Hero Arts Color Layering Koi Journal Page

Hi everyone,

Cindy here sharing another planner/journal page.  Tomorrow is a new month, and I am ready!  I  used the Hero Arts Color Layering Koi Clear Stamp Set featured in the 2019 Hero Arts Catalog.

 

 

 

My inspiration word for February is Fish, visit me at Escape To Stamping and you shall find the answer.  🙂

Have you check out the Sales section in the a2z Etsy store?   Check out these fun items at 50% off.

Hero Arts Color Layering Gold Fish

 

Hero Arts Color Layering Octopus

 

Hero Arts Wishing Well

Hero Arts Love Little Heart

 

Hero Arts Blush Envelopes

 

There are lots of other goodies on sale, check it out here.

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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 Cindy15 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 Color Layering Koi
• Hero Arts Ombre Ink Pad (Butter Bar to Orange, Pink to Red)
• Hero Arts Shadow Ink Pad (Ultra Pink, Soft Granite)
• Hero Arts Glimmer Metallic Ink (Gold)
• Memories Dye Ink (Soft Grey)
• Ranger Distress Ink Pad (Tumbled Glass, Broken China, Peeled Paint, Crushed Olive)
• Memento Dye Ink Pad (Tuxedo Black)
• Black Marker

 

Hero Arts Greenery Edge Journal Page

Hi everyone,

Cindy here sharing a planner/journal page.  I am trying something new this year, instead of a planner, I am using an art journal to be a planner/diary/art journal.  And this is my January layout.

 

My inspiration word is Hope, thus the title “hopeful 2019”.  For more details you can visit me at Escape To Stamping.

 

Our January challenge is Anything Goes.  Scroll down to get the details and join in the fun.  And remember to grab my promote code Cindy15 to shop at a2z.  The Color Layering Butterfly I used in my layout is on sale.

Looking forward to see your creation in our challenge gallery!

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. 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 Holiday Greenery Edge Fancy Die
• Hero Arts Classic Numbers Fancy Die
• Hero Arts Color Layering Butterflies
• Hero Arts Ribbon Letters by Lia
• Hero Arts Stamp Your Story – Forever
• Hero Arts Shadow Inks (Soft Granite)
• Hero Arts Mid-Tone Shadow Inks (Red Royal, Wet Cement)
• Hero Arts Ombre Inks (Pink to Red, Butter Bar to Orange, Mint to Green, Tide Pool to Navy, Light Purple to Grape Juice)
• Ranger Distress Ink (Squeezed Lemonade, Wild Honey)
• Ranger Archival Ink (Jet Black)
• White Gel Pen
• Black Marker

 

Hero Arts In The Study Clean and Simple

A2Z has a Clean and Simple challenge for September and I thought I’d use the lovely chair in “In the Study” clear stamp set might work out well.   The sentiment on the books worked out well here too.  Nothing goes better with a stuffed chair than a good book or two.  I drew a line under both stamped images to ground them and tie them together.

 

You may be tempted to add something to the white space, but don’t.  My post is at A Bit of This and That.

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Please join us in this month’s “Clean & Simple” challenge.   As you know, we’ve changed our rules a bit and participants are no longer required to use Hero Arts products to enter our challenges. Each month we feature a ‘Digi of the Month’ which will be the prize offered to our randomly-chosen challenge winner from our Hero Arts 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! 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.

Please join us in this month’s “Anything Goes” challenge.   As you know, we’ve changed our rules a bit and participants are no longer required to use Hero Arts products to enter our challenges. Each month we feature a ‘Digi of the Month’ which will be the prize offered to our randomly-chosen challenge winner from our Hero Arts 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 “In the Study” at A2Z Scrapbooking
• White card stock
• Zig pens

Hero Arts Vintage Travel Digis on the Move

A2Z has a Clean and Simple challenge for September and I chose to work with the Vintage Travel digital kit only available at A2Z Scrapbooking.  All of the images are from this same kit.digital kit only available at A2Z Scrapbooking.  All of the images are from this same kit.  Since it’s a CAS challenge, I made these very CAS.  The sentiments are my own handiwork.

