Love you Valentine

 Hello everyone, Monica M here and I hope everyone has enjoyed the holidays. I can’t believe Christmas is over already and the new year is almost here. With the new year fast approaching that means this is my last post with the A2Z team and Valentines Day will be here before we know it! So I better get some cards done and not wait until the last minute.

I used a heart image from an older set to stamp in three different colors across the front of my card panel, before die cutting the sentiment out. I then die cut the sentiment three times from red cardstock and die cut the three hearts. To make the sentiment match I ran the ink pad across some white cardstock and then die cut it ( seen below). I adhered my panel on a red cardbase. I glued the the three red and one gray sentiment pieces together before adding them to the card. I then adhered the hearts with pop dots, so they would have some added dimension as well.

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• DI179
• Red royal
• Soft Cantaloupe
• Soft Granite

 

snowflake Christmas card

Hello everyone!!! Is anyone else still working on the occasional Christmas card? I don’t have many more to do, but I’m still not done.

I started my card by using an old HA snowflake stencil to apply some silver glitter paste. I then stamped some smaller snowflakes around the larger ones in blue and silver ink.  On the panel I created a little scene with using some first, second and third generation stamping.  I added some blue snowflakes and the silver embossed sentiment, to finish the card.

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• Winter Silhouette
• Cornflower
• Black
• Silver
• Versa mark
• silver embossing powder
• glitter paste

One Layer Winter Trio

Hello Monica M here with 3 cards to share today. I got a little stamp happy in the craft room. I’m in the Christmas mood and still a lot of cards to finish so I can get them mailed out! I was hoping to have my cards almost done before now… I do this to myself almost every year. I’m a procrastinator and mom of 3 boys, one of which has his first job sooo… Any who… on to the cards.

I started by masking the area I wanted to stamp to create my own stamped panel. Once the background was complete, I stamped my image in a darker color so that the words wouldn’t be seen through the image.

I had to let the dark ink dry a little since I stamped the image multiple times to make sure it was opaque. Once the ink was dry I used VersaMark so that I could emboss the images using the White Satin Pearl powder.

I repeated the steps to create a trio of cards, changing the color and themes slightly. I loved how simple this was, and helped to get three cards done relatively quick. I think it took about an hour and that includes the time it took me to decide on which sentiments, images, and colors to use.

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• Winter Silhouettes CM179
• Cornflower 
• Navy
• Green Apple
• Forever Green
• Red Royal
• Black
• Versa Mark
• White Satin Pearl
• Mini Christmas CM122

 

Nov. monthly layout

Monica M here with a planner layout I did using Hero Arts inks and the My Monthly Hero September kit (sold out). I thought the layered sunflower and pumpkins would be great for this month. Not to mention the sentiments where perfect!

The colors I used are listed below. I will mention the Hero Arts inks will bleed through the planner paper, so just beware of that if you’re a planner and don’t like the images ghosted on the back.  After the images were stamped I finished the layout using some washi tape and planner stickers from my stash.

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The a2z scrapbooking store carries a wide variety of Hero Arts products! Get discounted new releases, sales, grab bags & more. Proceeds from our store benefit Celiac & Behcets disease foundations. Use my discount code Monica15 to get 15% off your purchase of $25 or more. If you’re looking for a Hero Arts product you don’t see in store, use the Request Custom Order button from with-in the shop.

 

 

 

• Butter Bar
• Orange Soda
• Pumpkin Pie
• Tangerine
• Green Apple
• Forever Green
• Cup O’Joe
• September Kit
• Washi tape

Holiday poster sayings

 

Monica M here with a Christmas card! I’ve got to keep the collection growing. 😉 I made my own background by stamping the poster sentiments repeatedly on the card base.  I used all the stamps from the Chritsmas carols set and borrowed the little deer from the silhouette set.

 

 

 

 

 

My house was colored using copics, before I fussy cut it and then layered it on two layers of vellum. I then adhered the house and vellum panel to the cardbase using foam adhesive. I finished the card by adding some stickles on the snow, lights and wreath. I mean whats a Christmas card with out a little sparkle, right?

