Another card from the Hero of the month kit

Still working with the stamps in that kit!  The background of this card is watercolor paper dipped in Distress Oxide inks that were stamped on my craft mat and then spritzed with water.  Love the way these turn out!  The watercolor was matted with black cardstock.

I stamped the trees, man, and sentiment, using my MISTI, with Momento Tuxedo Black ink, a couple of time for good coverage.  I then die cut the tree from black card stock, and attached using foam tape.  Lots of very small pieces of foam tape!

Another card that I really love!

Another day with the Hero of the Month kit

I changed it up a little today, stamped a tiger from one of the extra stamps I added on when I ordered the Hero of the Month kit.  I cut him out using the matching die, and attached him with foam tape to the card.

For the background, I stamped some of my Distress Oxide inks on my craft mat, sprayed with a good deal of water, and smooshed my watercolor paper on it.  I cut the watercolor paper down to 5 inches by 3.75, matted with black card stock, and attached to card front. Then I added the tiger.

I liked the way this background turned out.  I made several other backgrounds while I was at it, ready to be made into cards!

Hero Arts Hero of the Month Kit

Wow!  I love this card kit--the stamps are great!














The first card I made was fairly simple.  I made a background with distress oxide inks, then stamped a scene with several of the stamps included in the kit.  I think it turned out pretty awesome!  I added a sentiment from the set to the bottom of the card front.

Since the first one came out so well, I made a second one, using different colors and different stamps.  I really liked this one, too!

Online Card Class Day 3--Classic and Elegant

Another card for my online class.  Really enjoying all the new ideas I'm getting from this class.  Here is my take on the Classic and Elegant card.  It is a simple design using the Hero Arts Color Layering Christmas Tree.  I trimmed the top panel to 3 3/4 by 5 1/2, and adhered a narrow gold ribbon to each side.  The panel was attached with foam tape to the top folding card base. I will be attaching some red gems to the tree (as soon as I find them again)!  If I can't find the gems, I may be using red stickles to give the tree a little more color!

Stretch Your Stamps 2, Day 9

For my card today I followed Julie's video almost exactly, with the exception of the colors.  I was in more of a blue mood, rather than a pink mood, thus the change.

I drew my circle, and added first the small leaf cluster (Hero Arts Field Greens), then the blue flowers (Distress Salty Ocean), followed by the smaller flowers (Hero Arts Pool), lastly stamping the single leaves in Hero Arts Green Fields.   After the stamping, I started to use my Atyou Spica pen in lemon to add some sparkle to the center of the flowers, but didn't think it added enough bling, so I ended up using Stickles in Scattered Straw for the smaller flowers, and Silver Stickles for the larger flowers, which I liked much better.

  

I didn't have a die to cut a sentiment available to use, so I cut a circle in the card base front and stamped a sentiment on the inside. The card stock with the wreath was popped up on the card front.

Stretch Your Stamps 2, Day 7

I thought I'd try the random background stamping from Debby's video today.  I'm not really sure I like what I did, but I tried a smaller stamp that wasn't so bold for the background.  I might try it again later with a larger, bolder stamp.

I stamped the background with Hero Arts Soft Pool and Pale Tomato (I also did a second stamping with this without re-inking my stamp), and Momento London Fog (also did a second stamping with this ink).  I used Momento Tuxedo Black for my over-stamping of the sentiment. 

I added a black and white polka dot ribbon for interest.  I first added the ribbon at the top of the stamping (first photo), but it just didn't seem to look right.  I removed it, and was just going to go with the plain stamping, but decided to try it first on the bottom of the card (second photo).  I liked this so better.  I will be adding a few embellishments--as soon as I find my little box of embellies that has gone missing! 

I then popped it up on a slightly larger piece of red card stock, off center.  The whole thing was then attached to the white card base. 

Holiday Card Workshop Day 4 card

One of today's ideas was stamping a design, then embossing over it with the sentiment.  I really liked the idea and decided to try something like that.

I used paper from DCWV Christmas Combo stack from a couple of years ago.  The tree is stamped 5 times in various distress ink colors, then over-stamped with Merriest Wishes in Momento Tuxedo Black. Both the tree and the sentiment are Hero Arts clear stamps--sentiment from "Very Merry Christmas" and tree from "Sending Holiday Cheer". Rhinestones and silver cord were from my stash.

Holiday Card Workshop 2013 Day 3, a third card!

I wanted to try the diagonal design, and this is what I came up with.  I really got a lot of good ideas from this lesson!

Holiday Card Workshop Day 1, Part 2

Had a little time this afternoon and made another card from the lessons from the online class.  This one uses washi tape to define the sentiment.  Inside, a gift card envelope also uses the washi tape from the front to pull it all together.

I used a Darice embossing folder, and the stamps were from Hero Arts.  They were stamped with Black Tuxedo ink from Momento.

The house was colored with Copics, and a little Frosted Lace Stickles was added to the snow to give it sparkle.   It was attached with Popdots to lift it off the front of the card.

I really liked how this card turned out.  It looks so much better in person, the photo just doesn't do it justice!