Country Scrapbook Layout w/ Hero Arts Fancy Boot Die

 

Hi Everyone, Kristina here with a scrapbook layout featuring one of Hero Arts newer dies, Fancy Boot! I love the attention to detail give to this die from the intricate flourishes on the book, to the faux stitching down the middle, and even the little ridge to separate the sole from the shoe!

It was very easy to put together as well. I first cut it out of some dark brown cardstock, removed all the little flourish pieces and adhered it down to the layout with some liquid adhesive. While that dried, I cut out a 2nd boot from teal card card stock, this time saving only the little flourish pieces. I added some liquid adhesive in the negative spaces on the boot I glued down to the layout, and added in the teal flourish pieces just like a puzzle!

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MFT Beary Special Birthday Where to buy: SSS	MFT Beary Speical Birthday Die Where to buy: SSS | SHOP	Hero Arts Fancy Boot Die Where to buy: a2z	Bristol Strathmore Smooth Paper Where to buy: SSS | AMZ
Photoplay – Gypsy Rose Collection Kit Where to buy: AMZ | SB	Wink of Stella Clear Where to buy: SSS | AMZ	Ranger Multi Medium Matte Where to buy: AMZ | SB	Tombow Mono Multi Glue Where to buy: SSS | AMZ
SA 3L Foam Squares Where to buy: SSS | AMZ	SA 3L Thin Foam Squares Where to buy: SSS | AMZ	SA 3L Tape Runner Where to buy: AMZ | SB	Ranger Glossy Accents Where to buy: SSS | AMZ
Sizzix Big Shot Where to buy: SSS | AMZ	Cutterpillar Pro Where to buy: SSS | AMZ	Cricut Explore Air 2 Where to buy: AMZ | SHOP	WRMK Laser Square Where to buy: SSS | AMZ

Digi Duel with Summer Travel Words

Hi, friends, it’s time for our monthly digi duel when two team members use the same digital stamp set and see what they can come up with. Our digi set this month is Hero Arts Summer Travel Words and our duelists are Cindy and Arlene. Let’s see how they do!

Here’s Arlene’s take using the Summer Travel Words. I love how she repeated the stamps to get a fun, graphic look to this card. This would be a great postcard to send back home too if you’re lucky enough to get to play in the sunshine.

Supply List:

• Hero Arts digital stamp kit Summer Travel Words
• Hero Arts In the Study (you can custom order if this set is not shown in the A2Z shop)
• Hero Arts My Words – out of stock
• Die-Namics Pierced Circle STAX
• Vagabond die cut machine

And here is Cindy’s take with the same stamp set. Instead of a card, Cindy has put together a scrapbook page that’s all ready for the photo! Love this idea, since there are a million vacation photos on my phone right now…wish I had worked ahead a bit!

Supply List:

Hero Arts Digital Stamp Summer Travel Words

Hero Arts Classic Number Fancy Dies

Hero Arts Nesting Postage Stamp Infinity Dies

So, what would you do with this set? Think about it and then enter our challenge this month to try to win it and a $20 gift card to the store! (See this post for details on how to enter.)

Thanks for stopping by to see the duel!

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Hero Arts Pretty Blossoms Layout

Flower Power as the theme this month – talk about say no more!  Off to my Hero Arts digital stash to find the Hero Arts Pretty Blossoms PT002 Digital Download.  I coloured them within photoshop and then printed them out on my inkjet printer on photo paper and then fussy cut them.   I started with a white piece of card and clear gessoed it so it could withstand what was coming.  Using a Kaisercraft flower stencil I used white embossing paste and stencilled that over part of the background, then I mixed some purple into white embossing paste and used a Prima stencil to create some more texture and patterns.  Once dry, I grabbed the “Oom Pah Pah Pink” from Lindy’s Magicals – this is my most favourite one as it is such a gorgeous pink and then a lovely gold through it, it shimmers the nicest out of all of them.

I then dug through my paper stash to find some that would suit the purple and pink theme and created my photo matte.  I wanted a little bit more purple, but not too much and so I stencilled some gold onto the purple to break it down a little.  Time to dig through the flower and ephemera stashes to find appropriate pieces.  I was struck by the friends messages and decided to go with that.

I got busy sticking things down and getting the surrounds built up using the Hero Arts Pretty Blossoms mixed in with all of my other choices.  Setting up my new craft area has allowed me to rediscover a few different pieces that I have in my stash.  Once the layout was almost finished I got out the Sizzix machine to cut out some leaves and glued them in and added in some Altair Art butterflies.  A little bit of bling as the final touch and it is all done.  I love it, it looks pretty darn good and I am pretty sure it fills all parameters of the ‘Flower Power’ theme.  I hope you have fun creating your layout to go with this theme.

