Heart of Christmas - Regal Winter

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Welcome to another week of Heart of Christmas. Each week, the talented ladies from the Art with Heart team will bring you inspiration for your holiday craft projects. 

This week I have gone a little left field! I was looking through the lovely designs of the Regal Winter Designer Series Paper and thought a couple of the designs would work on a Christmas card, so that is what I have created for you today.

What do you think, is it Christmassy? I love the richness of the Pretty Peacock plaid design and the lush colours in the floral design. It is a simple layout that is perfect for using your patterned paper. I cut each design card-front size and then on the diagonal, so you get 2 cards when your designs are not directional. I added a strip of the Cherry Cobbler glimmer from the Festive Glimmer Paper pack across the diagonal for sparkle (it is very sparkly in real life). The 'Christmas' greeting was cropped from Gold Foil using the Peaceful Season Dies and I stamped the 'MERRY' from the Greetings of the Season stamp set in Real Red ink and trimmed it closely and popped it up.  The holly leaves were cropped from Lost Lagoon cardstock using the Hang an Ornament Dies and I sponged the edges with Pretty Peacock ink and add the Cherry Cobbler berries.

For the inside, I have a Pretty Peacock mat for the writing panel and I added a strip of the floral paper on the right and and another set of holly leaves in the corner.

 

Project Details
Stamps	Greetings of the Season
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Pretty Peacock, Lost Lagoon, Regal Winter DSP, Gold Foil, Festive Glimmer Paper
Ink	Real Red, Pretty Peacock
Accessories	Cherry Cobbler & Pearl Adhesive-Backed Berries
Tools	Peaceful Season Dies, Hang An Ornament Dies,  Stampin' Cut & Emboss,  Dimensionals, Sponge Dauber

 

Now it's time to hop along to see the fabulous fun fold project Sharon has made for us this week.

If at any time you find a broken link and the next blog doesn’t come up, please click on the link for our host of the Heart of Christmas Blog Hop, Sharon Davern, and she will have the list of all who are participating.

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CASE-ing the Catty - Some Reindeer Fun

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Welcome to CASE-ing the Catty for this week. 

If you've come from visiting Andrea, then welcome!  If you're visiting me, I appreciate you stopping by today! You can continue your journey to see the other inspiring creations from the CTC Crew by clicking on the button at the bottom of the post.

This week we are CASE-ing a Bundle from the 2024 September - December Mini Catalogue. There are a bunch of new bundles to choose from, but I've been enjoying creating with the complete Reindeer Days Suite. It includes the Reindeer Fun Bundle and the Reindeer Days DSP, sweet Red & white Adhesive-Backed Peppermints and other coordinating products.  You have lots of options with the Reindeer Fun Bundle, whether you enjoy colouring or creating the sweet reindeer from die cuts or cropping them from the patterned paper. 

My project today is a bit of a mash-up of a lot of the ideas in the photo above. I wanted to use a frame and some of the images from the paper to create a scene.

I started by fussy cutting some images from the sheets of patterned paper and playing around with a little scene. The images I cropped had a green background, so I ink blended a piece of Soft Sea Foam card stock with Balmy Blue ink at the top and Granny Apple Green ink at the bottom to allow the images to blend into the background. I decided to create my own frame with the (retired) Stitched Rectangles Dies, but you could do the same thing with the Deckled Rectangles Dies as well (oops, I actually forgot about them until I was flipping through my dies). I created the frame from Pool Party card stock and used Foam Adhesive Strips to adhere it to the ink blended background as you would for a shaker card, but without the Window Sheet or sprinkles.

I offset the frame to the left to allow room for the pretty Irridescent Striped Trim down the right and then adhered the panel to a standard Pool Party card base. The images were adhered to the background with the sweet deer family popped up in the foreground. To add some pop, I adhered the narrow frame in Real Red to bring it all together. The greeting from the Reindeer Fun stamp set was stamped in Real Red, trimmed and adhered to the edge of the frame. The bells were cropped from Gold Foil and adhered under the bow and the fussy cut parcels added to the corner with a little peppermint added to Mama's neck decoration.

For the inside, I have a white writing panel with a strip of the holly print on the right side and a fussy cut deer prancing off the left side. It's a great way to use up partial images.

 

Project Details
Stamps	Reindeer Fun
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Pool Party, Soft Sea Foam, Real Red, Gold Foil, Reindeer Days DSP, Silver Glimmer (retired)
Ink	Balmy Blue, Granny Apple Green, Real Red
Accessories	Irridescent Striped Trim, Red & white Adhesive-Backed Peppermints
Tools	Reindeer Fun Dies, Stitched Rectangle Dies (retired), Stampin' Cut & Emboss, Dimensionals, Foam Adhesive Strip

 

We would love to see your CASE of a Bundle project from the 2024 Sep - Dec Mini Catalogue this week. Click on this link or the image below to go there. The first time you will need to click on the 'Join Group' button at the top. Once you have been added to the group, you can go ahead and post your creation and you do not need to have a blog. 

You can head over to Julia to see her lovely project and follow the hop to see the inspiration from the rest of the CTC Crew.

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