.

Decorate the front of your cracker…I have used the Nutcracker tags.

I have placed a box of four Ferraro Rocher chocolates that fitted perfectly to this sized Nutcracker, together with the cracker apparatus bought from a craft store. To finish I tied some Gold mesh ribbon bows.

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 and before we finish up at the end of November. Hope you have a fabulous week ahead!

Heart of Christmas 2025 - Week 11

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 week’s card features a Square column fancy fold design and a Nutcracker from the Nutcracker Tags kit. This kit allows you to create twelve Christmas gift tags. But as soon as I saw this kit I immediately envisaged other possibilities such as cards!

To create this card I found a great video from a fellow Stampin’ Up! demonstrator Stamp with Melissa. I have used the same measurements but adjusted the height of my card to 14.9 cm (or 5 7/8”).

The first card features the Traditions of Christmas DSP where each DSP panel was adhered to Real Red card stock and then onto the Basic White card base.

The Christmas flowers and foliage was die cut from the DSP (so no fussy cutting there!) using the Christmas Greenery die set. The Nutcracker was assembled as per kit instructions and I just snipped off the top where the twine would have slipped through if I had used it as a tag. 

The sentiment from the kit is adhered with dimensionals to the front and I also adhered some red Traditional Sparkling sequins.

This is how the card looks from above.

The second card features the Elegant Pine Snowflakes DSP. The card was assembled the same ways as the first card. I love this little cheery handsome fella!

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 week for more Christmas projects and before we finish up at the end of November. Hope you have a fabulous week ahead!

 

Heart of Christmas 2025 - Week 10

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 designed using the Peaceful Garden DSP. This paper has lovely dove images and foliage that can be used for Christmas or otherwise. And the colours include Basic Beige, Cloud Cover, Crumb Cake, Misty Moonlight and Secret Sea.

To the Cloud Cover card base I adhered strips of the dove images to the centre DSP panel. As you can see in the photo below it was easy to cut the ‘dove’ strips as the image was a mirror reflection.

I arranged some Faux Linen ribbon in Cloud Cover onto the centre panel. The sentiment was embossed and die cut from another favourite product I love to use, the Christmas Words Collage hybrid embossing folder. This time using Silver foil. It’s very pretty in real life and the silver is a matt look, rather than shiny. 

The sentiment was adhered with dimensionals to a die cut label from the Traditional Labels die set. To finish off the card I adhered a bow to the front and some 2025-27 In Color Flat pearls in Cloud Cover and white Pearls of Beauty, a new embellishment set available from 4th November as an Online Exclusive.

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 and before we finish up at the end of November. Hope you have a fabulous week ahead!

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!