Heart of Christmas - Week 6

 

Hi everyone extending a warm welcome to this week’s Christmas inspiration from the Art With Heart Stampin’ Up! Team.

I am in love with the Whimsy & Wonder DSP which I have used in my card tonight. The colours in this pack are Polished Pink, Blushing Bride, Mossy Meadow, Mint Macaron, Misty Moonlight and Iridescent foils that make this paper shine! So not your traditional Christmas colours and very beautiful.

The card base in Blushing Bride is layered with Basic White card stock that was first stamped in Mint Macaron ink using a sentiment from the Holly Jolly Wishes stamp set. This set offers numerous different types of greetings and is so versatile. The layer has been dry embossed with Wintry 3D embossing folder. 

The bells are cut using the bell-shaped cloche from the Cloche die set. I have cut it twice, once with patterned paper from Whimsy & Wonder and another on thick Basic White card stock. These were adhered with dimensionals. 

Bows tied with silver Simply Elegant Trim were adhered with a glue dot and then some Holly fussy cut from the DSP was added on top. You can see the iridescent shine in the paper in the photo below!

Lastly I have added some adhesive-backed sequins from the Expressions in Ink Ephemera pack. I love these translucent sequins as under light they pick up the Blushing Bride colour.

Please head on to the next participant for more inspiration if you haven’t already done so, the very talented Judy May.

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.

Hope you all have a great week ahead and I know I will be hoping (and praying) that our city will start to open up more this week. On the plus side hopefully my next BBB and order will be delivered and I’ll get to play with new products. Take care everyone xo

CCS Cherry Cobbler - Week 10

 

Back again for another team blog hop and using Cherry Cobbler a deep red from the Regals colour family in today’s card.

For this card I have used the Artistically Inked stamp and die bundle. The stamped images result in an inked watercolour effect.

The images were stamped on Basic White card stock in Cherry Cobbler for the flowers and Garden Green for the leaves. They were then cut using the matching dies and arranged on the Basic White mat along with some gold pieces from the Expressions in Ink Ephemera pack.

The hexagon gold piece has been adhered with Multipurpose Liquid glue and I stamped the sentiment in Cherry Cobbler from the stamp set. It’s a fairly simple card with just stamping and arranging the individual pieces onto the mat. The layer was then adhered to the Cherry Cobbler card stock base.

Thank you so much for stopping by this week and hope you enjoy the remaining blog hop and find more inspiration from the next participant Michele Taylor

If you find a broken link or have come to this blog hop from a different entry point, you can view the full list of participants on Catherine Proctor’s blog.

That’s a wrap for this week and hope you’ve been inspired by the team’s creations this week. Take care everyone xo

Heart of Christmas - Week 5

Welcome everyone to Week 5 and another round of Christmas creations from the team around the country. Also it’s Mini catalogue Eve! And tomorrow we get to order new products from it and I can’t wait to pick out a few more goodies to play with ❤️

I thought I would pull out a favourite….the Poinsettia dies and build a wreath using the colours in the Tidings of Christmas DSP.  They are soft colours and in this card I have used Sahara Sand and Soft Succulent.

The card base is thick Basic White card stock cut 4 7/8” square to fit a 5” envelope. The next layer is Tidings of Christmas DSP to which I have adhered a Sahara Sand and Basic White double mat. 

To build the wreath I have die cut several of the smallest poinsettia flowers in Sahara Sand, Soft Succulent and Basic White card stock. The white flowers were brushed with Wink of Stella to add some sparkle.

The berry branches have been cut from Sahara Sand, Soft Succulent card stock and Silver Foil Specialty paper a new product from the July - August mini catalogue. These have been arranged in a wreath and adhered with a single glue dot and with the flowers arranged using dimensionals. I have added 2021-23 In Colour Jewels in Soft Succulent to the flower centres.

The sentiment is from the new Classic Cloche stamp set which I thought was a very appropriate quote to go with the wreath that ‘never ends’. It is stamped in Soft Succulent ink. 

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

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, Rachel Woollard, and she will have the list of all who are participating.

Thank you so much for stopping and hope you have a great week ahead. Take care everyone xo

CCH Calypso Coral - Week 9

Hello everyone! This weeks Stampin’ Up! colour for the Colour Creations Blog Hop is Calypso Coral, a sort of orangey-pink found in the Subtles colour family.

I find Calypso Coral to be a bright and happy colour when paired with certain colours and so inspired me to make a card using the Sweet As A Peach bundle and You’re A Peach DSP. The paper really brightens up gloomy cold winter days here in Melbourne especially while it is on sale with 15% off until 2 August!

To the Basic White card stock base I added strips of different DSP patterns and of Calypso Coral and then layered with Vellum card stock that was die cut using a scalloped die from the set Stitched So Sweetly. The vellum was dry embossed with Painted Textures embossing folder just to add a bit of texture.

The peaches have been stamped in Calypso Coral ink and cut with matching dies in this bundle and the leaves in Old Olive ink and die cut. The other layer is the sentiment stamped in VersaMark onto Basic Black and heat embossed with White embossing powder. It was fussy cut and adhered with dimensionals onto another DSP layer that was also partially cut with scalloped die.

I have rubbed Calypso Coral ink onto the Linen thread and tied a double bow and then adhered it with a glue dot. 

Inside the card I’ve stamped more leaves and the smaller peaches along with another sentiment in Calypso Coral and Old Olive inks. I love the font for the greetings in this stamp set.

While I had my mojo going I made a second card very quickly using the same stamp and die bundle and DSP.

Thank you so much for stopping by this week and hope you enjoy the remaining blog hop and find more inspiration from the next participant Michele Taylor

If you find a broken link or have come to this blog hop from a different entry point, you can view the full list of participants on Catherine Proctor’s blog.

That’s a wrap for this week and I hope you’ve enjoyed this week’s creations and will be able to join the team next week too. Don’t forget the new mini catalogue begins on 3 August so that will be exciting. 

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