Heart of Christmas 2020 - September by the Art With Heart Team Australia

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Tonight the Art With Heart Team will be showcasing their Christmas projects with you for the month of September. The lovely Judy May is the host for our monthly hop, so make sure you click on her name at the end of this blog.

For my card today I decided to use the Peaceful Boughs Stamp Set and Dies which is on page 57 of the Stampin' Up! Annual Catalogue and I've combined new products from the August - December 2020 Mini Catalogue.

I really love this set and using different products gives this Christmas card a new look. I had a light bulb moment and I wanted to use the Gold Hoop Embellishment as a starting point for my card.

Using the Beautiful Boughs Die images with the 12"x 12" Brushed Metallic Cardstock which comes in Bronze, Copper & Gold. They work well together and with the Gold Hoop Embellishment. 

The card base is in Shaded Spruce Cardstock adding another panel in the same colour, using the larger pine branch inked up in Shaded Spruce Ink and stamped around the edge of the Cardstock. I just love this colour so much and the richness of the Shaded Spruce Argyle Satin Ribbon adds another layer to my card.

The sentiment is heat embossed in Gold Stampin' Emboss Powder onto Whisper White Cardstock and die cut with the smaller label from the Beautiful Boughs Dies.

Adding a little sparkle to the card, I've used the Just Jade Gems from the Flowers for Every Season Gems. It's hard to tell from the photos, but when the light shines on the card it gives a nice shine to the gold and the gems.

Now it's time to visit Judy May's blog and the rest of the participants for this month's Heart of Christmas Showcase. 

Need a catalogue? Please send me a message here or visit my online store here to purchase any of the above products that I've used in today's project

Happy crafting 

Vicki Boucher

Art With Heart December Blog Hop Add A Little Sparkle

The Art With Heart Team are back with our last Blog Hop for 2019. Getting in the spirit of Christmas and New Year celebrations, this month our theme is ‘Add A Little Sparkle’. We have a huge range of sparkly  projects to share with you featuring products such as Glimmer paper, Rhinestones, Delicata Ink, Shimmery White cardstock and much more. All of these products are available from Stampin’ Up! and any of these lovely ladies would be happy to assist you.

I was so excited to hear about this theme for our latest blog hop, anything that is made out of glitter is my kind of thing and I’m so happy to be sharing with you my latest Christmas Card using Stampin’ Up! products. Plus I’m using a brand new product that is available for customers in January 2020.

Glitter is so much fun to play with when it comes to using it in your papercraft, cards or scrapbooking. The colour choice for my card I've chosen is Whisper White, Silver (all different types of mediums) and Blushing Bride (a beautiful shade of pink).

I started off with a piece of Silver Foil, run it through with the Corrugated 3D Embossing Folder and the Die Cutting Machine. Then I die cut the embossed Silver Foil paper with the medium size Stitched Rectangle Dies to give the card a nice finished look. I wanted to give the Silver Foil some sparkle so I ran my Versamark Ink Pad along the raised bumps, added Stampin’ Glitter and heat set with the Heat Tool.

I’ve used the Beautiful Boughs Dies for the labels and the Perfectly Plaid Stamp Set for the greetings. Using Silver Stampin’ Emboss Powder to coordinate the colours throughout the card.



The gorgeous snowflakes and leaf foliage are from the Christmas Layers Dies. I’ve die cut them out using Blushing Bride Cardstock and Silver Glimmer paper which is just stunning to use.

The Blushing Bride leaf foliage needed some added sparkle so I used the Shimmery Crystal Effects and sprinkled Stampin’ Glitter on top, wait for it to dry before adding to your papercraft. The snow flakes add a nice touch to the card too.



The card base is Thick Whisper White Cardstock and I’ve randomly stamped the words in Blushing Bride Ink, but I like to stamp off before stamping onto the card. I’ve added Silver Metallic Thread under the top label.

Now for the new product which is available in January 2020 in the Mini Catalogue they are pretty embellishments called From My Heart Faceted Gems. They add some pretty pink sparkle to the card. What do you think?


