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Heart of Christmas - Peaceful Prints

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Welcome to Heart of Christmas for 2021. Each week (until mid-December), the talented ladies from the Art with Heart team will  bring you inspiration for your holiday craft projects. 

This week I have another card using the fabulous Peaceful Prints Designer Series Paper which is one of the FREE products you can choose with a qualifying order during Sale-a-bration (until 30 September 2021).

Stampin' Up! Peaceful Prints DSP | Sale-a-bration 2021 | Judy May, Just Judy Designs
I started with a panel of Real Red card stock and heat embossed the greeting from the Sweet Little Stockings stamp set in white at the base.  Strips of the Real Red, white and Sahara Sand designs were added at the top of the panel and I finished with a narrow border of the Be Dazzling Specialty Paper at the bottom for a little bling.

Stampin' Up! Peaceful Prints DSP | Sale-a-bration 2021 | Judy May, Just Judy Designs
I die cut the medium sized doily from the Encircled in Beauty Dies set to provide a background for the deer punched from the designer paper with the Deer Builder Punch.  I added it to another deer punched from Basic White to make it robust to pop up on the doily. Just in case you're wondering, I deliberately left some of the pieces in the doily, to make it look less busy.

Stampin' Up! Peaceful Prints DSP | Sale-a-bration 2021 | Judy May, Just Judy Designs
For the inside, I have a Real Red mat for the writing panel, with a strip of the striped design on the left and a fussy cut deer on the right.

Stampin' Up! Peaceful Prints DSP | Sale-a-bration 2021 | Judy May, Just Judy Designs

 

Project Details
Stamps Sweet Little Stockings
Card stock & Papers Basic White, Real Red, Peaceful Prints DSP, Be Dazzling Specialty Paper
 Ink Versamark
Accessories Gilded Gems
Tools    Encircled in Beauty Dies, Stampin' Cut & Emboss, Deer Builder Punch, Dimensionals, Tombow Glue, White EP, Heat Gun

 

Now it's time to hop along to see what the very talented Catherine has created for you this week.

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CASE-ing the Catty - More Sale-a-bration!

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Hi there

Welcome back to another week of CASE-ing the Catty! 

If you've come from visiting Peta & Marvi, 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 buttons at the bottom of the post. 

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The 2021 July - December Mini Catalogue is now LIVE and you can earn fabulous FREE products with a qualifying ($90AUD or $180 order) during Sale-a-bration (3 August - 30 September 2021). Tonight the Crew are taking inspiration from the sample projects in the Sale-a-bration brochure.

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I've chosen the card above for my inspiration (please excuse the quality of the photo that I had to snip from the catalogue!), which uses the Shaded Summer stamp set from the 2021-22 Annual Catalogue and Summer Shadows Dies which are a Level 2 Sale-a-bration option you can choose with a $180AUD order of products from any current catalogues.

Stampin' Up! Shaded Summer & Summer Shadows Dies | Judy May, Just Judy Designs

Seeing the die cuts behind the stamped image reminded me of the technique of creating a background with your die cuts, so that is the direction I went. I have a Blushing Bride card base and I've popped up my art panel. I chose Sahara Sand for the background and for the die cuts to create the tone on tone effect. The Summer Shadows Dies is perfect for this technique as there is a nice mix of large and small dies with both solid and outline options.

Stampin' Up! Shaded Summer & Summer Shadows Dies | Judy May, Just Judy Designs
I recommend that you create your die cuts using Adhesive Sheet on the reverse, to make adhering them super quick and easy.  My other tip is to make sure you have all your layers cut first, as I found my trimmers weren't happy about cutting the uneven edges.

I stamped the large floral image in Blushing Bride and used the coordinating outline die from the Sale-a-bration Summer Shadows Dies set to crop it. To give it a bit more focus, I adhered it to a piece of Vellum and hand cut around the outside leaving a wide border. The Shaded Summer stamp set also has 7 useful greetings in a nice mixed font.

Stampin' Up! Shaded Summer & Summer Shadows Dies | Judy May, Just Judy Designs

For the inside, I have a Sahara Sand mat for the writing panel and I've partially stamped the other floral image from the Shaded Summer stamp set in the top corner. At the base is a strip of Blushing Bride patterned designer paper.

Stampin' Up! Shaded Summer & Summer Shadows Dies | Judy May, Just Judy Designs

 

Project Details
Stamps Shaded Summer
Card stock & Papers Basic White, Sahara Sand, Blushing Bride, Vellum, Subtles 6" x6" DSP
 Ink Blushing Bride, Soft Suede
Accessories White Crinkled Seam Binding Ribbon, Pearls Basic Jewels
Tools    Summer Shadows Dies,  die cutting machine, Dimensionals, Tombow Glue

 

We would love to see your CASE of a project from the Sale-a-bration brochure 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. 

