Stampin' Up! Heart of Christmas Week 12 - Sharing the joy of a handmade Christmas.

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Welcome to week 12 of Heart of Christmas from the Art with Heart Stampin' Up! Team. We hope you are feeling inspired by these weekly blog hops.

This week I have showcased some more cards using the Most Wonderful Time Product Medley that I also created with last week. I'm finding it so quick and easy to create using this medley.

This one uses one of my most favourite pieces of DSP from this kit. I love the subtle colours with the hint of gold foil on the antlers.

Stampin Up Most Wonderful Time 2019  Christmas card by Claire Daly, Stampin Up Demonstrator Melbourne Australia.

I love the touch of festive that the white and gold trim brings to this medley. I love those berries on the stickers too. I didn't do it on this one, but it would be great to add Crystal Effects to these.

Stampin Up Most Wonderful Time 2019  Christmas card by Claire Daly, Stampin Up Demonstrator Melbourne Australia.

This one is a little more clean and simple. I used an oval template to create a Seaside Spray sponged oval and then stamped the trees over the top of that.

Stampin Up Most Wonderful Time 2019  Christmas card by Claire Daly, Stampin Up Demonstrator Melbourne Australia.

I hope this has given you some more ideas about how to use the Most Wonderful Time product medley. It's a great collection of coordinating products and super easy to create with as it has everything you need.

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Now it's time to see what the other Art with Heart girls have been up to for Christmas inspiration this week.

Vicki Boucher

Kate Morgan

Tina Gillespie

Caroline Manwaring

Sharon Davern

Diane Furniss

Catherine Proctor

Andrea Sargeant

Michele Taylor

Judy May

 

Thanks for checking in with us this week.

Have a great week,

Claire

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Stampin' Up! Heart of Christmas Week 11: Spreading the joy of creativity for a handmade Christmas.

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Hello ladies. Super quick Heart of Christmas post from me this week. My lovely team member Tina is hosting tonight's hop as I am out at my son's high school theatre class performance.

This week's cards by me are made from the Most Wonderful Time product medley in the Stampin' Up! 2019 Holiday Catalogue. This product medley showcases Stampin' Up!'s fabulous colour coordination, with stamps, dies, designer series paper, embellishments, stickers and trim which all colour coordinate. Use the product link at the bottom of this post to fine it in the online store. The colours are Real Red, Old Olive, gold foil and there is some Smoky Slate in there too.

Stampin Up Most Wonderful Time product medley from 2019 Holiday Catalogue.

Stampin Up Most Wonderful Time product medley from 2019 Holiday Catalogue

Here are the two cards I made for this week using this product medley. I love the traditional colours with a hint of gold, and those deer stickers are fabulous!

Christmas card using Stampin Up Most Wonderful Time product medley from 2019 Holiday Catalogue. By Claire Daly, Stampin' Up! Demonstrator, Melbourne Australia.

Christmas card using Stampin Up Most Wonderful Time product medley from 2019 Holiday Catalogue. By Claire Daly, Stampin' Up! Demonstrator, Melbourne Australia

 

Christmas card using Stampin Up Most Wonderful Time product medley from 2019 Holiday Catalogue. By Claire Daly, Stampin' Up! Demonstrator, Melbourne Australia

Christmas card using Stampin Up Most Wonderful Time product medley from 2019 Holiday Catalogue. By Claire Daly, Stampin' Up! Demonstrator, Melbourne Australia

Now it's time to head over to Tina Gillespie, who is guest hosting Heart of Christmas for me this week.

Have a fabulous week. I would definitely recommend you getting your hands on the gorgeous Most Wonderful Time Medley, which you can find using the link below my signature.

Happy Stamping,

Claire

 

Product List

Most Wonderful Time Product Medley (En)
 

Art With Heart Team October Blog Hop: Ways to use Stampin' Up! Embossing Folders

Art With Heart Stampin Up Team October Blog Hop Embossing Folders

Hey there. Welcome to another Art With Heart Blog Hop. This month we are featuring Stampin' Up's! versatile range of Embossing Folders. There are new Embossing Folders available in every Stampin' Up! catalogue and they are an inexpensive way of adding WOW! to your projects. Currently there are 24 different Embossing Folders in the range.

