I’ve seen this die-cut used a lot this past weekend in the Hero Arts Blog hop and I CASED one of the cards at You and Your Big Dreams.
Be sure to enter the A2Z Scrapbooking challenge this month. I did not use the Mood Board, but I did use a new die.
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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.
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. 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 Garden Fancy Die (When visiting A2Z Scrapbooking store, you may request a custom order)
Hero Arts Color Layering Butterflies (no longer available, but butterflies can be checked out at Hero Arts here) or at A2Z here
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!
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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. 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.
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.
When I saw Cindy’s card here, I knew I had to try it with just plain ol’ nesting dies, not that anything Hero Arts is plain. But I just got my new Hero Arts stencil in and I couldn’t wait to try it out. And you won’t believe what distress ink color I used – WILD HONEY. I popped the orange tag up and put some sequins in. Then I thought the tag hole was a bit big, so I copied another DT, Monica, with her neon butterfly from August 12th. I added the smallest tags with a sentiment.
Here’s Cindy’s card of wonderful cups. You can see those wonderful dies nesting below her cups in the first photo.
Here’s Monica’s card.
My results are below. It’s a tag card The sequins can move around to their heart’s desire.
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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 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 within the shop.
Hero Arts Butterfly stamps (I had the matching dies and didn’t cut out the shape, however, I have used just the stamps in many other projects without die-cutting)
Hello everyone!! We are back with another fabulous challenge this month.
Our new challenge this month is “CASE a Designer”! All you have to do is use any Hero Arts product on your project and recreate one of the designer’s work, past or present. Be creative with this challenge.
Please be sure that your project contains at least ONE main HERO ART Product as the focal element!
This challenge will be pretty interesting. The DT has creating some awesome projects to inspire you to play along with us.
Amazing isn’t it!! I hope you love what you see and that it inspires you to join us this month. You have the entire month to create a new project and enter it into Mr. Linky below. By entering you will have a chance to win a $25 Gift Certificate to the a2z Scrapbooking Store. One lucky winner will be announced on the 7th of October!!
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Hero Arts Santa Snacks Stamp & Cut Hero Arts Clear Stamp – Vintage Christmas Post Hero Arts Winter Cheer Tag Set by Lia Hero Arts Frame Cut – Scallop Frame Hero Arts Ink Cube – Jayne’s Fall Color Stick It Adhesive Sheet VersaMark watermark ink Watercolors White ER Rangers Glitter – Candy Cane, Cool Mint, Platinum, Diamond Selected sequins
First card: I die cut the Fancy Butterfly using a print created using Gel Plate and acrylic ink. For a look of the original print, please visit my blog: Escape To Stamping.
I love that subtle shimmery gold on the bright purple/pink background. Before I die cut, I adhere a piece of Stick It Adhesive sheet to the back of the print. Afterward, I just peel off the backing and stick it on the postage die cut. Easy peasy! 🙂
On my postage stamp die cut (cut using Hero Arts Postage Stamp Infinity Dies) I stamped various postmarks with grey shadow ink. The whole panel is adhere to green pattern card base with foam adhesive.
So after I am done with this one, I looked at the leftovers, namely the negative die cut and the small pieces. I thought why not create a second card using them?! I stick the negative butterfly onto a lime green panel, use a butterfly die cut cut on scrap as guide and stick back the larger manageable pieces.
Then I mount the whole panel onto a white card base stamped with Neon Pink script.
Here’s a close up shot you could see the shimmers.
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Hi all. It’s Anything Goes this month at our challenge. So I’m here to show you a card in a box I made using the Digital kit called Flutterbies Printable PT006. A2Z are the sole supplier of Hero Arts Digital kits and stamps. I really like the way I can choose the size I print my images at.
I started by sizing my digital stamp in a Word document and then copying the size so I had 6 images. I used some Canson XL water colour paper and printed out my sheet. I then used some watercolour paint to make lots of colourful butterflies. I also printed one at slightly butterfly as well and water coloured. I fussy cut all the butterflies and made my card in a box. I used some patterned paper by Craftworks which looks like watercolour. I added a little bit of trellis die on my back panel and added the larger butterfly. For my front sentiment I used another Hero Art Digital kit – Say it in Pieces. I took two of the sentiments – made a circle in Word and coloured it green and added the sentiments. Added a teeny punched butterfly. My green leaves are a Hero Arts Fancy Die Spring Fling (Discontinued)
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Please join us in this months “Anything Goes” challenge for your chance at a $25 gift card to the a2z 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 Dawn15 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.
Hello everyone!! We are back with another fabulous challenge this month.
Our new challenge this month is “Take Shape”! All you have to do is use any Hero Arts product on your project and create a card of any shape. Be creative with this challenge.
Please be sure that your project contains at least ONE main HERO ART Product as the focal element!
This challenge will be pretty interesting. The DT has creating some awesome projects to inspire you to play along with us.
Amazing isn’t it!! I hope you love what you see and that it inspires you to join us this month. You have the entire month to create a new project and enter it into Mr. Linky below. By entering you will have a chance to win a $25 Gift Certificate to the a2z Scrapbooking Store. One lucky winner will be announced on the 7th of July!!
Hello crafty friends, Martha Lucia here with you. April is almost over and I want to finish my creative month using another color layering stamp, the Color Layering Butterflies by Hero Arts. This is a very unique set of stamps that you can use for all occasions. Let me show you my card:
I love to create CAS (or Clear and Simple cards) and with the Color Layering stamps this is a real passion because you can use a lot of color combos and different layers to create different types of combinations on your images. If you notice on my card, the small butterflies have only one image in common, the detailed layer, but the bases are totally different. The set Color Layering Butterflies is composed by 10 different images that you can combine and integrate to obtain different looks.
The base of my card is Whisper White and I pasted a piece of decorated paper on the left border. Then I stamped the solid butterflies and the detailed images with three different colors of ink: Green Hills, Tide Pool and Orange SodaShadow Ink Mid-Tone by Hero Arts. I only kept the body of the butterflies with a single color, Tangerine Bold Ink by Hero Arts– the same color that I used to create a splatter. The sentiment was stamped with Hero Arts Intense Black Ink.
If you like any of the products I used on my card, please stop over at the a2z Scrapbooking Etsy store. You can use the code Martha15 to receive 15% off of a $25.00 order.
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Hi, friends, Chark here today to share one of my favorites right now, the Hero Arts Floral Border Die. It’s delicate and spring-like and makes a gorgeous silhouette when cut from black cardstock.
For the background, I used Distress Inks and applied the ink pads to a nonstick craft sheet. Then I spritzed with a lot of water and ran the cardstock through the ink. I let the panel dry and then trimmed it to fit behind the die cut.
I stamped the sentiment and swirl from the Color Layering Peacock Stamp set and adhered the whole panel to a card base. It was easy to do and pretty quick. If you want to speed up your ink drying time, you can use a heat gun and it would be even quicker. It looks like you took a lot of time and effort but it really is a fast and easy card.
Hope you’ll join in our monthly challenge Getting to Know You (using your favorite Hero Arts products). You can win $25 to the store! I think my favorite die says I’m fond of flowers and sunsets. Do you think the black against the color looks a little like the trees against the setting sun? I do!
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