Heart of Christmas 2023 - Week 6

 

Hello fellow stampers! Welcome to week 6 of the Heart of Christmas Stampin’ Up! blog hop for 2023! Each week until 27 November the Art With Heart team will showcase Christmas cards and projects to inspire you to create your own.

For my card this week I have used several die sets with minimal stamping to build the fireplace scene with Christmas stockings hanging below the wreath on the fireplace mantle. I have used the Saint Nicholas die set to cut out the following little pieces:

• stockings (Garden Green card stock)
• fireplace frame (wood-like Joy of Christmas DSP)
• logs (Early Espresso card stock) 
• fireplace mantle (Smoky Slate card stock).

The Joy of Noel die set was used to die cut the pine foliage from Garden Green card stock.

Once all the pieces were die cut I assembled my card. To my Basic White card base I  adhered a die cut Deckled Rectangle in Basic White card stock to the pine needles DSP layer from A Walk in the Forest. 

The fireplace itself is die cut using the square shape from Stylish Shapes die set and has been dry embossed with the Painted Texture 3D embossing folder. I have added some Festive Pearls coloured with Dark Real Red Stampin’ Blends marker to each stocking.

I really love the font in the sentiment which was stamped with Real Red ink and is from the Stars at Night stamp set. I also stamped some foliage in Garden Green from the Joy of Noel stamp set. The DSP banners have been die cut from the Joy of Christmas DSP using the He’s all That die set. Even the sentiment circle was die cut using the same set.

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. Hope you have a fabulous week ahead!

Heart of Christmas 2023 - Week 5

 

Hello fellow stampers! Welcome to week 5 of the Heart of Christmas Stampin’ Up! blog hop for 2023! Each week until 27 November the Art With Heart team will showcase Christmas cards and projects to inspire you to create your own.

The new Stampin’ Up! September - December mini catalogue will be available this Wednesday, 6th September so keep an eye out for some exciting new products. This week I got a bit excited playing with the Stars At Night stamp and die bundle and ended up creating three cards!

My first card is a Very Vanilla card base with a layer of Shining Brightly DSP.

The Stars At Night hybrid embossing folder has been used with Very Vanilla card stock. The hybrid embossing folder allows you to die cut and emboss three of the largest stars at the same time. Brilliant! I have also used the More Dazzle specialty paper.

The sentiment has been heat embossed with Gold embossing powder. The stamp set used is Night Divine.

My next two cards are very similar in that the card base is Basic White card stock to which I have adhered a dry embossed layer of Luster Specialty paper in Pebbled Path using the Stars At Night hybrid embossing folder.

In addition I die cut extra star pieces and so then all I had to do was layer and arrange them. So many combinations of colour and paper can be used here. Of course I had to use the More Dazzle specialty paper in the layers to create my sparkly stars.

The sentiment from the Night Divine stamp set has been stamped using Moody Mauve ink. I adhered some 2023-25 In Colour Dots in Moody Mauve and Pebbled Path. 

The next card looks similar but I just wanted to show how you can get different looking stars by layering different colours and papers.

Please head on to the next participant for more Christmas inspiration our lovely host and very talented Sharon Davern. If you come across a broken link she will also have the full list of participants.

Wishing everyone a happy week ahead xo