The next demonstrator to share their sparkly projects with you is the delightful….. Rebecca Jacovou

If you have a broken link or have come to this blog hop midway, you can view all the participants below:



Tina Gillespie

Rachel Woollard

Catherine Proctor

Vicki Boucher

Rebecca Jacovou

Andrea Sargent

Kathryn Ruddick

Caroline Manwaring

To purchase any of these products I’ve used today you can click on my direct links above or visit my Online Store here.

If you would like a catalogue from me please send me a message here.



Thanks for stopping by today!



Happy Crafting 


Vicki Boucher



Product List



Stamps: Perfectly Plaid

Dies: Stitched Rectangle Dies, Christmas Layers Dies and Beautiful Boughs Dies

Ink: Blushing Bride

Cardstock/Paper: Whisper White, Blushing Bride, Silver Glimmer Foil and Silver Foil

Embossing Folders: Corrugated 3D

Colouring Tools: Versamark, Stampin’ Glitter, Embossing Buddy, Sliver Stampin’ Emboss Powder and Heat Tool

Other Stampin’ Up! Products: Silver Metallic Thread, Shimmery Crystal Effects and From My Heart Faceted Gems



   

Heart of Christmas Week 16 Christmas Blog Hop with the Heart Of Art Team

Hello and welcome back,


It’s time for week 16 of the Heart of Christmas blog hop with my friends from Art With Heart Team and sadly this is the last hop for the year. We are now in December and I have so enjoyed creating cards each week for these hops. I might do a blog later in the week showcasing all of the cards that I’ve created, so watch out for that one too.

Today’s card I wanted a very vintage look using Crumb Cake, Seaside Spray (a favorite colour of mine), Early Espresso and white giving that snow look about the card.


I’ve used the Peaceful Boughs Bundle which includes the Peaceful Boughs Stamp Set and Beautiful Boughs Dies. This set would be the one I’ve used the most with all of my cards. I just love it!

I’ve started off using a piece of Crumb Cake Cardstock, ran it through the die cutting machine with the Swirls & Curls Embossing Folder. I’ve used the Versamark Ink Pad, smudged ink onto the Embossed Cardstock and randomly sprinkled White Stampin’ Emboss Powder onto the Cardstock. Then heat set with the Heat Tool, once it's cooled down I added a little colour of Seaside Spray with the Sponge Dauber onto the White embossing.


Using the medium size branch from the Beautiful Boughs Dies, I’ve die cut out three branches in Whisper White Cardstock and sponged colour onto the foliage in Seaside Spray, Crumb Cake and Early Espresso. 

The two pine cones have been die cut out in Crumb Cake, sponged with a Sponge Dauber in Early Espresso for the bottom layer and White Craft Stampin’ Ink for the top layer. The cute bow attached to them is Linen Thread.

The bottom layer of the two labels is sponged in Crumb Cake on Whisper White Cardstock. I’ve attached the stamp to my fingers and stamped the sentiment randomly so not all of the ink touches the Cardstock. This idea/technique is called “hand stamped” which came from a Demonstrator Rebecca Hall who did a presentation at the Stampin’ Up! On Stage event in Sydney in November, so I just had to try it out.


The top layer for the Season’s Greeting stamped image is stamped in Early Espresso onto Crumb Cake Cardstock, die cut out with the smaller label and sponged ink in Early Espresso. 

To finish off the card I’ve used a piece of Whisper white Cardstock, lightly sponged the three inks with the Sponge Dauber onto the edge of the Cardstock which gives a nice finishing touch to the card. Then I layered all of the pieces together and placed them onto Crumb Cake Cardstock base.


This week’s Heart of Christmas blog hop is hosted by Judy May to see her creation and the rest of the team please click here. I’m sure they are all amazing creations not to be missed!

Thanks for stopping by today!

Happy Crafting,

Vicki Boucher

To purchase any of these products I’ve used today you can click on my direct links above or visit my Online Store here.

If you would like a copy of the current Stampin’ Up! 2019 Holiday Catalogue or the Annual 2019-2020 Catalogue please send me a message here.

