Hero Arts Tiger Lily For You

Arlene here.

I think I sponged Mustard Seed distress ink through the stencil on the entire background panel.  I had created this flower more than a year ago and knew I wanted to use it this month with my newly created lilies for this month.  I wanted a more CAS style card, but with the flower popping off the page.  I quite like the style which is entirely different from my other tiger lily cards this month.  My first card was posted on our A2Z September 1st post and the second card on the September 3rd post.

I think most stencils such as the Hero Arts Scrollwork stencil would work well with this flower.  It’s a simple design that can be repeated over and over again.

Close-up below

I used a similar design and background on the card below September 1, 2018.

 

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• Hero Arts Tiger Lily at A2Z Scrapbooking Stamp and Die Set here
• Hero Arts Tiger Lily Die-Cut at A2Z Scrapbooking here
• Hero Arts Spiral Stencil at Hero Arts
• Hero Arts stamp set Everyday Sayings – sentiment
• Flower – unsure which Hero Arts inks I used
• Vagabond die cut machine

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

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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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

Hero Arts Flutterbies Using Colored Pencils

Howdy! I hope you all are doing ok during this cold winter. It’s cold here in California for what I am used to. You have a good excuse to stay inside your warm crafty space and make some cards. I have a card today using digital images, colored pencils and a stencil. The colors (pinks, reds, grays) on the mood board for this months challenge caught my eye. So why not pink and red butterflies. Arlene and I were thinking about butterflies.

For the background I put a little Oxide Distress Ink down on a surface. I then took some embossing paste and mixed them together. I used a Hero Arts stencil for the pattern. I tried something a bit different for me and that is a random/partial background pattern. My brain wants to cover the entire background with a very even & symmetrical pattern.

For the butterflies I used the Hero Arts Flutterbies Printable Butterfly Digital Kit. You just print them, color them and cut them out. This kit comes with 3 sizes of butterflies and two different patterns on the wings. I learned a little trick with these. I first printed them out how they came. I wanted a couple smaller butterflies than they are originally. In my print dialog box I told it that I was printing on 4X6 paper so it shrinks to fit. I actually put in a 8 1/2 X 11 piece of Neenah cardstock and printed them. It worked great. I colored the butterflies with Prismacolor pencils. I went over a couple little spots on each butterfly with a Spectrum Noir Sparkle pen. Shimmer is the look I like a lot rather than glitter. When I glued down the butterflies I arched the wings a bit and only glued down the centers and outer wings to give a bit of dimension.

For the sentiment I die cut the words out twice using dark gray paper. The sentiment is actually attached in one long line but I cut it apart to fit my card. I glued those together and attached them to the card.

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• Hero Arts Flutterbies Printable
• Hero Arts Honeycomb Stencil
• Prismacolor Pencils
• Spectrum Noir Sparkle Pen
• Dreamweaver Embossing Paste
• Oxide Distress Ink – Hickory Smoke
• Spellbinders Die – Sentiments Three

Hero Arts Spiral Stencil With Words Of Love

I’ve used the Spiral Stencil in several different colors over the past 6 months or so.  I do like this in an orange to red gradation and I thought hearts are red and this would fit February.  A bit of Love goes a LONG way and this fits my mood.

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The dark color is a gray, but this is a mood board, not a color board.  I couldn’t tell for sure because the box looks navy blue to me.

 

 

 

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• Hero Arts digital “Words of Love“
• Gingerbread House – little hearts
• Stitched rectangles from a friend
• Intricutz dies (Couture Creations)  # dies
• Sizzix Friend die set
• Distress Inks fired brick and ripe persimmon
• Vagabond die cut machine.

Happy Owl-O-Ween by Hero Arts

Hello dear readers! I am thrilled to have been chosen to be on the Design Team for a2z Scrapbooking and I appreciate the warm welcome that my team mates have given me. Halloween is my favorite holiday; I have loved spooky stuff since I can remember!  So when I saw this new Happy Owl-O-Ween set I knew I HAD to get it; in my opinion you can never have too many Halloween sets!  Here is the card that I made for the October challenge, “Frightfully Fun”:

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• Hero Arts Happy Owl-O-Ween Stamps, #CM285
• Hero Arts Happy Owl-O-Ween Dies, #DI545
• Hero Arts Intense Black Ink {request a custom order or get an ink stack!}
• Hero Arts Clear Embossing Powder, #PW106

 

Hero Arts Tiger Lily

Guess what’s in the store?   The NEW CHRISTMAS Hero Arts products are in the A2Z Scrapbooking store.  Go shopping NOW!

I made a tag to say hello, but then I wanted to experiment with colors, some were successful and some not so much.

