Heart of Christmas Week 3

 

Welcome to Week 3 of the Art With Heart Heart of Christmas. This year we will be hopping weekly until the end of November, so hopefully we can provide you with some festive inspiration. Our host for this year's blog hop is the lovely Sharon Davern. 

For my card this week I have turned to the Annual Catalogue for some inspiration whilst I await my latest order to be delivered. In particular page 44. The card uses  favourites from last years July to December mini that carried over into the Annual Catalogue, Christmas Pinecone Dies, Christmas to Remember stamp set and Seasonal Labels dies.

My starting point for this card was to die cut the Pinecones using white cardstock and then colour it using Old Olive and Crumb Cake Stampin' Blends in both light and dark. I then adhered this to a piece of White Glimmer paper that has been die cut using the largest of the Deckled Rectangles dies. I did this by carefully applying liquid glue and in hindsight I should have used adhesive sheets when I first die cut the spray. I didn't think about this until I had completed all of the colouring and wasn't going to do it again! I have then adhered this panel to some thick white cardstock.

It's a bit hard to photograph the gorgeous White glimmer paper when showing the card as a whole like above so the one below shows it in closer detail.

The sentiment is from Christmas to Remember and has been stamped using Poppy Parade ink and then die cut using the corresponding die. I have then used the same die and cut a piece from Red Glimmer paper. I've then cut this in halg=f and adhered it to the back of the sentiment panel. 

I have also added some leaves and berries from the Christmas Season bundle that have been stamped in Old Olive and Poppy Parade consecutively. I have then adhered them to the back of the sentiment panel. 

For the bow I have used White Crinked Seam Binding that I have coloured using Poppy Parade Stampin Blends. 

Finally I have added some Wink Of Stella to the berries to give them a bit of glimmer and added some Red Pearls to the sentiment panel. 

Next on tonight's blog hop is our talented team leader Claire Daly. Click on the button below and it should take you to her blog where you can see her lovely Christmas creation. If the button link is not working or you would like to see the entire list of participants go to Sharon Davern's blog.

 

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Enjoy your week.

Theresa