Flower Cards | a2z Scrapbooking Supplies

October 23, 2019
by Cindy C. 3 Comments

Hero Arts Arum Lily Valentine

I am a little sad to say that this is my final post for a2z Scrapbooking for our Farewell challenge. I had a wonderful time being part of the a2z Scrapbooking DT, this is first Design Team I’ve ever join so it had special meaning to me. I have learnt and grew with this team, and I am going to miss it a lot.

For my project today, I choose to make a card for Valentine’s Day, yes I know it is still a little far away, but we could celebrate love anytime right?!

To create this card I stenciled some horizontal stripes on a white card base using Soft Grey Shadow Ink.

Then on multimedia paper I stamped and watercolor the Arum Lilies. I used some references from the web for the colors. After everything dried, I hand cut the blooms, leaves and stems; and made a bouquet. And it is adhered to the card, and I added a white on black sentiment stripe. And I added a little of Diamond Stickles to the center. Voila, simple and pleasant. 🙂

There still plenty time to play our Final Challenge – Holidays (pick any holidays you like). Click here or the Current Monthly Challenge Button at the top to get more details.

Hero Arts Arum Lily Clear Stamp set
Soft Grey Shadow Ink
Jet Black Archival Ink
Watercolors
Diamond Stickles
White embossing powder

May 23, 2019
by Cindy C. 2 Comments

Hero Arts Hanging Nasturtium

Hello,

Cindy here to share a CAS card featuring Hero Arts Nasturtium. I combined it with a planter from the Stamp Your Own succulent, and hand drawn some strings to make a hanging Nasturtium planter.

I could have just stamped the Nasturtium, mask it before stamping the planter. But I wanted some dimension, but I don’t have the die cut for the Nasturtium. So I did partial hand cut of the lower blooms and tugged the planter underneath.

The planter I stamped twice, once on white card stock and watercolored, and another time silver heat embossed on vellum. I hand cut the watercolored planter closely; but when cutting the vellum one I left some space all around; then creased all the sides and wrapped the watercolored piece inside. This way it looks like a glass planter with soil inside. And I used my creative license to hand draw some extra stems to connect the Nasturtium image and the planter.

There’s still plenty time to join in and play along our May Flowers challenge. Scroll down to get the details.

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Please join us in this month’s “May Flowers” 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.

Hero Arts Florals Nasturtium
Hero Arts Stamp Your Own Succulents
Watercolors
Versamark Watermark Ink
Silver Embossing Powder
Silver Gel Pen

May 19, 2019
by afmmac 1 Comment

Hero Arts Magnolia in Yellow

I thought this yellow flower would be perfect for the month of May and just a nice way to say “hi” to a friend who might need a smile. It’s bright and sunny which I feel should bring the sun to anyone.

The die cut piece on the left side of the flower reminds me of a vine growing up a trellis. I hope you like this little creation.

Close-up below

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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.

Hero Arts Magnolia
Hero Arts Magnolia die cut at A2Z Scrapbooking
Copic markers Y00, Y02, Y04, Y19, YG00, YG03, YG05 & YG09
The Stamp Doctor Spellbinders Side Step Card Die
Elizabeth Craft Designs sentiment (Smile)
Leafy die unknown
Vagabond die cut machine

May 13, 2019
by afmmac 1 Comment

Hero Arts Magnolia in Purple

While I was looking for magnolias on Pinterest, I saw some purple, YES Purple, magnolias. Mine did not turn out quite like the ones I saw, but I’ll claim artistic license. I ran some Washi tape diagonally and added a sentiment. Have fun with your flower entries for this month.

Close-up below

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Hero Arts Magnolia (wood or clear)
Hero Arts Magnolia die-cut at A2Z Scrapbooking
Copic markers
Washi tape
Hero Arts sentiment (I put the stamp set away too soon and now I can’t find which set it is)
Vagabond die cut machine

May 11, 2019
by Cindy C. 4 Comments

Guest Designer May 2019

Hello there,

We are very please to present our May Guest Designer, Ilina Grouse. She is a former a2z DT and is currently on several design teams including Hero Arts. I bet you’ve been inspired by her work just like I have. Let’s hear from her and see what she created for us today.

Hi everyone,

I am honored to be a guest designer for A2ZScrapbooking this month. This month’s challenge is flowers, so I used the Color Layering TIger Lily set and dies, Peonies stamp set and the new Flower Garden Fancy dies.

To make my card I started by stamping the Tiger Lilies using Soft Pink, Bubble Gum and Raspberry Jam ink pads, next I die cut them using the coordinating dies. Set them aside.
Die cut the Flower Garden fancy die using Pitch Black card stock. Stamp sentiment from Peonies set in Versamark on Pitch Black card stock and emboss in white. Cut to size.
Assemble the elements onto top folding note card made from Pitch black card stock. Once done add pink Nuvo Drops to finish off the card.

Thank you so much for taking time to create for us Ilina. This card is just amazing. To see more of Ilina’s beautiful work, hop over to her blog: Creativity Within. Or connect with her on Facebook.

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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.

Color Layering TIger Lily set and dies
Peonies stamp set
Flower Garden Fancy dies

May 9, 2019
by Cindy C. 5 Comments

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)

January 13, 2019
by afmmac 5 Comments

Hero Arts Greenery Edge is Anything Goes

I’m not really a flower person, but I do have to say, I really like the Hero Arts magnolia stamp and that it has a matching die. I made this a simple card so it could be used for just about any occasion. It looks quite striking in real life.