Tonight we plan on showing you lots of ideas on how to use these folders. My projects are using the Heirloom Frames Dies and coordinating embossing folders.

Woven Heirlooms Dies and Embossing Folders Stampin Up

I have used these products to create some faux wood antique photo frames, which I have used on a scrapbook page and a card. I love how they turned out and they were super easy to make.

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I used the woodgrain 12x12" paper in the Pressed Petals Specialty Designer Series Paper. I adhered this onto some backing cardstock before I cut the frames.

Pressed Petals Designer Series Paper

The steps to make the frames are:

  1. Adhere the woodgrain DSP to the backing card.
  2. Cut the frames first using the dies.
  3. Place the cut dies in the embossing folders, paying particular attention to which parts you wanted raised. As these are 3D folders, I recommend using the 3D embossing plate (link at bottom of page) to give extra ooomph to the sandwich and a good impression.
  4. Remove the frames, and then sponge Early Espresso ink over the raised pieces, building up to the desired shade.

Now it's time to use the frames. My first project is a heritage style scrapbook page with some childhood photos of myself and my brother, who died 12 years ago. I love these photos, and I think he would forgive me for scrapbooking them in floral papers and pink, lol. 

Stampin Up heritage scrapbook page using Pressed Petals DSP and Woven Heirloom dies and embossing folders. Layout by Claire Daly, Stampin Up Demonstrator Melbourne Australia

I have used more of the Pressed Petals DSP on the page (I adhered the backing page oto Crumb Cake cardstock, ditressing the edges and spongeing with Early Espresso ink), as well as some of the coordinating Pressed Petals specialty washi tape, metal Designer Elements and a page from the coordinating Pressed Petals journal (the pages are perforated so can be torn off and added to scrapbook pages or cards).  The die-cut 'Forever' word is from the Sweet Silhouettes die set (links below the post).

Stampin Up heritage scrapbook page using Pressed Petals DSP and Woven Heirloom dies and embossing folders. Layout by Claire Daly, Stampin Up Demonstrator Melbourne Australia

As an extra embellishment, I created a vintage looking daisy with the Medium Daisy Punch and some Very Vanilla cardstock, which I sponged with Rococo Rose ink and a touch of Early Espresso to age it a bit. Love those Perennial Essence floral centres to give a realistic look to the daisy.

Stampin Up heritage scrapbook page using Pressed Petals DSP and Woven Heirloom dies and embossing folders. Layout by Claire Daly, Stampin Up Demonstrator Melbourne Australia

How beautiful is that vintage washi tape from the Pressed Petals Designer Washi tape. I also added a few subtle butterflies around the page which were cut from the Pressed Petals DSP using the Butterfly Duet punch. Now I just need to add the journaling to my page.

Stampin Up heritage scrapbook page using Pressed Petals DSP and Woven Heirloom dies and embossing folders. Layout by Claire Daly, Stampin Up Demonstrator Melbourne Australia

My second project is a Christmas card, using the rectangle frame and Toile Christmas stamp set from the Holiday Catalogue.

Stampin Up 2019 Christmas card using Toile Christmas stamp set and Woven Heirloom Frame dies and embossing folders. Card by Claire Daly, demonstrator Melbourne Australia

I have watercoloured the images on our awesome Fluid 100 cotton watercolour paper. I've used Real Red, Cherry Cobbler, Early Espresso and Garden Green ink and an Aquapainter. I've added a couple of Garden Green die cut pieces from the Leaf punch. The backing piece of DSP is from Toile Tidings.

Stampin Up 2019 Christmas card using Toile Christmas stamp set and Woven Heirloom Frame dies and embossing folders. Card by Claire Daly, demonstrator Melbourne Australia

I hope you have enjoyed my projects today. Now it's time to leave the Yarra Valley region on the outskirts of Melbourne and visit the very clever Catherine Proctor in the Northern Beaches area of Sydney.

