Sketch Theme - AWH Team - November Blog Hop

Hello friends, welcome to our last monthly blog hop for 2018 with the Art with Heart team.
We hope that our projects have inspired your creativeness throughout the year.

Tonight the team are sharing projects featuring a card sketch. We hope you like how we have each put our own spin on the sketch and that it inspires you to get creative and make some fabulous cards too. If you are inspired by the sketch, please be sure to share your projects with all of us!

Love it. Live it. Share it.

I love the idea of a sketch blog hop, it takes away the design layout thinking, and leaves you time for choosing your papers, colours and embellishments. I've gone for simplicity, leaving the DSP to pack the punch on my card.

I chose one of the pretty floral patterns from the Frosted Floral Specialty Designer Series Paper in our Holiday Catalogue. The designs in this paper pack are just gorgeous, printed on shimmery white paper, and definitely not confined to "Christmas only" projects.

The champagne foil goes beautifully with this paper and I layered the dsp panel onto this and then ran another piece through the Subtles TIEF. The 'Congratulations' sentiment is from the Floral Phrases stamp set and I heat embossed this onto Blackberry Bliss in white embossing powder.

I fussy cut a few of the flowers from the DSP and added a little sneaky peak of a brand new product that will be available from the Occasions Catalogue beginning January 3rd!

I'd like to thank our team member Ros for hosting the monthly blog hop this year. Blog hops get great exposure out there in the blogging world, and I love participating in our team hops, so, thank you Ros x.

Thanks for joining us on our hop tonight. If you're already hopping then you may have come to me from the blog of the lovely Rebecca Jacovou, but hops are full circles so you can start anywhere and just click the 'next blog' button at the end of each post to get back to where you started.

Next up is my lovely and talented friend and team member Sharon Davern.

If you find a broken link or have come to this hop from a different entry point, below is a list of tonight's participants.

Rebecca Jacovou
Caroline Manwaring <<< you are here >>>
Sharon Davern
Monika O’Neill
Sue Madex
Ros Davidson
Kate Morgan
Andrea Roberts
Tina Gillespie
Rachel Woollard 

If you're leaving a comment below, thank you so much.

I read and appreciate them all. 💗

Until next time,

stay happy & stay crafty! 😘

AWH Colour Creations - Week 20

Hi everyone and welcome to Week 20 of the Colour Creations blog hop with the Art with Heart team.

Tonight we're sharing our Gorgeous Grape creations.

Gorgeous Grape 6" x 6" DSP from the Brights Collection

This has got to be the prettiest shade of purple, ever! It is so true to it's name.
I'm still building up my stash of new ink colours, unfortunately I haven't managed to get Gorgeous Grape yet, but with some cardstock on hand that's all I needed to make my card for tonight's hop.

I used Gorgeous Grape for the card base and the Subtle embossed panel. Down the right hand side, I randomly stamped the butterfly from the Painted Glass stamp set in Highland Heather. I chose one of the floral patterns from the Frosted Floral Specialty DSP and glued that onto a piece of Gray Granite which I then offset to the left and popped the whole panel up with dimensionals. I attached a length of the lovely Coastal Cabana Tea Room ribbon and added the bow separately, sticking down with a glue dot. To tie in with the copper edging on the ribbon, I heat embossed the sentiment onto Shimmery White cardstock in copper, as well as the two butterflies in Gorgeous Grape and Highland Heather. I gave the butterflies some dimension by gently bending in the middle and then using the handle of the paper-piercing tool to curve the wings under slightly. I ran a small amount of Tombow glue down the centre of the butterflies to attach to the card and keep the dimension on the wings. They will flatten a bit when I put it in an envelope but hopefully not too much.

The sentiment is die-cut with a stitched oval and backed with a regular and scalloped oval from the Layering Ovals Framelits. The butterflies are die-cut with the coordinating Stained Glass thinlits dies.

Thanks for stopping by tonight. We'll be back next Tuesday night to share our Granny Apple Green projects with you all, so be sure to hop online and check those out.

Speaking of checking out, use Catherine's blog link below to see what the rest of the team have created with Gorgeous Grape.

http://whatcathymade.com.au/awh-colour-creations-blog-hop-week-20-gorgeous-grape/

If you're leaving a comment below, thank you so much.