 

  Up, up, up and away

Vintage is just a Concept

 

Time Rushes by Like a Train on its Track

Up in the Air

This post is also 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!

Please join us in this month’s “Clean and Simple” challenge.   As you know, we’ve changed our rules a bit and participants are no longer required to use Hero Arts products to enter our challenges. Each month we feature a ‘Digi of the Month’ which will be the prize offered to our randomly-chosen challenge winner from our Hero Arts 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! 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 digital kit Vintage Travel only at A2Z Scrapbooking
• Distress inks, one on each card – candied apple, dusty concord and fired brick
• white cardstock

 

No Line water-colouring with Hero Arts Poetic Petals digital stamp

Hi everyone! My name is Gwendolyn Goh and this is my very first post as a design team member at a2z Scrapbooking and I’m thrilled to be in such a talented team! For my first creation here, I decided to make a framable watercolour piece using one of the flowers from Hero Arts “Poetic Petals” digital stamp set & colouring it using the no line water-colouring method.

I created a video to show you exactly how I did it, but essentially I just printed the flowers onto normal printer paper and shaded the back of the flower I wanted to trace, with a large graphite stick. You can also use an ordinary pencil as that will work very well too. Once the back of the flower was all covered, I traced the flower with a normal pencil. The shading behind the flower acted like carbon paper and I ended up with the outline of the flower on my watercolour paper.

I then started water-colouring by adding the base colour and when that was thoroughly dry, added the fine lines you can find on the digi stamp, which I used as my template, with a thin brush. To finish, I flicked some paint on it (great way to use up your leftover paints) & added a frame with a black marker. I’m quite pleased with the result, especially since it is the first time I’ve done this with a digi stamp, so its really quite easy and I hope you’ll try it. Let me know if you do!

As promised, here’s the video I made to show you how I water-coloured this beautiful “Poetic Petals” digital stamp.

I hope you enjoyed my first post here. Thanks for stopping by & have a great end of the week!

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Please join us in this month’s “Birthday Bash” challenge for your chance at a free digital stamp AND, if you used Hero Arts or Sugartree Stamps, a $20 gift card to our a2z Scrapbooking 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! Get discounted new releases, sales, grab bags & more. Proceeds from our store benefit Celiac & Behcets disease foundations. Use my discount code Gwendolyn15 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 Poetic Petals printable 
• Winsor & Newton watercolours
• Clairefontaine 250g multi-technique paper
• Da Vinci no 2 & 7 watercolour brushes
• Pencil
• black marker

Hero Arts Killer Messaged Mini Card Set

Hi Everyone, Kristina here with a mini card set showcasing the Hero Arts Killer Messages stamp set!
I bought this set mostly for the sentiments. I love the style, the design, and the sayings themselves!
They could be used with or without the other images in the set and they are nice bold stamps.

Here they are in action!

I wanted to make some water-ish backgrounds to go with the shark/whale, so I went with alcohol inks and made 4 different combos using the colors I had on hand. I used ranger glossy paper that I had die cut into little scallop squares, and dropped on my alcohol ink / blending solution and moved it all around until I got the look desired.

Once they had fully dried and treated them generously with my EK Success Powder tool before embossing the images and sentiments with Versa Mark and Hero Arts White Embossing Powder.

I cut the back card panel from the same die and adhered to two together at the top, with a score line for opening. These little note cards measure 3.5×3.5, which I’ll make custom envelopes for, and send off to my friends just for little pick me ups!

