AWH HOC Week 15

Hi!

Welcome to this week's Heart Of Christmas with the Art With Heart team.

This week I have the pleasure of hosting The Heart Of Christmas. Claire has some family commitments, and so I volunteered to be a temporary home for the Bog Share until she is able to resume.

This week's card came about as I had an extra sample Embossing Paste/Glitter panel left over from a card class last month. I didn't want to waste it, so I decided to make it up into a card that was different to the card the classes made. I'd stuffed up the panel a little by getting some paste where it wasn't wanted, so I had to trim it a little to hide my whoopsie.

The word 'Joy' comes from the new Hearts Come Home stamp set. The whole sentiment is actually Joy To The World, but I only wanted(/had room for) the word Joy.

I do love a bit of glimmer on a Christmas card, so I added a strip to the inside to finish it off.

Here are the links to the rest of the Art With Heart ladies who are sharing their gorgeous Christmas projects this week:

Kate Morgan

Sharon Davern

Caroline Manwaring

Rachel Palmieri

Rachel Woollard

Ros Davidson

Claire Daly

Monika O'Neill

Catherine Proctor

I'm sure they'd love it if you left them a comment.

Bye for now,

Tina

Heart Of Christmas: Week 5

Hi!

Once again I have managed to create a Christmas card for this week's The Heart Of Christmas blog share. I truly have amazed myself that I have managed to create every week so far. I've been on a bit of a learning curve this week, as I have a new computer, which also includes a new way to manage the files on the computer, but also a new photo editing system to learn. Bits have been easy, bits have been difficult, but I'm getting there.

Anyway, on to my card! I recently hosted an ATC swap that featured the Rock'n'Roll technique. I had fun with it, so I decided to use the same technique on my card. I was hoping for a bit of a wintery, snowy feel with out the typical snow flakes.

The stamp I used is from the new set, Lovely Inside & Out. It's not one you would look at and immediately think Christmas, but sometimes that's half the fun of new rubber - working out alternative uses for it. I stamped it in Soft Sky and then rolled it in Dapper Denim to get the darker outside edge. It's time consuming, as you need to clean the rubber each time you stamp it, but I think you'll agree that the effort is worth it.

After I stamped the 'snowflakes', I went over the Soft Sky section with my Wink Of Stella pen to give them a lovely shimmer. Very hard to photograph though!

Well, that's me for another week. With any luck you'll see me joining in again next week too. In the meantime, head on over to Claire Daly's blog so that you can see what the others have created this time. They are bound to impress!

Bye for now,

Tina

Art With Heart: The Heart Of Christmas

Hi!

Don't be scared, but I'm going to share a Christmas card today! My granny upline, Claire Daly, has decided that each Wednesday she wants to post a handmade Christmas card on her blog, and she has invited her team to do likewise. So, welcome to the very first The Heart Of Christmas post.

Who said that Christmas cards have to be red and green? I'm having a huge love affair with the Berry Burst/ Powder Pink colour combo, so I decided to use them on my card for the first HOC.

It was really lovely to go back to some old favourite stamps from last Christmas that have carried over to the new Annual Catalogue. Star Of Light was one of my very favourite! I teamed it with the Santa's Sleigh Framelits. I love that with a bit of strategic snipping you can get a reindeer with two colours.

I got out my heat embossing tools for this card too. Sometimes when you have a simple layout, you need to jazz up your card with some extra little touches. The gold embossing looks fabulous on the Berry Burst cardstock.

I don't think you can see it in this photo, but I also stamped the swoosh of stars on the inside. It's in Powder Pink, so quite pale. If you scroll back up you can see hints of it on the inside in the previous two photos.

So, yay for me, I have my first Christmas card  for the year done! I'm not sure if I'll join in The Heart Of Christmas every week, but I will certainly do my best. You can click on the links to go see Claire's blog, where you'll find her lovely card, as well as links to the other team members who are participating.

Bye for now,

Tina

Red Foil Santa's Sleigh Christmas Card

Hi!


I have one last Christmas card for you for 2016. This was one I made as a class sample using the Santa's Sleigh bundle.

The card base is just half of an A4 sheet of cardstock, scored and folded in half, and then one half is scored and folded in half again. You can probably see it better in the second photo. A smaller, matted piece is then attached to the front so that it over laps the inside of the card.

The DSP on the front is from the Pop Of Pink SDSP pack. The foil design ties in nicely with the foil sleigh and 'merry'.


Bye for now,


Tina

JAI #341: Just Add Colour

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Not many Fridays left in the year now!

It's our second last challenge for the year at Just Add Ink. This week Kim has put together a colour combination for inspire creativity.

It's a tricky one this time, but that's half the fun of doing a challenge! I still haven't sent out my Christmas cards, so I took the opportunity to make one more for the stash.

I used Shimmery White cardstock for the base of my CAS card, as I love the subtle shimmer it gives. The circle was masked, sponged in Basic Grey, double masked using the stars mask, inked with Versamark and then heat embossed using white embossing powder.

I added this die cut tree from the Santa's Sleigh Framelits. It's funny, when I purchased the set, the tree was my least favourite. I've ended up using it a lot more than any of the other framelits in the set though!


Are you like me and squeezing in just a few more Christmas cards at the last minute? Pop over to the Just Add Ink blog to see what the rest of the DT have made and to add your own creation.


Bye for now,


Tina

An Emerald Envy Christmas Tree

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I ran a card class this month based on the Santa's Sleigh Framelits Dies. I wanted to show that, while the bundles are fabulous, you don't necessarily need both parts to create fabulous cards.

For the first card, I used the tree to cut a window through the Whisper White layer. The tree could be used on another card. If you wanted to make this card a bit more fancy, you could turn it into a shaker card using the Mica Flakes from the Holiday Catalogue.

You can see I used DSP underneath the window. It's from the Moroccan DSP pack, but you could really use any paper that suited your colour scheme. For me, it was the only DSP I had that was Emerald Envy.

My class ladies are big fans of the starry swirl stamp from Star Of Light, so of course I had to include it on the card!


I'll share the two other cards I made for this class in the coming weeks, so keep an eye out for them.


Bye for now,


Tina