Heart of Christmas - Reindeer Days

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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'm using a layout that is great for small prints and we have quite a few options in the Mini Catalogue this year. It's also great for using up scraps and makes 6" x 6" paper go a long way.

I've combined the small holly print from the Reindeer Days DSP and the red print from the Take A Bow DSP to create a border around the edge of the Pool Party card base. 

The Basic White centre panel has been dry embossed with the Snowflake Sky 3D Embossing Folder and I popped up the sweet reindeer that I fussy cut from a sheet of the Reindeer Days patterned paper. I like to adhere images that I want to pop up onto copy paper first and then fussy cut them. It makes it more sturdy without being difficult to cut out. The Reindeer Fun Dies will crop 2 of the reindeer images from the paper, but there are lots that can be fussy cut.

The 'Merry' is a die cut from the Joyful Sayings Mix & Match Ephemera pack and I advise you to be gentle when removing the die cuts from the frame and be super careful adding small dots of glue to the reverse side, as it isn't possible to use a glue eraser on these fine die cut words.  The 'christmas' from the Greetings of the Season stamp set was heat embossed in white on Garden Green card stock and trimmed closely. I finished with a trio of gold sequins from the Neutrals Adhesive-Backed Sequins pack.

For the inside, there is a Real Red mat for the writing panel with a strip of the holly design down the left side. I have fussy cut a partial reindeer image from the edge of the paper and added it to the corner. This is a great way to ensure these images aren't wasted.

 

Project Details
Stamps	Greetings of the Season
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Pool Party, Garden Green, Real Red, Reindeer Days DSP, Take A Bow DSP,
Ink	Versamark
Accessories	Neutrals Adhesive-Backed Sequins, Joyful Sayings Mix & Match Ephemera
Tools	Snowflake Sky 3D EF, Stampin' Cut & Emboss, White EP, Heat Tool, Dimensionals

 

Now it's time to hop along to see the lovely 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 - A Little Bit Festive

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Welcome to CASE-ing the Catty for this week. 

If you've come from visiting Michelle, 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 from the new Mix & Match pages in the 2024 September-December Mini Catalogue. These products are designed to make creating super easy with printed card bases or tags, pre-cut images and sentiments that you mix and match to create your cards and tags.

At the moment I only have the Joyful Sayings Mix & Match Ephemera Pack, so I have created my card with the A Little Bit Festive 12" x 12" Specialty Designer Series Paper. This pack has 6 sheets of patterned paper (1 sheet each of 3 double-sided designs) and 1 each of 3 single-sided printed die-cut images that you pop-out in a very similiar style to the Mix & Match range. The main difference is that you have coordinating patterned paper to use with your die cuts. 

I had this pre-cut card base waiting to be used, so it contributed to the design. The Basic White card base has a piece cut from the top edge and I cut another piece of Basic White the same size and dry embossed it with the Snowflake Sky 3D embossing folder and adhered it for the background. 

I chose the wreath and the candy canes from the printed pre-cut images and I popped the wreath up on 1mm foam pads to give it a little dimension and then popped up the candy canes on Dimensionals to achieve another level, which you can see in the pic above.  I popped up the greeting from the 
Joyful Sayings Mix & Match Ephemera Pack under the wreath and added a strip of the red and white stripe design from the A Little Bit Festive Specialty DSP pack at the bottom to tie it all together. To add some sparkle, I popped the (retired) Red Rhinestone Basic Jewels over the berries that were not covered by the candy canes. It was an 'all or nothing' choice as it looked strange with just a few. You can also colour the clear 

For the inside, I had the border which continues a little further and I added a narrow strip of Granny Apple Green card stock to top it.  The cute stack of presents in coordinating colours also from the A Little Bit Festive SDSP sheets of die cut designs was added to the bottom corner.

I hope you will give the A Little Bit Festive Specialty DSP or the Mix & Match Ephemera packs a try for your holiday projects this season. I'm sure you will find them a quick and easy solution.

 

Project Details
Stamps
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Granny Apple Green, A Little Bit Festive 12" x 12" SDSP
Ink
Accessories	Red Rhinestone Basic Jewels (retired)
Tools	Snowflake Sky 3D EF, Stampin' Cut & Emboss, Dimensionals, 1mm Foam Pads (not SU)

 

We would love to see your CASE from the Mix & Match pages of 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 Andrea to see her lovely project and follow the hop to see the inspiration from the rest of the CTC Crew.

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