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September 28, 2019
by afmmac 3 Comments

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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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 Arlene15 to get 15% off your purchase of $25 or more.

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

September 13, 2019
by afmmac

Poetic Petals is One of a Kind

I used a similar written background on a card here. You can see that card right after my inspiration card below, however, I had printed everything right side up on that card. You can see that I somehow copied the “Play in the Sunshine” and turned it upside down, not realizing it until I printed it. I still saved it and I’m using it now. I think the flower helps cover that part of the message enough that it won’t be noticeable when I give the card to a “one of a kind” friend. That’s my reasoning, anyway, and I’m going to stick with it!

Come have some fun with us and enter the challenge of Anything Goes this month. I’m at A Bit of This and That all the time!

Previous card on June 11, 2018 where I printed everything right side up and also printed the background above.

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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 a2z15 to get 15% off your purchase of $25 or more.

Hero Arts Poetic Petals Printable PT004 Digital Kit
Hero Arts Summer Travel Words DK104 Digital Kit
Hero Arts tag die (out of stock – (old HA die)
Hero Arts One of a Kind DKo103 Easter Bird Digital Kit – Sentiment (One of a kind)
Copic markers
Nuvo Crystal Drops Gloss – Red Berry and Dandelion Yellow
Vagabond die cut machine

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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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 my discount code a2z15 to get 15% off your purchase of $25 or more.

August 3, 2019
by afmmac 1 Comment

It’s a Birthday Bash This Month

This card seemed to flow from the colors. I colored the cake in, set aside and looked for a stencil. I think I used Tattered Rose distress ink to color in the stencil. I believe I colored the cake in RV colors and used the same color for the flames as the “Happy” die-cut. I know flames are usually yellow, but I just couldn’t use yellow here. Using the cake as a backdrop, I die-cut “Birthday” in white. The background makes this card feel and look so feminine. This turned out better than I thought when I first started with its creation.

Close-up below

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Hero Arts Birthday Bash digital kit at A2Z
Hero Arts Scrollwork Stencil at A2Z
An Elizabeth Craft Designs “Happy Birthday”
Stars – plastic
Vagabond die cut machine

July 3, 2019
by afmmac 4 Comments

Hero Arts Sparkle and Shine Astral Digital

I wanted to add sparkle and shine to my card and celebrate the USA’s July 4th. Unfortunately, you cannot see the Stickles smeared across the blue stripes of the larges star in this photo. I may try to take another for all the sparkle. The round dots are all Nuvo Midhnight Blue pops of shine.. I thought a bike would throw a bit of old fashioned fun into the mix. The bike is cut from a Cola can, so the tin is very shiny. I guess that this could be a cool masculine card, looking at the boy’s bike.

Have fun with our theme this month and let your creations sparkle and shine.

I’m finding it very difficult to photograph the sparkle on this star. I added some Crystal stickles to the Blue for more sparkle and it really sparkles in real life, but doesn’t really show up here.

I do have one additional photo and it’s my new storage solution for all (ALL) my stickles and some re-inkers. You can fit 20 Stickles in this case and some re-inkers will fit double, just not my Distress re-inkers. But I can fit 10 of those and can SEE them without picking them up one at a time. Yeah for me. I am in an organizing mood and on my next post, I’ll be showing you how I store my distress ink sponges.

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Please join us in this month’s “Sparkle & Shine” 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

Hero Arts Astral Digital Printable File only at A2Z Scrapbooking store
Little B Handwritten (celebrate)
Tessler Crafts dies (bicycle)
Nuvo Crystal Drops Midnight Blue
Silver glittered tape
Vagabond die cut machine
Scrap paper
Crystal & Faded Jeans stickles
Pixiss Alcohol Ink Hard Plastic Storage Carrying Case Organizer

June 13, 2019
by afmmac 1 Comment

Hero Arts Tags With A Spiral Stencil Twist

It’s Arlene here with a second post this month.

It’s Anything but a Card Month here at A2Z Scrapbooking. I rarely make tags for any occasion but Christmas, but my mind went wondering into the gray world of stencils and inks. I couldn’t make just one since I cut two dies, could I?

Since I used white cardstock for my tags, I wanted to give some depth to the tag and chose the Spiral Stencil die with one of Hero Arts Ombre inks. Yes, I do have pages of pre-printed images from the Hero Arts kits and that’s how I created these cards, matching size and shape, images and sentiments.

Sometime things just turn out better than you planned and these did. I need something on my desk to click me into creativity and I know some people need that clean desk to open their vision. That’s not me. As soon as I clean up my desk, I am blank, but put a couple images or dies on the table and my mind starts working again.

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Please join us in this month’s “Anything but a Card” 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

Both tags were stamped: and cut with:

Hero Arts Tag Infinity Dies
Hero Arts digital kits Grey to Black Ombre ink (any of the ombre inks would work depending on your choice of colors)
Copic markers in shades of Cool grays and .BV 000 and BV31
Pilot Silver Marker

Left Tag:

Sugartree Hugs in a Mug at A2Z Scrapbooking
Old Spellbinders die

Right Tag

Hero Arts Digital kits Birthday Bash (Wish Big) at A2Z Xcrapbooking
Sugartree Whoot! (Graduation cap) at A2Z Scrapbooking
Copic markers R27 & R29

June 3, 2019
by afmmac

Hero Arts Gingerbread House With Words of Love

I finished the other side of my scheduler and am sharing it today The monthly theme is “Anything But A Card”. I used the color Mood Board for February, but brought Xmas, houses, loops and trees together, some dissimilar items that seem to fit perfectly well on my scheduler. I have a lot to keep track of.

Page with the insert peeking up listing my dates, themes & images below.

I used two digi kits, one stamp & die set and copic markers in grays and RV shades. The Christmas tree and words (LOVE) are colored in grays and RV, a strange combination for a tree, but it works.

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Hero Arts digital “Words of Love” and Tree-Mendous” at A2Z Scrapbooking
Hero Arts Gingerbread House Stamp and Cut clear stamps & Cut Die
Memory Box Loopy Rings die
Scrap paper
Vagabond die cut machine

May 29, 2019
by afmmac

Hero Arts Digital Road Trip

I made a birthday card for a guy who is turning the big 50. Highway 50 winds its way up to Placerville, CA (original name was Hang Town), Apple Hill area in CA and Reno, Nevada. On the inside of the card, I wrote, it’s not just a NUMBER anymore.

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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

Hero Arts

May 9, 2019
by Cindy C. 5 Comments

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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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)

April 23, 2019
by Cindy C. 1 Comment

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!

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 Cindy15 to get 15% off your purchase of $25 or more.