Heart of Christmas 2024 - Winterly Tree Tops

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Welcome to the another week of Heart of Christmas for 2024. Each week, the talented ladies from the Art with Heart team will bring you inspiration for your holiday craft projects.

This week I am using the Winterly Tree Tops Bundle which arrived in my craft room late  last week in my preorder from the 2024 September - December Mini Catalogue. This is a multi-occasion bundle, but I do think it lends itself very well to holiday cards with the pretty garland and bird with a berry sprig in its mouth.

I have a Thick Basic White card base and I dry embossed a card front-sized piece of Basic White with the Snowflake Sky 3D Embossing Folder and adhered it to the card base to add some delicate texture to the background.

The garland and bird images were stamped on Basic White cardstock using Memento Tuxedo ink. The garland was coloured in shades of red and green using Granny Apple Green, Shaded Spruce and Real Red Stampin' Blends alcohol markers. The bird was coloured in Crumb Cake with Pumpkin Pie for the beak and legs. The foliage sprigs at the bottom were stamped in Early Espresso ink and coloured with Light Copper Clay and I added some retired Dazzling Diamonds Glitter with a glue pen for a little sparkle. 

I have combined one of my favourite Christmas colour combos of Pool Party and Real Red to ground the images. The bold 'Christmas' greeting cropped from Gold Foil and the heat embossed 'MERRY' are from the Peaceful Season Bundle also new in the September and December Mini Catalogue. I added some new Gold Textured Adhesive-Backed Dots to finish.

For the inside I have a Pool Party mat for the writing panel and have stamped and coloured the bird again, with some ink blending in the background.

 

Project Details
Stamps	Peaceful Season
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Real Red, Pool Party, Balmy Blue, Shaded Spruce, Gold Foil, Subtles 6x6 Paper Stack
Ink	Versamark, Memento Tuxedo Black, Early Espreso, Balmy Blue
Accessories	Baker's Twine Essentials Pack, Gold Textured Adhesive-Backed Dots
Tools	Peaceful Season, Winterly Tree Tops Dies, Stampin' Cut & Emboss, Glue Dots, Tombow Glue, White EP, Heat Tool, Stampin' Blends (Granny Apple Green, Shaded Spruce, Real Red, Crumb Cake, Copper Clay), Blending Brush

 

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Comments

[barb]

Gorgeous!!

[Kate Morgan]

A lovely, elegant Christmas card, Judy. Love Pool Party and Real Red as a combination for Christmas. Beautiful colouring of the feature images against the contrasting strip of DSP and I can't wait for my Peaceful Season bundle to arrive!

[Theresa Gerrard]

Such an elegantly pretty Christmas card Judy. The Pool Party tones down the boldness of the Real Red. The Snowflake embossing folder adds just a subtle interest to the background.

[CHRISTINE BLAIN]

This is really beautiful, Judy. A lovely, fresh, colour combination - and those sentiments are gorgeous! I am looking forward to creating with the Peaceful Season bundle.

[Rachel Woollard]

I love your card Judy. Beautiful colouring of the bird and foliage and I love the Pool Party DSP to lift the colour scheme

[Claire Daly]

Beautiful colouring and colour choices Judy. The pop of red and gold are perfect. Love this bundle too!

[Catherine Proctor]

Judy, I too love the colour combination of Pool Party and Real Red for Christmas cards and this one is a real beauty! That gold foil Christmas looks amazing and i love the embossed background too.