Cindy C.

October 23, 2019
by Cindy C. 3 Comments

Hero Arts Arum Lily Valentine

I am a little sad to say that this is my final post for a2z Scrapbooking for our Farewell challenge. I had a wonderful time being part of the a2z Scrapbooking DT, this is first Design Team I’ve ever join so it had special meaning to me. I have learnt and grew with this team, and I am going to miss it a lot.

For my project today, I choose to make a card for Valentine’s Day, yes I know it is still a little far away, but we could celebrate love anytime right?!

To create this card I stenciled some horizontal stripes on a white card base using Soft Grey Shadow Ink.

Then on multimedia paper I stamped and watercolor the Arum Lilies. I used some references from the web for the colors. After everything dried, I hand cut the blooms, leaves and stems; and made a bouquet. And it is adhered to the card, and I added a white on black sentiment stripe. And I added a little of Diamond Stickles to the center. Voila, simple and pleasant. 🙂

There still plenty time to play our Final Challenge – Holidays (pick any holidays you like). Click here or the Current Monthly Challenge Button at the top to get more details.

Hero Arts Arum Lily Clear Stamp set
Soft Grey Shadow Ink
Jet Black Archival Ink
Watercolors
Diamond Stickles
White embossing powder

October 9, 2019
by Cindy C. 2 Comments

Hero Arts Color Layering Nordic Tree

Have you played our final challenge – Holidays yet? It could be any Holidays.

For me I am adding another card to my Christmas card stash.

To create the background of this card I used one of the tree image and stamped in Soft Grey, like so:

Then I layered the white heat embossed and glitter gold heat embossed trees.

And I topped the trees with red flower gem.

I hope I’ve inspired you to play along our final challenge. Click here or the Current Monthly Challenge Button at the top to get more details.

September 29, 2019
by Cindy C. 61 Comments

National Coffee Day Bloghop & GIVEAWAY

Welcome to a2z Scrapbooking and Happy National Coffee Day!! We are so happy to be part of the National Coffee Day Blog Hop orgainized by the amazing Amy Tsuruta.

Before we get to the fun, we have an announcement to make. If you are a regular blog ready you’ve already heard that a2z scrapbooking co-founder and store director Linda Crissman passed away earlier this month following a long fought battle with Behcets disease. That being said, our store will be closing and sadly our blog will as well.

So here’s what you need to know

Store will close October 31 or while inventory remains. Store closing sale starts today, All merchandise is at least 50% off regular retail. Now’s the time to stock up on inks, embossing powders, etc. If you have a stamp set you need a matching die for, grab it while they last! Digital Stamps are also marked down!
Final Blog Challenge will be October 1st and run through October 31st with a special prize(s) for winners.
Lastly THANK YOU for you support and patronage over all of these years!

Blog Hop & Giveaway

Now onto the coffee! We have several prize opportunities for you today!

One winner will be randomly chosen from the comments on this blog to win a $20 gift card to our store to be used during our store closing sale!
Another winner will be randomly chosen from the comments on EACH participating design team member blog (listed below) to win both of our coffee related digital stamp sets!

You have until Oct 5th, 11:59pm EDT to comment. Winners will be announced on Oct 7th.

Some of our design team members have created coffee projects today too! Check them out on their blogs:

Annie

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Sept Please join us in this month’s “Anything Goes” challenge for your chance at a free digital stamp set AND, if you used Hero Arts or Sugartree Stamps, a $20 gift card to our etsy store. Our current monthly challenge can always be found in the menu bar, and runs from the 1st to last day of the month.

The a2z scrapbooking store carries a wide variety of Hero Arts products as well as a nice selection of digital stamps! Get discounted new releases, sales, grab bags & more. Proceeds from our store benefit Celiac & Behcets disease foundations. Use my discount code a2z15 to get 15% off your purchase of $25 or more.

September 23, 2019
by Cindy C.

Hero Arts Greenery Edge And Cardinal

Hello there,

I have a fun Christmas card to share today.

Does it look a little out of focus? Haha it is intend to look that way, read all about it on my blog, yes there is a little story. 🙂

Have you play our September challenge – Anything Goes yet? Still time!!

Also don’t forget the the September sale at a2z store.

Are you on social media? We are! Please join us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook? so you don’t miss any fun promotions or new challenge announcements!

Please join us in this month’s “Anything Goes” challenge for your chance at a free digital stamp set AND, if you used Hero Arts or Sugartree Stamps, a $20 gift card to our etsy store. Our current monthly challenge can always be found in the menu bar, and runs from the 1st to last day of the month.

The a2z scrapbooking store carries a wide variety of Hero Arts products as well as a nice selection of digital stamps! Get discounted new releases, sales, grab bags & more. Proceeds from our store benefit Celiac & Behcets disease foundations. Use my discount code Cindy15 to get 15% off your purchase of $25 or more.

