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

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.

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!

 

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

 

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How to use Stampin' Up! Pigment Sprinkles and four bold bright cards.

I've been playing with Stampin' Up's Pigment Sprinkles over the past few weeks and have come up a video for you as well as four card ideas using the sprinkles.

Pigment sprinkles made their debut in the 2019 Stampin' Up! Annual Catalogue. These sprinkles are watercolour crystals that explode with colour when mixed with water (you will see that happen in the video). The pieces you create make great backgrounds and elements for your projects.

The pigment sprinkles come in a set of 6 colours, which perfectly coordinate with 7 of our Stampin' Up! colours.

The bottles each have a colour label on the top which makes it quick and easy to find your colours.

The dispensers are really great too! When you unscrew the lid, there is a little flip up lid piece (like salt and pepper shakers) to control how much you use (you only need a little bit as you will see in the video.

Find out LOTS more about the sprinkles in this video I have created for you.

 

Here are the four cards I created using the pieces I created in the video, and some other pieces I created playing with the sprinkles. 

This card features a background I have created using the Melon Mambo and Gorgeous Grape pigment sprinkles. I have also Stitched Nested Labels dies, Well Written Dies and Well Said stamp set (all from the 2019 Stampin' Up! Annual Catalogue). My base card is Gorgeous Grape.

For this second card, I have used a piece I created using Mango Melody and Melon Mambo Pigment Sprinkles. I then embossed the greeting and image from Healing Hugs stamp set onto the piece with White embossing powder. I have also used Stitched Rectangle dies on my card.

In this third card I have used the Bermuda Bay sprinkles on my background. These sprinkles are also an excellent match for Pretty Peacock (which is the colour of my base card and die cut from Merry Christmas dies). The 'birthday' part of my greeting is from the Well Said stamp set.

For my final card, I have die cut letters from a piece I had created using the Pigment Sprinkles. I used the Hand Lettered Prose dies to cut the letters, and Well Said stamp set for the other part of the greeting. The background on this card was made using a watercolour wash and some ink splatters in Mango Melody.

I hope you have enjoyed my video and these Stampin' Up! pigment sprinkles cards.

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

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.

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.

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. 

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).

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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Stampin' Up! Heart of Christmas Week 10: Spreading the joy of creativity for a handmade Christmas.

 

Hey friends. It's tome for some more Christmas inspiration. Today I am playing with the new Stampin' Up! product suite called 'Christmastime is Here'. This has been available to demonstrators as a special preorder in October and is available to purchase by customers on November 1st. 

This suite contains Designer Series Paper with gold foiling (3 double sided designs x 4 pages each at 12x12" size), a stamp set and coordinating dies, gold glitter embellishments and a gold ribbon. 

The dies actually cut out one of the images in the Christmastime is Here Designer Series Paper, so both of these cards use that image. There is also a lined image you can colour with blends and some bits and pieces to fill in the image. Here's a look at the stamp set.

Here's a look at the whole product suite. Each of the individual items can be purchased separately, so you can just get the bits and pieces you like. Make sure you subscribe to my newsletter (click the button in the right hand column) to hear all about this new release on November 1st.

I was drawn to this suite for many reasons. I love roses, I love the traditional colours for Christmas, and I'm a sucker for gold foiling in my DSP.  I also really love the warmth in the sentiment I have used on these cards.

The die cuts are really interesting as well, and add visual interest to your cards. I love these ones that I have used around the sentiment label.

Overall, the Christmastime is Here suite is a lovely group of coordinating products, in traditional colours for Christmas and beyond.

 

Now it's time to visit all the lovely team members who are showcasing Christmas projects tonight.  We have:

Kate Morgan

Sharon Davern

Caroline Manwaring

Judy May

Tina Gillespie

Di Furniss

Rachel Woollard

Michele Taylor

Vicki Boucher

Andrea Sargeant

Catherine Proctor

 

Before we go, did you know there are still 4 hours to go in our 24 Hour Stamp Sale? It's just on today, and ends at 11.50pm AEDT. There's over 50 stamp sets on special.

View them here: http://bit.ly/SU24HourStampSale

Thanks for stopping by today. Don't forget to subscribe to my newsletter if you want to hear all about the Christmastime is Here products on November 1st.

Warm regards

Claire Daly

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?

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?

Here's the card I made with it. 

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).

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

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