Wednesday 27 November 2019

Heart of Christmas - Week 15



Hello everyone and welcome to Week 15 of our Heart of Christmas blog hop.

Tonight, I'm sharing a card with a difference.


This design is called a Stepper Box card.


The instructions for this card are by Samantha Clayton of Mixed Up Craft, but I've given mine the Stampin' Up! treatment!

I've used Very Vanilla cardstock for the card base, boxes and lid, and decorated with a gorgeous pattern from the Brightly Gleaming Specialty Designer Series Paper. The sentiment and holly are from the Christmas Gleaming stamp set. I stamped them in Pretty Peacock and added some copper highlights to the berry's, using just the tip of a blender pen touched to the corner of the Celestial Copper ink pad.
The boxes are deep enough to hold small chocolates or jewellery, such as, earrings and necklaces etc.
For the men, you could pop in chocolates or toffees.


Around the sides of the lid, I stamped the filigree border in Pretty Peacock, it's also from the Christmas Gleaming stamp set. With the beautiful colour and design of the patterned paper, I didn't think it was necessary for any other decorating, apart from a Star Designer Element star and a pretty bow tied with the Classic Weave Ribbon.

These Stepper Box cards are easy to construct and I love the elegant look I've achieved using the beautiful products from the Brightly Gleaming Suite.

Hosting our Art With Heart team blog hop tonight is the lovely Michele Taylor.
Click here for Michele's blog to see her festive project and also the list of our other participants.


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Wednesday 20 November 2019

Heart of Christmas - Week 14




Hello & welcome everyone.

Here we are at Week 14 of the Heart of Christmas by the Art with Heart Team.

Tonight I thought I'd share something different with you all.

These were the thank you gifts that I made for each of the ladies that attended my October card class.


I created a wrap for these small chocolate bars.



I added a couple of glue dots to the back of the chocolate to keep in place, and one to keep the wrap closed.


I used Mango Melody, Melon Mambo and Night of Navy cardstock to match the colours on the chocolates. And, the coordinating ink colours for the stamping.
I die-cut the front edge with the edge die from the Magnolia Memory Dies. It was the perfect width for this. Then I randomly stamped the little cluster of stars from the #Elfie stamp set.
The sentiment is from the Itty Bitty Christmas stamp set. I love this stamp set with various fonts, greetings and sentiments - it's a must have in my opinion. I cropped this with the stitched star die from the Mini Curvy Keepsakes Box Dies, and added it to the front of the wrap with a dimensional.

Of course I had to also add some bling, and so I used some retired enamel dots and current rhinestones to match the cardstock, from Holiday Rhinestone Basic Jewels and Noble Peacock Rhinestones.


I think these would make lovely little gifts to pop in a Christmas stocking, or even at each place setting on the Christmas dining table. You could use contemporary or traditional colours, and decorate any way you like.

The lovely Sharon Davern is hosting our team blog hop tonight. Click here for Sharon's blog, where you'll find her festive creation, and the list of tonight's other participants.


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Wednesday 13 November 2019

Heart of Christmas - Week 13


Hello everyone.

Welcome to Week 13 of our Heart of Christmas by the Art with Heart team.

In Week 10 I shared a Z-Fold card, you can read more about it by clicking here.
I've made the same fun fold for this card.

Over the last couple of weeks, I've shared with you the coordinating projects that we made at my October card class. This is the second card, and I'll share a photo at the bottom of this post to show you all three of the class projects.


I confess that I have quite a few favourite suites in the 2019 Stampin' Up! Holiday Catalogue, but it has been lots of fun creating with this one in particular - the Wrapped In Plaid Suite.


I love this traditional Christmas colour of Cherry Cobbler, and it looks gorgeous, clean and fresh on Whisper White.


There are lots of Z-Fold card ideas on Pinterest, but this one caught my eye as it was really different.

And as mentioned above, here is a pic of our class projects.


That's it from me for Week 13 of the Heart of Christmas.
The lovely Judy May is hosting our team blog hop tonight. Click here for Judy's blog, where you'll find her festive creation, and the list of tonight's other participants.

Thanks for stopping by.
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