AWH Heart of Christmas Blog Hop #12

Christmas with Yuletide Village

Hello. Welcome to Valley Inspirations with Andrea and the twelfth Art with Heart Team Heart of Christmas Blog Hop for 2024. We are will be blog hopping every week until the end of November. I hope you can continue to check out the Blog Hop each week as we share ideas and different projects to help your Christmas preparations.

I love creating Christmas projects and sharing them with you. This week I have created a Double Diamond M-fold card. I recently saw Sue Campfield, a top performing USA Demonstrator, create a card using this fold. As I was watching her create the card, I was busy converting dimensions to coordinate with A4 cardstock, rather than the size of card-stock in the USA. She also showed a triple diamond fun fold card and a single diamond fun fold card. I will use the other folds at some stage - just not tonight. Here is my card:

The card pulled open looks like this:

Here is a side view of the “M” fold.

The Thick Basic White card-stock base starts by cutting an A4 sheet of thick card-stock in half lengthwise, ie 10.5 x 29.6 cm. Three score lines were added across the long edge of the card at 8.9, 17.8, 23.7cm and the base was folded - mountain, valley, mountain, then the fold lines were burnished with a Bone Folder. Two pieces of Winter Meadows Designer Series Paper - the Lost Lagoon tree design, were adhered to the downward front facing panels.

Two squares of Basic White card-stock were cut to 7.9 x 7.9cm and 2 smaller pieces at 7.6 x 7.6cm. A delicate blending of Pool Party Classic ink was added to the top section of the smaller card-stock squares. Some splattering was added with a Pool Party Stampin’ Write Marker.

Using the Yuletide Village stamp set, the Church and two of the 3 houses were stamped in Momento Black ink onto Basic White card-stock, as was a couple of single pine tree. All the images were coloured with Stampin’ Blends Combos, ie Crumb Cake, Lemon Lolly, Pool Party, Lost Lagoon, Shaded Spruce, Real Red & Misty Moonlight, plus the Colour Lifter. The tiny deciduous tree was stamped in Crumb Cake ink. As this was a stand alone stamp set, the images were fussy cut using Stampin’ Up! wonderful Snips.

Some Basic White card-stock was also torn to add snow drift layers. Gold garlands were added to the central tree on the front panel. The garlands were cut using dies from the Decorative Tree dies in Gold Foil. A sentiment from the Peaceful Season stamp set was white heat embossed on to Lost Lagoon card-stock. The final touch - some gorgeous Iridescent Faceted Gems.

The panel for writing a personal message is the inner back panel. A 2-story house was stamped in Momento ink and coloured with Stampin’ Blends. A tiny rock wall was stamped in Crumb Cake ink and a tiny deciduous tree was also stamped in Crumb Cake ink. Similar to the card front, some light Pool Party ink was blended for the sky followed by some Pool Party splattering. A C6 Basic White envelope was also stamped with the same house with a few deciduous trees with similar additional colouring.

And yes, it does fit into a Basic White C6 envelope.

Thank you so much for dropping in to check out my Yuletide Village Double Diamond card. The fold is quite a simple one, once the dimensions are calculated.

There is more Christmas creativity, so do continue through the blog hop. Just click on the "next" graphic below to be taken to the blog of the lovely, Claire Daly. I always look forward to seeing Claire’s creation(s). I do love seeing everyones' projects - there is so much inspiration.

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 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 @ Rhapsody in Craft. Sharon is our amazing Art With Heart Team Heart of Christmas Coordinator.  She is a special lady. 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 new 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 re any queries about this project or Stampin' Up!. 

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