Heart of Christmas – More Season of Green & Gold

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Welcome to another week of Heart of Christmas. Each week, the talented ladies from the Art with Heart team will bring you inspiration for your holiday craft projects. I can’t believe we are already on week 8 and there are less than 100 days until Christmas, so there is no time to delay starting your holiday season crafting.

Well, after saying a couple of weeks ago that green isn’t a go-to colour for me, I have another green and gold for you card this week. There are so many possibilities with the  Season of Green & Gold Suite products and you could easily create all of your holiday cards with a variety of beautiful designs. If you’re looking for some inspiration with these products, head to my Season of Green & Gold Suite Pinterest Board. This card was inspired by one made by Susan Campfield a few months ago. I’ve created a metric size card and worked out my own version of the mechanism inside the card.

The card starts with a Thick Basic White card base in landscape and this time I’ve used the Old Olive & Mossy Meadow design from the Season of Green & Gold Specialty DSP down the left side with a strip of Gold Foil and then the remaining panel has been embossed with the Dashing Designs 3D Embossing Folder which I’m using for the first time. The sentiment from the Greetings of the Season stamp set was heat embossed in gold and cropped with  the Country Side Corners Dies, along with the Mossy Meadow mat. I added two sprays of the coordinating foliage (mistletoe?) cropped from the paper with a die from the Golden Greenery Dies. I finished with some self-adhesive gold sequins and a bow using the (retired) Satin Edge Ribbon. This is a layout that I’ve used many times, but it is the inside where things get a little different.

On the inside there is a bit of a fancy fold going on, with a a set of Country Side Corners die cuts attached to a flap in the centre of the card. I’ve decorated the left side with another strip of paper and Gold Foil the same width as the front and lightly added some Old Olive ink to the Basic White die cut with a Blending Brush. On the centre die cut I have another sentiment from the Greetings of the Season stamp set stamped in Mossy Meadow ink with a smaller piece of foliage.

When you turn the centre flap over you have the writing panel. I’ve decorated the right side in the same way and added the rest of the second foliage die cut that I brushed some Old Olive ink onto. The reverse side of the die cut has the patterned paper adhered to it, but you could leave it plain.

This is another view, showing all of the inside panels.

Project Details
Stamps	Greetings of the Season
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Mossy Meadow, Season of Green & Gold SDSP, Gold Foil
Ink	Versamark, Old Olive, Mossy Meadow
Accessories	Neutrals Adhesive-Backed Sequins, Satin Edge Ribbon (retired)
Tools	Country Side Corners Dies, Golden Greenery Dies, Dashing Designs 3D EF, Stampin’ Cut & Emboss, Gold EP, Heat Tool, Dimensionals, Blending Brush

Now it’s time to hop along to see the fabulous project Cathy has made for us this week.

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