AWH Heart of Christmas Blog Hop #9

Christmas with Christmas Friends

Hello. Welcome to Valley Inspirations with Andrea and the ninth Art with Heart Team 2024 Heart of Christmas Blog Hop. We are hopping every week until the end of November. I hope you can check us out each week as I know there will be so many ideas on display to help your Christmas preparations.

I love creating Christmas themed projects and sharing them with you. This week I created another Flip Flap Window card, but this time it is a square card, ie 5” x 5”. This card features the  cute Christmas Friends bundle together with the Reindeer Fun dies. Here is my card:

I was part of Emma Goddard’s Card & Cuppa last Friday and as Emma’s card was taking shape my brain was formulating a different card using the Christmas Friends bundle. It took form today. I have had a number of other issues arise and so was delayed in creating this card. The time disappeared as I was creating this card and so I now have limited time to write this blog. It will be quite abbreviated tonight but will add further information tomorrow so if you want details of the products, etc, please come back later. The photos of the card have been uploaded for you to check out tonight.

I started by stamping all the images from the Christmas Friends stamps in Momento ink on Basic White card-stock. The many images were coloured with Stampin’ Blends and then cut out with the coordinating dies.

I worked out card dimensions around a 5”x5” card. The background DSPs are from the A Little Bit Festive Speciality Designer Series Paper. This pack has 3 sheets of double sided DSP- each a different design. This card uses 2 designs. The circular labels were cut from Basic White card-stock by the circle die in the Christmas Friends dies. A little blending was added to subtly give a sense of ground and sky. Some tiny die cut pieces were cut from Gold Foil.

A number of the sentiments are from the Peaceful Season stamp set, except the sentiment used below that came from the Christmas Friends stamps.

Once the flap opens, this is what you see.  The following photos show each panel individually.

This is what you see when the card front opens.

And here is the back of the card for writing a personal message.

Thank you so much for dropping in on your way around the 9th Heart of Christmas Blog Hop.

There is more Christmas creativity, so do continue with the blog hop. Just click on the "next" graphic below to be taken to the blog of a wonderful lady and the leader of Art with Heart Team, Claire Daly. I always look forward to checking out Christine’s creation(s). I do love seeing everyones' projects - there is so much inspiration.

I hope to see you next week when we hold another Heart of Christmas Blog Hop. Also, many of us participate in the Colour Creations Blog Hop that goes live every Wednesday night where we showcase one of Stampin’ Up!s colours each week. We would love you to also check in on us for more creative inspiration.

Stay well, stay safe and be kind to yourself.

Andrea 💕🐾

If you find a broken link or would like to view the full list of participants go to Sharon Davern’s blog. Check out her delightful creation while you are there.

If you live in Australia, don't already have a Stampin' Up! demonstrator and would like your own copy of the Stampin' Up 2023-2024 Annual Catalogue and or the coming September-December 2024 Mini Catalogue, then let me know and I will be delighted to send them to you.  Please don't hesitate to make contact with any other queries about these projects or Stampin' Up!. 

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