Just Judy Designs

Heart of Christmas - Regal Winter

September 30, 2024

Hi there

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.

Thanks for visiting today!

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Heart of Christmas - More Season of Green & Gold

September 23, 2024

Hi there

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. I can't believe we are already on week 8 and there are less than 100 days until Christmas, so there is no time to delay starting your holiday season crafting.

Well, after saying a couple of weeks ago that green isn't a go-to colour for me, I have another green and gold for you card this week. There are so many possibilities with the Season of Green & Gold Suite products and you could easily create all of your holiday cards with a variety of beautiful designs. If you're looking for some inspiration with these products, head to my Season of Green & Gold Suite Pinterest Board. This card was inspired by one made by Susan Campfield a few months ago. I've created a metric size card and worked out my own version of the mechanism inside the card.

The card starts with a Thick Basic White card base in landscape and this time I've used the Old Olive & Mossy Meadow design from the Season of Green & Gold Specialty DSP down the left side with a strip of Gold Foil and then the remaining panel has been embossed with the Dashing Designs 3D Embossing Folder which I'm using for the first time. The sentiment from the Greetings of the Season stamp set was heat embossed in gold and cropped with the Country Side Corners Dies, along with the Mossy Meadow mat. I added two sprays of the coordinating foliage (mistletoe?) cropped from the paper with a die from the Golden Greenery Dies. I finished with some self-adhesive gold sequins and a bow using the (retired) Satin Edge Ribbon. This is a layout that I've used many times, but it is the inside where things get a little different.

On the inside there is a bit of a fancy fold going on, with a a set of Country Side Corners die cuts attached to a flap in the centre of the card. I've decorated the left side with another strip of paper and Gold Foil the same width as the front and lightly added some Old Olive ink to the Basic White die cut with a Blending Brush. On the centre die cut I have another sentiment from the Greetings of the Season stamp set stamped in Mossy Meadow ink with a smaller piece of foliage.

When you turn the centre flap over you have the writing panel. I've decorated the right side in the same way and added the rest of the second foliage die cut that I brushed some Old Olive ink onto. The reverse side of the die cut has the patterned paper adhered to it, but you could leave it plain.

This is another view, showing all of the inside panels.

Project Details
Stamps	Greetings of the Season
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Mossy Meadow, Season of Green & Gold SDSP, Gold Foil
Ink	Versamark, Old Olive, Mossy Meadow
Accessories	Neutrals Adhesive-Backed Sequins, Satin Edge Ribbon (retired)
Tools	Country Side Corners Dies, Golden Greenery Dies, Dashing Designs 3D EF, Stampin' Cut & Emboss, Gold EP, Heat Tool, Dimensionals, Blending Brush

Now it's time to hop along to see the fabulous project Cathy 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.

Thanks for visiting today!

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Heart of Christmas - Reindeer Days

September 16, 2024

Hi there

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.

Thanks for visiting today!

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Heart of Christmas - Graceful Greenery

September 09, 2024

Hi there

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 CASE-ing a card I found in the Online Store in the images associated with the Graceful Greenery 12" x 12" Vellum. I'm not sure what I was looking for, but the card caught my eye and I have created my own version of it (click on the link if you want to see the original). There are lots of great samples you can use for inspiration in the Online Exclusives products, so don't forget to check them out.

Green isn't a go-to colour for me, except for foliage accents so the background of my card is the lovely vanilla and gold diamond design from the Season of Green & Gold Specialty DSP. The Very Vanilla centre panel has a narrow border of Gold Foil to add a bit more bling and the vellum foliage softens the corners. The arrow is cropped from Mossy Meadow card stock and the Old Olive greeting label has been popped over the top, with the sentiment from the Decorative Trees stamp set heat embossed in white. The full pine frond provides the focus and I've tucked in some partial ones behind. I finished with some Adhesive-Backed Metallic Gems and the Cherry Cobbler Adhesive-Backed Pearls add a pop of colour.

