AWH December Blog Hop: Add A Little Sparkle

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Welcome to the final Art With Heart Blog Hop for 2019. Getting in the spirit of Christmas and New Year celebrations, this month our theme is ‘Add A Little Sparkle’. We have a huge range of sparkly  projects to share with you featuring products such as Glimmer Paper, Rhinestones, Delicata Ink, Shimmery White cardstock and much more. All of these products are available from Stampin’ Up! and any of these lovely ladies would be happy to assist you.

I'm still in Christmas card mode, and so my sparkle was some Glimmer Paper on my card. I hadn't used this Santa hat DSP from the Night Before Christmas pack, so it was well past time to chop into the paper. I cut one piece in half, which was enough for two card fronts. I then added a narrow strip of Poppy Parade cardstock in between the DSP and the Silver Glimmer Paper.

The sentiment, from Greatest Part Of Christmas, fits so nicely into a new die from the Painted Labels Dies, available from January 3rd.

I finished the inside with another couple of strips of the Santa hat DSP. I like how it copies the design from the front, just much more simplified.

I said earlier in my post that I cut one piece of DSP in half, and so I made another card. I couldn't decide if I wanted to use Silver or Real Red Glimmer paper, so I made a card with each!

I made one other change - this time I flipped the ribbon to be sentiment side up! Which do you prefer - Silver or Real Red Glimmer paper? I can't choose!

Have you had enough sparkle yet? I hope not! Now you off to the very sparkly blog belonging to Rachel Woollard!

If you have a broken link or have come to this blog hop midway, you can view all the participants below:

Tina Gillespie

Rachel Woollard

Catherine Proctor

Vicki Boucher

Rebecca Jacovou

Andrea Sargent

Kathryn Ruddick

Caroline Manwaring

Bye for now,

Tina

AWH HOC Week 15

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Hello, and welcome to the second last Heart Of Christmas Blog Share for 2019. I've really enjoyed doing these blog shares again, as it's a great way to increase my stash of Christmas cards. And I get lots of inspiration from my Art With Heart team members. Winning!

This week's card was an attempt to use more of my Christmas DSP before Christmas. I selected paper from the Night Before Christmas pack. I love the 6 inch packs, as you get a bigger variety of papers than the 12 inch packs, but you end up with a lot more smaller pieces. I made sure I used as much of the sheet as I could on this card, starting with a full card front sized piece of the baubles paper. I think this is one of my favourite patterns from the pack.

I chose Poppy Parade card to complement the DSP, and used my Ornate Frames dies to cut a frame for my sentiment, which is from the Hostess set, Greatest Part Of Christmas. I really love that font! And yay for the dies carrying over to the new Mini Catalogue!

The inside is where I used the rest of the sheet of DSP. I just cut it in half lengthways and adhered it to the base, before cutting a piece of Whisper White card to fit in between, overlapping slightly. And there's that cute font again! I quite like how this inside looks, so I think I'll be doing it again with my 6 inch papers.

The lovely Michelle is hosting the Heart Of Christmas tonight, so please pop on over to her blog to see the rest of this week's cards.

Bye for now,

Tina

CTC #256: Annual Catalogue With A Holiday Twist

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Welcome to this week's CASEing The Catty Sunday Challenge Blog Hop. They are such a nice way to end the weekend, don't you think? The blog before mine was the lovely Shannon's - are you coming from there or starting here? Either way, just keep going until you get back to where you started.

This week our challenge is to choose a card from the Annual Catalogue to CASE, but to give it a Holiday Catalogue Twist.  After opening the Annual Catalogue at a few random pages, I decided to stop on this card from page 158.

The banner, and the layers underneath, was what caught my eye. I think it's because it reminds me a little of some of the new stuff about to come out. However, the challenge is to use Holiday Catalogue products, so I pulled out my trusty So Many Stars bundle.

I started by creating the banner. It's just the retired Labeller Alphabet stamped and then cropped using the Classic Label punch. I then folded it over a length of Whisper White Baker's Twine, adhered the two sides with a glue dot, and snipped the back to match the front.

The large starry swirl piece was made slightly larger by snipping it in half under the Copper star and pushing the ends out. I like that you can see much more of it this way.

I had a few stars left from the swirly die cut on the front, so they were put to good use framing the sentiment from the Greatest Part Of Christmas stamp set. I love that font, as it nearly looks hand written.

Don't forget to add your card to our Facebook group once you have made it. You don't need a blog or fancy photography, so it's super easy to join in.

In the meantime though, please do continue the hop! Next up is Rebecca with a very peaceful card.

Bye for now,

Tina

AWH HOC Week 14

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 Hello, and welcome to the new Heart Of Christmas Blog Share by the Art With Heart Team. This week I was a little time poor for a few reasons, so I decided to CASE myself, using a class card kit that I had spare. As my good friend Rachel says, sometimes you need to work smarter, not harder!

I only made two small changes to the front of the card - on the original I stacked the 'merry' by cutting three in Whisper White and one in Solver foil, and then gluing them together in a stack before gluing them to my card. For today's card, I only used the Silver Foil 'merry'.

 

The second change was to use my Silvery Shimmer Delicata ink to stamp the tin stars on the card base - on my original I used Coastal Cabana to match the cardstock. 

