Hero Arts Poetic Petals for Autumn

I don’t know if you’re like me, but sometimes I’ll go through older cards and pull them apart, toss something I’m not happy with, and make a new card with part of an older card.   Whatever was on the front is long gone and I thought this would make a good Fall card.  I printed the petals out, colored this goodie here and decided to fussy cut the petal to put against the black and brown panel so the petals would pop.

Close-up below

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• HeroA rts Poetic Petals only at A2Z Scrapbooking
• Sizzix thinlits “friend”
• Scrap papers
• Vagabond die cut machine

 

 

Woodlands Tea Party with A2Z

Greetings friends and fellow crafters. LeeAnn here with my inspiration post for A2Z. For this post I used these adorable critters from the Hero Arts Woodland Tea Party set to create my card.

My paper is from BoBunny, and I stamped my images using Hero Arts Intense Black Ink, colored my images with Spectrum Noir Tri-Blend Markers, and adhered all together using ScraPerfect Best Glue Ever and some Foam Tape under the tree base. This little crew is now ready for their Tea Time, and since that is my favorite time of day, I think I am ready for some as well.

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• Hero Arts Woodland Tea Party

Hero Arts Everything Smiles Shaker Window Card

Hi everyone,

I just love that little cup cake from the Hero Arts Everything Smiles Stamp & Cut set.  And I think it’s just so cute to use on a birthday card.  With the help of my MISTI, it’s easy to stamp a background using it.

 

On a 4 1/4 by 5 1/2 inch white card stock I stamped and watercolored the cupcakes background.  Then I place it on top of a white card case, secure with washi tape, and I die cut the speech bubble both layer at the same time.   This ensures the windows are aligned.

Next I align the sentiment (‘sweet’ from the Color Layering Pomegranate, and ‘birthday wishes’ from the Many Birthday Messages set) so it’s inside the window and stamped in black.

Then I glued a piece of acetate on the back of the cupcake panel, and another on the front of the card base.  I put foam adhesieve all around the windor on the card front, filled with sequins and beads, peeled off the backing of the foam adhesive and placed the cupcake panel on top carefully aligning the window.  You noticed something wrong here?!  Yeah I was so excited creating my shaker window I forgot to put foam adhesive around the outside edge of the card.  Hmmm… what to do.  Well I just glued the cupcake panel onto the card base.  The shaker is sandwiched in between.  It works.  LOL  I actully made another booboo but I think it’s minor enough that you don’t really see it.  But if you do I’d love to hear it.  Leave me a comment.  😀  Lastly I rounded the corners and add Diamond and Star Dusk Stickles onto the frostings.

 

So fun and glittery!!  Grab your favorite images and make a birthday card, and join in the challenge.  Scroll down to get the details.

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• Hero Arts Everything Smiles Stamp & Cut
• Hero Arts Color Layering Pomegranate
• Hero Arts Many Birthday Messages
• Watercolors
• Ranger Archival Ink (Jet Black)
• Ranger Stickles (Diamond, Star Dust)
• Little Things from Lucy’s Cards Sequins (Cantaloup)

 

Hero Arts Color Layering Monarch Butterfly Home Decor

Hello! I am here today with a home decor project I made for my craft room. Our monthly challenge is all about Anything But a Card so here we have it. I tell you I am happy to get nudged to make a fun project that is not a card. I used two Hero Arts sets for this which are Color Layering Monarch Butterfly and Flowers for Coloring. Both are available for purchase in the a2z Scrapbooking Etsy store. Use my discount code Karen15 to get 15% off your purchase of $25 or more.

I bought this little box at Michaels with a coupon. I got it to put my dies in after using them so they don’t get lost in the piles.

The first thing was get out the book pages and cut them to fit on each side of the box. I could not get my Mod Podge open so I used 3 in 1 glue which worked better than I thought.

Second stamp the color layering butterfly. This layering butterfly is pretty darn easy to line up. I did use my Misti but it was easier than some of them can be. Tip: I stamp the bottom (largest amount of color) first and then end with the detailed stamp. On the lighter one I used 2 Avery Elle inks and Versafine Onyx Black ink. On the darker one I used 2 Oxide inks and the Versafine. I stamped these on some off white paper and hand cut them out. You can get the matching die in the Etsy shop also. Since you can’t really hand cut the antennae I just stamped the antennae on the book page where I was going to put the butterflies.

And now about the flowers and leaves. I used the Flowers for Coloring for that. I have enjoyed using this set and I think is one to check out. After stamping the flowers on the box I made a mask for each flower. I covered each one with the mask and then stamped the leaves. I colored all of them with colored pencils.

Then I glued the butterflies to the box. It is probably hard to see but I arched the top wings just a bit to give a tiny bit of dimension.

Then I inked around the edges with Oxide Distress ink and lightly here and there on the rest of the book page. I am very happy how it came out.

Here is a few more photos of each side.

 

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• Hero Arts Color Layering Monarch Butterfly
• Hero Arts Flowers for Coloring
• Versafine Onyx Black Ink
• Oxide Distress Ink
• Prismacolor Pencils
• Avery Elle Pigment Ink

Hero Arts Hanging Nasturtium

Hello,

Cindy here to share a CAS card featuring Hero Arts Nasturtium.  I combined it with a planter from the Stamp Your Own  succulent, and hand drawn some strings to make a hanging Nasturtium planter.

