AWH HOC Week 25

Hi!

Welcome to this week's Heart Of Christmas.

This week I decided to make a card from scratch, rather than modify a Watercolour Christmas Kit card. My daughter participated in a choral festival of music recently, and one of the sections of the performance was a retelling of The Nutcracker. It straight away made me think of the Christmas Around The World DSP, so that's the paper I reached for this week.

I also wanted to use the new Tinsel Trim. I needed a 'reason' for it to be on the card, so I ended up splitting the front panel and using the trim to divide the two patterns. The tinsel is fabulous - a little bulky for mailed cards when you tie a bow - but a fun, sparkly addition to any card!

Another Holiday Catalogue product that I hadn't used much is the Black Rhinestones - not just for Halloween, they make a nice addition to the sentiment panel on my card.

The tinsel was a little bulky to add to the inside, so I opted for a strip of Real Red cardstock to edge the DSP. The sentiment is from Hearts Come Home.

As usual, pop on over to Claire's blog where you can find the links to the rest of the team participating today. Not many weeks left now!

Bye for now,

Tina

JAI #385: Just Add A Sketch

Hi!

If you're reading this on Friday morning, you're doing so as I'm zipping my way to Melbourne for Stampin' Up!'s OnStage event. Just imagine - a huge room full of people passionate about Stampin' Up! who are learning about all the new products about to be released in 2018. It's pretty amazing!

In the meantime, it's time for the new Just Add Ink challenge. Kim has designed this fabulous sketch. I've been amazed at the imaginations of the Design Team this week.

I wanted to get some swaps done for OnStage, so I ended up using lots of bits and pieces to throw together this card. The leaf die cuts came from a stamping day I attended way back when the current Annual Catalogue came out!

Ssssh! Don't look too closely, but one leaf is Very Vanilla, and the sentiment circle is Whisper White. Oops!

The church die cuts are from the Hometown Greetings Edgelits set. The church looks great in the row, but I think that it looks fabulous as an individual element on a card.

What do you see in this fabulous sketch? As the DT have shown this week, the possibilities are endless! You can see the cards over at Just Add Ink, where you can also link up your card.

Bye for now,

Tina

AWH HOC Week 8

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Woo Hoo! I'm back on the Heart Of Christmas blog shares. Having to miss last week was not fun, so I made doubly sure I'd have time this week to make a Christmas card.

AS with my past card, I'm still playing with the Be Merry Suite of products. I was going for a bit of a clean vintage with this card - there's a bit of sponging, but no other ageing type effects.

The Be Merry DSP has lovely, traditional colours, but I keep finding myself adding Crumb Cake to the mix Don't you think it works beautifully? It really adds to the vintage feel, as does the Sheet Music background stamp.

I tried something new with the sentiment panel, by having the Garden Green layer only exposed on two sides. I quite like the effect. Here's a confession - I accidentally trimmed too close to the sentiment, so I went for the lopsided look to try to hide it! The twine and the wooden star from the Hearts and Stars Elements help to give the panel balance.

I used all of the same elements on the inside as I did on the outside, just pared back a little. I wasn't going to include the star, but at the last minute I added him to the card.

You can see what the rest of the Art With Heart team have created by heading over to Claire's blog. She's got all the links to everyone's blogs there.

Bye for now,

Tina

AWH HOC Week 6

Hi!

Welcome to this week's The Heart Of Christmas blog share. Can you believe we are up to Week 6? One more week closer to Christmas!

I've had quite a few weeks where I've gone with less traditional cards, but this week I'm back to a very traditional Christmas colour combo - Garden Green, Cherry Cobbler and Whisper White, with some touches of Early Espresso and Crumb Cake thrown in.

I had a wonderful day stamping with some local demonstrator friends on Sunday (thanks, Kathryn!), and I took to opportunity to stamp some images from sets that I don't own. This card uses some of those images. They are from the new Merry Mistletoe stamp set, which coordinates with the Be Merry DSP.

It can be tricky, stamping without a particular card in mind. Trying to judge how much space to lead around what you've stamped is the hardest! It does make putting together a card difficult, but I think that's sometimes part of the fun.

What do you think? Have I done a good job with my bits and pieces card? I think so!

You can visit Claire's blog and see what the others in the team that are participating this week have created. It's bound to be inspirational!

Bye for now,

Tina