Hero Arts Holiday Greenery Edge Fancy Die
Hero Arts Holidays Word Fancy Die
Hero Arts Vintage Christmas Post Clear Stamp
Hero Arts Vintage Christmas Post Frame Cut
Hero Arts Congrats Stamp & Cut
Hero Arts Unicorn Ink
white embossing powder
Ranger Stickles (Star Dust, Candy Cane)

September 11, 2019
by Cindy C. 6 Comments

September Guest Designer

Hello,

Please join me and welcome our September Guest Designer, Helen Gullet. She is a former a2z DT member, and currently she is an IG coordinator for Coffee Loving Cardmaker and several other design teams.

Helen the floor is all yours.

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Hello crafty friends, I am so thrilled to be a guest designer today at a2zscrapbooking! This month’s challenge theme is Anything Goes and here’s my projects:

I go with coffee and tea just becuase I love them both as my favorite drinks. On my first card, I use the Kit-Tea Stamp & Cut set.

I stamped the flowers and leaves image on a watercolor paper with VersFine Onyx Black ink pad. And then, on my craft mat, I scribble some of the Double-Ended markers (yellow and red), spray with water, and then I smooshed in the watercolor paper. I cut it out with one of the rectangle dies and I added it on a yellow card with E-z Runner Grand.

I stamped the cat in a cup image with same ink pad, and the I colored it with the same markers and waterbrush. After that, I dried it with craft heater and then cut it with the matching die. I added on the card with 3D foam tape. Next, I stamped the sentiment on a white cardstock with the same ink pad and then trimmed it into sentiment label. I added it on the top left card with 3D foam tape also.

Next project is this CAS coffee card:

Pretty simple to make. I started with creating the gradient square watercolored background. On an acrylic block, I scribble some of the Double Ended markers (red and pink), I sprayed it with water, and then I stamped it on a watercolor paper. I let it sit on the card for a while and held it with some more stamping block.

While waiting for the watercolor paint to dry, I stamped the mug with Delicata Golden Glitz ink pad on another watercolor paper. I dried the ink with craft heater and then colored it with the Double Ended Markers and waterbrush. After that, I dried it with craft heater and then I fussy cut it with microtips scissors. I stamped the foam and sentiment on the cup with Mini MISTI using Memento Cocoa ink pad.

I removed the acrylic blocks from the watercolor paper, then I trimmed it slightly smaller than the white card base. I added the background paper on the card with E-Z Runner Grand, and then I added the coffee mug in the middle of it with 3D foam tape. I decorated it with some natural twine ribbon.

Supplies used:

– Kit-Tea Stamp & Cut

– Foam Animals Stamp Set

– VersaFine Onyx Black

– Delicata Golden Glitz

– Memento Cocoa

– Leisure Arts Double Ended Markers

– Canson Watercolor Paper

– White cardstock

– Waterbrush

– Mini MISTI

– E-Z Runner Grand

– 3D foam tape

– Natural Twine Ribbon

– Rectangles Dies

– Gemini Jr. Diecutting Machine

– Microtips Scissors

– Craft Heater

That’s all my projects today! I cannot wait to see what you will create for this month’s challenge!

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Thank you so much for guest designing for us this month Helen!!

You can visit Helen on her blog post: Helen G. Design

You can also visit her in these social medias: Blog | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Flickr

Are you on social media? We are! Please join us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook? so you don’t miss any fun promotions or new challenge announcements! Please join us in this month’s “Anything Goes” challenge for your chance at a free digital stamp set AND, if you used Hero Arts or Sugartree Stamps, a $20 gift card to our etsy store. Our current monthly challenge can always be found in the menu bar, and runs from the 1st to last day of the month.

September 9, 2019
by Cindy C. 2 Comments

Hero Arts Santa Snacks Gingerbread Cookie Wreath

Hello there,

Cindy here to share a fun Christmas card! We could string popcorn necklace to trim a tree and hang candy cane as ornaments. So why not display a gingerbread cookie wreath?! 😀

I white heat embossed the gingerbread man mulitple times on a selection of brown card stocks and die cut. Next I stamped the leaves in distress inks and die dut. Then I arranged and glued the die cut pieces on a round die cut. The sentiment is white heat embossed onto pink vellum. The wreath is then glued onto a pattern paper panel and then onto a white card base. To decorate the wreath I added a few holly leaves, and wine colored sequins.

I thought the gingerbread men were a little plain, so I used a gold gel pen and colored their buttons, mittens, and socks. Here’s a closer look.

Now it’s your turn, create a project and play along our September Anything Goes challenge. Scroll down to get the details.

Are you on social media? We are! Please join us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook? so you don’t miss any fun promotions or new challenge announcements!

The a2z scrapbooking store carries a wide variety of Hero Arts products as well as a nice selection of digital stamps! Get discounted new releases, sales, grab bags & more. Proceeds from our store benefit Celiac & Behcets disease foundations. Use my discount code Cindy15 to get 15% off your purchase of $25 or more.

