Heart of Christmas - Week 3

It’s Week 3 of the Heart of Christmas blog hop for the AWH Team. Hope everyone is doing well and getting into some crafting time and being inspired weekly by the Christmas creations from the rest of the team!

So for this week I have another two cards where I have used the Classic Cloche bundle which includes photopolymer stamps and die sets from the upcoming Stampin’ Up! July-December mini catalogue. I’ve always loved the dome wonderlands of miniature scenes particularly winter ones (even though we don’t get any snow in Melbourne at all!).

I have been inspired by some previous creations from team members to create standard easel cards for today. First I stamped the Cloche in Smoky Slate ink onto Basic White card stock. The next stamp I used was the little snow capped village with the church which has three layers of stamping but I’ve just used two. Of course Stampin’ Up’s Stamparatus makes it so easy to align the stamp within the cloche and stamp again in Smoky Slate ink.

The next layer was stamped in VersaMark as I wanted this layer to be embossed in White using the embossing powder. I made several of these to use for other cards.

To build the Cloche scene I cut some Christmas trees in several different green card stock colours (and cut many to use for other cards) and placed them within the scene. The other layer I needed was ‘the base’ made up of Whisper White and Silver mirror foil die cut pieces. 

Now to build the easel card base I just cut the Basic White A4 sheet in half and scored at 10.5cm and then scored again at 7.25cm on the long side. The other card stock/DSP layers in order from the bottom include:

• 1x Evening Evergreen 14.5cm x 10cm
• 1x Peaceful Place DSP 14cm x 9.5cm
• 1x Smoky Slate (cut to fit around the next DSP die cut layer)
• 1x Peaceful Place DSP cut using scalloped die from Stitched So Sweetly die set

All card/paper layers were adhered with tear adhesive and the cloche, base and trees using dimensionals.

The inside of the card has been decorated with the sentiment from the Classic Cloche stamp set and cut using a die from the In Blooms die set. Once in Basic White and also in Evening Evergreen and adhered with dimensionals to make the card stand. I’ve added more Christmas trees and left over DSP to the card inside as well.

The second card is another easel card but done in a landscape design. Similar layers but instead the large background layers have been cut in half to fit the panels of the Basic White card stock base.

The cloche is built the same way onto the lovely Tidings of Christmas DSP from the current 2021-22 Annual Catalogue. The inside sentiment from Holly Jolly Wishes is adhered to dimensionals to make the card stand.

Please head on to the next participant for more inspiration if you haven’t already done so, the talented Caroline Manwaring

If at anytime you find a broken link please head to the blog of this week’s host of The Heart Of Christmas Blog Hop, Sharon Davern and she will have the list of all those participating.

Have a fabulous week ahead everyone and thank you for stopping by and participating in our team blog hop.