AWHT Monthly Blog Hop - Nov 2019

Pentagonal Treasure Chest Keepsake Boxes 

with Band Together and Butterfly Gala

Thanks for dropping by. The Art With Heart Team are back with another inspirational Blog Hop. I hope you are enjoying hopping along with this November 2019 Blog Hop.

This month we are featuring Gift Bags and Boxes, just in time for the Christmas gift giving season. The featured bags and boxes are all made using current Stampin’ Up! products and any of our wonderful team members are happy to help you with the supplies you will need if you want to reproduce these beautiful projects.

Earlier this month Stampin' Up held "On Stage", it's regular conference for demonstrators. Events were held around the world, with 2 events held in Australia, one in Sydney and the other in Perth. I attended the Perth event and extended my holiday to see some of WA's beautiful sights. I created some pentagonal boxes and filled them with Haigh's Christmas chocolate baubles as gifts for friends I met. I had already given some away before I remembered to photograph them for tonight's blog hop. Here are the remaining 3 Pentagonal Treasure Chest boxes - photographed in my Perth hotel room.

When you've browsed through Stampin' Up's 2019 Holiday Catalogue you would have seen this style of box on page 50 but it was decorated differently.  The Stampin' Up Design Team had CASEd (which stands for Copy And Share Everything) one of Sam Hammond's early projects first shown by her in a video in August 2013. Sam is the top UK Demonstrator for the UK & European market. She remade the box again this year and downloaded her video in September as #10 of Pootles Advent Countdown 2019. You can search Utube for this video if you want to see how to make her gorgeous Pentagonal box.

Here's some details about the individual boxes that I am sharing with you:

The box was formed from a trimmed A4 sheet of Night of Navy cardstock and glued together with Tombow Liquid Glue. The Belly Band was cut from the Brightly Gleaming Speciality Designer Series Paper and adhered with tear 'n tape so as to minimise the possibility of glue oozing out and accidentally sticking bits incorrectly together. The filigree backing to the sentiment was cut with a die from Detailed Bands out of copper foil and glued with dots of liquid adhesive with the centre section raised on dimensionals. The greeting was stamped using a stamp from the Stamp Together stamp set with Celestial Copper Delicata Metallic ink and the oval cut using another die from Detailed Bands. The butterfly was made using vellum and stamped using the Butterfly Gala stamp set & copper ink; cut out using the Butterfly Duet punch and finished with a pearl (Pearl Basic Jewels) coloured with a Dark Night of Navy Blend.

This box was created with the same products as the Night of Navy box apart from a change in colours and Designer Series Paper, that is: the box itself was made from Petal Pink cardstock; the Belly Band created with Magnolia Lane DSP; and decorated with a vellum butterfly stamped in Petal Pink ink and finished off with a small white pearl (uncoloured).

This box was made out of Soft Sea Foam cardstock; the Belly Band created with Garden Lane DSP; and decorated with a filigree background cut with a Detailed Bands die out of Gold Foil and a vellum butterfly stamped in Soft Sea Foam ink and finished off with a small gold Metallic Pearl.


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There is more creative inspiration in this month's Art With Heart Blog Hop.  The very talented Sujatha Harding is next. Click here to visit her blog or click on the arrow below.  

  

If you find a broken link or have come to this blog hop midway through the participants, you can also view all the talented paper crafters below by clicking on their names and the link will take you to their blog. I'm certainly looking forward to seeing everyones' creations.

Rachel Palmieri

Sharon Davern

Rebecca Jacovou

Kathryn Ruddick

Catherine Proctor

Vicki Boucher

Andrea Sargent

Sujatha Harding

Rachel Woollard

Tina Gillespie

Kate Morgan

Kathryn Mangelsdorf

Art With Heart “Heart of Christmas 2019” - Week 13

Wrapped in Plaid

I just had a bit of a heart flutter - only 6 weeks to Christmas. Where has the year gone?

I'm still in Western Australia. The conference I was attending concluded Saturday. Then I met up with a friend who had just flown in from Adelaide and we travelled to Margaret River. In the last few days we have gone whale watching, caught up with Stampin Up friends in Busselton, toured a range of Margaret River sites and businesses, including Cape Lavender Tea House, Chocolate factories, wineries & breweries, galleries, places that craft beautiful soaps and so much more. It's been wonderful.

Prior to heading to WA I made a card for this blog hop. As time was limited, I CASEd a card design from one of the Artisan Team members, the talented Stesha Bloodhart. I really loved her card but have altered a number of aspects of Stesha's design to individualise it. Here is my card:

The feature of this card is beautiful Wrapped in Plaid Suite by Stampin' Up - check out pages 12 - 14 of the Holiday Catalogue, which features delightful products for Christmas. There is a panel of the gorgeous Speciality Designer Series Paper (DSP) Wrapped in Plaid, which has a number of stunning tartans using Cherry Cobbler, Shaded Spruce, Night of Navy, Whisper White and gold. One of the features of Stampin Up's products is the way the colours match across products, for example the DSP shown on this card features Cherry Cobbler, Shaded Spruce and gold, so I was able to pick up those colours in the card stock together with Gold foil paper. I mounded the DSP on Shaded Spruce card stock and added a strip of die embossed gold foil. I used the same card stock plus Cherry Cobbler to cut 3 different sized circular discs, layered and positioned to the LHS. 2 of the discs were cut using punches and the 3rd used a die from the Stitched Shapes dies.

The trees were stamped on Whisper White card stock using the Perfectly Plaid stamp set, one with Shaded Spruce and the other in the Delicata Metallic Golden Glitz ink. This metallic ink is so so gorgeous and is only available from Stampin Up during the availability period for the Holiday Catalogue. In addition to the gold ink there are delicious copper and silver ink pads. Don't miss out trying them out - they are brilliant! The greeting is also from the Perfectly Plaid stamp set and was stamped on Cherry Cobbler card stock die cut with one of the Stitched Label dies.

The card centre is fairly simple. The greeting came from the same stamp set and was stamped using the Golden Glitz ink. As you can see, stamped and punched trees were adhered to the lower LHS. Though not seen fully in the above photos, another stamped and punched tree was adhered to the envelope front so that it would complement the card.

That's it for me for this week's blog hop, however, there is so much more inspiration to be found. The talented Judy May is hosting the Heart of Christmas 2019 blog hop this week – to check out the team’s festive creations you can visit Judy’s page by clicking here. She has the links to all this week's blog hoppers.

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