Product List

Ink: Seaside Spray, Crumb Cake and Early Espresso

Cardstock: Crumb Cake and Whisper White

Stamps: Peaceful Boughs

Dies: Beautiful Boughs

Embossing Folder: Swirls & Curls

Colouring Tools: Versamark, Heat Tool, White Stampin’ Emboss Powder, White Craft Stampin’ Ink Pad and Sponge Dauber

Ribbon: Linen Thread

Creation Station Blog Hop "Put A Ring On It"

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I am so excited to be part of this amazing group of Stampin’ Up! Demonstrators who all blog hop at the Creation Station Design Team. The hop is always the first Sunday of every month we have a different theme to create something special. If you’ve started here with me make sure you hop all the through to see Dena Rekow’s amazing creation.

Today’s theme we are going all out “Put a Ring on It” which means creating a Belly Band for cards, boxes, or anything you can think of. I’ve chosen to do a Mini Fold Out Christmas Gift with slide out Gift Tag and Bookmark, plus an area to write a special message.

Have you seen the gorgeous Feels Like Frost DSP? It’s in the current 2019 Holiday Catalogue and it’s just so stunning. There is photographic imagery on one side, hand drawn designs with silver foil on the other side. I just love the colours in the DSP which I’ve used Night of Navy, Seaside Spray, Silver and Whisper White.

The Belly Band has so many layers starting with the strip of Night of Navy Cardstock, I’ve spritzed it with Frost White Shimmer Paint and Rubbing Alcohol combined together in a Stampin’ Spritzer. I’ve used   Feels Like Frost DSP in the band to coordinate with the Mini Fold Out Gift holder.

I’ve added three different types of Ribbon together, Seaside Spray Metallic Ribbon, Whisper White Polka Dot, Silver Metallic Edge Ribbon and wrapping them around the Belly Band. This gives an added soft texture to the Belly Band and I'm happy how I’ve tied the ribbon in a knot.  

The layer of Night of Navy Corrugated Embossed Cardstock has so many elements to it. I’ve used Silver Emboss Powder by lightly placing Versamark Ink Pad in random places on the Embossed Cardstock and sprinkling the Silver Emboss Powder. If I find there’s too much powder, I lightly brush it off before heat setting with the Heat Tool. I wanted to add some more sparkle and go all out with the Shimmery Crystal Effects and Ice Stampin’ Glitter. 

My next layer I’ve used the Beautiful Boughs Dies using the medium size branch die with Whisper White Cardstock and adding Shimmery Crystal Effects with Stampin’ Glitter.

To finish off the Belly Band I’ve placed the Silver Foil die cut image of the deer from the Detailed Deer Dies and Silver Foil Snow Flakes from the Christmas Layers Dies. In each center of the Snow Flakes I’ve added a Clear Epoxy Droplets. The greeting is from the Itty Bitty Christmas Stamp Set using White Stampin’ Emboss Powder, heat set on Night of Navy Cardstock and fussy cut out.

The Belly Band fits nicely over the Mini Fold Out Christmas Gift I found it easier to wrap the band around before sealing it with Tear and Tape. I think this gift would be lovely idea as a teacher’s Thank You gift for my daughter’s teacher. What do you think?

All of the Stampin’ Up! products I’ve used will be at the bottom of this blog and are available at my online store. 

Now it's time to head over to Kathy Brown Kartak on the Design Team and to see her creation.

Be sure to visit everyone’s blog and I’m sure you’ll be inspired to create a Belly Band for someone special too!

Thank you for stopping by!

Happy Crafting


Vicki Boucher

To purchase any of these products I’ve used today you can click on my direct links above or visit my Online Store here.

Product List
Paper/Cardstock: Night of Navy, Whisper White, Silver Foil and Feels Like Frost 6” x 6” DSP
Ink: Night of Navy and Seaside Spray
Stamps: Still Scenes, So Many Stars and Itty Bitty Christmas
Dies: Snow Globe Scenes, Beautiful Boughs, Christmas Layers and Detailed Deer
Punches: Delightful Tag Topper
Embossing Folder: Corrugated 3D
Embellishments: Clear Epoxy Droplets
Ribbon: Seaside Spray ¼” Metallic Ribbon, Whisper White 5/8” Polka Dot Tulle Ribbon and Silver 3/8” Metallic Edge Ribbon
Colouring Tools: Stampin’ Spritzers, Frost White Shimmer Paint, Versamark, Heat Tool, Stampin’ Glitter, Embossing Buddy, Silver Stampin’ Emboss Powder, White Stampin’ Emboss Powder, Ice Stampin’ Glitter and Shimmery Crystal Effects

Stampin' Up! 2019 Holiday Catalogue Art With Heart Team Blog Hop Week 12

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It’s week 12 with the Heart of Christmas blog hop and today I’ll be sharing my card using the Christmastime Is Here Suite. This suite is here for a limited time for the month of November and you can order this product today! The suite is available to purchase from my online store link at the end of this blog.

