Christmas | a2z Scrapbooking Supplies

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 21, 2019
by Karen L K 3 Comments

Hero Arts Merry Christmas Cover Plate Die

Howdy! Today I have some sparkly and shiny fun for Christmas. I created two cards with the Hero Arts Merry Christmas Cover Plate Die.

The first one here is all glittery. Glitter cards are hard to photograph and the light was kind of diminishing on me so the photo isn’t the best. Anyway… The first thing I did was stick a double sided adhesive sheet to a piece of Neenah paper. I placed my die on the paper so that the adhesive would end up on the top of the design. That way I could get that glitter to stick to it. I used microfine glitter and dumped that all over the design over a coffee filter. Then I burnished it using a bone folder handle. Thanks to Jennifer McGuire for that tip! Then I just glued that scene on to a piece of white glitter paper. It is pretty and very sparkly in real life.

This one was very straight forward and quick. I cut the scene out using the die and some shiny red paper I had in my stash. For this one I left some of the pieces in with the die cut. So the ornaments, 2 trees, and the star on the tree all have their center pieces remaining instead of pushing them out. I then glued the scene on a kraft card base. Pretty simple. There is so much to the cover plate you don’t need to do much.

The a2z Scrapbooking store has great sales going on! I took a peek at the store and there are still some stamps, ink, liquid watercolor (this stuff is fun to work with), embossing powders and a few other things. Get them before they are gone.

There is still time to enter our last challenge! It’s always good to get a few cards done well before the holiday rush.

October 13, 2019
by afmmac 2 Comments

Hero Arts Happy Holidays Christmas Mice

I’d say these Christmas Mice were saying Happy Holidays to you. I grabbed a piece of 6″ X 6″ paper and cut it down to fit on the A2 size card for a different look to a holiday card. I had a “Happy Holidays” panel cut a bit short in my stash that I wanted to use, so this is how I arrived at the design. Add two mice and a couple dots of Nuvo and we’re done. This looks great in real life.

Be sure to join in the challenge and visit the store for some outrageous sales at A2Z Scrapbooking.

Remember to enter the challenge and visit the store.

Please join us in this month’s “holidays”, any holidays – Halloween, thanksgiving, Christmas particularly.” challenge. f

Hero Arts Christmas Mice stamps at A2Z Scrapbooking
Hero Arts Christmas Mice dies
Hero Arts Happy Holidays die cut at A2Z Scrapbooking
6″ X 6″ paper from Printery Collection (probably 5 or more years old)
Vagabond die cut machine
- - - - Nuvo Crystal Drops Gloss – Ebony Black

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.

October 3, 2019
by afmmac 1 Comment

Hero Arts Christmas Mice All Through The House

We must thank Kristina for the wonderful farewell graphic for our last challenge. Be sure to visit the shop for big discounts.

Again, I’m using non-traditional colors to make a Christmas card. I couldn’t help it, the “mice” made me do it! In this case, it was one mouse, but I’m holding her responsible. I cut the sentiment in two. I know, I lose small stuff too, but I had to do it. I think this is a fun card and I still think it’s cute after letting it sit overnight on my desk. I don’t know if anyone else has to step back and look with new eyes at their creations, but sometimes I do. I wasn’t sure if the tree scene would work.

Be sure to enter our challenge. Remember, it is our last challenge forever.

Please join us in this month’s “holidays”, any holidays – Halloween, thanksgiving, Christmas particularly.” challenge.

Hero Arts Christmas Mice stamps at A2Z
Hero Arts Christmas Mice dies
Gina Marie Designs Block Style Quilt Die #6
Scrap paper I had inked up with distress inks when I created my box of sponges so I could see the colors
Vagabond die cut machine

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 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!

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.

September 5, 2019
by Karen L K 2 Comments

Die Cutting with a Hero Arts Christmas Die

Howdy! I am dropping in today for Christmas in September. Is that a thing? I just got the Hero Arts Cut-Out Christmas die and I really wanted to use it. So here we go.

This Merry Christmas die is a fun one. As you can see you get a positive negative look. There are 3 different dies like this in the a2z Scrapbooking Etsy shop. There is Merry Christmas, Tis The Season and Happy Holidays.

I had this shiny red paper in my stash and thought it would work well for this card. I positioned the die so that I had a portion of red below the sentiment.

For the background I stamped some snowflakes and heat embossed them using Hero Arts Sparkle embossing powder. It gives a nice little shine with some glittery sparkle. I need to give this a try with some colored pigment ink instead of the Versamark. I glued the red sentiment piece to the background.

The house and trees are from a Hero Arts stamp set called Home For The Holidays. I heat embossed the house and the bare tree in brown and the full tree with green powder. I colored the house and the full tree with Copics. I used the matching die set to cut them out.

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 karen15 to get 15% off your purchase of $25 or more.

Hero Arts Cut-Out Christmas Fancy Die
Hero Arts Sparkle Embossing Powder
Hero Arts Home for the Holidays stamp set
Hero Arts Home for the Holidays die set
Hero Arts Snowflakes by Lia stamp set
Copic Pens
Versamark Ink

April 13, 2019
by afmmac 1 Comment

April Fold Card With Sugartree Hug in a Mug

Arlene here and I have a little (not so little) plastic folder with images in different sizes so that I can use them in the future and they sometimes prompt my creative brain (not the one usually in use) to go with the flow. This is exactly what happened here. I cut out the cup and chose the color of cardstock, cut it and went on from there. I thought I’d sweeten the cup with sugar and saw red yet again. I searched my ribbon box and came up with that great red and green plaid and added the other ribbon to liven up the design. I wasn’t sure about lining up the top tag, but went with it on a slight diagonal. It is pretty awesome in real life. Hoping this inspires you to get your fold on!

I am at A Bit of This and That if you’d like to visit.

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 “Fun Folds” 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 Arlene15 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.

Sugartree Stamps Hug in a Mug digital kit at A2Z Scrapbooking
Sugartree Farmhouse at A2Z Scrapbooking (sugar bowl)
Hero Arts Words of Love at A2Z Scrapbooking (Happy Valentine’s Day sentiment)
The Stamp Doctor Spellbinders Side Step Card Die
Die-namics Stitched Tred Tag STAX
Hero Arts small tag die (very old and out of stock)
Red cardstock (5 1/2 X 8 1/2)
Copic markers R20, R27 & R29
Ribbons in my stash (red and green plaid and red ribbon with red stitching look )
Vagabond die cut machine

April 3, 2019
by afmmac 2 Comments

April Has A Fold with Tree-Mendous Digital Kit and Gingerbread Houses

I don’t usually make fold cards, but I might start making more of them since I finally got the hang of how to line up the die with my paper and how to FOLD it. I’m glad A2Z made me try.

I have to tell you it came out so much better than I imaged it. How did that happen? On with the show.

Close-up of my fold card

I think it was the monotone blue on this deep black background that made this so special. I will be leaving this on my desk for awhile to remind me to try new things and be an inspiration. You can see Arlene at A Bit of This and That.

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 Arlene15 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.

Hero Arts Gingerbread House Stamp and Cut at A2Z Scrapbooking (houses & sentiment)
Hero Arts Tree-Mendous Digital Kit at A2Z Scrapbooking
The Stamp Doctor Spellbinders Side step Card Die
Elizabeth Craft Designs Igloo die – the post with the sentiment sticking up from the snow
Elizabeth Craft Designs Adventure Edges – snowy hills
Elizabeth Craft Designs 4th of July – stars
Copic markers B0000, B21, B91 & B95
Vagabond die cut machine