Take care all, see you next month.

Smiles,

Delia

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• Hero Arts Pretty Blossoms

 

Go Wild with Hero Arts Digital Download

So, I realised there was one digital download I had yet to use and it is the Hero Arts Digital Download Go Wild DK117 which has a groovy leopard and zebra print and so this layout is all about using those and of course, flowers, for the ‘flower power’ theme.  They just look so groovy.  I coloured them in photoshop and printed them out on gloss photo paper and cut them up into strips to create my photo matt.  They were a bit too clean and even though I stamped around the edges, I still wanted to grunge things up a bit and so I grabbed some brown ink and dribbled that around the edges.  I was happy then!

After that it is the ever arduous job of digging through my huge supply of ephemera and finding the right pieces to use.  I think that is the part I enjoy the least in the creative process, just having to find the pieces I want with regards to ephemera, perhaps I am just lazy, I am not sure, I just find it tedious is all.  Anyway, lots of flowering and embossing of chipboard and die cutting and then loads of blingy embellishment to finish it off.  It is all pretty groovy and comes together nicely – I think so anyway.  Couple of close ups.

Now I have this new family with all these children in my life, I have an abundance of photo’s to use and so I must print some out.  Too funny, I went from a really boring life in the city, on the outskirts more so to a busy life in rural New South Wales, Australia and with 4 children now there are always photo opportunities to be taken advantage of.  Whereas before, we never did anything and were totally non social and so I never had anything to take photo’s of which is why I started leaving a blank canvas.  Funny how life changes, as long as it is always for the better.

Stay well people, remember to smile and take the time to appreciate everything that passes you by.  Smiles, Delia

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• Hero Arts Digital Download DK117 ‘Go Wild’
• Hero Arts Gold Embossing Powder
• Ranger Texture Paste Transparent Gloss

 

Love is in the air … with sunflowers from Hero Arts Bright Blossoms Download

I love sunflowers, there is just something wonderfully happy about them.  Where I live, they grow randomly beside the road and each stalk has many sunflowers, not just one per plant.  I often stop and pick them when I am driving home as they are just so gorgeous.  So, when I saw that the theme this month is about love, I know, most would go red with the roses, but I am more of a sunflower kind of gal.

So, I grabbed yet another digital download, I know, call me Digital Download Delia!  Ha!  This is the Hero Arts Digital Download Bright Blossoms PT003.  I was going to do the usual and colour them in by hand, but I changed and coloured them quickly in photoshop and then duplicated it up at different sizes and printed them out on photo paper and cut them out.  I wanted this design to be all about the sunflowers and it surely is.  So bright and so happy.  The circular frames are from Dusty Attic and I just painted them Nuvo Arts Blue Wax mousse paint and embellished them with a few little sparkles.  The little scrabble squares spelling out LOVE are just so darn cute.  I may add more to this page at a later date, but if I don’t press publish, I may be very late!

Here is a wee pic of the layout, not much bling or things as I really let the flowers dominate the page.

Well, I sincerely hope your lives are much less chaotic than mine currently.  I am constantly amazed at how much busier my life is living on a farm.  I am not even sure if busy is the right word, but there certainly never seems to be enough hours in the day – most especially when a number of those hours must be spent having a nap some days.  Stay well and happy people, may your lives be full of love – with roses, sunflowers or awesome cuddles – or all three.

Smiles, Delia

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• Hero Arts Bright Blossoms Digital Download PT003
• Nuvo mousse
• Hero Arts Embossing Powder
• Dusty Attic Circular Frames
• Other metal embellishments from various sources

 

My journey with Hero Arts European Adventure Digital Download DK041 continues ….

So, this post was meant for the 27th, however, we had no internet for 4 days and still cannot make a phone call and then had no power for a full day.  Now, if you wish to make your crafting journey a little more challenging than normal, may I recommend going powerless!!!  Very special – in no way at all!  Anyway, just one of the many pleasures of living in the country … I really do love it.  So, I have finally got a craft space happening for me to play in, but it is still quite chaotic and being setup and now in the midst of it all, we are going away for a few days.  Aaaaagh, how does one go from living in the city to the country and life gets busier??  That is just weird.  Anyway, I do manage to escape away to the craft room now and even got to stay up into the wee hours last night.

