Heart of Christmas - Week 4

It’s the end of July and we’re in Week 4 for the AWH Team - Heart of Christmas blog hop which continues with more amazing ideas to help you create your own Christmas cards.

The two main products I am using today is the Peaceful Deer stamp set from the upcoming Stampin’ Up! July-December mini catalogue and the other is the Peaceful Prints DSP. The DSP is full of Christmas prints in traditional colours of Cherry Cobbler, Garden Green, Real Red and Sahara Sand and is a FREE item with a minimum spend during Sale-a-bration starting 3 August until 30 September. There is also a Deer punch that coordinates with the stamp set and will also punch out the deer image on one of the paper designs.

For the first card I have used Garden Green card stock for the base with a DSP layer. The Basic White banner has been created using the pointy Basic Borders die and embossed with the Wintry 3D snowflakes folder to match up with the snowflake design on the DSP. A second smaller DSP banner was cut the same way.

The deer have been stamped in Soft Suede ink onto Crumb Cake card stock and fussy cut and then adhered to the layers. The wreath around the deers neck was stamped in Garden Green ink onto Crumb Cake card stock. I did several of these to use in my second card also. The sentiment is stamped in Real Red ink and cut using a die from the Tasteful Labels die set. 

I looped some Real Red Sheer ribbon from the mini catalogue behind the sentiment before adhering to the card. And to finish some sparkly Opal Rounds plain and coloured using Stampin’ blender pen in Real Red.

The inside of the card has been stamped with another deer image - this set has four deer images and two sentiments combined in the middle stamped in Real Red ink. A thin DSP layer has also been added.

The second card uses a few more designs of the DSP cut in banner shapes in the same way as previously. The sentiment is from another new set from the mini catalogue called Holly Jolly Wishes and stamped in Garden Green ink and die cut from the Tasteful Labels die set. 

I have arranged the three banners and adhered with double-sided tear tape together with the sentiment and some Fine Art sparkly gold ribbon and then adhered to the banner layer with dimensionals. Some more sparkle was added by way of Opal Rounds and Gilded Gems.

I have also stamped one of the other deers in Soft Suede onto envelopes to match with both cards.

Please head on to the next participant for more inspiration if you haven’t already done so, our blog host for this week the talented Tina Gillespie

If at any time you find a broken link please head to the blog of this week’s Host of the Heart of Christmas Blog Hop, Tina Gillespie, and she will have the list of all who are participating.

Thank you so much for stopping by to check out this week’s beautiful creations and may your week ahead be a good one no matter which part of the globe you live in. Take care everyone xo