Ros Davidson, Independent Stampin' Up!® demonstrator, Melbourne, Australia

Stampin' Up! Heart of Christmas featuring Hearts Come Home

Welcome back for week 16 of the Heart of Christmas cards. This week, I have used the non traditional colours and "Hearts Come Home bundle" featuring Hearts Come Home stamp set and Hometown Greetings Edgelits Dies. 
As always, the step by step instructions to recreate my card are at the end of this blog post.


Close Up

Inside

Step by step instructions to create you own card (inches are in bold)
If desired ink all edges of cardstock/DSP etc. using inkpads and sponge daubers
1. Cut berry burst cardstock 29cm x 10cm (11 7/16" x 4") & score at 14.5cm (5 6/8") and set aside
2. Cut the following cardstock 
- tempting turquoise 14cm x 9.5cm (5 1/2" x 3 3/4") 
- whisper white shaving cream coloured background (I had previously made)
- 2 pieces of basic gray 10.5cm x 10cm (4 1/8" x 4") 
3. Die cut basic grey panels using edgelits
4. Add strips of gold foil behind the windows for the lights to be "glowing"
5. Stamp santa sleigh and reindeer in Memento ink on the top right hand corner of shaving cream background piece
6. Punch out 1" circle from so saffron cardstock and stamp a portion of the santa sleigh and reindeer onto the circle. Overlap the circle onto the shaving cream background so the sleigh images line up
7. Adhere the basic grey edgelits onto the shaving cream background (and trim off any excess if required)
8. Stamp Joy to the World sentiment in memento ink at the bottom of the basic grey cardstock
9. Adhere shaving cream panel onto tempting turquoise cardstock and adhere onto berry burst card front

Live in Australia? Click on the products below to purchase them today!

Hearts Come Home Wood-Mount Bundle [146065] $95.25	Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad [132708] $10.00	Basic Gray A4 Card Stock [121689] $14.00	Basic Gray Archival Stampin’ Pad [140932] $12.25
Tempting Turquoise A4 Card Stock [108598] $14.00	Tempting Turquoise Classic Stampin' Pad [126952] $11.50	Tempting Turquoise Classic Stampin' Ink Refill [101041] $6.50	Berry Burst A4 Cardstock [144249] $14.00
Melon Mambo Classic Stampin' Ink Refill [115662] $6.50	Berry Burst Classic Stampin' Pad [144083] $11.50	Gold Foil Sheets [132622] $7.00	So Saffron A4 Card Stock [108611] $14.00
So Saffron Classic Stampin' Pad [126957] $11.50	Whisper White A4 Card Stock [106549] $15.75	Big Shot [143263] $159.00	1" Circle Punch [119868] $21.00

 

Stampin' Up! Stitched Felt Embellishments Christmas Card Kit

I am offering kits for the next few months to help you out with your Christmas card crafting. The kits include all card bases cut and scored, all cardstock/designer series paper ready to use along with the envelopes and card inserts. All you will have to do is stamp your sentiment/images, inkpads/sponge daubers for inking edges (if desired) and provide the adhesive.
I haven’t included any stamp set in this kit in case you have a favourite Christmas sentiment you wish to use. As you can see, I have used a variety of sentiments (from Hearts Come Home, Christmas Pines & Holly Berry Happiness stamp sets on my cards).

For this month, the kit includes the following materials to make 15 cards: 
Stitched Felt Embellishments (1 pack)
Quilted Christmas designer series paper
Merry Music Speciality Designer Series Paper
Real red cardstock
Garden Green cardstock
Crumb cake cardstock
Whisper white inserts
Whisper white envelopes

The cut off date to order this kit is September 20th.
The kit will then be mailed to you ready for you create in a pre paid 500g post bag with all the items in a wide wood mount size stamp case for $45 (including postage with Australia only).

Stampin' Up! Holiday Catalogue Blog Hop

Tonight I am sharing new holiday catalogue projects along with some of the Art with Heart Stampin’ Up! team. The holiday catalogue available on 1st September until 2nd January 2018. Be sure to request your copy of the catalogue today!

You may have come to my blog from Claire Daly. Blog hops are full circles, so start blog hopping here and and the end of my post (and everyone else's) there is a link to the next post. I've also got a list of all 15 blog hop participants at the end in case of broken links.

For today's blog hop I have used the fabulous Ready for Christmas stamp set and Christmas Staircase Thinlet Dies. They are also available to purchase in a bundle (Ready for Christmas bundle) with a saving of 10%!

Today I have a window card/peek a boo card to share with you (with a horrible reflection, I couldn't photograph it without the reflection!!!)
It's pretty hard to tell from the photo but everything is on the inside of the card except for the sentiment and the second set of present images is also on the card front.