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

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Heart of Christmas - Delicate Baubles

Heart of Christmas Header 2021Hi there

Welcome to Heart of Christmas for 2021. Each week (until mid-December), the talented ladies from the Art with Heart team will  bring you inspiration for your holiday craft projects. 

This week I have a couple of clean and simple monochrome cards for you.  The design would be a perfect if you need to make more than a few as well. The layouts are the same, but different colour ways to give you a different look. 

Stampin' Up! Delicate Bauble Dies | Judy May, Just Judy Designs

This first card has a layer of Pool Party to create the background for the large bauble from the Delicate Baubles Dies that I cropped from silver foil. The outline die was used to cut the shape from the Basic White top layer, before adding the greeting from the Happy Holly-Days stamp set at the base in Coastal Cabana ink. I also dry embossed it with the dots from the Checks & Dots Embossing Folder. As the folder is narrow, you will need to emboss twice to cover the whole area. I popped up the Pool Party layer on the Basic White card base, but you could leave it flat for posting.

Stampin' Up! Delicate Bauble Dies | Judy May, Just Judy Designs
For the inside, I have a Pool party mat for the writing panel, with a narrow strip of the silver and white striped design from the Whimsy & Wonder Specialty Designer Paper pack. I stamped the clump of trees from the Peaceful Deer stamp set in the corner using Coastal Cabana ink and a Soft Suede Stampin' Write marker. 

For the second option, I decided to up the bling factor by using red foil for the background layer. It is really hard to photograph, but looks very elegant in real life. 

Stampin' Up! Delicate Bauble Dies | Judy May, Just Judy Designs
I left the top layer plain apart from the greeting, but added a bow at the top of the bauble in my favourite (retired) Silver Metallic Edge ribbon. I'm sure it would look equally as good in the green foil as well.

Stampin' Up! Delicate Bauble Dies | Judy May, Just Judy Designs

 

Project Details
Stamps Happy Holly-Days, Peaceful Deer
Card stock & Papers Basic White, Pool Party, Red & Green Foil Sheets, Whimsy & Wonder Specialty DSP
 Ink Coastal Cabana, Real Red
Accessories Silver Metallic Edge Ribbon (retired), Simply Elegant Trim
Tools    Delicate Baubles Dies, die cutting machine, Dimensionals, Tombow Glue, Glue Dots

 

Now it's time to hop along to see what the very talented Ros has created for you this week.

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CASE-ing the Catty - Expressions in Ink

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Hi there

Welcome back to another week of CASE-ing the Catty! 

If you've come from visiting Lauren, 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 buttons at the bottom of the post. 

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 This week our challenge is to CASE our favourite suite from the 2021-22 Annual Catalogue. 

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Expressions in Ink is one of my favourite suites from the current Annual Catalogue so it took all of 5 seconds to decide to CASE the card on the front cover. If the beautiful Expressions in Ink Specialty Designer Paper isn't enough then the amazing detail in the DisInktive style stamps and Artistic Dies will allow you to create quick and beautiful cards. 

Stampin' Up! Expressions in Ink Suite | Judy May, Just Judy Designs

I started with a Magenta Madness card base and added a layer of the beautiful Expressions in Ink Specialty Designer Paper. I had this piece left from another project and with the large area of white on the right, I thought it would work perfectly to highlight the beautiful spray of leaves that I cut from the new Gold & Rose Gold 6" x 6" Metallic Specialty Paper.  In the Stampin' Up! sample, they have added a piece of designer paper in Pale Papaya on the right side for contrast. 

Stampin' Up! Expressions in Ink Suite | Judy May, Just Judy Designs

I cut a 3/4" strip of Basic White and used the Banners Pick A Punch to shape the end before stamping the birthday greeting from the Best Year stamp set in black (with the help of the Stamparatus to get it straight!). Positioned under the greeting is a strip of Polished Pink Open Weave Ribbon and I popped it up over the gold leaf spray. The small flower and leaves from the Artistically Inked stamp set was stamped in Magenta Madness and Just Jade ink respectively and cropped with the coordinating dies from the Artistic Dies. They were positioned over the leaf spray and greeting strip and I added a little bit of gold foil foliage from the Expressions in Ink Ephemera Pack and a sprinkle of Polished Pink jewels.