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If you find a broken link or have come to this blog hop from a different entry point, you can view all the participants below:

Kate Morgan

Rachel Woollard

Rebecca Jacovou

Sharon Davern

Vicki Boucher

Tina Gillespie

Claire Daly

Catherine Proctor

Caroline Manwaring

Rachel Palmieri

Andrea Sargent

Sujatha Harding

 

Thanks for checking out our blog post this month. I hope you have lots of fun with your embossing folders and learned some new ways to use them. Look forward to seeing you back here soon. 

Remember, if you would like to take part in our blog hops, we welcome hobby demonstrators into our team from right throughout Australia and are ready to help you join in our fun creating and sharing.  Just ask me, or any of the team on the blog hop tonight.

Warm regards,

Claire Daly

Product List

Heirloom Frames Dies And 3D Embossing Folder
 
Pressed Petals Specialty Designer Series Paper
 
Pressed Petals Specialty Washi Tape
 
Pressed Petals Journal
 
Sweet Silhouettes Dies
 
Butterfly Duet Punch
 
Medium Daisy Punch
 
Perennial Essence Floral Centers
 
Rococo Rose Classic Stampin’ Pad
 
Early Espresso Classic Stampin' Pad
 
Toile Christmas Bundle (En)
 
Toile Tidings Designer Series Paper
 
Leaf Punch
 

Stampin' Up! Heart of Christmas Week 9: Spreading the joy of creativity for a handmade Christmas.

Hello friends. It's time for our weekly dose of Christmas inspiration. It's week 9. I hope you are enjoying our weekly posts. Have you started making your Christmas cards yet?

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Today's card features a stamp set that has been very popular in the 2019 Stampin' Up! Holiday Catalogue. It's called Beauty and Joy. I was drawn to it because it reminded me of the beautiful stone pots and planters I admired in Europe. Isn't it lovely?

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Here's the card I made with it. 

Stampin' Up! Beauty and Joy stamp set with Night Before Christmas DSP. 2019 Christmas card by Claire Daly, Stampin' Up! Demonstrator Melbourne Australia.

I've used Mossy Meadow as the base card and stamped the tree in Mossy Meadow with Early Espresso for the trunk. The urn is stamped in the Celestial Copper Delicata metallic ink pad. I LOVE these ink pads. Have you seen my latest You Tube video showing 4 techniques to use with them? My You Tube channel link is in top right corner.

The Designer Series Paper is from the Night Before Christmas 6x6" DSP pack.  The greeting is from the Night before Christmas Memories and More Card Pack and the embellishments are the Star Designer Elements (all product links below the post).

Stampin' Up! Beauty and Joy stamp set with Night Before Christmas DSP. 2019 Christmas card by Claire Daly, Stampin' Up! Demonstrator Melbourne Australia.

Now it's time to see what the other lovely Art with Heart team members are making this week for Heart of Christmas. Before we do that, have you thought about joining our fabulous crafty community? We would love to welcome new team members who love to stamp and share, and it's totally fine to just join for yourself if that's what you would like.  We have a lovely team of friendly and supportive demonstrators of all ages right around Australia. There's a great mix of hobby and business interests and lots  of daily activity to help you learn and make some new crafty friends . We would love to welcome you too. Contact me anytime to have a chat.

Here's tonight's line up:

Tina Gillespie

Caroline Manwaring

Kate Morgan

Judy May

Rachel Woollard

Di Furniss

Andrea Sargeant

Vicki Boucher

Sharon Davern

Catherine Proctor

 

Thanks again for checking in on our weekly Heart of Christmas post, We love to share and spread the joy of creativity. See you next week, and I have a couple of fun 'other than Christmas' projects coming up for you this coming week, so check back in soon!

