Category: Hero Arts

Enjoy Today

Today I’m sharing an all-occasion card created with Memory Box and Poppystamps die cuts.

Enjoy Today

The new Puffy Cloud border only cuts on the cloud shape edge, allowing a range of lengths for the cloud panel.  I cut each of the hot air balloons twice (adhering them with 2-in-1 glue) and attached them to the cloud panels with dimensional adhesive for extra depth.

Hope you’re having a terrific day!

Supplies: Poppystamps Puffy Cloud Border, Memory Box Mini Hot Air Balloon, Memory Box Hot Air Balloon, Hero Arts Enjoy Today

The Cutting Edge Challenge #3

It’s time for the another Cutting Edge Challenge! Our inspiration this week is an amazing card created by Design Team member Lisa Addesa.

There’s so much about Lisa’s card that inspires me! Here’s my take.

Cutting Edge Challenge 3

I was drawn to Lisa’s card’s design, featuring an embossed card base and a card panel with negative die cut hearts in rainbow colors. I substituted the hearts with stars, and I made the panel black rather than white. The yellow, green and orange stars on my card are negative cuts – I ran the panel through the Big Shot with three different star dies. I then backed the panel with circles cut in those colors. The pink and blue stars are adhered to the top of the panel.

Supplies: Hero Arts Written in the Stars stamp set; Tim Holtz Starry Night embossing folder; MFT Blueprints 13; MFT Stax Stars; MFT Stacking Stars

Less Is More 173: Die Cuts

Today,I’m sharing a card I created for the Less Is More Challenge – Die Cuts. I’ve been working with the My Favorite Things Blueprints 13 die cut set for an upcoming In Detail post for Ellen Hutson’s CLASSroom, and I had lots of pieces cut out waiting to be combined!

Less Is More 173: Die Cuts

I double cut the bike, sentiment and stars so that those die cuts would have some extra depth. I tried several different die cut sentiments, ultimately choosing this scripty Hello because of its whimsical nature.

Hope you’re having a fabulous day!

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OCC Watercolor Day 2

Today was another fun day in the Online Card Classes Watercolor for Card Makers class, in which we had a second day to explore watercolored backgrounds. I’m sharing two cards based on cards shown by Debby Hughes in today’s class. I’ve substituted stamps in my stash for those she used on her cards.

DayTwoRaspberry

DayTwoPeacock

Both cards use the Hero Arts Simple Leaf background stamp.  For the top card, I inked the stamp with Picked Raspberry Distress Ink, gave the stamp about ten squirts of water with a Mini Mister, and pressed Ranger watercolor paper, smooth side down, onto the stamp. For the second card, I stamped with Peacock Feathers Distress Ink using the same method. To be honest, I’ve hardly used this stamp because I got stuck on it being a leaf motif. I like the Batik-like feel it gives, stamped with this technique.

Debby is a master at adding accents to her designs, in this case, black and white with touches of gold. I stamped an Impression Obsession Thin Line background stamp with VersaMark ink on vellum and heat-embossed it with Hero Arts gold powder. I used stripes of the heat-embossed vellum on both cards for a gold accent. Both card sentiments are from Hero Arts.

Watercolored Die Cuts

I was inspired by Jennifer McGuire’ss post on watercolor die cuts and decided to give the techniques she showed a try.

For the first card, I watercolored the Marianne Design Bird on Branch, cut from watercolor paper, with traditional watercolors. I placed the bird over a background of watercolor paper colored with an application of Tumbled Glass Distress stain sprayed with a Mini Mister.

WatercoloredBird

For my second card, I decided to use the same die cut in an inlaid design.

InlaidWatercolorDieCut

For this background, of watercolor paper, I applied Salty Ocean and Peacock Feathers and sprayed with water. I dried the background with a heat gun and decided it needed more color,so I sprayed it with Tumbled Glass Distress Stain in a Mini Mister. Still wanting more color, I smooshed the Salty Ocean and Peacock Feathers ink pads onto my craft sheet, spritzed the sheet with water, and put the watercolor paper into the pool. The bird and branch die cut were colored with Distress Ink markers following Jennifer’s technique and then sprayed with water. I liked how the water evened out the application of the markers. I finished the card with a heat embossed sentiment.

Supplies: sentiment for top card from Penny Black