My final change, on the inside, was also a small one. I stamped some of the small stars again in the Delicata ink underneath the red and white star.

This week the lovely Sharon Davern is hosting the Heart Of Christmas, so please pop on over to her blog, where you can find the rest of this week's links.

Bye for now,

Tina

CTC #253: Come To Gather Suite

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Hello, and welcome back to a new CASEing The Catty Sunday Challenge Blog Hop. Did you come here from Rebecca's blog, or start here? It doesn't matter, just keep going until you get back to where you started!

This week we are CASEing a card from the Come To Gather Suite, from the Holiday Catalogue. You can choose any project from pages 46 to 51 to CASE. I couldn't go past this cute little birdie card from page 50. Aren't those birds so adorable?

I don't actually have the Birds Of A Feather stamp set, so I had to improvise, which is certainly the name of the game when CASEing!

I started by stamping the base of my Coastal Cabana card with the little star cluster from So Many Stars. The stars were cut from the coordinating Stitched Stars dies using Real Red and Whisper White card, with Silver Foil. The word 'merry' was cut four times - three Whisper White and one Silver Foil - and then stacked, with the Foil layer on top.

Hopefully you can see that the Coastal Cabana layer that they all sit on was embossed with the Subtle folder. It's a fabulous folder for adding just a little bit of extra oomph to a card.

The inside was finished with another layered star and a sentiment from Greatest Part Of Christmas.

As always, you can join in the fun over in the CASEing The Catty Facebook Group. It's always great seeing how other people interpret different cards.

Before you go, don't forget to finish the Hop! Next up is the lovely Julia.

Bye for now,

Tina

CTC #252: CASE A Layout

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Gee, these weeks are flying past! Once again, it is Sunday night, which makes it time for the new CASEing The Catty Sunday Challenge Blog Hop. The blog before mine was Sandra's,and mine is officially last on the list, but we are all linked in a circle, so just keep hopping until you get back to where you started.

This week we are CASEing a layout from page 52 of the Holiday Catalogue. It's tricky this week, as there aren't any cards to directly CASE - you have to think a little more!

My eye was caught this week by the box at the top of the image above. I liked how the leaves peeked out from under the layers above. I took basically the same design, I just made it bigger for a card front.

While I do own the Ornate Frames dies, they weren't quite the right size of shape for my card. I used a Stitched Label instead, and added a Pine Tree punched shape to the front. Instead of leaves peeking out, I cut strips of the Shaded Spruce and Gold ribbon instead.

The Gold Foil label is a great base for the Shaded Spruce tree, cropped from some retired Regals DSP. The wooden star I topped the tree with was from my stash. I pushed it onto my Cherry Cobbler ink pad to colour it before glueing it to the foil.

I used another strip of the Cherry Cobbler DSP from the front on the inside with another of the punched trees. I really love that punch for Christmas cards! The sentiment is from the Hostess set, Greatest Part Of Christmas. It's such a pretty font and sentiment.

That's all from me this week, don't forget our Facebook group, where you can join in the challenges each week, not blog or fancy editing necessary!

If you haven't finished the hop though, please do jump back to the offical start, which is the lovely Peta's blog.

Bye for now,

Tina

AWH HOC Week 9

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Welcome once again tot he Art With Heart team's Heart Of Christmas Blog Share. We are rapidly approaching the time to start sending out Christmas cards, ad I am grateful that I have quite the stash already, thanks to the Heart Of Christmas.

I had a lot going on this week, so quick and easy was the order of the day! The stunning Brightly Gleaming SDSP makes quick, easy and fabulous cards so easily! I used the hostess set, Greatest Part Of Christmas. I love a big sentiment that does most of the work for you.

I wanted a bit of extra somethin' somethin' on my card, so I die cut the starry swirl from Stitched Stars from Copper Foil. I chopped it in half and adhered it to my card front so that it stretched from corner to corner. A layered Copper and Navy star finished the front of the card.

The starry swirl die has five star shapes included in the design. They are great for using on the inside of cards to add extra detail. They are perfect for clustering around the inside sentiment, don't you think? I'd rather use them than have them floating around forever on my craft desk, that's for sure!

Time now to pop on over to Claire's Blog, where you'll find the rest of this week's Heart Of Christmas cards.

Bye for now,

Tina

AWH HOC Week 7

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Once again, it's that time of the week - the Art With Heart's heart Of Christmas Blog Share. Can you believe we are up to week seven already?

I received an order with a new stamp set this week - one of the Hostess Sets from the Holiday Catalogue. It's called Greatest Part Of Christmas, and has 9 different sentiments to mix and match for the front and insides of your card. I paired it with the Night before Christmas DSP. This sheet, with the trees and lights, really only needs a sentiment, don't you think?

I jazzed it up a little by adding some Shimmery Crystal Effects to each of the bulbs. It's soooo hard to photograph the shimmer, but hopefully you can see the texture that the SCE gives to the bulbs.

I also added the Shimmery Crystal Effects to the DSP I used on the inside - why not? The sentiment is another from Greatest Part Of Christmas. I'm looking forward to using this stamp set more, especially the larger 'Christmas Greetings' stamp.

Time to hand you over to Claire's blog, where you'll find the rest of this week's links.

Bye for now,

Tina