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Saturday, 5 December 2020

Giant Year-End Sale Coming Soon

 


Items are available only until sold out. Shop early to avoid disappointment.


Contact me to order or with any questions. 
If ordering online, use hostess code 
FMTJTXZX  to go into a random prize draw.

Happy stamping,
Rachel

Wednesday, 2 December 2020

Art With Heart Colour Creations - week 27 Mint Macaron

 



Welcome to week 27 of the Art With Heart Colour Creations  Showcase featuring Mint Macaron, which is one of our Subtle colours. I have paired Mint Macaron with Real Red and Whisper White to create a couple of Christmas cards.  


I have used a two different snowman images from two different stamp sets.


The first card uses the Don't Stop Believing stamp set. The Mint Macaron background is embossed with the Dainty Diamonds embossing folder and mounted on a Real Red card base.


I stamped the melted snowman image and the greeting on Whisper White and cut it out with one of the Layered Square Dies. The tiny bit of colouring on this image was done using Blends Markers. The colours I used are listed below.


The ribbon on the card is Sheer Real Red Ribbon from the August to Dec Mini. The Designer Series paper is from Heart warming Hugs and the two snowflakes are from the Layered Christmas Dies.
    For the second card I stamped a snowman from the Snowman Season stamp set. The image was cut using an oval Stitched Shape Die. Once again I used my trusty Blends Markers to colour the image, although not much colouring was involved.


The snowflakes in the background are from the Christmas Layers Dies and were cut from Whisper White paper, as is the single snowflake on the top left of the image.


The final embellishment is a piece of Polka Dot Tulle around the bottom of the card. 


The greeting is also from the Snowman Season stamp set.
All of the products I have used on my projects are listed below and are available to purchase in my online store.

Thank you for visiting and viewing my projects today. If you have any questions about my projects or anything Stampin' Up! please contact me.


For more inspiration from the Art With Heart Team head to Cathy's blog for a complete list of tonight's participants.

Happy stamping,
Rachel


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Monday, 30 November 2020

Metallic Stripy Christmas Tree

 The bright sunshine in Melbourne this morning was perfect for photographing today's card. It shows the beautiful colours in the Brushed Metallic Foil papers. The three different colours, bronze, copper and gold are available in a pack together in the Aug to Dec Mini Catalogue.

I cut random long triangle strips of each colour of foil. I then attached them to a base triangle of Merry Merlot that I cut using the stitched Triangle Dies.


The background is Merry Merlot card stock that has been embossed with the Dainty Diamonds 3D Embossing Folder. The star on top of the tree is Gold Brushed Metallic card stock, cut using a Stitched Star Die.


The card base is Thick Very Vanilla card stock. I prefer to use the Thick Very Vanilla and Thick Whisper White for card bases as it adds to the stability of the card where as card bases from standard Whisper White and Very Vanilla tend to be flimsy. The trunk of the tree is a small piece of wood grain paper from the In Good Taste DSP pack.


All of the products used on this card are from Stampin' Up! and are available in  my online store, the links are below.

Thanks for visiting,
Happy stamping,
Rachel



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Wednesday, 25 November 2020

Art With Heart Colour Creations Showcase Week 26 - Merry Merlot

 




Hello, I'm back with another week of the Colour Creation Showcase. For week 26 we are featuring Merry Merlot. Merry Merlot is in the Neutrals colour family and is usually a colour I use on my Christmas cards. 


For this showcase I decided use one of the pre order sets I purchased from the up coming Stampin' Up! Jan to June Mini Catalogue. The Art Gallery Bundle includes the Art Gallery stamp set and the Floral Gallery Dies. The stamp set is a two step stamp set with numerous brushstroke style images and 9 lovely greetings. The dies cut out all of the floral images and the words 'Just Want To Say'.

As I started to play with this set I decided to stamp three different level cards that would be appropriate for my beginner, casual and avid stamping customers.


This card is for my beginner stampers. I stamped the large petal stamp in Rococo Rose and then the coordinating smaller stamp in Merry Merlot. These stamps are photopolymer(clear) so that it is easy to stamp one stamp on top of the other.

The stem is stamped in Old Olive and the greeting is also stamped in Merry Merlot.


I used the same stamps and colours on my second card for casual stampers, but I added a couple of extra steps. I cut the floral image with one of the Stitched Rectangle Dies and attached it to the Merry Merlot card base with Dimensionals.


The greeting was cut with one of the Floral Gallery Dies and attached on a small piece of Fine Art Ribbon, which is also in the upcoming catalogue. 


For the Avid stamper card I added another few steps. Again I used the same stamps and colours for the flower. I then cut out the flower with the coordinating die.


The card base is Merry Merlot again. The first layer is a Stitched Rectangle from Pool Party card stock. The second layer is a larger Stitched Rectangle in Whisper White. I placed this piece in the matching Painted Texture 3D embossing folder that I had inked with my Pool Party ink pad. This embossing folder is also available in the Jan to June Mini Catalogue.


I applied the ink directly to the embossing folder.


The greeting was stamped in Merry Merlot and cut with one of the Floral Gallery Dies. Again I used the Fine Art Ribbon that I tied around the embossed piece.


For more Merry Merlot inspiration head to Cathy's blog for a full list of tonight's participants.

Happy stamping,

Rachel

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