Stampin' Up! Expressions in Ink Suite | Judy May, Just Judy Designs
For the inside, I have a rectangular writing panel cut with the Stitched Rectangles Dies on the left and a strip of the white and gold foil striped designer paper on the right. The stamped flower, leaves and gold foil foliage embellish the corner.

Stampin' Up! Expressions in Ink Suite | Judy May, Just Judy Designs

 

Project Details
Stamps Artistically Inked, Best Year
Card stock & Papers Magenta Madness, Basic White, Gold & Rose Gold Metallic Specialty Paper, Expressions in Ink Specialty Designer Paper
 Ink Memento Tuxedo Black, Just Jade, Magenta Madness
Accessories 2021-23 In Color Jewels, Expressions in Ink Ephemera Pack, Polished Pink Open Weave Ribbon
Tools    Artistic Dies, Stitched Rectangle Dies. die cutting machine, Dimensionals, Banners Pick a Punch

 

We would love to see your CASE of your favourite Annual Catalogue Suite 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. 

Sunday Challenge

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

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Dont' forget that Sale-A-bration is now on and you can earn fabulous FREE goodies with a qualifying order ($90AUD) of products from any current catalogue until 30 September 2021. 

During this round of Sale-A-Bration, some products will only be available while supplies last. This means that once they’re gone, they’re gone for good! This applies to the following items, so don't delay if they are on your wish list!

  • 156629 Be Dazzling 6" x 6" (15.2 x 15.2 cm) Specialty Paper
  • 156600 Sheep Dies
  • 156618 Summer Shadows Dies

Thanks for visiting today!


Heart of Christmas - Penguin Playmates

Heart of Christmas Header 2021Hi there

Welcome to Heart of Christmas for 2021. Each week (until mid-December), the talented ladies from the Art with Heart team will  bring you inspiration for your holiday craft projects. I hope you have been enjoying the fabulous projects that the team has created over the last 6 weeks.

I've had some fun with the Penguin Playmates Designer Series Paper, that is FREE with a qualifying $90AUD order during Sale-a-bration. We are already half way through the first month of Sale-a-bration, so don't leave it too long to secure your favourite items.

Stampin' Up! Penguin Playmates DSP - 2021 Sale-a-bration | Judy May, Just Judy Designs
This is a great card fold to use up your patterned paper, as it requires a 6" x 12" piece. It works best if your designs are not directional (which mine is) and both designs are of a smaller scale with a nice contrast. The Double Z Fold is easy to create, but still has that bit of 'wow'. I've used one of the smaller scale animal prints with the Fresh Freesia background and the Soft Sea Foam trees on the reverse. 

Stampin' Up! Penguin Playmates DSP - 2021 Sale-a-bration | Judy May, Just Judy Designs
When you remove the belly band, the sides fold out and you see the reverse side of the patterned paper.  The triangles that are cut from the top corners are placed at the bottom for contrast. However, because my design is directional I would have ended up with upside down penguins and polar bears, so I used some of the Fresh Freesia starry design from another sheet which is the same as the background. I added a narrow strip of the striped design along the edge for some pop.

Stampin' Up! Penguin Playmates DSP - 2021 Sale-a-bration | Judy May, Just Judy Designs
For the belly band, I have used 2 of the nesting dies from the Hippo & Friends Dies. The large one is adhered flat to the belly band so I could add the striped design across it. The greeting is from the Holly Jolly Wishes stamp set, stamped with Misty Moonlight ink and popped up. The cute penguin was fussy cut from a sheet of the Penguin Playmates DSP and popped up on the side of the label. I finished with a trio of 2021-23 In Color Jewels.

For the writing panel, I have a Basic White stitched rectangle, that I double cut to get the length I wanted. I added the fussy cut penguin and polar bear at the bottom and the sweet little bird sits in the open triangle at the top. This is a fun card to make and you can embellish as much or as little as you like, as the patterned paper does the heavy lifting.

Stampin' Up! Penguin Playmates DSP - 2021 Sale-a-bration | Judy May, Just Judy Designs

This is a fabulous paper pack and if you're not into the cute critters, you only need to turn to the reverse sides for versatile, coordinating small prints and stripes that would work for almost any occasion.

 

Project Details
Stamps Holly Jolly Wishes
Card stock & Papers Basic White, Fresh Freesia, Penguin Playmates DSP
 Ink Misty Moonlight
Accessories 2021-23 In Color Jewels
Tools    Hippo & Friends Dies, Stitched Rectangles Dies, die cutting machine, Dimensionals, Tombow Glue

 

Now it's time to hop along to see what the very talented Kate has created for you this week.

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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.

Thanks for visiting today!