 

 

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• CM189- Poster Christmas Carols
• CM179- Winter Silhouettes
• DK026- Holiday Houses
• Twisted Citron
• Stickles- Star Dust and Lime Green
• Vellum

 

We Wish you…

Hello everyone! Monica M here with a card for our October challenge. Today’s card was inspired by a video I was watching earlier. I liked the sketch she used and instantly thought I could use the silhouettes on it with a little watercolor.

I heat embossed the images and cut the squares. Added a little black watercolor to make the images standout. I stamped the sentiment before die cutting it out with a circle die. I then mounted my stamped panels on some red pattern paper. Adhered all of my pieces on the cardbase.

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• Winter Silhouettes
• Poster Christmas carols
• White Satin embossing powder
• Circle dies
• VersaMark
• Black ink
• Green card stock
• pattern paper
• white glimmer tape

CAS Anniversary card

Monica M with a look at a clean and simple anniversary card. I know there are some things like the ribbon and embossing folder that aren’t in the store, but you could easily substitute. Like I used an embossing folder, but one could just as easily use a stencil with embossing paste/ powder or even dies for a faux embossed looked and have wonderful results!

I started with my sentiment placement before embossing and trimming the card panel to size. I added the ribbon and bow to cover the separation the embossed and flat portions of the card. I rounded the corners of my panel and adhered it to the card base. To finish up the card I rounded the card base corners and added my gems to mimic half of a heart.

I love making a simple card like this somedays, it’s a nice contrast to inking backgrounds and detail coloring images. Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

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• Say it in Pieces
• Hero Arts Gems
• White card stock
• Ribbon
• Embossing folder or embossing paste/ powder

 

Poster Christmas Carols

Monica M posting today to share a card I made casing a card done by Cindy! I turned her fruity idea into a Christmas card using the poster carols set.

Cindy’s card:

My card:

I used my mini misti to line up the sentiments and stamped them on white cardstock. Then I decided picked the mini icons to stamp under the words, since there is only one image each so I tried carefully to line them up. Once the images were done I used a brush stroke looking stamp to add the color on top of the black, alternating red and green.

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The a2z scrapbooking store carries a wide variety of Hero Arts products! Get discounted new releases, sales, grab bags & more. Proceeds from our store benefit Celiac & Behcets disease foundations. Use my discount code Monica15 to get 15% off your purchase of $25 or more. If you’re looking for a Hero Arts product you don’t see in store, use the Request Custom Order button from within the shop.

 

 

 

• CM189- Poster Christmas Carols
• CM122- Mini Christmas
• Green Apple ink
• Red Royal ink
• Black
• Cardstock- Recollection 110lb
• Abstract Art- MFT

 

Be Merry and Bright

Hello all! Today I’m sharing a Christmas card that I made with some of the new stamps from Hero Arts! It’s never too early to play with Christmas stamps, I mean it’s August already… well almost September! Christmas will be here before we know it and I don’t want to be working on a ton of cards last minute…. which to be honest is my usual! 😉

For my card I started by stamping the outline images and then masking them. Once they were covered I used distress inks to color my sky and stamped some trees to add more interest to the background. I really wanted the card to look as if there is only one deer on the front, so that it would be fun to see the others when the card is opened.

I then colored my sleigh and reindeer using copics.  Added some shadows in the snowy area and then used a clear sparkle brush pen to add sparkle to the snow. Stamped my sentiment in white to show better on the darker area of the sky and added some gold Nuvo Drops for a little more dazzle.

 

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• DC216- Jingle all the Way
• CM189- Poster Christmas
• CM179- Winter Silhouettes
• Unicorn and black ink
• Distress ink- Chipped Sapphire, Seedless Preserves, Ripe Persimmon and Fossilized Amber

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

flittering by

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• Color layering Butterflies
• Ombre Neon ink
• Black ink
• Cardstock
• neon embossing powder