Heart of Christmas Blog Hop

 

 Hello and welcome,

I'm so happy my Stampin' Up! box of Christmas goodies arrived at my door step and now I can share with you one of the bundles for our second week of Heart of Christmas blog hop. This week is hosted by the lovely Tina Gillespie from the Art With Heart Team. 

Stampin' Up! have the new July - December 2021 Stampin' Up Mini Catalogue which is coming out very soon for our customers. As demonstrators we are lucky receive the catalogue and also pre-purchase products from the Mini Catalogue and there's more exciting news! Stampin' Up! have Sale-A-Bration for 3 August - 30 September 2021 or unless sold out earlier. Choose a FREE Sale-A-Bration product with every $90 AUD or $180 AUD you spend (before shipping and handling). I always love free Stampin' Up! products.

I decided to go with non-traditional colours and paper for my handmade Christmas card. I've used the new Frosted Gingerbread bundle which comes with coordinating Gingerbread Dies. This bundle also comes in the Gingerbread & Peppermint Suite there are so many beautiful products in this Suite and I can't wait to play with more of it.

I've created an emboss resist technique by stamping the Christmas bauble image a number of times in Versamark Ink onto Basic White panel, adding White Stampin' Emboss Powder remove excess and heat with the Heat Tool. Then with the Blending Brush and Fresh Freesia Ink apply lightly to the embossed Christmas baubles.

Using a strip of Fresh Freesia Designer Series Paper I wanted to try the scrunching, folding, pleating technique which I discovered from Lou Kitzelman on her Instagram for her non-traditional Christmas card. I like how it gives you more dimension to the card and I always love to add more layers. 

I added a strip of  Fresh Freesia gingham paper which is from the Pansy Petals Designer Series Paper which is currently on sale until 2nd August 2021 with 15% discount. There are a total of 9 Designer Series Paper on sale, more details below and on my online store.

The Christmas die-cut images from the Gingerbread Dies are cut out using Basic White and Fresh Freesia Cardstock. I love the white swirls against Fresh Freesia. I've wrapped around White Baker's Twine and added a bow to the card. To finish off the greeting fits nicely inside the white image of the Christmas bauble.

I hope I've inspired you to start creating your own Christmas projects using paper craft. Stampin' Up! have so many beautiful products and I just love how it all coordinates.

Well that's it for me and I'm so excited to see everyone's Christmas projects so make sure you hope around the blog hop. Next up is Tina Gillespie just click on the next button below.

 If at any time you find a broken link please head to the blog of this week’s Host of the Heart of Christmas Blog Hop, Tina Gillespie, and she will have the list of all who are participating.

 

Thank you for visiting my blog today, I would so love hear your thoughts on my project by leaving a comment below.

If you live in Australia, you can purchase any of the Stampin' Up! products by shopping with me at my online store here.

Here is the list of Designer Series Paper which is on sale with 15% off discount and is available for purchase from my online store.

Happy Stamping 

Vicki Boucher