This suite is exclusive to Stampin’ Up! It’s just so stunning with the gorgeous festive floral Christmas Rose Stamp Set and coordinating Roses Dies which the die cuts out the Rose stamped image.

For the card I’ve stamped the large floral image onto Whisper White Cardstock. I wanted to use some different colours for the Rose and I’ve used my Stampin’ Blends. I just love to colour with the Blends they are just so magical to create with! 

I started off with colouring in the rose using both light & dark Mint Macaron and blending in with the Color Lifter. The bigger leaves I have used light & dark Soft Sea Foam. The spikey thin looking leaves, I started off using the light Mossy Meadow, but then I decided I wanted to use the dark Smoky Slate. The grey always goes so nicely together with these colours. The pinecones are in light & dark Crumb Cake and the berries I have used light & dark Flirty Flamingo.

For the card base I’ve used Thick Whisper White Cardstock, stamped the greeting off in Mint Macaron and then stamping randomly on the Cardstock.


The card front has been lightly sponged in Mint Macaron with the Sponge Dauber to give the die cut some lift as well as colour to the card. Before adding the Rose die cut image to the card I’ve placed Whisper White Polka Dot Tulle Ribbon under the Rose. 

The Merry Christmas greeting is from the Perfectly Plaid stamp set, stamped in Memento Black and die cut with the smaller label from the Beautiful Boughs Dies. I just love it when Stampin’ Up! products can be used so well together and then you have a completely different card. 


To finish off the card I’ve layered the die pieces with Stampin’ Dimensionals and I’ve placed three Frosted Epoxy Droplets which balances nicely with the soft colours.

This week's Heart of Christmas blog hop is hosted by Claire Daly to see her creation and the rest of the team please click here.

Happy Crafting

Vicki Boucher

To purchase any of these products I’ve used today you can click on my direct links above or visit my Online Store here.

If you would like a copy of the current Stampin’ Up! 2019 Holiday Catalogue or the Annual 2019-2020 Catalogue please send me a message here.

Product List

Stamp Set: Christmas Rose and Perfectly Plaid

Dies: Roses and Beautiful Boughs Dies

Colouring Tools: Stampin’ Blends :- Mint Macaron, Soft Sea Foam, Flirty Flamingo, Mossy Meadow, Smoky Slate and Color Lifter. Sponge Dauber

Cardstock: Whisper White

Ribbon and Embellishments: Whisper White Polka Dot Tulle Ribbon and Frosted Epoxy Droplets

Art With Heart October Blog Hop Featuring Embossing Folders

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Welcome to another Art With Heart Blog Hop. This month we are featuring Stampin' Up's! versatile range of Embossing Folders. There are new Embossing Folders available in every Stampin' Up! catalogue and they are an inexpensive way of adding WOW! to your projects. Currently there are 24 different Embossing Folders in the range.

Tonight we plan on showing you lots of ideas on how to use these folders.

For best results when using the Stampin' Up!'s 3D Embossing Folders; use the 3D Embossing Folder Plate; it adds a little more oomph to your die sandwich to make those 3D designs pop.

Tonight I will be sharing with you two cards that I’ve created using the Swirls and Curls Embossing Folder which is a standard Embossing Folder. This folder gives you a beautiful instant snow like feel when you create a card for Christmas.

For both cards I’ve used the same bundle Christmas Gleaming including the stamp set and punch pack. I have also used the Beautiful Boughs Dies for the branch and the smaller label die. Just by using different colours for your cards, you can get a totally different look with the two cards.

The Night of Navy card is combined with Copper Foil, Copper Stampin’ Emboss Powder and Celestial Copper Delicata Ink. As per above photo, I’ve used a Stampin' Sponge with the Copper Ink and lightly swirled the ink over the embossed cardstock which gave the card a different dimension and colour to it.

