Heart of Christmas Blog Hop - Week 6

                             

 

Hello and welcome my friends,

My name is Vicki Boucher and I'm from Melbourne, Australia. Today, I'll be sharing with you a Christmas card I've made for the latest blog hop with the team from Art With Heart in Australia and we are now onto week 6.

The Heart of Christmas blog hop will be on Monday at 8pm each week until November 25th. I'm looking forward to seeing everyone's beautiful creations, so make sure you visit everyone's blog. The link for the next person will be at the end of my blog.

Here's my card for tonight's hop, I've used the Reindeer Fun Bundle (164044) which is located on page 27 of the Stampin' Up! Mini Catalogue and it's part of the Reindeer Days Suite Collection. I went in another direction with this bundle and went with Nordic style using white and neutral colours. I just love the paper from the Country Woods Designer Series Paper (163393) and the Oxidized Copper Specialty Designer Series Paper (162190) for some of the elements.

Using a panel of wood paper selected from the Country Woods DSP I like to tear the paper by using my fingers and to create an organic look. I like how it exposes some of the white part from the printed paper. The sentiment is from the Reindeer Fun Stamp Set, stamped in VersaMark ink adding white powder and heat embossed the sentiment using the heat tool.

The deer is stamped in Early Espresso and coloured in using Stampin' Blends in the following colours SU500, SU800, light & dark Pecan Pie and Color Lifter. I like to leave some white space around the face, throat, tail and just near their feet (hooves). I used the coordinating Reindeer Fun Dies to die-cut out the deer. 

To make the presents I used the two present dies from the Reindeer Fun Dies, die-cut two in Basic White Cardstock and one in Oxidized Copper Specialty DSP. I also used the cute bow die for the top of the presents. I used thin strips of white cardstock and copper paper to match the bows for the presents. Tip; use Adhesive Sheets (152334) and attach to the backing of cardstock or DSP to make your own stickers this makes it easier to apply to your card making.

To make the Christmas lights I used the detailed lights die and die-cut out two in Basic White and two in Oxidized Copper. Next, using paper snips scissors I snipped off the light bulb in copper and added them to the white Christmas lights. I also used adhesive sheets for the backing of the Christmas lights.

The stamped images on the white background panel are stamped in Crumb Cake ink and then I added the peekaboo window using the circular open tree die using Basic White Cardstock and layered it over the stamped panel.

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

Now it's time to visit Rosa Leyden's blog, I can't wait to see her beautiful Christmas project.

If the link is broken Sharon is our host for the Heart of Christmas blog hop with all of the list of the participants, click on Sharon Davern's name to see the list.

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Stampin' Up! 2024 Mini Catalogue

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Happy Stamping

Vicki Boucher