August 27, 2019
by Cindy C. 2 Comments

Product Spotlight | Hero Arts Birthday Stamps

Hello,

There are a few more days to enter our current challenge – Birthdays!! I thought I showcase some of the Birthday stamps in the a2z store.

First up we have this Mix & Match Compliments, not only good for birthday greetings, but for many other happy occassions too.

Next up we have a few fun Stamp & Cut sets, I think they’d be perfect both birthdays and Halloween theme projects.

Monster Birthday Stamp & Cut

and

Alpaca Stamp & Cut, Stamping

and

Eat Cake All Day Stamp & Cut

Remember the sizzling summer sale ends August 31st. All stamps are 10% off for the rest of August! This includes already bundled for savings items and already marked down items! And we will be offering Free Shipping on all orders over $35! You can use the promote code and get extra discount!! Scroll down.

Are you on social media? We are! Please join us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook? so you don’t miss any fun promotions or new challenge announcements!

Please join us in this month’s “Birthday” challenge for your chance at a free digital stamp set AND, if you used Hero Arts or Sugartree Stamps, a $20 gift card to our etsy store. Our current monthly challenge can always be found in the menu bar, and runs from the 1st to last day of the month.

The a2z scrapbooking store carries a wide variety of Hero Arts products as well as a nice selection of digital stamps! Get discounted new releases, sales, grab bags & more. Proceeds from our store benefit Celiac & Behcets disease foundations. Use discount code a2z15 to get 15% off your purchase of $25 or more.

August 25, 2019
by Cindy C. 3 Comments

Product Spotlight | Hero Arts Flowers For Coloring

Good Sunday morning everybody!!

Do you know that all the all stamps in the a2z store are 10% off for the rest of August! This includes already bundled for savings items and already marked down items! There is still some time to get those stamps you’ve been wanting, but hurry before the deal finishes.

For today’s spotlight, let take a look of the Hero Arts Flowers For Coloring Clear Stamp. It’s so cute!

And here’s are some gorgeous projects created by the Hero Arts artists.

Are you on social media? We are! Please join us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook? so you don’t miss any fun promotions or new challenge announcements!

The a2z scrapbooking store carries a wide variety of Hero Arts products as well as a nice selection of digital stamps! Get discounted new releases, sales, grab bags & more. Proceeds from our store benefit Celiac & Behcets disease foundations. Use discount code a2z15 to get 15% off your purchase of $25 or more.

August 23, 2019
by Cindy C. 1 Comment

Hero Arts Sweet Sprinkles Special Birthday

Yay it’s Friday!

Cindy here to share another Birthday card.

Do you find it hard to use a bright and busy background on occasion?! I thought so. I have a panel of second generation stamping leftover from another project but it is still quite colorful and festive, and I think it is perfect for a birthday card. But instead of an equally busy focal point, I went the opposite direction. I just added a simple white heat embossed sentiment on black card stock.

Some of the areas in the background panel didn’t get ink, so I used the small confetti image from the Birthday Stamp & Cut set to fill them in, and slightly distress with Spun Sugar to tame the bright white from the paper panel. For the inside of the card I stamped a cake image using the same ink palette.

Thanks for joining me today. I hope you’d take part in our August Challenge: Birthday! Scroll down and get the information.

One more thing: The sizzling summer sale is still on. All stamps are 10% off for the rest of August! This includes already bundled for savings items and already marked down items! And we will be offering Free Shipping on all orders over $35!

Are you on social media? We are! Please join us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook? so you don’t miss any fun promotions or new challenge announcements!

The a2z scrapbooking store carries a wide variety of Hero Arts products as well as a nice selection of digital stamps! Get discounted new releases, sales, grab bags & more. Proceeds from our store benefit Celiac & Behcets disease foundations. Use my discount code Cindy15 to get 15% off your purchase of $25 or more.

Hero Arts Sweet Sprinkles Bold Print
Hero Arts Birthday Stamp & Cut
Ranger Distress Ink (Peeled Paint, Picked Raspberry, Mustard Seed, Tumbled Glass, SeedlessPreserve)
White Embossing Powder
Versamark Watermark Ink

August 11, 2019
by Cindy C. 3 Comments

Guest Designer August 2019

Hello,

Please join me and welcome August’s Guest Designer, Sue Nagata!

This is her adorable card, and how she created it. You could also get more details on her blog post here.

I used Sugartree Stamps’ Party Animal digital kit for my card – specifically, the awesome partying penguin and the sentiment. I printed the penguin with my inkjet printer on white cardstock, trimmed to A2 card size and added colour with Copic markers. I printed the sentiment on some orange/gold cardstock and trimmed it to a double ended fishtail banner. To complete the card, I added a shiny “pompom” with a rhinestone.

Supplies used:

Sugartree Stamps – Party Animal digital kit
Copic markers

Thank you so much for guest designing for a2z this month Sue! To see more of Sue creation, go over to her blog: foleysfriends.

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