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June 19, 2019
by Cindy C. 3 Comments

Hero Arts Everything Smiles Color Swatches

Hello,

Cindy here to share a few fun projects, color swatches, skinny bookmarks and lunch box message tags. I am inspired by this month’s challenge – Anything But a Card.

It’s been a while since I last documented my inks. So I decided it’s time, but instead of using one stamp, I used Hero Arts Everything Smile Stamp and Cut set.

The small stamps are perfect for the ombre ink pads, they fit onto the different strip of ink. Here’s look of all the swatches before I put them in the book ring.

For my next project, I made skinny bookmarks? Okay I know lots of people are reading on-line, but still books are all around us, and I’d bet some of you want book mark your favorite chapter! Also I personally like to bookmark my ‘go-to’ recipes in my cook books and magazines. (Yes I admit I have a tough time parting with my magazines). Alright, enough babbling, here they are:

Btw why skinny bookmarks you ask? Well it’s less likely to fall out (in my opinion)!! The two on the left I stamped in black and colored with watercolors and coloring pencils. The last one I stamped in color and left it CAS.

Do you see the green light bulb? Yeah my paper moved and the second stamping is off set. So I added hand drew some lines and wrote the word ‘ding’ to made it a ‘light bulb’ moment. 😀

For the last project I made some small lunch box message tags. The larger speech bubble die from the Everything Smile Stamp and Cut set (I think) is perfect for this purpose. Imagine what a delight to find a speech bubble tag that says ‘Enjoy’ in your lunch box/bag?! 🙂

I added a little special touch on each of the tags, the apples got glittered cheeks. The cup cake frosting is coated with Sprinkle Sugar and extra sprinkle of diamond glitter powder. The heart is coated with glossy accept so it’s more ‘puffy’ (if you would).

You made all the way to the end!! Thanks for reading this far. I hope I’ve inspired you to pick up your favorite stamps and join in our June challenge. Scroll down to get the details. Happy crafting!!

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 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 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 Everything Smiles Stamp and Cut
Hero Arts Ombre Ink (Pink to Red)
Hero Arts Ombre Ink (Vintage Metallic Rust)
Hero Arts Shadow Ink (Soft Leaf)
Hero Arts Love Stamp and Cut
Hero Arts Santa Snacks Stamp and cut
Hero Arts Coffee Cup Tags

June 11, 2019
by Cindy C. 6 Comments

Guest Designer June 2019

Hello everyone,

I am so excited to introduce our June Guest Designer, Amy Tsuruta. Here’s a brief bio of Amy.

I started ‘seriously’ crafting in 2003. For some reason I signed up to be my son’s Co-op Preschool Scrapbook Coordinator. At that point, I hadn’t even scrapbooked yet. I’m happy to say that we still have that scrapbook. I started my Splitcoaststampers Gallery in 2005. I remember seeing blogs and became curious about them. I started mine in 2007. I didn’t start my IG account until April 2015. I was holding out because I didn’t think I could swing the time commitment. I still feel that way but try my best in keeping up with everything. I feel so fortunate to be a part of this awesome papercrafting community.

Now let’s hear from her:

Hi everyone! It’s Amy Tsuruta and I’m thrilled to be guesting today for the a2zscrapbooking Monthly Challenge – Anything but a Card.

I designed a tag duo especially for today.

My first tag features the Cardinal Stamp & Cut. I used the Nesting Circle Infinity Dies. The stamped woodgrain is an older Hero Arts wood mount background stamp.

I recently bought a top and matching cardi that had their tags attached by the pins I used today on my tags. The cardinal sentiment has been heat embossed in white.

My second circular tag features the Alpaca Stamp & Cut. I loaded this one up with a bunch of images.

I can’t wait to see how you’re inspired by this month’s challenge!

A big shout out to a2zscrapbooking for the invite!

Aren’t these tags darling? Thank you so much for taking the time to Guest Design for us Amy!!

To see more of Amy’s art, please visit her blog: Tsuruta Designs. You can also find her on instagram

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!

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. 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.

July 20, 2017
by afmmac 5 Comments

Hero Arts Tags and Destinations

I’ve always liked the Hero Arts Tags dies. You can let your creative juices go. If you’ve never seen the National parks in the U.S., you really should. My family traveled in the summer to different natural places. Memories of the colored pools and geysers in Yellowstone will last the rest of my life. Incredible views and experiences. I used some Oxide distress inks here with a sentiment and a couple Destination wood stamps.

Have fun creating.

Fired Brick, Spiced Marmalade and Broken China oxide inks spritzed with water. Hero Arts sentiment out of stock.