Claire

Product List

Beauty & Joy Photopolymer Stamp Set
 
Night Before Christmas 6" X 6" (15.2 X 15.2 Cm) Designer Series Paper
 
Night Before Christmas Memories & More Card Pack
 
Star Designer Elements
 
Celestial Copper Delicata Metallic Ink Pad
 
Mossy Meadow Classic Stampin' Pad
 
Early Espresso Classic Stampin' Pad
 
Shimmery White A4 Card Stock
 
Mossy Meadow A4 Cardstock
 

Step by step instructions for snowglobe cards using Stampin' Up! Still Scenes bundle

Hello lovely stampers.

Back with the step by step instructions for the snow globe cards. A little bit later than planned, but with hubby away at his annual Bathurst holiday, Mum's taxi has been on extra shifts. Plus it's Spring here in Melbourne so lots of lovely fun to be had in the garden on the weekend too. Have planted the veggie gardens and have some lovely petunia seedlings to go in pots too. I love Spring and I love flowers. If you follow my Instagram, you will know I love taking pictures of my flowers as well as.  It's tome to talk about cards now though, particularly these lovely snowblobe cards using Stampin' Up! Still Scenes bundle from the 2019 Stampin' Up! Holiday Catalogue.

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I showed you one version of these cards last week. This week I am back with two more versions, along with step by step instructions for assembling them. My first card uses the gorgeous baby and mama bear in the die set. 

Stampin' Up! Still Scenes snow globe cards (2019 Holiday Catalogue). Card by Claire Daly, Stampin' Up! Demonstrator Melbourne Australia.
They are just too cute don't you think? I also layered some of the trees in there cut from the DSP (I adhered to a layer of cardstock for a bit more stiffness).

Stampin' Up! Still Scenes snow globe cards (2019 Holiday Catalogue). Card by Claire Daly, Stampin' Up! Demonstrator Melbourne Australia.

The second version of the card is the one I did the step by step instructions for. For this card I have stamped the image and coloured it using watercolour pencils. I stamped two of the images and  cut the cottage area out and popped it up for some dimension.

Stampin' Up! Still Scenes snow globe cards (2019 Holiday Catalogue). Card by Claire Daly, Stampin' Up! Demonstrator Melbourne Australia.

Here's what you need to build the snow globe cards:

  • Still Scenes Bundle
  • Snow Globe Shaker Domes
  • Snowflake Sequins
  • Christmas patterned paper (I used Wrapped in Plaid from the Holiday Catalogue).
  • Base card (I have used Cherry Cobbler)
  • Cardstock to stamp the image on (I have used Shimmery White)
  • Watercolour pencils and Blender Pen for the colouring
  • Pool Party ink pad and a Stampin' Sponge or Sponge Dauber.
  • Mini Dimensional foam dots
  • Coordinating cardstock for the base of the dome (I have used Crimb Cake and Copper foil)
  • Crumb Cake cardstock for the greeting piece
  • Stazon Black ink for stamping the image
  • Early Espresso ink for the greeting.

Here's the steps:

1. Cut a standard top folding C6 card in Cherry Cobbler plus a layer of Cherry Cobbler 10cm 0r 3 & 15/16 inches x 14.3cm or 5 & 5/8 inches, plus a layer of patterned paper the same size (10cm x 14.3cm). Attached the patterned paper and Cherry Cobbler layers together.

Stampin' Up! Still Scenes snow globe card step by step instructions (2019 Holiday Catalogue) by Claire Daly, Stampin' Up! Demonstrator Melbourne Australia.

2. Using the globe shaped die from the Still Scenes bundle, cut one from the top layer (the top of the snow globe cut out piece on mine is 1.6cm or 5/8 inch from the top of the layer) , and another from a peiece of Shimmery White cardstock.

Stampin' Up! Still Scenes snow globe card step by step instructions (2019 Holiday Catalogue) by Claire Daly, Stampin' Up! Demonstrator Melbourne Australia.

3. Stamp the cottage image in black Stazon onto the Shimmery White globe piece, and also onto a scrap of Shimmery White.

Stampin' Up! Still Scenes snow globe card step by step instructions (2019 Holiday Catalogue) by Claire Daly, Stampin' Up! Demonstrator Melbourne Australia.