Not that you can see it but, I stamped the tree image prior to putting the die cut "leaves" down and 6 "leaves" perfectly fill the tree. The best part of using the stamped image first is there is no fiddling with die cut placement, you just stick the leaves on top of the stamped image as it all lines up perfectly.

Close up 

Click to visit Judy May's blog and see what she has to share today. 

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

1. Alisha Watson
2. Claire Daly
3. Ros Davidson
4. Judy May
5. Monika O'Neill
6. Rebecca Jacovou
7. Rachel Palmieri
8. Kate Morgan 
9. Caroline Manwaring
10. Catherine Proctor
11. Tina Gillespie
12. Kathryn Mangelsdorf
13. Rachel Woollard
14. Sharon Davern
15. Kimberly Hern

Stampin' Up! materials used:
Stamps: Ready for Christmas
Inkpads: Basic black, emerald envy, lemon lime twist, real red
Cardstock: Emerald envy, lemon lime twist, real red, whisper white
Accessories: Big shot, Christmas staircase thinlets dies, stampin' write markers - brights, neutrals, 2015-2017 in color, window sheet, fine tip glue pen

Click to visit Judy May's blog and see what she has to share today. 

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

1. Alisha Watson
2. Claire Daly
3. Ros Davidson
4. Judy May
5. Monika O'Neill
6. Rebecca Jacovou
7. Rachel Palmieri
8. Kate Morgan 
9. Caroline Manwaring
10. Catherine Proctor
11. Tina Gillespie
12. Kathryn Mangelsdorf
13. Rachel Woollard
14. Sharon Davern
15. Kimberly Hern

Stampin' Up! materials used:
Stamps: Ready for Christmas
Inkpads: Basic black, emerald envy, lemon lime twist, real red
Cardstock: Emerald envy, lemon lime twist, real red, whisper white
Accessories: Big shot, Christmas staircase thinlets dies, stampin' write markers - brights, neutrals, 2015-2017 in color, window sheet, fine tip glue pen

Stampin' Up! Heart of Christmas featuring Carols of Christmas

Welcome back for week 10 of the Heart of Christmas cards. This week, I have used the fabulous new Carols of Christmas bundle. Have you ordered yours yet?
As always, the step by step instructions to recreate my card are at the end of this blog post.



Close up

Step by step instructions to create you own card (inches are in bold)
If desired ink all edges of cardstock/DSP etc. using coordinating inkpads and sponge daubers
1. Cut old olive cardstock 14.5cm x 20cm (5 6/8" x 7 7/8") & score at 10cm (4") and set aside
2. Cut silver foil cardstock 14cm x 9.5cm (5 1/2" x 3 3/4")
3. Cut blue "sky" paper 13.5cm x 9cm (5 5/8" x 3 1/2") (I used a piece I had leftover from shaving cream galaxy technique)
4. Run "sky" paper through the big shot machine with the moon and stars die from card front builders thinlet dies
5. Cut crumb cake cardstock 1.5cm x 9cm (5/8" x 3 1/2") and adhere on the base of the "sky" paper from step 3 
6. Stamp "peace on earth" in memento ink on whisper white cardstock and die cut out using the largest circle from stitched shaped framelits
7. Die cut out 3 single and 3 double trees in old olive, wild wasabi and always artichoke cardstock
8. Adhere stamped peace on earth on right hand side of card under skyline
9. Adhere die cut trees on the base of the sky card overlapping the stamped sentiment
10. Adhere silver foil cardstock on back of "sky" card and adhere onto old olive card front

Live in Australia? Click on the products below to purchase them today!

Carols Of Christmas Wood-Mount Bundle [146036] $90.75	Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad [132708] $10.00	Crumb Cake A4 Card Stock [121685] $14.00	Crumb Cake Classic Stampin' Pad [126975] $11.50
Always Artichoke A4 Card Stock [108610] $14.00	Always Artichoke Classic Stampin' Pad [126972] $11.50	Old Olive A4 Card Stock [106576] $14.00	Old Olive Classic Stampin' Pad [126953] $11.50
Wild Wasabi A4 Card Stock [111850] $14.00	Wild Wasabi Classic Stampin' Pad [126959] $11.50	Dapper Denim Classic Stampin' Ink Refill [141399] $6.50	Pool Party Classic Stampin' Ink Refill [122933] $6.50
Whisper White A4 Card Stock [106549] $15.75	Silver Foil Sheets [132178] $7.00	Big Shot [143263] $159.00	Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies [145372] $50.00