AWH Heart of Christmas Week 11

Welcome to Week 11 of the Art With Heart, Heart of Christmas. This year we will be hopping weekly, so hopefully we can provide you with some festive inspiration. Our host for this year's blog hop is the lovely Sharon Davern. 

This week, like my last week for the Art With Heart Colour Creations Showcase blog hop, I have once again ventured  "over to the dark side" and created a fancy fold card. Yes our host is definitely the queen of the fancy fold but I am having some fun creating simpler versions. This one is from Lisa Curcio.

 This particular fancy fold is known as the expanding accordion and once open up you can see how it got it's name. The particular fancy fold is a great way to feature some of the beautiful papers that Stampin' Up! has to offer and in this case one of them is from the online exclusive Shining Christmas and the other from the current mini catalogue, called Joyful. It's a bit hard to see from my photos but the Shining Christmas paper is as the name suggests, Shining, not overly but just enough rather than normal matte papers.

Making the card is actually quite simple as it is just a matter of scoring and folding and then embellishing each of the panels.  In this case the smaller panels are using the Shining Christmas paper mounted onto Cherry Cobbler card.

The front square panel is apiece of the Joyful paper and has been mounted onto Cherry Cobbler card as well. 

I have also randomly coloured some of the leaves using a Mossy Meadow Stampin Blend. The word Noel has been die cut using one of the Joy of Noel dies and another online exclusive, Gold Adhesive Glimmer paper. Instead of adhering it to the Joyful paper I have actually propped it up using foam strips. You may also see I have added a few Festive Jewels in Red to both the longer panels and the square panel.

 The photo above shows how the fold gets it's particular name as it opens up like an accordion. The red spotty paper you can see is actually the reverse side of one of the pieces of Shining Christmas. 

For the panel used for writing on I have stamped part of one of the images from the Joy of Noel stamp set and coloured it using Mossy Meadow and Cherry Cobbler  Stampin Blends.  I have only stamped the image partially to allow some room for writing. 

 As you can see from this photo when the "accordion" is collapsed flat, the card will fit nicely into a standard size envelope. 

Next on tonight's blog hop is the lovely Rachel Woollard. Click on the button below and it should take you to her blog where you can see her Inspiring Festive creation. 

If the button link is not working or you would like to see the entire list of participants go to our lovely host  Sharon Davern's blog, where I am sure you will see a much more incarcerate fancy fold

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Enjoy your week.

Theresa