Below is my second instalment for the month and I decided to continue to use the Hero Arts European Adventure Digital Download DK041 as on my last piece of art from the 17th of this month.  The first layout was France inspired, so this one I used other elements from the kit that were English inspired, the bus, coffee cup and tower.  My papers came from a country collection by DCWV and various other elements from all sorts of sources.  It is hard for me to share where all my various pieces of ephemera and elements come from as I always unpack them out of their original packaging and buy bits and pieces from everywhere.  I will openly admit that I am completely addicted to this awesome hobby!

My layout is below, once again, red, white and blue themed.

My favourite part of this layout is the little cluster down the bottom with the rolled back area of paper.  See the close up below, plus a few more close ups of various parts of the layout.  I shall leave that with you all, stay happy and well, be kind to one another and always find a little bit of time in each day to be creative.

smiles, Delia

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• Hero Arts Digital Download European Adventure DK041
• Embossing paste
• Various stamps and ink
• Ephemera, flowers and trinkets from various sources

 

Scrapbook Layout with Hero Arts Sea Turtle

Hi Everyone, Kristina here from Live Love Laugh Scrap sharing a scrapbook layout I’ve embellished with the Hero Arts Color Layering Sea Turtle. My mother is obsessed with sea turtles, so I had to buy this stamp set when it came out. We have plenty of tropical/florida/sea world stuff to scrapbook! This was actually a recent trip down to Gatlinburg, TN when we stopped in at Ripley’s Aquarium {Super overpriced and probably not worth it but I love fish….}  So after I came up with my layout I create an assortment of embellishments with the stamp set. The main elements of course being the sea turtles, which I stamped and cut out, along with few little start fish and flowers. For the seaweed, I stamped this onto some acetate, using Stazon Ink so it would have a glossy almost wet look.

I hope this provides a little inspiration on stretching your stamps to scrapbooking as well! You can save some time by using a stamp positioned, such as the MISTI, to stamp multiples at a time while you’ve got a good ink combo going, and save some for future projects. I just stamp, rotate the paper, stamp again, etc.

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Hero Arts Color Layering Sea Turtle Where to buy: a2z	Hero Arts Color Layering Sea Turtle Die Where to buy: a2z	Hero Arts Forever Green Where to buy: HA
Hero Arts Lime Green Ink Where to buy: a2z	Cutterpillar Pro Where to buy: SSS | AMZ	MISTI Where to buy: SSS | AMZ
WRMK Laser Square Where to buy: SSS | AMZ

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Still casing designers with Hero Arts Digi Download “A Natural Holiday”

Yes, Delia again, maybe ever so slightly late.  Super sorry, life just got a little busier than normal for me – life changing things even.  Okay, so, I have gone Christmassy, so early, I know!  I am not a big Christmas fan, never have been once I grew up I guess.  I love it if it is all about family and getting together and having fun, but if it is about presents, presents and more presents, then I am not so interested.

Hero Arts have some super digital downloads and quite a few for Christmas too and some for Halloween, that hopefully will be next month.  I used the Hero Arts Digital Download A Natural Holiday and cut out the elements on my Silhouette Cameo on some chipboard, white gessoed them and then I painted the big tree after cutting it in half with Nuvo wax pastes in blue and then the other elements I embossed mostly.  However, before I stuck things down I rummaged through my very small stash of Hero Arts stamps and I found this set and used the corner flourish with black Hero Arts ink and stamped it in a circular pattern around where the snowflake would sit – can’t see it anymore though!

It is hard to see all the elements that went into this design and I struggle with that.  However, if I want to successfully case Ola, I need to get far better at layering and being comfortable with elements being covered up.  It just seems so wasteful if you cannot see and appreciate every element.  Is that just me?  There is a gorgeous snowflake that I cut out that comes from the Silhouette store, I painted this dark blue with Nuvo wax pastes and put some Hero Arts silver embossing powder on the edges outside of the photo area.  I then made my photo matt and adhered some sparkly white and silver fabric I had around it in a ripple effect, raised this area up on a few bits of cardboard and I was ready for ephemera.

This set of digital images is well designed for cutting, you need to be a bit delicate with the Merry Christmas words.  I actually chopped these apart as they come joined.  One difficulty I keep finding, is trying to find a good dark blue flower, but I found a few that sufficed and I guess I can always paint them! hehe  I always finish off my designs with a bit of bling and so I used some silver flat back pearly things, Finnabair art stones, glitter, microbeads and various little fingernail decorations and mix them all up with some gel and water and decorate.

