Welcome to week twenty-six of our Art With Heart 2024-25 Colour Creations blog hop!

This week we’re featuring Garden Green, a mid green from the Regals family. This colour was a bit of a challenge for me as my “go to” greens are always Mossy Meadow and Old Olive.

After my very non-traditional pink glimmer Christmas card I made for Monday night’s blog I’ve swung the pendulum 180 degrees and made two very classic Christmas cards.

(And yes, I will admit, I’ve managed to sneak in some Mossy Meadow and Old Olive too thanks to the stunning the Season of Green & Gold Specialty DSP!)

Most of these products are online exclusives, some available now (the Season of Green & Gold Specialty DSP, the Golden Greenery Bundle and the Greetings of the Season Bundle) and two of them (the Gold Twisted Thread and the Brushed Silver & Gold Foil Specialty Paper) will be available from the 5th November.

My colour combination is taken from the colours in the Season of Green & Gold Specialty DSP: Garden Green, Very Vanilla, Gold, Mossy Meadow, Old Olive and Pecan Pie.

I’ve used the same strips of DSP and the new Gold Foil Specialty Paper on a Garden Green cardstock base for both cards. I arranged the DSP strips in a different order and made one vertical card and one horizontal card as the layout works equally well for both orientations.

All of the greenery and the bells are cut from the Season of Green & Gold Specialty DSP. Some images have been die cut using the Golden Greenery Dies designed to cut certain shapes from the DSP, while others have been fussy cut using paper snips.

Card one has a double bow made from the Garden Green Natural Tones Linen Thread and the forthcoming Gold Twisted Thread.

Here’s a closer look at these gorgeous threads. They are both soft, small and easy to tie in a bow, just perfect for adding texture and interest to cards.

For both cards I die cut the sentiments using the largest die from the Greetings of the Season dies. I left it at full size for card one, however for card two I had to shorten the largest sentiment label from the Greetings of the Season dies to make it fit my horizontal design.

To do this I simply ran the sentiment label back through the Stampin’ Up! Stampin’ Cut & Emboss Machine, lining up the dotted border edge (you can feel the die “sit” into the groove of the existing dotted border edge) and positioning the base of the die higher up before partially die cutting it again.

Both the sentiments have been gold heat embossed onto Very Vanilla cardstock. I forget to use Very Vanilla cardstock but I really should do it more often as it gives cards such a classically elegant feel!

This slightly angled photo gives you an better idea of the beautiful gold foiling on this DSP.

If you’re looking for a layout that works well for mass producing cards I can highly recommend this one.

The stunning DSP really does all the work for you and apart from the heat embossed sentiments there is no other stamping needed on the front of the card!

Now it’s time to hop in over to our next participant, the lovely Amie McIlroy. I can’t wait to see what Amie has made this week!

If at any time you find a broken link, you can find the complete list of all participants below.  

Rachel Palmieri

Kate Morgan

Rachel Woollard

Andrea Sargent

Di Furniss

Sharon Davern

Christine Blain

Catherine Proctor – you are here!

Amie McIlroy

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The AWH Colour Creations team will be back next Wednesday 23rd October, showcasing Gorgeous Grape or you can join us on Monday night for some more Christmas inspiration.

I hope you can join us then!