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! You can find me at A Bit of This and That.

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 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 Holiday Greenery Edge Fancy Die
Hero Arts Flowering Magnolia Frame Cuts at A2Z Scrapbooking (You may find the matching stamp at Hero Arts.
Copic Markers
Vagabond die cut machine

December 23, 2018
by Cindy C. 3 Comments

Hero Arts Pink Poinsettia Greetings

Oh boy, just two more day before Christmas! Are you ready for it?

I don’t think I am ever ‘ready’, I just enjoy and take it all in regardless. Best policy don’t you think? Alright enough small talk, let’s get to my card today.

I’ve stamped the Poinsettias all around the card edges and created a frame for my ‘Merry Merry Christmas’ sentiment. Btw I combined stamps from two sets for it and it’s silver heat embossed. Some of the tips of the leaves have silver embossing on it, it wasn’t my original design, but I like that it happened! I also enhanced the some of the petals with a watercolor wash. For the final touches I splattered some Glimmer Metallic Pewter Ink all over it. To the center of the Poinsettia I added Gold Dust Stickles. The panel is adhered to a Charcoal card base, and embellished with some Wine color sequins.

So Merry Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you all!!

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Please join us in this month’s “Winter Wonderland” 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 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 Poinsettia
Hero Arts Winter Cheer Tag Set by Lia
Hero Arts Glimmer Metallic Pewter Ink
Hero Arts Mid-Tone Shadow Ink (Ultra Pink)
Ranger Distress Ink (Spun Sugar, Crushed Olive)
Ranger Archival Ink (Jet Black)
Ranger Stickles (Gold Dust)
VersaMark Watermark Ink Pad
28 Lilac Lane Premium Sequins (Wine)

August 31, 2018
by Cindy C. 5 Comments

August Guest Designer Post with Angie C.

Hi everybody, please join me and welcome our August Guest Designer Angie C. Angie is a former a2z DT member, and are currently on several other design teams. You could visit her at her Blog: cimbacreativefun, her Instagram page, her Pinterest page, and her Facebook page. I personally have always enjoy Angie’s beautiful creations, and today’s card is definitely going onto that long list.

Now let’s hear from Angie.

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Hello everyone – Angie here – so happy to be guesting today with a2zscrapbooking! Today is the last day of the “Anything Goes” challenge so you still have time to enter!

A2Zscrapbooking has such a special place in my heart as not only do they have a great store with super fast shipping and amazing service, they are run completely by volunteers so they can raise funds for Celiac and Behcets awareness! (I have a dear family member with Celiac’s disease so their cause is dear to my heart!) In addition, a2z was the very first design team I was on. They have such a super supportive team and I learned a lot from these wonderfully talented ladies and made some amazing friends too! So thank you for the invite to guest with you today!

I used some of my favorite Hero Arts products today on my card:

Hero Arts Wonderful “Stamp & Cut”

Hero Arts Artistic Dahlia

Hero Arts Copper Embossing Powder

Hero Arts Diamond Gems

Hero Arts White Card base

and a few other products:

Versafine ink

Dotted curved border die from Poppy Stamps

The dahlia comes as a wood rubber stamp and there are additional dies you can buy, called Hero Arts Artistic Dahlia frame cuts I didn’t use the dies for this project as I wanted to work on my coloring to see if I could get dimension, coloring with Zig Clean Color markers on kraft card stock and I need to mail this card, so the flatter the better! But the frame cuts, when you use them, are amazing because it cuts the flower into 3 parts so you can use foam tape or squares to pop them up! Or you can just use one or 2 of the dies, so many possibilities. The Hero Arts Wonderful “Stamp & Cut” dies cut out both different sizes of the word stamps, however, I wanted a white border, so I cut out around the larger word die to get an even bigger “wonderful” word die.

Thanks so much to the a2z crew for inviting me to guest design today! I’m so honored!

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Thank you Angie for guest designing for us. It’s a pleasure to have you!

Like Angie said, there is still time to enter this month’s Anything Goes challenge. Looking forward to seeing your creations in our challenge gallery.

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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 a2z Scrapbooking store. Our current monthly challenge can always be found in the menu bar, and runs from the 1st to last day of the month

August 19, 2018
by Cindy C. 3 Comments

Hero Arts Peonies Pop-up Card

Hello there.

You know owning floral stamps is great. Cause you could stamp a pretty flower anytime and make beautiful floral cards . Today I tried a new technique I learnt by watching Jennifer McGuire’s video here. And made a milestone birthday card.

In Jennifer’s video the pop up image is flushed with the window, but I didn’t want to cut my pretty bloom so I decide to let part of it extend outside the window.

I have to cover up the upper right corner inside of the card (forgot to take photos before writing it, haha).

The Peony bloom, leaves and buds are all gold heat embossed and watercolored. On some of the petals I added a coat of Perfect Pearl solution. The sentiment is also gold heat embossed.

I had lots of fun making this card, and I can promise you this is not the last one I would make! 😀

Have you seen all the goodies from the Hero Arts 2018 Season of Wonder Catalog in the a2z store? Go check it out and have some shopping fun. Remember to click Request Custom Order if you don’t see the items you want in the store. Scroll down to get my discount code.

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