I read and appreciate them all. 💗

Until next time,

Stay happy & stay crafty! 😘

Product List

Gorgeous Grape A4 Cardstock

[147011]

$14.75

Gray Granite A4 Cardstock

[147008]

$14.75

Highland Heather A4 Cardstock

[147010]

$14.75

Shimmery White A4 Card Stock

[121717]

$15.75

Frosted Floral 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Specialty Designer Series Paper

[147800]

$24.25

Painted Glass Clear-Mount Bundle

[148362]

$72.75

Highland Heather Classic Stampin' Pad

[147103]

$13.00

Embossing Buddy

[103083]

$10.00

Versamark Pad

[102283]

$15.75

Copper Stampin' Emboss Powder

[141636]

$8.75

Heat Tool

[129056]

$50.00

Big Shot

[143263]

$159.00

Subtle Dynamic Textured Impressions Embossing Folder

[143706]

$17.00

Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies

[145372]

$50.00

Layering Ovals Framelits Dies

[141706]

$58.00

Tea Room Ribbon Combo Pack

[146893]

$14.00

Share What You Love Artisan Pearls

[146927]

$10.50

Simply Scored

[122334]

$50.00

Liquid Multipurpose Glue

[110755]

$7.00

Glue Dots

[103683]

$8.00

Stampin' Dimensionals

[104430]

$6.00

Holiday Catalogue - AWH Team - September Blog Hop

Hello & welcome stamping friends.
Tonight the Art with Heart team are sharing creative projects featuring products from the 2018 Holiday Catalogue. We hope our blog hop tonight, inspires you to get creative, and make some fabulous Christmas creations too! If you would like a copy of the Holiday Catalogue, just ask any of us girls on the blog hop and we will get in touch with you.

For my project, I decided to make a gift bag with a matching mini jotter pad and pen set.
Until my order arrives later this week I'm working with minimal supplies, so there's a mix of products from both the Holiday and Annual Catalogues.

One of the things I really enjoy about the Holiday Catalogue is that it's not all about Christmas. There are some gorgeous "non Christmassy" products in it as well that can be used for birthday's and other occasions. So I decided to use the beautiful Frosted Floral Specialty DSP and one of the Boxwood Wreaths Embellishments. These products are part of the Frosted Floral Suite on pages 36-37 in the catalogue. The Designer Series Paper pack is divine! The designs are printed onto shimmery white paper and each pattern is so beautiful.

I shared a similar bag to this one in a blog post here. I've made this one a lot smaller to hold the jotter pad and pen. The base of the bag is made from Blackberry Bliss cardstock and I've complimented this with Mint Macaron, as you can see in the scalloped circle behind the stamped greeting. I attached the boxwood wreath with glue dots around the stitched circle greeting and covered where the two ends met with a bow made from the Whisper White metallic-edge ribbon. The greeting on the bag is from the Time For Tea stamp set, and the jotter pad greeting is from Itty Bitty Greetings. Both are stamped in Blackberry Bliss.

The jotter and mini pens were just discount shop purchases. I even managed to push a little scrolled piece of the DSP down into the barrel of the pen. I covered the pad with Mint Macaron and another piece that I embossed with the Tufted 3D Dynamic TIEF. I love the look of the Blackberry Bliss with Mint Macaron. I had a few retired metallic enamel shapes left over and this is the bit of bling you can see in each of the corners on the jotter pad. There are some new Epoxy Droplets that are a part of this Frosted Floral Suite, and they look very similar to the retired ones above, so that's why I used them here.

You can see from the photo above, how nicely the jotter pad and pen fit inside the bag.
If you have any questions about the project just send me an email and I'll be happy to answer them for you.

Thanks for joining us on our hop tonight. If you're already hopping then you may have come to me from the blog of our lovely and talented team member, Monika O'Neill, but hops are full circles so you can start anywhere and just click the 'next blog' button at the end of each blog post to get back to where you started.

Following on from me now, is the equally lovely and talented Sharon Davern, and I can't wait to see what project she has created.

If you find a broken link or have come to this blog hop from a different entry point, below is a list of tonight's participants.

If you're leaving a comment below, thank you so much.
I read and appreciate them all. 💗

Until next time.....
Stay happy & stay crafty! 😘

Tonight's hop participants:

Caroline Manwaring <<< you are here >>>

Sharon Davern
Tina Gillespie
Ros Davidson

Sue Madex
Claire Daly
Rebecca Jacovou

Catherine Proctor

Rachel Woollard

Alisha Watson

June Kempster

Kate Morgan

Rachel Palmieri
Monika O’Neill