Dashing Away With Christmas Traditions

Hi!

Welcome to the newest Heart Of Christmas Blog Share.

On today's card I have paired the Dashing Along DSP (free this month with a $400 order!) with a stamp from the Christmas Traditions tin in the Holiday Catalogue.

I've actually had the base of this card sitting on my desk for nearly a month. I made the piece with the Dashing Along DSP, attached it to the card base and then got stuck. I just couldn't work out how to finish it off with a sentiment. Nothing really worked over the background. As a last ditch effort before I tossed the card, I tried the Christmas Traditions tin stamp set. Bingo!

The tricky part though, was making such a small stamp stand out on the front and not get lost. The answer was layers! I'd seen somewhere on Facebook the idea of layering the punch with the Pretty Label punch, but it still wasn't quite enough. I punched another Christmas Traditions punch in Cherry Cobbler and trimmed it to matt the circle part of the WW layer. I next added the doily to complete the layering and then completed the whole piece with a couple of the new Frosted Epoxy Droplets, which you can find in the Holiday Catalogue.

Phew! Saved from the bin!

You can imagine that I just wanted this card done by now, so I kept the inside super simple. Gotta Ove those big sentiments that do all of the work for you! This one is from Merry Christmas To All, which is another great bundle from the Holiday Catalogue,

You can see the rest of this week's cards over on Claire's blog. You're bound to be inspired to start your Christmas cards if you haven't already. Or maybe to pin the ideas for later use.

Bye for now,

Tina

Dashing Along In Gold

Hi!

Welcome to a new week's Heart Of Christmas.

In September you can earn the Dashing Along DSP pack FREE with a qualifying order. Us lucky demonstrators got to get our hands on it a month early, and I have had a little (OK, a lot) of fun with it. I think the paper I have used on today's card is my favourite in the pack.

Isn't that design in tonal Cherry Cobbler just luscious? I layered it on a Cherry Cobbler cardstock base, as any other colour looked a bit jarring with the design I was going for. I love the look, and will certainly be doing it again!

To stretch the crafting dollar a bit further, I die cut the star from the Gold Foil layer that's under the main panel. No-one would ever know, and it's a very handy trick! I washed under the star with Cherry Cobbler ink, deliberately making the section that sits under the centre of the star a little darker.

There's more of that lovely DSP and Gold Foil on the inside. It's always worth doing your insides, it doesn't take much more effort, but it really lifts your cards to the next level.

How are you going with your Christmas cards? You can find lots of inspiration with the rest of this week's cards over at Claire's blog.

Bye for now,

Tina

A Juggling Act in Santa's Workshop

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Welcome back to a new week of Heart Of Christmas. I am loving the new Santa's Workshop SDSP from the Holiday Catalogue, so I'm playing with it again for today's card. I love that so many of the images can be fussy cut to go on a card. If you're not a colourer it can be a great option instead of the stamp set.

How cute is the juggling snowman?  I roughly trimmed around him so that I could drop him with one of my Stitched Shapes Circles Thinlits - yay for not having to fussy cut! Unfortunately the first time I roughly cut him too close and I couldn't fully cut the circle. I've popped him aside to use on another card where I can hide the chopped off part of the circle!

I used paper from two different packs to go on the front and inside of the card. Did you notice that the front of the card wasn't a full card? I trimmed a strip off the front so that the gorgeous candy striped flocked paper from Santa's Workshop could be seen from both the inside and outside. The green star paper is from the Dashing Along pack, which is a promotional item for September only.

Here's the inside. I thought the snowman might be a little tuckered out after all that juggling, so I popped a fussy cut sleeping snowman on the inside. When the card is closed you can't see him because he's tucked behind the juggling snowman.

As always, you can see the rest of this week's Heart Of Christmas cards over at Claire's blog. Are you finding inspiration each week - I certainly am!

Bye for now,

Tina