Wilted Violet, Fossilized Amber, Cracked Pistachio and Broken China Oxide Inks spritzed with a homemade colored water. Two very old cheap moon and clouds stamps were added. Sentiment from an old Hero Arts stamp set.

Iced Spruce, Cracked Pistachio, Fired Brick and Fossilized Amber Oxide Inks were spritzed with water and an 1992 Stampin Up postmark added. Buffalo colored with Copic marker W3 and trees colored with G03. Sentiment from an old Hero Arts stamp set.

My samples are at A Bit of This and That.

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 months “Anything Goes” challenge for your chance at a $25 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 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 National Parks Poetic Prints – the wood block I used from the four block set is Yellowstone
Hero Arts Save Our National Parks may be custom ordered at A2Z Scrapbooking
Hero Arts Nesting Tag Dies
Oxide Distress Inks

April 10, 2017
by afmmac 2 Comments

Hero Arts Weather – A Fave

If you like to use Cut Files, have fun with the Weather, I say.

I always loved seeing umbrellas in the old English movies, tons of umbrellas keeping off the rain. Now I love the colors that you can purchase and all sizes. Isn’t the saying “April Showers Bring May Flowers?” And you can’t do anything about whether it rains or snows, so why not appreciate it. That’s why I made a card with umbrellas over a map.

A2Z Weather Umbrellas

A2Z Weather Close-up

Supplies:
Hero Arts Weather Cuts Digital Files at A2Z Scrapbooking
Hero Arts Tag Infinity Dies at Hero Arts
hero Arts sentiment from an old set
Scrap paper and dots
Copic markers
Silhouette machine

You can use code Arlene15 at checkout to receive 15% off your purchase of $25 or more (before tax and shipping). If you need craft items that you don’t see in the store, don’t forget you can special order them here at the A2ZScrapbooking Store.

Free Shipping on Domestic Orders $50.00 or More. Be sure to check out our sales/ retired section for 50%- and more off. You can catch me at A Bit of This and That.

March 16, 2017
by craftychark 15 Comments

Color Layering Peacock Tags

Hi, friends, it’s Chark here today to play with the Color Layering Peacock stamp set. It’s just so pretty and you can see some beautiful work here on this blog this month with the stamp set. When I saw it, I couldn’t resist trying some foiling with the stamp.

On this first tag, I used the single peacock feather stamp to make his tail. I stamped his body (just one stamp, not layered) in glue and added gold foil. Then I used rainbow foil on several feathers. The background is the Wallpaper Pattern cling stamp in the Distress Oxide Worn Lipstick. I didn’t heat or use water, just stamped with the ink. It’s a lot crisper than the Distress Inks and stamps beautifully.

On the second tag, I used the matching Peacock Ink cubes to stamp the Peacock and then trimmed it out. On the tag itself, I painted with Dylusions Vibrant Turquoise acrylic paint, let it dry, and then used glue to dab through the stencil. Once that dried, I added the foils. You need a glue that stays tacky after drying, like Duo, to use the foils. You just rub them on the sticky (but dry) glue. You won’t get perfect coverage or stamping/stenciling, but it is so pretty!

Hope you join in our monthly card challenge, using Hero Arts and the theme Playing with Stencils…you could win $25 to the a2z store!

MORE PRIZES THIS MONTH!!!

During the month of March, we’re giving you a second way to win a $25 Gift Certificate to the a2z Store! Just comment on any blog posts in March.

We’ll do a random draw from the blog comments during the month of March for one gift card. You can enter once a day by commenting on the blog post and earn up to 31 chances to win! If you’re feeling it, you’re welcome to enter both the Hero Arts with Stencils challenge and the commenting challenge…maybe you’ll win both!

Good Luck and Happy Thursday!

If any of the supplies below are out of stock in the a2z store, just hit the custom order button and request it at no cost!

December 28, 2016
by Malugomez 3 Comments

CELEBRATE TAG WITH HERO ARTS

Hello crafty friends, Martha Lucia here to share with you a Celebrate tag with Hero Arts that I made to decorate a pre-made box that I found in a craft store. I usually buy these boxes to decorate them and package little presents.

During these days all of us are in crunch time with the holidays and gifts etc. If you are like me, these boxes are our salvation because we only need to use a few elements to create beautiful packages.

For this box I used a Celebrate Tag Stamp & Cut by Lia from Hero Arts. I cut the tag using metallic silver card stock and then I stamped the Celebrate sentiment with Versamark and Hero Arts Gold Embossing Powder.

This beautiful tag doesn’t require a lot of decorations, so I just added a touch of color with a tiny bow that I made with green baker’s twine and pasted over a belt that I made to put around of the box.

