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

 

 

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 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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• 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

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

 

 

 

 

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.

 

 

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 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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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

 

 

 

 

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.

 

 

• 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

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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• 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 Has A Fold with Tree-Mendous Digital Kit and Gingerbread Houses

I don’t usually make fold cards, but I might start making more of them since I finally got the hang of how to line up the die with my paper and how to FOLD it.  I’m glad A2Z made me try.

I have to tell you it came out so much better than I imaged it.  How did that happen?  On with the show.

Close-up of my fold card

I think it was the monotone blue on this deep black background that made this so special.  I will be leaving this on my desk for awhile to remind me to try new things and be an inspiration.  You can see Arlene at A Bit of This and That.

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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 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 Gingerbread House Stamp and Cut at A2Z Scrapbooking (houses & sentiment)
• Hero Arts Tree-Mendous Digital Kit at A2Z Scrapbooking
• The Stamp Doctor Spellbinders Side step Card Die
• Elizabeth Craft Designs Igloo die – the post with the sentiment sticking up from the snow
• Elizabeth Craft  Designs Adventure Edges – snowy hills
• Elizabeth Craft Designs 4th of July – stars
• Copic markers B0000, B21, B91 & B95
• Vagabond die cut machine

A2Z Scrapbooking Sugartree Digital Hug in a Mug

Sometimes you color some things, cut them out and they sit waiting for you to get some inspiration to continue.  I thought receiving new dies would bring me inspiration and THEY DID.

Very simply, I created a background of dies and staggered the cups up the smallest one and die cut a sentiment.  I’m a tea drinker and my breakfast tea is always in a cup or mug, so my sentiment has to be one for tea.

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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 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.

 

 

 

• A2Z Scrapbooking Sugartree Stamps digital sets “Hug in a Mug” and “Farmhouse“
• Copic Markers
• Unknown dies, I think one is a Spellbinders die
• Vagabond die cut machine

Hero Arts Gingerbread House in Blue

I have loved the 2018 Christmas selection of stamps and I had to use the gingerbread house in a non-traditional way.  Gingerbread is not only for Christmas.  I know it seems as though everything is floasting, but they somehow float together in harmony.  Well, that’s the way I see it.  And I have to ask you, if I hadn’t come right out and told you the house was a gingerbread house, would you have suspected immediately and exclaimed, “OH MY, It’s a Gingerbread House”?

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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 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 available at A2Z Scrapbooking
• Hero Arts Gingerbread House Stamp and Cut
• Copic Markers
• Vagabond die cut machine

Hero Arts Words of Love

February is here and I wanted to show you how I keep my schedules for my DT work.  I used Hero Arts digital “Words of Love” as well as “Notes and Dates” to make my schedule for 2019.  It feels fresh and bright.  I love looking at this page and making entries on my insert.

There’s quite a contrast to 2018 and I LIKE IT.  I loved the flower when I made it, but I’m lovin’ the Words of Love.

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Please join us in this month’s “Mood Board” 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 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 digital “Words of Love” as well as “Notes and Dates
• Elizabeth Craft Designs Stitched Rectangles
• Copic markers in grays and RV shades
• Vagabond die cut machine.
• Scrap papers