4. Colour the images using Watercolour Pencils and a Blender Pen. Colour the full image except cottage on the die cut piece, just the cottage and side plant on the scrap piece. I used the following colours: Shaded Spruce, Cherry Cobbler, Garden Green, Crushed Curry and Early Espresso. 

5. Cut the cottage and side plant (on left) from the scrap piece and layer them over the die cut image with mini Dimensionals. 

6. Sponge Pool Party ink around the outside.

Stampin' Up! Still Scenes snow globe card step by step instructions (2019 Holiday Catalogue) by Claire Daly, Stampin' Up! Demonstrator Melbourne Australia.

7. PLace some Snail Adhesive as a guide and use the top layer as a placement guide (don't adhere the top layer yet though) so that you can adher the coloured image piece to the base card.

Stampin' Up! Still Scenes snow globe card step by step instructions (2019 Holiday Catalogue) by Claire Daly, Stampin' Up! Demonstrator Melbourne Australia.

Stampin' Up! Still Scenes snow globe card step by step instructions (2019 Holiday Catalogue) by Claire Daly, Stampin' Up! Demonstrator Melbourne Australia.

8. Get one of the  Snow Globe Shaker Domes and remove the adhesive on one side - the side where the dome is shaped upwards. 

9. Place the dome through the top layer and it will adhere to the edges of the cardstock around the globe to hold it in place. Leave the backing adhesive in place for now.

Stampin' Up! Still Scenes snow globe card step by step instructions (2019 Holiday Catalogue) by Claire Daly, Stampin' Up! Demonstrator Melbourne Australia.

10. Use an Embossing Buddy to rub against the inside of the snow globe dome piece (this prevents the sequins from sticking to the inside of the dome too much).

Stampin' Up! Still Scenes snow globe card step by step instructions (2019 Holiday Catalogue) by Claire Daly, Stampin' Up! Demonstrator Melbourne Australia.

11. Sprinkle sequins over the image on the base card, keeping them away from the edges. 

Stampin' Up! Still Scenes snow globe card step by step instructions (2019 Holiday Catalogue) by Claire Daly, Stampin' Up! Demonstrator Melbourne Australia.

12. Remove the backing adhesive from the snow dome, and also place Snail Adhesive around the edges of the top card layer. Place that over the top of the the base card layer so your dome part is complete.

13. Cut a snow dome base piece in Crumb Cake cardstock, and a decorative layering piece from Copper foil cardstock.

Stampin' Up! Still Scenes snow globe card step by step instructions (2019 Holiday Catalogue) by Claire Daly, Stampin' Up! Demonstrator Melbourne Australia.
14. Layer and adhere these underneath the snow globe.

15. Tie a linen thread bow and adhere with a glue dot to the right side of the base of the dome. 

16. Stamp your greeting onto a piece of Crumb Cake cardstock (in Early Espresso ink)  and trim to size, then cut banner ends (you can either use the Banner Triple Punch to do this, or freehand. The Banner Triple Punch cuts banner ends in 3 sizes and is awesome!!).

You are done!

Stampin' Up! Still Scenes snow globe card step by step instructions (2019 Holiday Catalogue) by Claire Daly, Stampin' Up! Demonstrator Melbourne Australia.

I hope you have LOTS of fun making your own snow globe cards. Use the links below to purchase all the supplies you need. If you shop online with me, use the monthly host hode and you will receive a free gift the month after your purchase (for orders over $50).

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Have a great day and I will see you back here tonight with this week's Heart of Christmas post.

Claire

Product List
Still Scenes Bundle
Cherry Cobbler A4 Card Stock
Wrapped In Plaid 6" X 6" (15.2 X 15.2 Cm) Specialty Designer Series Paper
Shimmery White A4 Card Stock
Jet Black Stāzon Ink Pad
Watercolor Pencils
Watercolor Pencils Assortment 2
Blender Pens
Pool Party Classic Stampin' Pad
Stamping Sponges
Snow Globe Shaker Dome
Crumb Cake A4 Card Stock
Copper Foil Sheets
Linen Thread
Snowflake Sequins
Banner Triple Punch
Early Espresso A4 Card Stock