Heart of Christmas Week 9

 

Welcome to Week 9 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. 

After using the Spruced Up Outline dies in last week's card I decided I wanted to have another play with the dies but this time the tree outline die.

To start with I cut strips of Pear Pizazz, Granny Apple Green, Garden Green, Evening Evergreen and Early Espresso and glued them to a piece of random cardstock. I then die cut these pieces using the largest tree outline keeping both the outline piece and the inner piece. 

I then glued these to a piece of Basic White cardstock that has been embossed using the beautiful Whimsical Woodland 3D embossing folder. I have then added stars to each of the trees that have been cut using Real Red Glimmer paper and the star dies from the same set. 

The sentiment is from the Brightest Glow stamp set and has been stamped in Garden Green and die cut using the corresponding die from Labels Aglow. 

Finally I have wrapped a piece of Garden Green ribbon around the band of the card and tied a piece of that and the matching Real Red ribbon around the band. I have also added a couple of In Colour Opal Rounds to the sentiment panel. 

Next on tonight's blog hop is the talented Cathy Proctor. 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.

If you live in Australia and would like to know more about Stampin' Up! or to purchase products from me then click on my Facebook button above and send me a message and I would be more than happy to help.

Enjoy your week.

Theresa

Heart of Christmas Week 5

 

 

Welcome to Week 5 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.

After admiring a card I saw recently on the Demonstrator Planning Place Facebook group created by Tammy Wilson, I loved it so much that I had to CASE it. Unfortunately for some reason I am unable to post the link to her blog here but here is my version.

 

The thing that appealed to me was the colour combination and it's use for trees. The colours that I have used are Parakeet Party, Tahitian Tide, and Pacific Point. I started with a piece of white cardstock and Blending Brushes. I started with Parakeet Party on the top of the card, then added Tahitian Tide and finally Pacific Point at the bottom. In each case I made sure to blend the colours in between as well. Giving a lovely gradient of colours from the top to the bottom. 

I then applied some Adhesive Sheets to the back of the coloured card and die cut a combination of solid trees and outlines from the Tree Lot Dies. I also did the same with a piece of White Glimmer paper. I then mixed and matched the 2 options. The stars on top of the trees are also from the Tree Lot dies and have also been die cut using White Glimmer Paper.

For the base of the card I have used Basic White cardstock and the Whimsical Woodlands 3D embossing folder. Before embossing the white cardstock I very gently rubbed the Tahitian Tide ink pad over the embossing folder to give a very faint colour to the cardstock. 

 

The sentiment is from Christmas to Remember and has been stamped in Tahitian Tide and then die cut using one of the dies from Labels Aglow. I have used both Parakeet Party and Tahitian Tide Bakers Twine. Finally a couple of Opal Rounds have been added. 

 Next on tonight's blog hop is the talented Andrea Sargent. 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.

If you live in Australia and would like to know more about Stampin' Up! or to purchase products from me then click on my Facebook button above and send me a message and I would be more than happy to help.

Enjoy your week.

Theresa

 

Heart Of Christmas Week 1

 

Welcome to another year 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. I have to say how cute is our header?

For my first card of this year's blog hop I have chosen one of the new stamp sets in the Annual Catalogue, Trimming The Tree and paired it with some of the new Designer Series Paper, Boughs of Holly, from the new Mini Catalogue. I can see this paper being a firm favourite of mine.

The stamp is a 2 step stamp and I have used Evening Evergreen and Soft Succulent, stamping it on a piece of white cardstock that has been die cut using the Deckled Rectangles. 

My actual starting point for my card was to emboss a piece of Evening Evergreen using the new Whimsical Woodland 3D embossing folder. I have then die cut some of the Boughs of Holly paper using the Picture This dies and mounted them onto the Evening Evergreen cardstock. The photo below shows some of the beautiful detail of the embossing folder. 

I have also die cut another piece of the Boughs of Holly paper and offset this under the panel that the Christmas Tree has been stamped on. 

Back to the Christmas Tree. The stamp set also comes with a stamp that is like a garland of baubles and I have stamped this in Versamark and embossed it using the Gold embossing powder. I have also done the same for the star on top of the tree. It was a bit hard to capture it in the overall photo but I have a close up below to show it better.

I have then added in some Red Rhinestones to mimic some red baubles.

The sentiment is from the same stamp set and has also been gold embossed and die cut using one of the Layering Circles dies and has then been mounted on a scalloped piece of Gold Glimmer Specialty Paper. I have also added a couple of the Gold Festive Pearls. Lastly a small bow tied from the Gold and Vanilla Satin Edged Ribbon.

Next on tonight's blog hop is  my lovely upline Christine Blain. 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  blog.

 

If you live in Australia and would like to know more about Stampin' Up! or to purchase products from me then click on my Facebook button above and send me a message and I would be more than happy to help.

Enjoy your week

Theresa