I do have a bit of bad news though – There’s only 1 of these left in stock, so run, do not walk, to the a2z store and scoop it up
If you spend $25+ while your there use my code KRISTINA15 for 15% off too!
If someone grabs it before you that okay – Just use the request custom order button in our shop 🙂

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Please join us in this month’s “Shape Shift” challenge for your chance at a free digital stamp AND, if you used Hero Arts or Sugartree Stamps, a $20 gift card to our Hero Arts 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! Get discounted new releases, sales, grab bags & more. Proceeds from our store benefit Celiac & Behcets disease foundations. Use my discount code KRISTINA15 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 Killer Messages Where to buy: a2z	MFT Stitched Scallop Square Where to buy: SSS	Ranger Gloss Paper Where to buy: SSS | AMZ	Ranger Alcohol Ink ‘Pool’ Where to buy: SSS | AMZ
Ranger Alcohol Ink ‘ Purple Twilight’ Where to buy: SSS | AMZ	Ranger Alcohol Ink ‘Raspberry’ Where to buy: SSS | AMZ	Ranger Alcohol Ink Mixative Silver Where to buy: SSS | AMZ	Ranger Blending Solution Where to buy: SSS | AMZ
Ranger Alcohol Ink Sunset Orange Where to buy: SSS | AMZ	Versamark Where to buy: SSS | AMZ	EK Success Powder Tool Where to buy: SSS	Hero Arts White Embossing Powder Where to buy: a2z
Wagner Heat Gun Where to buy: a2z	Sizzix Big Shot Where to buy: SSS | AMZ	Cutterpillar Pro Where to buy: SSS | AMZ	Scor Pal Where to buy: SSS | AMZ
MISTI Where to buy: a2z | SSS | AMZ

One Layer Masking with Hero Arts Wishing Well

Hi Everyone! Kristina here playing with the Hero Arts Wishing Well stamp set.
I’ve made a few cards with this one here and here, but I wanted to try out using the images in this set to
create a single layer scene with some masked ink blending. Here’s what I came up with.

 

To start I just stamped all of the images onto some masking paper and set aside, knowing I would need masks in the end.
Next I arranged my stamps how I wanted them, and carefully pulled them onto my MISTI layer by layer, stamping the images I wanted in front first. After all of the images were stamped and masked I used a cloud stencil and clarity brushes to create the background, and then blended some green ink onto the bottom for grass. I splattered some wink of stella across the sky for some sparkle. Gotta have sparkle. After removing the masks, I colored my images with copic markers, added a few pre-cut and colored images I had leftover from a previous project, and stamped and embossed a sentiment.

Here’s a close up

 

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Please join us in this month’s “Flower Power” challenge for your chance at a free digital stamp AND, if you used Hero Arts or Sugartree Stamps, a $20 gift card to our Hero Arts 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! Get discounted new releases, sales, grab bags & more. Proceeds from our store benefit Celiac & Behcets disease foundations. Use my discount code KRISTINA15 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 Wishing Well Stamp Set Where to buy: a2z	Hero Arts Wishing Well Dies Where to buy: a2z	Neenah Solar White Where to buy: SSS
Hero Arts Green Hills Ink Where to buy: HA	Hero Arts CornFlower Where to buy: SSS | AMZ	Wink of Stella Clear Where to buy: SSS | AMZ
Brother Scan N Cut Where to buy: AMZ	Sizzix Big Shot Where to buy: SSS | AMZ	Cutterpillar Pro Where to buy: SSS | AMZ
Scor Pal Where to buy: SSS | AMZ	MISTI Where to buy: SSS | AMZ	Clarity Brushes Where to buy: SSS | AMZ
MFT Cloud Stencil Where to buy: SSS

Hero Arts Butterflies with a Spiral Stencil

This is one of the few times I have not used a die cut machine, but I wanted a simple one layer card and again used a monochrome card which you might have seen on our March 1st post here at A2Z Scrapbooking.  I hadn’t tried this technique of just putting a long post-it through a card and inking up the rest of the card in a long time and I like how this turned out.   I didn’t want a long sentiment, so I searched for and found a short sentiment to go with the lovely soft butterfly.

