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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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 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

Hero Arts Tiger Lily Appreciate What Is

I really like heat embossing the last layer on this tiger lily in white.  I know it’s not a natural look, but it’s quite riveting in real life.  The flower becomes the stunning focus on the card.  So happy to share this flower with you.  You can find me 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.

 

 

 

• Hero Arts Tiger Lily at A2Z Scrapbooking Stamp and Die Set here
• Hero Arts Tiger Lily Die-Cut at A2Z Scrapbooking here
• Hero Arts Anytime sentiments – old set
• Kat Scrappiness Background Die here
• Distress inks Mermaid Lagoon & Blueprint Sketch
• Hero Hues Unicorn pigment ink
• JudiKins Embossing Powder Opaque White
• Papers – Navy Blue scrap paper & distressed background in broken china to lighter colors
• Vagabond die cut machine

 

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

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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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 (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

Guest Designer March 2019

Hi everyone,

Niki Garcia, one of our former design team members, is our Guest Designer today.  To get to know her more, visit her at her blog: Stampin’HI.

You could also catch her on Instagram.

 

Now let’s see hear from Niki.

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Aloha friends! I’m dusting off the ol’ blog to be a guest designer for A2Z Scrapbooking…what an honor!! I’ve missed being on the design team and it was the best excuse to take a break from work and get crafty!

This month’s challenge is Color It In so I decided to use the Hero Arts Color Layering Dragonfly on my card today.

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Oh wow, what a lovely card!!  Thank you so very much for Guest Designing for us Niki!!  Go to her blog post for more details.

Here’s the supplies Niki used for her project:

• Hero Arts Color Layering Dragonfly
• Hero Arts Platinum Embossing Powder
• Hero Arts Shadow Ink in Wet Cement
• Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers
• Distress Oxide Ink in Twisted Citron, Lucky Clover and Tumbled Glass
• Distress Marker in Hickory Smoke

 

 

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Please join us in this month’s “Color It In” 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. 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 Florals Nasturtium Hello

Hello hello,

Cindy here to share a floral card created using only one stamp set.

I first stamped the main image in Soft Grey Shadow ink multiple times on a white card panel. Then on separate white card stock I stamped the same images in Antique Linen Distress ink and did some no-line watercolors and hand cut.

To make the background more interesting without over powering the focal images, I painted the blooms with Perfect Pearl solution and added sentiment in black. I die cut the bottom edge of the panel with a border cutting die. Then it’s adhered to a wine color card base. Then the hand cut blooms and leaves are adhered with glue and foam dots.

Oh almost forgot, the center of the blooms are dotted with a gold gel pen. 🙂

I hope you enjoy my project today. Although I used the clear Nasturtium set, the Flowering Nasturtium Woodmount stamp offer the same image. There’s plenty time to play along our January challenge – Anything Goes. Scroll down to get the challenge info and my promote code for shopping at the a2z Store. Remember you can Request Custom Order if you don’t see the item in the store.

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!

      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 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 Hero Florals Nasturtium Clear Stamp
• Shadow Ink (Soft Grey)
• Ranger Distress Ink (Antique Linen)
• Memento Dye Ink (Tuxedo Black)
• Penny Black Cut Out Borders Cutting Die
• Altenew Watercolors 36 Pan Set
• Ranger Perfect Pearl Powder

 

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.

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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

Hero Arts Peonies Thanks

Hello,

Cindy here to share another Thank You card.  Who says Peonies are only for Spring and Summer?  I bet you can use it all year long!  I used my favorite Fall colors and Peonies for my project, and I like it!  🙂

 

The outlines of the Peonies looks like gold heat embossing, but it is actually foiling.  I first clear heat embossed the peonies and then I reheat part by part and place foil sheet over it and press down with bone folder.

 

The sentiment from the same Peonies set is stamped in black and clear heat embossed.  And I added a few sequins to complete the card.  Hop over to my blog, Escape To Stamping to get more details.

The Hero Arts Peonies Clear Stamp set is really pretty.  It is still available at a2z Scrapbooking.  Get your own today.  Scroll down to get my promote code and save yourself 15% of any purchases $25 or over before shipping.  Remember to Request Custom Order if you don’t see the items you want in the store.

Wait!!  Don’t go just yet.  The On Sale section in the a2z store is 50% off right now.  Lots of goodies there including Christmas stuff, like this one, this one, this one, this one, and this one.  Hurry before they’re all gone.  Click Here.

 

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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 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 Peonies Clear Stamp
• Hero Arts Peonies Frame Cut
• Ranger Distress Ink (Squeezed Lemonade, Wild Honey, Barn Door)
• VersaMark Watermark Ink Pad
• Memento Dye Ink (Tuxedo Black)
• Clear Embossing Powder
• Little Things from Lucy’s Card Sequins (Fruit Sorbet)

 

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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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 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 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 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

Poetic Petals digital stamp – Part 2

Hi everyone! Today I’m using Hero Arts Poetic Petals digital stamp again, to show you an easy way to colour this stamp, with shining results! This stamp set comes with 4 beautifully drawn flowers and in my last post here, I showed you how to do a no line water-colouring with one of them. Today, I just coloured them in with pencils and markers, directly on the copy paper I printed them on!

The actual reason I did this was that I’m still on holiday at my Mother in law’s in Madrid and I thought she would have a printer here so I didn’t bring another printed image on proper colouring paper. Fortunately she doesn’t have a printer as this led me to discover that cheap printer paper works just as well for colour pencils and markers! I started colouring in the printed image with dark blue Prismacolor pencils but then decided I wanted a more vibrant look. As I didn’t bring any other colouring medium with me, apart from my watercolours which would not work on copy paper, I searched around my mil’s stationary and found some blue and gold uni ball glitter gel pens & used those.

Once I finished colouring my flower, I cut it out, put it aside and started on the card base. I used the lightest colour card from Hero Arts Floral Mix folded card & cut it into strips with a scissors. I then glued only the broad strips back onto the card. As the copy paper was very thin, I added a thick scrap paper under it and glued the flower onto my prepared card base. This whole panel was then glued onto the darkest blue card from Hero Arts sea mix folded cards.

Can you see the shine the uni ball pens give, i just love it! The typewritten sentiment comes from a… typewriter! I didn’t bring appropriate sentiment that would fit into the small space so I typed it in myself!

Well I hope you like my card and I would love to know what you think of it. Have a great day!

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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 Gwendolyn15 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 Poetic Petals digital stamps
• Hero Arts Floral Mix foldable cards
• Hero Art Sea Mix layering page
• Uniball Signo blue, pink and gold glitter gel pens