 

I could have just stamped the Nasturtium, mask it before stamping the planter.  But I wanted some dimension, but I don’t have the die cut for the Nasturtium.  So I did partial hand cut of the lower blooms and tugged the planter underneath.

The planter I stamped twice, once on white card stock and watercolored, and another time silver heat embossed on vellum.  I hand cut the watercolored planter closely; but when cutting the vellum one I left some space all around; then creased all the sides and wrapped the watercolored piece inside.  This way it looks like a glass planter with soil inside.  And I used my creative license to hand draw some extra stems to connect the Nasturtium image and the planter.

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Please join us in this month’s “May Flowers” 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 Florals Nasturtium
• Hero Arts Stamp Your Own Succulents
• Watercolors
• Versamark Watermark Ink
• Silver Embossing Powder
• Silver Gel Pen

 

 

Hero Arts Magnolia in Yellow

I thought this yellow flower would be perfect for the month of May and just a nice way to say “hi” to a friend who might need a smile.  It’s bright and sunny which I feel should bring the sun to anyone.

The die cut piece on the left side of the flower reminds me of a vine growing up a trellis.  I hope you like this little creation.

Close-up below

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• Hero Arts Magnolia
• Hero Arts Magnolia die cut at A2Z Scrapbooking
• Copic markers Y00, Y02, Y04, Y19, YG00, YG03, YG05 & YG09
• The Stamp Doctor Spellbinders Side Step Card Die
• Elizabeth Craft Designs sentiment (Smile)
• Leafy die unknown
• Vagabond die cut machine

Hero Arts Magnolia in Purple

While I was looking for magnolias on Pinterest, I saw some purple, YES Purple, magnolias.  Mine did not turn out quite like the ones I saw, but I’ll claim artistic license.  I ran some Washi tape diagonally  and added a sentiment.  Have fun with your flower entries for this month.

Close-up below

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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.

 

 

 

• Hero Arts Magnolia (wood or clear)
• Hero Arts Magnolia die-cut at A2Z Scrapbooking
• Copic markers
• Washi tape
• Hero Arts sentiment (I put the stamp set away too soon and now I can’t find which set it is)
• Vagabond die cut machine

Hero Arts Bright Blossoms Tea Cup

Hello,

 

I am inspired by both our May challenge theme (May Flowers) and the Spring/Summer Coffee Lovers’ Bloghop to create this Get Well card.

The flower is printed using Hero Arts Bright Blossoms digi kit on heavy card stock, and watercolored, and then hand cut.  The tea cup is die cut using Hero Arts Nesting Tea Cup Infinity Dies.  It looks like there is a shadow on the cup right?  It is achieved by die cutting another cup using grey card stock and I glued the pattern one slightly offset.  🙂

 

My background has some subtle dry embossing on it, and the sentiment is just stamped in black.

Thanks for checking out my card.  I look forward to see your creation in our challenge gallery!

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Please join us in this month’s “May Flowers” 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 Bright Blossoms Digi Kit
• Hero Arts Nesting Teacup Infinity Dies
• Hero Arts Long Leaves Stencil
• Altenew Watercolor 36 Pan Set
• Black glaze pen
• Memento Dye Ink (Tuxedo Black)

 

 

Hero Arts Birthday Bash U Fold

Happy Tuesday everyone!

I am inspired by this month’s challenge theme: Fun Folds, and tried a new fold myself.  This one is called the “U fold”.  Let’s take a look.

I think a picture is worth a thousand words.  Everything is pretty self explanatory.  But I do want to mention that my card base size is 7.5 inched in width and 4.25 inches high, after you fold the one side, the card becomes the same size as an A2 card.  The scores are done at 1 inch, 2 inch, 5.5 inch and 6.5 inch.  So the area left in the middle is 3.5 by 4.25 inches.

Two digi stamp sets were used for this card, I use the Artistic Circles for the background.  The sentiment and birthday cake are added on top of the background and printed all at once, then I colored the cake with markers.  The balloons are printed separately, colored, hand cut and glued to the sides.  The strings are hand drawn with a black glaze pen.  Here’s the beauty shot.

I hope I’ve inspired you to join in our Fun Folds Challenge this month.  Check the details below and play along!

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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 Birthday Bash Digi Stamp
• Hero Arts Artistic Circles Digi Stamp
• Copic Markers (YG00,Y15,RV63,RV04,B12)
• DeSerres Tango Alcohol Markers (Y107,Y608,R607,R107,B205,B945)
• Wink of Stella Clear
• Ranger Stickles (Diamond)

 

 

Thanks Gatefold Card with Hero Arts

Hi crafty friends!! This month at a2z Scrapbooking the theme is Fun Folds so I made my very own gatefold card using a bunch of Hero Arts goodies.

This photo shows the outside of the card and the follow photo shows the inside.

If you would like to see how I made this card, my very first gatefold card, please go to my blog Art Without Anxiety.

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Please join us in this month’s “May Flowers” 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 Christi15 to get 15% off your purchase of $25 or more.

 

 

 

• Hero Arts White Detail Embossing Powder, #PW122 
• Versamark Watermark Ink Pad, #VC250
• Hero Arts Lucky Star stamp set, #CM315
• Hero Arts Lucky Star die set, #DI586
• Hero Arts Ink in Intense Black, #AF345 
• Hero Arts Thanks Stamp & Cut, #DC152