 

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Please join us in this month’s “Anything Goes” challenge for your chance at a free digital stamp AND, if you used Hero Arts, a $20 gift card to our Hero Arts 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! 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 Spiral Stencil at A2Z
• Hero Arts Color Layering Butterflies at A2Z
• Hero Arts Ombre Butter to Orange
• Hero Arts My Words, an older Hero Arts set

 

Hero Arts Scribble Coffees

Happy Thursday everyone,

I am still playing with my ‘new to me’ Hero Arts Scribble Bold Print cling stamp, it’s less than a month old so I say it is still new.  LOL

I first stamped the Scribble background with various distress ink on white card stock.  Then I die cut my coffee cups (using Hero Arts Nesting Teacup Infinity Dies) and distressd the edges using matching inks.  On a kraft panel I created coffee cup rings with distress ink, and dots/splash with water color.  Then I stamped and clear embossed the sentiment (from the Color Layering Butterflies set) and use foam tape to adhere the stacked cups and saucer.   Want to know where my saucer comes from?!  🙂  It the bottom of a large cup from the same infinity dies set.  🙂  Then the kraft panel goes onto a regular card base.

I think with enough coffee one’s heart would flutter?!  😀  Have you play our January Challenge yet?  Scroll down and check the details.

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Please join us in this month’s “New to Me” challenge for your chance at a free digital stamp AND, if you used Hero Arts, a $20 gift card to our a2z Scrapbooking Supplies 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! 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. 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 Nesting Tea Cup Infinity Dies
• Hero Arts Cling Stamp – Scribble Bold Print
• Hero Arts Color Layering – Butterflies
• Ranger Distress inks (Barn Door, Wild Honey, Peeled Paint, Vintage Photo)
• clear embossing powder

Hero Arts Ornaments Infinity Lantern

Hi everybody,

I am so excited to share my project with you today, I used my Ornaments Infinity Dies to make not ornament but a faux lantern.  I am inspired by the Chinese Lantern Festival (which falls on March 2nd this year).

We all want to stretch our craft supplies right?  Last year I made some 3D ornaments using this same set of die, you could see them in this post.  And I thought to improve the shape of my ornaments, such as this one.

So I use one of the medium dies and make a prototype like this.

Instead of just scoring and folding down the center, I scored two lines leaving some space in the center.  I think it does look a lot better.  To tie the twine, I used a flower die cut using a die from the Hero Arts Frame Cut – Scallop Frame set and glue it over the top.  Now I just need to choose some color card stock to make or do some stamping on the white Cs before die cutting the pieces.  And those would be my next holiday project!!  Yay.

Next I experimented with a different die, and while doing that I thought why not expand the scope and made faux lantern?

 

I die cut six times the ornament shape, mark and score a rectangle area (see photo below), folded and glue together the edges.  To cover the top for the twine, I die cut the large snowflake from Hero Arts Frame Cut – Small and Large Snowflake set.  And it fitted perfectly.

 

And then I went ahead with my faux lantern, I used the largest die from the Ornaments Infinity Dies set.  By now I think you got the idea of the basic steps so I will skip the ‘how to’ and go right ahead to show you the end result.

 

Here’s a little video to show how it looks all around.

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Please join us in this month’s “New to Me” challenge for your chance at a free digital stamp AND, if you used Hero Arts, a $20 gift card to our a2z Scrapbooking Supplies 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! 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. 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 Ornaments Infinity Dies
• Hero Arts Cling Stamp – Leaf and Floral Background, Small Strip Flower
• Hero Arts Frame Cut – Small and Large Snowflakes, Scallop Frame
• Hero Arts Paper Layering Hummingbird Pair
• Hero Arts Orchid Cutting Set by Lia
• Ranger Distress inks (Peeled Paint, Crushed Olive, Squeezed Lemonade, Wild Honey
• Hero Arts Pigment Ink – Unicorn
• white embossing powder
• Ranger Liquid Pearl
• watercolors
• white gel pen