First up is my hello tag.  With the tiger Lily stamp set, I like all the sentiments in this stamp set and I think they will be well used.  .  I also ordered the suggested ink cube pack, Desert Sun for stamping the flower.  I used Dandelion for the bottom stamp, Tangerine for the middle and Strawberry for the top stamp.

• Order of stamping:
• Lay the Spiral Stencil over the tag and sponge with Dandelion ink.
• No masking because the same color ink is used on the bottom flower layer.
• Stamp in order (stamping order on back of stamp set packaging.
• Stamp sentiment.

You can use any stencil with the same color as the bottom layer of the flower without masking.

I put together some color combinations on my personal blog with the Color Layering Tiger Lily in various distress ink colors.  Be sure to go down to the very bottom of my post at A Bit of This and That. .  I was surprised how the white embossing looked on the final top stamp of this set.

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• Hero Arts color layering Tiger Lily stamp set at A2Z Scrapbooking
• Hero Arts ink cube set Desert Sun – you can custom order this set through A2Z Scrapbooking
• Hero Arts Infinity dies – Nesting Tag Dies (you can custom order through A2Z)
• Distress Inks – specific inks under each tag
• Hammermill paper
• Vagabond die cut machine
• Matching Hero Arts Color Layering Tiger Lily Frame Cuts die is available at A2Z

Dragonfly Die In Metallic

Hi, friends, Chark here with a card featuring the Dragonfly die from Hero Arts. I looovvee this die and it comes with the detailed die and an outline die. I cut the outline in metallic blue paper and the detailed die from white cardstock, which I used Diamond Stickles on.

I used the Wonderful Stamp and Cut and the Spiral Stencil for the background. I used watercolor paper and taped the stencil in place. I sprinkled on Color Burst powder pigments and spritzed with water while the stencil was in place. I let it dry and then removed the stencil. It didn’t stay white but it was lighter and I think the vibrant color is fab!

Here it is in close-up so you can see the shine. I added silver metallic bling and outlined the stamped sentiment in white Uniball pen.

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• Hero Arts Dragonfly Die 
• Wonderful Stamp and Cut
• Silver Metallic dots
• Hero Arts Spiral Stencil (this is a custom order at no additional charge right now)
• Brutus Monroe Color Bursts by Ken Oliver
• Black Ink
• Uniball Pen
• Metallic Cardstock
• Diamond Stickles

 

Dragonfly Fancy Die by Hero Arts

I am so in love with this Dragonfly Fancy Die from Hero Arts—it’s detailed but not crazy detailed so you don’t have to baby it when you die cut it from your machine, and it looks good just about every way you try.

I’ve cut it from black paper, white cardstock, glitter paper, metallic paper, vellum, sticker paper, patterned paper, watercolor paper and more. It’s so versatile and you can get a lot of uses from it. I think it’s a beautiful way to do Sympathy, Thinking of You, Birthday and Hello cards. To make this dragonfly, I die cut the insect from gold metallic paper and used acetate (dripped with alcohol inks) as the wings.

For my cards, I’ve left off the sentiment to be stamped inside later. I think the gold glitter paste with the stencil and the dragonfly is all the card front needs. It’s pretty striking on its own. I love how the acetate/alcohol inks give it a stained glass look.

For this card, I die cut the dragonfly from black paper and used some Hero Arts Liquid Watercolors dripped onto watercolor paper for the wing backing. It’s definitely a different look, but still striking in a different way. The pool card and gold stenciling is the same as the first card.

A Blog Named Hero is back! They have a new challenge up and two prizes available…the theme is Use Your Fave Hero Arts and since this Dragonfly die is now officially my fave, I’m entering the top card with the gold dragonfly in the challenge. You can join me here.

Pop over to my blog to see more dragonflies with different papers and wings on this post at Glitter in my Kitchen.

Happy Wednesday!

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• Dragonfly Die
• Nuvo Glitter Paste (gold)
• Spiral Stencil
• Pool Mixed Cards
• Liquid Watercolors (Dandelion, Deep Ocean)

 

Hero Arts Hybrid Card – Mermaid Sea Waves Stencil and Digital Kits

Hi! This is Sue and I have a hybrid card for you today. What’s a hybrid card, you ask – well it’s a combination of using traditional paper crafting supplies, like stencils, stamps and digital images. Here’s my card.

For my card, I used a Hero Arts stencil with distress inks (cracked pistachio, mermaid lagoon, salty ocean). For the fish, I used a Hero Arts digital kit – DK039 Beach Adventure. I adjusted the size of the fish and printed them out with my inkjet printer. I added colour with Copic markers and fussy cut them. For the sentiment, I used another Hero Arts digital kit – DK116 Special Birthday, which I cut into a banner and matted with blue cardstock.

 

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• Hero Arts SA110 Mermaid Sea Waves Stencil
• Hero Arts Digital DK039 Beach Adventure
• Hero Arts Digital DK116 Special Birthday