All done for this month, take care all, be safe, I am off on my new life adventure, so not sure when I will be back, but hopefully late next month.

Smiles, Delia

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• Hero Arts A Natural Holiday Digital Instant Download
• Nuvo wax pastes
• Embossing powders
• Nuvo gilding flakes
• Hero Arts Intense Black Ink
• Kaisercraft “Frosted” Paper Pad 12×12

 

Casing Ola again with Hero Arts Pretty Blossoms Digital Download

Hi again, I hope your September is going well. I am still in my infatuated with Ola Khomenok stage and so once again I chose another of her fabulous designs.  This is a link to her video tutorial.

So, here is my layout in response to our current ‘Case a Designer’ challenge this month.

The papers are some new ones I just got under the DCWV brand that have some lovely foiled copper pages throughout which allows you to make some beautiful embellishments to use in your design.  I wanted lots of different types of embellishments in my layout to make up for some of the amazing elements Ola has to use.  My main frame is from Dusty Attic which I embossed using green, pink and copper embossing powders.  My use of the Pretty Blossoms Digital Download played a large part in my use of ephemera, I printed them out on white card and then painted them roughly with some cheap glitter paints as I only wanted the colour to be subtle, cut them out and then added pearls and sequins or whatever into the middles to make them have a little bit of bling.  I do love my bling.

There are quite a few die cut pieces, but these are from dies collected over time and removed from their packaging, but obviously you just use whatever you have in  your stash and bring it all together, building up layers and then finishing up with a few more bits of shiny stuff.  All done, seems so simple, but it honestly takes me about 3 days to do a layout like this.  I am quite sure that I spend the most time just staring it and wondering what to do, what to use, trying to remember everything I have in my stashes. But, if you watch Ola, she just throws it all together, so quickly and effortlessly.  Clearly I need to practice more …. ohhh, if I have toooooo.  Like, my pleasure, hehehe.  I have done a few of these layouts now, to see more of them, please visit Jacobi Creations or my Jacobi Creations Blog.

That’s all for now, have a lovely week.  Delia

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• Pretty Blossoms Digital Download
• Sequins
• Embossing powder

 

Casing a Designer with Hero Arts Feathers

Happy September all.  Delia again, with another take on using digital files, while also keeping it in the theme of “Case a Designer”.  Well, I have a few favourite designers, but at the very, very top is a most amazing lady called Ola Khomenok, she is from the Ukraine and her work is amazing, lots of layers, colours and just bits and pieces.  She uses loads of stencils initially when building up her page and then she makes what she does look sooo easy and it truly does my head in.  I watch her videos over and over again and am always left in awe of her talent.  I am trying very hard to emulate her style at the moment which I call “collage style”, but it really is just “Ola style” as she has a truly beautiful talent that I am actually very jelly of.  Aaaagh, but it is always good to have those that push us to be better.  I am not sure what my issue is in my difficulty in trying to emulate her style, but I think it has a lot to do with wastage.  I am frugal when it comes to using my large collection of flowers, chipboard, ephemera and bits and pieces as it all costs lots of money and I just don’t want to waste it – even though it isn’t really wasting it.  I know that Ola is on some major design teams and would be showered with product and deservedly so, but that is not reality for most of us and so I am very considered when I put my layouts together.  I also am just not yet as talented as she!

So, here is my layout using the Hero Arts Feather Digital Cut file, which has the most awesome feather shape ever!  Clearly that was my hero in the layout, but I had lots of fun with this layout.  Firstly, I put the feathers through my Silhouette machine and then out came the Nuvo wax pastes in various colours and painted them and then I foiled them and sealed the foil off.  May I say how tedious foiling is…. those fiddly things and me are not the greatest of friends.  I truly did hide behind the door when patience was handed out.  So, I had a bit of fun with colouring and things, building up the layers, adding more and more bits and pieces, until all finished.

That’s all from me until another week passes when I shall return with another ‘Case a Designer’ layout, which will probably be all about Ola.  She is my current challenge and I am not giving up until I can learn her skill and put it in my repertoire.  So, be kind, be good and enjoy your inner creative.  Please visit me at my website www.jacobicreations.com or my blog at jacobicreations.blogspot.com.au

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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 Delia15 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.

 

 

 

• Hero Arts Feathers Digital Cut File DT104
• Nuvo wax pastes
• Birds on a Wire chipboard by Dusty Attic
• Wild and Free chipboard by WOW
• plus so much more