Heart of Christmas - Week 8

Hello everyone!

We are up to Week 8 of the Heart of Christmas blog hop from the Art with Heart Team. Time is certainly flying by!

For this week's card I wanted to try something new.

So here is my first attempt at a Waterfall card featuring some very cute gnomes!

I have been really looking forward to using the Storybook Gnomes Designer Series Paper. The patterns are so adorable and I love the colour palette. Gnomes have been popular for Christmas decorating over the last couple of years. I did a quick Google search and read that they are known as Christmas gonks! Small figures with long beards and knitted hats, and many think of them as being the Nordic version of Santa Claus/Father Christmas. Their nose is the most distinctive part of their face and they are believed to be responsible for protecting their owner's home during winter and Christmas.

I took my paper snips and fussy cut around the DSP images that I wanted and then I cropped them with a square die from the Stylish Shapes die set. Each image is backed with a 2" piece of Pool Party card stock and attached to a rectangular piece of card stock at intervals marked with scored and folded lines.

As you pull on the ribbon tab, each panel is revealed in a flip over motion.

Here's a little video to show you how it works.

A strip of card stock, in this case Soft Suede, is added as a guide for the waterfall mechanism. I used snowflakes from the Peaceful Deer stamp set and heat embossed them on the sides of the Soft Suede strip. The sentiment is stamped in Poppy Parade and it's from the same stamp set. Over the top of the snowflakes I added one of each colour from the Festive Pearls pack and a basic rhinestone.

Interactive cards are so much fun and it's hard to resist playing with them over and over again.....

You'll find thumbnail images below of the Stampin' Up! products I used to create my card. Each one is linked to my online store.

That's it from me tonight everyone, thanks so much for stopping by on your way through our hop.

Christine Blain is the next creative and talented team member to share her Heart of Christmas project with us.

If you are having difficulties moving onto any of the blogs in tonight's hop, you can find the entire list of participants and their blog links with our lovely host, Sharon Davern.

Stay safe and well. See you all again soon.

 

Product List

Basic White A4 Thick Cardstock

[159230]

$15.25

Basic White A4 Cardstock

[159228]

$18.00

Pool Party A4 Card Stock

[124391]

$16.25

Soft Suede A4 Card Stock

[119982]

$16.25

Storybook Gnomes 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Designer Series Paper

[159615]

$21.00

Stylish Shapes Dies

[159183]

$53.00

Peaceful Deer Photopolymer Stamp Set (English)

[156891]

$39.00

Poppy Parade Classic Stampin' Pad

[147050]

$14.00

Versamark Pad

[102283]

$16.75

Basics Embossing Powders

[155554]

$32.00

Embossing Additions Tool Kit

[159971]

$47.00

Heat Tool

[129056]

$53.00

Paper Snips

[103579]

$19.25

Festive Pearls

[159963]

$12.25

Rhinestone Basic Jewels

[144220]

$10.50

Pool Party 3/8" (1 Cm) Sheer Ribbon

[152462]

$10.50

Stampin' Seal+

[149699]

$21.00

Tear & Tape Adhesive

[138995]

$12.25

Multipurpose Liquid Glue

[110755]

$7.00