There was another piece of the gold and vanilla paper left and I turned it over to find the bold Old Olive and Mossy Meadow design on the reverse. I decided it was an omen and made the card again, with the green background. I ran out of the pine fronds in the Season of Green & Gold DSP, so cropped some from the Graceful Greenery Vellum. I added a Basic White die cut behind them for brightness and then used a gold gel pen to add some touches of gold to the fronds which is really nice in real life.

So, which option do you prefer? I like them both when looking at them individually and the green background does add a lot of punch!

Project Details
Stamps	Decorative Trees
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Very Vanilla, Old Olive, Mossy Meadow, Season of Green & Gold SDSP, Graceful Greenery Vellum, Gold Foil
Ink	Versamark
Accessories	Adhesive-Backed Metallic Gems, Cherry Cobbler & White Adhesive-Backed Pearls, Gold & Silver 1/8" Trim Combo Pack
Tools	Golden Greenery Dies, Greetings of the Season Dies, Stampin' Cut & Emboss, Glue Dots, White EP, Heat Tool, Uni-ball Gold Gel Pen (not SU)

Now it's time to hop along to see the project Christina 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.

Thanks for visiting today!

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Heart of Christmas - Country Birdhouse

September 02, 2024

Hi there

After a very hectic trip to Western Australia last week, it's great to be back for 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.

I've had a Christmas birdhouse card in my head since the Country Birdhouse Bundle was released and today is the day! As with all ideas it has morphed a little as a result of the upcoming products from the 2024 September - December Mini Catalogue.

I started with a piece of Pool Party card stock and dry embossed it with the Snowflake Sky 3D Embossing Folder and then rubbed the design over with an ink spot that I created with a Craft White reinker. Although hard to see in the photo, it really makes the design stand out on the coloured cardstock. You could do this with a full sized pad, but I find it easier to control with the ink spot and less likely to get the ink on the background. I adhered the panel to a Pool Party card base with a tiny border.

I decided on a gingerbread style bird house so I cropped the birdhouse from Pecan Pie card stock and inked the inside of the Timber 3D Embossing Folder with Pecan Pie ink before embossing, to give the timber look. In hindsight it would be best to die cut the opening before the embossing process, but it still works either way. I trimmed the bird house with red and white details to coordinate with the super cute Real Red & White Adhesive-Backed Peppermints which led me to decide on the gingerbread look. The peppermint embellishments are in the upcoming mini catalogue, available from 4 September.

The flowers were cropped using the Country Birdhouse Dies and the foliage is cropped using the Golden Greenery Dies for the roundish Vellum leaves and the Winterly Treetops Dies for the Shaded Spruce foliage. The sweet bird was coloured with Stampin' Blends Markers in tones to coordinate with Pecan Pie. The sentiment from the Greetings of the Season stamp set was heat embossed in white on Real Red and trimmed closely. The location isn't what I originally had in mind, but I needed to balance out the composition.

For the inside, I have a Real Red mat for the writing panel with a tiny border and I stamped another greeting from the Greetings of the Season stamp set (from Online Exclusives) in Shaded Spruce. In the corner, I have a little cluster of foliage and flowers and another coloured bird.

Project Details
Stamps	Country Birdhouse, Greetings of the Season
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Pool Party, Real Red, Shaded Spruce, Pecan Pie, Golden Greenery Vellum
Ink	Versamark, Shaded Spruce, Pecan Pie, Craft White
Accessories	Real Red & White Adhesive-Backed Peppermints
Tools	Country Birdhouse Dies, Golden Greenery Dies, Winterly Treetops Dies, Timber 3D EF, Snowflake Sky 3D EF, Stampin' Cut & Emboss, Glue Dots, Tombow Glue, White EP, Heat Tool, Stampin' Blends Markers

Now it's time to hop along to see the project Claire 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.

Thanks for visiting today!

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