The Smoky Slate, Whisper White card is combined with Silver Foil, Silver Stampin’ Emboss Powder, White Stampin’ Emboss Powder and Frost White Shimmer Paint.

I’ve used the same technique using a Stampin' Sponge with the Frost White Shimmer Paint which gives the card a frosted shimmer look.

Which card do you prefer? The Night of Navy with Copper or Whisper White/Smoky Slate with Sliver? 

Thank you for visiting my blog today and now it’s time to see Tina Gillespie creation using an Embossing Folder. 

If you find a broken link or have come to this blog hop from a different entry point, you can view all the participants below:



Kate Morgan

Rachel Woollard

Rebecca Jacovou

Sharon Davern

Vicki Boucher

Tina Gillespie

Claire Daly

Catherine Proctor

Caroline Manwaring

Rachel Palmieri

Andrea Sargent

Sujatha Harding

To purchase any of these products I’ve used today you can click on my direct links above or visit my Online Store here.

If you would like a copy of the current Stampin’ Up! 2019 Holiday Catalogue or the Annual 2019-2020 Catalogue please send me a message here.

Happy Crafting

Vicki Boucher

Product List:

Embossing Folder: Swirls & Curls

Stamps: Christmas Gleaming

Dies: Beautiful Boughs

Punch: Gleaming Ornaments Punch Pack

Cardstock: Whisper White, Night of Navy, Smoky Slate, Copper Foil, Silver Foil and Silver Glimmer Paper

Colouring Tools: Frost White Shimmer Paint, Stamping Sponges, Embossing Buddy, Versamark, Heat Tool, Copper Stampin’ Emboss Powder, White Stampin’ Emboss Powder, Silver Stampin’ Emboss Powder and Celestial Copper Ink.

Colour INKspiration Challenge #66

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Today I will be sharing with you a card that I’ve created for the latest Colour INKspiration Challenge #66 and the choice of colours are Gorgeous Grape, Coastal Cabana, Poppy Parade, Pineapple Punch, Mint Macaron and Lovely Lipstick. How gorgeous is the photo and choice of colours? You can choose any three colours for your creation, plus you can use Basic Black, Whisper White, Very Vanilla and Metallics. This challenge will run for 3 weeks and will end at 7pm (AEDT) on Monday 11^th November 2019. 

Did you see Nicole Wilson’s beautiful creation for this challenge? I just love the colours and technique she has used, so be sure to hop all the way through for more inspiration using these colours.

The colours I’ve used for my card are Gorgeous Grape, Coastal Cabana and Mint Macaron. I wanted to create a non-traditional colour scheme for my Christmas card.

This card was so fun to create and I just love the colours. I’ve used the Pigment Sprinkles in Gorgeous Grape onto Fluid 100 Water Color Paper. I randomly stamped the snow falling stamp (Peaceful Boughs Stamp Set) with Versamark Ink onto the Water Color Paper, sprinkled White Stampin’ Emboss Powder and heat set the snow.

I’ve used just one of dies from Beautiful Bough Dies to create the wreath in the colours that I mentioned above. I've applied the Snowfall Accents Puff Paint and Clear Wink Of Stella Glitter Brush onto each die cut piece before adhering to the layered Water Colour Paper with Multipurpose Glue.

The greeting is from the Peaceful Boughs Stamp Set, stamped in Versamark Ink onto a piece of Basic Black Cardstock, White Stampin’ Emboss Powder and heat set. Then I fussy cut out the greeting with my paper snips.

I layered the Water Color Paper onto Gorgeous Grape Cardstock, added a few Noble Peacock Rhinestones in Gorgeous Grape to the wreath, made a bow in Gorgeous Grape ¼” Mini Striped Ribbon and added the greeting with Stampin’ Dimensionals. 

Make sure you visit our Facebook group to enter your creation, we would love to see which colour combination you choose and it’s so much fun to share too!


Click to join Colour INKSpiration Facebook group to partake in the challenge. All you need to do is up load a photo and if you have a blog you can link it back to your personal blog. Share with your crafty friends so they can join in with the challenges too.


Hope to see you there!

Now for more inspiration please click on the next button to see Jan Clothier to see her beautiful card.


Happy Crafting


Vicki Boucher


To purchase any of these products I’ve used today you can click on my direct links above or visit my Online Store here.