You can find many sets like this –Stamp & Cut – in the a2z scrapbooking store where you can enjoy 15% off with my discount code MARTHA15. If there’s every something you want that you don’t see in store, use the custom order button.

I hope you too will join us in the challenge this month. You have until month end to submit your project for a chance at a $25 Gift Card.

You can find this stamp set on all holiday sets in the a2z scrapbooking store where you can enjoy 15% off with my discount code MARTHA15
Vintage Wishes and all the holiday stamps are selling out fast & wont be re-ordered until next year, so get it while they last! If there’s every something you want that you don’t see in store, use the custom order button.

Thank you for stopping by and see you in a few days. Happy New Year!

December 25, 2016
by whimseycreations 5 Comments

Hero Arts Poinsettia & Happy Holly Days

SURPRISE…I have another tag for you, BUT I did step out and make something different this time – you know, to go along with the theme ‘ANYTHING BUT A CARD‘! 😀 Yay me!

Have you joined our challenge this month; we’d love to see your creations, you can link them up HERE. And don’t forget, you can receive 15% off your order of $25+ at our Etsy shop; just use code: MicheleG15! And if there is something not available, they do special orders, just ask!

So let’s go with the non-tag creation first! I stamped the huge Poinsettia stamp (looks like it might be out of stock, but the dies are available, just ask for a special order if you’d like the stamp) on some artist grade translucent shrink plastic in Hero Arts Intense Black; I knew that wasn’t going to dry for quite some, if at all, so I added some Hero Arts Sparkle embossing powder and hand cut the images after punching a hole in the shrink plastic. I used my heat gun to shrink the images and the embossing powder really made them sparkle. I wasn’t worried about them being perfectly flat, I like the dimension just as they are.

Once cool, I painted on some Lindy’s magicals – the colors are really a hot pink and lime green but I barely added any water so the colors are a bit stronger and nope, I didn’t worry that they weren’t perfect, just wanted to have fun! I tied on some small jingle bells and silver twine to finish them off; they will be a perfect touch to a few of our Christmas gifts! I tied one on to a gift for our son’s girlfriend, just a cute little touch!

And yes, I created ANOTHER Hero Arts Happy Holly Days tag, I can’t help it, I am seriously in love with these images! I had bought a small gift set from Bath & Body Works for my personal trainer and kept it simple by adding the tag as the finishing touch.

Above picture taken by my trainer; she LOVED her gift. 😀

Thanks for stopping by; hope this holiday season allows you a bit of crafting time OR even some crafty treasures under the Christmas tree! Take care. hugs!

Links supplied throughout the post or within the notes below.

Stamps: HA Wood Poinsettia, HA Happy Holly Days

Paper: Artist Grade Translucent Shrink Plastic, Hero Arts Snow White layering (tag), Bristol

Ink: Hero Arts Intense Black, VersaMark, Broken China

Accessories: silver twine, HA Sparkle embossing powder, Zig Clean Color Brushes, Lindy’s Magicals, winter snow stencil, Ranger texture paste, red/white twine, Copic

December 12, 2016
by monicam05 5 Comments

Tree Tag

Hello friends! Monica here stopping in to share a little tag I made for our December challenge.

tree-tag

I die cut my tree out of some scrap green paper I had lying on my desk. I also used some scrap pieces of cardstock for the embellishments. Once everything was adhered to the tag I added some Nuvo for the accents.

tree-tag-closeup

If you are in need of any items from the a2z Scrapbooking store you can use code MONICA15 at checkout to receive 15% off your purchase of $25 or more. (before tax and shipping) And don’t forget that we are on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. Follow us on these different social media outlets so you won’t miss out on any fun promotions! You can also chose to request a custom order if there is something you don’t see in the store.

monicaa2zscrapbooking

Supplies:

Hero Arts- Color Layering DI130

Nuvo drops

December 10, 2016
by whimseycreations 5 Comments

Hero Arts Happy Holly Days

Hi friends – welcome back to another ANYTHING BUT A CARD post and you probably guessed I created tags, we all know my love for tags!! Have you joined our challenge this month? We love seeing your creations, you can link them up HERE!

Hands down, this is one of my most favorite Hero Arts sets to date! You can purchase this set, the matching dies and tons of other products at our Etsy store HERE. If you don’t see something you like (or need), they do custom orders, please ask, and don’t forget, you can save 15% off your order of $25+ by using code: MicheleG15!

OK; now that we have the details out-of-the-way, let’s get down to creating. I stamped and die cut SO MANY IMAGES for these tags, thankfully I have some extras left over that are going to end up on another large project I am doing. 😉

Prepare for photo overload – you’ve been warned.